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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 seven,
twenty twenty three. Hello, my

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name is El 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 for
today is Waiting and Mission. We'll get

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into that in just a moment,
but first i'd like to say welcome to

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you and ask you to go over
to your Daily Portion dot com, join

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our online community, and there you
can ask your questions, make your comments,

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and share concerning the Lesson Study and
we can all be engaged together at

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your Daily portion dot com. Also
pick up the your Daily Portion book there

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and we can build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Thank
you, Father, Thank you for waking

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us up this morning. And I
appreciate the fact that you have given us

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this facility to guide us into all
truth. Please give us your Holy Spirit

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and teach us what it means to
await your power. In Jesus's name,

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I pray, Amen and amen again. Let me just say this as we

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begin, that some of us are
just entirely too impatient, too impatient,

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like there are times that we've run
out ahead of God because we are not

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patient enough or I should say even
humble enough to await his power and his

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guidance. And so when we are
doing his mission, some of us,

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this is what it looks like.
Some of us get up in the morning

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and rush out to do his business. Are you leading a prayer group online

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or in some other facility. Do
you run out before you pray yourself?

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Are you a Bible teacher or some
other kind of religious leader who does something

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to pour into people on a daily
basis? What I do I do,

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It's not just your daily portion there's
another community that I pour into at around

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the time that you see me.
We are also pouring into the UOU Mastermind

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community with doctor Eric Thomas. Right, there are a number of people who

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are counting on me to be ready
and to what share whatever we are supposed

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to do to move the need,
whether it's spiritual, whether it has to

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do with our finances, whether it
has to do with our personal relationships and

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so forth. Right, And what
if we who do those kinds of things

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run out into that without first coming
aside and resting awhile with God. What

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if we don't follow the guidance that
Jesus gave by his example that he went

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away a great while before pray before
day. He went into a solitary place,

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and there he prayed. What if
we just go into our day thinking

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we're going to change the world.
But we're in our own strength, you

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see. And so what God wants
us to do is make a decision.

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And of course he wants us to
choose a right first, wait for power,

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that is the power of the Holy
Ghost, or rush for weakness,

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wait for his power, or rush
for weakness. So Jesus told the disciples

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or his people, really where how
and why to wait. So let's go

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into this now. Based on Acts
chapter one, verses twelve through twenty six,

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we have a few action items.
Okay, let's read verse fourteen of

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Acts chapter one, and the Bible
reads these all continued with one accord in

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prayer and supplication with the women and
Mary and the Mother of Jesus and all

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brethren. So what we want to
do is to dedicate specific times to come

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together as a community or a group
to fervently pray. Now we're talking about

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mission. I've already talked about what
we need to be doing by ourselves,

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right before we join with anyone,
before we run out into the battle,

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right before we try to pour into
anyone. Now we're talking about the collective

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we're going into the mission. Engage
and united prayer, right, fervently pray,

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seek God's wisdom, strength, and
courage for the mission. That's what

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the people of God did at that
time. Now we're going to move down

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to verses twenty one and twenty two
of Acts chapter one, Wherefore, of

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these men which have companied with us
all the time that the Lord Jesus went

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in and out among us, beginning
from the baptism of John unto that same

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day that he was taken up from
us. Must one be ordained to be

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a witness with us of his resurrection? You see, sometimes people people move

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forward in ministry who have not had
the encounter that they need with Christ.

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Can I just pause right here and
say that if you are not having an

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encounter with Christ, you are not
praying, not receiving His words into your

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heart from these sixty six blessed books
of the Bible through inspiration, if you

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are not asking Him for his Holy
Spirit, if you are choosing not to

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be in agreement with God, which
the Bible style of confession is agreement with

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God. If you're not turning the
shoulder, turning away from sin, having

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godly sorrow for sin, and turning
your face toward Him, then this is

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the time to repent, like to
become that person who receives all that I

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just said, in more receives the
mind set of Christ, so that when

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you go forward with these organized plans, right when these organized plans go forward,

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you need to be going forward as
a true disciple of God. There

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are a lot of impostors out here. In fact, Jesus when his disciples

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asked him when he was talking about
the destruction of Jerusalem that would have come

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in seventy a d right, and
some other things. He said. They

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said, when shall these things be
like? When shall what shall be the

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sign of thy coming and of the
end of the world. And Jesus begins

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the discussion by saying, be not
deceived. There will be false christs.

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Right, there will be wars and
rumors of wars, all kinds of other

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things. And then a few verses
later, he said, there will be

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false prophets who will say all kinds
of things that don't agree with God.

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And so God is saying that when
we are moving forward with his mission,

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in order not to be a deceiver
or to be deceived, In order not

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to be a deceiver or to be
deceived, we have to have our own

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encounters with Him on a daily basis, and then move forward with these organized

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efforts to lead people into a right
relationship with him. Number three, We're

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going to seek God's guidance in decision
making. Let's go to verse twenty four

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of Acts, chapter one, and
the Bible reads and they prayed and said,

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thou Lord, which knowest the hearts
of all men, show whether of

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these two thou hast chosen. Now
this is related to what we said a

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moment ago, but I didn't identify
that we were talking about somebody coming into

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the mission for a particular purpose,
because of course Judas. Judas, you

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know the story of Judas. He
basically sold his soul and he died because

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he killed himself instead of repenting like
Peter, he killed himself and then he

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died. He had the enemy entered
into him as he left the table that

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we call that has to do with
the Last Supper. He got up,

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he went, he came back,
He betrayed Jesus at the time that we

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know, and then hopelessly, helplessly
he went in and destroyed himself rather than

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than to repent. And so they
needed a replacement. They needed more than

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just a replacement, like they needed
people who would would God would be guided

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by the Holy Spirit, who would
be guided by the Holy Spirit to do

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his work. And so God is
saying that we must seek his guidance in

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decision making fully that so that we
could do his work and then finally finally

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encourage one another in faith and in
good works. And Versus twenty four and

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twenty five of Hebrews chapter twenty four, Hebrews chapter ten. We see that

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we should regularly meet with fellow believers, so that we can have the courage

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that we meet for this mission.
I hope that this was of benefit to

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you. Of a 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,