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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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that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
your Daily Portion with your host, author

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speaker L. David Harris. Good
morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Sunday, October one,
two twenty three. Hello, my name

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is L. 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 no

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exception. We are continuing in our
lesson study series about God's mission, our

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God's mission, our God's mission in
our lives. He wants to do something

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very special in our lives, and
it is now it is high time that

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we should join the team and make
sure that we are following all of the

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guidance that He has given us.
God's mission, my mission, our caption

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for today is the God who reaches
out to us. We'll get into that

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in just a moment. But first
I'd like to just say, please go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community, Please pick

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up your Daily Portion book, and
let us also know in that little segment

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there where you are in the world, and I can continue to be encouraged

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by your presence, knowing that you
are all over spreading the gospel of Jesus

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Christ. From this vantage point,
let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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morning, this new work week.
Father, thank you for giving us the

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privilege of prayer. Please teach us
never to take you for granted when you

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come in search of us. Jesus
name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again the God who reaches out to
us. I started the story yesterday.

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I was impassioned. I know I
was a little bit up, But the

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fact is, I'm excited to know
that God is willing to do whatever he

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needs to do in order to save
me and to save you. Let me

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say it again, I am so
excited. Why are you excited, Dave?

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Because God is willing to do anything
he needs to do in order to

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save me and to save you.
God reaches out to you first. This

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is something that we need to keep
in our minds when we consider God.

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See, sometimes we make our responsibility
to God. We make it a checklist.

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Sometimes we make it a task list
that will sort of bring us into

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good graces with God if we tick
enough of those things those items prayer,

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okay, tick, if I,
if I, if I read my Bible

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boom tick, if I read it
for more than thirty minutes, then I

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might get a bonus or a star
or something. Tick. I got that

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done. Oh, good, good
deed for the day. Okay tick.

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Oh wait a minute, I said
a kind word, wonderful, I returned

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my tie and then added a bonus
offering. Tick I got that underway.

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Tick. I get a double tick
for that one. And then we get

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so confused when we are unfulfilled.
We're unfulfilled because we have thought, for

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whatever reasons, that if we do
enough, then we will be enough.

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When God says you are enough because
I created you, you are enough because

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I am the one that puts you
on the mission. Even though I knew

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who you were after you sin,
I knew who I intended you to be

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when I created you. But I
also know who you are having sinned,

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and still we sometimes have a checklist
religion. God is saying, it's all

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about relationship. He's the one that
makes the first step. Everything that God

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requires, he first gives. And
so in this story of Adam and Eve,

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now Adam hiding in the bushes,
blaming Eve, Eve hiding and ashamed

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and blaming the devil. And then
they so fig leaves on them and try

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to cover up their sinfulness with a
little apron made out of bushes and trees.

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And God is like, nah,
listen, it's all about relationship for

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me. I created you for my
glory in the beginning, and so what

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I'm want to do is restore that. And I know that if I don't

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come looking for you, it's not
about to happen. So what does God

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do. He calls out to Adam
and he says, where are you.

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He's giving Adam an opportunity, much
like the Holy Ghost does for us today,

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to face himself to how far he
is from God, with the goal

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of bringing him back into right relationship
with himself. And so God created us

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straight out of the lesson. God
created us in his image and in his

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likeness. He gave us a perfect
world, and his purpose was that we

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would live a perfect connection with him, a relationship centered on his most precious

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attribute. Do you know what it
is? It's love. But for love

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to be real, God also gave
us another precious gift, that is called

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free will, or the ability to
choose, the freedom to choose the way

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that we wish to follow. Of
course, God gave clear instructions to Adam

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and Eve about the danger and deadly
consequences of disobedience, and then Satan,

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in turn, deceptively persuaded Eve that
she could eat from the fruit of the

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tree of the knowledge of good need, but without any negative outcomes or results.

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On the contrary, he claimed that
they would be like God, knowing

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good and evil. We talked about
that yesterday. But unfortunately Eve chose to

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eat and gave the fruit to Adam, who made the same choice. The

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perfect creation then was now stained by
sin. One more paragraph. That moment

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God changed. That moment changed God's
original plan and purpose for the newly created

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planet Earth. Let me not say
it that way. I'm seeing where the

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lesson writer is going. But that
moment put us on a track that God

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did not intend when he created us. The mission of salvation, which had

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been designed before the foundation of the
world, had now to be implemented.

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God had to reconcile his children,
and the only way was for him to

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come to us first. Because we're
naked, We're ashamed, we're hiding ourselves.

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We're blaming others for our misdeeds and
evil. We are blaming the devil

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for our misdeeds and evil. We're
blaming each other. We're blaming the sun,

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the moon, the stars. We're
blaming what somebody did to me twenty

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years ago. We're still blaming.
And God is saying, I hear and

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I see all of that. What
I'm gonna do. I'm going to continue

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to pursue you and give you the
opportunity to see this relationship for what it

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really is, to see that I
love you with everything that I am.

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I have given you all. How
do you know that God has given you

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all He gave Jesus Christ. For
God so loved the world that he gave

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his only begotten son, and whosoever
believe with him should not perish but have

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everlasting life. God did not send
his son into the world to condemn the

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world, but that the world through
him might be saved. And so there

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are a few calls to action that
I have for you today. Seek God's

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original intent. I want you to
seek God's original intent for you. Remember,

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God created humans in his own image
and in his likeness. And then

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he continues the story. Go back
to the beginning, go to the genesis

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of your experience and say, God, what is it that you would have

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had me to do had I not
gone off track? What will you have

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me to do today? Rediscover your
divine purpose today. Don't take a class,

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don't come to coaches like me.
First, No, don't do that.

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First go to God and say God, what is it that you will

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have me to do? Seek God's
original intent? And then number two,

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I want you to understand the consequences
of poor choices. Understand the consequences of

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poor voices. And I want you
to dig deeper into understanding the balance,

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the delicate balance between love and freedom. We have the freedom to make any

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choice we deserve, we determine,
but some of those decisions that people make

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run counter to God's love. And
then finally, I want you to grasp

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God's redemptive promise. Grasp his promise. God promised to reclaim and restore anyone

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who's willing to surrender our will to
him. You see, God reaches out

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to us first because God desires to
save us. Peace. Thanks for joining

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us listening to friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.