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12 01 2023 Just Minister · 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 Friday, December one, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is 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 single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is just, minister, don't
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  make it complicated. Just minister, make it complicated. We'll get into that
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  in just a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to you and
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  happy preparation day. Please please go over if you've not already done so to
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  your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community. Pick up your Daily
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  Portion book and also click into the little box the form that says where are
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  you in the world? Type in there, let me know where you are
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  in the world, and that way I can continue to build like a map.
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  Josiah and I have a habit of looking at where you are. And
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  really some of your names are very interesting to us, considering some of our
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  cultures are different than yours, and it just helps me to build faith and
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  fellowship with you. In another way, I'm like, why do you care,
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  Dave, Well, I don't know. I've always been obsessed by culture
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  and different languages and that kind of a thing, and this just gives me
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  another opportunity to see how God is spreading his word throughout the world. All
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  right, so let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this privilege to come to
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  you and to learn from your word on this preparation day. Please open up
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  our minds and understanding, keep us to simply minister in the power of the
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  Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name, I pray a men and a man again.
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  Yeah, so some people might be saying, well, that's easy for
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  you to say, Just minister, what does that even mean. The fact
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  is, brothers and sisters, that we do not have the capacity to do
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  anything good on our own. No growth, no power, no leading people
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  to Jesus can be effective if we don't have the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
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  For us, we need the Holy Spirit. They're people who do what
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  looks like a good job at certain things that look like ministry, right,
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  giving food to the poor and serving those who are it's enfranchised, right,
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  people who are in the prison system and other people. Right. Ah,
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  but if God has not given you given me the Holy Spirit, and really
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  the only barrier to receiving the Holy Spirit is submission to God's will. We
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  submit to him and he gives us the Holy Spirit. Yeah, I'm leaving
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  some things out, but that's really what it boils down to. Yeah.
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  So there are things that we can do that look good, but their effectiveness
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  will be limited if we don't have His Holy Spirit. If you are able
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  to reach one hundred million people, I'm giving some strange and hyperbolic example,
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  yes, but if you're able to reach one hundred thousand people without the Holy
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  Spirit, or at least it looks like that, I said, looks like
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  that, then imagine if your will is submitted to God's will. Imagine if
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  you do what we said yesterday and to ask God for wisdom and opportunities to
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  reach other people for the kingdom. Imagine if we would cooperate with God,
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  how effective what we do would be. There is a lot of time we
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  would not have wasted. There is a lot of money we would not have
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  wasted. There are arguments in long meetings that we would not have had if
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  we simply asked God, what would you have us do? And please show
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  us the opportunity. Now, I promised you I would read this passage from
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  the Ministry of Healing again today. Let me go ahead and do it,
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  from page two hundred and ten, and it reads, is much is said
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  concerning our duty to the neglected poor, should not some attention be given to
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  the neglected rich? Many look upon this class as hopeless. And I find
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  that unfortunate brothers and sisters do not mistake some of the things that God has
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  said about rich and wealthy people as a condemnation. That's insane, Like if
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  that were true, that is insane. No. In fact, in Deuteronomy
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  chapter eighteen, you see for the first fourteen verses, God promises prosperity to
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  his people. Did I say what chapter? Did I say? I should
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  have said twenty eight? I don't know what I just said. Deuteronomy,
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  Chapter twenty eight. The first fourteen verses show that God is not only interested
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  in but he has promised that he would bless his people if we would keep
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  his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments. And then the remaining passages
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  show us or versus show us what happens when we turn our backs on him.
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  So we should not stigmatize people who are powerful, or affluent, or
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  prosperous in whatever way. We should know that they are people that God loves
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  right and has given Jesus Christ his son in order to save, just like
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  everybody else. Okay, thousands of wealthy people have gone to their grips raids
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  unwarned, but in different as some of them may appear. Many among the
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  rich are sole burden. That's the end of the quote. That means that
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  they have needs just like you have needs. They are sad when they lose
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  spouses or when people they love have passed away. Right, they are sad
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  and need someone to pray for them when they haven't reached the level of success
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  that they had hoped, and you could be looking at them and say,
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  well, what more do you need? But in their sphere of influence,
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  their sphere of success, then they are pursuing even more success. And maybe
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  it's not working out. They're not attached to the right community, right.
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  They've bumped their heads on the glass ceiling, and some who've broken through the
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  ceiling find that there is cement just above that, and they're not able to
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  get to what they consider to be their full full potent. And so all
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  humans have more in common than we have indifferences. Yeah, and so they
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  appear that everything they have is going on. They got it going on.
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  So I'm a peer like they don't need nothing, but all of us,
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  all of them, many of them, i should say, are soul burdened.
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  All of us are human and can be subject to that burden of soul.
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  Right, And so please, please, please, do not stigmatize people
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  who are of a certain socio economic class, just minister, don't make it
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  complicated. Don't make it complicated. So again, I'm going to read a
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  few passages of scripture that will make sense right right here. Let me read
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  from Let's go with James, Chapter two, verses one through nine. Just
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  I'm going to summarize some of those. Right, my brethren, have not
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  the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory, respect of
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  persons. I want you to read all nine verses, but don't do it
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  with respect of persons. Don't give, don't give deference to some people and
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  disdain to others. Reflect on spiritual equality. All of us were created by
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  the same God. All of us are, and Jesus died for all human
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  beings, every nation, kindred tongue, tribe, people, every class,
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  strata, or whatever other artificial measure that people have placed upon other humans.
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  Jesus died for all of us. And let me just run through a few
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  more pointers. Pray for insight. We did talk about this yesterday, asking
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  God for wisdom wisdom to do his will. We touched this also yesterday.
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  Cultivate genuine relationships. Embrace what Luke chapter nineteen, verses five and six says,
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  where it says, make haste as Jesus was in having an encounter with
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  Zachias. Come down for I. For today, I must abide with THEE
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  and thy house. So strive to build connections like be in the space and
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  community environment atmosphere with people, no matter what the class is. Yes,
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  share testimonies, conduct Bible studies where that is appropriate, and volunteer to invite
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  yourself into community situations and services where you can rub shoulders with these same people.
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  Make ministry simple. Thanks for joining us, listening to 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,