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05 25 2025 A Very Present Help in the Time of Trouble · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: May twenty five, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our Lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is a very present help
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  Speaker 2: in the time of trouble, A very present help in
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  Speaker 2: the time of trouble. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day. And to
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  Speaker 2: begin our work week with you, I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: please give us your holy spirit, give us your understanding,
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  Speaker 2: have and everything we are. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again a very present help in trouble. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you by show of hands. Okay, of course,
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  Speaker 2: in this platform, showing your hands is typing a one
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. Okay, how many people have troubles right now?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not asking you that question. So we wallow
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  Speaker 2: in the troubles. But one of the first things that
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  Speaker 2: we must do when we are receiving assistance, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: from God or anyone else, is to admit the truth
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  Speaker 2: about whatever our current situation is. So if the context
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  Speaker 2: right here is that God can help us in our
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  Speaker 2: present troubles. Then that means we have to admit that God,
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  Speaker 2: you know that we are actually in trouble. We're having
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  Speaker 2: troubles right now. So type A one in the chat
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  Speaker 2: if you are currently having troubles now. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to also type A one in the chat if you
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  Speaker 2: are willing to receive the help from God while you're
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  Speaker 2: going through your troubles, Because really and truly, there are
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  Speaker 2: people who are so stubborn and on our own time,
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  Speaker 2: like our own thing, that when troubles come, we shy
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  Speaker 2: away from God. Some people run away from God rather
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  Speaker 2: than running toward him. And so what we want to
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  Speaker 2: do is identify and admit that we are having troubles
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  Speaker 2: if in fact that is the case, and if we
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  Speaker 2: are that, we're willing to receive the help of God. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we're going to begin straight away right there.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we're going to do is think about
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  Speaker 2: God being our refuge, the place in whom we can flee,
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  Speaker 2: to whom we can flee and be protected in the
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  Speaker 2: way that God sees fit. Okay. And so God is
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  Speaker 2: our present help, not just a future promise, present help,
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  Speaker 2: not just in the future. But at this moment, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads in Psalm chapter forty six and verse one,
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  Speaker 2: God is our refuge and strength, and the Bible writer says,
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  Speaker 2: a very present help in trouble. Do you believe God?
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  Speaker 2: And so the point here is that we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to wait for deliverance at the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: We don't. We don't have to wait for our assistance
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  Speaker 2: to be at whatever point that we see the sign
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  Speaker 2: of the Son of Man in the east, the size
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  Speaker 2: of a man's hand, when Jesus Christ will come, and
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  Speaker 2: the dead in Christ rise first, and all of the
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  Speaker 2: cataclysm of the lightning shining towards it from the east
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  Speaker 2: even unto the west, and all of the dead in
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  Speaker 2: Christ rising first, and all of the other things that happen.
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  Speaker 2: We are not looking for the fire devouring before Jesus
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  Speaker 2: as our help. That will be our help, But that's
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  Speaker 2: in the future. In this on this day, like this
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning, or whatever time you're watching or listening this moment,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you're going through, Jesus is ready, willing and available
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  Speaker 2: to be your help. God is with you now in
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  Speaker 2: your current struggles. There are some times that people because
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  Speaker 2: they don't like God's timing, will try to air quotes.
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  Speaker 2: Now give God an excuse for why he's not here. Well,
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  Speaker 2: after all, Jesus is coming. We have to go through
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  Speaker 2: the trials today, and at some point he will come in.
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  Speaker 2: It is true. But he has promised that he will
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  Speaker 2: be with us, and he will not forsake us. Be
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  Speaker 2: on the lookout for his deliverance, and then we don't
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  Speaker 2: need to fear, no matter what the crisis is. In
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  Speaker 2: Psalm forty six, verses two and three, the Bible reads, Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: will not we fear though the earth be removed, though
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  Speaker 2: the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to be afraid when there are earthquakes.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to be afraid when when people who
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  Speaker 2: are ruling in our countries are doing things that just
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  Speaker 2: literally do not make sense. At times. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: to fear even when the laws seem to be unjust,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe sometimes they are, depending on in what place
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  Speaker 2: you live or in what era you live. We can
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  Speaker 2: attest that in many places around the world there have
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  Speaker 2: even been laws that were unjust. We understand this. But
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  Speaker 2: God is watching. He's watching, and he has his hands
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  Speaker 2: in the affairs of human beings. He's not way up
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  Speaker 2: in heaven and having his foot on the earth, which
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  Speaker 2: is his footstool, and acting as if none of these
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  Speaker 2: things are happening. How long, Oh Lord, There are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people asking the question, how long will the
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  Speaker 2: nation's rage? How long will those who don't love you
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  Speaker 2: seem to prosper? How long God will the unjust continue
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  Speaker 2: to get their way? The Bible says, don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: We won't be afraid, even if the earth is shaken,
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  Speaker 2: even if the mountains topple into the depths of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Why because God is our refuge. He is our current
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  Speaker 2: and present help in trouble. And so natural disasters, social uphevil,
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  Speaker 2: economic collapse, nothing that shakes the world should be shaking
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  Speaker 2: the people of God because we trust in him. We've
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  Speaker 2: seen this movie before, We've seen the worst that happens
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth. And God still arising and finally and
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  Speaker 2: finally delivering people who trust him. God will put an
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  Speaker 2: end to the chaos. In verse nine of Psalm chapter
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  Speaker 2: forty six, the Bible reads, he maketh wars to cease
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  Speaker 2: unto the end of the Earth. In another translation, New
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  Speaker 2: English translation, it says, he brings an end to wars
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  Speaker 2: throughout the world or the earth here is another While
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  Speaker 2: the world reels during this great controversy, God has his
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  Speaker 2: end in sight. God is going to stop the madness
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  Speaker 2: at this word forever, when he finally thunders from his throne,
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  Speaker 2: when he finally emerges in this ecosystem here in our world,
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  Speaker 2: at the second coming of Jesus Christ. When he finally
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  Speaker 2: does this, he will stop the madness. And the Bible
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  Speaker 2: writer in the Old Testament said that it will not
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  Speaker 2: rise a second time, this madness, this cataclysm, this wreck
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  Speaker 2: of how we deal with God and each other on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, that will not happen again. The devil will
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  Speaker 2: not prevail anywhere again once God deals with him in
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  Speaker 2: the end. There was another one from verse ten of
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  Speaker 2: Psalm chapter forty six. Be still and know. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that I am God, be still and no, even
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  Speaker 2: when the world is in upheaval and is roaring, and
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  Speaker 2: even like a woman who is travailing in birth pangs.
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  Speaker 2: We are waiting for the coming of Christ. But knowing
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  Speaker 2: that moment, you have to be still. Be still. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean, it doesn't mean to be passive, but it
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  Speaker 2: is a call to trust in God even in chrisis.
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  Speaker 2: God is sovereign and we must remember at all times
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  Speaker 2: who he is. He is the very present help in trouble,
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  Speaker 2: and one day we will see ultimately what He was
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  Speaker 2: doing when he allowed these trials to hit us. But
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  Speaker 2: one day Jesus will return. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.