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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 Sunday. It's

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May eleven in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy.

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I didn't say it yesterday, but we are in lesson

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number seven of thirteen, and our caption four today is here.

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I am send me here, I am send me. Before

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

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. I

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want you to pick up the Life Application Guide. It's there,

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big and bold for you. And also when you see

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a red button on that site. When you see the

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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

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then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you

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for this new day and for this new work week.

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Thank you for giving us the understanding that you are

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looking for people to help people to get close to you. Father,

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Please help us to be faithful with that charge today.

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In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Here

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I am send me. We looked at this just briefly yesterday,

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but now we're going to drill it some more. Let

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me read from what the lesson writer has said in

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the first paragraph. Years ago, a church decided to renovate

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an outdated basement in order to create a new fellowship, Paul.

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One of the first things they did was to install

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new lights, new lights, you see how bright I am

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lights are important, believing that they would make the space

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seem more beautiful once they were installed. However, the space

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looked worse. Uh oh, because bright lights have a way

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of revealing our flaws. Can we just pause right here

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and say that perspective matters. Yes we need lights, Yes

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we need the cameras, but when the lights come on,

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we have to be prepared for what we see. This

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is why some people run away from the light of

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God's words. Sometimes people run away from the light of

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understanding because really and truly their interest is to continue

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in the way that they have been living for years.

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But the light says, We're going to expose the truth.

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Whatever the truth is. Okay. So the question that I

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have for myself is what do I do when God

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shows me my flaws? I need you to just pause

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right there and listen and then answer the question honestly,

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what do I do when God shows me my flaws?

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Do I put on makeup? Do I put a filter

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over the lens of my camera or over my TikTok

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or Facebook or YouTube or whatever else is out there?

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Do I put a filter over it so I can

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make myself look better?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Do I beautify myself with jewels? Do I beautify myself

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and make myself feel better? I said, perspective? Is everything

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feel better? By putting on aprons of fig leaves. So, oh,

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that's what Adam and Eve did. They put on fig

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leaf aprons when they wanted to feel better about themselves

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when they were guilty as charged. Just like, what do

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I do when God shows me my flaws?

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Speaker 1: You see?

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Speaker 2: The good thing about God showing me are my flaws

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is that he already knew. He already knew, and he

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still loved me. He knew, and then he gave me

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the best gift in the world, which is cleansing from

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sin and all unrighteousness through the life and the death

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and the resurrection and the ministry, the present help ministry

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of Jesus right now, that cleansing work that's going on

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on right now. So when God shows me my flaws,

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he's not just showing me the problem. He's also presenting

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himself as the solution. But I said, perspective is everything.

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And so now we are going to take some action

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based on what we will read from Isaiah chapter six.

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We'll do it point by point, okay, And so in

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chapter six, verse five, the Bible reads, then I said,

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or then said, I woe is me, for I am undone,

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because I am a man of unclean lips. I dwell

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in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For

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mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: When Isaiah was taken into the presence of God, he

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was taken into the presence of God in vision or

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something sometimes I don't understand. But he was given the

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opportunity to witness worship in heaven. And when he could

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see how holy God was is with his eyes, not

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just know it, but see it with his eyes, to

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see those six winged creatures who were worshiping and crying Holy, Holy,

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Holy is the Lord of Hosts. When he experienced that scene,

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it was when the light came on for him in

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a way that it did not come on before, and

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he could see all that was wrong with him all

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at at the same time, and it was overwhelming to him.

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And all he could do is cry, woe, woe is me.

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But guess what. God did not leave him that way.

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I said that a little bit earlier, didn't I. And

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he sent an angel to cleanse him. He took a

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live call from all off of the altar and touched

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the lips and life of Isaiah and said, this has

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touched thy lips your iniquity is now cleansed. And then

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God makes the call, who will I send? How can

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we send somebody from this experience to go and to

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do what I have called them to do? Now Isaiah

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being cleansed, Now Isaiah being in the presence of God

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to the degree that he was transformed. Now Isaiah is

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jumping up and down, not saying woe is me, not

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calling out the negative realities of his life, but saying,

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now I'm ready to go God, because you are the

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cleansing God of the universe. And I thank you. And then,

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of course Isaiah did. And so the action really for

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me in that regard is to examine my life regularly

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in the light of God's word. And when I do,

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and I take an honest account with the power of

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the Holy Ghost leading my mindset, then I put myself

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on the mercy of God and say, God, will you

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please show me how to be like you? Will you

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cleanse me and then activate me to do your will? Yes?

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And so we go, we go. Let me just fast

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forward here to let's go with verse eight. I did

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mention it, but let's do it again. And Isaiah chapter

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six and verse eight. The Bible reads also I heard

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the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send

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and who shall go for us? Then I said, here

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am I send me? And so the action in that

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regard is to stay attentive to God's voice, remain at

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the ready, ready to be deployed when God says go.

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Stay attentive to God's voice. That means to listen, being

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open to us call, and ready to respond affirmatively every

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time he asks. Ah, that's a good one. That's a

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good one. That's a good one. Let's go with one

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more From the book two Timothy, chapter two, in verse fifteen,

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we may get another one in there. The Bible reads

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study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that

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needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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And so the action here is to dedicate time. I

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would say invest time, because when you invest in something,

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you don't spend it. You invest in something, then there

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is a reasonable expectation of return. Okay, So invest time

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to study the scriptures so deeply, so deeply as to

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understand as much as you can understand humanly, with the

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power the Holy Ghost, the character and will of God.

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And then helping me to me now want you to

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apply it to yourself, helping me to represent him to others.

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When they see your good works, when you let your

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light shine from God through your life, they will glorify

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your Father, which is in heaven. Are you jumping up

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and down right now saying God? I know you're revealing me,

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but I'm ready to go here I am.

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Speaker 1: Say thanks for joining uspeaking to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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