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, December
twenty two, 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 meeting in Galilee, Meeting in.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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This is one of the ways that 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 giving us
a way to peer into the experience that your people
had with Jesus and vice versa. Please help us to
glean glean how a relationship with you really looks, and
to begin to live in a holy lifestyle. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and a man again. If you were
to meet Jesus anywhere, I'm saying anywhere in the universe.
Is it at your favorite park? Is it at a
hotel cafe where you use the internet? I don't know
where would you meet Jesus? Is it at the gym?
Along the road? Would he be a passenger in your taxi?
That's the question like, if you were to meet with Jesus,
would you recognize him? And I know a question like
where does that question come from? Would you recognize him.
You see, there were so many times in history, even
when Jesus lived on planet Earth and walked and lived
and moved among his people. I'm talking about the ones
who were closest to him, that they just didn't recognize him.
They didn't recognize him. They would see him and still
not desern that it was indeed Jesus whom they would
experience on a regular daily basis. In John chapter twenty one,
it'll make sense here as we read, beginning at verse one.
After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples
at the sea of Tiberius. And on this wise he
showed himself. There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called
Didymus and Nathaniel of cana in Galilee, and the sons
of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. Simon Peter said,
unto them, I go fishing. They say, unto him, we
also go with thee. They went forth and entered into
a ship immediately, and that night they caught nothing. Can
you just say that they caught nothing? Type in the
chat they caught nothing? Why not? Well, we'll see in
a moment verse four. But when the morning was now come,
he realized that many times what we need is in
the morning. When we go through a night of trial,
we go through a night of wringing our hands and
doing our best and hoping that God will quote do
the rest. Like the many times that we fail. Right
when the things go difficult through the night's season, we're
waiting for the morning to come. We're waiting for the
morning to come. One more, one more, please type in
the chat the morning has come, The morning has come.
The brightness of our faith will be seen in the morning. Okay,
and so we see here the Bible says, But when
the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore.
But the disciples knew not what that it was Jesus.
Can I just say that again? But the disciples knew
not that it was Jesus. So many times throughout their experience,
Jesus would show up and they didn't know it was him.
But let me just keep going. Maybe they needed glasses,
maybe he was too far. They were far out into
the sea or the let's see Galilee, the lake, and
they were not able to see that it was Jesus.
But let's see. And then Jesus said, unto them, children,
have ye any meat, and they answered him no. So
now they're hearing his voice verse six, and he said,
unto them, cast the net on the right side of
the ship, and ye shall find they cast therefore, and
now they were not able to draw it for the
multitude of fishes. Therefore, that disciple whom Jesus loved, that's
John seth unto Peter, it is the Lord. Can you
imagine they did not realize that it was Jesus. But
now John is saying, because he is so close to
Jesus he loved Jesus, he is now recognizing based on
the result of them doing what they could not do,
they are now able to do. He says, it is
the Lord. Now, when Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him because
he was naked. He was naked, and did cast him.
Cast himself into the sea. And the other disciples came
in a little ship, for they were not far from land.
But as it were two hundred cubits dragging the net
with fishes. And soon as they came were come to
the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and
fish laid thereon, and bread see Jesus has a habit
of when we recognize who he is, he has a
habit of making provision for us. Ah, you didn't know
it was Jesus that was getting you through the nighttime seas,
and you didn't know that sometimes he's curating your trials.
He is having you through trials so you will see
your extremity, you will see your need, you will see
your inability to cope without him. And then when the
morning dawns, he even though sometimes we don't understand that
it is Jesus who is beginning to deliver us. Yes,
and then he makes a provision, a miraculous provision. He
is poised, he is positioned, and all of the preparation
has already been done. He has the coals, right, he
has the fire, He has the fish, he has the bread.
Now all they need to do is come to eat.
He already provided so much fish that they could not
carry it, and now he has prepared it. I think
the Bible says, behold, I come and stand at the door,
and I knock, and I keep on knocking. And if
any man hears my voice, this is Jesus speaking in
Revelation chapter three. If any person hears my voice and
opens the door. I will come into him, and I
will sup with him, and he with me. I want
to pause right there on that phrase, I will sup
with him. That means to eat. But it doesn't mean
that Jesus is coming to dinner. It doesn't mean that
he wants you to prepare a table before him in
your presence. It means that he is going to prepare
a table before you. He is going to bring dinner
to sup. Jesus saying that he's going to sup with
you means that he's going to bring dinner. You don't
have to bring anything except the willing heart, a submissive spirit,
ready to receive from Jesus. But you and I both
need to submit ourselves to him so that when he
is present, we open the door of our hearts, even
the dark parts, even up under the bed of our house,
right in the closet of our house, opening up our
cell phone so he can see all of the things
that we watch those things. When we welcome Jesus into
the doorway, through the doorway of our lives, he is
bringing dinner. The fatted calf is prepared. Do you understand
where we're going with this? Yes? And so now Jesus
is doing the same thing. He does this, and then
it says it says that they you know, they brought
all of this. And so Jesus, Jesus verse twelve said
unto them, come and dine, and none of the disciples
durst ask him, like who art thou, knowing that it
was the Lord. Jesus then cometh and taketh bread and
give them and fish. Likewise, this is now the third
time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after that
he was risen hallelujah from the dead. He reveals himself
when he's risen from the dead. So when they had dined,
Jesus said, unto Simon Peter, son of Jonahs, he says, now, Peter,
do you love me? And then Peter, in his brokenness,
he is telling him, yeah, I love you. Jesus is like, no,
not that kind of love. Do you love me? Peter, Yes, Jesus,
I love you. No, no, no, Peter, not that kind
of love.
Speaker 1: Peter.
Speaker 2: Do you love me? Really love me? And if you do,
I need you to feed my sheep. Peace.
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,