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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, October twenty twenty
twenty three. Hello, my name

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is Elle 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. God's Mission My mission,

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and we're going to use for a
caption for today, the Great Commission.

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We'll go back to that and just
a moment, but first I'd like

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to say, welcome to preparation Day. Hopefully you are preparing your hearts and

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minds for the Sabbath time and not
just your bathrooms, your clothing, and

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your vehicles. No, we want
God to be able to find a place

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that he is welcomed in our hearts. So as we prepare for the Sabbath,

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we should be preparing our hearts more
than anything else. Let's go ahead

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and pray, and just go ahead
and jump right in here, Father and

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Heaven, thank you for giving us
the privilege of coming into your presence today.

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Please give us the mindset of mission, and help us not to use

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it like as a moniker, like
as some idiom, some term that we

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use, like a campaign slogan.
Help us to live the great commission.

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In Jesus' name, I pray a
man and a man again. I want

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to go back to Matthew chapter twenty
eight, and we're going to read this

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over and over and over again over
the next several weeks. So if you're

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about the mission, it'll be welcome, a welcome read, because what what

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did they say? Repetition deepens impression
deepens the impression. And so we're going

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to read it again and it reads, go ye therefore and teach all nations.

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Some of you have the gift of
teaching. I'm talking about spiritual gift,

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not just a skill. A spiritual
gift is for the glorification of God

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and the edifying of God's people.
God's Church glorify God by reaching out into

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all the world in order to bring
people into a right relationship with Him,

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right to manifest his love in the
earth, manifest his character fully in the

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earth. Right, and of course, to edify the people of God.

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Okay, so some of you have
the gift of teaching, and so it

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says, go, ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in

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the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

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Let's just pause right there. We're
going to stick with that verse. So

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what we need to do is to
understand. We can talk about it all

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the time, but to understand or
comprehend and then uphold the great commission.

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What is God saying. He's saying, go not sit still. He's saying,

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go not wait for someone to come
to you. He's saying, go

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and make sure you do what Jesus
did. Go and do what Jesus did.

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Remember the Bible says that Jesus came, the son of Man, came

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to seek and to save that which
was lost. So he went like he

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went from heaven to planet Earth voluntarily. Yes, and then he gave himself

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for the mission that God's Father had
given to him. Of course, they

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had agreed to all of that in
Oh who knows when they started this,

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but it says from before the foundation
of the world. And so when we

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are going therefore, we're going in
the power of God. We're going in

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the demonstration of the example Jesus gave
to us. What Jesus did we do.

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Bible says that he came aside a
great while before day, and then

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he prayed, And we have guidance
to say that he did that so that

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he could be fully connected to the
Father, so that when he did go

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to the masses, he was powered
up like he was armored up, ready

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to give. Sometimes we run out
ahead of God. We pour we poor,

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we poor, we pour out,
we pour out, we pour out,

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We attempt, we try, we
struggle, and then we are depleted

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and wonder why we're not effective.
We didn't follow Jesus' footsteps. So Jesus

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charged up ready to go with God
our father. Of course, we've read

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that the Holy Spirit was in him
in Luke chapter four and Matthew chapter four,

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and then again he says that we
are to go to all nations,

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wherever you are. I think recently, I think yesterday we did brighten the

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corner where you are. Wherever you
are, that's where God is calling you

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to. Now, if He gives
you additional guidance to say, go from

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this place into the outhermost parts of
the world, then you will board a

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plane. You will bord a helicopter, you will board a vessel somehow and

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move from place to place to share
His word. You will switch on your

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cameras and your microphones to do the
same if God is calling you to do

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that. But not only that,
He wants to bring them into a relationship

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with him, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, Son and the

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Holy Ghost see baptism Jesus demonstrated was
to fulfill all righteousness like he was baptized,

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to show what it's like for a
person to yield our willfully to God.

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I think it was in Romans chapter
three that the Bible said that when

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we are are baptized, we are
baptized into Christ, and we are we're

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dying to self, going down into
the water and going beneath the surface.

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We are baptized by immersion, and
then when we come up it's unto newness

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of life. It is like the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so we

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are dead to sin and alive to
holiness, dead to sinful ways, and

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alive to agreement with God, like
dead to broken relationship with God, and

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alive now resurrected, unto everlasting life. And so we want to do that

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for as many people as possible.
So we comprehended uphold the Great commission.

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And so our action step is to
understand the significance of God's great commission and

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then actively seek to hold it.
Jesus, uphold it, Jesus, what

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would you have me to do?
What would you have me to do?

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Making disciples of all nations and spreading
the treasures of eternal life to the world.

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Our next action step is coming out
of the Book of Luke chapter fourteen,

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and the Bible reads and the Lord
said, unto the servant, go

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out into the highways and hedges,
and compel them to come in that my

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house may be filled. Now I've
already intimated this, but we're saying now,

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don't wait for people to come.
Remember, Jesus came to seek and

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to save that which was lost.
Don't wait for people to come instead proactively

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go to them, extending the invitation
of mercy to them. Yes, salvation,

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reaching out to everyone. It doesn't
matter from what nation, what kindred,

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what tibe, what tongue, what
people. It doesn't matter from what

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so called caste. It doesn't matter
from what so called socioeconomic strata. I'm

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ashamed that we have those, but
we do. It doesn't matter from where

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people come. It doesn't matter what
their family model looked like. It doesn't

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matter what failings they have experienced because
of poor choices or maybe genetic impediments.

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Like Daddy was a liar, and
I struggle with lying, Like Mommy had

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this other challenge and I struggle with
that. Right, mommy was an alcoholic,

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and now I struggle with a desire
to indulge in alcoholism. You see.

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And so God is saying, bring
all of that to me, and

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don't wait for people with these challenges
to come to you, go to them

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in my mission. And of course
we have said so much about about breaking

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down prejudices and barriers and so forth, so I won't drill that one today.

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But when we did not mention,
pray for the guidance to reach those

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who have not been reached for God. In James chapter one and verse five,

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it says, if any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of

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God that give it to all all
men liberally and upbrade it. Not that

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means he's not holding anything back,
and it shall be given to us when

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we are asking for wisdom. It's
not something that just happens in our minds.

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Can I just say this for a
moment. In the Book of Proverbs,

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chapter eight, if you read the
entire chapter, you'll start to hear

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some things very interesting. And then
if you go to First Corinthians chapter one,

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verses thirty and thirty one, you
will identify that wisdom is Jesus Christ

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himself. Jesus is our wisdom.
And so if you lack wisdom and you

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ask of God, he will give
you a way to apply knowledge. Yes,

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but more than that, he will
give you Jesus Christ himself to fulfill

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the great commission. Peace. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends. Always

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

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the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris,

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make it a great day. Yeah,