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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, December

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twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John, and

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our caption for today is theology from above or from below?

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From above or from below. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. I

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need you to make sure that you have the Companion

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book for this lesson study is writing your description here,

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but go to your Daily Portion dot com and pick

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up that companion. It's life application. Every single day we

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talk about exactly how to apply these things that we're

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learning every day to four key areas of our lives.

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We don't want to just talk about it. We need

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to be able to apply it. I've never seen this

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done in the church before, and so this is why

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we're presenting it to you. Hear it your Daily Portion

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dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we

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will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for this

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day and for giving us the privilege to come together

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and open up your word again and to be able

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to conceptualize whether we are above or beneath, whether we

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are connected to you or not connected to you. Father,

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Please help us not to be so cerebral today, but

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to be passionate. Help us to think and apply in

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a way that we will relate to you in Jesus name.

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know, there are

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times that we become so intellectual that we miss the connection,

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the divine connection God is making with us. I'm an

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intellectual person. Don't do not get that mixed up. I

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like to drill to the minutest detail the things concerning

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God and his word. I love details to the extreme,

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I promise you. However, I do realize that sometimes people

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like me get caught in the weeds and have examined

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and analyzed and broken down to the very last common

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pound shell to the people who know what I just said,

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and then miss a connection with God. Where he's saying that,

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like to pray is the opening of the heart to God,

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as to a friend like that, we should we should

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be compassionate and loving, like we should be seeking the

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good of others, you understand. And so the theology from

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above versus the theology from below is really about not

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just the air quotes study of God and whether it

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is what we believe from the Bible or something made

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up or coming from the enemy. No, no, no, no, it's

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bigger than that. We are looking for a connection with God,

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our Father. And so from the Bible Book of John

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chapter four, we're still there. Obviously. Beginning at verse forty six,

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the Bible reads, so Jesus came again to Kana or

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Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And

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there was a certain noble whose son was sick at Capernium.

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You see. So this is an experience not to just

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intellectually understand God. It's not just for the man to

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have a context about how God thinks and how God behaves. No, no, no,

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this is now a man whose child is sick and

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likely will die right if he does not have a

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divine intimate touch from God. And the Bible reads in

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verse forty seven. And he heard that Jesus was come

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out of Judea into Galilee, and he went unto him

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and besought him that he would come down and heal

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his son. This is not intellectual, this is practical. I

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need you to heal my son. The doctors can't do anything. Ah,

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the people who are natural paths can't do anything. Herbologists,

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iridologists cannot do anything. God, I need you to do

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something that only you can do. And so he said, well,

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you come down and o my son, for he was

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at the point of death. And Jesus said, unto him,

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except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

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And so Jesus is setting up a barrier and intellectual

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speed bump, Like Jesus is setting a moment in time

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of critical mass where the man has to think, wait

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a minute, is this about. I don't know what it's about,

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But whatever you're trying to teach me, Jesus, can you

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teach it to me? And so he said, he said,

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so the nobleman said unto him, sir, come down ere

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my child die. I'm not even sure what you just said, Jesus.

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I don't know what you just said, but I know

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that my son is about to die, and I need

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you in a guttural sense like I'm talking about. It

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was a visceral response, like Jesus, could you just come.

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My money's not doing enough for me in this case, Jesus,

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my influence is not doing enough for me. Jesus, I

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need you to come and take care of my son.

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And Jesus saith unto him, go thy way, thy son liveth.

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And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken

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unto him, and he went his way. And as he

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was going, now down, did you hear this? I said?

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He went on his way, believing what God said. Ah,

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what Jesus Christ said, he believed him. And while he

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was in motion. While he was in motion, his servants

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met him and told him, saying, thy son liveth you see,

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he's on the way to see the great things that

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the Lord was doing for him. He was going to

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see with his eyes the miracle that his faith had

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already seen. And some men were coming to him, his

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servants and saying, sir, your son is alive Verse fifty two.

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Then inquired he of them the hour. I need you

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to type in the chat the hour. Type it in

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the chat the hour. If you're on the radio, then

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you can come back and type it in the comments

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on your favorite YouTube channel that's carrying the program. Then

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he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend,

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when was he getting better? When was he getting better?

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And they said, unto him, yesterday, at the seventh hour,

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the fever left him. Now I realized that somebody missed this.

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Somebody missed it. You were in your intellect, you were calculating.

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And I'm not saying we need to be foolish or stupid.

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I apologize if you don't like that term. I'm not

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saying that we have to be unintellectual. What I am

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saying is that we need to be on the lookout

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for the times that Jesus moves in ways that are

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beyond our intellect. He moves in miraculous ways because the

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extent of our intellect and our prowess, our capabilities have

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been exhausted. Our techniques, our stratagem, our target, our tactics

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have expired. And now I need you to just look

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at your watch when you're praying and you're asking God

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for that thing that only he can do. I'm talking

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about that means of miracle thing. I'm talking about that

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let there be light and there was light thing. I

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want you to look at your watch because you're on

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the lookout for the moment that Jesus begins to move

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in a decided and very clear, miraculous way. So you

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can say it was at this hour I'm talking about

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nine minutes into the program, when we were dealing with

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these great things on your daily portion. It was then

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that God he delivered me out of that abusive relationship.

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He taught my child that it was God that was

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saving him or her, and gave his life, gave her

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life to the King. It was at this moment that

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my diabetes abated. It was at this moment that the

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leukemia just mysteriously vanished. It was at this moment that

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they had me on the operating table and what they

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were going in to remove that disease had vanished, even

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in front of the doctors who had scanned and x

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rayed and tested, and now it's gone. It was at

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this moment, I said, this moment, at this very hour,

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that God did something very special. What did he do?

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He acted in the way that he always wanted to act.

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All he needed was for you to deploy hm that

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faith that you have in him, so that he could

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deploy miracles. That's the theology from above.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,