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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 Wednesday, November twenty two, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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. God's mission,

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my mission, and our caption for
today is to help the hurting.

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To help the hurting. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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first I'd like to say welcome 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 and Heaven,
thank you for giving us this new day

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and for getting us to the midway
point of this week. Please get us

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over that speed bump, God,
and help us to learn how to be

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of service and of value to people
who are hurting. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen, and a
man again. Listen. If I ask

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the question, it would really be
for effect. If you've ever been hurting,

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if you've ever lost a loved one, if you have ever been at

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a workplace where you didn't necessarily want
to be because it was an an abusive

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environment. Have you ever been in
a situation that you felt hopeless because something

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was happening to you and you didn't
know how to overcome it, you didn't

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know whom you should be reporting it
to, or something worse, you're in

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a situation where your health is in
problems. Yeah, hurting people help hurting

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people. So we can just really
cut through this one easily to say,

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since you have been hurting before,
you have experienced physical, emotional, financial,

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intellectual, some other kinds of pain. Then you know what it's like.

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And therefore you must know. We
all must know that when people are

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hurting around us, we should not
turn a blind eye, we should not

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close our ears, we should not
become more selfish and guarded. We should

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do whatever we can. And we
have to be honest with ourselves about what

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we can do and assist in whatever
ways possible. And so Jesus's ministry hyper

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highlighted here in the Book of Luke, chapter four, and it's actually hearkening

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back to a prophecy about Messiah who
was to come, and the Bible reads

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as Jesus was standing in the synagogue
right and reading directly out of the scrolls

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the scriptures we now call Isaiah.
Yes, the spirit of the Lord is

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upon me, because he has anointed
me to preach the gospel to the poor.

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He has sent me to heal the
broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to

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the captives, and recovery of sight
to the blind, and to set at

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liberty those who are oppressed. And
of course, further further, the text

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says that Jesus said to the people, like, all of this is now

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being fulfilled, This prophecy is being
fulfilled right here, right now in presence,

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and of course he returned the scrolls
to the one who was attending for

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the ministry. And so Jesus came
with his anointing, the power of the

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Holy Ghost, to teach people who
did not know God, who God was

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right, to manifest in the earth
the character of God, and to teach

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the great news about salvation through faith
in Christ. Yes, he was teaching

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that, and in that anointing,
it did not stop at spiritual. There

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were some practical, real things,
real sufferings, real pains that Jesus helped

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to relieve. There were people who
could not see Ah, people who were

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paralyzed, people like the woman at
the well who may have had some emotional

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and mental challenges because her sins,
and the woman who was dragged before Jesus

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with the who was caught in the
very act of adultery. Those women needed

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some special guidance, a special ear
to hear their plight, right special eyes

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to see them as children of God
rather than the sins that they would have

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committed. And so they were hurting, and Jesus practically and in reality relieve

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their suffering and pain. There were
people who were very hungry. Jesus supplied

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food needs and so forth. We
call in our modern era some of these

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things felt needs. Okay, And
so since we have been hurting, since

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we see Jesus Christ as the perfect
model of one who relieved pain and suffering

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when he lived on planet Earth,
now we need to be looking at action

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items action items for our own lives. Right. So, right out of

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the lesson study, all one has
to do, for instance, is read

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about the staggering amount of money spent
on antidepressants in the Western world each year

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to understand that material wealth alone,
like having money, having properties, having

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other assets alone does not even come
close to guaranteeing happiness or peace. And

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so we need to be evaluating our
own perceptions about material wealth. Am I

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saying anything wrong about material wealth?
Absolutely not. I need to make a

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confession to you. I intend one
day to be a multi US millionaire,

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a US multimillionaire. And if the
Lord blesses me to become a billionaire,

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why because there are so many people
who need things that I cannot yet help

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them to supply. There's one thing
that I really really am and drawn to,

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and I've had the privilege of assisting
in these areas before. People who

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are missing limbs who need prosthetic hands, arms, kneecaps, hips, legs,

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and other parts of the body that
for some reason either were not developed

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or underdeveloped, or amputated yes,
or surgically removed because of some disease,

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still amputated. And so that requires
money. Yes, I could build a

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foundation and get money from other people
and all of that. Fine. But

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all I'm saying is that even though
even though things require money, and in

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my case it would require lots of
it, Yeah, we must not think

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that money can buy us happiness.
See, I told you I want to

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have a lot of money. I
told you one of the reasons got it.

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But at the same time, we
must not trust in our riches or

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our wealth when or if we do
have these riches. Okay, So that

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can't buy happiness, it cannot buy
love, it cannot buy any character things.

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But the money is useful in society. In fact, Jesus said that

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we are to occupy. The word
means invest. We are to occupy until

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Jesus comes. Okay, number two, we're going to read from again the

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same passage I've already read Luke chapter
four and verse eighteen. The Bible reads

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the Spirit of the Lord is upon
me because he has anointed me. Remember

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I highlighted the anointing of the Holy
Goos to preach the gospel. So that's

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spiritual to the poor. Blessed are
the poor in spirit? The Bible says

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right and poor in spirit is a
state of awareness that says, I cannot

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live according to my own power or
principles. I realize I need God's help.

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And of course, you know what
poor actually is when we don't have

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a lot of resources. He sent
me to heal the broken hearted. We

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talked about that a little bit.
To proclaim liberty to the captives. There

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are people who are bound to addictions. People are bound because they're bosses and

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employers, and unfortunately in some parts
of the world there are still slave masters,

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slave owners, slaveholders. Jesus came
to deliver people from that kind of

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a thing. Yeah, and also
recovery of sight to the blind. That's

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literal blindness in Jesus's day, and
of course spiritual blindness. And of course

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set at liberty those who are oppressed. And so we want to just simply

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emulate Jesus's compassion. Emulate Jesus's compassion. We want to help those who are

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hurting, those who are in need. Emulate Jesus compassion. A wonderful day,

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peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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

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God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,