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, October eleven,
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, and our
caption for today is the Abundant Life. The Abundant Life.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for giving us this day and for the privilege
that we have to be together again and to open
your word. Thank you for this time of preparation. Please
help us to live the abundant life. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen, and a man again. Okay, And so
the trillion dollar question I did not say million, I
did not say billion. But the trillion dollar question today
this Friday morning, is how can I get or live
the abundant life? That is the trillion dollar question for today.
How can I live the abundant life? Because we talk
about it a lot, especially Christians, A lot of people
talk about prosperity and how to have abundance and sometimes
I think people get confused, either confused by not understanding
or confused by selfish ambition. How do we live the
abundant life? Well, let me just start here. Through His word,
Through God's word, we live the abundant life through his word.
Why because life is in his word. In Him is life,
and the life is the light of men, the same
Him who is the Word. And we're going to talk
about that in detail beginning tomorrow and then right through
the next week. But we'll begin here by reading from
the book The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and ninety,
and then we're going to give you some really solid
biblical foundation here, and it reads the life of Christ
that gives life to the world is in his word.
I think I just said that, Yes, it is by
his word that Jesus healed the disease and cast out demons.
By his word, he's stilled the sea and raised the dead,
as God ever raised your death circumstances to life. There
are times that you have maybe even faced near or
near death experiences. Maybe you were in the hospital and
they didn't give you a good prognosis, like he or
she is going to pass away in this short period
of time, and after years now you are still here
living by God's grace. Huh, like Hezekiah. Yes, look up
Hezekiah in the Bible. God gave him fifteen more years. Yes,
there are dead circumstances in your finances, in your relationships,
and God revived them. Okay. And the people continuing the quote,
bore witness that his word was with power. He spoke
the word of God as he had spoken through all
the prophets and teachers of the Old Testament. The whole
Bible is a manifestation of Christ, and the Savior desired
to fix the faith of his followers on the Word.
When his visible presence should be withdrawn. The Word must
be their power or a source of power. The faster
they were to live by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God. As our physical life is
sustained by food, so our spiritual life is sustained by
the Word of God. I think you're getting the common
theme here. And every soul is to receive life from
God's Word for himself. As we must eat for ourselves
in order to receive nourishment, so we must receive the
Word for ourselves. We are not to obtain it merely
through the medium of another's mind. Let me be very
clear here. I mean, like how you listen to me
every day or you watch me on the internet. Yeah. No,
like you may listen to or watch other people on
the internet, on the radio. Some of you were watching me,
listen to me on the radio. You're watching me on
television and other spiritual leaders that you respect. In Bible teachers,
God is saying no, not just that way. That's a
good start. If the person that is sharing is actually
sharing God's truth. We should carefully study the Bible, asking
God for the aid of the Holy Spirit that we
may understand his word. That's the end of the quote.
And so what we're going to do now with the
remaining moments that we have here just about just about
five or six minutes here is go into the actual Bible.
The Bible reads here in Hebrews chapter four. This is
why the Word is so empowering and powerful to transform
our lives. For the Word of God is alive and active,
sharper than any two edged sword. It penetrates even to
the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It
judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. So this
emphasizes that God's word is powerful. It is dynamic, meaning
it does not just sit still. It is able to
God's word can move in and through our lives when
we accept his words and transform our lives when we
do his words by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Here is one of my favorites from the Book of
Job and the Bible reads, beginning at verse eight of
Job chapter twenty three. Behold, I go forward, but he
is not there. So Job is in confusion in a sense,
even though he's holy, he knows God, but he's in
a sense, he's in confusion. He's not there and backward,
but I cannot perceive him. Have you ever been in
a situation where you could not perceive God? You felt like, well,
I don't know where he is in my life. God,
are you listening to my prayers? I need you desperately,
but I am not able to perceive your presence. Yes,
this is what Job was going through. On the left hand,
where he doth work, I cannot behold him. He hideth
himself on the right hand. At least that's what Job
was saying. That's what he was saying. Jesus experienced this
on the cross when he cried out, my God, My God,
why have thou forsaken me?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Why are you leaving me?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Why can I not sense your presence through the darkness.
This is what Job is describing. Hmm. I cannot see.
But he knoweth. This is what I like, the transition
point in verse ten. But he knoweth the way that
I take. When he hath tried me, I shall come
forth as gold. See, we go through trials and tribulations,
brothers and sisters, especially as we live in these last days.
We will go through temptations. We will be tested to
the nth degree in preparation for the Kingdom of Heaven
and then the earth made new. We will be tested
so that we can hold fast to the power of God.
But we want to come through as fine gold. My
foot hath held his steps his way? Have I kept
and not declined? Here? It comes? Here, it comes. How
is it that his foot has held his steps? How
is it that he has not declined and not gone
away from God? How did he go through this trial?
How did he have the abundant life? I am so
glad you ast as we come to a swift clothes.
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips.
I have esteemed his words. He esteemed what he esteemed
God's words, the words of his mouth more than my
necessary food. See, the abundant life comes through God's word,
even more than sustenance comes through the food that we eat.
Make a day.
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,