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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 Thursday, November thirty,
twenty twenty three. Hello, my name

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is El 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 exception.

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We are continuing in our Lesson study
series. God's Mission, My Mission.

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Our caption for today is Mission to
the Powerful, Mission to the Powerful.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you
to go over to your Daily Portion dot

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com, join our online community click
and let me know in that space where

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you are in the world, and
also also pick up the Your Daily Portion

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book at your Daily Portion dot com. This is how we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get

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underway. Batherin Heaven, thank you
for giving us the privilege that you have

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entrusted to us to open your word
again. Please teach us how to be

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influential to influential people. For your
glory. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and amen again. Mission to
the powerful. We did speak about

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mission to those who had a lot
of money, right, rich people or

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wealthy people. And sometimes there are
those who are powerful who are not as

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wealthy. They may be wealthy and
powerful or just powerful. I don't need

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to go into that. I think
you understand that already. I want to

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read a quote that I will read
likely again tomorrow, but I want to

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do it now. Nonetheless, it
is from the book The Ministry of Healing,

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page two hundred and ten, just
to get our discussion started, and

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it reads much is said concerning our
duty to the neglected pore should not some

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attention be given to the neglected rich? Many look upon this class as hopeless.

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Can I just pause right there?
It is unfortunate that people have stigmatized

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individuals with means. It is unfortunate
that people have stigmatized people who don't have

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means, but the reality is that
has happened, and so we need to

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be able to adjust and focus our
energy to reach as many people as possible,

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regardless of socioeconomic status. But if
you are people who are called and

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chosen to reach those who are powerful, affluent, or rich or wealthy,

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then please do, please do what
God has said. Let me continue the

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quote. Thousands of wealthy people have
gone to their graves unwarned, but in

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difference and different as they may appear. And I just want to say appear

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many among the rich are sole burden. And that's the end of the quote.

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Can I just say that we are
more alike than we are different.

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We are human beings. All of
us have certain needs. I think about

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because of my background, I think
about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and really

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the extended one. There is one
with ten points rather than the fewer.

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Right, So all of us have
certain needs. We have physiological needs,

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we have needs where relationships are concerned. We needs, we have needs to

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belong. We have needs for transcendence, and for the believer, transcendence is

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to connect with God who is more
powerful than us, something outside of ourselves,

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that's what they say. But we
have a need to connect with our

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creator, with our origin, with
our roots. And therefore, therefore,

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since we are more alike than we
are different, that means that all of

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us have needs and they're similar.
They just may look a little bit different

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depending on our social or social economic
status. But we're focusing again on the

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powerful today. Let me begin by
reading in James chapter one and verse five.

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We have to super simplify this.
If any of you lack wisdom,

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let them ask of God that give
it to all people. Live bally and

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a pray doeth not, which means
he does not hold back, and it

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shall be given him. It shall
be given. If you need wisdom,

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Lord, how do I reach the
people who are powerful in our community?

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Community, activists, politicians, those
who are business owners, successful business owners,

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and so many other people of influence. How do I do that?

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Just pray for wisdom, Pray for
insight and opportunity. Can I just pause

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right here? Pray for insight and
opportunity. One of the things that God

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has done in my life. And
it's weird to me, and I say

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to me because I'm a human.
I don't understand and much of anything where

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spirituality is concerned. But God is
showing me stuff. Right. But for

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many, many years, God has
positioned me to be of influence and impact

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to people that don't come from where
I come. I'm from people who are

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affluent, people who are powerful,
And I'm like, Lord, how does

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this happen? He hasn't ever told
me. But the fact is He does

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situate me in that way. So
what do I do? I have to

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ask God? What is the wisdom
here? How do I connect you and

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them? How do I help them
to excel and to succeed in whatever area

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of life that they happen to be
and to connect with you and I again,

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I don't know why he does that, but he does. And what

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do I do? I ask him? And then in some short period of

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time, shoot, I'm gone and
on to the next one. It's amazing

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when God wants to use you to
do certain things, you just don't try

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to figure it out, just ask
him for wisdom. Here's the other one

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from Philippians, chapter two and verse
three. The Bible reads, let nothing

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be done through strife or vain glory. So God wants us to what be

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peacemakers. Yes, he also wants
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in lowliness of mind, let each
esteem other better than themselves. What God

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wants us to do in this context
is to do what develop genuine care.

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Develop genuine care, seek the best
for and in all people, and in

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this case even the powerful. Do
not stigmatize them. Do not say because

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you are an actor in Hollywood or
Bollywood, as the case may be,

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right, don't say because you are
in this particular affluent position, then there's

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no hope for you, because after
all, people who are in those arenas

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are always no, no, no, no, God says, seek wisdom

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from Me, and also and opportunities
to be of service, but also also

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develop genuine care. They have families, they have needs, they have health

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like right, they have minds just
like you do, and so God wants

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to use us in that way.
Let's go to First Timothy, chapter two

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and verse one, and the Bible
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supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks be made for all people.

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Keep a prayer list. Yeah,
that's the simplicity of it. Keep

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a list of influential people who don't
know God for daily prayer asking God to

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work in their lives. Keep a
prayer list. There are people that you

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know or you may not know.
You may be watching them on the television

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for all I know, you may
be seeing them in your community organizedations and

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you just don't know them personally.
And you can simply pray and say,

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God, will you please deliver these
people? Will you deliver your son,

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deliver your daughter from sin? Will
you show them how to live holy lives?

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Can you give them victory over the
things that beset them? Can you

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give them strength when they are sad? You understand? And then, of

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course personal contact from Proverbs chapter eighteen
and verse twenty four. A man that

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hath friends must show himself friendly.
And there is a friend that stickth closer

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than a brother. Yeah, personal
contact. Aim to be friendly, even

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if you're an introvert. Good.
Have a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks

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for joining us listening to friends.
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,