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 Sunday, August 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
Studies series through the Book of Mark, and our caption
for today is seeing Clearly, Seeing Clearly. Before we get
into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us this new day and for
the new work week. Father, please give us your eyesight
so we can see in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Okay, So I don't know. It was
almost twenty years ago, just about twenty years ago that
we were hearing in the United States. That's where I
lived at the time of this evolutionary surgery. It was
called Lasik laser eye correction, Like you could go and
get your vision corrected. Can't see today, and then by
later on today you can see. I'm exaggerating just a
little bit, but depending on how poor your vision was,
then it was possible. And for the majority of persons
who were wearing glasses or corrective lenses, those individuals could
go in and for thousands of dollars and just you know,
about thirty forty seconds per I then come back out
seeing And I did that. Like I did that. I
did it. It was one of the best decisions I
had ever made because I was blind, but now I
can see. I said, I was blind. Of course, I'm exaggerating,
but I felt like it I was blind, and now
I could see, and I'm like, okay, there must be
a message in this. Let's go look for the message.
In Mark chapter eight, beginning at verse twenty two, the
Bible reads, and he cometh to BETHSAIDA, and they bring
a blind man unto him, and he besought him to
touch him. A blind man wanted to touch, and he
besought him to touch him. And he took the blind
man by the hand and led him out of the town.
I wonder why he led him out of the town.
And when he had spit on his eyes and put
his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw anything,
and he looked up, and he said, I see men
as trees walking. And after that he put his hands
again upon his eyes and made him look up, and
he was restored and saw every man clearly. And he
sent him away to his house, saying, neither go into
the town, nor tell any in the town. And Jesus
went out and his disciples into the towns of Cesarea Philippi.
And by the way he asked his disciples, saying, unto them,
whom do men say that I am? And they answered
John the Baptist. But some say Elias and others, one
of the prophets, and he saith unto them by but home,
say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said,
unto him, thou art the Christ. And he charged them
that they should tell no man. Now you can see
that the man was able to see as Jesus led
him by the hand, he took him aside, he took
him out into the place where he was going to
do his healing. Of course, this is early in Jesus's ministry.
There were a lot of detractors and people who were
diminishing Jesus's early ministry. And so he takes the man
one side and he begins the healing process. Are you
listening to how I'm saying it. He's beginning the healing process.
What if the man got discouraged and said, well, why
are you moving me from here? What if the man
got discouraged as Jesus is beginning the healing process. What
if the man, as Jesus said, what do you see?
He says, I see like something moved around, like trees,
like men, like trees. I'm not able to see so clearly. Now.
What if he got discouraged and said, but I thought
that you were gonna heal me. Jesus, I asked you
to heal me. I asked you to fix my children. Jesus.
I asked you to give me a new job. Jesus,
I asked you to fix my marriage. Jesus, my addiction
to filling the blank thing here, unmentionable thing here. But Jesus,
I'm seeing some movement, but not all that I want.
Like what if the man decided to take that position,
what would have happened next. That's something for us to
think about, But really we don't need to just be
thinking about that. What we need to be doing is
considering when we are in the process of receiving the
healing from God. Do we give up, do we become discouraged?
Do we allow ourselves to negatively speak? Do we say
and try to write God a prescription and say no, Jesus,
keep me right here and do it. No, Jesus, don't
use spit. No, Jesus, don't put your fingers in my eyes, like,
do it another way, Jesus, And I'm not seeing clearly.
I thought you were supposed to do it this way, Jesus.
Or we can choose to do what the man did
the man did exactly what Jesus told him as he
was healing him, and he trusted God fully, and in
the end he could see clearly. So what can we
do in twenty twenty four, on this day in August,
What can we do to hack this process? Learn from
this man's experience. What we can do is say, God,
since you were able to heal that man fully and
that man could see clearly, I know that you can
do it for me. Can I say it again? Since
you were able to do it for that man and
he can see clearly, I know that you can do
it for me. And I will follow you. If you
say walk, I will walk. If you say bow, I
will bow. If you ask me a question, I will
answer the question. I will not try to make sense
of anything. I will just follow where thou leadest, I
will follow. And that brother followed. That brother followed what
Jesus taught him, and he was ultimately healed. Now the
question that we need to be answering for ourselves comes
in the remaining portion of that passage. Who do you
say that God is? Who is Jesus to you? To you?
We don't need to worry about who other people are
saying he is to you today at eight minutes after
the hour? Like, who is Jesus to you? Is he
the bright and morning star? He is? Is he your provider?
Is he your best friend?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is he the one who heals you? Is he your deliverer,
your sanctuary, your refuge in time of trouble?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Is he the author and finisher of your faith? He's
he the one that created you unto good works. Who
is Jesus to you? Is he the one that is
able to keep you from falling and to present you
before the presence with exceeding joy? Who is Jesus to you?
And so we thank God for the experience, the experience
of these men of God that learned who Jesus was
and then began to live according to the principle of
who Jesus is in reality. If Jesus is your refuge,
then that means you flee into his presence. If Jesus
is your God, then that means you allow him to
guide you. If Jesus is your provider, then you stop
trying to take the reins of your own life and
stop trying to make your own provisions, but rather to
maximize and move according to what God is providing all
of your The Bible says, according to his riches in Glory,
in Christ Jesus, and in the closing moments here I
want to share just a couple of things and let
you go first. Jesus gave this man personal attention, even
though the entire world needs Jesus simultaneously. Right now, I'm
talking about today, this Sunday. Yes, he still gives you
the personal attention that you need. Yes. And then the
timing is always right with Jesus. His timing and our timing.
His thoughts and our thoughts are not the same, but
at just the right time. The Bible says that He
gave this man spiritual and practical eyesight, and so the
man could see clearly.
Speaker 1: Are you seeing clearly? Thanks for joining us listening to 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,