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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 Friday, December
one, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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

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

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

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my mission, and our caption for
today is just, minister, don't

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make it complicated. Just minister,
make it complicated. We'll get into that

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in just a moment, but first
i'd like to say welcome to you and

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happy preparation day. Please please go
over if you've not already done so to

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your Daily Portion dot com, join
our online community. Pick up your Daily

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Portion book and also click into the
little box the form that says where are

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you in the world? Type in
there, let me know where you are

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in the world, and that way
I can continue to build like a map.

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Josiah and I have a habit of
looking at where you are. And

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really some of your names are very
interesting to us, considering some of our

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cultures are different than yours, and
it just helps me to build faith and

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fellowship with you. In another way, I'm like, why do you care,

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Dave, Well, I don't know. I've always been obsessed by culture

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and different languages and that kind of
a thing, and this just gives me

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another opportunity to see how God is
spreading his word throughout the world. All

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right, so let's go ahead and
pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for
giving us this privilege to come to

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you and to learn from your word
on this preparation day. Please open up

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our minds and understanding, keep us
to simply minister in the power of the

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Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name,
I pray a men and a man again.

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Yeah, so some people might be
saying, well, that's easy for

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you to say, Just minister,
what does that even mean. The fact

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is, brothers and sisters, that
we do not have the capacity to do

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anything good on our own. No
growth, no power, no leading people

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to Jesus can be effective if we
don't have the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

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For us, we need the Holy
Spirit. They're people who do what

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looks like a good job at certain
things that look like ministry, right,

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giving food to the poor and serving
those who are it's enfranchised, right,

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people who are in the prison system
and other people. Right. Ah,

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but if God has not given you
given me the Holy Spirit, and really

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the only barrier to receiving the Holy
Spirit is submission to God's will. We

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submit to him and he gives us
the Holy Spirit. Yeah, I'm leaving

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some things out, but that's really
what it boils down to. Yeah.

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So there are things that we can
do that look good, but their effectiveness

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will be limited if we don't have
His Holy Spirit. If you are able

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to reach one hundred million people,
I'm giving some strange and hyperbolic example,

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yes, but if you're able to
reach one hundred thousand people without the Holy

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Spirit, or at least it looks
like that, I said, looks like

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that, then imagine if your will
is submitted to God's will. Imagine if

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you do what we said yesterday and
to ask God for wisdom and opportunities to

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reach other people for the kingdom.
Imagine if we would cooperate with God,

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how effective what we do would be. There is a lot of time we

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would not have wasted. There is
a lot of money we would not have

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wasted. There are arguments in long
meetings that we would not have had if

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we simply asked God, what would
you have us do? And please show

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us the opportunity. Now, I
promised you I would read this passage from

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the Ministry of Healing again today.
Let me go ahead and do it,

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from page two hundred and ten,
and it reads, is much is said

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concerning our duty to the neglected poor, should not some attention be given to

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the neglected rich? Many look upon
this class as hopeless. And I find

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that unfortunate brothers and sisters do not
mistake some of the things that God has

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said about rich and wealthy people as
a condemnation. That's insane, Like if

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that were true, that is insane. No. In fact, in Deuteronomy

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chapter eighteen, you see for the
first fourteen verses, God promises prosperity to

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his people. Did I say what
chapter? Did I say? I should

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have said twenty eight? I don't
know what I just said. Deuteronomy,

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Chapter twenty eight. The first fourteen
verses show that God is not only interested

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in but he has promised that he
would bless his people if we would keep

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his commandments, his statutes, and
his judgments. And then the remaining passages

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show us or versus show us what
happens when we turn our backs on him.

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So we should not stigmatize people who
are powerful, or affluent, or

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prosperous in whatever way. We should
know that they are people that God loves

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right and has given Jesus Christ his
son in order to save, just like

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everybody else. Okay, thousands of
wealthy people have gone to their grips raids

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unwarned, but in different as some
of them may appear. Many among the

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rich are sole burden. That's the
end of the quote. That means that

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they have needs just like you have
needs. They are sad when they lose

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spouses or when people they love have
passed away. Right, they are sad

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and need someone to pray for them
when they haven't reached the level of success

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that they had hoped, and you
could be looking at them and say,

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well, what more do you need? But in their sphere of influence,

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their sphere of success, then they
are pursuing even more success. And maybe

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it's not working out. They're not
attached to the right community, right.

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They've bumped their heads on the glass
ceiling, and some who've broken through the

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ceiling find that there is cement just
above that, and they're not able to

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get to what they consider to be
their full full potent. And so all

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humans have more in common than we
have indifferences. Yeah, and so they

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appear that everything they have is going
on. They got it going on.

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So I'm a peer like they don't
need nothing, but all of us,

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all of them, many of them, i should say, are soul burdened.

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All of us are human and can
be subject to that burden of soul.

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Right, And so please, please, please, do not stigmatize people

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who are of a certain socio economic
class, just minister, don't make it

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complicated. Don't make it complicated.
So again, I'm going to read a

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few passages of scripture that will make
sense right right here. Let me read

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from Let's go with James, Chapter
two, verses one through nine. Just

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I'm going to summarize some of those. Right, my brethren, have not

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the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory, respect of

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persons. I want you to read
all nine verses, but don't do it

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with respect of persons. Don't give, don't give deference to some people and

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disdain to others. Reflect on spiritual
equality. All of us were created by

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the same God. All of us
are, and Jesus died for all human

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beings, every nation, kindred tongue, tribe, people, every class,

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strata, or whatever other artificial measure
that people have placed upon other humans.

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Jesus died for all of us.
And let me just run through a few

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more pointers. Pray for insight.
We did talk about this yesterday, asking

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God for wisdom wisdom to do his
will. We touched this also yesterday.

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Cultivate genuine relationships. Embrace what Luke
chapter nineteen, verses five and six says,

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where it says, make haste as
Jesus was in having an encounter with

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Zachias. Come down for I.
For today, I must abide with THEE

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and thy house. So strive to
build connections like be in the space and

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community environment atmosphere with people, no
matter what the class is. Yes,

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share testimonies, conduct Bible studies where
that is appropriate, and volunteer to invite

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yourself into community situations and services where
you can rub shoulders with these same people.

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Make ministry simple. Thanks for joining
us, listening to friends. Always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,