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 Thursday, December twelve,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 the Prayer of Jesus. The Prayer
of Jesus. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you, and
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continue to build faith and fellowship. I want to say
a great, big, happy birthday. My son does not watch
me on YouTube much, but I just want to say
a great, big, happy birthday to our one and only son, Josiah.
So if you see him somewhere, yes, he's gonna be like,
why did Daddy do this? If you see him somewhere,
just tell him happy birthday. And of course, my good, good,
good friend Sean, it is his birthday today as well.
I just thank God for what he is doing in
the life of our young man Josiah, because without God,
Josiah would not be here. We thank God. Make it
a great make it a great study. Let's go ahead
and pray and get underway. Father, we thank you for
giving us the opportunity to open up your word and
to see what you have to say. I pray that
we will learn from Jesus's ministry how to connect with
you and how to do your will. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again the prayer of Jesus.
Now we see Jesus praying a lot in the scriptures.
We see him going taking himself aside, going to a
solitary place, a great while before day, maybe like this time,
like where you are. It may not be as early
as it is where I am, but a great while
before day. And then he there. We see that he
was praying, and his disciples came to him and said,
teach us how to pray, like John taught his disciples.
We see that when one of his disciples was really
getting beside himself and he was being proud, Jesus said,
I have prayed for you. The devil has asked to
have you, but I have prayed for you that your
faith fail you not. And so we see that Jesus
as he lived on planet Earth, was a model of prayer.
And I'm grateful because that lets me know. If Jesus
prayed and he got the results that he did, connecting
with God our Father in the way that he did,
then that is a blessing that I too can benefit from.
And so the lesson writer says Jesus would soon be
leaving this earth. He desired to share once again his
love for his disciples. He wanted them to understand the
close relationship between him self and the Father and the
Holy Spirit. Did you get that? Yep? And he wanted
to bring them into the same personal relationship with God,
the Father, and the Spirit that he also had. Okay,
so we have that very clear. One of the prayers, though,
that we must never forget, is what is called by
some of us, the high priestly or mediatorial prayer that
is recorded in John chapter seventeen, John chapter seventeen. And
I want to share a few points. Actually, let me
read some of the prayer and I'll share a few points,
because really it's twenty six verses long. I won't be
reading all of that, but I'll read some of the prayer,
and then I'll give a few points as well. And
so the Bible reads in verse one from verse one,
these words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven,
and said, So he's praying with his eyes lifted toward heaven.
I think Solomon is recorded as having his eyes lifted
toward heaven and his hands spread toward God as he
prayed and dedicated the temple to God. I wish I
had the time to deal with what we just saw there.
But anyway, it says Father, the hour is come. Glorify
thy son, that thy son also may glorify Thee, as
thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he
should give eternal life to as many as thou hast
given him. You see the heart of Jesus for the
people of God, Yes, and this is the life eternal,
that they might know THEE, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. He wants us to
know God. He wants us to know God our Father,
in the same way that Jesus himself knew God knows
God our Father. I have glorified Thee in the earth.
I have finished the work which thou hast given me
to do. And now, O, Holy Father, glorify thou me
with thine own self, with the glory which I had
with THEE. Before the world was You imagine Jesus was
living on planet Earth. His own received him not, and
only people by faith could see who Jesus was, so
that they could be transformed by him. Jesus is longing
to be back in the fullness of the form that
he was before he took on human flesh, to be
the brightness in a way that is unapproachable. Like as
he was in Mount Horreb, and he told Moses, there
shall no man see me and live. I said, when
Jesus was in Mount Horeb, Mount SINAI, he said, I
know what I just said. He said, no man shall
see me and live. And he covered Moses's his eyes,
and he hid him in a cleft of the rock,
and he himself he caused his glory to pass by Moses.
As Moses was in the hiding place of God, and
he began to announce the glory. He began to announce
the character of God. And yeah, so Jesus is longing
to be back in that space. I have manifested thy
name verse six, unto the men which thou gavest to me,
out of the world, Thine they are, and thou gavest
them me, and they have kept thy word. Now they
have known all the things whatsoever thou hast given me
are of thee or I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me, and they have received them
and have known surely that I came out from thee,
and they have believed that Thou didst send me. One
more verse, I pray for them. I pray not for
the world, but for them which Thou gavest to me,
for they are Thine and so much more. I want
you to think about some of the highlights. Though the
lesson writer wanted us to take a peek and say
what words or phrases in this chapter expresses the desire
of Jesus for a close relationship of love between himself,
the Father, and his disciples. I will share just a
few in the moments that we have here in verse
twenty one oneness he wants he wants unity, unity among
the people of God in the same way that he
is unified with the Father. And I said, in the
same way, I need you to get this, especially in
twenty twenty four in the last days, there are people
who say that we love God, who are unifying in
air quotes, unifying on all sorts of foolishness, unifying and
disrespecting the truths that God has given us in his word.
Also that we can be unified. No, no, no, Jesus
gave a very clear qualifier. He said, I want them
to be one or unified, in the same way that
we are unified. The Father, Son and Holy Ghosts are
unified on truth, not lies, truth not error, Truth and
holiness not dishonesty and unholiness. So if you're gonna unify
brothers and sisters, unify on that basis and that basis alone.
I wish I had the time also a revelation of God.
I made known your name to them, and I will
continue to make it known. God wants us to make
known his name and the earth in the same way
that Jesus did as well. Make it a great day, 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,