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 Thursday, January sixteen,
twenty twenty four. No really, it's twenty twenty five. I
keep getting mixed up. 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 Love and Justice, and our caption for
today is a worthy goal. A worthy goal. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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in the world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This
is one of the ways that we continue to build
faith and fellowship of getting tongue tied today. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven. Thank you for this day and for giving
us the privilege to consider you, consider your word, and
not just consider, but to be transformed by you. Transformed
by your word, Father, I pray that you will open
up our understanding and give us the fullness of your
Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a
man again a worthy goal. I want to know what
your goals are. You can come into the community at
your Daily Portion dot com and share what some of
your goals are, and they are, you know, things that
you can actually measure and attain unto. I wish I
had the time. I'm a coach, so I'm tempted to
go in that area, but I'm gonna just push pause
right here. So go into the community and we'll talk
about that. But the goal that we are are looking
for based on today's lesson, is found in Mark chapter nine,
Mark chapter nine, beginning at verse seventeen. I hope you
have your Bibles, Mark chapter nine beginning at verse seventeen.
And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I
have brought unto thee my son, which cannot speak. He
has a dumb spirit, and whersoever he taketh him, he tearrieth,
teareth him, and he foameth and gnasheth with his teeth
and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples, and
they that they should cast him out, but they could not.
And so this, this parent, this person is distraught because
their child has the devil who's keeping the child from speaking,
And the people who were closest to Jesus can't do
anything about it. What are your goals, brothers and sisters? Like,
what are your goals? Let's keep reading? He answered, and
said unto him, and said, oh, faithless generation, how long
shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer?
You bring him unto me? And they brought him unto him,
And when he saw him straightway, the spirit tear him.
So those evil spirits, those fallen angels, know exactly who
Jesus is, and they know that this is the it's up,
Like your jig is up. The jig is up, It's
time to go. Because they know the presence of God.
And he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming. And
he asks his father, how long is it a goal?
Since this came unto him? And he said, of a child,
and oftentimes it casteth him into the fire and into
the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do anything,
have compassion on us and help us. And Jesus said,
unto him, if thou canst believe, hallelujah, all things are possible.
What are your goals today, brothers and sister sisters? Unto
him that believeth and straightway. The father of the child
cried out and said, with tears, Lord, I believe. What
are your goals today, brothers and sisters? Lord, I believe?
Help thou mine unbelief? And so now we know that
one of them the primary, I should say, primary goal
is for us to have true faith in God, true
faith in God, the kind that lays hold on the
power of God. Okay, it says here, Lord, I do believe,
But help thou mine unbelief. What do you see there?
Do you see his vulnerability? Do you see his desperation?
Do you see that he is in the presence of
God and he knows that there is a requirement, if
you want to say in air quotes, for us to
believe in order for this thing, this scourge, this difficulty
that his child is having. He knows that there is
just one prerequisite, and that is to believe. But in
the moment that he is exercising the tiny faith that
he has, he realizes, you know what, if I leave
it up to me, if I believe that faith, that
my faith is where the power is, then I'm going
to lose out here. My son is going to continue
to be this way. He's going to continue to be
under the control of the devil. So if I trust
my belief, if I trust my faith and say that
is what it is, then I know I'm gonna come
up short. So God, I do believe. I don't know
what that means. God, But whatever it is that I have,
I need more. I need more of it so that
I can have the power that you that you're telling
me you're welcoming and welcoming me into your presence and power,
and I need more. I need more, And so help
thou mine unbelief. What are your goals today, brothers and sisters?
Verse twenty five. When Jesus saw that the people came
running together. He rebuked the foul spirit, saying, unto him,
thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out
of him and enter no more into him. What do
you think that the foul spirit did? Hm hm mm
hm Verse twenty six. And the spirit cried and rent
him sore and came out of him, and he was
as one dead. Takes a lot of energy when the
devil is buffeting people, when the devil is occupying people's lives,
it takes a lot of energy out of them. And
so the Bible continues insomuch that many actually said, yeah,
he's dead. But Jesus, I need you to type that
in the chat. But Jesus, but Jesus did something special.
He took him by the hand, He lifted him up,
and he arose. See the same one who created this
young man, huh, The same one who breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life, and that young man became
a living soul, The same one that created those angels
who are now fallen, the same one who told them
that they had to leave, and that they were no
longer welcomed. That every debt that would have caused spiritual
debt that would have caused them to be able to
occupy This boy is now canceled. Jesus is in control.
The same one took him up by the hand. Well,
people thought he was dead, like they thought he was dead,
But how could he be dead in the presence of God?
How could he be dead in the presence of God?
And so the Bible says that he took him by
the hand. He took him by the hand, he lifted
him up, and then he arose, And when he was
come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, well,
why couldn't we do that? And he said, unto them,
this kind may come forth by nothing but by prayer
and fasting. What is your goal, brothers and sister, your
chief goal for yourself? Could it be that we should
have the goal of being so connected to God that
in any moment we can be instant in season and
out of season, that somehow He can use us in
situations like these and others where humans have no strength.
But if we are connect to God, then His power
is omnipotent in our lives. Could it be that when
we are called upon to serve God, it takes everything
to serve the Lord, it be that sometimes we hold
some back for ourselves. I wish I had the time.
What I need you to do while you're contemplating this
is to go to page fifty in our Your Daily
Portion companion book and apply whichever of the four that
most resonate with you. If I had the time, I
would be looking at the relationship application. But you know
how this goes a worthy goal to be connected to
God unreservedly and be saved 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,