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 Sabbath, November eighteen, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
name is Elle 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. God's Mission,
My mission, and our caption for today is Mission to the Needy, Mission
to the Needy. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your
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appropriate time. We continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
for giving us this new day and for the privilege we have on this Sabbath
morning to reconsider our approach to those who are in need. Father, please
give us the mindset of Jesus. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Let me ask you really a silly question. Have you
ever been needy? Have you ever been needy? And when I say that,
I'm not trying to give you a level of need. Huh. I'm
not trying to determine what the level of need is. Have you ever needed
anything that you could not get on your own? Hmm? Yes, I
know the answer is yes. The answer is yes. And now the second
question is how did God supply those needs? Like how did he take care
of you? I want to read from the Book of Philippians Chapter four,
verses twelve through eighteen, and then jump into our study for today and the
Bible reads I know how to live in almost with on almost nothing or with
everything. This is Paul speaking. He can be a base he can abound.
I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is
with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little verse thirteen. For
I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Even so,
you have done well to share with me in my present difficulty. As you
know, the Philippians were the only ones who gave me financial help when I
first bought brought you the good news, and then traveled from on from Macedonia.
No other church did this. Even when I was in Thessalonika. You
sent help more than once. I don't say this because I want a gift
from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness
verse eighteen. At the moment I have all I need and more, I
am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with epaphroditis. They are a
sweet, smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. And here comes
the passage with which many of us are familiar verse nineteen. But my God,
m and this is where I really want to focus. My God shall
supply all your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. The
truth, however, is that not everyone has reached this mindset, you see,
he said. Paul said, he has been. He has figured out
how to abase be abased and how to abound, how to have much and
to have little, and to be content, he said in another place,
in all situations. But God will supply all of your need according to his
riches in glory, in Christ Jesus. Yeah. So those who have not
yet received that mindset, who who are still in a poverty mindset, or
people who are in such dire need that they are not able to even think
their way through to the point of this type of faith. The question is
like, uh, is God going to be able to use you to assist
those people? See got you people? He used an entire church at Philippi
to help Paul. Can God use you? Can he trust you to help
someone else? And so the Bible encourages us to draw near, draw close
to strangers, and by winning their confidence, we can learn better ways of
helping them to find Jesus. Next week we are going to discuss that in
detail from one of those passages that you are anticipating some of you from the
book Ministry of Healing. But until then, there was a man in Mark
chapter two, who was very needy. This man who was paralyzed, who
could not take himself anywhere, had needs. And I wrote a list of
needs. And I bet if I would have sat longer and thought it through
even more, I could come up with more needs. But he needed forgiveness
the man who was paralyzed, and Inspiration says it was due to his own
sin. Huh. He needed forgiveness, He needed wholeness, he needed a
feeling of acceptance. He needed friends, he needed faith, He needed practical
physical assistance. This man needed help. Isn't that wonderful? There was somebody
who needed help? You're like, why would that be wonderful? Because God
is giving us the opportunity to be of service to people who need help,
Like we are able. We are privileged to be the hands and feet of
God in the earth. If God doesn't use you, who will he use?
You want the rocks to be used in your place? Do you want
animals who don't have a vested interest in the plan of salvation to be of
use to people when you could have been of assistance? Like? Are you
going to let inanimate objects or people who don't necessarily love God to replace you?
When God is calling you by name and saying, this is a person
that I need you to help. You. Remember when Elijah, Elijah was
being spoken of, right, And of course there were a few years of
no rain, and then the brook dried up where Elijah was. God had
given him food delivered by ravens, and the brook had dried up, and
God said to Elijah to go to this place. I believe it's called Zidan,
right. That is the place, ironically where Jezebel comes from. And
there is someone prepared there to give you what you need, Elijah. And
so of course Elijah went there. And the story goes that, you know,
the woman was ready to die. She was going to feed her son
and feed herself one last good time with the little bit of meal and a
little bit of oil that they had, and then just die because things were
rough. And God, through the Man of God, said no, no,
no, no, no, supply for me. First. M Elijah
had a need, but God was supplying it. The woman had a need,
God was supplying it. The young boy had a need. God was
supplying it. Supply it to me first, woman of faith. Hah,
I want you to do it for me first, and then whatever you plan
and of course the woman did so. And the Bible says that once she
had exhibited the kind of compassion to give the man of God what he requested,
that her meal and her oil never ran out, until, of course,
the earth began to produce in the way that we expect naturally. So
people all around us have needs, even people of God, people who don't
know God. And we're going to drill that discussion of the man that I
described who needed all of those things tomorrow because we're going to read through the
passage. But again, the question is what is it that you can do?
There are needs that are physical, emotion, ah financial, or even
social. That is, some might be deemed as outcasts from their community or
even their family, and God would have positioned them right in front of you.
What will you do when God taps you on the shoulder and says,
here is a person, Here is a man who here is a woman,
Here is a family, Here is a young man, Here is a young
woman who needs my assistance. And I want to use you today. I
have put all the resources necessary in your hands, and I need you to
now go and deliver. Will you answer the call? There is a mission
to the needy. Sometimes the needy may be You have a wonderful day feast.
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,