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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to 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

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morning. It is Wednesday, December
twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in the final week of our Lesson

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study series, God's Mission, my
mission, and our caption for today is

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success in Mission. Success in Mission. We'll get into that in just a

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moment, but first I'd like to
just welcome you and ask you to go

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build faith and fellowship at your Daily
portion dot com. Let's go ahead and

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pray and then get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us

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this new day and for the privilege
we have to open up your word.

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I pray that you will open up
my understanding here and I don't trust myself

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while I'm sharing here with your people. Father, please teach us success your

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way in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amn again. Well,

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how do you measure success? And
of course that's something that I'm excited about

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because I am a life and success
coach. Yeah, how do you measure

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success? And of course, in
the context of our lesson, I want

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you to drill it. How do
you measure success? In mission? And

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the lesson writer says, we might
be tempted to think that it is many

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baptisms. Uh oh, we got
to get ourselves in trouble here, many

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baptisms, big churches and rapid growth
rates. Whoops. We might feel that

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success consists of entering every tribe and
people group on earth and with the truth,

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and that we can speed it up
by using radio, on the internet,

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in television. Oh this is a
plot twist. While all of this

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can be good, we must remember
that Paul wrote to the Community of Faith

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at Corinth I planted Apollos watered,
but God gave the increase. Did you

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get that? In other words,
our focus is to be on the process.

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God's focus will be on the growth. Oh my goodness, I wish

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I had the time. I have
worked for God's Church at different times for

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many many years, I mean in
leadership and this discussion here. I am

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really actually very happy that the that
the church has put this out in its

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official Bible Study guide, right,
because we in different at different levels of

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the organization, have had to contend
with this and sometimes we come up with

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the wrong answer. Can I just
say that sometimes we come up with the

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wrong answer. We may say the
right words, but sometimes we come up

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with the wrong answer. And yeah, I won't turn this into a soapbox,

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but I am thankful that in the
Lesson Study it says again, in

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other words, our focus is to
be on the process. God's focus is

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to be on the growth. We
have already seen that the object of God's

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mission is saving lost people from every
people group on earth by making loyal disciples

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of Jesus who are involved in his
mission. Okay, So we're going through

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many passages here of scripture as a
lesson writer would have prescribed, and see

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what we can glean. And so
from tewod Corinthians chapter eleven and verse two,

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we're going to look at devotion for
a moment, and the Bible reads,

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for I am jealous over you with
godly jealousy, for I have espoused

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you to one husband that I may
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

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And so Paul demonstrated his devotion to
lead people to a perfect relationship with

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God. And don't be afraid of
the word perfect. We're talking about complete.

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We're talking about the kind of relationship
that God is after. So strive

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for a devoted and faithful relationship with
Jesus, just like a bride to her

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groom. Okay. So in Isaiah
chapter thirty and verse twenty one, we're

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going to look at listening to God, and the Bible reads and thine ears

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shall hear a word behind these saying
this is the way walk ye in it?

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How many know that this is the
voice of God, the Holy Spirit

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Ah when ye turn to the right
hand, and even when ye turn to

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the left, and so practice listening. I said, practice listening. This

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is not something we take for granted. It's not something that we just say,

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yeah, listen to God and move
on. No, practice listening for

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God's guidance in daily life, making
decisions that align with his will. Now

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we're going to John chapter ten and
verse twenty seven. I hope you are

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taking notes here recognizing God's voice.
So the Bible reads my sheep here my

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voice, and I know them and
they follow me. So when we hear

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the voice of God, meaning whatever
he has called us to do through his

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word, through providence, through the
way that He orchestrates our lives, the

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way that he leads us down the
paths of righteousness from his Holy Bible,

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these sixty six pleasant, pleasant and
blessed books, we are then to follow

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him, not just to hear,
but to also follow. Remember to the

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Hebrew mindset, the ancient Hebrew mindset
Shamah Shamah from the Book of Drudonomy,

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chapter six. Hearing and doing.
Hearing God's voice, hearing what he has

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commanded, and doing what he has
commanded are synonymous. Okay, okay,

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And now we move to Let's see
which passage will we use. Let's go

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to John chapter sixteen, Verses twelve
and thirteen openness to the Holy Ghost,

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and the Bible reads, I have
yet many things to say to you,

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but I cannot ye cannot excuse me
bear them now. Howbeit, when he

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the Spirit of Truth is come,
he will guide you into all truth.

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For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that

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shall he speak. And he will
show you things to come. And so

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God wants us to be open to
learning and growing spiritually, allowing the Holy

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Spirit to guide us into all truth, truth about God, truth about ourselves.

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God is holy, just and good. We are unholy, right,

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carnal, sold under sin and need
God. We need God. And when

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He begins to reveal the reality of
that in the details of our lives,

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when he has said, go this
way to the left, and we've chosen

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to go to the right, like
times we have chosen addiction, and we

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have gone back to our sin full
patterns, when he has delivered us from

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such patterns, and God is saying, when the Holy Spirit comes to guide

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us into all truth, we should
hear and do and that really just takes

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us to the same concept with Second
Thessalonians chapter two, beginning at verse nine,

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where we are to embrace truth.
Embrace I'm talking about hold on to

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the Bible reads beginning at verse nine. Even him whose coming is after the

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working of Satan, with all power
and signs of lying and and lying wonders.

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We're talking about the last of the
last days, and with all deceivableness

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of unrighteousness in them that perish because
they received not the love of the truth.

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Did not Jesus say to the church
at Fhesus in the Book of Revelation

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to return, return to their first
love because they had not received the love

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of the truth, that they should
be saved. And for this cause God

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send will send them strong delusion that
they should believe a lie. And so

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God is saying, embrace the truth. Do not turn your back on the

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truth, because if you have a
habit, if I God forbid, we

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have a habit of turning our backs
on the truth, then we will believe

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a lie. Let's go with this
last one. Staying vigilant in faith.

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Staying vigilant in faith, regularly check
your faith and encourage others staying alert to

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avoid spiritual complacency, and that is
coming in from Hebrews Chapter three, verses

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twelve and thirteen. I am so
thankful that God has given us success and

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success in his mission, and all
we need to do is just follow him

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every wonderful day. 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,