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 Friday, July five, twenty twenty four. 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 new Lesson study series through the Book of
Mark, and our caption for today is remain connected to God. I need
you to remain connected to God. Really, you need you to remain connected
to God. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I
like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our
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you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a
way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
giving us the opportunity to open your word again and to become connected with you
and then remain connected. Father. Please give us your holy spirit and help
us not to intellectualize away the beauty of an experience with you. Help us,
Father, to live holy lives. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Have you ever been connected to God? Connect it
to God? And I know that sometimes people wonder, well what does that
mean? Like, how do we get connected with God? And let me
just give a simple definition of faith. Besides what the scriptures say very clearly
in the Book of Hebrews chapter eleven, I want to give an illustrative explanation.
Okay, so think of faith as a wire. Right some of you
have cell phones, many of you do, and you have you have a
wire that connects to your cell phone and on the other end it connects to
the power source. Okay, So faith is that wire. If the faith
is connected the wire is connected to the power source, and then that wire
is also connected to your life. Then the faith works. You see,
it is functional, it is useful. It causes the phone to be able
to do whatever the phone was created to do. You can call people,
you can answer text messages. You can even switch on a light and use
it like a like a like a flashlight. You can take pictures and videos
and audio. That phone only remains functional or useful as long as it is
in good working order and it remains connected at the appropriate times, connected to
the power source through the wire we're calling that faith. Did you get that?
And so as long as we are connected with God by faith, our
faith is connected to God and the and the faith is coming from us and
we're now connected with God, that passageway that can do it. That wire
called faith is useful. And so so we need to be asking God to
keep us connected with him. We need to be asking God to help our
faith to be strong, not fraid, not broken. Have you ever had
a wire that reverse charged your phone? Like your phone started to lose current,
lose power when you connected it with that wire. And if you've not,
then let me just tell you when that happens. It's because the wire
is broken, something is crossed up in the wiring, something went very wrong,
and then your phone heats up and it starts to go down instead of
go up. That's because that's not the right kind of faith. There are
times that people believe in things that are attributed to God, but it's not
really God speaking, you understand. And so we need the kind of faith
that Jesus is the author and finisher of, the one that Jesus gives every
human a measure of the kind of faith that works by love and purifieth the
soul, purifieth our lives. That kind of faith. As we connect that
to God and we lay hold of it for ourselves, that will give us
the power that we need to continue to live according to God's principle. So
hopefully that made sense. It was visual, it was practical to you.
And so what we're going to do now is consider a few ways that we
can remain connected with God. Okay. And so in the Bible Book of
Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse six, the lesson writer wanted us to take
a peek at it again. The Bible reads, and I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven having something specific though, what did this angel
have the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth. Do
you live on planet Earth? I think so to every nation. So it
doesn't matter. There are hundreds of nations represented who listen and watch, listen
to and watch your daily portion. You're on two hundred radio stations on multiple
devices, You're on satellite radio, television, on thirty platforms online. Everybody
on all of those platforms and all of those languages and dialects in all of
those geographic locations. This gospel, everlasting Gospel, is for you and kindred
and tongue and people. And so what we need to do is embrace this
everlasting Gospel. Before you were born, this gospel existed because Jesus Christ,
as the Bible says, was slain before the foundations of the world. So
the plan of salvation, what would be necessary to save humans in the event
that humans to choose to sin, was already in place even before Adam was
created, even before Eve was created. Mm hmm. So this plan of
salvation, this everlasting Gospel, was here as long as God was here,
because his mind is eternal in his mind ready to go in the event that
it would be necessary to save humans from our sins. And I'm thankful that
God was not reactive. I'm thankful that he didn't have to figure out something
on the fly when things went wrong in the Garden of Eden, at the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil. I'm thankful that he had the
foreknowledge and insight and plan so that we could be saved and not have to
pay the penalty that we deserve to pay if we have faith in him.
Okay, And so the next one we want to look at is in the
verse seven and saying with a loud voice, fear God. That is reverential
awe, that is respect for God. Fear God, and give glory to
him. That means that we are allowing his life and light to shine through
our lives. Give glory to him, so when people see us, they
see him. Let your light, the Bible says, so shine before humans,
other humans, right, other pece people, so that when they see
your good works, they will glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
So it says, fear God and give glory to him, for the hour
of his judgment is come, and worship him. The only one that could
have made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters. So
we are thankful that we have the privilege to worship the one who created us.
We're thankful that we have the ability to say thank you and live a
life of thanks, to live thanks to the one who created us, and
help other people to get so connected to God that they will learn how to
worship Him in everything that they say and do as well. Okay, another
one comes from the Book of Mark, Chapter one, verses fourteen and fifteen.
Now the Bible says, now after that John was put in prison,
Jesus came into Galilee preaching the what gospel of the Kingdom of God. I
think we just heard something like that, saying the time is fulfilled, the
Kingdom of God is at he and repent ye and believe the gospel we read
about that this week. And so what God is saying is that now we
have the power to respond to his call to discipleship. We have the power
now in our lives to turn away from those things that normally would have separated
us from Him and to turn toward helping other people to do His will.
We learn how to do his will day by day, step by step,
by faith, we're empowered to do His will, and then we assist others
in doing the same. So much to say, so little time, But
let me just say we all have the privilege and we all must if we're
going to live, remain connected with God. Make it a great 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,