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 Tuesday, October fifteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you guns word every single day and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
study series through themes in the Gospel of John and
our caption for today is hearing or not hearing the word?
Hearing or not hearing the Word. Before we get into that,
I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
especially those joining us for the very first time. I
am asking you for a personal favor. Favor almost said favor.
That's not a word favor, it's my birthday. It is
my fifty first birthday, and I'm so grateful that God
has extended my life. We get to still build together,
we still get to reach the world for Christ together.
And I'm going to ask you to do me a
special favor. Within the next one hour time, I need
fifty one people to click that number seven at your
daily Portion dot com and join and join and subscribe
at that number seven. And by the end of the day,
I need a thousand people. And that's very easy because
hundreds of thousands of you are watching me online, television,
listening on radio, more on radio, and so it's an
easy feat that by the end of October fifteen, like
the end of this birthday for me, that I will
have one thousand people who have clicked that number seven
and subscribed, where we can continue to build and be
transformed by God. It's a special space of transformation. This
ten minutes together is a great start, but we want
to do something even more. So please do that for me.
Please do that for me, and we give God thanks.
Let's pray Father, thank you for this day. Help us
to live your word in Jesus name. I pray Amen
and Amen again. Okay, so some people are hard of hearing,
and some people are hard of doing. I just made
that last phrase up. Heart of doing, heart of hearing.
People actually don't do what we're supposed to do. You see,
when God gives us his word, when God gives us
his guidance to say this is the way, walk ye
in it, and then we don't do it. That means
we're hard of hearing and doing. That's our problem, that's
human's problem. Now. In the Book of John chapter one,
it was really even worse because the Bible teaches us
that Jesus king among his own people, the people of God,
like the people who should have understood and been expecting
the prophecies to come true in Christ, and those same people,
his own people, the people of God, rejected him, many
of them, not everybody, but enough of them for it
to make a big deal in the Bible to highlight it.
And so now we want to make certain that in
twenty twenty four, on October fifteen, we are making our
final decision to hear and to actually do God's word,
to hear and to do to God's ancient people. According
to the Shamah, that is a terminology for what Deuteronomy
chapter six, and verse four says and teaches us four
and five teaches us the Lord. The Lord, our God
is one Lord, and you shall worship him with everything
you have and everything that you are. You see to
God's people, hearing and doing were synonymous. But sometimes people
are ever learning and failing to come to a knowledge
of the truth, ever saying that they're hearing, but never doing.
And so what God wants us to do is to
hear and to do according to his word. Who is
his word Jesus Christ, according to the power of his
word through Christ. Okay, And so we read now in
John chapter one, beginning of verse nine, that was the
true light which lighteth every man. Speaking of Christ that
cometh into the world. He was in the world, and
the world was made by him, and the world knew him.
Not even the people who were created by him didn't
necessarily know him. So few people actually embraced Jesus. Can
you imagine the creator of the universe, this is coming
in to human flesh to save us in so few
of us receive him. Continuing, and by the way, he
came to his own also, and his own received him not.
But I like this butt here because now it shows us,
there is hope. But as many as did receive him. See,
some people received him. Hopefully you're one of those people,
to as many as receive him, to them gave he
the power to become the children of God, even to
them that believe on his name, which were not born
of blood, nor of the will of flesh, but nor
of the will of man, but of God. And so
the people who receive Jesus are the ones who live.
The people who hear Jesus reality, not just say that
we hear him, actually have the power to live. Okay,
now that I've said that, slowly, let's walk through a
few steps or a few ways that we can look
at this, so that we can be among the people
who actually are transformed, not just intellectually acknowledging that Jesus
is who he said he is, not just intellectually memorizing
Bible texts, not just being able to speak Christianese. I
just made that up like a language that makes us
sound sanctimonious and holy, but to actually be transformed. Okay,
So the first one is to acknowledge the true light.
When I say acknowledge the true light, I'm saying we
need to confess with our mouths, like believe in our
hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is
actually who the Bible says that he is. He was
no ordinary man, he was not a mere prophet. He's
the one who created us. He's the one who redeems us.
He's the one who is empowering human beings who received
eve him to live holy lives. Jesus is equal to
our father. This is critical because the only way that
we could be saved is the one who was equal
to or greater than the law of God, who is
indeed divine himself, could save us from our sins. Number Two,
we want to believe on his name. Remember in verse twelve,
it says to as many as believe in him or
receive him, he gave those individuals power to become his children.
You see, God's children have power over the rum bottle.
God's children have power now over pornography, addiction, God's people,
God's children have power over those evil mindsets that defeat
us every single day that says we're less than, we're
not able to that iconize people and say, well, that
person is super special, this man is special, this woman
is special. I can't be like that because fill in
the negative blank, and God is saying no, I give
you power to be victorious in every single way in
your relationships. I give you power. This is God speaking
to us. In your finances and in your way of
doing business or earning an honest income. I give you
power to overcome. I give you power to be the
lender and not the borrower. Like I give you the power.
It's just a matter of being able to get connected
with God and trusting Him every single day for all
of our needs. Of course, understanding the power of new
birth is key, not just intellectually, but beginning to live
that power of the new birth. We are spiritually born
of the Holy Ghost. When we were born to our
human parents, we were born with all kinds of deficiencies,
all kinds of tendencies toward evil, all kinds of things
that seem to defeat us. But when Jesus Christ comes
into our lives and opens up the endtation that we
can actually live for him, he empowers us by the
new birth. Because now we have a new Daddy, HM.
We have new power to live according to God's power
and principles. We don't have to be bound by the past.
We need to experience and give God thanks for the
new birth. And as we are born anew, then daily
we accept his lordship over our lives. We speak to
him daily, we listen for his voice daily, and we
give him thanks and say, Okay, God, whatever you say,
that's what I'm going to do as you give me strength.
So remember you can be transformed today by the word
of God, and He is expecting you to be. Make
it a great day. 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,