1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,919 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,720 is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,400 of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,120 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:25,160 of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:30,839 live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,560 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,679 It is Thursday, June twenty, twenty twenty four. Hello, my 9 00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:41,679 name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 10 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:45,960 Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is 11 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:51,159 no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series, the Great Controversy. 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,880 We're coming to and close, but we're not quite there yet. Our 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:01:00,119 caption for today is the Loud Cry, The Loud Cry. We'll get into 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,079 that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,799 and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Join 16 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,920 our online community. Also, join our coaching program. Let us know where 17 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,480 you are in the world, and this is a way that we continue to 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:22,840 build faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot com. I think we can 19 00:01:22,879 --> 00:01:25,319 go ahead and pray. Yeah, let's go ahead and pray, and then 20 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:29,319 we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this 21 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:34,560 day. Thank you for loving us beyond belief. Thank you for choosing to 22 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,719 let us serve you. Thank you for giving us a message to cry out 23 00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:44,680 with. Please help us to be faithful in Jesus' name. I pray, 24 00:01:45,079 --> 00:01:52,519 Amen and Amen again, the loud cry, the loud cry. All right, 25 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:57,079 So the latter rain, we were talking about it yesterday. The latter 26 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:01,120 rain is preparatory for something. Of course, we know that Jesus is on 27 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:07,280 his way. We also know that there is a time of trouble that people 28 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:12,479 call the tribulation. That is unlike any other time of trouble. It's an 29 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:17,240 interesting time because God's people who would have already been prepared for it through the 30 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:21,199 power of the Holy Spirit. Oh, yes, we did say latter rain. 31 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,919 The fullness of the rain, the power of the Holy Spirit has now 32 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:30,719 been infused into God's people's lives. And we are also waiting for Jesus to 33 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:38,639 come. While Jesus is no longer mediating in the heavenly sanctuary. So those 34 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,000 who are who are holy, they are already holy, and they're sealed that 35 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,159 way. Those who are righteous are already righteous. They are sealed that way. 36 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:53,520 Those who are unrighteous are already unrighteous, and they have chosen that they 37 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,159 are marked that way. I hope you're hearing that language. Those who are 38 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,280 unholy, unrighteous, and filthy, those people would have chosen that pathway. 39 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,599 And then we're talking about people who are alive, right, those individuals will 40 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:13,719 be marked that way because that is the decision that they have made. Ultimately, 41 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:16,879 they've decided that, you know, that's it. But the latter Rain 42 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:25,639 is preparatory for the last opportunity to either be sealed in the ways that I 43 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:31,879 described, or marked in the ways that I just described, sealed in a 44 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,759 righteous reality, or marked in an unrighteous reality. And so there is one 45 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,800 I would call it last ditch effort, and that is the loud cry. 46 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:50,159 And in Revelation chapter eighteen, verses one through four, we see the message 47 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:55,360 that God has given his people who are receiving the Latter Rain to go into 48 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,639 the world and to cry out that Babylon has fallen, like all of the 49 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:08,240 confusion that has been infused into the world regarding how to be in relationship with 50 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:14,280 God, the pathway to Heaven, all of that, plus what Babylon has 51 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,959 poured into the world about what worship really is and who has authority and who 52 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:25,920 is worthy of worshiping, whether the seventh day Sabbath is the Sabbath of the 53 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,519 Lord Thy God, or if we can just change it, we can just 54 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:32,360 change it by a stroke of a pen and switch it to something else. 55 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:38,079 And God is saying, I'm pulling all of the covers off. I am 56 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:44,160 showing everybody exactly how this is, and now I need you to remove yourselves 57 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:50,839 from that Babylonish mindset, that confusion and that false pathway to God. Okay, 58 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,360 And it's like, okay, well, who will hear you? See, 59 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:59,680 if there's a cry, who will hear? In John chapter ten, 60 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:05,000 Giz has said very clearly that my sheep hear my voice. They are known 61 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:10,199 of me. My sheep hear my voice. And so that call, that 62 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:15,879 cry that God's people with extra power from Heaven will make in that part of 63 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:21,839 the last days, will be heard by people who genuinely love God, people 64 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:27,920 who genuinely love God, but we're genuinely off track, genuinely off base where 65 00:05:27,959 --> 00:05:32,000 worship is concerned. And so that cry goes out, and those people hear 66 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:35,600 God's voice. And so it says here in the lesson, at the end 67 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,720 of time, the Holy Spirit will be poured out in unprecedented power. The 68 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:45,000 Gospel will be spread rapidly to the ends of the earth. I love it. 69 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,560 Thousands will be converted in a day, and God's grace and truth will 70 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:55,639 impact the entire planet. In this way, the world will be warned, 71 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,439 and the Gospel and the hope it offers will be spread world wide. And 72 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,000 now from the book Great Controversy, pages six eleven and six twelve, the 73 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:10,360 great work of the Gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power 74 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:15,279 of God than marked its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring 75 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:21,240 of the former Rain and the out opening of the Gospel, are to again 76 00:06:21,399 --> 00:06:27,519 to be fulfilled in the latter rain. At its close, servants of God, 77 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,879 with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration. Lord, give 78 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:38,399 us that light today, I pray, will hasten from place to place to 79 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:45,480 proclaim the message from heaven by thousands of voices all over the earth. The 80 00:06:45,519 --> 00:06:49,959 warning will be given, Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, 81 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:59,319 and signs and wonders will follow the believers. Signs and wonders will follow 82 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,319 believers. That's the end of the quote. And so the question really is 83 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:09,560 how do we prepare for the loud cry? That's the question God's people, 84 00:07:09,639 --> 00:07:12,879 how do we prepare for the Loud's cry? If you're not one of God's 85 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:15,759 loud cry, if you're not one of God's people, well, today is 86 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,319 your day. You can choose to follow Jesus today, say yes, Lord, 87 00:07:18,399 --> 00:07:21,040 yes to your will and to your way, and become one of his 88 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:27,879 children. Surrender yourself, confess your sins. We all need to do it. 89 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,240 We all need to do it. Nobody's exempt and say God, I 90 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:33,959 agree with you. Live in a way where you agree with God, and 91 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,800 then ask him what you would have He would have you to do right and 92 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:44,600 for those who have done that, and we are preparing for our part in 93 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,319 this last cry to people who need to serve God more fully, this is 94 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,439 some of what we need to do. Deepen our commitment in prayer in Acts 95 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,160 chapter one and verse fourteen, we take a page from the early believers. 96 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:05,519 All these with one accord, were devoting themselves to prayer together with the women 97 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:09,800 and marry the mother of Jesus and his brothers. And so we engage in 98 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:18,279 active, intentional, powerful, transformative times of prayer because we need to be 99 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:24,759 connected to God. One of my favorite writers said that prayer is opening our 100 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:31,079 hearts to God as to a friend. And so we prioritize prayer in the 101 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,879 last days. And in Colossians chapter three and verse sixteen, the Bible says, 102 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,879 let the Word of Christ to dwell in you, richly, teaching and 103 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:45,240 admonishing one another in wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with 104 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:50,279 thankfulness in your heart. And so we immerse ourselves in the Bible, the 105 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:56,080 Word of God, and we embrace those opportunities to sing unto the Lord a 106 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,919 song of triumph, like we sing unto the Lord all the earth, and 107 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:07,559 we give God his praise and thanks. But we immerse ourselves in the study 108 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:13,000 of our of the Word, and ask God to transform our lives according to 109 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,679 what we have read. Okay, And in one Peter chapter one, verses 110 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,840 fifteen and sixteen. The Bible says, but as he who called you is 111 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:31,200 holy, you also be holy in all your conduct. Since it is written 112 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,759 you shall be holy, for I am holy. So God has given us 113 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:41,200 the blueprint to prepare for this time the loud cry, and then one day 114 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,399 soon Jesus will return. Make it a great day. Please, Thanks for 115 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,759 joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, 116 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,120 but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been 117 00:09:54,159 --> 00:10:00,279 your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.