Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
It is Monday, November twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day and today is no
exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series, God's Mission, my
mission, and our caption for today is Namen. We're going to talk about
Namen today. I hope you are doing well. Please go over to your
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will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this day
and for the privilege we have to encounter you today. Please fill us with
your Holy spirit. Help us to learn the lessons from Namen, from the
profit from the Little Girl, everything we need to learn in order to serve
you better today. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men again.
Namen Namen. All right, well, interesting story, interesting story.
Let me set my Bible just right over here. I'm going to play in
a moment from my favorite audio book. I just want you to know that
this is my favorite one. There are many out there. This one is
from Faith Comes by Hearing. I'm going to play Two Kings, Chapter five
and several verses from there. But first from the lesson study. Christ died
for all, regardless of our background, our wealth, our ethnicity, or
status. God cease Leslie draws and all humanity to himself, including those individuals
classed among the powerful non believers of the world. And this is straight from
the book The Acts of the Apostles, page four hundred and sixteen. Sometimes
people make it seem as if just because someone has means or are powerful or
influential, there's some kind of negative stigma somehow God is not into them.
But what we understand from inspiration and the Bible is that God loves people,
just like the songwriter said, more than anything like God loves people. This
is why He sent his only begotten son to save us from our sins.
And so we're going to begin again from Second Kings Chapter five, beginning at
verse one. Faith comes by hearing audio Bible will help us along here Second
King's Chapter five. Now Naeman, captain of the host of the King of
Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable because by him
the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man in
valor. But he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by
companies and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel, a little
maid. And she waited on Naeman's wife, and she said, unto her
mistress, with God, my Lord, where with the prophet that is in
Samaria where he would recover him of his leprosy. Can we just pause right
here. So the Bible writer says very clearly that there's this powerful man name
named Namin Okay. So we see what his socio economic class or status is.
We see based on what his position is that it's also related to not
politics, I guess they wouldn't have used it in that term, but to
the crown, right to the kingdom. And so this is a good setup.
And then it says, but he had leprosy. This is one of
the most contagious diseases that people least want. It like that is the one
you don't want. It's not a cold, it's not a flu. This
is something you literally do not want. You are unclean and very contagious,
and it is a messy, skin deteriorating disease, among other things. So
he's very powerful, very influential, but he has this problem. He's a
leper. And if I had the time, I would identify in scripture where
leprosy was often was often used as a symbol of sin, So I am
a sinner. It would be like me having leprosy, right, I am
the spirit I am a spiritual leper. I am, I am contagious.
I am by myself unclean. I am relegated to a colony of unclean people
who are destined to separation from God until or unless there is a message to
me. And as we have heard already in verse four, uh well,
verse three, there is a little girl, a young girl, who says,
I know what the antidote is. She has a message and a mission,
even though we don't know what her name is. To the man with
leprosy. Let's keep going. And one went in and told his lord,
saying, that said the maid that is of the land of Israel. And
the King of Syria said, t go, and I will send a letter
unto the King of Israel. And he departed and took with him ten talents
of silver and six thousand pieces of gold and ten changes of raiment. And
he brought the letter to the King of Israel, saying, now, and
this letter is come unto thee. Behold, I have therewith sent naeman my
servant to thee, that thou mayst recover him of his leprosy. And it
came to pass when the King of Israel had read the letter, that he
rent his clothes and said, am I God to kill and to make alive,
that this Manda send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy.
Wherefore consider I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
And it was so when Elisha, the man of God, had heard
that the King of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the
king, saying, wherefore hast thou rent them? I close? Let him
come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in
Israel. So Naeman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood
at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger under
him, saying, go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh
shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean. But Naeman was wroth
and went away, and said, behold, I thought he will surely come
out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God,
and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. Are not
Abnah and farpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? May
I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away
in a rage, and his servants came nearer and spake n to him,
and said, my father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great
thing, what'st thou not have done it? How much rather than when he
says, to the wash and be clean? Then went he down and dipped
himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the Man of God,
and his flesh came again like under the flesh of a little child,
and he was clean. Okay, let me just pause right here. We
can read at another time straight through, or you should do on your spare
time straight through to verse nineteen. So here is the moral of the story,
at least, not the moralists story. So many lessons here. But
first of all, no matter what our socio economic class, one thing,
God loves us, whether we have little or we have much, God loves
us. We are candidates for the kingdom. Why because God loves us.
Also. God has positioned this man to see very clearly that even though he
has money, even though his boss sends all kinds of treats and trinkets and
rewards and all kinds of stuff, that is not adequate to purchase the man's
health. I understand what the customs of the day were. But in our
understanding now we must know that no matter what we bring as a gift or
a sacrifice, it is only by the grace of God that He will deliver
us from our sins. And the Bible does show very clearly here that the
young woman, that the prophet and others were obedient to the command of God,
right the leading of God, so that Namen could be healed. But
guess what God did not say to Namin You must dip one time or two
times, but seven times in particular, so when God brings a message of
healing, we follow it completely, and then we will be delivered from our
sin. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a
great day. Yeah,