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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 Monday, November twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I
am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's
Word every single day and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series, God's Mission, my

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mission, and our caption for today
is Namen. We're going to talk about

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Namen today. I hope you are
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will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this day

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and for the privilege we have to
encounter you today. Please fill us with

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your Holy spirit. Help us to
learn the lessons from Namen, from the

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profit from the Little Girl, everything
we need to learn in order to serve

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you better today. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men again.

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Namen Namen. All right, well, interesting story, interesting story.

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Let me set my Bible just right
over here. I'm going to play in

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a moment from my favorite audio book. I just want you to know that

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this is my favorite one. There
are many out there. This one is

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from Faith Comes by Hearing. I'm
going to play Two Kings, Chapter five

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and several verses from there. But
first from the lesson study. Christ died

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for all, regardless of our background, our wealth, our ethnicity, or

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status. God cease Leslie draws and
all humanity to himself, including those individuals

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classed among the powerful non believers of
the world. And this is straight from

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the book The Acts of the Apostles, page four hundred and sixteen. Sometimes

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people make it seem as if just
because someone has means or are powerful or

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influential, there's some kind of negative
stigma somehow God is not into them.

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But what we understand from inspiration and
the Bible is that God loves people,

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just like the songwriter said, more
than anything like God loves people. This

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is why He sent his only begotten
son to save us from our sins.

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And so we're going to begin again
from Second Kings Chapter five, beginning at

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verse one. Faith comes by hearing
audio Bible will help us along here Second

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King's Chapter five. Now Naeman,
captain of the host of the King of

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Syria, was a great man with
his master, and honorable because by him

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the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man in

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valor. But he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by

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companies and had brought away captive out
of the land of Israel, a little

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maid. And she waited on Naeman's
wife, and she said, unto her

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mistress, with God, my Lord, where with the prophet that is in

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Samaria where he would recover him of
his leprosy. Can we just pause right

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here. So the Bible writer says
very clearly that there's this powerful man name

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named Namin Okay. So we see
what his socio economic class or status is.

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We see based on what his position
is that it's also related to not

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politics, I guess they wouldn't have
used it in that term, but to

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the crown, right to the kingdom. And so this is a good setup.

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And then it says, but he
had leprosy. This is one of

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the most contagious diseases that people least
want. It like that is the one

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you don't want. It's not a
cold, it's not a flu. This

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is something you literally do not want. You are unclean and very contagious,

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and it is a messy, skin
deteriorating disease, among other things. So

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he's very powerful, very influential,
but he has this problem. He's a

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leper. And if I had the
time, I would identify in scripture where

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leprosy was often was often used as
a symbol of sin, So I am

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a sinner. It would be like
me having leprosy, right, I am

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the spirit I am a spiritual leper. I am, I am contagious.

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I am by myself unclean. I
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who are destined to separation from God
until or unless there is a message to

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me. And as we have heard
already in verse four, uh well,

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verse three, there is a little
girl, a young girl, who says,

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I know what the antidote is.
She has a message and a mission,

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even though we don't know what her
name is. To the man with

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leprosy. Let's keep going. And
one went in and told his lord,

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saying, that said the maid that
is of the land of Israel. And

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the King of Syria said, t
go, and I will send a letter

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unto the King of Israel. And
he departed and took with him ten talents

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of silver and six thousand pieces of
gold and ten changes of raiment. And

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he brought the letter to the King
of Israel, saying, now, and

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this letter is come unto thee.
Behold, I have therewith sent naeman my

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servant to thee, that thou mayst
recover him of his leprosy. And it

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came to pass when the King of
Israel had read the letter, that he

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rent his clothes and said, am
I God to kill and to make alive,

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that this Manda send unto me to
recover a man of his leprosy.

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Wherefore consider I pray you, and
see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

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And it was so when Elisha,
the man of God, had heard

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that the King of Israel had rent
his clothes, that he sent to the

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king, saying, wherefore hast thou
rent them? I close? Let him

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come now to me, and he
shall know that there is a prophet in

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Israel. So Naeman came with his
horses and with his chariot, and stood

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at the door of the house of
Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger under

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him, saying, go and wash
in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh

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shall come again to thee and thou
shalt be clean. But Naeman was wroth

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and went away, and said,
behold, I thought he will surely come

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out to me and stand and call
on the name of the Lord his God,

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and strike his hand over the place
and recover the leper. Are not

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Abnah and farpar rivers of Damascus better
than all the waters of Israel? May

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I not wash in them and be
clean? So he turned and went away

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in a rage, and his servants
came nearer and spake n to him,

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and said, my father, if
the prophet had bid thee do some great

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thing, what'st thou not have done
it? How much rather than when he

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says, to the wash and be
clean? Then went he down and dipped

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himself seven times in Jordan, according
to the saying of the Man of God,

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and his flesh came again like under
the flesh of a little child,

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and he was clean. Okay,
let me just pause right here. We

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can read at another time straight through, or you should do on your spare

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time straight through to verse nineteen.
So here is the moral of the story,

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at least, not the moralists story. So many lessons here. But

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first of all, no matter what
our socio economic class, one thing,

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God loves us, whether we have
little or we have much, God loves

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us. We are candidates for the
kingdom. Why because God loves us.

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Also. God has positioned this man
to see very clearly that even though he

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has money, even though his boss
sends all kinds of treats and trinkets and

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rewards and all kinds of stuff,
that is not adequate to purchase the man's

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health. I understand what the customs
of the day were. But in our

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understanding now we must know that no
matter what we bring as a gift or

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a sacrifice, it is only by
the grace of God that He will deliver

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us from our sins. And the
Bible does show very clearly here that the

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young woman, that the prophet and
others were obedient to the command of God,

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right the leading of God, so
that Namen could be healed. But

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guess what God did not say to
Namin You must dip one time or two

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times, but seven times in particular, so when God brings a message of

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healing, we follow it completely,
and then we will be delivered from our

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sin. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every
word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris, make it a

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great day. Yeah,