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 Friday, August sixteen,
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 through the Book of Mark. We are finishing
up lesson number seven of thirteen under the caption Humility
before honor, Humility before our honor. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven. Thank you for this new day. Thank
you for the time that You've entrusted to us to prepare,
prepare for the special time that we have with you
on the Sabbath. Thank you God for showing us humility
in the life of Christ, John the Baptist, and so
many others. Rather, please help us to follow the blueprint
and live in humble submission to you In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Humility before honor. I'm
going to be in our discussion today by reading from
the book titled The Desire of Ages, page four hundred
and thirty six. Four hundred thirty six from the book
The Desire of Ages, and it reads thusly, before honor
is humility to fill a high place before men or humans.
Heaven chooses the worker who, like John the Baptist, takes
a lowly place before God. That means that we humble
ourselves in the presence of God. The most childlike disciple
is the most efficient in labor for God. Oh, this
is changing the mindset of a lot of people at
this moment. He said that we have to humble ourselves,
we become childlike, and those individuals who choose that pathway
are the best leaders. Let me continue, Let me continue.
The heavenly intelligences can cooperate with him who is seeking
not to exalt self but to save souls. That's the
end of the quote. Let me read that last part again.
The heavenly intelligences. That's God, the Father, Son, God, the
Holy Spirit. That is the holy angels that he said
excel in strength that see His face daily, that have
been assigned to us. All of these heavenly angels, God,
our Father, Jesus Christ, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit are all working together for our good. You
weren't expecting that all things work together for the good
of those and for the called according to His purpose.
So all of this is cooperating with those who are
seeking not to exalt self but to save souls. Thank
God for the blueprint. If we just simply follow this,
we cannot fail, We cannot lose. Seek First, the Bible says,
His kingdom and his righteousness, and all things needful will
be added unto us. Let me read another quote from
page four hundred and forty of the same book. By
all that has given us advantage over another, be it
education or refinement, nobility of character, Christian training, religious experience,
we are in debt to those less favored, and so
far as lies in our power, we are to minister
unto them. If we are strong, we are to stay
up the hands of the week angels of glory that
do always behold the face of the Father in Heaven
joy in ministering to his little ones. Can you imagine
the angels who did not sin, these angels who are powerful,
and one angel coming down to planet Earth, and as
he steps on planet Earth the earthquakes, the k of
angel that put evil angels to flight. We're talking about
holy angels of God who in just one little flip
of a finger, could destroy us if it were permitted.
I'm saying those individuals, those holy angels, are using all
of their power to minister to us. They're not saying,
I'm an angel? Is this the job that I have?
Can't I be involved in creating another planet God? No,
they are happy to minister unto us, so that we
who are created just a little lower than the angels
whom God crowned with glory and honor, will one day
see God's face. Thank God that we have an example,
even of holy angels trembling souls, continuing the quote, who
have many objectionable traits of character. See, we're not like those.
Holy angels are their special charge. Angels are ever present
where they are most needed, with those who have the
hardest battle with self to fight and whose surroundings are
the most discouraging. So when you see that your life
is in shambles, when you see the community that you're
in breeds, gunmen and prostitutes, like when you see that
drug dealers and other kinds of people who do crime
are the best that come out of our communities, then
you know that the angels are even closer to you.
When you recognize that your mother or your father abused
you and then left you for dad and then didn't
even care about you, the angels are closest to you
when you see that you have have multiple amputations, or
because of some crime that you created, you commit it.
You are in a wheelchair because of what you had
done and you got caught in a crossfire while you
were committing a crime. Angels of God are closer to
you if your bank account is low and in the negative,
or you don't have bank account any at all, there
is no running water in your whole community, God is
closest to you. Sometimes, humans who feel like we have
a lot of education, who feel like we have a
lot of influence and power, sometimes we feel like God
is most with us. But we are reading now under
inspiration that those who need God the most, who are
battling self the most, the ones who are proudest but
want to be humble and are having a difficult time
being humble. If we surrender our will, if that is
our mindset, and we're surrendering our will, we're having the strongest,
craziest battle against sin. Then God is with us through
the angels the most, because He loves us. He loves us.
I'll read that again. Angels are ever present where they
are most needed, with those who have the hardest battle
with self to fight and whose surroundings are most discouraging.
And in this ministry, Christ's true followers will cooperate. Oh
wait a minute, all of that that I just said,
Then that means we should be doing the same thing
that He has shown us through the ministry of angels.
We should be with the poor, the laying, the main,
the halt. We should be with the people who have
the most objectionable traits of character. Jesus's enemies said, but
he edith with sinners. Yeah, he did, because sinners need him.
He did not come to call the just. He came
to call sinners to repentance. He came to call the
people who have the most difficulty to repentance. And now
we know that our ministry is that same ministry. As
we receive power from God, we humble ourselves. We humble ourselves,
and then He will honor us in the way he
sees fit. The Bible says here in the Book of Proverbs,
chapter fifteen and verse thirty three, the fear of the
Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility. So
we respect God, and then we receive his instruction, the
wisdom that comes from God, the wisdom that God is.
And then we receive honor, but not before we humble
ourselves before God. And I'm thankful. I'm thankful that God
has shown us so many examples of people who yielded
their will to God and receive this actual result that
we can't say we don't know. We can say, God,
my belief is weak. Please help my unbelief teach me
to be humbled in your presence. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,