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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 Thursday, December eighth,
fourteen, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in our Lesson study series. God's

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mission, my mission, and our
caption for today is faith on the Earth.

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I'm here reading that I'm about to
read from Luke eighteen, and my

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brain said it it's December eighteen,
But yeah, it's not. It's the

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four. You know what I'm saying, right, That's one of those things.

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I am so happy to be with
you this morning, and I'm asking

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you to please go over to your
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Please please also let us know where
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com. This is a way we
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new day
and for the privilege that we have to

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open your word. And I'm asking
you to please fill us with your holy

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spirit. Give us the opportunity,
Lord to help somebody today and help us

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to capitalize on it. In Jesus
name, I pray, Amen, and

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a man again faith on earth.
Now I am a firm believer in God

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ordering our footsteps. Right, put
it one in the chat if you believe

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that God orders our footsteps, even
the minor details. And so you know

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initially, as you can see in
the lesson study, you're supposed to read

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from Luke chapter eighteen and verse eight
But I inadvertently, if you want to

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say in air quotes, I looked
at verse eighteen, and then two very

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important questions arose. Okay, looking
at what I was supposed to read versus

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what God had shown me right here
as I was making a mistake. Right,

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So, so here are the questions. I'm going to read verse eighteen,

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which was not what we were supposed
to read for today. And it

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reads and a certain ruler asked him, saying, good Master, what shall

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I do to inherit eternal life?
Right? So we've read about this before.

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Now here is the passage that we
were supposed to read, verse eight

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I tell you that he will avenge
them speedily. Nevertheless, when the son

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of man cometh, shall he find
faith on the earth? Now, what

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am I gonna do? I'm gonna
put it in a bowl, mix it

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up, and give it right back
to you. Right, So there are

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two there are two different perspectives that
are happening right here, right now.

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Right. Should not the man who
said, good Master, what shall I

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do to inherit eternal life? Like? Should not that question have been more

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like what Jesus said? Jesus said, will I find faith on the earth?

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Could it be that the man should
have asked Jesus, Lord, what

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will it take? What will it
take to have faith? What will it

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take to have the kind of faith
that lays hold on you, on your

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power? What kind of faith does
it take to connect with you? How

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can I increase my faith? You
see? You see, sometimes humans are

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into a paycheck. And I don't
mean like a paycheck at work, because

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really and truly we do need to
get a paycheck, like if you work,

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you should get paid, got it? But then sometimes we superimpose that

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on our spiritual lives, like what
can I do in order to earn a

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paycheck? Very interesting discussion, and
I'm wondering about that question for myself.

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Am I asking God what do I
do to inherit eternal life? And I

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know, technically, of course I'm
not, But in my actions like am

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I looking for brownie points? Am
I looking for a way to connect in

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order to be rewarded? Or am
I really just wanting to be in God's

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presence? Like am I satisfied with
the presence of God to the point that

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as I grow in that experience with
Him than anything else that happens is a

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bonus. You see what's happening here. So I'm thankful that God allowed me

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to read the passage wrong if you
want to say in air quotes and then

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come back around, and now I
have these two questions with which I will

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contend every day of my life.
What shall I do to inherit eternal life?

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Or what kind of faith? What
kind of faith? God? Are

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you? Are you planting in my
bosom so I can lay hold upon your

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power? And then, of course, now Jesus is saying, well,

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will I find faith in the earth? And that's for us to answer.

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Will he find faith in me?
Will he find faith in you? There

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are multiple stories here, from Matthew
chapter eight, Matthew chapter nine, Chapter

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twenty, Mark chapter two, Mark
chapter ten, Luke chapter eighteen. Of

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course, we cannot read through all
of those passages, but there are some

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lessons that we need to be gleaning
from them. Let's begin with the one

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from Matthew chapter eight, verses ten
and thirteen, and they reads when Jesus

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heard it, he marveled and said
to them that followed, Verily, I

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say, unto you, I have
not found so great faith, No,

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not in Israel, meaning among God's
people. And Jesus said, unto the

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centurion, go thy way as it
as thou hast believed, so be it

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done unto thee. This shows us
that there are people who have genuine faith,

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and these people can be found in
unexpected places like these people can be

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unexpected people. Sometimes among the people
of God, we don't have enough faith.

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And I just say that sometimes the
people of God don't have enough faith.

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And then people that come from outside, if you want to call it

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in air quotes, outside of the
family of God, they demonstrate, they

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demonstrate the kind of faith that Jesus
admires and he sees coming and he rewards

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and he says, Wow, I've
never seen anything like this, because the

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man was in the supposed to be
that kind of faithful. But I think

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again, in Isaiah chapter fifty six, we see verses one through seven that

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anybody who who keeps covenant with God, right, it doesn't matter from what

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kindred nation, tongue, tribe,
or people a person comes. If you

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have faith in God and you are
a person who will keep covenant with Him

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by faith, then he says,
don't call yourself a eunuch. That was

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a person who ceremonially would have been
considered torn and not acceptable. It's a

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long story. It's more than that, but that's what it would mean.

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H don't say you're a dry tree. Don't say you're a gentile, don't

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say you come from outside Ah.
But if you will keep my holy seventh

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day Sabbath, if you will keep
covenant with me, I will give you

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a name that is greater, that
is better than of sons and of daughters.

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It is a name that will remain
forever. Can you imagine God is

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writing his new name in the foreheads
of people who are least kindly, the

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likely candidates for spiritual success. Yeah, Samaritans, right, people who come

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from among people who are not necessarily
worships of worshippers of God. And so

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I'm thankful that God has shown us
in this man's story who just really wanted

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to have healing for his servant.
And Jesus is saying, because you have

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given me this kind of faith,
I'm going to give you the power through

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that vehicle, and I'm going to
answer your prayer in the affirmative. And

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so faith transcends cultural and religious boundaries. I said all of that to just

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say that now, faith also in
Christ opens doors of grace. In Mark

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chapter ten and verse fifty two,
Jesus in answer to the kind of faith

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that lays hold upon God's power,
he said, go thy way thy faith

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hath made the whole meaning. Bartimaeus, he was blind, he could not

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see. And then he gave Jesus
the little faith that he had, and

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Jesus turned that faith into into into
healing. And so faith opens the doors

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to power. I said, grace. That's what power. That's what grace

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is. Grace is is is unmerited
favor. Yes, and it's also power,

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power from God to do his will, power to be transformed by God.

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And then let me just give you
one more, one more. Faith

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is recognized and honored by Jesus Christ. Faith is recognized and honored by Jesus

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Christ. He is pleased to say
yes to people who have faith in him.

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Have a wonderful day. Thanks for
joining us listening to friends. Always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,