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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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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

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Friday. It's

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May thirty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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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,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our

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caption for today is Heaven's Direction. Heaven's Direction. And before

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we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. And I want to say a great,

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big happy birthday and shout out to my wife, Simone.

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Simone is fifty three today. You don't have to think

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you told the world when you were fifty, so yeah,

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fifty three today. And I'm grateful because because there are

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so many ways that God is using you these days,

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and especially with those women who are going through perimenopause

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and menopause. So I'm thankful. I'm thankful that you are

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still here because there are a lot of people who

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need you, and I know Josiah and I need you.

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So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you God

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for extending Simone's days. Happy birthday, Simone. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then we will get underway. Father, we

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do thank you this day for your words. Thank you

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for this day of preparation. Thank you for giving us

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the fullness of your power were in these last days,

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and for the fact that you've charted the course and

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shown us your vision and direction for heavenly things. Please

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please help us to be in lockstep with you. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen and a man again Heaven's direction.

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I'm going to begin by reading the quote from the

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Acts of the Apostles, page thirty seven, right out of

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the lesson. During the Patriarchal Age, the influence of the

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Holy Ghost had often been revealed in a marked manner,

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but never in his fullness. Now, in obedience to the

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word of the Savior, the disciples offered their supplications for

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this gift, the gift of what the outpouring of the

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Holy Ghost. For that time okay, and in heaven. Christ

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added his intercession. He claimed the gift of the Holy Spirit,

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that he might pour that gift upon the people. Man

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say that last part one more time, God claimed Jesus,

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I'm sorry, Jesus, the Son of God, and God, the

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Son Jesus claimed the gift of the Holy Spirit, that

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he might pour the Holy Ghost upon us, his people,

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upon us his people. When you receive from God, are

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you receiving in order to give the reason the dead sea?

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And I may be overstating it, but yeah, the reason

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the dead sea is dead is because it receives, receives,

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receives and doesn't give. It receives but doesn't give. It

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doesn't flow out to anywhere, to bless anywhere. And so

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we are not to be dead sees. We are to

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be we are to be living waters because Christ poured

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upon us living waters. So when we receive the gifts

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of the Holy Ghost, the purpose is to edify the

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people of God and to go out into the world

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and to assist people to get close to God. I'm understating,

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but let me just continue. The disciples were instructed to

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bear witness to Christ to the end of the earth

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in Acts chapter one and verse eight, and work that

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would herald a work that would herald the return of Christ.

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We are to continue what they started. When Christ told

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us to carry the Gospel into the world, he didn't

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leave us alone to figure it out. How would it happen?

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Of course, Heaven's direction from the sanctuary. God gave us

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the blueprint, the plan of Salvation's blueprint. He gave to

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us and then empowered us through the Holy Ghost. And

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so what we're going to do now is share a

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couple of a couple of questions and then of response

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that I think you can work with. Okay, how can

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we better fulfill the mission that Christ is using us

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to fulfill? How do we avoid the despair knowing so

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many are still unreached? Can you imagine how many millions

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of people don't know God? How do we avoid that despair?

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Let me just begin here. Follow the Holy Ghost. Follow

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the Holy Ghost. There are many times, there are many

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times that the people of God have have retreats and trainings, etc.

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And those are great. I mean we should, and we're

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learning principles and learning strategies, but we need the Holy

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Ghost more than we need our formulas. Okay, So we

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get the formulas, we get the blueprint, we get the strategies,

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we get the tactics from God through the Holy Ghost,

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and then we move out into the world. But sometimes

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we trust our strategies more than we trust God. We

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trust our tactics more than we trust God. We trust

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our abilities, our perfectly knit plans, we trust those more

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than we trust God. So God doesn't need new inventions,

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He needs faithful vessels. I remember em Bounds said something

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very similar to what I just said, and he said,

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God is not looking for more strategies. I think he said,

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not looking for more plans. He's looking for faithful people.

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He's not looking for more plans. He's not looking for

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more plans. He's looking for more men in the words

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that he wrote in the eighteen hundreds, but more people,

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people to serve him. So we work locally while praying globally.

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We work locally while we are praying globally. This is

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what we should ask God, who is ready and already

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pared around me, who was ready and already prepared around me.

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There are times that we will encounter people just like

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the apostle encountered the eunuch that time in the Book

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of Acts, and he asked him, like, do you know

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what you're reading? He knew he was reading from the

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scrolls of Isaiah, and he was like, do you understand

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what you're reading? And he was like, how can I

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understand except somebody, somebody teach me. And of course the

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Bible says that God opened up this man's understanding. And

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then of course he was baptized right then and right there,

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because God had already been preparing him. He sent a

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messenger to him. They closed the deal, and I know

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what I just said. We can say it many ways.

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He closed the deal like he closed it. And now

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the man is baptized and of course saved. So resist despair.

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Resist despair by trusting the one who commanded the angels

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to fly in the midst of heaven. We are not alone.

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Heaven is all involved, those seraphim, those cherubim, the creatures

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that we don't understand fully. But God has given us

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a window into that are at his behest serving him.

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Those who excel in strength, those heavenly angels are at

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work to move according to his guidance. Here's an encouraging

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text in Acts, chapter one and verse eight I made

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reference to and it reads, ye shall receive power power dunamus,

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that is holy ghost power, after the Holy Ghost has

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come upon you. And that was way back then when

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Jesus had just gone back to Heaven after his after

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his resurrection. Right, and ye shall be my witnesses unto

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the unnermost part of the earth. That is basically what

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the Bible is teaching there into the most part of

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the earth. So, if God gave his first century believers

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dynamite power, what kind of power has he given his

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people in the last days? What is Heaven's direction in

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these last days? If he gave them thousands of years

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ago when the enemy was not allowed to do some

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of the dark stuff that he's doing today at the

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scale that he is doing it today, how much more

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power through the Holy Ghost is God giving to us today?

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We are in the position now to receive the latter reign,

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the fullness of the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit, so

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that we can follow Heaven's direction and the world who

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loves him and be saved.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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