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07 14 2024 Healing a Paralytic · 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 Sunday, July fourteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name Iszelle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
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  and our caption for today is healing a Paralytic. I gave you a
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  quick bite in that yesterday, Healing the paralytic into that in just a moment.
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  But first I like to say welcome to you, Welcome to the new
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  work week. Like welcome to everybody joining us, especially those joining us for
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  the very first time. I'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portioned
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  book, and also let us know where you are in the world at your
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  Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
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  this opportunity to open up your word. I'm asking you to please fill us
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  with your holy spirit, fill us with your mindset to do your will.
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  Help us to see the blessings that you bring to us, and be amazed
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  but not surprised. Teach us to accept you in all things. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Healing the paralytic. So yesterday
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  when we were talking about controversies and the fact that some people are just you
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  know, rude and can tankeer us like love arguments and are not really they're
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  not about that, you know, living for God life like, Yeah,
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  there were controversies even in Jesus healing a man who needed to be healed,
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  and he was answering the call of faith, the call of faith upon his
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  power. He was dealing with that and yeah, there were some people in
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  the congregation. There were people in the crowd that decided that Jesus was not
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  worthy to do that. Okay, And so we're going to jump right into
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  the story and from the Bible Book of Mark, chapter two, and I
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  will read beginning at verse one. Okay, the Bible Book of Mark,
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  chapter two, and I will read beginning at verse one, and the Bible
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  reads and again he entered into Capernaum after some days, and it was noised
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  that he was in the house. So this is the first thing I want
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  to identify here, is that because Jesus was such a prominent figure. And
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  you say prominent figure, that sounds like some fame stuff, that sounds like
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  some political stuff. Nope, that's not what I mean. He was prominent.
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  He was a prominent figure because he did so much good. Everywhere he
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  went, people were healed whenever he was present. People were delivered from sin
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  when he was present. So he was that kind of prominent figure. People's
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  mindsets were broken open and the captive nature of their mindset was set free,
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  you see. And so now people knew where he was. So he's in
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  the house, and so everybody's like, whoa let's get there, And the
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  Bible continues verse two and straightway. Many were gathered together insomuch that there was
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  no room to receive them. No, not so much as even at the
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  door. You see, they didn't have fire marshals. They didn't have some
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  kind of regulation that said this place is too full. This band, everybody
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  move dispersed like, nothing like that. It was just it was ram pack.
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  Like how we would say, here was ram The place did rum And
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  the Bible says they couldn't even come in at the door, and he preached
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  the word unto them. May I just say for those of you who are
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  on social media and on YouTube, if you're on the radio like I am,
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  on television like I am, like, if you're you have an audience,
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  make sure that when your audience is a big old audience or a tiny
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  little audience, if it's a big old audience, make sure whatever it is
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  that you're giving people is leading them to life. Let your words, your
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  actions, your intonations, the people that you bring on as guests like,
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  let that stuff be life giving. This is what Jesus did with his influence.
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  There are people who are influential. There are people out here called influencers,
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  and some of the stuff that people are doing with all of that influence,
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  it's terrible, and that is an understatement. So Jesus, with all
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  of his power and influence, he was preaching the word to them, and
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  they came to him bringing one sick of the palsy. This dude was paralyzed,
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  y'all, and he was born afore. So he had four good friends
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  that carried him because he couldn't carry himself. Are are you one of four
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  good friends that will carry somebody when they're not able to carry themselves? I
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  need to ask you that, like, are you one of a few friends
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  that people can count on and say, I need prayer, I have some
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  other felt needs. I have something here. It's a physical, actual physical
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  need. Like the dude couldn't move from one place to another without his friends.
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  Are you one of those friends? Do you have a friend like this?
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  The Bible continues in verse four. And when they could not come nigh
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  unto him for the press we already said it was full, they uncovered the
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  roof where he was. So the Bible is teaching us that they had to
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  be innovative, they had to become demanding, They had to become dissatisfied with
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  any barrier that was in the way potentially of this man's deliverance. You need
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  brothers and sisters. I need to become dissatisfied with anything that stands in the
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  way and then not be willing to allow anything to stand in the way of
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  other people's deliverance. So, wherever you happen to be, if you need
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  to advocate, if you need to press, you need to blow through a
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  door, like if you need to call a congress person, if you're in
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  the United States, like call your Minister of Parliament here in Jamaica, Like
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  I don't know what you need to do. Whatever it is necessary to do
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  in order to get the best for someone else, it's time to do it.
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  And the Bible says they uncovered the roof where he was, they had
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  broken it up, and they let him down, let the bed down.
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  We're in the sick of the palsy lay verse five. And when Jesus saw
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  their fare, Can I just repeat that again? Repeat that again? That
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  was redundant? May I just repeat that? Okay? When he saw their
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  faith? Do you realize that to God, faith, real faith is irresistible
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  to him? Real faith is irresistible to God. And so when those five
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  men's faith stepped up into the place, I know the man was paralyzed.
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  But you hear what I'm saying. When all of that faith came into the
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  space where Jesus was, and it called upon the power of God to deliver
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  this brother. When he saw their faith, Jesus did what he only thing
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  he could have done. And I'm not saying he was manipulated by someone else,
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  but he said, if you have faith the size of the seed of
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  mustard seed, then you will You can say to this mountain, be thou
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  removed, and it will be done unto you. He said, you could.
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  You could tell this mountain to lift up from here and go to yonder
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  place, and it shall be done unto you. And so that's what they
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  did. They came into his presence with that kind of faith. And so
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  he saw the sick of the palsy, and he said, unto him,
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  son, thy sins be forgiven thee. And of course there were some haters
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  in the room. There were some haters in the room in the presence of
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  God. There were haters in the congregation of believers. There were haters.
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  I said, in the presence of God and the congregation of believers in the
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  press of people who were there to be delivered to listen to the words of
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  God and be transformed. They were haters in the room. And these haters
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  were supposed to be on God's team. Like these were supposed to be the
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  religious leaders of the day. They were supposed to be the people who would
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  help people get free from everything that was in their way to get to God.
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  But they said, well, who can forgive sins but God? Who
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  is this man who thus speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins? But God
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  only? And listen to how Jesus dealt with them. You know what he
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  said. He said, whether is it easier to say, to the sick
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  of the palsy son, thy sins be forgiven thee that was his chief need
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  by the way he could have lived or died after that, But or to
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  take up your bed and walk? But that ye may know that the Son
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  of Man hath power on earth. In this very moment he's teaching us.
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  I say unto you to forgive sins. I say unto you, take up
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  your bed and walk. And immediately, the Bible says he took up his
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  bed and he walked the people who were amazed. Why because Jesus healed and
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  delivered the man. He's here to heal and deliver. You. Make it
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  a great day. Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,