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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 Tuesday, July nine,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's
Word every single day, and today is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series through the Book of

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Mark. We are on Lesson number
two. Our caption for today is more

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Sabbath Ministry, More Sabbath Ministry.
We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot
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pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you are

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in the world at your Daily Portion
dot com. This is a way that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us

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this new Tuesday to live and to
breathe and have our being. Thank you

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for entrusting the time to us.
Help us to see ministry like you see

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it. Help us to live according
to your principles. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Damen again
more Sabbath ministry. And so yesterday I

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mentioned, well, we talked about
an unforgettable worship experience, and I asked

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you a few questions, and I'm
asking myself those saying questions. If you

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don't recall, just go ahead and
scroll back to the eighth of lie.

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But this experience that we can have
can also be during the Sabbath hours.

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And Jesus did something really incredible at
times during the Sabbath hours, in the

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synagogue, on the road, in
people's homes, in the lives of people,

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wherever they happened to be. Jesus
did some miraculous stuff that made the

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time memorable. So I'm going to
read a quote and then jump into the

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scripture here. The quote comes from
the book The Desire of Ages. The

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Desire of Ages, page two hundred
and fifty nine, and it reads,

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not until the last sufferer had been
relieved did Jesus cease his work. So

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Jesus didn't halfway do something. When
he arrived into a place where people had

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enough faith to believe that he was
able to change and transform their lives,

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to deliver them from whatever happened to
be binding them, he did not move

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until he relieved all of the suffering, continuing, it was far into the

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night when the multitude departed and silence
settled down upon the home of Simon.

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The long exciting day was passed,
and Jesus sought rest. Yes, brothers

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and sisters, Jesus was tired.
He was tired. Have you ever been

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somewhere healing people? And I'm not
asking you to be funny, some of

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you have the gift of healing.
Have you ever been like after someone because

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you're there and you did what God
asked you to do, and God used

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you to deliver someone from the devil's
grip? Right, have you ever felt

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how tiring it was? Yes,
Jesus was tired. Continuing the quote,

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but while the city was still wrapped
in slumber. See the people were resting,

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the Savior, rising up a great
while before day, went out and

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departed into a solitary place, and
there he prayed. You see, when

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Jesus was working on behalf of people, he was working energized through prayer,

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energized through the power of the Holy
Ghost, energized through connection with God our

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Father. And so sometimes when we
are tired, we are tired because we're

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trying to use our own strength.
When Jesus was tired, he was tired

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because the days would go long.
And even still, even still he's tired

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from a long day. He didn't
give himself an excuse in the morning and

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say, oh, well, I
need to sleep in and not pray.

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I need to sleep in and not
connect with God of my Father, like

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he'll understand. He said, no, I'm still going to get up.

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I'm going to connect with God my
Father so that everything that I do as

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I'm here on this planet for thirty
three and a half years, so that

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everything that I do in this ministry
of three and a half years will be

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effective and of course will bring glory
to God our Father. So he woke

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up a great while before day before
he went back out to do the work,

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and there he prayed. And so
I will read from the Book of

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Mark, chapter one, beginning at
verse twenty nine. And I hope that

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you're hearing the example that he set. I'm not just saying it so that

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you will say, oh, that's
what he did. I'm saying it.

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I'm identifying it because that is our
privilege to do as well. Okay.

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And so the Bible reads in verse
twenty nine and forthwith when they were come

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out of the synagogue, they entered
into the house of Simon and Andrew with

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James and John verse thirty. But
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever,

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and Anon they tell him of her, and he came and took her

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by the hand and lifted her up
and immediately, I want you to keep

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that word close at hand. When
God is working, there were times that

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he works immediately, and in this
case he worked immediately, and immediately the

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fever left her and she ministered unto
them. I'm gonna pause right here.

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You see, when God delivers you
from something, and you immediately experienced that

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deliverance, you were also immediately called
into ministry. I didn't say that you

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would be immediately called to be a
pastor of a church or an evangelist.

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What I'm saying is whatever it is
that God calls you to do in reference

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to assisting other people, that happens
no sooner than when God delivers you.

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So the deliverance first and the ministry
next. There are too many ministers.

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You weren't expecting this. There were
too many people who are attempting to minister

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who have not been delivered. I
need you to listen to me this morning.

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There are too many people who are
not delivered but are trying to minister.

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God is saying, no, let
me deliver you first, so you

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can represent me a right. Let
me deliver you first, so that you'll

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have the power that you need to
actually minister to people in the strength that

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I will give you. So,
Lord help us to allow you to deliver

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us. And then you set us
up for ministry. And then the Bible

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continues in verse thirty two, and
at even when the sun did set,

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he brought unto him. They brought
unto him, they that were all diseased,

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and them that were possessed with devils, and all the city gathered together

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at the door, and he healed
many that were sick of divers diseases,

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and cast out many devils and suffered
not the devils to sp because they knew

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him. I'm not going to really
get into that last part too much about

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them knowing him, but I just
want to say that when Jesus moves,

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he's moving for our good and for
his glory. So here are a couple

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of things that we should keep in
mind based on what happened with Simon's mother

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in law. First, Jesus cares
about our needs. He cares about our

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needs. He didn't say, oh, I've been healing and delivering people.

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I'm tired. He didn't say,
oh, well, I'll come back.

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I have something else to do.
First, he cares about our needs.

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He's attentive to our personal struggles and
ailments. His healing touching our lives can

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be both physical and spiritual, showing
that he is intimately involved and careful for

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the things that matter to us.
Number two, service is a response to

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healing, as I would have already
preempted myself. So once we are delivered,

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Once we are healed, we are
immediately put into ministry. She was

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delivered right and she ministered immediately to
the people who were right around her.

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Number Three, Jesus's power is over
everything that ails us, every sickness,

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every disease, every mindset, challenge, everything that can be set us.

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Jesus has the power to give us
victory over So I think I'll just pause

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right there. I'm thankful that God
has given us a window into the lives

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of people who have been delivered.
And now do minister, you do it

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in the same way. Make it
a great day. Thanks for joining us

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listening to friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth
of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,