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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 Sabbath, November eighteen,
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 Mission to the Needy, Mission

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to the Needy. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first

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i'd like to say welcome to you
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appropriate time. We continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and

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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father and Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new day and
for the privilege we have on this Sabbath

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morning to reconsider our approach to those
who are in need. Father, please

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give us the mindset of Jesus.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Let me ask
you really a silly question. Have you

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ever been needy? Have you ever
been needy? And when I say that,

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I'm not trying to give you a
level of need. Huh. I'm

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not trying to determine what the level
of need is. Have you ever needed

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anything that you could not get on
your own? Hmm? Yes, I

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know the answer is yes. The
answer is yes. And now the second

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question is how did God supply those
needs? Like how did he take care

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of you? I want to read
from the Book of Philippians Chapter four,

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verses twelve through eighteen, and then
jump into our study for today and the

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Bible reads I know how to live
in almost with on almost nothing or with

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everything. This is Paul speaking.
He can be a base he can abound.

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I have learned the secret of living
in every situation, whether it is

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with a full stomach or empty,
with plenty or little verse thirteen. For

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I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Even so,

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you have done well to share with
me in my present difficulty. As you

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know, the Philippians were the only
ones who gave me financial help when I

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first bought brought you the good news, and then traveled from on from Macedonia.

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No other church did this. Even
when I was in Thessalonika. You

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sent help more than once. I
don't say this because I want a gift

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from you. Rather, I want
you to receive a reward for your kindness

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verse eighteen. At the moment I
have all I need and more, I

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am generously supplied with the gifts you
sent me with epaphroditis. They are a

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sweet, smelling sacrifice that is acceptable
and pleasing to God. And here comes

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the passage with which many of us
are familiar verse nineteen. But my God,

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m and this is where I really
want to focus. My God shall

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supply all your need according to His
riches in glory in Christ Jesus. The

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truth, however, is that not
everyone has reached this mindset, you see,

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he said. Paul said, he
has been. He has figured out

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how to abase be abased and how
to abound, how to have much and

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to have little, and to be
content, he said in another place,

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in all situations. But God will
supply all of your need according to his

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riches in glory, in Christ Jesus. Yeah. So those who have not

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yet received that mindset, who who
are still in a poverty mindset, or

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people who are in such dire need
that they are not able to even think

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their way through to the point of
this type of faith. The question is

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like, uh, is God going
to be able to use you to assist

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those people? See got you people? He used an entire church at Philippi

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to help Paul. Can God use
you? Can he trust you to help

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someone else? And so the Bible
encourages us to draw near, draw close

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to strangers, and by winning their
confidence, we can learn better ways of

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helping them to find Jesus. Next
week we are going to discuss that in

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detail from one of those passages that
you are anticipating some of you from the

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book Ministry of Healing. But until
then, there was a man in Mark

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chapter two, who was very needy. This man who was paralyzed, who

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could not take himself anywhere, had
needs. And I wrote a list of

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needs. And I bet if I
would have sat longer and thought it through

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even more, I could come up
with more needs. But he needed forgiveness

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the man who was paralyzed, and
Inspiration says it was due to his own

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sin. Huh. He needed forgiveness, He needed wholeness, he needed a

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feeling of acceptance. He needed friends, he needed faith, He needed practical

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physical assistance. This man needed help. Isn't that wonderful? There was somebody

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who needed help? You're like,
why would that be wonderful? Because God

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is giving us the opportunity to be
of service to people who need help,

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Like we are able. We are
privileged to be the hands and feet of

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God in the earth. If God
doesn't use you, who will he use?

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You want the rocks to be used
in your place? Do you want

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animals who don't have a vested interest
in the plan of salvation to be of

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use to people when you could have
been of assistance? Like? Are you

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going to let inanimate objects or people
who don't necessarily love God to replace you?

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When God is calling you by name
and saying, this is a person

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that I need you to help.
You. Remember when Elijah, Elijah was

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being spoken of, right, And
of course there were a few years of

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no rain, and then the brook
dried up where Elijah was. God had

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given him food delivered by ravens,
and the brook had dried up, and

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God said to Elijah to go to
this place. I believe it's called Zidan,

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right. That is the place,
ironically where Jezebel comes from. And

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there is someone prepared there to give
you what you need, Elijah. And

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so of course Elijah went there.
And the story goes that, you know,

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the woman was ready to die.
She was going to feed her son

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and feed herself one last good time
with the little bit of meal and a

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little bit of oil that they had, and then just die because things were

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rough. And God, through the
Man of God, said no, no,

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no, no, no, supply
for me. First. M Elijah

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had a need, but God was
supplying it. The woman had a need,

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God was supplying it. The young
boy had a need. God was

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supplying it. Supply it to me
first, woman of faith. Hah,

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I want you to do it for
me first, and then whatever you plan

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and of course the woman did so. And the Bible says that once she

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had exhibited the kind of compassion to
give the man of God what he requested,

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that her meal and her oil never
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the earth began to produce in the
way that we expect naturally. So

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people all around us have needs,
even people of God, people who don't

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know God. And we're going to
drill that discussion of the man that I

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described who needed all of those things
tomorrow because we're going to read through the

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passage. But again, the question
is what is it that you can do?

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There are needs that are physical,
emotion, ah financial, or even

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social. That is, some might
be deemed as outcasts from their community or

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even their family, and God would
have positioned them right in front of you.

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What will you do when God taps
you on the shoulder and says,

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here is a person, Here is
a man who here is a woman,

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Here is a family, Here is
a young man, Here is a young

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woman who needs my assistance. And
I want to use you today. I

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have put all the resources necessary in
your hands, and I need you to

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now go and deliver. Will you
answer the call? There is a mission

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to the needy. Sometimes the needy
may be You have a wonderful day feast.

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

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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 great

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day. Yeah,