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 Sunday, May five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name Iszelle 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 the Great Controversy. Our
caption for today is two Witnesses, Two Witnesses. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I like to say welcome to you and ask
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is the 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 this new day and for the opportunity that you have entrusted
to us to open up your word, and not just to open it,
but to live the principles that you have given us. Father, Please let
your word be a witness that we have chosen to serve you. Help us
to agree with what you say, and then, once Jesus comes, help
us to live with you eternally, eternally in Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again, two witnesses. Okay, so this almost sounds like
what we were saying yesterday, but we're going to drill down some more and
let me just ask you a question. What do witnesses do? What do
witnesses do? Yes, I know there are a number of ways that you
could take this, but they testify. Let's go with that. That's a
simple way of saying, what witnesses do? They testify? And I remember
Jesus saying when he was dealing with some people who should have loved him,
who had the privilege to love him, who who feigned that they represented god
Ah. But he said, you search the scriptures, for in them,
ye think ye have eternal life. So people were trusting in memorizing scripture,
wearing scripture on their bodies, being able to recite scripture right, being able
to wax eloquently regarding the scripture. But they didn't necessarily live the scriptures.
So he said, you search the scriptures, for in them, ye think
ye have eternal life. They are they that testify of me. And so
Jesus gave us a paradigm. He said that the scriptures testify of him.
So in twenty twenty four we understand that the scriptures are both Old and New
Testaments. Yes, the Old and New covenants. Yes, So the scriptures
testify two witnesses testify. Now let's go ahead and read from the Book of
Revelation, chapter eleven, and I'll read beginning at verse three. The Bible
reads, and I will give power unto my two witnesses. So now we
have sort of a peak into these witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand,
two hundred and three score days clothed in sackcloth. And of course this
represents prophetic period that is completely outlined in our lesson study for today. But
we won't go into those details because we have to get to application, since
our time with here with one another is short. Verse four. These are
the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth.
And if any man hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and
devoured their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, he must in
this manner be killed. These are. These have power to shut heaven that
it rained not in the days of their prophecy. These have the power over
waters, to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with all
plagues as often as they will. And so we see the power of God's
word in the time of Elijah, in the time of Moses, we see
that these two witnesses the scriptures, the scriptures have the power to do whatever
God says. Okay, yes, we'll get into that as well. And
so the lesson writer points out that in Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen and
verse one five, it reads, your word is a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path. Oil represents the Holy Spirit, and
so John's revelation in the Revelation chapter eleven is describing God's word being proclaimed in
the power of the Holy Spirit to lighten the world. Yes, there is
so much more language there that I wish we could get into, but alas
in just about four minutes, we're not able to cover it. But go
back to your lesson, Sunday's lesson and go there through the detail. But
really I want to highlight now how both the Old and the New Testaments,
how both the Old and the New Testaments manifest the power of God in different
ways. So let's go to Genesis, chapter one and verse one. The
Bible says, in the beginning God created the heavens and the air. And
so this account of creation establishes a foundation about the power of God in this
same earth that we are living in in twenty twenty four. And so we
see that the Bible witnesses to the power of God. There is no other
God in air quotes that can create. I want to go down through a
list, but I think I don't need to. No other God can create.
And so we see the Creator in his glory manifesting his power, and
the Bible is a witness to it. And then we see in the Book
of Exodus, chapter fourteen, beginning at verse twenty one, and Moses stretched
out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go
back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land,
and the waters were divided, and the children of Israel went into the
midst of the sea upon dry ground, and the waters were a wall unto
them. And they're on their right hand and on their left. And so
we see the power of God again witnessed by the scriptures, that the Lord
parted the Red Sea for his people to go over on dry ground, and
through the night he dried that sea bed so his people could walk through.
And then we see in the rest of the story that of Pharaoh and his
armies ran after they charged after the people of God, and of course the
sea came back and then drowned all of the enemies of God. So we
see the power of God to do miraculous things, to continue to lead his
people even in twenty twenty four. But we see it in the Red Sea,
where God led his people against all odds, not only to safety,
but to victory. Okay, let's go into the New Testament. We see
in the Book of Mark in verse thirty nine, and he arose and rebuked
the wind and said, unto the sea, peace be still, and the
wind ceased, and there was a great calm, because more than one time
Jesus calmed the seas. But in this case we see that even though the
sea and the waves were against the people of God who were with Jesus,
even though there was fear in their hearts, and Jesus needed to correct and
rebuke that faithlessness. We see that the New Testament witness has demonstrated the power
even in the hands of Jesus as he lived on planet Earth, to calm
nature, to command that which he created, as we see in the Book
of Genesis chapter one, that which he created, to calm down and guess
what nature had to comply. Because the maker of nature was speaking, he
said, calm down, cease, and it did. So. We see
that the New Testament actually indicated and manifested the truth about God's power. How
about even in the Resurrection Matthew chapter twenty eight and verse five, the Bible
reads and the Angel answered and said, unto the woman, fear ye not,
for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified. But he's
not here. He has risen, Come and see the place where the Lord
had lain. So we see the power of the resurrection of Jesus manifest and
shone forth in the witness of the New Testament. So what are we saying?
There are two witnesses, the Old and the New Testaments. They manifest
the power of God? Did they manifest the power of God in your life?
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,