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

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

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

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, August eleven,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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Studies series through the Book of Mark, and our caption

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for today is seeing Clearly, Seeing Clearly. Before we get

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into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community at your Daily

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Portion dot com and let us know where you are

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in the world. This is one of the ways that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for giving us this new day and for

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the new work week. Father, please give us your eyesight

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so we can see in Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Okay, So I don't know. It was

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almost twenty years ago, just about twenty years ago that

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we were hearing in the United States. That's where I

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lived at the time of this evolutionary surgery. It was

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called Lasik laser eye correction, Like you could go and

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get your vision corrected. Can't see today, and then by

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later on today you can see. I'm exaggerating just a

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little bit, but depending on how poor your vision was,

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then it was possible. And for the majority of persons

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who were wearing glasses or corrective lenses, those individuals could

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go in and for thousands of dollars and just you know,

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about thirty forty seconds per I then come back out

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seeing And I did that. Like I did that. I

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did it. It was one of the best decisions I

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had ever made because I was blind, but now I

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can see. I said, I was blind. Of course, I'm exaggerating,

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but I felt like it I was blind, and now

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I could see, and I'm like, okay, there must be

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a message in this. Let's go look for the message.

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In Mark chapter eight, beginning at verse twenty two, the

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Bible reads, and he cometh to BETHSAIDA, and they bring

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a blind man unto him, and he besought him to

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touch him. A blind man wanted to touch, and he

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besought him to touch him. And he took the blind

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man by the hand and led him out of the town.

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I wonder why he led him out of the town.

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And when he had spit on his eyes and put

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his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw anything,

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and he looked up, and he said, I see men

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as trees walking. And after that he put his hands

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again upon his eyes and made him look up, and

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he was restored and saw every man clearly. And he

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sent him away to his house, saying, neither go into

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the town, nor tell any in the town. And Jesus

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went out and his disciples into the towns of Cesarea Philippi.

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And by the way he asked his disciples, saying, unto them,

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whom do men say that I am? And they answered

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John the Baptist. But some say Elias and others, one

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of the prophets, and he saith unto them by but home,

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say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said,

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unto him, thou art the Christ. And he charged them

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that they should tell no man. Now you can see

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that the man was able to see as Jesus led

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him by the hand, he took him aside, he took

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him out into the place where he was going to

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do his healing. Of course, this is early in Jesus's ministry.

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There were a lot of detractors and people who were

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diminishing Jesus's early ministry. And so he takes the man

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one side and he begins the healing process. Are you

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listening to how I'm saying it. He's beginning the healing process.

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What if the man got discouraged and said, well, why

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are you moving me from here? What if the man

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got discouraged as Jesus is beginning the healing process. What

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if the man, as Jesus said, what do you see?

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He says, I see like something moved around, like trees,

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like men, like trees. I'm not able to see so clearly. Now.

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What if he got discouraged and said, but I thought

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that you were gonna heal me. Jesus, I asked you

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to heal me. I asked you to fix my children. Jesus.

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I asked you to give me a new job. Jesus,

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I asked you to fix my marriage. Jesus, my addiction

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to filling the blank thing here, unmentionable thing here. But Jesus,

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I'm seeing some movement, but not all that I want.

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Like what if the man decided to take that position,

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what would have happened next. That's something for us to

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think about, But really we don't need to just be

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thinking about that. What we need to be doing is

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considering when we are in the process of receiving the

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healing from God. Do we give up, do we become discouraged?

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Do we allow ourselves to negatively speak? Do we say

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and try to write God a prescription and say no, Jesus,

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keep me right here and do it. No, Jesus, don't

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use spit. No, Jesus, don't put your fingers in my eyes, like,

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do it another way, Jesus, And I'm not seeing clearly.

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I thought you were supposed to do it this way, Jesus.

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Or we can choose to do what the man did

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the man did exactly what Jesus told him as he

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was healing him, and he trusted God fully, and in

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the end he could see clearly. So what can we

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do in twenty twenty four, on this day in August,

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What can we do to hack this process? Learn from

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this man's experience. What we can do is say, God,

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since you were able to heal that man fully and

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that man could see clearly, I know that you can

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do it for me. Can I say it again? Since

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you were able to do it for that man and

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he can see clearly, I know that you can do

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it for me. And I will follow you. If you

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say walk, I will walk. If you say bow, I

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will bow. If you ask me a question, I will

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answer the question. I will not try to make sense

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of anything. I will just follow where thou leadest, I

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will follow. And that brother followed. That brother followed what

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Jesus taught him, and he was ultimately healed. Now the

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question that we need to be answering for ourselves comes

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in the remaining portion of that passage. Who do you

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say that God is? Who is Jesus to you? To you?

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We don't need to worry about who other people are

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saying he is to you today at eight minutes after

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the hour? Like, who is Jesus to you? Is he

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the bright and morning star? He is? Is he your provider?

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Is he your best friend?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Is he the one who heals you? Is he your deliverer,

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your sanctuary, your refuge in time of trouble?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Is he the author and finisher of your faith? He's

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he the one that created you unto good works. Who

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is Jesus to you? Is he the one that is

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able to keep you from falling and to present you

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before the presence with exceeding joy? Who is Jesus to you?

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And so we thank God for the experience, the experience

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of these men of God that learned who Jesus was

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and then began to live according to the principle of

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who Jesus is in reality. If Jesus is your refuge,

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then that means you flee into his presence. If Jesus

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is your God, then that means you allow him to

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guide you. If Jesus is your provider, then you stop

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trying to take the reins of your own life and

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stop trying to make your own provisions, but rather to

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maximize and move according to what God is providing all

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of your The Bible says, according to his riches in Glory,

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in Christ Jesus, and in the closing moments here I

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want to share just a couple of things and let

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you go first. Jesus gave this man personal attention, even

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though the entire world needs Jesus simultaneously. Right now, I'm

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talking about today, this Sunday. Yes, he still gives you

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the personal attention that you need. Yes. And then the

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timing is always right with Jesus. His timing and our timing.

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His thoughts and our thoughts are not the same, but

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at just the right time. The Bible says that He

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gave this man spiritual and practical eyesight, and so the

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man could see clearly.

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Speaker 1: Are you seeing clearly? Thanks for joining us listening to friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,