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Speaker 2: 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
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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, November 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 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. We are
rounding out now Lesson number seven and our caption for
today is embrace faith before we see. I said embrace
faith before we see. Yes, before we get into that,
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, Thank you for this day. Thank you
for loving us so much. Teach us to embrace you
even when we can't see all of the details. Please
give us holiness and faith today. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and a man again. So we're going to talk
about the concept related to Thomas's doubting experience so we
can apply it to ourselves. And I'm imploring even the
Bible teachers who will be talking about this whole story
tomorrow in churches around the world. Around the world, twenty
two million people are on the same subject. Can you
imagine twenty two million people studying the same thing around
the world and more. Really, those are just the members.
There are people who join with us so there's more
than twenty two million on the same subject. So I
am begging the teachers of this word. I'm begging you
not to get stuck on the doubt part. Please don't
get stuck there. I need you to read to your
people the fact that Thomas didn't get stuck in his doubt. Okay,
and so we read right out of the lesson, Thomas
hast himself at the feet of Jesus, crying, my Lord
and my God. You see, he had a genuine heart,
even though he had his doubts for the moment, he
had a genuine heart for God. And Jesus accepted his acknowledgment,
but he did he gently reproved his unbelief, continuing the
quote Thomas, because thou art thou hast seen me, thou
hast believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and
yet have believed. Have you seen Jesus? And some people
are going to say, yes, I see him in nature,
Yes I see him when I have an experience with
him when I'm worshiping. That's not what I'm asking you.
I'm asking you have you actually seen Jesus. I'm talking
about have you laid hands on him? Physically. Have you
been able to hear his voice in real life? Have
you been able to see him and the expressions on
his face? That's the question. And if you haven't and
you are a Christian, the Bible says, you're blessed. You
have not seen Jesus and you believe you've not seen him,
say Tealitha komai damsel I say unto you arise. You
did not see him feed five thousand men plus three
times or four times more in women and children. You
did not see the times that he set the captives
free in real life with your own eyes, you saw
the effects, and you know it was the power of God,
through the power of Jesus Christ. You know that. But
you didn't see him, and yet you believe. So God said,
blessed are you? Let me continue? The faith of Thomas
would have been more pleasing to Christ if he had
been willing to believe upon the testimony of his brethren.
Should the world now follow the example of Thomas, no
one would believe unto salvation. For all who receive Christ
must do so through the testimony of others. So let
me ask you a question, brothers and sisters, what is
your testimony. We talked about it a little bit yesterday.
What is your testimony when people see and experience you,
What can they say that they are seeing and experiencing?
Is your testimony because of God's power in your life,
Poised and positioned to help people be transformed by the
renewing of their minds, transformed so that their lives will
be transformed. Continuing, continuing, Many who are given to doubt
excuse themselves by saying that if they had the evidence
which Thomas had from his companion, they would believe. They
do not realize that they have not only that evidence,
but much more. Many who like Thomas, wait for all
cause of doubt to be removed will never realize their desire.
If you're waiting for this thing to be perfectly etched
in your mind and you have all of the details
so that you can believe God, you will not believe.
Brothers and sisters, so ask God today. I just need
to say it straight to you, because somebody who loves
you won't do it. Because the people who normally do this,
they're the ones that are our critics. They're the ones
that don't actually love you. They just want to point
out your faults. What I'm saying is because of God's
love for you through me. In this case, I need
to tell you that you're not going to do it
unless you make the decision today. Make the decision today.
Now we continue, they gradually become confirmed in unbelief. Those
who educate themselves to look on the dark side and
murmur and complain know not what they do. They are
sowing seeds of doubt, and they will have a harvest
of doubt to reap at a time when faith and
confidence are most essential. Many will thus find themselves powerless
to hope and to believe. Can I say it again, please,
they're sowing seeds of doubt. Don't speak out your doubts,
stop speaking out your complaints, Stop drawing upon the dark side.
Look for the bright side, because God has given us
the bright side in the face of Jesus. No matter
what we're going through, there is a bright side. No
matter what we're going through, we have reason to give
God thanks. No matter what trial or tribulation is our reality,
Jesus is able to break through that cloud of darkness
and cause us to believe unto salvation. Today is your day,
brothers and sisters, and it's mine too. It's mine too.
A lot of this came from the book Desire of Ages,
pages eight hundred and seven and eight hundred and eight.
Thank God. Now, in the few moments that we have
left here, I need to give a few tips. A
few tips. I color code my notes here. I had
them in the wrong color. Now they're right. I know,
I know, I know. I digress. So the tip. The
first tip is to trust the testimonies of others. I'm
talking about the ones who are connected with God. In John,
chapter twenty and verse twenty nine, again the Bible says Thomas,
because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are
they that have not seen and yet still believe. You
See they he had received the testimony from God's people
who had experienced Jesus. They said, he's risen, this is him.
We're grateful. And Tom's like, now, I'm not gonna believe
unless so. The Bible is teaching us that we can
believe and trust in the testimonies of people who are
literally being transformed by the power of God. So trust
those testimonies. Number two. Tip number two avoid the trap
of skepticism. And he said, unto him. If ye hear
not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded.
Though one rose from the dead in Luke chapter sixteen
and verse thirty one, there are people who are skeptical,
who refuse to embrace faith before we see. Thanks for
joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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