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11 30 2023 Mission to the Powerful · 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 Thursday, November thirty, twenty twenty three. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's Word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's Mission, My Mission.
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  Our caption for today is Mission to the Powerful, Mission to the Powerful.
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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 go over to your Daily Portion dot
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  com, join our online community click and let me know in that space where
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  you are in the world, and also also pick up the Your Daily Portion
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  book at your Daily Portion dot com. This is how we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Batherin Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege that you have
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  entrusted to us to open your word again. Please teach us how to be
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  influential to influential people. For your glory. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Amen and amen again. Mission to the powerful. We did speak about
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  mission to those who had a lot of money, right, rich people or
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  wealthy people. And sometimes there are those who are powerful who are not as
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  wealthy. They may be wealthy and powerful or just powerful. I don't need
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  to go into that. I think you understand that already. I want to
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  read a quote that I will read likely again tomorrow, but I want to
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  do it now. Nonetheless, it is from the book The Ministry of Healing,
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  page two hundred and ten, just to get our discussion started, and
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  it reads much is said concerning our duty to the neglected pore should not some
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  attention be given to the neglected rich? Many look upon this class as hopeless.
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  Can I just pause right there? It is unfortunate that people have stigmatized
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  individuals with means. It is unfortunate that people have stigmatized people who don't have
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  means, but the reality is that has happened, and so we need to
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  be able to adjust and focus our energy to reach as many people as possible,
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  regardless of socioeconomic status. But if you are people who are called and
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  chosen to reach those who are powerful, affluent, or rich or wealthy,
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  then please do, please do what God has said. Let me continue the
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  quote. Thousands of wealthy people have gone to their graves unwarned, but in
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  difference and different as they may appear. And I just want to say appear
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  many among the rich are sole burden. And that's the end of the quote.
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  Can I just say that we are more alike than we are different.
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  We are human beings. All of us have certain needs. I think about
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  because of my background, I think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and really
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  the extended one. There is one with ten points rather than the fewer.
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  Right, So all of us have certain needs. We have physiological needs,
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  we have needs where relationships are concerned. We needs, we have needs to
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  belong. We have needs for transcendence, and for the believer, transcendence is
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  to connect with God who is more powerful than us, something outside of ourselves,
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  that's what they say. But we have a need to connect with our
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  creator, with our origin, with our roots. And therefore, therefore,
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  since we are more alike than we are different, that means that all of
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  us have needs and they're similar. They just may look a little bit different
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  depending on our social or social economic status. But we're focusing again on the
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  powerful today. Let me begin by reading in James chapter one and verse five.
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  We have to super simplify this. If any of you lack wisdom,
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  let them ask of God that give it to all people. Live bally and
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  a pray doeth not, which means he does not hold back, and it
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  shall be given him. It shall be given. If you need wisdom,
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  Lord, how do I reach the people who are powerful in our community?
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  Community, activists, politicians, those who are business owners, successful business owners,
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  and so many other people of influence. How do I do that?
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  Just pray for wisdom, Pray for insight and opportunity. Can I just pause
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  right here? Pray for insight and opportunity. One of the things that God
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  has done in my life. And it's weird to me, and I say
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  to me because I'm a human. I don't understand and much of anything where
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  spirituality is concerned. But God is showing me stuff. Right. But for
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  many, many years, God has positioned me to be of influence and impact
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  to people that don't come from where I come. I'm from people who are
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  affluent, people who are powerful, And I'm like, Lord, how does
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  this happen? He hasn't ever told me. But the fact is He does
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  situate me in that way. So what do I do? I have to
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  ask God? What is the wisdom here? How do I connect you and
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  them? How do I help them to excel and to succeed in whatever area
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  of life that they happen to be and to connect with you and I again,
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  I don't know why he does that, but he does. And what
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  do I do? I ask him? And then in some short period of
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  time, shoot, I'm gone and on to the next one. It's amazing
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  when God wants to use you to do certain things, you just don't try
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  to figure it out, just ask him for wisdom. Here's the other one
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  from Philippians, chapter two and verse three. The Bible reads, let nothing
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  be done through strife or vain glory. So God wants us to what be
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  peacemakers. Yes, he also wants us to be humble, humble, but
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  in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves. What God
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  wants us to do in this context is to do what develop genuine care.
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  Develop genuine care, seek the best for and in all people, and in
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  this case even the powerful. Do not stigmatize them. Do not say because
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  you are an actor in Hollywood or Bollywood, as the case may be,
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  right, don't say because you are in this particular affluent position, then there's
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  no hope for you, because after all, people who are in those arenas
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  are always no, no, no, no, God says, seek wisdom
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  from Me, and also and opportunities to be of service, but also also
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  develop genuine care. They have families, they have needs, they have health
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  like right, they have minds just like you do, and so God wants
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  to use us in that way. Let's go to First Timothy, chapter two
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  and verse one, and the Bible reads I exhort therefore that first of all
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  supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all people.
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  Keep a prayer list. Yeah, that's the simplicity of it. Keep
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  a list of influential people who don't know God for daily prayer asking God to
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  work in their lives. Keep a prayer list. There are people that you
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  know or you may not know. You may be watching them on the television
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  for all I know, you may be seeing them in your community organizedations and
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  you just don't know them personally. And you can simply pray and say,
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  God, will you please deliver these people? Will you deliver your son,
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  deliver your daughter from sin? Will you show them how to live holy lives?
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  Can you give them victory over the things that beset them? Can you
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  give them strength when they are sad? You understand? And then, of
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  course personal contact from Proverbs chapter eighteen and verse twenty four. A man that
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  hath friends must show himself friendly. And there is a friend that stickth closer
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  than a brother. Yeah, personal contact. Aim to be friendly, even
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  if you're an introvert. Good. Have a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks
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  for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,