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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, September eight,

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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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study series through the Book of Mark, and our caption

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for today is Unforgettable. Unforgettable. 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 please go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up your Daily Portion book, and let us know

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where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion

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dot Com. This is one of the ways that we

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

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pray and then get under way. Father, Thank you for

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your Holy Spirit, Thank you for drawing us into your presence.

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Please help us to live according to your principles and

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do your will. Please make yourself unforgettable to us, and

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then we live according to your love. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again, unforgettable. It reminds me

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of a song. It reminds me of a song. But

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I'm thinking that is not what we're going to talk

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about today. We're going into the Bible Book of Mark,

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the Bible Book of Mark, chapter fourteen, and I will read.

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I will read beginning at verse one the Bible Book

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of Mark, and I will read beginning at verse one

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in chapter fourteen, and the Bible reads, after two days

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was the feast of Passover and of unleavened bread. And

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so when God gives us these details, it's for a reason,

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not only just to tell the story, but there are

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times that we can we can actually mark down and

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pin down the time that things were happening. We can

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also know what God was thinking about in a certain situation.

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And so it was passover time and of unlovened bread,

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and the chief priests and scribes, they sought how they

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might take him by craft and put him to death.

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These are what these are what God would say to

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us in these situations the chief priests, the chief priests

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have a problem. But their problem is that they are

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against God. They're supposed to be the priests of the

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most High God, blessed be his name, But they have

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a problem with God. They have a problem with his son.

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But anyway, it says they sought that they would how

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to put him to death verse two, But they said

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not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar

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of the people. And being in Bethany, in the house

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of Simon the Leper, as he sat at meat, there

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came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment. Okay,

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so we are starting to see something, okay, very precious

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of spikenard. And she break the box and poured it

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on his head. And there were some that had indignation

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with themselves, and said, why is this waste of the

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ointment made? For it might have been sold for more

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than three hundred pence and have been given to the poor.

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And they murmured against her, And Jesus said, let her alone.

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Why trouble ye her? She hath brought a good work

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on me. For ye have the poor with you always,

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and whensoever ye will, ye may do good to them.

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But me you have not always. And she hath done

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what she could. She is come a forehand to anoint

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my body to the burying. Verily, I say unto you,

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wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world.

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This also that she hath done, shall be spoken of

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for a memorial unto her, and Judas is carryout. One

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of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him,

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and unto them, And this is the final verse. And

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when they heard it, they were glad and promised to

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give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently

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betray him. So much going on here, So much going

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on here. But there is a woman who is in

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Jesus's presence, whose one purpose is to worship him. Her

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one purpose is to give thanks and praise to God

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for his goodness to her. And she's there to worship him.

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And you have other people who are supposed to be

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chief priests. You have other people like Judas, who's supposed

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to be one of his disciples, and the Bible says

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that Judas is trying to find a way to steal

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the money. Basically, if you read more about the story,

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the chief priests are looking for a way to kill

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Jesus and these people are supposed to be God's people.

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But this one woman is there to worship Jesus and

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she is giving her all. It was very precious that

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ointment that she had there. It was very precious how

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much she had to invest in order to do this

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one act of worship. I think we were talking about

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a widow who had two mites, which is fewer than

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two US pennies or less than two Jamaican dollars, and

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she gave all of it. That's all she had. She

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gave all to God, and she gave out of her need,

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not out of her abundance. This woman here at Jesus's

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feet is giving out of her need, not out of

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her abundance. She's giving her all to Jesus. And God's

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people have a problem with it. Have you ever been

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in a scenario where God's people had a problem with worship?

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With your worship? People trying to decide whether your worship

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is valid. Well, God is saying here like my friend

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and brother, my friend and big brother, Pastor Selvin Stuart.

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And every time this story comes up, I think about him.

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Many years ago we were at trench Town Church and

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he preached, before he was a pastor, he preached let

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her alone, or he said that he was going to preach.

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He was teaching Sabbath School I think it was, and

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he said leave Mary Alone. I think that was the

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title that he was going to use. And I said,

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I'm going to steal it one day. I still haven't

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done so, but he said, leave leave Mary alone. And

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that's what I say today, in this unforgettable experience where

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Jesus is now present, his power is present to heal

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at all times if people are receptive to him, and

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certainly to transform their lives. Leave Mary alone. All of

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the Marys of this world who are there to live

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in humble submission to God, leave her alone. And so,

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of course, there are some lessons that we can learn

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from this experience, so many, so many. Number one, we

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learned the lesson of sacrificial giving, the value of sacrificial giving.

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You see, God loves when we sacrificially give faith, and

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he heals people when he saw their faith. In Mark

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chapter two, he healed and forgave the man who was

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sick of the palsy. In this case, we see that

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Jesus valued and told the people who were so selfish.

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He told them that you have these others with you,

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judas you have these others with you. But she is

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preparing me for the burial. I am here to give

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my life for you. She is showing worship in a

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way that you all should be showing. And so there

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is high value in sacrificial giving. And then of course

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recognizing the significance or importance of the moment. In Mark

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chapter fourteen and verse eight, she hath done what she could.

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She comes beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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So Jesus sees and assigns the importance to the situation.

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There are times that we need to ask God, is

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this an opportunity or, as my big brother and friend

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Eric Thomas says, is it a golden opportunity? Is it

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an opportunity? Or is a golden opportunity? How do we

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see it? Recognize the importance of the moment, And of

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course misunderstandings come based on people trying to read other

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people's minds and seeing their intentions. So we leave that

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to God. We don't try to read minds. We don't

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try to read minds. And so let's go with this

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final one from Mark chapter fourteen and verse seven. The

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poor you always have with you, and soever ye may

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you can do good to them, But me you don't have.

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Always prioritize Jesus over material situations. God knows all things,

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and he will give us the wisdom how to serve others.

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Make it a great day, peace.

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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,