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 Wednesday, November twenty two, twenty twenty three. Hello,
my name is Elle 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 to help the hurting.
To help the hurting. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
and for getting us to the midway point of this week. Please get us
over that speed bump, God, and help us to learn how to be
of service and of value to people who are hurting. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen, and a man again. Listen. If I ask
the question, it would really be for effect. If you've ever been hurting,
if you've ever lost a loved one, if you have ever been at
a workplace where you didn't necessarily want to be because it was an an abusive
environment. Have you ever been in a situation that you felt hopeless because something
was happening to you and you didn't know how to overcome it, you didn't
know whom you should be reporting it to, or something worse, you're in
a situation where your health is in problems. Yeah, hurting people help hurting
people. So we can just really cut through this one easily to say,
since you have been hurting before, you have experienced physical, emotional, financial,
intellectual, some other kinds of pain. Then you know what it's like.
And therefore you must know. We all must know that when people are
hurting around us, we should not turn a blind eye, we should not
close our ears, we should not become more selfish and guarded. We should
do whatever we can. And we have to be honest with ourselves about what
we can do and assist in whatever ways possible. And so Jesus's ministry hyper
highlighted here in the Book of Luke, chapter four, and it's actually hearkening
back to a prophecy about Messiah who was to come, and the Bible reads
as Jesus was standing in the synagogue right and reading directly out of the scrolls
the scriptures we now call Isaiah. Yes, the spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to
the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at
liberty those who are oppressed. And of course, further further, the text
says that Jesus said to the people, like, all of this is now
being fulfilled, This prophecy is being fulfilled right here, right now in presence,
and of course he returned the scrolls to the one who was attending for
the ministry. And so Jesus came with his anointing, the power of the
Holy Ghost, to teach people who did not know God, who God was
right, to manifest in the earth the character of God, and to teach
the great news about salvation through faith in Christ. Yes, he was teaching
that, and in that anointing, it did not stop at spiritual. There
were some practical, real things, real sufferings, real pains that Jesus helped
to relieve. There were people who could not see Ah, people who were
paralyzed, people like the woman at the well who may have had some emotional
and mental challenges because her sins, and the woman who was dragged before Jesus
with the who was caught in the very act of adultery. Those women needed
some special guidance, a special ear to hear their plight, right special eyes
to see them as children of God rather than the sins that they would have
committed. And so they were hurting, and Jesus practically and in reality relieve
their suffering and pain. There were people who were very hungry. Jesus supplied
food needs and so forth. We call in our modern era some of these
things felt needs. Okay, And so since we have been hurting, since
we see Jesus Christ as the perfect model of one who relieved pain and suffering
when he lived on planet Earth, now we need to be looking at action
items action items for our own lives. Right. So, right out of
the lesson study, all one has to do, for instance, is read
about the staggering amount of money spent on antidepressants in the Western world each year
to understand that material wealth alone, like having money, having properties, having
other assets alone does not even come close to guaranteeing happiness or peace. And
so we need to be evaluating our own perceptions about material wealth. Am I
saying anything wrong about material wealth? Absolutely not. I need to make a
confession to you. I intend one day to be a multi US millionaire,
a US multimillionaire. And if the Lord blesses me to become a billionaire,
why because there are so many people who need things that I cannot yet help
them to supply. There's one thing that I really really am and drawn to,
and I've had the privilege of assisting in these areas before. People who
are missing limbs who need prosthetic hands, arms, kneecaps, hips, legs,
and other parts of the body that for some reason either were not developed
or underdeveloped, or amputated yes, or surgically removed because of some disease,
still amputated. And so that requires money. Yes, I could build a
foundation and get money from other people and all of that. Fine. But
all I'm saying is that even though even though things require money, and in
my case it would require lots of it, Yeah, we must not think
that money can buy us happiness. See, I told you I want to
have a lot of money. I told you one of the reasons got it.
But at the same time, we must not trust in our riches or
our wealth when or if we do have these riches. Okay, So that
can't buy happiness, it cannot buy love, it cannot buy any character things.
But the money is useful in society. In fact, Jesus said that
we are to occupy. The word means invest. We are to occupy until
Jesus comes. Okay, number two, we're going to read from again the
same passage I've already read Luke chapter four and verse eighteen. The Bible reads
the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me. Remember
I highlighted the anointing of the Holy Goos to preach the gospel. So that's
spiritual to the poor. Blessed are the poor in spirit? The Bible says
right and poor in spirit is a state of awareness that says, I cannot
live according to my own power or principles. I realize I need God's help.
And of course, you know what poor actually is when we don't have
a lot of resources. He sent me to heal the broken hearted. We
talked about that a little bit. To proclaim liberty to the captives. There
are people who are bound to addictions. People are bound because they're bosses and
employers, and unfortunately in some parts of the world there are still slave masters,
slave owners, slaveholders. Jesus came to deliver people from that kind of
a thing. Yeah, and also recovery of sight to the blind. That's
literal blindness in Jesus's day, and of course spiritual blindness. And of course
set at liberty those who are oppressed. And so we want to just simply
emulate Jesus's compassion. Emulate Jesus's compassion. We want to help those who are
hurting, those who are in need. Emulate Jesus compassion. A wonderful day,
peace. 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,