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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 Wednesday, June nineteenth,
twenty twenty four. 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

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series the Great Controversy. Our

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caption for today is the Early and
Latter Rain. The Early and Latter Rain.

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Will get it to that in just
a moment, But first I like

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continue to grow together. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will

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get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us this new day

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and for the opportunity that you have
entrusted to us to open your word.

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Please give us the fullness of your
Holy spirit. Teach us to love you

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and to serve you with everything we
have and everything that we are. I

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pray God now that you will give
us understanding, Give us the early rain,

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give us the latter rain. In
Jesus' name. I pray, Amen

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and Amen again, the early and
latter rain. Now, of course,

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there is so much that we could
say concerning the early and latter rain from

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the Bible perspective and from an agricultural
perspective. If that's the best way of

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saying it, let me just say
that sometimes we look at things historically and

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don't really learn to apply them for
us. Now, so we know that

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when you're planting and harvesting, there
are two rains or times of rain,

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or as we say here in Jamaica
rainy season, and one is preparatory and

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one gets us to the point where
it's time for harvest, right, okay,

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good? And so in the Bible, the early rain was I would

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say about the beginning of the Christian
era, if you want to call it

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Christian. And God did something very
special and began to add to his new

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body of believers in a miraculous way
based on what we saw during the time

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of the Day of Pentecost, after
Jesus was resurrected, okay, and so

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the church grew by leaps and bounds. And ever since we have been hopefully

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depending on the perspective that each of
us has. Hopefully, we've been doing

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what God has said that we should
do, and through multiple eras until now

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we His children are awaiting the second
coming of Jesus Christ, the harvest okay.

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And so as we await the harvest, the latter reigns must come that

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power from the Holy Spirit that prepares
us to be harvested, prepares us to

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assist others who are not yet fully
connected to God and then get them to

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the point of harvest. All of
this is happening as we await the coming

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of Christ. We need a special
unctionist. Some of the old timers used

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to say, a special burst of
power from God in order to make it

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through these last days. Okay,
And I'm thankful because in the same way

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that God gave the power of the
Holy Ghost to the early believers in order

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to communicate his message effectively, even
to the point that people who did not

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understand every language of the world but
their own language alone, Peter was able

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to preach to all of the languages
and cultures represented there without the benefit of

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a translator. You see, God
stopped at nothing to lead his people to

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him under the Early Reign. And
so in the last days do we expect

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that God is going to do less? We expect that God is going to

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limit his power or to expand his
power, and of course to expand his

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power. Now, if you were
to look at the Early reign and the

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latter reign as part of a continuum
or part of a journey that we take

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as believers, then I would say, tomorrow, if Lord bless you,

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you're making a commitment to God.
May not have made a commitment to God,

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and under the power of the Holy
Spirit you choose to serve him we

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can call that conversion story the early
Rain, the beginning of your experience with

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God in twenty twenty four, the
early Rain experience that says, I am

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hearing God's voice. He is opening
up my heart so I can learn to

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serve him and yes, learn to
confess and repent, learn to yield my

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will to him, so I can
be of service to other people, right

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victory over things that used to bind
me right or enslave me. And so

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we would call that an early rain
experience. And then the latter rain experience,

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of course, is as we grow. As we grow, we receive

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more and more power from the Holy
Spirit, and we get to the point

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where our characters begin and continue to
match the character of Jesus. You're like,

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what is that possible? Absolutely,
there are people who will be alive

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before Jesus returns that aren't his children, who will live in the sight or

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the presence of a holy God without
a mediator. And so God is giving

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us the power to live holy lives
fully, fully, and I'm so thankful.

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And so what I want to do
now is, since I've given that

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quick or brief overview, I want
to go into the Bible right now,

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into the Book of Acts, chapter
one and verse fourteen, where the Bible

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reads all these all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication with women and

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Mary and the Mother of Jesus with
his brethren. And so prayer, prayer

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ignites an experience with God, ignites
for those who have begun to fall asleep

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at the wheel spiritually, it ignites
revival. Yes, it ignites an experience

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with God that says, you know, status quo or the way that we

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used to do it is just not
enough, okay. And so during that

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same experience we see in the Book
of Acts, chapter two and verse four,

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and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost and began to speak with

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other tongues, as I mentioned earlier, as the spirit gave them utterance.

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And so we are looking in such
a way that we are open to the

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power of the Holy Ghost. Yes, whatever it is that God wants to

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do, if he wants to give
you certain gifts in order to accomplish his

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will to communicate the gospel better in
these last days than be open to this.

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Following God's instructions, He told those
people during the early rain times that

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he was going to do so thing
special if they came together in one place

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on one accord, putting their differences
away and praying and waiting or tarrying as

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some would say, and then he
would do something very special, and they

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did. And therefore we expect great
things from God. Let's read from Zechariah,

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chapter ten and verse one, and
the Bible reads, ask ye of

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the Lord rain in the time of
the latter rain, so the Lord shall

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make bright clouds and give them showers
of rain to everyone grass in the field.

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There are people right now that are
not expecting anything from God. But

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we, if we are His children, are saying God, the lands of

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people's lives are dry, the bones
of people are dry. People are not

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really connecting with you, and we
need special power right now in order to

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assist them. We need special power
even in our own lives to deal with

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the trials that are right in front
of us. And God is saying that

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if you ask for this rain,
that he will give it to you.

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I remember reading a quote in the
book Evangelism, pages six sixteen and sixty

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seventeen where it says the power of
God or the Holy Spirit is looked to

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as in the future, but we
are to have it now. Ask for

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it, seek for it, we
must have it, and God is willing

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to give it. That is the
rain of the Holy Spirit. And so

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we give God thanks for that.
And as that is the reality, we

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are unified in the last days through
the power of the Holy Spirit until Jesus

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comes. Until then, follow us, guide us peacet 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,