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10 26 2023 Submission to God’s Will · 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 Thursday, October twenty six, 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 our Lesson study series. God's
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  Mission, My mission, and our caption for today is submission to God's Will.
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  How many ways can we say the word mission, submission to God's Will.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  your daily portion in particular, and or whatever the ministry you love the most,
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  and then also click the notification bell. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  us this new day and for getting us so far into our week. Father,
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  I pray that you will teach us how to submit to you. In
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  Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, so submission to
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  God's will, that's a big deal. Can I just say that I'm understating
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  it by saying that's a big deal. There are so few people in the
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  world who readily submit to God. Can I say that again? There are
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  so few people in the world who readily submit to God because we are naturally
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  proud, We're naturally wired as we come out of the womb to feel like
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  we have it all under control. This is why we sin like we only
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  sin because we feel like we got it under control and we don't need God.
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  Yeah, and I'm like, well, some people are saying, but
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  come on, Dave, I'm not thinking that. When I'm sinning, I'm
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  not thinking I have it all under control. I don't need God. Well,
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  why do we commit sins? Then? Why do we do what we
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  know is wrong? And no leads to eternal separation from God, except that
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  in the moment, we allow our feelings, our emotions, We allow whatever
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  it is that drives us, our lusts to tell us to go the wrong
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  way. We listen to the enemy's voice and our own inclinations. And so
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  submission is a great, big deal. And the first thing that comes to
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  my mind where Abraham is concerned is everywhere he went, he erected an altar
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  to God. Everywhere Abraham went, he erected an altar to God. That
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  means that Abraham was a worshiper. If you read in the Book of Romans,
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  chapter one, verses eighteen through to the end, you will see what
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  happens when we lose focus and cease worshiping God as he deserves. Yeah,
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  and so Abraham giving us this example his encouragement to me, because that means
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  when I am at work, even though my work is right here in this
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  same spot, most of the time. Sometimes it's, you know, traveling
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  to where somebody is, but more time is right here? Do I have
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  an it to God? Am I a worshiper when I go to the gym,
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  which I will do in of about two and a half hours. Am
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  I erecting an altar in my mind and my space in the way that I
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  behave to God? And how I interact with people when I'm at church?
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  Am I actually a worshiper where I've erected an altar unto God? So when
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  I'm there, I'm not just sitting and listening or sitting and robotically participating.
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  But am I actually worshiping God? Have I erected an altar in my family
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  space? You understand where we're going with this. Yeah, So let's go
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  to the Book of Genesis, chapter twelve, beginning at verse one, and
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  the Bible reads, and the Lord said, unto Abram, get THEE out
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  of thy country and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto
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  the land, that I will show THEE, and I will make of THEE
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  a great nation. And I will bless THEE and make thy name great,
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  And thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless THEE,
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  and curse him that curseth THEE. And in THEE shall all the families
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  of the earth be blessed. Do you know why God could do that?
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  Because God is all powerful, Blessed be his name. It is because he
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  knew that Abraham would submit his will to God. He knew that wherever he
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  would go, because he said, leave your country and your people, and
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  go to where I'm going to show you. He didn't even show Abraham where
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  he was going. He didn't even say, this is your location, this
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  is where you're going to go, This is how I'm going to bless you.
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  These are the trials that you will escape. These are the things that
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  you won't have to worry about. He said, go, And he didn't
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  even mention whether he was going to encounter trials and tribulations. He didn't even
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  mention the ways in which he would bless him. He didn't mention the trials
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  that were on the horizon. He said go, and Abram went, and
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  he said, I will bless you. I will bless all of the nations
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  of the world through you. What a monumental blessing. And all of that
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  is because of submission to God's will. You're like David, you said that
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  already. Yeah. Well. In the Book of Galatians, chapter three,
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  the Bible says that those who are baptized into Christ are Abraham's seed, So
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  we're like descendants spiritually speaking of Abraham. And then he says and heirs according
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  to the promise, So we inherit the eternal reward that God promised Abraham when
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  we have the same brand, the same type of faith that Abraham had.
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  Do you see where this is going? And the Bible continues in verse four
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  of Genesis chapter twelve. And Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him,
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  that's another submission. Move and went with him. And Abram was seventy
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  and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai,
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  his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance
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  that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran.
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  And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, thank God.
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  And into the land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land
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  unto the place of Psychem, unto the plain of Maur, and the Canaan
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  Knight was then in the land you see later on in the journey of God's
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  people we call them Hebrews at the time Israelites, the Israelite people right born
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  as God's people, if you want to say. They were to be circumcised
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  in the heart to love the Lord, their God. And God set his
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  stamp and seal upon them, and he said that I have given you this
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  Sabbath, this Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath, so that you may know
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  that I am the Lord, right, that I am the one that's sanctifies
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  you. And so these people eventually were to inherit the literal land of Canaan.
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  Not so early here that God is showing Abram, but later on.
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  But the people, the Canaanites were there, and all of the other Iites
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  and Kites, the other people who were not worshipers of God, not just
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  that they were not worshippers, but they were rejectors of God. And so
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  Abram is getting a foretaste of the land that God is going to give to
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  that second generation of freed slaves who came out of Egypt. Later on,
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  and the Lord verse seven appeared unto Abram and said unto thy seed, will
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  I give this land? You see where we're going. That's what I was
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  talking about. And there what did he do? The Bible says he built
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  an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence
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  unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having
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  Bethel on the west and hey I on the east. And there he builded
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  an altar. You see he did what he did. He built an altar
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  again unto the Lord. And the Lord called upon and called upon the name
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  of the Lord, Verse nine and final. And Abram journeyed, going on
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  still toward the south. Do you think that everywhere that Abram went he built
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  an altar? Well, I said it in the beginning. Everywhere Abram went,
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  he built an altar. And so the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was
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  on the horizon, but not before God positioned his people so that they could
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  hear the message and follow God's with peaks. 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,