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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 Friday, November twenty four, twenty twenty three. Hello, my

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

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Daily 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. God's mission, my

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mission, and our caption for today
is more love, more people, More

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love, more people. Pardon that
sound. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you and say happy

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happy preparation day and ask you to
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join our online community. Also,
let us know where you are in the

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world and pick up the Your Daily
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we continue to build faith and fellowship
at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's

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go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for giving us this new
day and the privilege that you have

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entrusted to us to serve you.
Please teach us how to love you and

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to do your will. I pray
that you will fill us with your Holy

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Spirit and have the spirit of Christ. Have the spirit of Christ, so

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that we can seek and to save
those who are not connected to you.

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In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. More people,

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more love. I'm going to begin
our discussion today by reading from the Advent

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Review and Sad with Harold from October
fifteenth, eighteen ninety five. Wow,

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that was a long time ago.
Let's see if it's still applicable today.

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And it reads men and women are
not fulfilling the design of God when they

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simply express affection for their own family
circle, while they exclude those from their

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love whom they could comfort and bless
by relieving their necessities. Let's go ahead

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and push a pause right here.
Yes, so, I am an introvert

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and many of you are also introverts. I'm not always like big and excited

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about large crowds and gatherings and meeting
new people. But of course God has

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given me public gifts, and I'm
whenever I go anywhere, wherever I happen

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to be. It doesn't matter if
I'm here in Jamaica or on the airplane

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going somewhere else. And wherever I
am, I run into people that have

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seen me somewhere, whether it's on
the Internet or on the TV, or

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on some billboard somewhere who knows where
Hurd on the radio. And it occurs

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to me that our lives are not
our own. There is a responsibility for

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each of us. Whether your experience
and my experience are identical, yes or

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no. The fact is that we
can't focus only on our own family circle.

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I tend to want to do that
because my family are familiar to me.

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It takes less energy. I don't
have to get to know as much

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because we've been together for years.
Right Ah, But God is saying that

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if we are going to be his
children, then we have to be loving

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toward as many people as He gives
us. The calling to be loving toward,

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of course, and to relieve their
suffering to whatever way we can provide

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some of their needs. Now,
he's not asking us to replat lace him

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somehow or become saviors, but he
is saying that if we focus solely on

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the people in our own household,
the people who we are closest to that

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we are most comfortable with, we
are selfish. And selfishness has no place

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in the kingdom, right, it
says, while they exclude, meaning the

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people who embrace their family members in
their own family circle, while they exclude

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those from their love whom they could
comfort and bless by relieving their necessities.

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Continuing the quote, when the Lord
bids us do good for others outside our

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home, he does not mean that
our affection for home shall become diminished and

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that we shall love our kindred or
our country less, because he desires us

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to extend our sympathies. Right,
but we are not to confine our affection

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and empathy. That sounds so restrictive, confined those right, We're not to

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do that. We're not to do
that within our four walls and enclose the

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blessing that God has given us,
so that others will not be benefited with

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us in its enjoyment. That's the
end of the quote. Remember I said

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more love, more people. Let
that settle in. So Jesus had a

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habit of making himself available so that
people could get closer to God. Yes,

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we read an inspiration from the book
Desire of Ages that the account we

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read in Mark chapter two of the
man that was sick of the palsy.

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We talked about him the other day, God that was born of four carried

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to the place where Jesus was and
then let down through the roof because there

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were just so many people they couldn't
get in through the door. Yes,

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and then Jesus relieved his suffering by
forgiving his sins and also healing his paralysis.

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He did all of that. He
did all of that. He made

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himself available so that he could heal
and save him. And that in twenty

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twenty three, this day of November, that we could receive a blessing from

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that, and not just a blessing, that we could be transformed by the

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love that is exuding from this story. You see. So Jesus made sure

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that he had compassion on the multitudes. It was in him to be compassionate

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toward the multitudes. There were times
that he fed people because he had compassion

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on them. Yes, there were
times that he healed blind eyes and broken

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hearts because he had compassion on them. And let me just say this one

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quickly, there were times that he
corrected people because he had compassion on them.

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He could not see people going the
wrong direction in their lives and to

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continue down the wrong pathway and then
just let them do that, continue to

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go down the wrong pathway to their
destruction. God is saying that he loves

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us so much. How much does
he love us that he gave through Christ,

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his only begotten son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish,

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but all should have everlasting life who
do not love him. And so he

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wants to open the doors of love
through us to other people. I think

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the Bible says, freely, you
have received whatever it is that God gave

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us. He gave us reconciliation,
he gave us wholeness. He gave us

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a deliverance from a depression. He
gave us deliverance from addictions to different kinds

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of sin. God said, freely, ye have received. Now freely give

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give of yourself to the people.
Okay. And so in the scriptures that

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are cited here in the Lesson Study
Matthew chapter eight, verses twenty eight through

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thirty four and Mark five, verses
one through twenty We basically see that we

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are to engage the Gospel with as
many people as possible. Reflect on the

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instances where Jesus engaged with people from
their cultures. How can you model this

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action in your life. I've had
the privilege of growing up in New York

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City and then also living in the
nation's capital and it's environs, as we

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say here in Jamaica right for decades. I did that as well. I

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lived in DC, I lived in
the DMB, as we call it affectionately,

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in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland, and I have live so I've

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lived in places where a great cross
section of people also lived. We call

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it a melting pot, but sometimes
it's more like a mixing pot. I

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wish I had the time, But
the bottom line is, just in those

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two experiences, and now with a
believer's mindset, I'm like, Lord,

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what is it that we are to
do? As the truth that is in

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Christ comes into our lives. From
that vantage point, we are to spread

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His love into every nation, kindred
tongue, tribe and people. We learn

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about one another, and as we
are learning about one another, we show

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love and deference. As the Lord
gives us strength, he gives redemption to

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everyone who needs it as long as
we yield our will to him. He

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wants us to continue to expand our
circle of love. Step out of our

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comfort zones right, engage in cultural
celebrations thoughtfully as God gives us strength with

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the aught, with the purpose of
more people to love to God by his

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grace. A wonderful day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,

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

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

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David Harris. Make it a great
day. Yeah,