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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 Sunday, July fourteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name Iszelle David Harris. I am
your host, and this is your Daily

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,

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and our caption for today is healing
a Paralytic. I gave you a

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quick bite in that yesterday, Healing
the paralytic into that in just a moment.

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But first I like to say welcome
to you, Welcome to the new

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work week. Like welcome to everybody
joining us, especially those joining us for

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the very first time. I'm asking
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Daily Portion dot com. This is
one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get

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underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new day,

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this opportunity to open up your word. I'm asking you to please fill us

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with your holy spirit, fill us
with your mindset to do your will.

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Help us to see the blessings that
you bring to us, and be amazed

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but not surprised. Teach us to
accept you in all things. In Jesus'

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name, I pray Amen and Amen
again. Healing the paralytic. So yesterday

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when we were talking about controversies and
the fact that some people are just you

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know, rude and can tankeer us
like love arguments and are not really they're

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not about that, you know,
living for God life like, Yeah,

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there were controversies even in Jesus healing
a man who needed to be healed,

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and he was answering the call of
faith, the call of faith upon his

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power. He was dealing with that
and yeah, there were some people in

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the congregation. There were people in
the crowd that decided that Jesus was not

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worthy to do that. Okay,
And so we're going to jump right into

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the story and from the Bible Book
of Mark, chapter two, and I

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will read beginning at verse one.
Okay, the Bible Book of Mark,

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chapter two, and I will read
beginning at verse one, and the Bible

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reads and again he entered into Capernaum
after some days, and it was noised

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that he was in the house.
So this is the first thing I want

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to identify here, is that because
Jesus was such a prominent figure. And

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you say prominent figure, that sounds
like some fame stuff, that sounds like

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some political stuff. Nope, that's
not what I mean. He was prominent.

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He was a prominent figure because he
did so much good. Everywhere he

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went, people were healed whenever he
was present. People were delivered from sin

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when he was present. So he
was that kind of prominent figure. People's

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mindsets were broken open and the captive
nature of their mindset was set free,

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you see. And so now people
knew where he was. So he's in

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the house, and so everybody's like, whoa let's get there, And the

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Bible continues verse two and straightway.
Many were gathered together insomuch that there was

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no room to receive them. No, not so much as even at the

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door. You see, they didn't
have fire marshals. They didn't have some

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kind of regulation that said this place
is too full. This band, everybody

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move dispersed like, nothing like that. It was just it was ram pack.

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Like how we would say, here
was ram The place did rum And

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the Bible says they couldn't even come
in at the door, and he preached

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the word unto them. May I
just say for those of you who are

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on social media and on YouTube,
if you're on the radio like I am,

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on television like I am, like, if you're you have an audience,

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make sure that when your audience is
a big old audience or a tiny

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little audience, if it's a big
old audience, make sure whatever it is

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that you're giving people is leading them
to life. Let your words, your

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actions, your intonations, the people
that you bring on as guests like,

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let that stuff be life giving.
This is what Jesus did with his influence.

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There are people who are influential.
There are people out here called influencers,

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and some of the stuff that people
are doing with all of that influence,

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it's terrible, and that is an
understatement. So Jesus, with all

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of his power and influence, he
was preaching the word to them, and

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they came to him bringing one sick
of the palsy. This dude was paralyzed,

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y'all, and he was born afore. So he had four good friends

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that carried him because he couldn't carry
himself. Are are you one of four

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good friends that will carry somebody when
they're not able to carry themselves? I

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need to ask you that, like, are you one of a few friends

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that people can count on and say, I need prayer, I have some

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other felt needs. I have something
here. It's a physical, actual physical

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need. Like the dude couldn't move
from one place to another without his friends.

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Are you one of those friends?
Do you have a friend like this?

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The Bible continues in verse four.
And when they could not come nigh

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unto him for the press we already
said it was full, they uncovered the

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roof where he was. So the
Bible is teaching us that they had to

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be innovative, they had to become
demanding, They had to become dissatisfied with

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any barrier that was in the way
potentially of this man's deliverance. You need

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brothers and sisters. I need to
become dissatisfied with anything that stands in the

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way and then not be willing to
allow anything to stand in the way of

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other people's deliverance. So, wherever
you happen to be, if you need

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to advocate, if you need to
press, you need to blow through a

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door, like if you need to
call a congress person, if you're in

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the United States, like call your
Minister of Parliament here in Jamaica, Like

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I don't know what you need to
do. Whatever it is necessary to do

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in order to get the best for
someone else, it's time to do it.

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And the Bible says they uncovered the
roof where he was, they had

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broken it up, and they let
him down, let the bed down.

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We're in the sick of the palsy
lay verse five. And when Jesus saw

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their fare, Can I just repeat
that again? Repeat that again? That

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was redundant? May I just repeat
that? Okay? When he saw their

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faith? Do you realize that to
God, faith, real faith is irresistible

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to him? Real faith is irresistible
to God. And so when those five

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men's faith stepped up into the place, I know the man was paralyzed.

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But you hear what I'm saying.
When all of that faith came into the

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space where Jesus was, and it
called upon the power of God to deliver

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this brother. When he saw their
faith, Jesus did what he only thing

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he could have done. And I'm
not saying he was manipulated by someone else,

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but he said, if you have
faith the size of the seed of

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mustard seed, then you will You
can say to this mountain, be thou

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removed, and it will be done
unto you. He said, you could.

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You could tell this mountain to lift
up from here and go to yonder

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place, and it shall be done
unto you. And so that's what they

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did. They came into his presence
with that kind of faith. And so

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he saw the sick of the palsy, and he said, unto him,

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son, thy sins be forgiven thee. And of course there were some haters

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in the room. There were some
haters in the room in the presence of

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God. There were haters in the
congregation of believers. There were haters.

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I said, in the presence of
God and the congregation of believers in the

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press of people who were there to
be delivered to listen to the words of

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God and be transformed. They were
haters in the room. And these haters

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were supposed to be on God's team. Like these were supposed to be the

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religious leaders of the day. They
were supposed to be the people who would

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help people get free from everything that
was in their way to get to God.

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But they said, well, who
can forgive sins but God? Who

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is this man who thus speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins? But God

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only? And listen to how Jesus
dealt with them. You know what he

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said. He said, whether is
it easier to say, to the sick

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of the palsy son, thy sins
be forgiven thee that was his chief need

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by the way he could have lived
or died after that, But or to

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take up your bed and walk?
But that ye may know that the Son

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of Man hath power on earth.
In this very moment he's teaching us.

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I say unto you to forgive sins. I say unto you, take up

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your bed and walk. And immediately, the Bible says he took up his

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bed and he walked the people who
were amazed. Why because Jesus healed and

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delivered the man. He's here to
heal and deliver. You. Make it

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a great day. Thanks for joining
us listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but
by every word that comes from the mouth

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

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it a great day. Yeah,