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07 10 2024 The Secret of Jesus’ 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect 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 going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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, July ten, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El 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, and our caption for today is the Secret of Jesus's Ministry. The
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  Secret of Jesus's Ministry. 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 please go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com. Please pick up the Your Daily Portion book,
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  join our online community, and let us know where you are in the
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  world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  we will get under weigh Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this
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  new day and for the privilege that we have to open up your word and
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  to see one of the main secrets of Jesus's ministry. Please help us to
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  accept the truths that we will learn today and actually activate in those same key
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  areas so we can be as successful as Jesus was. In Jesus name,
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  I pray Amen and Amen again. Yeah, it occurred to me that while
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  I was praying that one or two of you may have cringed when I said
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  that we should be able to be as successful as Jesus was. It hit
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  me while it was coming out of my mouth that somebody somewhere in the world
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  is like, Ah, what do you mean that's sacrilegious, Like Jesus is
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  Jesus, And I'm like, yes, he's our creator. Bible says it
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  in John chapter one, Hebrews chapter one, and in other places like Jesus
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  created, He's the one who said let there be light, and there was
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  light. He's the one that formed us from the dust of the ground and
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  breathed into our nostrils the breath of life, and we became living beings like
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  he is that one. Thank God, blessed be his name. He's also
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  the one whose name will be called Emmanuel. That being interpreted God with us.
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  The with us part is very interesting because Jesus took on human form.
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  Jesus actually took on human form, so he had to eat, he had
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  to drink, he had to rest, he felt pain. Jesus gave his
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  life, so that means that his humanity died. I hope you heard that
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  detail. His humanity died on the cross to save us from our sins.
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  This is important because it was what Jesus did in his humanity that is our
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  example. What I mean by that is where Jesus was successful as a human
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  being, we can be successful as a human being. Where Jesus was relient
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  upon his father through the power of the Holy Spirit and took and accepted the
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  ministry of angels, we too can be reliant upon God, our Father,
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  have the ministry of the Holy ghosts and angels in order to help us get
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  through this human predicament. And so when Jesus was successful as a human unplanet
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  Earth, dependent upon heavenly powers that came from his father, came through the
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  Holy Ghost and the ministry of Angels. So can and must we mm hm,
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  an elder said to me. And we'll get into the text in a
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  moment. An elder said to me many many years ago, as I was
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  in training, he said, Dave, before we are reborn, Jesus is
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  our savior. And I'm listening. And I'm like, I'm listening keenly because
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  I'm on that Bible. I'm on that Bible study. Man, I promise
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  you. I'm like, okay, careful, elder, what you what you're
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  about to say now? And he said, uh, once we are born
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  again, he is our savior and our example. I need that to settle
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  in for just a moment. When we are reborn, we can actually live
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  like Jesus lived. But until then we accept the grace of God and we
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  receive salvation by faith, and then he can be our example. Before we
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  can't follow us if we can't follow his footsteps because we don't have the power,
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  don't have the power to do so. Okay, so let me just
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  go ahead and jump into the book of Mark chapter one, and I will
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  read beginning at verse thirty five. We've read this before, but now we're
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  going to emphasize, and the Bible reads. And in the morning, rising
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  up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary
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  place, and there he prayed. So this is Jesus's practice, okay,
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  verse thirty six. And Simon and they that were with him followed after him,
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  And when they had found him, they said, unto him, all
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  men seek for THEE. And he said, let us go into the next
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  towns, that I may preach there also. For therefore came I fourth,
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  and he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee and cast out devils. Can
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  you imagine what if Jesus had just jumped into his day like a lot of
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  us do, roll out of our beds some God forbid, are still messing
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  around with worldly practices and doing all kinds of unmentionable stuff in the evenings,
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  and then wake up halfway wake up in the morning and say, but no,
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  I need to do what God says do and then just kind of roll
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  out of bed and run into life like run into work, run into school,
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  run into a halfway bit of exercise, run into all kinds of things
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  and then try to be holy along the way. And God is saying,
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  no, Jesus, if he got up early in the morning when the quiet
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  was out there and only the nighttime bugs were still making their noises and it
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  was just him and God, if he did that, then what must we
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  do? Yeah? If Jesus who was one hundred percent holy one hundred percent
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  of the time, because number one, he chose to be in his humanity
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  to surrender his will to God, our father, Yes, what must we
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  do? Well? In Luke chapter six we see it again in verse twelve.
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  And it came to pass in those days that he went out into a
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  mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God. What must Jesus
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  have been facing that he thought it necessary to talk to God and listen to
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  him an entire night through. Yeah, you are going through your trials.
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  You are going through your tests, your tribulations. Your family is a mess.
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  Huh. Some of you tell the truths, not saying everybody, but
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  there are a good number of you whose families are a mess, and you're
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  trying to figure out where your next meal may be. Coming from if not
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  that dire, you're wondering if you can get to the end of the month,
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  or will the money run out before the month runs out. You're going
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  through some mental health challenges that you can't seem to overcome. You're going through
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  some physical health challenges that you can't seem to overcome. You are in despair,
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  and you're wondering, well, why God did you bring me here at
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  almost eight minutes after the hour to listen to this dude, I've never heard
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  of him before? Why am I here? Because God is giving us all
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  a lesson this morning that the secret to Jesus's success in ministry was connection with
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  God, his Father on an ongoing and regular and intentional basis. Ongoing,
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  regular, intentional basis, and so we can learn from this a few lessons.
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  Number One, prioritize early morning prayer. Don't wait until your day is
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  already rolling to start your prayer life now. Of course, throughout the day,
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  we continue to pray, and we give God thanks, we ask him
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  for his guidance, we listen for his voice throughout the day. Yes,
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  but we need to dedicate a time that's unique, that's different than what I
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  just described and listen for God's voice, ask him what he would have us
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  to do. Number two, seek solitude, for deep connection where there are
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  no distractions. Find a room, find a place outside, find your vehicle
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  somewhere where no one will disturb you. And then, of course we want
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  you to be consistent. I need to be consistent. Jesus was consistent.
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  Consistently pray. Bible says, pray without ceasing. So live in an attitude
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  and a lifestyle of consistent prayer. Pray before number four, Pray before you
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  make major decisions. And then the trick is and I shouldn't have said trick.
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  The secret is that the kind of connection we get with God through prayer
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  empowers us in ministry. Make it a great day. Thanks for joining us
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  listening. 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,