Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the Word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, October
thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series. Themes of the Gospel of John are
themes in the Gospel of John. Our caption for today
is the Testimony of the Samaritans. The Testimonies of the Samaritans.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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and then we will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank
you for this day and for the opportunity that you've
entrusted to us. Now, God, please help us to hear
the testimony of people who are transformed. Help us to
be the testimony of someone who has transformed, and then
we all together become holy. And then one day we
get to live with you and live with you eternally.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Damen again. I
am so grateful. And you want to know why, right,
Why am I grateful? I'm grateful because God is still
transforming people. Even at this point in my life. He
is still transforming me. He is transforming you if you're willing,
if you are allowing Him to transform you. And so
there is a testimony from the people that this woman
whose name I don't know, but I said, I wish
I knew her name. The woman at the well, testimony
of her life is now a an impetus.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: A way for other people to also be transformed. And
so the Bible reads here in the Book of John,
John chapter four, I will read verses twenty seven to
twenty nine. John Chapter four, verses twenty seven to twenty nine.
And now the Bible reads, now at that very moment,
his disciples came back. They were shocked because Jesus was
speaking with a woman. However, no one said what do
you want or why are you speaking to her? Then
the woman left her water jar. You see, she was
at that well. We did not talk about this yet.
She was at the well at that time of day,
likely to avoid people, likely because she had she had
had encounters with people in the community in a way
that would have made it a problem for her. Let's
just say, with the women who would also come to
the well, this was a woman who had bodies for
those who live in the hood and in the ghetto,
or understand what I'm saying, Like she she had encounters
with men that she shouldn't have had, and there are
some people that might not have appreciated that. And so
now she's coming at a time that hopefully she can
avoid these other women. And so now she has this
close encounter with Jesus Christ. It is a pure and
holy encounter. It is a perfect encounter. He is the
seventh Man. He's the perfect and complete man who doesn't
want anything from her except what he wants for her,
which is that she would have eternal life. I said,
he doesn't want anything from her except what he wants
for her, which is that she would have eternal life.
And now she left her water jar and went off
into the town and said to the people, come, come
see a man who told me everything I did? Could
this be Christ? You see? They were waiting for Messiah
to come. Despite all of the societ told, historical and
theological challenges. Hmm, despite all of the beef that they
had between them, they were same, of the same family.
They knew that the Messiah was to come. Could this
be him? Could this be him? Come and see a man,
Come see a man. So the testimony, the testimony of
this woman, was that he is transforming me. I am
so blown away that it is hard for me to
even believe, but I need you all to come and see.
Come and experience what I am experiencing with this with God.
And then you tell me, is this the one we've
been waiting for? Is this the one we've been waiting for?
Brothers and sisters. Is this the moment that you have
been waiting for on this day in October thirty one,
twenty twenty four, is this the moment you have been
waiting for where your metamorphosis would take place, where your
mind would be transformed by God, your life will be
transformed by God. And you can go into your community.
You can go into the nightclub. I'm not saying you should,
but you can go into the situation where you once were,
where you used to sin. You can go into the rumbar.
I'm not saying you should, but if God lead you there,
go back into that space and lead men and women
out of that situation and say, come see a man.
You can go back to that space by the water
cooler where you used to gossip with people. You can
go to that corner in the gym where you used
to well whisper and gossip about people, and now say
I have met a man who knew all of the darkness,
all of the skeletons in my closet, and still he
loves me. And I know that you all don't understand this,
because five minutes ago I was different. But today, right now,
at this moment, God has transformed me in such a
way that I have no shame about my past, because
He has taken away my past and given me a
new future and outlook in life, where He has taken
my heart of flesh of stone and now given me
a heart of flesh. And I can turn away from
those sins, and so can you. She becomes an evangelist immediately.
She doesn't pitch a tent. She does not create creative,
beautiful graphics and put them in social media. She does
not create countdown timers ten days left until so and so,
five days left until so and so. She doesn't do
any of those things. She is now deployed, like we
all must be deployed. With all she had was her testimony.
She encountered the man Jesus Christ, who was no ordinary man,
the man who is now transforming her life. She is
now begging people to come see this man because this
man can change you too. And so, really, really, there
are some lessons of evangelism. If you want to say
the impact that we can have on other people if
we will just experience God for ourselves. Number One, there
is a true in a true and powerful impact of
our testimony. Or people can see the way that our
life was. We can tell them, we can show them.
They may have already witnessed how we were before we
had this encounter with God, but come and see the
many things that I have done and how He washed
them all away. He's transforming my mind, and so that
is a blessing the power of our testimony. But then
there is authenticity and honesty. I need to speak to
some of the elders in the Church of God, the
people who are at least my age and older. I'm
in my fifties. It could be you could start younger.
But the reason why many times the young people are
repelled by some of us. I said some, not all.
I'm saying some, is because some of us are dishonest
about our own past. Some of us are dishonest about
the things with which we now struggle, and the youth
are seeing that and the like. But you're coming to
me as a as holier than thou, and you're not
even showing me that you're on the path to righteousness yourself.
You're trying to make it seem like I'm the only
one as a youth that is having these prob And
so authenticity and honesty is a pathway to the hearts
of people as we direct them and guide them toward Christ.
And of course today we have the privilege of having
an encounter with Jesus every single day that we wake up.
We can be at the well of our lives. We
can be at that point of worship, the point of prayer,
the point of encounter and say, God, I got some
more skeletons. I need you to look at these and
fix it for me. Which it please God? Will you please?
And so with that direct encounter that I can have today,
I can now engage with people who are outside of
my secret chamber and I can say, come see a man,
a man that knows everything about me and still loves me.
He loves you too.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,