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07 09 2024 More Sabbath Ministry · 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 Tuesday, July nine, twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of
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  Mark. We are on Lesson number two. Our caption for today is more
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  Sabbath Ministry, More Sabbath Ministry. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,
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  pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you are
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  this new Tuesday to live and to breathe and have our being. Thank you
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  for entrusting the time to us. Help us to see ministry like you see
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  it. Help us to live according to your principles. In Jesus name,
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  I pray, Amen and Damen again more Sabbath ministry. And so yesterday I
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  mentioned, well, we talked about an unforgettable worship experience, and I asked
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  you a few questions, and I'm asking myself those saying questions. If you
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  don't recall, just go ahead and scroll back to the eighth of lie.
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  But this experience that we can have can also be during the Sabbath hours.
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  And Jesus did something really incredible at times during the Sabbath hours, in the
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  synagogue, on the road, in people's homes, in the lives of people,
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  wherever they happened to be. Jesus did some miraculous stuff that made the
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  time memorable. So I'm going to read a quote and then jump into the
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  scripture here. The quote comes from the book The Desire of Ages. The
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  Desire of Ages, page two hundred and fifty nine, and it reads,
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  not until the last sufferer had been relieved did Jesus cease his work. So
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  Jesus didn't halfway do something. When he arrived into a place where people had
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  enough faith to believe that he was able to change and transform their lives,
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  to deliver them from whatever happened to be binding them, he did not move
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  until he relieved all of the suffering, continuing, it was far into the
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  night when the multitude departed and silence settled down upon the home of Simon.
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  The long exciting day was passed, and Jesus sought rest. Yes, brothers
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  and sisters, Jesus was tired. He was tired. Have you ever been
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  somewhere healing people? And I'm not asking you to be funny, some of
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  you have the gift of healing. Have you ever been like after someone because
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  you're there and you did what God asked you to do, and God used
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  you to deliver someone from the devil's grip? Right, have you ever felt
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  how tiring it was? Yes, Jesus was tired. Continuing the quote,
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  but while the city was still wrapped in slumber. See the people were resting,
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  the Savior, rising up a great while before day, went out and
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  departed into a solitary place, and there he prayed. You see, when
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  Jesus was working on behalf of people, he was working energized through prayer,
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  energized through the power of the Holy Ghost, energized through connection with God our
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  Father. And so sometimes when we are tired, we are tired because we're
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  trying to use our own strength. When Jesus was tired, he was tired
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  because the days would go long. And even still, even still he's tired
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  from a long day. He didn't give himself an excuse in the morning and
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  say, oh, well, I need to sleep in and not pray.
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  I need to sleep in and not connect with God of my Father, like
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  he'll understand. He said, no, I'm still going to get up.
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  I'm going to connect with God my Father so that everything that I do as
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  I'm here on this planet for thirty three and a half years, so that
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  everything that I do in this ministry of three and a half years will be
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  effective and of course will bring glory to God our Father. So he woke
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  up a great while before day before he went back out to do the work,
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  and there he prayed. And so I will read from the Book of
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  Mark, chapter one, beginning at verse twenty nine. And I hope that
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  you're hearing the example that he set. I'm not just saying it so that
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  you will say, oh, that's what he did. I'm saying it.
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  I'm identifying it because that is our privilege to do as well. Okay.
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  And so the Bible reads in verse twenty nine and forthwith when they were come
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  out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew with
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  James and John verse thirty. But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever,
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  and Anon they tell him of her, and he came and took her
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  by the hand and lifted her up and immediately, I want you to keep
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  that word close at hand. When God is working, there were times that
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  he works immediately, and in this case he worked immediately, and immediately the
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  fever left her and she ministered unto them. I'm gonna pause right here.
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  You see, when God delivers you from something, and you immediately experienced that
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  deliverance, you were also immediately called into ministry. I didn't say that you
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  would be immediately called to be a pastor of a church or an evangelist.
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  What I'm saying is whatever it is that God calls you to do in reference
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  to assisting other people, that happens no sooner than when God delivers you.
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  So the deliverance first and the ministry next. There are too many ministers.
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  You weren't expecting this. There were too many people who are attempting to minister
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  who have not been delivered. I need you to listen to me this morning.
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  There are too many people who are not delivered but are trying to minister.
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  God is saying, no, let me deliver you first, so you
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  can represent me a right. Let me deliver you first, so that you'll
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  have the power that you need to actually minister to people in the strength that
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  I will give you. So, Lord help us to allow you to deliver
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  us. And then you set us up for ministry. And then the Bible
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  continues in verse thirty two, and at even when the sun did set,
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  he brought unto him. They brought unto him, they that were all diseased,
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  and them that were possessed with devils, and all the city gathered together
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  at the door, and he healed many that were sick of divers diseases,
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  and cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to sp because they knew
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  him. I'm not going to really get into that last part too much about
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  them knowing him, but I just want to say that when Jesus moves,
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  he's moving for our good and for his glory. So here are a couple
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  of things that we should keep in mind based on what happened with Simon's mother
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  in law. First, Jesus cares about our needs. He cares about our
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  needs. He didn't say, oh, I've been healing and delivering people.
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  I'm tired. He didn't say, oh, well, I'll come back.
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  I have something else to do. First, he cares about our needs.
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  He's attentive to our personal struggles and ailments. His healing touching our lives can
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  be both physical and spiritual, showing that he is intimately involved and careful for
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  the things that matter to us. Number two, service is a response to
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  healing, as I would have already preempted myself. So once we are delivered,
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  Once we are healed, we are immediately put into ministry. She was
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  delivered right and she ministered immediately to the people who were right around her.
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  Number Three, Jesus's power is over everything that ails us, every sickness,
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  every disease, every mindset, challenge, everything that can be set us.
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  Jesus has the power to give us victory over So I think I'll just pause
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  right there. I'm thankful that God has given us a window into the lives
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  of people who have been delivered. And now do minister, you do it
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  in the same way. Make it a great day. Thanks for joining us
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  listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes 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,