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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

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morning. It is Thursday, October
twenty six, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in our Lesson study series. God's

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Mission, My mission, and our
caption for today is submission to God's Will.

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How many ways can we say the
word mission, submission to God's Will.

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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
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and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new day and for getting
us so far into our week. Father,

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I pray that you will teach us
how to submit to you. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
Amen again. Okay, so submission to

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God's will, that's a big deal. Can I just say that I'm understating

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it by saying that's a big deal. There are so few people in the

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world who readily submit to God.
Can I say that again? There are

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so few people in the world who
readily submit to God because we are naturally

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proud, We're naturally wired as we
come out of the womb to feel like

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we have it all under control.
This is why we sin like we only

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sin because we feel like we got
it under control and we don't need God.

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Yeah, and I'm like, well, some people are saying, but

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come on, Dave, I'm not
thinking that. When I'm sinning, I'm

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not thinking I have it all under
control. I don't need God. Well,

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why do we commit sins? Then? Why do we do what we

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know is wrong? And no leads
to eternal separation from God, except that

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in the moment, we allow our
feelings, our emotions, We allow whatever

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it is that drives us, our
lusts to tell us to go the wrong

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way. We listen to the enemy's
voice and our own inclinations. And so

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submission is a great, big deal. And the first thing that comes to

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my mind where Abraham is concerned is
everywhere he went, he erected an altar

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to God. Everywhere Abraham went,
he erected an altar to God. That

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means that Abraham was a worshiper.
If you read in the Book of Romans,

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chapter one, verses eighteen through to
the end, you will see what

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happens when we lose focus and cease
worshiping God as he deserves. Yeah,

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and so Abraham giving us this example
his encouragement to me, because that means

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when I am at work, even
though my work is right here in this

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same spot, most of the time. Sometimes it's, you know, traveling

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to where somebody is, but more
time is right here? Do I have

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an it to God? Am I
a worshiper when I go to the gym,

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which I will do in of about
two and a half hours. Am

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I erecting an altar in my mind
and my space in the way that I

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behave to God? And how I
interact with people when I'm at church?

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Am I actually a worshiper where I've
erected an altar unto God? So when

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I'm there, I'm not just sitting
and listening or sitting and robotically participating.

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But am I actually worshiping God?
Have I erected an altar in my family

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space? You understand where we're going
with this. Yeah, So let's go

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to the Book of Genesis, chapter
twelve, beginning at verse one, and

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the Bible reads, and the Lord
said, unto Abram, get THEE out

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of thy country and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto

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the land, that I will show
THEE, and I will make of THEE

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a great nation. And I will
bless THEE and make thy name great,

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And thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will bless them that bless THEE,

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and curse him that curseth THEE.
And in THEE shall all the families

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of the earth be blessed. Do
you know why God could do that?

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Because God is all powerful, Blessed
be his name. It is because he

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knew that Abraham would submit his will
to God. He knew that wherever he

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would go, because he said,
leave your country and your people, and

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go to where I'm going to show
you. He didn't even show Abraham where

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he was going. He didn't even
say, this is your location, this

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is where you're going to go,
This is how I'm going to bless you.

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These are the trials that you will
escape. These are the things that

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you won't have to worry about.
He said, go, And he didn't

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even mention whether he was going to
encounter trials and tribulations. He didn't even

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mention the ways in which he would
bless him. He didn't mention the trials

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that were on the horizon. He
said go, and Abram went, and

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he said, I will bless you. I will bless all of the nations

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of the world through you. What
a monumental blessing. And all of that

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is because of submission to God's will. You're like David, you said that

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already. Yeah. Well. In
the Book of Galatians, chapter three,

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the Bible says that those who are
baptized into Christ are Abraham's seed, So

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we're like descendants spiritually speaking of Abraham. And then he says and heirs according

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to the promise, So we inherit
the eternal reward that God promised Abraham when

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we have the same brand, the
same type of faith that Abraham had.

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Do you see where this is going? And the Bible continues in verse four

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of Genesis chapter twelve. And Abram
departed as the Lord had spoken unto him,

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that's another submission. Move and went
with him. And Abram was seventy

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and five years old when he departed
out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai,

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his wife, and Lot, his
brother's son, and all their substance

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that they had gathered, and the
souls that they had gotten in Haran.

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And they went forth to go into
the land of Canaan, thank God.

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And into the land of Canaan they
came. And Abram passed through the land

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unto the place of Psychem, unto
the plain of Maur, and the Canaan

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Knight was then in the land you
see later on in the journey of God's

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people we call them Hebrews at the
time Israelites, the Israelite people right born

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as God's people, if you want
to say. They were to be circumcised

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in the heart to love the Lord, their God. And God set his

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stamp and seal upon them, and
he said that I have given you this

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Sabbath, this Sabbath, the seventh
day Sabbath, so that you may know

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that I am the Lord, right, that I am the one that's sanctifies

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you. And so these people eventually
were to inherit the literal land of Canaan.

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Not so early here that God is
showing Abram, but later on.

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But the people, the Canaanites were
there, and all of the other Iites

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and Kites, the other people who
were not worshipers of God, not just

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that they were not worshippers, but
they were rejectors of God. And so

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Abram is getting a foretaste of the
land that God is going to give to

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that second generation of freed slaves who
came out of Egypt. Later on,

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and the Lord verse seven appeared unto
Abram and said unto thy seed, will

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I give this land? You see
where we're going. That's what I was

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talking about. And there what did
he do? The Bible says he built

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an altar unto the Lord who appeared
unto him. And he removed from thence

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unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, having

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Bethel on the west and hey I
on the east. And there he builded

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an altar. You see he did
what he did. He built an altar

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again unto the Lord. And the
Lord called upon and called upon the name

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of the Lord, Verse nine and
final. And Abram journeyed, going on

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still toward the south. Do you
think that everywhere that Abram went he built

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an altar? Well, I said
it in the beginning. Everywhere Abram went,

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he built an altar. And so
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was

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on the horizon, but not before
God positioned his people so that they could

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hear the message and follow God's with
peaks. Thanks for joining us listening,

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friends, Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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el David Harris, make it a
great day. Yeah,