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 Wednesday, December
twenty five, 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 theology from above or from below?
From above or from below. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to go over to your
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up that companion. It's life application. Every single day we
talk about exactly how to apply these things that we're
learning every day to four key areas of our lives.
We don't want to just talk about it. We need
to be able to apply it. I've never seen this
done in the church before, and so this is why
we're presenting it to you. Hear it your Daily Portion
dot com. 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 come together
and open up your word again and to be able
to conceptualize whether we are above or beneath, whether we
are connected to you or not connected to you. Father,
Please help us not to be so cerebral today, but
to be passionate. Help us to think and apply in
a way that we will relate to you in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know, there are
times that we become so intellectual that we miss the connection,
the divine connection God is making with us. I'm an
intellectual person. Don't do not get that mixed up. I
like to drill to the minutest detail the things concerning
God and his word. I love details to the extreme,
I promise you. However, I do realize that sometimes people
like me get caught in the weeds and have examined
and analyzed and broken down to the very last common
pound shell to the people who know what I just said,
and then miss a connection with God. Where he's saying that,
like to pray is the opening of the heart to God,
as to a friend like that, we should we should
be compassionate and loving, like we should be seeking the
good of others, you understand. And so the theology from
above versus the theology from below is really about not
just the air quotes study of God and whether it
is what we believe from the Bible or something made
up or coming from the enemy. No, no, no, no, it's
bigger than that. We are looking for a connection with God,
our Father. And so from the Bible Book of John
chapter four, we're still there. Obviously. Beginning at verse forty six,
the Bible reads, so Jesus came again to Kana or
Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And
there was a certain noble whose son was sick at Capernium.
You see. So this is an experience not to just
intellectually understand God. It's not just for the man to
have a context about how God thinks and how God behaves. No, no, no,
this is now a man whose child is sick and
likely will die right if he does not have a
divine intimate touch from God. And the Bible reads in
verse forty seven. And he heard that Jesus was come
out of Judea into Galilee, and he went unto him
and besought him that he would come down and heal
his son. This is not intellectual, this is practical. I
need you to heal my son. The doctors can't do anything. Ah,
the people who are natural paths can't do anything. Herbologists,
iridologists cannot do anything. God, I need you to do
something that only you can do. And so he said, well,
you come down and o my son, for he was
at the point of death. And Jesus said, unto him,
except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
And so Jesus is setting up a barrier and intellectual
speed bump, Like Jesus is setting a moment in time
of critical mass where the man has to think, wait
a minute, is this about. I don't know what it's about,
But whatever you're trying to teach me, Jesus, can you
teach it to me? And so he said, he said,
so the nobleman said unto him, sir, come down ere
my child die. I'm not even sure what you just said, Jesus.
I don't know what you just said, but I know
that my son is about to die, and I need
you in a guttural sense like I'm talking about. It
was a visceral response, like Jesus, could you just come.
My money's not doing enough for me in this case, Jesus,
my influence is not doing enough for me. Jesus, I
need you to come and take care of my son.
And Jesus saith unto him, go thy way, thy son liveth.
And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken
unto him, and he went his way. And as he
was going, now down, did you hear this? I said?
He went on his way, believing what God said. Ah,
what Jesus Christ said, he believed him. And while he
was in motion. While he was in motion, his servants
met him and told him, saying, thy son liveth you see,
he's on the way to see the great things that
the Lord was doing for him. He was going to
see with his eyes the miracle that his faith had
already seen. And some men were coming to him, his
servants and saying, sir, your son is alive Verse fifty two.
Then inquired he of them the hour. I need you
to type in the chat the hour. Type it in
the chat the hour. If you're on the radio, then
you can come back and type it in the comments
on your favorite YouTube channel that's carrying the program. Then
he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend,
when was he getting better? When was he getting better?
And they said, unto him, yesterday, at the seventh hour,
the fever left him. Now I realized that somebody missed this.
Somebody missed it. You were in your intellect, you were calculating.
And I'm not saying we need to be foolish or stupid.
I apologize if you don't like that term. I'm not
saying that we have to be unintellectual. What I am
saying is that we need to be on the lookout
for the times that Jesus moves in ways that are
beyond our intellect. He moves in miraculous ways because the
extent of our intellect and our prowess, our capabilities have
been exhausted. Our techniques, our stratagem, our target, our tactics
have expired. And now I need you to just look
at your watch when you're praying and you're asking God
for that thing that only he can do. I'm talking
about that means of miracle thing. I'm talking about that
let there be light and there was light thing. I
want you to look at your watch because you're on
the lookout for the moment that Jesus begins to move
in a decided and very clear, miraculous way. So you
can say it was at this hour I'm talking about
nine minutes into the program, when we were dealing with
these great things on your daily portion. It was then
that God he delivered me out of that abusive relationship.
He taught my child that it was God that was
saving him or her, and gave his life, gave her
life to the King. It was at this moment that
my diabetes abated. It was at this moment that the
leukemia just mysteriously vanished. It was at this moment that
they had me on the operating table and what they
were going in to remove that disease had vanished, even
in front of the doctors who had scanned and x
rayed and tested, and now it's gone. It was at
this moment, I said, this moment, at this very hour,
that God did something very special. What did he do?
He acted in the way that he always wanted to act.
All he needed was for you to deploy hm that
faith that you have in him, so that he could
deploy miracles. That's the theology from above.
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,