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 Sabbath, October fourteen, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
name is Elle 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 is God's Call to Mission. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to just say welcome and
happy Sabbath to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first
time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com and join our online
community. That is where we build faith and fellowship. You have the opportunity
to reach out there and ask your questions, give your comments, and we
discuss the things concerning the Word of God where our lesson study is concerned.
And also we sometimes have prairie quests and testimonies in that space. So it's
not me talking. I'm already talking to you every single day of my life
for years. I've been speaking to you. Now it's time for you to
type back and we interact. Okay 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 experiencing you on this Sabbath morning.
I pray that you will give us understanding and that we will engage in
your mission. That we will be fully engaged, all hands on deck in
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again God's call to mission.
I'm going to read from the Book of Acts, chapter one and verse eight.
This will be probably a theme passage multiple times over the next ten weeks,
and it reads, but you shall receive power. I want you to
type in the chat power you shall receive power. Make sure it's a capital
p uha. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall
be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and in Samaria and
to the end of the earth. Jesus promised that his children would receive power,
But when would they receive the power? When do we receive power?
Is it after we take a class? No? Is it after we go
through a coaching program where somebody he teaches us how to be powerful in influencing
people? Well, not necessarily. Is it after we have gone to the
gym for a twelve month period or twelve week period and now we have either
lost weight or gained weight and more muscle, or whatever it is that we
were after Is it that the obvious answer is no. The power that he
is speaking of is when the Holy Ghost comes upon us. Yes, And
when we receive the Holy Ghost, we now are enabled to do what he
said. Well, come back to what he said. Can we just sit
here for a moment and talk about the power of the Holy Spirit? Like,
the power of the Holy Spirit, according to Jesus, is when the
Spirit is come, he will guide you into all truth. Well, what
is truth? He's talking about the truth about you and I like people.
The truth about us is that we are sinners like we are born in sin,
shaping in iniquity, right, born in sin, shaping and iniquity,
coming out of our mother's wombs, speaking lies like that is that is the
nature of humans without Christ. And so we are unholy, but God is
so we know what we are. What is God? God is holy,
He's just, He's good. We're miserable, poor, blind, naked and
don't even know it. God is holy, just and good. We are
carnals, sold under sin and needing rescue because we're under condemnation. Naturally,
I'm saying innately, that's how we're born. But God is so good,
and you want to say, well, how good is he? Dave.
God is so good that he does not leave us in that state. He
puts us in a position to receive the power of the Holy Ghost to transform
our lives. It's not just that he's pointing out the problems. It's easy
to see that we're unholy, but now he is the power that will transform
us into children of life. So when in this context we are already His
children and we still need more power, he said, Tarry, wait where
I am saying, disciples, apostles, followers of God wait in the place
that I say, And when the time comes, if you're there, you
are afflicting your souls. If you're there, if you are are saying,
God, I need you, and I'm willing to yield my will. And
yea, I will yield my will at this moment to you. You will
receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit for your time. And when you do,
you will be his witnesses. You'll be his witnesses, witnesses of what
witnesses that Wait a minute. I was sinking deep in sin, far from
the peaceful shore, very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more.
I was drowning. But the master of the sea he heard my despairing cry.
And from these waters of life he lifted me. And now safe am
I lifted me. And the Holy Spirit is the one who transforms our hearts
so that we don't have to say bad words anymore. That sounds so simple.
We don't have to be disobedient to parents anymore. God is so good?
How good is he, Dave? He is so good that we don't
have to be bound to the rumbottle anymore. We can be victorious over our
addictive behaviors. We can be victorious over our aggressiveness, and some of us
God forbid, but some of us have been abusive to our spouses, elders,
to us, our children, to co workers, colleagues, and people
for whom, for people who work for us. Like God is saying that
in every area, whether it's relationships, it's mental, it's emotional, it's
spiritual, in every area, he gives us the power to live a holy
life. Jesus is the one whose mind we are modeled after. Now let
this mind the Bible says, being which was also in Christ Jesus. And
then of course the Bible through Paul examines what that mindset was. We need
a new mindset. God said that he would take out our heart of stone
and put back in us a heart of flesh, now receptive to his will.
And when we do receive this power, we share this truth. Where
where we share this truth near to us, in our own homes, in
our own communities. Huh, that's Jerusalem and all Judea. Sometimes we go
out in the day, don't we We go to the gym, we go
to school, we go to work, right and then in some area and
we go even farther. Sometimes we go on travel. You may be seated
next to someone on an airplane. Yeah, you might be into a convention
or a conference somewhere, and God puts you in a position to have influence
over those individuals and to the uttermost parts of the earth listening to me on
two hundred radio stations. Who knows where you are in the United States,
in the whole of North America, and in other parts of the world.
You're watching me on YouTube and Facebook, and on Twitter and on other platforms.
You're listening on so many different podcasting aggregator sites. And I'm not unique.
So many of us are reaching out into all parts of the world from
our vantage point. And therefore God is saying, this is what I need
you to do. Step out of your comfort zone. It's not about you.
It's about people seeing your light. As you let your light so shine
before people that when you are doing God's work, they will glorify our Father,
which is in Heaven. Let me read from the book Patriarchs and Profits,
page one hundred twenty, and it reads of the Tower of Babel,
the dispersion was a means of peopling the earth, and thus the Lord's purpose
was accomplished through the very means that men had employed to prevent its fulfillment.
So the people at that time were trying to build a monument to themselves and
to congregate and some other stuff. And then God said, let us go
down and confuse their languages. Let us go down and disperse them out into
the whole world. And that was the means, one of the means that
God would get his message out. I wish I had the time. And
then Abraham, of course the Bible says that he had to leave his country
and his kindred and then go wherever God said to go. And so really
our comfort zone doesn't really matter, but God's call to mission absolutely matters.
Follow the call of 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,