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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 Monday, December eleven,
twenty twenty three. 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. God's mission,

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my mission, and our caption for
today is seeking the multitudes. Seeking the

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multitudes. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like

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to just say welcome to you,
and for those who join us regularly,

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I just want you to know that
I do not take it lightly. It

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is a privilege for me to share
with you every day, every day.

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Did you hear that every day and
it's been such for years, and I'm

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thankful that we have this opportunity.
Also, I want to say welcome to

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those coming to us for the first
time. Please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com, join our online
community, and also let us know where

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you are in the world in the
little box that asks that question at your

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Daily Portion dot com. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will

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get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us the privilege of

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being called by your name. And
I ask you now to fill us with

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your holy spirit. Teach us how
to love you, teach us how to

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have compassion, give us compassionate hearts
like you have like Jesus has. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Seeking the multitudes,

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I'm going to the Book of Matthew, the Book of Matthew, chapter nine,

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and I'm going to read beginning at
verse thirty five. And a great

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big shout out to those who are
listening on the radio. You're on your

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way to work or whatever it is
that you do for the day. Yeah,

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thank you for joining. So beginning
at verse thirty five, and the

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Bible reads and Jesus went about all
the cities and villages, teaching in their

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synagogues. So he's moving around.
He's not staying in one place. He

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is not making it so that people
have to find him. I want us

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to get everything we can from these
simple words. So he's moving around.

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He's going to cities, he's going
to villages, and he's going to the

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places of worship in this case.
In this case it's synagogues and preaching what

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the gospel of the kingdom. So
he is going around in the cities,

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the villages. He's also teaching in
their places of worship. What is he

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preaching? What is he teaching?
He is preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom.

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There are times that we move around
and we don't do as well.

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Sometimes we move around and are not
clear on what our message must be.

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But God is showing us that when
we are moving around, we're on our

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way to work, we're on our
way to play, We're on our way

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to volunteer, to exercise, to
drop someone to school, to be of

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assistance to someone in shopping, or
whatever it is that we're doing in the

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daytime or in the evening for that
matter. Now, we have to make

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sure that we have a clear view
of our purpose when we're moving around.

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Does it mean that we'll preach at
all times? No, not necessarily,

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But the mission of the Gospel must
go wherever we go. Okay, And

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then it says, and he was
healing their sicknesses and every disease among the

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people. What does that teach us
about Jesus. Well, we can say

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that it teaches us he was intentional. We can say that it teaches us

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that he was focused, he was
clear about his mission. But what else?

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It teaches us that he had compassion. He had compassion. There are

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people sick and dying like there are
people who did not know God, like

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there are people in these cities and
villages and places of worship who were disconnected

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from God. And so the Bible
is teaching us through this example that Jesus

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Christ had compassion. Let's keep going, Let's keep going, verse thirty six.

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But when he saw the multitudes,
he was moved. Oh, now

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we don't have to get with compassion
on them, because they fainted and were

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scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. So few people have clear direction,

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so few people understand what God's call
on their lives is. And so God

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is saying, when we move around, I'm going back to the places,

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the cities, the villages, those
places of worship, and everywhere else we

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encounter people. Our only goal is
to lead them to Him, and when

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they have felt needs, if we
are able to supply them. Somebody needs

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food, somebody needs clothing, shelter, someone needs a helping hand, a

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smile, a kind word. Yes, sometimes people just need an ear,

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an ear that is attentive to them
and not rushing them. The Bible is

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saying that this is the way Jesus
moved verse thirty seven. Then seth he

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unto his disciples. The harvest is
truly plenty us, but the laborers are

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few verse thirty eight. And final
pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,

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that he will send forth laborers into
his harvest. We should be praying

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that we are those laborers. We
should be praying that people we know will

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be those laborers. Because really the
time is coming when we cannot be of

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service to people anymore. People will
have already made their final decisions for or

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against God, and unfortunately most people
will have chosen against God. So in

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the meantime we need to do all
that we can so that as many people

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as possible will say yes, Lord, yes to your will and to your

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way, and not allow life to
separate them from him. And so one

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thing that we can see here is
that he was offering himself to be the

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shepherd that they needed. He wasn't
just clicking a link or clicking a button

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to say, let me find somebody
for you. He was also making himself

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available to those who needed him.
Now, let's go to Matthew chapter four.

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Matthew chapter four, and we will
read verses twenty three through twenty five.

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We should be seeing ourselves in the
passage and asking God, well,

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what must I do to be of
service? Okay? And so the Bible

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reads in verse twenty three, and
Jesus went about all of Galilee. Wait

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a minute, this sounds like an
echo. He went about all of Galilee,

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teaching in their synagogues and preaching the
gospel of the Kingdom. Yep,

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I've heard this before, and healing
all manner of sicknesses. Yep, I've

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heard this one before, in all
manner of diseases among the people. And

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his fame went through all Syria,
and they brought unto him all sick people

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that were taken with diverts, diseases
and torments, and those which were possessed

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devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy,

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and healed them, and he and
there followed him great multitudes. Why did

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the multitudes follow him of people from
Galilee and from the capitalist that's the city

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of Yeah, and from Jerusalem,
and from Judea and from beyond the Jordan.

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Why did his fame spread? Why
were there so many people following him?

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Well, because he was healing people, because he had a message of

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peace, even when he had a
message of conflict, which would separate people

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who love God from people who do
not. It was always so that people

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could get connected to him. So
if there's a person, if there are

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a people, if there are multitudes
of God's people stationed a the world.

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Remember I always ask you to go
to your Daily Portion dot com and type

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in the thing where are you in
the world, wherever those places are.

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If there's an army of people around
the world who are like Jesus, do

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you think that he will send the
multitudes to us? M he sends the

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multitudes to me. I'm sure he
sends the multitudes to you and for those

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who are trying to get it figured
out. Really, all you have to

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do is lead people to Christ.
Lift him up, he said, and

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I will draw all people unto myself. So if you have the power to

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heal, you have the power to
be of encouragement. Definitely lead people to

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Christ, and He will lead them
to you. Have a wonderful day,

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peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every
word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with
El David Harris. Make it a

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great day. Yeah,