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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 Sunday, July seven,
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 through the Book of Mark,

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and our caption for today is follow
me. I was writing my notes

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right up to the point where it
was my time to come in here.

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Follow me. I can't wait.
Before we get into this, I'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask
you to please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our
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Portion book and let us know where
you are in the world at your daily

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portion dot com. This is a
way that we continue to build faith and

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

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Father and Heaven. Thank you for
this new day and for the privilege that

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we have to open your word.
And I'm asking you to please fill us

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with your holy spirit. Please teach
us how to love and to serve you,

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teach us to follow you. As
soon as we hear your voice in

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and amen again. Follow me. Oh,

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let's go ahead and begin with this
question. Have you left all?

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I'm not talking about the people in
the Bible. I'm not talking about people

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in the whole body of believers as
a collective. I'm talking about you.

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Like your name here, David,
that's my name. Have you followed Jesus?

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Have you left all to follow Jesus? Pardon me? That's a question

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now. I need to be answering
that within me. Am I still following

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myself? Am I still following the
way that I lived before God called me?

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Am I following other people? Am
I following some incredible leader that I

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found on the internet? My following
people that I may have heard or read

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a book. For am I following
just some little voice in my brain.

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That is a question that we need
to be asking and answering with the power

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of God in our minds. Okay, so we're going to Mark chapter one,

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and we're going to see something amazing
when Jesus calls these men to follow

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him. How it happened and see
if we can learn some lessons here.

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And so in the Bible Book of
Mark chapter one, we will read beginning

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at verse sixteen, and the Bible
reads, now as he walked by the

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sea of Galilee, so we know
where he is geographically and physically. He's

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on the seaside. He's walking on
the seaside, and he saw Simon and

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Andrew his brother, casting a net
into the sea. Well, why would

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these men be casting a net into
the sea. A great big shout out

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to people who live in seaside type
areas or if you live on an island

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where you understand this kind of scenario, like you can see it in your

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mind in living color. Yes,
so he's there, he sees these men

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they are casting their nets into the
sea. Why because they are fishers.

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So now we know that these men
are professional fishermen Verse seventeen, and Jesus

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said unto them, come ye after
me, and I will make you to

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become fishers of men. Now this
is very peculiar to me, Like were

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these brothers just standing around trying to
figure out, well, what are we

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gonna do with our lives? Absolutely
not. They were very clear. They

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were fishermen. They were doing what
they always did, like they were applying

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their trade. They were fishing.
So when this man comes, and we

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know that Jesus was no ordinary man, but still when this man comes and

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says come after me, like follow
me and I will make you a fisher

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of men, what in the world
would cause them to listen to him?

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What does that even mean? Fisher
of men? Were they looking for something

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new to do? And who is
this man that is calling them? Or

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was it that his atmosphere surrounding him, that the power that he exuded was

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so incredible that when they heard his
voice they knew they needed to follow him.

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You see, it is not usual. It's not usual for strong men

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to follow anybody. I'm gonna say
that to you real quick, like I'm

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not looking for anybody to follow honestly, Like we use those terms in social

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media like share, follow, share, like follow, hit follow, and

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then people say you're a follower of
this person or that person, and I'm

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like, now, I'm not about
that, follow her, follow him life.

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It's not my style. And I
do. I do work with the

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number one motivational speaker in the world, like six days a week, but

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I'm not a follower because that's just
not my style. Like the idea of

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following a man is weird to me. But they recognize that this was not

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an ordinary man. This was not
some human, mere human, let me

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put it that way. Who was
looking for people to mindlessly follow Jesus the

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god Man. Now he is,
with his authority changing their lives. How

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is he going to change their lives
by allowing them to see how he lived,

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to experience how he worked to be
in the presence while his power was

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most active, transforming people's lives hopeless
sinners into hopeful saints. He is calling

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these men to follow him, to
live the way that he lived. Oh

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wait a minute, now this is
starting to make sense now Verse eighteen makes

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sense to me. And straightway they
forsook their nets and followed him. Can

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I just say this, like,
we're not this is not like, this

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is not some super spiritual thing.
Like these dudes left their money, they

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left their jobs, like this is
their livelihood. They're He's not asking them

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to come follow him on a sabbath
to go and feed the hungry like or

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to clothe the naked like he is
saying, like, leeve your work and

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follow me. And they did it. They forsook their nets right where they

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were and followed him immediately. So
the lesson that I have for you right

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now is that as soon as you
know and hear the voice of God he's

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calling you, immediately respond and immediately
respond in the way that he would have

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you to respond. He said,
follow me, go follow him. No

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delay. Delayed obedience is disobedience,
and the Bible continues verse nineteen. And

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when they he had gone a little
further, thence he saw James, the

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son of Zebedee, and John,
his brother, who also were in a

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ship mending their nets. Guess what
they did for a living, same thing,

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and straightway he called them, and
they left their father Zebede in the

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ship with the hired servants and went
after him. That must have been like,

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oh my, what in the world
is going on here? Without even

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stopping, not pausing, not thinking, just follow him. Yes, absolutely,

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absolutely, They left the comfort of
their father's care. They left the

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authority that Daddy had over them,
and in that moment they knew that the

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highest authority of the universe was calling
them, even if they did not understand

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the details, but they knew that
they needed to go and to do God's

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will, and that was with Christ. So let me see if I can

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give a few quick lessons, a
few quick lessons before we come to a

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swift close. Number one, immediate
response. When God calls you, move

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immediately. It doesn't get any more
complicated than that. When he shows you

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the right way out of a relationship, follow him. Some of those relationships

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we shouldn't be in. He shows
you the right way out of your dishonesty

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in business, immediately follow him.
And I could go down through a list.

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Yes. Number two, willingness to
leave everything behind is key everything because

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what God gives in replace and to
replace the things that we have is eternity

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with Him. So the little stuff, the little accomplishments that we have had,

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ah the trials and tribulations that some
of us bathe and hold on to

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and rock like a little baby m
He's saying, leave all of those things

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behind. And then, of course
God is when he's calling you, he's

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bidding you, He's also enabling you
to do his will. He is in

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that moment, transforming your life the
lives of others when you respond to the

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call. Respond to his call,
follow me, he says, So follow

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him peace. Thanks for joining us
listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of

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God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,