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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 Tuesday, November twenty one, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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

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

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is 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 refugees and Immigrants. That's

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refugees and immigrants. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say thank you and
welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. I'm asking you to please go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com,
join our online community, and also let

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us know where you are in the
world, so we can see how you

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are spreading the gospel because so many
of you are cooking, share, share,

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share, share, share and telling
people that matter to you. Yes,

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and also pick up the Your Daily
Portion book at your Daily Portion dot

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com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven. Thank you for
giving us this new day and for the

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privilege we have to be your children. Please help us to live like your

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children. In Jesus' name, I
pray, Amen and Amen again. Refugees

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and immigrants. Now, for those
who are on social media, YouTube,

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and on podcast land, you can
respond to me here. Right, you

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can put it in a comment or
a review or whatever you need to do.

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By show of hands. Let me
see your virtual hand is going to

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be a one. Right, if
you have ever been a refugee or an

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immigrant, type of one in the
chat. If you have been an immigrant

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or refuge go ahead and type of
one in the chat. Yes, okay,

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I used to be, and well, I guess I can't say used

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to be. I am an immigrant
in the country that I live now.

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Yes, I'm now a citizen,
but I am an immigrant. Right and

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many of you are as well.
Many of you have had to seek asylum

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and refuge because of all kinds of
political or other kinds of challenges in your

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particular countries, and have gone to
many different countries around the world so that

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you could be safe. And so
this is a discussion that really becomes practical

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almost at the outset, because we
know what it's like to move from a

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country to another country for some reason
or another. And so we're going to

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look at various stories in the Bible
in these few minutes that we have to

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see if we can learn any spiritual
lessons from their experiences. Let's begin with

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Jesus in the Book of Matthew,
chapter two and verse thirteen. That's the

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Book of Matthew, chapter two,
and I will read verse thirteen, and

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the Bible reads and when they were
departed, behold the Angel of the Lord

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appeareth unto Joseph in a dream.
So this is Joseph who was espoused too,

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or whose spouse was to be Mary, the mother of Jesus. Right,

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So the Angel of the Lord appeared
to Joseph in a dream, saying,

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arise, take the young child and
his mother and flee into Egypt,

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And so just really easily here we
see that this family Jesus included as a

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baby became call them refugees and immigrants, refugees into Egypt, and so reflect

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on the story of Jesus's early life
as a refugee and use this as motivation

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to empathize, empathize with, and
aid modern day refugees. Can we keep

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it as simple as that? Can
you imagine if Jesus were kicked out of

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Egypt somehow and his family. Can
you imagine if somehow it was not a

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place of refuge for them and something
terrible happened as a result, where would

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we be today? Where would we
be today? And so we can empathize

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if we have the experience of being
a refugee or an immigrant. We can

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see in the story of Jesus's early
life how that it was of benefit because

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remember the king was destroying children at
the time, and God protected Jesus from

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that destruction so that you and I
could be saved. Jesus needed to come

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here and to complete his mission,
and if he dies prematurely, then that

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mission would not be accomplished. Okay, So let's just go very simple there.

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Now we go to the Book of
Deuteronomy. The Book of Deuteronomy sorry,

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chapter ten and verse nineteen, and
the Bible reads love ye, therefore

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the stranger, for ye were strangers
in the land of Egypt. Okay,

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love immigrants as yourself. Do you
remember when we read in Matthew chapter twenty

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two, when the question of the
commandments comes up, what is the greatest

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commandment? The first and great commandment
is the love the Lord or God with

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everything that you are, everything that
you have. And the second, miraculously,

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yes, is like unto it,
namely this love the Lord your God

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with all that you have. I
mean. The second is like unto it,

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namely this love your neighbor as yourself. Yes. And we said that

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to love our neighbors is to love
everyone in need. Who is our neighbor,

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everyone who is in need. We
went through that story in detail.

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And so now we say, there
are people who become immigrants in countries,

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and during that time as they're transitioning
in I have experienced that I have done

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this. There are certain things that
we need when we make a transition into

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a country. There are things about
the society we may not fully understand.

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There may be a way that we
have to deal with with all kinds of

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things, like from getting our normal
everyday needs met to how we live in

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my case, switching to on the
left side of the road and the right

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side of the vehicle you see,
and so many other things. Of course,

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I'm starting with the very simple,
so we can easily identify with that

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Ah. But people who are moving
into other countries, who may be going

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into countries where the language is different, the culture is completely different, the

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living situations is different, how things
are delivered to the home, like water

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and electricity and all kinds of other
things. It's different. We need to

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learn to love people who were not
from where we happen to be living or

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domiciled, and then we are also
fulfilling the law. Let me read it

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again, Love ye, therefore the
stranger, For ye were strangers in the

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land of Egypt. God was speaking
to his people. Treat immigrants and refugees

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with the same kindness, respect,
and love that you would want for yourself

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were you in their position. Remember
having to keep safe a yellow book,

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a small little book about the size
of an index card, actually smaller than

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an index card. And it said
alien, and it said I was an

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alien into this country that I am
living today. Okay, Let's go to

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Psalm's chapter the Book of Psalms,
chapter one hundred and forty six and verse

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nine. Okay, and the Bible
reads, the Lord preserveth the strangers.

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He relieveth the fatherless and the widow. Some people as one of my neighbors.

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He's a distant neighbor way down the
hill. I remember during a recent

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war he and his wife had Actually, his wife is from the place where

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the war was happening, and she
needed a special kind of healthcare, and

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in her country it was more readily
available, especially because she's from that country,

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and well, something broke out over
there was so terrible, and the

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family was not only stuck in the
country during the war, but they were

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trying to flee to another country.
It was a harrowing experience. And the

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people in those neighboring countries, some
of them supported the displaced, supported the

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displaced. Can you imagine you go
there for health care and then you have

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to leave suddenly, and you're hoping
that the neighboring country or the bordering country

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will accept you. So we need
to consider supporting organizations and community programs dedicated

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to providing relief to refugees, orphans
and widows. I think we've learned a

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lot today. Every wonderful day.
Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Friends. Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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El David Harris. Make it a
great day. Yeah,