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 Sabbath, December nine, twenty twenty three. 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 Lesson study series, God's Mission, My
mission, and our caption is Mission to the Unreached, Part two. We
broached that just a couple of weeks ago, and we're going to continue the
discussion here Mission to the Unreached Part two. First, I just want to
say happy Sabbath to you. Are you taking you in time? Are you?
Maybe I should say investing time to rest, to breathe, to experience
God, to experience nature. Yeah, you see how I'm bringing you down.
It's not because I've run out of things to say. How could I
do that? Right? But we do need to come aside and rest a
while, even on the Sabbath day especially, So please please please make a
special connection with God, with your family and with the community people that can
be benefited from your influence. 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 we have to continue in your word. Please give
us your understanding and wisdom as we reach the who don't know you. In
Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Mission to the unreached.
Part two. Okay, so we're going to begin straight out of the
Lesson Study, and it reads from the beginning, a loving God sought his
lost children, and even today that is the case. Do you remember in
the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve. He had already created them. He
gave them everything they could possibly need or desire, because remember, there is
no sin on planet Earth. And then he gives some very clear instructions and
both Adam and Eve violated those instructions. And to make a long story short,
remember God came to the garden as usual, and as he was in
the garden, the Bible says that God called out to Adam and said,
Adam, where are you? And Adam sheepish. He says, I'm hiding.
I was naked, and so I hid myself. And God said,
well, who told you that you were naked? Did I did you take
from the tree? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded that thou
shouldest not eat? And then he begins to blame his wife. And then
when God says something to Eve, blames the devil. The devil made me
do it. And then God deals with the situation from there. But the
fact is that the loving God did a couple of things. One he put
into place a plan before Adam and Eve sinned, that should they fall into
sin or jump into sin, that he would be able to save them.
Jesus was slaying from the foundation of the earth, as the Bible would give
us in those in that language, or because God is always on time and
cause his mind as eternal, the plan already existed, so that as soon
as Eve ate the fruit, Adam ate the fruit. God didn't have to
destroy them off the face of the earth. And so God had the plan
in place already, not because they had to sin, but he knew they
would sin. But apart from that, now we see that God didn't sit
up in heaven and just wait for Adam to come to his senses and then,
you know, do something about it. No, he goes after Adam
and says, where are you, Adam? Where are you? Adam?
Where are you? He calls out to Adam so that Adam would know the
state of his experience with God. So Adam would understand that he had so
far separated himself from God that he was in danger, in danger of being
that way forever, or being separated from God and then losing his life.
And that would have been any turn, no consequence. You see where that's
going. So God loved us so much that he put put us in position
to receive salvation. Now we know it's through Christ. And then he gives
Adam and Eve the opportunity to see where they were. And so that's a
good good way to begin this lesson study. And then it says that God
is still seeking to reach the lost, including those lost in the cities.
In twenty eighteen, the United Nations published its latest findings, which say that
fifty five percent of the planet's population lives in urban areas, and this will
grow if time should last, to sixty eight percent by twenty fifty. We
have no choice. We must witness to those in the cities. So let's
go ahead and read from Matthew, chapter fifteen and verse twenty eight, where
it reads, then Jesus answered and said to her, a woman, where
is your faith? Let it be to you as you desire. And her
daughter was healed from that very hour. God showed that at different times through
Christ, when Jesus lived on planet Earth. At different times, sometimes Jesus
was on his way on a particular mission, and then along the pathway or
the journey or the road, then an opportunity for healing would happen, an
opportunity to connect with someone would happen, right, an opportunity for a person
who was blind, or more than one person who was blind to be delivered
from that blindness so they could see. Or he would pass through cities or
buy cities, excuse me, and then he would heal everybody in the city
to where the Bible says there was not one sick or feeble one among them.
And so in this case we see a woman who has faith. She
puts her faith in God, and then the Bible says that her daughter was
healed from that very hour. That means that God's intent for us is to
be delivered from sin, delivered from earthly impediments and sicknesses and so forth.
So God loves people, and I really I couldn't resist. God loves people
more than anything. That's a song, by the way, all right,
and so let's look at a few principles before I let you go the Sabbath.
Okay, let's read from Genesis chapter chapter nine, I mean three,
verse nine again. And the Lord called unto Adam and said, unto him,
where are you recognize? Recognize that like Adam, everyone is sought after
by God. God is seeking to save the lost. He showed it with
Adam and Eve, and he is showing it with us. Number two,
embrace urban mission fields. Right, And I've already cited this, But from
Matthew chapter nine and verse thirty five, the Bible reads and Jesus went about
all the silly cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel
of the Kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. And
so if Jesus hadn't gone into these villages, he hadn't gone into these city
centers, how would this healing have happened. So he did it in two
ways. We see that he would teach the truth, teach the truth about
God's love, teach the truth from his word. He lived the truth before
them. In one of the ways that he lived the truth before them is
that he would deliver them from their physical, mental, and emotional maladies.
We know that he forgave sins, right, we know that Jesus came to
save people from our sins. He also made sure that their felt needs were
handled. There were people who were hungry, he would give them food.
People who were sick and diseased, he would give them what they needed.
And so our approach in those same areas, those same kinds of areas is
to do and live like Jesus did. And of course we should minister beyond
cultural boundaries. There's such a long list of discussion about who's a gentile,
who is a Jew, who was connected to God, who was not.
But ultimately, regardless of those details, Jesus came to save every nation,
kindred tongue, and people for those who will yield our real to him.
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,