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, November two, 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 here. Am I send
me welcome back to that in just a moment. But first I'd like to
just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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at your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the
privilege of prayer and the opportunity that we have to open up your word again,
and for giving us the blessing of your Holy Spirit. Please teach us
the same lesson that you taught Isaiah in his encounter with you. In Jesus's
name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I want to revisit the
story that we glossed over several days ago in the Book of Isaiah, because
that is where we will focus today. I'm glad that the lesson writer saw
fit to go there, because that is what was on my mind the whole
time. Here. Remember, we went through several excuses that people give to
make ourselves feel better to not do what God says to do, especially where
mission is concerned, going into reaching people wherever God sends us and bring them
into a right relationship with Him like welcoming them into the fellowship, the fellowship
of Christ. Okay, and so now we see the antithesis of this though,
we see what God showed through the life of Isaiah and quick backdrop before
I read the details. Yeah, Aziah died, he served as king for
a long time, and yeah, he started to believe the hype about himself
and then decided that he was a high priest. He didn't say those words,
but he decided that he was going to go into the presence of God
unwelcomed, unbidden and unbidden and not equipped to do what God would have his
priests and high priests to do. And he goes in there presumptuously and because
of him believing the hype about himself, believing that in his own strength he
was strong. Yeah, God smoked him. Really, he gave him.
He gave him the undesired outcome for people who are proud. Yeah, he
got leprosy and then you know, the rest is history. He succumbed,
He succumbed to his own pride, He succumbed to his own desire to be
his own God. Like, let's just call it what it is. And
so now Isaiah is in vision, He's in the same place if you want
to say that. He feels like got Aziah messed up? And he's like,
how am I in the presence? How am I in the presence of
God, And so the Bible reads here, beginning at verse one. In
the year that King Aziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it
stood seraphims, each one had six wings. With twain he did cover his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly. And he cried unto one another, one cried to another, Holy,
Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts. The whole earth is
full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice
of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said
I woe is me, for I am undone, because I'm a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
For mine eyes have seen the Lord, the King, the Lord of
Hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, which had he with
a live coal in his hand, which he had taken tongs from off the
altar. And he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this
have touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
is purged verse eight and final, Also I heard the voice of the Lord
saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said
I Then said I here am I send me? And then God gives Isaiah
the message. And so the precursor to Isaiah being prepared and ready and willing
to go and to do God's mission was that he recognized his humanity one God,
the Holy Ghost brought him into a knowledge of the truth, like all
truth. He gave him the truth about himself, which is that he was
undone. He's a man of unclean lips and came from a people of unclean
lips. And the truth about God, which is that he's holy and just
and good like. He is high and lifted up, and his presence,
his holiness filled the temple. Yes. And so now with that contrast,
he needs to be delivered. God didn't just leave him there. He gave
him what he needed. He needed deliverance. And so we should see there
that we should respond to God's call. God gave him the call. And
when he heard the call, he immediately said, I'm willing to go.
Sign me up, like, sign me up for the Christian Jewbilee. Sign
my name on the role. I've been changed because the Lord has lifted me.
Now I got to be ready when Jesus comes. And part of our
readiness has to do with bringing other people into the same experience so that they
too can be ready. And so Isaiah's willingness is pre looted by an acknowledgment
of his imperfection and a divine touch that purged his guilt, thereby equipping him
for the man I said that already. Okay, here are some challenges and
some actions. Okay, personal discipleship ship challenge. Intentionally and consistently, pray
for ten individuals who have yet to know Christ. There are people that you
with whom you work. There are people with whom you go to school.
You see and the marketplace when you're moving about in the taxis, on the
buses. There are people in the gyms where you exercise, on the road
on the way to wherever your final destination is. Pray for ten individuals,
and now prioritize these people. We're not just praying for their salvation, but
we're also paving a pathway for genuine relationships and connections to blossom, where conversations
will will naturally emerge. When I go into the place that I exercise,
I do what is uncomfortable for me. I'm an intro. You see me
on the camera with a microphone. But I can hide here because you can't
really touch me here. Yeah, I can hide behind the lights in the
camera. I can hide behind the microphone. But real life people, it
takes work for me. It takes a commitment. It takes for me to
yield my behavior style. The challenges with my behavior style h and and I
can now come forward. And so when I go to the gym, when
I am in church, whenever I'm on the road, there are ways that
I interact with people that engenders a quality response and relationships can be built.
And it is against my natural norm, but does it matter No. All
it means is that I have to rely on God more and I'm thankful for
the opportunity. Also also continually deepen friendships with these people right understand their needs
and struggles, pray specifically, and allow God to work through us to meet
their needs. That's what the lees, possibly becoming a tangible manifestation of God's
love in their lives. There are times that people have needs and God is
saying, well, you're in my hands and feet. Don't just pray about
it, be about it. Don't just talk about it, be about it.
There are times that you will be an active, practical, real answer
to God's to their prayer, and God will use you to empower them to
move forward in their lives. So much more I could say that the bottom
line is get into the presence of God today, ask Him to cleanse you
from all unrighteousness and then to show you your mission. Feel and cooperate with
him. Wonderful day, Peace, 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,