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11 02 2023 Here Am I, Send Me · 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, November two, 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 here. Am I send
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  me welcome back to that in just a moment. But first I'd like to
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  just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our online
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  community. Also, please click and share where you are in the world if
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  you've not done so already, and also pick up the Your Daily Portion book
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  at your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the
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  privilege of prayer and the opportunity that we have to open up your word again,
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  and for giving us the blessing of your Holy Spirit. Please teach us
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  the same lesson that you taught Isaiah in his encounter with you. In Jesus's
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  name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I want to revisit the
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  story that we glossed over several days ago in the Book of Isaiah, because
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  that is where we will focus today. I'm glad that the lesson writer saw
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  fit to go there, because that is what was on my mind the whole
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  time. Here. Remember, we went through several excuses that people give to
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  make ourselves feel better to not do what God says to do, especially where
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  mission is concerned, going into reaching people wherever God sends us and bring them
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  into a right relationship with Him like welcoming them into the fellowship, the fellowship
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  of Christ. Okay, and so now we see the antithesis of this though,
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  we see what God showed through the life of Isaiah and quick backdrop before
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  I read the details. Yeah, Aziah died, he served as king for
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  a long time, and yeah, he started to believe the hype about himself
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  and then decided that he was a high priest. He didn't say those words,
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  but he decided that he was going to go into the presence of God
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  unwelcomed, unbidden and unbidden and not equipped to do what God would have his
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  priests and high priests to do. And he goes in there presumptuously and because
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  of him believing the hype about himself, believing that in his own strength he
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  was strong. Yeah, God smoked him. Really, he gave him.
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  He gave him the undesired outcome for people who are proud. Yeah, he
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  got leprosy and then you know, the rest is history. He succumbed,
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  He succumbed to his own pride, He succumbed to his own desire to be
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  his own God. Like, let's just call it what it is. And
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  so now Isaiah is in vision, He's in the same place if you want
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  to say that. He feels like got Aziah messed up? And he's like,
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  how am I in the presence? How am I in the presence of
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  God, And so the Bible reads here, beginning at verse one. In
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  the year that King Aziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
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  throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it
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  stood seraphims, each one had six wings. With twain he did cover his
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  face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did
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  fly. And he cried unto one another, one cried to another, Holy,
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  Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts. The whole earth is
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  full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice
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  of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said
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  I woe is me, for I am undone, because I'm a man of
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  unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
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  For mine eyes have seen the Lord, the King, the Lord of
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  Hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, which had he with
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  a live coal in his hand, which he had taken tongs from off the
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  altar. And he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this
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  have touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
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  is purged verse eight and final, Also I heard the voice of the Lord
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  saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said
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  I Then said I here am I send me? And then God gives Isaiah
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  the message. And so the precursor to Isaiah being prepared and ready and willing
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  to go and to do God's mission was that he recognized his humanity one God,
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  the Holy Ghost brought him into a knowledge of the truth, like all
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  truth. He gave him the truth about himself, which is that he was
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  undone. He's a man of unclean lips and came from a people of unclean
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  lips. And the truth about God, which is that he's holy and just
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  and good like. He is high and lifted up, and his presence,
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  his holiness filled the temple. Yes. And so now with that contrast,
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  he needs to be delivered. God didn't just leave him there. He gave
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  him what he needed. He needed deliverance. And so we should see there
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  that we should respond to God's call. God gave him the call. And
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  when he heard the call, he immediately said, I'm willing to go.
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  Sign me up, like, sign me up for the Christian Jewbilee. Sign
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  my name on the role. I've been changed because the Lord has lifted me.
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  Now I got to be ready when Jesus comes. And part of our
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  readiness has to do with bringing other people into the same experience so that they
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  too can be ready. And so Isaiah's willingness is pre looted by an acknowledgment
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  of his imperfection and a divine touch that purged his guilt, thereby equipping him
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  for the man I said that already. Okay, here are some challenges and
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  some actions. Okay, personal discipleship ship challenge. Intentionally and consistently, pray
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  for ten individuals who have yet to know Christ. There are people that you
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  with whom you work. There are people with whom you go to school.
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  You see and the marketplace when you're moving about in the taxis, on the
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  buses. There are people in the gyms where you exercise, on the road
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  on the way to wherever your final destination is. Pray for ten individuals,
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  and now prioritize these people. We're not just praying for their salvation, but
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  we're also paving a pathway for genuine relationships and connections to blossom, where conversations
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  will will naturally emerge. When I go into the place that I exercise,
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  I do what is uncomfortable for me. I'm an intro. You see me
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  on the camera with a microphone. But I can hide here because you can't
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  really touch me here. Yeah, I can hide behind the lights in the
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  camera. I can hide behind the microphone. But real life people, it
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  takes work for me. It takes a commitment. It takes for me to
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  yield my behavior style. The challenges with my behavior style h and and I
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  can now come forward. And so when I go to the gym, when
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  I am in church, whenever I'm on the road, there are ways that
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  I interact with people that engenders a quality response and relationships can be built.
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  And it is against my natural norm, but does it matter No. All
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  it means is that I have to rely on God more and I'm thankful for
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  the opportunity. Also also continually deepen friendships with these people right understand their needs
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  and struggles, pray specifically, and allow God to work through us to meet
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  their needs. That's what the lees, possibly becoming a tangible manifestation of God's
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  love in their lives. There are times that people have needs and God is
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  saying, well, you're in my hands and feet. Don't just pray about
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  it, be about it. Don't just talk about it, be about it.
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  There are times that you will be an active, practical, real answer
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  to God's to their prayer, and God will use you to empower them to
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  move forward in their lives. So much more I could say that the bottom
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  line is get into the presence of God today, ask Him to cleanse you
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  from all unrighteousness and then to show you your mission. Feel and cooperate with
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  him. Wonderful day, Peace, Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David
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  Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,