Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
morning. It is Thursday, October twenty six, twenty twenty three. Hello,
my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's
Mission, My mission, and our caption for today is submission to God's Will.
How many ways can we say the word mission, submission to God's Will.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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and then also click the notification bell. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day and for getting us so far into our week. Father,
I pray that you will teach us how to submit to you. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, so submission to
God's will, that's a big deal. Can I just say that I'm understating
it by saying that's a big deal. There are so few people in the
world who readily submit to God. Can I say that again? There are
so few people in the world who readily submit to God because we are naturally
proud, We're naturally wired as we come out of the womb to feel like
we have it all under control. This is why we sin like we only
sin because we feel like we got it under control and we don't need God.
Yeah, and I'm like, well, some people are saying, but
come on, Dave, I'm not thinking that. When I'm sinning, I'm
not thinking I have it all under control. I don't need God. Well,
why do we commit sins? Then? Why do we do what we
know is wrong? And no leads to eternal separation from God, except that
in the moment, we allow our feelings, our emotions, We allow whatever
it is that drives us, our lusts to tell us to go the wrong
way. We listen to the enemy's voice and our own inclinations. And so
submission is a great, big deal. And the first thing that comes to
my mind where Abraham is concerned is everywhere he went, he erected an altar
to God. Everywhere Abraham went, he erected an altar to God. That
means that Abraham was a worshiper. If you read in the Book of Romans,
chapter one, verses eighteen through to the end, you will see what
happens when we lose focus and cease worshiping God as he deserves. Yeah,
and so Abraham giving us this example his encouragement to me, because that means
when I am at work, even though my work is right here in this
same spot, most of the time. Sometimes it's, you know, traveling
to where somebody is, but more time is right here? Do I have
an it to God? Am I a worshiper when I go to the gym,
which I will do in of about two and a half hours. Am
I erecting an altar in my mind and my space in the way that I
behave to God? And how I interact with people when I'm at church?
Am I actually a worshiper where I've erected an altar unto God? So when
I'm there, I'm not just sitting and listening or sitting and robotically participating.
But am I actually worshiping God? Have I erected an altar in my family
space? You understand where we're going with this. Yeah, So let's go
to the Book of Genesis, chapter twelve, beginning at verse one, and
the Bible reads, and the Lord said, unto Abram, get THEE out
of thy country and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto
the land, that I will show THEE, and I will make of THEE
a great nation. And I will bless THEE and make thy name great,
And thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless THEE,
and curse him that curseth THEE. And in THEE shall all the families
of the earth be blessed. Do you know why God could do that?
Because God is all powerful, Blessed be his name. It is because he
knew that Abraham would submit his will to God. He knew that wherever he
would go, because he said, leave your country and your people, and
go to where I'm going to show you. He didn't even show Abraham where
he was going. He didn't even say, this is your location, this
is where you're going to go, This is how I'm going to bless you.
These are the trials that you will escape. These are the things that
you won't have to worry about. He said, go, And he didn't
even mention whether he was going to encounter trials and tribulations. He didn't even
mention the ways in which he would bless him. He didn't mention the trials
that were on the horizon. He said go, and Abram went, and
he said, I will bless you. I will bless all of the nations
of the world through you. What a monumental blessing. And all of that
is because of submission to God's will. You're like David, you said that
already. Yeah. Well. In the Book of Galatians, chapter three,
the Bible says that those who are baptized into Christ are Abraham's seed, So
we're like descendants spiritually speaking of Abraham. And then he says and heirs according
to the promise, So we inherit the eternal reward that God promised Abraham when
we have the same brand, the same type of faith that Abraham had.
Do you see where this is going? And the Bible continues in verse four
of Genesis chapter twelve. And Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him,
that's another submission. Move and went with him. And Abram was seventy
and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai,
his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance
that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran.
And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, thank God.
And into the land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land
unto the place of Psychem, unto the plain of Maur, and the Canaan
Knight was then in the land you see later on in the journey of God's
people we call them Hebrews at the time Israelites, the Israelite people right born
as God's people, if you want to say. They were to be circumcised
in the heart to love the Lord, their God. And God set his
stamp and seal upon them, and he said that I have given you this
Sabbath, this Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath, so that you may know
that I am the Lord, right, that I am the one that's sanctifies
you. And so these people eventually were to inherit the literal land of Canaan.
Not so early here that God is showing Abram, but later on.
But the people, the Canaanites were there, and all of the other Iites
and Kites, the other people who were not worshipers of God, not just
that they were not worshippers, but they were rejectors of God. And so
Abram is getting a foretaste of the land that God is going to give to
that second generation of freed slaves who came out of Egypt. Later on,
and the Lord verse seven appeared unto Abram and said unto thy seed, will
I give this land? You see where we're going. That's what I was
talking about. And there what did he do? The Bible says he built
an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence
unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having
Bethel on the west and hey I on the east. And there he builded
an altar. You see he did what he did. He built an altar
again unto the Lord. And the Lord called upon and called upon the name
of the Lord, Verse nine and final. And Abram journeyed, going on
still toward the south. Do you think that everywhere that Abram went he built
an altar? Well, I said it in the beginning. Everywhere Abram went,
he built an altar. And so the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was
on the horizon, but not before God positioned his people so that they could
hear the message and follow God's with peaks. Thanks for joining us listening,
friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,