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11 18 2023 Mission to the Needy · 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 Sabbath, November eighteen, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is
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  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 Mission to the Needy, Mission
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  to the Needy. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Daily Portion dot com, join our online community, and of course I want
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  you to let me know where you are in the world at your Daily Portion
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  dot Com. Make sure also you pick up your daily portion book at the
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  appropriate time. We continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us this new day and for the privilege we have on this Sabbath
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  morning to reconsider our approach to those who are in need. Father, please
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  give us the mindset of Jesus. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  and Amen again. Let me ask you really a silly question. Have you
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  ever been needy? Have you ever been needy? And when I say that,
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  I'm not trying to give you a level of need. Huh. I'm
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  not trying to determine what the level of need is. Have you ever needed
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  anything that you could not get on your own? Hmm? Yes, I
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  know the answer is yes. The answer is yes. And now the second
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  question is how did God supply those needs? Like how did he take care
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  of you? I want to read from the Book of Philippians Chapter four,
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  verses twelve through eighteen, and then jump into our study for today and the
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  Bible reads I know how to live in almost with on almost nothing or with
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  everything. This is Paul speaking. He can be a base he can abound.
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  I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is
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  with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little verse thirteen. For
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  I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Even so,
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  you have done well to share with me in my present difficulty. As you
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  know, the Philippians were the only ones who gave me financial help when I
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  first bought brought you the good news, and then traveled from on from Macedonia.
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  No other church did this. Even when I was in Thessalonika. You
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  sent help more than once. I don't say this because I want a gift
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  from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness
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  verse eighteen. At the moment I have all I need and more, I
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  am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with epaphroditis. They are a
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  sweet, smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. And here comes
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  the passage with which many of us are familiar verse nineteen. But my God,
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  m and this is where I really want to focus. My God shall
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  supply all your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. The
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  truth, however, is that not everyone has reached this mindset, you see,
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  he said. Paul said, he has been. He has figured out
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  how to abase be abased and how to abound, how to have much and
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  to have little, and to be content, he said in another place,
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  in all situations. But God will supply all of your need according to his
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  riches in glory, in Christ Jesus. Yeah. So those who have not
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  yet received that mindset, who who are still in a poverty mindset, or
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  people who are in such dire need that they are not able to even think
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  their way through to the point of this type of faith. The question is
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  like, uh, is God going to be able to use you to assist
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  those people? See got you people? He used an entire church at Philippi
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  to help Paul. Can God use you? Can he trust you to help
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  someone else? And so the Bible encourages us to draw near, draw close
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  to strangers, and by winning their confidence, we can learn better ways of
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  helping them to find Jesus. Next week we are going to discuss that in
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  detail from one of those passages that you are anticipating some of you from the
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  book Ministry of Healing. But until then, there was a man in Mark
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  chapter two, who was very needy. This man who was paralyzed, who
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  could not take himself anywhere, had needs. And I wrote a list of
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  needs. And I bet if I would have sat longer and thought it through
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  even more, I could come up with more needs. But he needed forgiveness
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  the man who was paralyzed, and Inspiration says it was due to his own
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  sin. Huh. He needed forgiveness, He needed wholeness, he needed a
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  feeling of acceptance. He needed friends, he needed faith, He needed practical
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  physical assistance. This man needed help. Isn't that wonderful? There was somebody
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  who needed help? You're like, why would that be wonderful? Because God
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  is giving us the opportunity to be of service to people who need help,
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  Like we are able. We are privileged to be the hands and feet of
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  God in the earth. If God doesn't use you, who will he use?
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  You want the rocks to be used in your place? Do you want
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  animals who don't have a vested interest in the plan of salvation to be of
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  use to people when you could have been of assistance? Like? Are you
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  going to let inanimate objects or people who don't necessarily love God to replace you?
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  When God is calling you by name and saying, this is a person
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  that I need you to help. You. Remember when Elijah, Elijah was
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  being spoken of, right, And of course there were a few years of
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  no rain, and then the brook dried up where Elijah was. God had
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  given him food delivered by ravens, and the brook had dried up, and
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  God said to Elijah to go to this place. I believe it's called Zidan,
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  right. That is the place, ironically where Jezebel comes from. And
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  there is someone prepared there to give you what you need, Elijah. And
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  so of course Elijah went there. And the story goes that, you know,
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  the woman was ready to die. She was going to feed her son
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  and feed herself one last good time with the little bit of meal and a
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  little bit of oil that they had, and then just die because things were
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  rough. And God, through the Man of God, said no, no,
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  no, no, no, supply for me. First. M Elijah
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  had a need, but God was supplying it. The woman had a need,
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  God was supplying it. The young boy had a need. God was
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  supplying it. Supply it to me first, woman of faith. Hah,
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  I want you to do it for me first, and then whatever you plan
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  and of course the woman did so. And the Bible says that once she
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  had exhibited the kind of compassion to give the man of God what he requested,
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  that her meal and her oil never ran out, until, of course,
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  the earth began to produce in the way that we expect naturally. So
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  people all around us have needs, even people of God, people who don't
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  know God. And we're going to drill that discussion of the man that I
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  described who needed all of those things tomorrow because we're going to read through the
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  passage. But again, the question is what is it that you can do?
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  There are needs that are physical, emotion, ah financial, or even
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  social. That is, some might be deemed as outcasts from their community or
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  even their family, and God would have positioned them right in front of you.
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  What will you do when God taps you on the shoulder and says,
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  here is a person, Here is a man who here is a woman,
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  Here is a family, Here is a young man, Here is a young
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  woman who needs my assistance. And I want to use you today. I
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  have put all the resources necessary in your hands, and I need you to
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  now go and deliver. Will you answer the call? There is a mission
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  to the needy. Sometimes the needy may be You have a wonderful day feast.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great
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  day. Yeah,