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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 us

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through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of

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that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
Your Daily Portion with your host author speaker,

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Elle David Harris. Good morning,
Good morning, Good morning. It

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is Friday, preparation Day, November
seventeen, 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 is

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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 purity in action. Purity in

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action. Okay, before we get
into that, I'd just like to say

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welcome to you and ask you to
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Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then get underway.
Father, thank you for getting us thus

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far into our week, and I
pray that you will help us to yield

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our will to you and live pure
purity. Let it be our action in

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Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
and amen again. Well, as you

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often see when we are on Friday's
lesson study, we read a passage from

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Ellen White's writings, and this is
no exception. We're reading from the book

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Testimonies for the Church, Volume two, page twenty five. See if you

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can get anything or glean let me
put that way, glean anything that is

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useful for you today. And as
you see and experience something that is useful

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for you, I want you to
type it in the chat. What is

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useful to you? Okay? Beginning
the quote here pure religion and undefiled before

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the Father. Is this that's right
out of the Bible. By the way

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to visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted

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from the world. Good deeds are
the fruit that Jesus requires us to bear.

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Hmm, kind words, deeds of
benevolence, of tender regard for the

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poor, needy, and afflicted.
We realize that these are many of the

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invisible people in society and air quotes
the people we just drive on by,

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right, the people who are in
our church communities and the communities in which

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we live that need us. There
are people I am an orphan now right.

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I'm not using me as an example. I just kind of had to

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say it out loud because there are
so many people like me. Some of

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you are widows and widow words.
You have lost your spouses, some God

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forbid, but some of you,
unfortunately, have lost more than one spouse

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to death. Yes, there are
people who, even though you have your

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nice cars and your nice homes,
are having difficulty finding money for food.

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That's a different discussion how we get
into those situations. But the fact is,

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during the pandemic, we saw the
so called middle class in a strange

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predicament, having these things that looked
like assets, but they were really liabilities.

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To many people, big house,
big car, but the resources were

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not coming in in the way that
they were accustomed. And then they had

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to, unfortunately or maybe fortunately,
I don't know, join lines where they

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could get food and other needs met. From benevolent societies and churches and other

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faith communities you see, and so
anybody who has needs, whoever has needs,

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God's people should be helpful toward those
needs. Let me continue when hearts

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sympathize with hearts burdened with discouragement and
grief, When the hand dispenses to the

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needy, when the naked are clothed, the stranger made welcome to a seat

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in your parlor and a place in
your heart. Angels are coming very near.

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So when you are helpful to others, God comes near to you through

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the ministry of angels. Angels are
coming near, and an answering strain is

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responded to in heaven. Every act
of justice and mercy and benevolence makes melody

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in heaven. Can you imagine you
want to become a singer? Ha,

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You want to be a to have
the attention of God. Not just that

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he loved you, but now He
is smiling over you. He is hearing

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rich melodies that come from your life
to those who are experiential, like people

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who love to experience. Now you
can sense how you can give God.

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Ooh, you can give God a
rich experience based on how you live.

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Okay, let me continue. I
got a little bit in my feelings right

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there. The Father, from his
throne beholds those who do these acts of

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mercy and numbers them with his most
precious treasures. Oh God, continuing,

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and they shall be mine, said
the Lord of Hosts. In that day

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when I make up my jewels,
every merciful act to the needy the suffering

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is regarded as through as though done
to who Jesus. Remember, Jesus said,

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as you have done it unto the
least of these, my brethren,

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you have done it also unto me. Have ye as ye have not done

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it unto the least of these,
my brethren, You have not done it

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unto me. So Jesus so identifies
with those who are in need, that

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when we respond to them, verily, it is registered in heaven as responding

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to Jesus Christ himself. What would
you do if the person in need that

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crosss your path was clearly identified as
Jesus himself. Huh. Something that's something

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to think about. Okay, When
you succor the poor, sympathize with the

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afflicted and oppressed, and befriend the
orphan, you bring yourselves into a closer

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relationship to Jesus. That is the
end of the quote. Remember our caption

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for today purity in action. All
right, so let's do a few more

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actions here. We want to go
to James chapter one and verse twenty seven

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again and look at the last part
It says, and to keep himself unspotted

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from the world. So God wants
us to live holy lives. So we

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see the activity, the action,
the way that our hearts go out to

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people, and our actions to be
of service. But there are a number

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of benevolent individuals who don't love God, and so what God wants us to

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do is also as we become benevolent, as we are continuing to become the

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hands and feet of God. If
you want to say in air quotes,

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in order to give people what they
are in need of, the principal thing

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that they need is godly life.
The principle need that they have is to

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be led into a right relationship with
Him or encouraged in that relationship if they

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already have one, and only people
who are surrendered to God can do that.

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So become unspotted from the world.
Guard to guard your spiritual and moral

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life by avoiding worldly things and influences
that lead to sin regularly, engage in

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self examination. You know, the
Holy Spirit of Truth is come to guide

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us into all truth about God,
that He's wholly just and good, all

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truth about us that is, we
are miserable, poor, blind, naked

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and don't even know it. And
so we can now through the Holy Ghost.

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Engage in self examination, also in
prayer and Bible study, to ensure

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as we ask God to give us
strength, that we are pure, unspotted

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from the world. This is God's
calling on us. In fact, the

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Bible says, purify yourselves even as
He is pure, right as you await

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the coming of Jesus, and do
you help others to get closer to him?

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Remember purity. Okay, every act
of justice, I'm coming back to

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that saying quote that we read a
moment ago. Every act of justice,

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mercy and benevolence makes melody in Heaven. Remember practice acts of mercy. I

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think I will stop right there.
Really, what we need in terms of

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purity and action is to simply yield
our will to God, and wherever God

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leads us, we simply follow with
the strength of the Holy Ghost, without

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thinking of ourselves first or thinking of
God first. A wonderful day peace.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread

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alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El
David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,