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11 07 2023 Waiting and 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Tuesday, November seven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is El 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, and today is
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  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 Waiting and Mission. We'll get
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  into that in just a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to
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  you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com, join
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  our online community, and there you can ask your questions, make your comments,
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  and share concerning the Lesson Study and we can all be engaged together at
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  your Daily portion dot com. Also pick up the your Daily Portion book there
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  and we can build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Thank you, Father, Thank you for waking
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  us up this morning. And I appreciate the fact that you have given us
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  this facility to guide us into all truth. Please give us your Holy Spirit
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  and teach us what it means to await your power. In Jesus's name,
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  I pray, Amen and amen again. Let me just say this as we
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  begin, that some of us are just entirely too impatient, too impatient,
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  like there are times that we've run out ahead of God because we are not
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  patient enough or I should say even humble enough to await his power and his
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  guidance. And so when we are doing his mission, some of us,
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  this is what it looks like. Some of us get up in the morning
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  and rush out to do his business. Are you leading a prayer group online
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  or in some other facility. Do you run out before you pray yourself?
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  Are you a Bible teacher or some other kind of religious leader who does something
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  to pour into people on a daily basis? What I do I do,
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  It's not just your daily portion there's another community that I pour into at around
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  the time that you see me. We are also pouring into the UOU Mastermind
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  community with doctor Eric Thomas. Right, there are a number of people who
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  are counting on me to be ready and to what share whatever we are supposed
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  to do to move the need, whether it's spiritual, whether it has to
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  do with our finances, whether it has to do with our personal relationships and
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  so forth. Right, And what if we who do those kinds of things
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  run out into that without first coming aside and resting awhile with God. What
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  if we don't follow the guidance that Jesus gave by his example that he went
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  away a great while before pray before day. He went into a solitary place,
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  and there he prayed. What if we just go into our day thinking
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  we're going to change the world. But we're in our own strength, you
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  see. And so what God wants us to do is make a decision.
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  And of course he wants us to choose a right first, wait for power,
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  that is the power of the Holy Ghost, or rush for weakness,
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  wait for his power, or rush for weakness. So Jesus told the disciples
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  or his people, really where how and why to wait. So let's go
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  into this now. Based on Acts chapter one, verses twelve through twenty six,
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  we have a few action items. Okay, let's read verse fourteen of
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  Acts chapter one, and the Bible reads these all continued with one accord in
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  prayer and supplication with the women and Mary and the Mother of Jesus and all
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  brethren. So what we want to do is to dedicate specific times to come
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  together as a community or a group to fervently pray. Now we're talking about
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  mission. I've already talked about what we need to be doing by ourselves,
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  right before we join with anyone, before we run out into the battle,
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  right before we try to pour into anyone. Now we're talking about the collective
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  we're going into the mission. Engage and united prayer, right, fervently pray,
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  seek God's wisdom, strength, and courage for the mission. That's what
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  the people of God did at that time. Now we're going to move down
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  to verses twenty one and twenty two of Acts chapter one, Wherefore, of
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  these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went
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  in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John unto that same
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  day that he was taken up from us. Must one be ordained to be
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  a witness with us of his resurrection? You see, sometimes people people move
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  forward in ministry who have not had the encounter that they need with Christ.
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  Can I just pause right here and say that if you are not having an
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  encounter with Christ, you are not praying, not receiving His words into your
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  heart from these sixty six blessed books of the Bible through inspiration, if you
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  are not asking Him for his Holy Spirit, if you are choosing not to
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  be in agreement with God, which the Bible style of confession is agreement with
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  God. If you're not turning the shoulder, turning away from sin, having
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  godly sorrow for sin, and turning your face toward Him, then this is
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  the time to repent, like to become that person who receives all that I
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  just said, in more receives the mind set of Christ, so that when
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  you go forward with these organized plans, right when these organized plans go forward,
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  you need to be going forward as a true disciple of God. There
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  are a lot of impostors out here. In fact, Jesus when his disciples
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  asked him when he was talking about the destruction of Jerusalem that would have come
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  in seventy a d right, and some other things. He said. They
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  said, when shall these things be like? When shall what shall be the
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  sign of thy coming and of the end of the world. And Jesus begins
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  the discussion by saying, be not deceived. There will be false christs.
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  Right, there will be wars and rumors of wars, all kinds of other
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  things. And then a few verses later, he said, there will be
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  false prophets who will say all kinds of things that don't agree with God.
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  And so God is saying that when we are moving forward with his mission,
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  in order not to be a deceiver or to be deceived, In order not
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  to be a deceiver or to be deceived, we have to have our own
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  encounters with Him on a daily basis, and then move forward with these organized
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  efforts to lead people into a right relationship with him. Number three, We're
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  going to seek God's guidance in decision making. Let's go to verse twenty four
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  of Acts, chapter one, and the Bible reads and they prayed and said,
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  thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of
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  these two thou hast chosen. Now this is related to what we said a
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  moment ago, but I didn't identify that we were talking about somebody coming into
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  the mission for a particular purpose, because of course Judas. Judas, you
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  know the story of Judas. He basically sold his soul and he died because
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  he killed himself instead of repenting like Peter, he killed himself and then he
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  died. He had the enemy entered into him as he left the table that
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  we call that has to do with the Last Supper. He got up,
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  he went, he came back, He betrayed Jesus at the time that we
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  know, and then hopelessly, helplessly he went in and destroyed himself rather than
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  than to repent. And so they needed a replacement. They needed more than
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  just a replacement, like they needed people who would would God would be guided
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  by the Holy Spirit, who would be guided by the Holy Spirit to do
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  his work. And so God is saying that we must seek his guidance in
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  decision making fully that so that we could do his work and then finally finally
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  encourage one another in faith and in good works. And Versus twenty four and
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  twenty five of Hebrews chapter twenty four, Hebrews chapter ten. We see that
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  we should regularly meet with fellow believers, so that we can have the courage
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  that we meet for this mission. I hope that this was of benefit to
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  you. Of a wonderful day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,