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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 Sabbath, October fourteen,
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 is
God's Call to Mission. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but
first I'd like to just say welcome and

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happy Sabbath to everyone joining us,
especially those joining us for the very first

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time. Please go over to your
Daily Portion dot com and join our online

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community. That is where we build
faith and fellowship. You have the opportunity

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to reach out there and ask your
questions, give your comments, and we

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discuss the things concerning the Word of
God where our lesson study is concerned.

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And also we sometimes have prairie quests
and testimonies in that space. So it's

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not me talking. I'm already talking
to you every single day of my life

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for years. I've been speaking to
you. Now it's time for you to

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type back and we interact. Okay
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 the privilege
of experiencing you on this Sabbath morning.

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I pray that you will give us
understanding and that we will engage in

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your mission. That we will be
fully engaged, all hands on deck in

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again God's call to mission.

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I'm going to read from the Book
of Acts, chapter one and verse eight.

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This will be probably a theme passage
multiple times over the next ten weeks,

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and it reads, but you shall
receive power. I want you to

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type in the chat power you shall
receive power. Make sure it's a capital

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p uha. When the Holy Spirit
has come upon you, and you shall

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be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and
in all Judaea, and in Samaria and

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to the end of the earth.
Jesus promised that his children would receive power,

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But when would they receive the power? When do we receive power?

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Is it after we take a class? No? Is it after we go

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through a coaching program where somebody he
teaches us how to be powerful in influencing

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people? Well, not necessarily.
Is it after we have gone to the

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gym for a twelve month period or
twelve week period and now we have either

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lost weight or gained weight and more
muscle, or whatever it is that we

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were after Is it that the obvious
answer is no. The power that he

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is speaking of is when the Holy
Ghost comes upon us. Yes, And

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when we receive the Holy Ghost,
we now are enabled to do what he

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said. Well, come back to
what he said. Can we just sit

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here for a moment and talk about
the power of the Holy Spirit? Like,

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the power of the Holy Spirit,
according to Jesus, is when the

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Spirit is come, he will guide
you into all truth. Well, what

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is truth? He's talking about the
truth about you and I like people.

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The truth about us is that we
are sinners like we are born in sin,

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shaping in iniquity, right, born
in sin, shaping and iniquity,

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coming out of our mother's wombs,
speaking lies like that is that is the

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nature of humans without Christ. And
so we are unholy, but God is

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so we know what we are.
What is God? God is holy,

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He's just, He's good. We're
miserable, poor, blind, naked and

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don't even know it. God is
holy, just and good. We are

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carnals, sold under sin and needing
rescue because we're under condemnation. Naturally,

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I'm saying innately, that's how we're
born. But God is so good,

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and you want to say, well, how good is he? Dave.

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God is so good that he does
not leave us in that state. He

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puts us in a position to receive
the power of the Holy Ghost to transform

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our lives. It's not just that
he's pointing out the problems. It's easy

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to see that we're unholy, but
now he is the power that will transform

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us into children of life. So
when in this context we are already His

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children and we still need more power, he said, Tarry, wait where

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I am saying, disciples, apostles, followers of God wait in the place

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that I say, And when the
time comes, if you're there, you

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are afflicting your souls. If you're
there, if you are are saying,

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God, I need you, and
I'm willing to yield my will. And

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yea, I will yield my will
at this moment to you. You will

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receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit
for your time. And when you do,

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you will be his witnesses. You'll
be his witnesses, witnesses of what

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witnesses that Wait a minute. I
was sinking deep in sin, far from

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the peaceful shore, very deeply stained
within, sinking to rise no more.

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I was drowning. But the master
of the sea he heard my despairing cry.

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And from these waters of life he
lifted me. And now safe am

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I lifted me. And the Holy
Spirit is the one who transforms our hearts

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so that we don't have to say
bad words anymore. That sounds so simple.

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We don't have to be disobedient to
parents anymore. God is so good?

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How good is he, Dave?
He is so good that we don't

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have to be bound to the rumbottle
anymore. We can be victorious over our

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addictive behaviors. We can be victorious
over our aggressiveness, and some of us

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God forbid, but some of us
have been abusive to our spouses, elders,

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to us, our children, to
co workers, colleagues, and people

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for whom, for people who work
for us. Like God is saying that

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in every area, whether it's relationships, it's mental, it's emotional, it's

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spiritual, in every area, he
gives us the power to live a holy

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life. Jesus is the one whose
mind we are modeled after. Now let

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this mind the Bible says, being
which was also in Christ Jesus. And

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then of course the Bible through Paul
examines what that mindset was. We need

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a new mindset. God said that
he would take out our heart of stone

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and put back in us a heart
of flesh, now receptive to his will.

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And when we do receive this power, we share this truth. Where

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where we share this truth near to
us, in our own homes, in

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our own communities. Huh, that's
Jerusalem and all Judea. Sometimes we go

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out in the day, don't we
We go to the gym, we go

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to school, we go to work, right and then in some area and

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we go even farther. Sometimes we
go on travel. You may be seated

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next to someone on an airplane.
Yeah, you might be into a convention

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or a conference somewhere, and God
puts you in a position to have influence

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over those individuals and to the uttermost
parts of the earth listening to me on

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two hundred radio stations. Who knows
where you are in the United States,

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in the whole of North America,
and in other parts of the world.

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You're watching me on YouTube and Facebook, and on Twitter and on other platforms.

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You're listening on so many different podcasting
aggregator sites. And I'm not unique.

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So many of us are reaching out
into all parts of the world from

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our vantage point. And therefore God
is saying, this is what I need

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you to do. Step out of
your comfort zone. It's not about you.

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It's about people seeing your light.
As you let your light so shine

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before people that when you are doing
God's work, they will glorify our Father,

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which is in Heaven. Let me
read from the book Patriarchs and Profits,

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page one hundred twenty, and it
reads of the Tower of Babel,

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the dispersion was a means of peopling
the earth, and thus the Lord's purpose

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was accomplished through the very means that
men had employed to prevent its fulfillment.

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So the people at that time were
trying to build a monument to themselves and

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to congregate and some other stuff.
And then God said, let us go

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down and confuse their languages. Let
us go down and disperse them out into

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the whole world. And that was
the means, one of the means that

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God would get his message out.
I wish I had the time. And

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then Abraham, of course the Bible
says that he had to leave his country

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and his kindred and then go wherever
God said to go. And so really

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our comfort zone doesn't really matter,
but God's call to mission absolutely matters.

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Follow the call of 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,