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 eight, 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 whom you crucified? Whom you
crucified. 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 your Daily Portion
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Again at your Daily Portion dot com. This is where we build faith
and fellowship, and I am excited to be able to continue to build with
you there. Okay, let's go ahead and pray and then we will get
underwagh. Father in heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to pray.
Thank you for loving us so much that you have given us your son.
Father. I pray that we will live as people who have full appreciation
for this blessed heavenly gift, and that we will live according to your principles.
In Jesus name, I pray Amen and amen again whom you have crucified.
Okay, so there are there some blessings brothers and sisters that come only
as a result of prayer. Missus White said that it is the will of
God to grant in answer to the prayer of faith that which He would not
bestow. Did we not thus ask? So it is God's privilege, it
is his honor. He sees it as a positive thing to grant answers Ah,
But we have to be asking. They're blessings that He gives us every
day, new blessings every morning. Great is his faithfulness. The sun shines
on the wicked and on the just right, the rain comes and the seasons
do change at the appropriate time, and so many blessings that we can't even
begin to number. But there were some things that only come when we pray
the prayer of faith. We have expectant faith, and therefore God, God
grants answers in that vein. Okay. And so from the left and directly
from the Lesson Acts, Chapter two records the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at
Pentecost. And of course, like because of the import of that particular day
of Pentecost, it's almost like we've we've made it seem like this is the
only day of Pentecost in the Bible. But even though there are others,
like I wish I had the time, but this day of Pentecost was pivotal,
almost like almost like the one back when God gave the Ten commandments.
Oh, I was a teaser. Maybe I'll come back to that one day,
okay. And so the day of Pentecost, the one that came after
Jesus's resurrection. As the followers of Jesus were praying, tongues of fire rested
upon their heads, they recognized that the promised power of the Holy Spirit had
been given. They had expectant faith. Remember it says the promised power of
the Holy Spirit. They recognize that God kept his promise, So that means
they were on the lookout for his promise. I think there's a promise that
I'm on the lookout for. I think Jesus said something through Paul. Through
Paul, the Holy Spirit said something like to those who look for him,
to them, shall he appear a second time without sin unto salvation. So
we're looking forward to the second coming of Jesus Christ and we want to be
in that number when the saints go marching in. Yes, you've heard that
song. Yeah, And so that is what we're talking about. Now we
need to look at a few action items because speaking about it theoretically does not
really help us. We believers are very good at transferring information, but now
we're looking at transformation. We need to take action. Okay, And so
we read from the Book of Acts, chapter one and verse eight to familiar
passage. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come up
you and ye shall be the witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in
Judea and in Samaria. An unto the uttermost part of the earth, that
is inn Acts, chapter one in verse eight. And so the action item
is to continually seek empowerment from the Holy Spirit. When is the last time
you ask for the power of the Holy Ghost? See before I get up
in the morning, I said, before I get up, or as I
am awakening in the morning, and I get up at three am. Every
day I ask God, please give me the fullness of your Holy Spirit.
Every day I'm asking God, please give me your Holy Spirit. And I
leave it to God to measure that and to give me what I need,
because He's the one who in his own divine mind knows what is needed.
It is not by might, not by power, but by God's Spirit that
we are able to move forward in anything in the day is mission. And
what we must do in our own homes, our own communities, and the
places that we will travel throughout the days. And so we need His Holy
Spirit and we need to seek Him all day, every day so we can
effectively spread the Gospel and become witnesses for for Jesus. Right, Let's go
to Acts chapter two and verse thirty eight, and the Bible reads when Peter,
excuse me, whoops. When Peter, what did I say? Thirty
eight? Yeah, Then Peter said, unto them, repent and be baptized,
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission
of sins. So we can be forgiven right and ye shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost. And so we need to repent, We need to
turn the shoulder, turn away from sin. God will give us if we
are willing to hear from Him, Yes, through the Holy Spirit, he
will give us the ability to have godly sorrow for sin. And as he
gives us that ability, and then the call comes to us. The truth
about God is that He's holy, just and good at all times. The
truth about us is that we are miserable, poor, blind, naked and
don't even know it. But when He gives us an awareness. According to
John chapter sixteen, in about verse thirty three, when he teaches us the
Holy Spirit has come, he teaches us all truth about Him, all truth
about us, and we see our need for Jesus. Then it is time
to turn the shoulder, turn away from our sins, turn toward God.
And if we've not already been baptized, it is time to be baptized.
Okay, So repent for our past sins, yes, and be baptized as
an outward expression of our commitment. M baptism in many ways as we die
to self and sin, and we are to be raised unto holiness, right
resurrected unto holiness. It is our public expression of our personal experience and commitment
to God. Okay. And number three, we're going to Acts chapter one
and verse fourteen. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with
the women and Mary and the Mother of Jesus and with his brethren. We've
read this before, and so we with fervency, we pray and seek unity
with fellow believers. One of the death knells that come into the midst of
the people of God is disunity. We argue about all kinds of stuff.
I was in a church the other day and I can't even say what I'm
about to say because it'll start another argument. But the preacher got up and
talked and talked and talked and talked and talked about some controversial thing that he
conjured up from over a year ago, and did not open the Word of
God one time. And I'm thinking, but Sir, you have the privilege
to invest in people who may be hopeless, or those who are hopeful but
just need a little bit more faith, who need a little bit more encouragement,
and for fifty minutes you burn the time arguing that just sold sowed seeds
of discord rather than unity. I hope you have 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,