Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, November seventeen,
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 themes in the Gospel of John. Our caption
for today is Signs Works and Wonders. That signs works
and Wonders. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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beginning of our work week, at the beginning of our day,
to connect with you. I'm praying now, Father, that you
will transform our lives, that we will see your wonderful
works in our lives. In our lives Father, in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay. Signs, works and wonders. Okay,
So there are times that people get confused about signs,
works and wonders. Sometimes we put too much emphasi emphasies
on those because we're looking for something spectacular or fantastical
to get our attention. Well, this is not what Jesus
is trying to do. When he does signs and works
and wonders. He's doing it because he is leading us
into a right connection with him. He's doing it as
he lived on planet Earth in league with God our Father.
And so his signs, his works, his wonders were all
in unison with God. They were never apart from God.
They were never intended to be a proof of anything.
And yeah, and yet and still we do know when
we see him with his signs, we see him in
his mighty works and wonders, he is indeed the Messiah. Yes,
he indeed is the God, the Son, the one who
pre existed his body, who lived throughout eternity past. But
he had decided and volunteered in league with God our Father,
to come here and save us from our sins. Okay,
And so I know I said a lot. I said
a lot. But let's read a few passages and see
what we can gather from them. Okay. So we begin
now from the Book of John chapter five. That's the
Book of John, chapter five. And I will read verse seventeen,
and the Bible reads but Jesus answered them, my father
worketh hitherto, and I work. Jesus is showing that he
and his father continue to work together. From before you
ever knew Jesus on planet Earth, he was working with
the Father. I'm going to come back to that verse twenty,
verse twenty, for the Father loveth the son and show
with him all things that he himself himself doeth. And
he will show him greater works than these, that ye
may marvel see some of you who have these limited mindsets,
some of you who can only believe when you see,
God is going to show you something that you cannot
explain in your natural mind. And you are going to
have to either worship God in the beauty of holiness
or decide to sear your own conscience as with an
hot iron and reject God. There will be no middle ground, okay,
And so verse thirty six of John chapter five beginning there.
But I have greater witness than that of John, the
works which the Father hath given them given me to finish.
Excuse me. The same works that I do bear witness
of me that the Father hath sent me. So when
you see Jesus on the move, you see him with
his signs, works and wonders while he lived on planet Earth,
as he taught the word of God with power and authority.
When he commanded the devils, and even the devils did obey.
When he commanded the sea winds and the waves to
cease all of their mess and loudness and conflagration, like
when they had to listen, it was because he was
in league with God our Father. It was because he,
in his divinity, was able to command, and those things
had to yield. Oh, I wish I had the time.
I wish I had the time. But he did nothing
separate from his father Verse thirty seven. And the Father himself,
which had sent me, he hath born witness of me.
Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor
seen his shape, And ye have not his word abiding
in you. He's speaking to his detractors. He's speaking to
the ones who are supposedly the children of God and
the leaders of God's people. He is speaking to them
and saying, you've never seen the face of God our Father,
but I have. You have not seen the fullness of
the works of God our Father, But I have, Ah,
I have heard the voice of God our Father. I
am one with him. I have been in his presence,
I have seen him in the fullness of who he is,
and you have not. And you don't have the word
in abiding in you, for whom the Bible continues, he
hath sent him. Ye believe not. How could you say
that you are connected to God and not believe in me?
This is what Jesus is saying. How could you say
that you are connected to the Father, and yet you
do not believe in me? And so I am thinking back, like,
what are the greatest works of God? And I know,
I know, as I was preparing in my mind to
ask this question, I said, but Dave, you can't. You
can't rate the works of God. You can't put them
in a hierarchical order. Your mind is not sufficient to
even grapple with such a question. And so, in my
limited mindset, I try to answer. And I'm not saying
I'm correct, but my mind is saying, okay, But the
one who created all things animate and inanimate, Jesus Christ,
the righteous one in league with God, our Father. That
is a manifestation of power that we are not able
to see in any other being, any other imaginative, imaginated being,
any manufactured and fabricated being. Only God can create. Blessed
be his name. Can I say that again? Only God
can create. I know we say we're creative. I get it.
That means that we borrowed something from God. Whatever we
do that we consider to be creative, we borrowed that
from God. And when we see Jesus saying, let there
be light, and there was light when we see Jesus
say that the waters need to be separated from the waters,
and it was so when Jesus said, let the fruits
and vegetation come forth according to their own kind, along
with those creatures that creep upon the earth, those creatures
that swim in the seas, those creatures that populate the
heavens in the air above us. When he said that
they should bring forth after their kind, and it was so.
We see the signs, the works and wonders of God
in full swing. When Jesus came down and he molded
him a man and breathed into him the breath of life,
and he became a living soul. When he performed that
surgery and created a woman, and Adam saw her and said,
I will call her woman because us she came forth
from man and Jesus breathed into her body the same
breath that is still in our lungs today. We see
that that is the signs that works, the wonders of
God in full swing. And also also when Jesus, the
creator of the universe, recreates us, he's doing this in
league with God, our Father. When he is giving us
salvation as a gift and we become new creatures. We're
seeing the signs and works of one and wonders in
our lives that no one can replicate. We yield our
will to Jesus Christ in league with our Father, and
we are saying peace.
Speaker 1: 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,