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05 30 2025 Heaven's Direction · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: 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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  Speaker 2: May thirty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Heaven's Direction. Heaven's Direction. And before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. And I want to say a great,
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  Speaker 2: big happy birthday and shout out to my wife, Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Simone is fifty three today. You don't have to think
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  Speaker 2: you told the world when you were fifty, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: fifty three today. And I'm grateful because because there are
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  Speaker 2: so many ways that God is using you these days,
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  Speaker 2: and especially with those women who are going through perimenopause
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  Speaker 2: and menopause. So I'm thankful. I'm thankful that you are
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  Speaker 2: still here because there are a lot of people who
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  Speaker 2: need you, and I know Josiah and I need you.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you God
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  Speaker 2: for extending Simone's days. Happy birthday, Simone. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get underway. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: do thank you this day for your words. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day of preparation. Thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of your power were in these last days,
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  Speaker 2: and for the fact that you've charted the course and
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  Speaker 2: shown us your vision and direction for heavenly things. Please
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  Speaker 2: please help us to be in lockstep with you. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and a man again Heaven's direction.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to begin by reading the quote from the
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  Speaker 2: Acts of the Apostles, page thirty seven, right out of
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  Speaker 2: the lesson. During the Patriarchal Age, the influence of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost had often been revealed in a marked manner,
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  Speaker 2: but never in his fullness. Now, in obedience to the
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  Speaker 2: word of the Savior, the disciples offered their supplications for
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  Speaker 2: this gift, the gift of what the outpouring of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. For that time okay, and in heaven. Christ
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  Speaker 2: added his intercession. He claimed the gift of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: that he might pour that gift upon the people. Man
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  Speaker 2: say that last part one more time, God claimed Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Jesus, the Son of God, and God, the
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  Speaker 2: Son Jesus claimed the gift of the Holy Spirit, that
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  Speaker 2: he might pour the Holy Ghost upon us, his people,
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  Speaker 2: upon us his people. When you receive from God, are
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  Speaker 2: you receiving in order to give the reason the dead sea?
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  Speaker 2: And I may be overstating it, but yeah, the reason
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  Speaker 2: the dead sea is dead is because it receives, receives,
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  Speaker 2: receives and doesn't give. It receives but doesn't give. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't flow out to anywhere, to bless anywhere. And so
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  Speaker 2: we are not to be dead sees. We are to
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  Speaker 2: be we are to be living waters because Christ poured
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  Speaker 2: upon us living waters. So when we receive the gifts
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Ghost, the purpose is to edify the
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  Speaker 2: people of God and to go out into the world
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  Speaker 2: and to assist people to get close to God. I'm understating,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just continue. The disciples were instructed to
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  Speaker 2: bear witness to Christ to the end of the earth
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  Speaker 2: in Acts chapter one and verse eight, and work that
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  Speaker 2: would herald a work that would herald the return of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: We are to continue what they started. When Christ told
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  Speaker 2: us to carry the Gospel into the world, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: leave us alone to figure it out. How would it happen?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Heaven's direction from the sanctuary. God gave us
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  Speaker 2: the blueprint, the plan of Salvation's blueprint. He gave to
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  Speaker 2: us and then empowered us through the Holy Ghost. And
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  Speaker 2: so what we're going to do now is share a
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  Speaker 2: couple of a couple of questions and then of response
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  Speaker 2: that I think you can work with. Okay, how can
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  Speaker 2: we better fulfill the mission that Christ is using us
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  Speaker 2: to fulfill? How do we avoid the despair knowing so
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  Speaker 2: many are still unreached? Can you imagine how many millions
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  Speaker 2: of people don't know God? How do we avoid that despair?
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  Speaker 2: Let me just begin here. Follow the Holy Ghost. Follow
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. There are many times, there are many
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  Speaker 2: times that the people of God have have retreats and trainings, etc.
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  Speaker 2: And those are great. I mean we should, and we're
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  Speaker 2: learning principles and learning strategies, but we need the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost more than we need our formulas. Okay, So we
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  Speaker 2: get the formulas, we get the blueprint, we get the strategies,
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  Speaker 2: we get the tactics from God through the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: and then we move out into the world. But sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we trust our strategies more than we trust God. We
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  Speaker 2: trust our tactics more than we trust God. We trust
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  Speaker 2: our abilities, our perfectly knit plans, we trust those more
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  Speaker 2: than we trust God. So God doesn't need new inventions,
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  Speaker 2: He needs faithful vessels. I remember em Bounds said something
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  Speaker 2: very similar to what I just said, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: God is not looking for more strategies. I think he said,
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  Speaker 2: not looking for more plans. He's looking for faithful people.
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  Speaker 2: He's not looking for more plans. He's not looking for
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  Speaker 2: more plans. He's looking for more men in the words
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  Speaker 2: that he wrote in the eighteen hundreds, but more people,
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  Speaker 2: people to serve him. So we work locally while praying globally.
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  Speaker 2: We work locally while we are praying globally. This is
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  Speaker 2: what we should ask God, who is ready and already
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  Speaker 2: pared around me, who was ready and already prepared around me.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that we will encounter people just like
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  Speaker 2: the apostle encountered the eunuch that time in the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Acts, and he asked him, like, do you know
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  Speaker 2: what you're reading? He knew he was reading from the
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  Speaker 2: scrolls of Isaiah, and he was like, do you understand
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  Speaker 2: what you're reading? And he was like, how can I
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  Speaker 2: understand except somebody, somebody teach me. And of course the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that God opened up this man's understanding. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course he was baptized right then and right there,
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  Speaker 2: because God had already been preparing him. He sent a
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  Speaker 2: messenger to him. They closed the deal, and I know
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  Speaker 2: what I just said. We can say it many ways.
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  Speaker 2: He closed the deal like he closed it. And now
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  Speaker 2: the man is baptized and of course saved. So resist despair.
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  Speaker 2: Resist despair by trusting the one who commanded the angels
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  Speaker 2: to fly in the midst of heaven. We are not alone.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven is all involved, those seraphim, those cherubim, the creatures
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  Speaker 2: that we don't understand fully. But God has given us
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  Speaker 2: a window into that are at his behest serving him.
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  Speaker 2: Those who excel in strength, those heavenly angels are at
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  Speaker 2: work to move according to his guidance. Here's an encouraging
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  Speaker 2: text in Acts, chapter one and verse eight I made
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  Speaker 2: reference to and it reads, ye shall receive power power dunamus,
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  Speaker 2: that is holy ghost power, after the Holy Ghost has
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  Speaker 2: come upon you. And that was way back then when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus had just gone back to Heaven after his after
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  Speaker 2: his resurrection. Right, and ye shall be my witnesses unto
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  Speaker 2: the unnermost part of the earth. That is basically what
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  Speaker 2: the Bible is teaching there into the most part of
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  Speaker 2: the earth. So, if God gave his first century believers
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  Speaker 2: dynamite power, what kind of power has he given his
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  Speaker 2: people in the last days? What is Heaven's direction in
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  Speaker 2: these last days? If he gave them thousands of years
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  Speaker 2: ago when the enemy was not allowed to do some
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  Speaker 2: of the dark stuff that he's doing today at the
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  Speaker 2: scale that he is doing it today, how much more
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  Speaker 2: power through the Holy Ghost is God giving to us today?
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  Speaker 2: We are in the position now to receive the latter reign,
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit, so
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  Speaker 2: that we can follow Heaven's direction and the world who
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,