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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, October

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thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle

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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,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series. Themes of the Gospel of John are

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themes in the Gospel of John. Our caption for today

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is the Testimony of the Samaritans. The Testimonies of the Samaritans.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. I

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need you to join our online community I need you

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to click that number seven. One thousand of you minimally,

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I really want ten thousand of you to do it,

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but one thousand of you to go ahead and subscribe

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank

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you for this day and for the opportunity that you've

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entrusted to us. Now, God, please help us to hear

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the testimony of people who are transformed. Help us to

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be the testimony of someone who has transformed, and then

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we all together become holy. And then one day we

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get to live with you and live with you eternally.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Damen again. I

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am so grateful. And you want to know why, right,

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Why am I grateful? I'm grateful because God is still

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transforming people. Even at this point in my life. He

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is still transforming me. He is transforming you if you're willing,

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if you are allowing Him to transform you. And so

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there is a testimony from the people that this woman

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whose name I don't know, but I said, I wish

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I knew her name. The woman at the well, testimony

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of her life is now a an impetus.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 2: A way for other people to also be transformed. And

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so the Bible reads here in the Book of John,

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John chapter four, I will read verses twenty seven to

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twenty nine. John Chapter four, verses twenty seven to twenty nine.

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And now the Bible reads, now at that very moment,

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his disciples came back. They were shocked because Jesus was

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speaking with a woman. However, no one said what do

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you want or why are you speaking to her? Then

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the woman left her water jar. You see, she was

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at that well. We did not talk about this yet.

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She was at the well at that time of day,

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likely to avoid people, likely because she had she had

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had encounters with people in the community in a way

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that would have made it a problem for her. Let's

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just say, with the women who would also come to

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the well, this was a woman who had bodies for

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those who live in the hood and in the ghetto,

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or understand what I'm saying, Like she she had encounters

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with men that she shouldn't have had, and there are

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some people that might not have appreciated that. And so

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now she's coming at a time that hopefully she can

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avoid these other women. And so now she has this

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close encounter with Jesus Christ. It is a pure and

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holy encounter. It is a perfect encounter. He is the

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seventh Man. He's the perfect and complete man who doesn't

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want anything from her except what he wants for her,

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which is that she would have eternal life. I said,

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he doesn't want anything from her except what he wants

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for her, which is that she would have eternal life.

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And now she left her water jar and went off

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into the town and said to the people, come, come

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see a man who told me everything I did? Could

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this be Christ? You see? They were waiting for Messiah

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to come. Despite all of the societ told, historical and

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theological challenges. Hmm, despite all of the beef that they

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had between them, they were same, of the same family.

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They knew that the Messiah was to come. Could this

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be him? Could this be him? Come and see a man,

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Come see a man. So the testimony, the testimony of

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this woman, was that he is transforming me. I am

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so blown away that it is hard for me to

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even believe, but I need you all to come and see.

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Come and experience what I am experiencing with this with God.

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And then you tell me, is this the one we've

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been waiting for? Is this the one we've been waiting for?

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Brothers and sisters. Is this the moment that you have

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been waiting for on this day in October thirty one,

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twenty twenty four, is this the moment you have been

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waiting for where your metamorphosis would take place, where your

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mind would be transformed by God, your life will be

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transformed by God. And you can go into your community.

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You can go into the nightclub. I'm not saying you should,

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but you can go into the situation where you once were,

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where you used to sin. You can go into the rumbar.

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I'm not saying you should, but if God lead you there,

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go back into that space and lead men and women

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out of that situation and say, come see a man.

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You can go back to that space by the water

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cooler where you used to gossip with people. You can

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go to that corner in the gym where you used

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to well whisper and gossip about people, and now say

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I have met a man who knew all of the darkness,

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all of the skeletons in my closet, and still he

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loves me. And I know that you all don't understand this,

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because five minutes ago I was different. But today, right now,

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at this moment, God has transformed me in such a

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way that I have no shame about my past, because

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He has taken away my past and given me a

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new future and outlook in life, where He has taken

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my heart of flesh of stone and now given me

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a heart of flesh. And I can turn away from

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those sins, and so can you. She becomes an evangelist immediately.

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She doesn't pitch a tent. She does not create creative,

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beautiful graphics and put them in social media. She does

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not create countdown timers ten days left until so and so,

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five days left until so and so. She doesn't do

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any of those things. She is now deployed, like we

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all must be deployed. With all she had was her testimony.

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She encountered the man Jesus Christ, who was no ordinary man,

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the man who is now transforming her life. She is

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now begging people to come see this man because this

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man can change you too. And so, really, really, there

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are some lessons of evangelism. If you want to say

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the impact that we can have on other people if

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we will just experience God for ourselves. Number One, there

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is a true in a true and powerful impact of

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our testimony. Or people can see the way that our

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life was. We can tell them, we can show them.

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They may have already witnessed how we were before we

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had this encounter with God, but come and see the

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many things that I have done and how He washed

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them all away. He's transforming my mind, and so that

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is a blessing the power of our testimony. But then

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there is authenticity and honesty. I need to speak to

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some of the elders in the Church of God, the

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people who are at least my age and older. I'm

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in my fifties. It could be you could start younger.

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But the reason why many times the young people are

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repelled by some of us. I said some, not all.

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I'm saying some, is because some of us are dishonest

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about our own past. Some of us are dishonest about

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the things with which we now struggle, and the youth

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are seeing that and the like. But you're coming to

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me as a as holier than thou, and you're not

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even showing me that you're on the path to righteousness yourself.

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You're trying to make it seem like I'm the only

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one as a youth that is having these prob And

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so authenticity and honesty is a pathway to the hearts

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of people as we direct them and guide them toward Christ.

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And of course today we have the privilege of having

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an encounter with Jesus every single day that we wake up.

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We can be at the well of our lives. We

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can be at that point of worship, the point of prayer,

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the point of encounter and say, God, I got some

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more skeletons. I need you to look at these and

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fix it for me. Which it please God? Will you please?

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And so with that direct encounter that I can have today,

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I can now engage with people who are outside of

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my secret chamber and I can say, come see a man,

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a man that knows everything about me and still loves me.

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He loves you too.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,