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 Thursday, June twenty, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El 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, the Great Controversy.
We're coming to and close, but we're not quite there yet. Our
caption for today is the Loud Cry, The Loud Cry. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you
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build faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot com. I think we can
go ahead and pray. Yeah, let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this
day. Thank you for loving us beyond belief. Thank you for choosing to
let us serve you. Thank you for giving us a message to cry out
with. Please help us to be faithful in Jesus' name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again, the loud cry, the loud cry. All right,
So the latter rain, we were talking about it yesterday. The latter
rain is preparatory for something. Of course, we know that Jesus is on
his way. We also know that there is a time of trouble that people
call the tribulation. That is unlike any other time of trouble. It's an
interesting time because God's people who would have already been prepared for it through the
power of the Holy Spirit. Oh, yes, we did say latter rain.
The fullness of the rain, the power of the Holy Spirit has now
been infused into God's people's lives. And we are also waiting for Jesus to
come. While Jesus is no longer mediating in the heavenly sanctuary. So those
who are who are holy, they are already holy, and they're sealed that
way. Those who are righteous are already righteous. They are sealed that way.
Those who are unrighteous are already unrighteous, and they have chosen that they
are marked that way. I hope you're hearing that language. Those who are
unholy, unrighteous, and filthy, those people would have chosen that pathway.
And then we're talking about people who are alive, right, those individuals will
be marked that way because that is the decision that they have made. Ultimately,
they've decided that, you know, that's it. But the latter Rain
is preparatory for the last opportunity to either be sealed in the ways that I
described, or marked in the ways that I just described, sealed in a
righteous reality, or marked in an unrighteous reality. And so there is one
I would call it last ditch effort, and that is the loud cry.
And in Revelation chapter eighteen, verses one through four, we see the message
that God has given his people who are receiving the Latter Rain to go into
the world and to cry out that Babylon has fallen, like all of the
confusion that has been infused into the world regarding how to be in relationship with
God, the pathway to Heaven, all of that, plus what Babylon has
poured into the world about what worship really is and who has authority and who
is worthy of worshiping, whether the seventh day Sabbath is the Sabbath of the
Lord Thy God, or if we can just change it, we can just
change it by a stroke of a pen and switch it to something else.
And God is saying, I'm pulling all of the covers off. I am
showing everybody exactly how this is, and now I need you to remove yourselves
from that Babylonish mindset, that confusion and that false pathway to God. Okay,
And it's like, okay, well, who will hear you? See,
if there's a cry, who will hear? In John chapter ten,
Giz has said very clearly that my sheep hear my voice. They are known
of me. My sheep hear my voice. And so that call, that
cry that God's people with extra power from Heaven will make in that part of
the last days, will be heard by people who genuinely love God, people
who genuinely love God, but we're genuinely off track, genuinely off base where
worship is concerned. And so that cry goes out, and those people hear
God's voice. And so it says here in the lesson, at the end
of time, the Holy Spirit will be poured out in unprecedented power. The
Gospel will be spread rapidly to the ends of the earth. I love it.
Thousands will be converted in a day, and God's grace and truth will
impact the entire planet. In this way, the world will be warned,
and the Gospel and the hope it offers will be spread world wide. And
now from the book Great Controversy, pages six eleven and six twelve, the
great work of the Gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power
of God than marked its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring
of the former Rain and the out opening of the Gospel, are to again
to be fulfilled in the latter rain. At its close, servants of God,
with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration. Lord, give
us that light today, I pray, will hasten from place to place to
proclaim the message from heaven by thousands of voices all over the earth. The
warning will be given, Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed,
and signs and wonders will follow the believers. Signs and wonders will follow
believers. That's the end of the quote. And so the question really is
how do we prepare for the loud cry? That's the question God's people,
how do we prepare for the Loud's cry? If you're not one of God's
loud cry, if you're not one of God's people, well, today is
your day. You can choose to follow Jesus today, say yes, Lord,
yes to your will and to your way, and become one of his
children. Surrender yourself, confess your sins. We all need to do it.
We all need to do it. Nobody's exempt and say God, I
agree with you. Live in a way where you agree with God, and
then ask him what you would have He would have you to do right and
for those who have done that, and we are preparing for our part in
this last cry to people who need to serve God more fully, this is
some of what we need to do. Deepen our commitment in prayer in Acts
chapter one and verse fourteen, we take a page from the early believers.
All these with one accord, were devoting themselves to prayer together with the women
and marry the mother of Jesus and his brothers. And so we engage in
active, intentional, powerful, transformative times of prayer because we need to be
connected to God. One of my favorite writers said that prayer is opening our
hearts to God as to a friend. And so we prioritize prayer in the
last days. And in Colossians chapter three and verse sixteen, the Bible says,
let the Word of Christ to dwell in you, richly, teaching and
admonishing one another in wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with
thankfulness in your heart. And so we immerse ourselves in the Bible, the
Word of God, and we embrace those opportunities to sing unto the Lord a
song of triumph, like we sing unto the Lord all the earth, and
we give God his praise and thanks. But we immerse ourselves in the study
of our of the Word, and ask God to transform our lives according to
what we have read. Okay, And in one Peter chapter one, verses
fifteen and sixteen. The Bible says, but as he who called you is
holy, you also be holy in all your conduct. Since it is written
you shall be holy, for I am holy. So God has given us
the blueprint to prepare for this time the loud cry, and then one day
soon Jesus will return. Make it a great day. Please, 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.