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11 22 2023 To Help the Hurting · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Wednesday, November twenty two, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is to help the hurting.
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  To help the hurting. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com join our online community. Also, pick up your
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  Daily Portion book and pardon me, let us know where you are in the
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  world. At your Daily portion dot Com. That way we can continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for getting us to the midway point of this week. Please get us
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  over that speed bump, God, and help us to learn how to be
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  of service and of value to people who are hurting. In Jesus' name,
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  I pray, Amen, and a man again. Listen. If I ask
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  the question, it would really be for effect. If you've ever been hurting,
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  if you've ever lost a loved one, if you have ever been at
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  a workplace where you didn't necessarily want to be because it was an an abusive
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  environment. Have you ever been in a situation that you felt hopeless because something
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  was happening to you and you didn't know how to overcome it, you didn't
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  know whom you should be reporting it to, or something worse, you're in
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  a situation where your health is in problems. Yeah, hurting people help hurting
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  people. So we can just really cut through this one easily to say,
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  since you have been hurting before, you have experienced physical, emotional, financial,
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  intellectual, some other kinds of pain. Then you know what it's like.
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  And therefore you must know. We all must know that when people are
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  hurting around us, we should not turn a blind eye, we should not
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  close our ears, we should not become more selfish and guarded. We should
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  do whatever we can. And we have to be honest with ourselves about what
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  we can do and assist in whatever ways possible. And so Jesus's ministry hyper
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  highlighted here in the Book of Luke, chapter four, and it's actually hearkening
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  back to a prophecy about Messiah who was to come, and the Bible reads
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  as Jesus was standing in the synagogue right and reading directly out of the scrolls
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  the scriptures we now call Isaiah. Yes, the spirit of the Lord is
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  upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
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  He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to
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  the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at
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  liberty those who are oppressed. And of course, further further, the text
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  says that Jesus said to the people, like, all of this is now
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  being fulfilled, This prophecy is being fulfilled right here, right now in presence,
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  and of course he returned the scrolls to the one who was attending for
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  the ministry. And so Jesus came with his anointing, the power of the
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  Holy Ghost, to teach people who did not know God, who God was
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  right, to manifest in the earth the character of God, and to teach
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  the great news about salvation through faith in Christ. Yes, he was teaching
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  that, and in that anointing, it did not stop at spiritual. There
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  were some practical, real things, real sufferings, real pains that Jesus helped
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  to relieve. There were people who could not see Ah, people who were
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  paralyzed, people like the woman at the well who may have had some emotional
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  and mental challenges because her sins, and the woman who was dragged before Jesus
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  with the who was caught in the very act of adultery. Those women needed
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  some special guidance, a special ear to hear their plight, right special eyes
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  to see them as children of God rather than the sins that they would have
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  committed. And so they were hurting, and Jesus practically and in reality relieve
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  their suffering and pain. There were people who were very hungry. Jesus supplied
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  food needs and so forth. We call in our modern era some of these
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  things felt needs. Okay, And so since we have been hurting, since
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  we see Jesus Christ as the perfect model of one who relieved pain and suffering
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  when he lived on planet Earth, now we need to be looking at action
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  items action items for our own lives. Right. So, right out of
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  the lesson study, all one has to do, for instance, is read
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  about the staggering amount of money spent on antidepressants in the Western world each year
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  to understand that material wealth alone, like having money, having properties, having
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  other assets alone does not even come close to guaranteeing happiness or peace. And
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  so we need to be evaluating our own perceptions about material wealth. Am I
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  saying anything wrong about material wealth? Absolutely not. I need to make a
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  confession to you. I intend one day to be a multi US millionaire,
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  a US multimillionaire. And if the Lord blesses me to become a billionaire,
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  why because there are so many people who need things that I cannot yet help
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  them to supply. There's one thing that I really really am and drawn to,
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  and I've had the privilege of assisting in these areas before. People who
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  are missing limbs who need prosthetic hands, arms, kneecaps, hips, legs,
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  and other parts of the body that for some reason either were not developed
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  or underdeveloped, or amputated yes, or surgically removed because of some disease,
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  still amputated. And so that requires money. Yes, I could build a
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  foundation and get money from other people and all of that. Fine. But
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  all I'm saying is that even though even though things require money, and in
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  my case it would require lots of it, Yeah, we must not think
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  that money can buy us happiness. See, I told you I want to
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  have a lot of money. I told you one of the reasons got it.
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  But at the same time, we must not trust in our riches or
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  our wealth when or if we do have these riches. Okay, So that
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  can't buy happiness, it cannot buy love, it cannot buy any character things.
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  But the money is useful in society. In fact, Jesus said that
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  we are to occupy. The word means invest. We are to occupy until
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  Jesus comes. Okay, number two, we're going to read from again the
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  same passage I've already read Luke chapter four and verse eighteen. The Bible reads
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  the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me. Remember
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  I highlighted the anointing of the Holy Goos to preach the gospel. So that's
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  spiritual to the poor. Blessed are the poor in spirit? The Bible says
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  right and poor in spirit is a state of awareness that says, I cannot
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  live according to my own power or principles. I realize I need God's help.
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  And of course, you know what poor actually is when we don't have
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  a lot of resources. He sent me to heal the broken hearted. We
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  talked about that a little bit. To proclaim liberty to the captives. There
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  are people who are bound to addictions. People are bound because they're bosses and
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  employers, and unfortunately in some parts of the world there are still slave masters,
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  slave owners, slaveholders. Jesus came to deliver people from that kind of
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  a thing. Yeah, and also recovery of sight to the blind. That's
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  literal blindness in Jesus's day, and of course spiritual blindness. And of course
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  set at liberty those who are oppressed. And so we want to just simply
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  emulate Jesus's compassion. Emulate Jesus's compassion. We want to help those who are
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  hurting, those who are in need. Emulate Jesus compassion. A wonderful day,
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  peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,