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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 Wednesday, November eight,
twenty twenty three. Hello, my

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name is Elle 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

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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 whom you crucified? Whom you

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crucified. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like

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

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Portion book and let me know in
that setting where you are in the world.

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Again at your Daily Portion dot com. This is where we build faith

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and fellowship, and I am excited
to be able to continue to build with

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you there. Okay, let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get

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underwagh. Father in heaven, thank
you for giving us the opportunity to pray.

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Thank you for loving us so much
that you have given us your son.

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Father. I pray that we will
live as people who have full appreciation

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for this blessed heavenly gift, and
that we will live according to your principles.

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In Jesus name, I pray Amen
and amen again whom you have crucified.

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Okay, so there are there some
blessings brothers and sisters that come only

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as a result of prayer. Missus
White said that it is the will of

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God to grant in answer to the
prayer of faith that which He would not

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bestow. Did we not thus ask? So it is God's privilege, it

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is his honor. He sees it
as a positive thing to grant answers Ah,

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But we have to be asking.
They're blessings that He gives us every

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day, new blessings every morning.
Great is his faithfulness. The sun shines

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on the wicked and on the just
right, the rain comes and the seasons

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do change at the appropriate time,
and so many blessings that we can't even

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begin to number. But there were
some things that only come when we pray

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the prayer of faith. We have
expectant faith, and therefore God, God

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grants answers in that vein. Okay. And so from the left and directly

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from the Lesson Acts, Chapter two
records the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at

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Pentecost. And of course, like
because of the import of that particular day

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of Pentecost, it's almost like we've
we've made it seem like this is the

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only day of Pentecost in the Bible. But even though there are others,

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like I wish I had the time, but this day of Pentecost was pivotal,

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almost like almost like the one back
when God gave the Ten commandments.

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Oh, I was a teaser.
Maybe I'll come back to that one day,

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okay. And so the day of
Pentecost, the one that came after

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Jesus's resurrection. As the followers of
Jesus were praying, tongues of fire rested

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upon their heads, they recognized that
the promised power of the Holy Spirit had

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been given. They had expectant faith. Remember it says the promised power of

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the Holy Spirit. They recognize that
God kept his promise, So that means

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they were on the lookout for his
promise. I think there's a promise that

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I'm on the lookout for. I
think Jesus said something through Paul. Through

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Paul, the Holy Spirit said something
like to those who look for him,

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to them, shall he appear a
second time without sin unto salvation. So

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we're looking forward to the second coming
of Jesus Christ and we want to be

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in that number when the saints go
marching in. Yes, you've heard that

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song. Yeah, And so that
is what we're talking about. Now we

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need to look at a few action
items because speaking about it theoretically does not

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really help us. We believers are
very good at transferring information, but now

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we're looking at transformation. We need
to take action. Okay, And so

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we read from the Book of Acts, chapter one and verse eight to familiar

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passage. But ye shall receive power
after that the Holy Ghost has come up

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you and ye shall be the witnesses
unto me, both in Jerusalem and in

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Judea and in Samaria. An unto
the uttermost part of the earth, that

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is inn Acts, chapter one in
verse eight. And so the action item

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is to continually seek empowerment from the
Holy Spirit. When is the last time

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you ask for the power of the
Holy Ghost? See before I get up

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in the morning, I said,
before I get up, or as I

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am awakening in the morning, and
I get up at three am. Every

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day I ask God, please give
me the fullness of your Holy Spirit.

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Every day I'm asking God, please
give me your Holy Spirit. And I

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leave it to God to measure that
and to give me what I need,

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because He's the one who in his
own divine mind knows what is needed.

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It is not by might, not
by power, but by God's Spirit that

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we are able to move forward in
anything in the day is mission. And

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what we must do in our own
homes, our own communities, and the

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places that we will travel throughout the
days. And so we need His Holy

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Spirit and we need to seek Him
all day, every day so we can

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effectively spread the Gospel and become witnesses
for for Jesus. Right, Let's go

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to Acts chapter two and verse thirty
eight, and the Bible reads when Peter,

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excuse me, whoops. When Peter, what did I say? Thirty

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eight? Yeah, Then Peter said, unto them, repent and be baptized,

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every one of you in the name
of Jesus Christ, for the remission

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of sins. So we can be
forgiven right and ye shall receive the gift

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of the Holy Ghost. And so
we need to repent, We need to

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turn the shoulder, turn away from
sin. God will give us if we

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are willing to hear from Him,
Yes, through the Holy Spirit, he

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will give us the ability to have
godly sorrow for sin. And as he

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gives us that ability, and then
the call comes to us. The truth

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about God is that He's holy,
just and good at all times. The

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

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don't even know it. But when
He gives us an awareness. According to

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John chapter sixteen, in about verse
thirty three, when he teaches us the

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Holy Spirit has come, he teaches
us all truth about Him, all truth

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about us, and we see our
need for Jesus. Then it is time

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to turn the shoulder, turn away
from our sins, turn toward God.

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And if we've not already been baptized, it is time to be baptized.

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Okay, So repent for our past
sins, yes, and be baptized as

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an outward expression of our commitment.
M baptism in many ways as we die

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to self and sin, and we
are to be raised unto holiness, right

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resurrected unto holiness. It is our
public expression of our personal experience and commitment

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to God. Okay. And number
three, we're going to Acts chapter one

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and verse fourteen. These all continued
with one accord in prayer and supplication with

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the women and Mary and the Mother
of Jesus and with his brethren. We've

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read this before, and so we
with fervency, we pray and seek unity

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with fellow believers. One of the
death knells that come into the midst of

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the people of God is disunity.
We argue about all kinds of stuff.

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I was in a church the other
day and I can't even say what I'm

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about to say because it'll start another
argument. But the preacher got up and

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talked and talked and talked and talked
and talked about some controversial thing that he

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conjured up from over a year ago, and did not open the Word of

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God one time. And I'm thinking, but Sir, you have the privilege

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to invest in people who may be
hopeless, or those who are hopeful but

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just need a little bit more faith, who need a little bit more encouragement,

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and for fifty minutes you burn the
time arguing that just sold sowed seeds

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of discord rather than unity. I
hope you have 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,