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12 27 2023 Success in Mission · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect 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 going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Wednesday, December twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in the final week of our Lesson
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  study series, God's Mission, my mission, and our caption for today is
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  success in Mission. Success in Mission. We'll get into that in just a
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  moment, but first I'd like to just welcome you and ask you to go
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  over to your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community and make sure
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  you let us know where you are in the world, and also also please
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  pick up the your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  is a way, as I say every single day, a way that we
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  build faith and fellowship at your Daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and
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  pray and then get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  this new day and for the privilege we have to open up your word.
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  I pray that you will open up my understanding here and I don't trust myself
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  while I'm sharing here with your people. Father, please teach us success your
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  way in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amn again. Well,
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  how do you measure success? And of course that's something that I'm excited about
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  because I am a life and success coach. Yeah, how do you measure
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  success? And of course, in the context of our lesson, I want
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  you to drill it. How do you measure success? In mission? And
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  the lesson writer says, we might be tempted to think that it is many
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  baptisms. Uh oh, we got to get ourselves in trouble here, many
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  baptisms, big churches and rapid growth rates. Whoops. We might feel that
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  success consists of entering every tribe and people group on earth and with the truth,
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  and that we can speed it up by using radio, on the internet,
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  in television. Oh this is a plot twist. While all of this
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  can be good, we must remember that Paul wrote to the Community of Faith
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  at Corinth I planted Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. Did you
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  get that? In other words, our focus is to be on the process.
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  God's focus will be on the growth. Oh my goodness, I wish
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  I had the time. I have worked for God's Church at different times for
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  many many years, I mean in leadership and this discussion here. I am
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  really actually very happy that the that the church has put this out in its
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  official Bible Study guide, right, because we in different at different levels of
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  the organization, have had to contend with this and sometimes we come up with
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  the wrong answer. Can I just say that sometimes we come up with the
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  wrong answer. We may say the right words, but sometimes we come up
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  with the wrong answer. And yeah, I won't turn this into a soapbox,
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  but I am thankful that in the Lesson Study it says again, in
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  other words, our focus is to be on the process. God's focus is
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  to be on the growth. We have already seen that the object of God's
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  mission is saving lost people from every people group on earth by making loyal disciples
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  of Jesus who are involved in his mission. Okay, So we're going through
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  many passages here of scripture as a lesson writer would have prescribed, and see
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  what we can glean. And so from tewod Corinthians chapter eleven and verse two,
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  we're going to look at devotion for a moment, and the Bible reads,
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  for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy, for I have espoused
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  you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
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  And so Paul demonstrated his devotion to lead people to a perfect relationship with
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  God. And don't be afraid of the word perfect. We're talking about complete.
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  We're talking about the kind of relationship that God is after. So strive
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  for a devoted and faithful relationship with Jesus, just like a bride to her
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  groom. Okay. So in Isaiah chapter thirty and verse twenty one, we're
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  going to look at listening to God, and the Bible reads and thine ears
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  shall hear a word behind these saying this is the way walk ye in it?
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  How many know that this is the voice of God, the Holy Spirit
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  Ah when ye turn to the right hand, and even when ye turn to
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  the left, and so practice listening. I said, practice listening. This
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  is not something we take for granted. It's not something that we just say,
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  yeah, listen to God and move on. No, practice listening for
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  God's guidance in daily life, making decisions that align with his will. Now
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  we're going to John chapter ten and verse twenty seven. I hope you are
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  taking notes here recognizing God's voice. So the Bible reads my sheep here my
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  voice, and I know them and they follow me. So when we hear
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  the voice of God, meaning whatever he has called us to do through his
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  word, through providence, through the way that He orchestrates our lives, the
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  way that he leads us down the paths of righteousness from his Holy Bible,
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  these sixty six pleasant, pleasant and blessed books, we are then to follow
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  him, not just to hear, but to also follow. Remember to the
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  Hebrew mindset, the ancient Hebrew mindset Shamah Shamah from the Book of Drudonomy,
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  chapter six. Hearing and doing. Hearing God's voice, hearing what he has
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  commanded, and doing what he has commanded are synonymous. Okay, okay,
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  And now we move to Let's see which passage will we use. Let's go
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  to John chapter sixteen, Verses twelve and thirteen openness to the Holy Ghost,
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  and the Bible reads, I have yet many things to say to you,
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  but I cannot ye cannot excuse me bear them now. Howbeit, when he
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  the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth.
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  For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that
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  shall he speak. And he will show you things to come. And so
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  God wants us to be open to learning and growing spiritually, allowing the Holy
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  Spirit to guide us into all truth, truth about God, truth about ourselves.
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  God is holy, just and good. We are unholy, right,
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  carnal, sold under sin and need God. We need God. And when
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  He begins to reveal the reality of that in the details of our lives,
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  when he has said, go this way to the left, and we've chosen
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  to go to the right, like times we have chosen addiction, and we
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  have gone back to our sin full patterns, when he has delivered us from
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  such patterns, and God is saying, when the Holy Spirit comes to guide
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  us into all truth, we should hear and do and that really just takes
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  us to the same concept with Second Thessalonians chapter two, beginning at verse nine,
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  where we are to embrace truth. Embrace I'm talking about hold on to
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  the Bible reads beginning at verse nine. Even him whose coming is after the
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  working of Satan, with all power and signs of lying and and lying wonders.
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  We're talking about the last of the last days, and with all deceivableness
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  of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth.
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  Did not Jesus say to the church at Fhesus in the Book of Revelation
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  to return, return to their first love because they had not received the love
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  of the truth, that they should be saved. And for this cause God
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  send will send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie. And so
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  God is saying, embrace the truth. Do not turn your back on the
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  truth, because if you have a habit, if I God forbid, we
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  have a habit of turning our backs on the truth, then we will believe
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  a lie. Let's go with this last one. Staying vigilant in faith.
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  Staying vigilant in faith, regularly check your faith and encourage others staying alert to
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  avoid spiritual complacency, and that is coming in from Hebrews Chapter three, verses
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  twelve and thirteen. I am so thankful that God has given us success and
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  success in his mission, and all we need to do is just follow him
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  every wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris,
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  make it a great day. Yeah,