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07 28 2024 Calming a Storm · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sunday, July twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Mark and our caption for today is Calming a Storm. Calming a Storm.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but before we do,
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  I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the
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  Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the world.
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  At your Daily portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for giving us an opportunity to be calm in the midst of the storm.
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  Father, please give us the kind of trust that you deserve, the
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  kind of love that you deserve. Help us to surrender our will in Jesus
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  name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, calming a storm.
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  I don't know if I said it correctly because my mind was focused in
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  a certain thought pattern calming a storm. So it is Jesus who calms the
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  storm. Right, And there are any storms in your life that you have
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  seen where God has calmed them. I remember when I was working in the
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  mental health industry and it was tough. I mean it was three and a
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  half years by now, and I was just like God, I can't do
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  this anymore. It was too much based on how the organization I worked for
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  did what they did. And I used to go to prayer meeting every single
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  Wednesday night and ask for prayers to deliver me from this place. Right and
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  well, one of my mentors really the only mentor I had at the time.
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  His name is Ralph. He prayed with me one night and he said,
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  now, Dave, be a good soldier. God is with you.
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  And I said, God is with me. No one had ever given me
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  that advice. Everybody was saying that better days are coming. God has something
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  better for you, and they were just looking at ways for me to get
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  out of it. Right, and and but but but Ralph said, God
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  is with you no matter what you're going through, even if you do go
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  into the lions den, even if you do go into the fiery furnace,
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  God is with you. Even when you do have to actually approach the red
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  sea, he will be with you. And I said, okay, So
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  when I'm going through the storms of life, I should be looking out,
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  or I should be on the lookout for God to be with me. He
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  may not say peace, be still, but if he does, I thank
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  God. But if he doesn't, then I know that He's with me even
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  during the storm. And so in the Bible Book of Mark, chapter four,
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  beginning at verse thirty five, the Bible reads, and the same day,
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  when the even was come, he said, unto them, let us
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  pass over, unto the other side. So Jesus is telling his disciples where
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  they are going. They're going to the other side. So let me ask
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  you a question. If God is showing you where your destination is, is
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  it Heaven? Is it the earth made new? Do you want to call
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  it the heavenly promised land? Do you want to call it the ultimate Canaan
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  on earth? After the thousand years are finished? If God is saying that
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  we are going to the other side. In the Book of Revelation, he
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  said, to those who overcometh, he shall. Those who overcome, he
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  shall, and he fills in the blanks. To those who overcome, he
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  will. And one of them he said, I will grant for you to
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  sit on my throne with me, even as I have overcome and am set
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  on my father's throne. So he's telling you what the outcome is going to
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  be the other side Verse thirty six. And when they had sent away the
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  multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship, and there
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  were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of
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  wind, and and waves beat into the ship, so that it was now
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  full full of what full of water? But he said, we're going to
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  the other side. Your life seems to be taking on a lot of water,
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  and your spiritual boat, your financial boat, everything that has to do
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  with your relationship's boat has a lot of water and is now full. It
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  seems like your boat is going to sink. But he said, we're going
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  over to the other side. Are you getting this? Verse thirty eight?
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  And he was in the hinder part of the sheep ship. Sleep not sheep.
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  He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow,
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  and they wake him and say, unto him, master, carrast down,
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  not that reperish. Do you notice that Jesus is resting. Yeah.
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  When you look at the creation story, the Bible says that it was in
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  six days that he created the heavens and the earth, and then he rested
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  on the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord bless the Sabbath day and hollowed it.
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  There is a lesson in the Sabbath that we need to learn regarding our
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  lives. God is doing the work, and we are supposed to rest with
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  him. When God does the work, he promises he's going to take you
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  to the other side. He promises you that he's going to be with you
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  always even unto the end of the world, he promised you. And so
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  now he works so that you can get to the other side. And he's
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  resting. Why because he wants you to rest, he said, he said,
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  take my yoke upon you and learn of me. Huh. My yoke
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  is easy, and my burdens are like. And you shall find what rest
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  in the midst of the storm. You shall find rest. Unto your souls,
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  we're doing too much sometimes, of course, the people are frantic.
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  And while he was resting on this pillow, master carries down, not that
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  we perish. And then he arose and he rebuked the wind and said to
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  the sea, peace be still. And what happened? The wind ceased,
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  and there was a great calm. Why because Jesus said so, Because if
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  that hadn't happened, the sea would have destroyed the boat, and then they
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  wouldn't have reached the other side. You see, we need to trust Jesus
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  even when we don't see him working. You think that he was gonna let
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  them perish. Come on, he said that they would go over to the
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  other side, And so he did what he needed to do. Verse forty
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  and he said, unto them, why were you so fearful, how is
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  it that ye have no faith? Let me add this, didn't I tell
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  you that we were going to go to the other side? And they feared
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  exceedingly Verse forty one, And said one to another, what manner of man
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  is this? That even the wind and the sea obey him? You see,
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  we should not be confused about this, because when God promises, he
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  delivers. And so in the Bible Book of Psalm chapter one hundred and four,
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  beginning at verse nine, I mean verse one, the Bible reads,
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  Bless the Lord, oh my soul, Bless the Lord, oh my God.
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  Thou art very great, Thou art clothed with honor and majesty, who
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  coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like
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  a curtain, who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, who
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  maketh the clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind,
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  who maketh his angel spirits, his ministers flaming fire, who laid the foundations
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  of the earth that it should not be removed forever, and so on and
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  so on. And we see the power of God verse seven. At the
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  rebuke. At thy rebuke, the waters stood above the mountains, and they
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  fled. The waters fled, and they the thunder hasted away. They go
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  up by the mountains, and they go down by the valleys of the place
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  which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may
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  not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth. Let
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  me just say this, since God is so good, and you're like,
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  how good is he? He's so good that he has created the heavens and
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  the earth. How good is he. He's so good that he has given
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  you salvation for free. He's so good that even when the waters overcame the
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  earth, they receded because he said so. That means if he says that
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  we're going to get in this little boat and go over to the other side
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  into eternity, just stand a boat with him. Let him deal with everything
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  else. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,