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 Sunday, March
twenty two, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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 for the final week uniting Heaven
and Earth christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption
for today is lesson on Outreach. Lessons on Outreach. Before
we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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Let's pray. Father, We thank you. Thank you for the
opportunity to come together again, for the privilege of opening
up your word. And I'm asking you please to help
us to be a witness in Jesus's name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Lessons on outreach. Okay, okay, okay,
so let's go ahead and begin first lesson. Let me
just say, don't just make up stuff that's not in
my notes. I'll get back to the real ones, but
don't make up stuff. There are times that the people
of God try to manufacture ways to reach the world
for Christ and not ask God, like, what would you
have us to do? There are many times that God
would just tell us, but we make up. Sometimes we
make up programs and then we beg our brothers and
sisters for our quote support. And then when things don't
turn out the way that we had anticipated. Then sometimes
we feel dejected, and it's like, well, why do you
feel dejected because you contrived away. You made up a
way for this thing to work, rather than simply asking
God and then following his lead. So that one was
a bonus, it was free. Let's begin now from John
Nevians Andrews. The work of God advances most surely when
it is born by faithful people who love the cause
and care for the people. So this is a basic,
a baseline reality. If you do what if you if
you are faithful, you love the cause and care for
the people. So this is a submission. This is a
submission to God perspective, because the only way we can
be faithful is if we submit our will to God.
The only way we can love the cause and love
the people is if the Holy Spirit is filling our lives.
And so this is a submission principle. So our first
lesson now comes in from the Bible Book of Colossians,
chapter four and verse seven, and it says, our dear brother,
a faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will
tell you all the news about me. Paul didn't rely
only on letters. He entrusted the gospel work to faithful people,
including Taykikus, who would carry the truth, who would carry
context and encouragement in person. So our lesson is that
outreach is built on trusted messengers. We are messengers of
the Lord. And there are times that we have people
with us, men, women, and sometimes boys and girls who
are engaged in the ministry of outreach, and we need
to deliver the truth to the people. We need to
deliver encouragement, We need to deliver felt needs. There are
things that happen in people's lives that are beyond us
talking on the internet, and God would have us to
send people, send messengers into those particular areas where people
are who have these particular needs, and that is a
representation of God's love. We are the hands and feet
of God, and therefore there are times that our brothers
and sisters are hands and feet of a larger ministry.
Maybe your ministry is headquartered in fill in the blank city,
and then a town that is one hundred miles away
has some particular felt needs. What is the thing to
do for people who love the work, who love the ministry,
and love the people who are faithful to God to
literally physically go there, to go there and to carry
the work and message to the people. So and so
the action step is to ask yourself, could you trust
who you could trust to represent Christ accurately? Now accurately
is such a a stilted term. Who can you trust?
Who can represent Christ in the way that He has
already shown us? When I was hungry, you fed me,
when I was in prison, You visited me, when I
was naked, you clothed me. The way that you treat
the least of these, my brethren, you are also treating me.
But more importantly, am I one of the people that
God can send? Am I one of those people who
are feeding and healing and touching and holding holding hands
with people who need to be held up in times
of need and need for comfort. Our lesson number two
comes in for from Colossians chapter four and verse eight,
where we read whom I have sent unto you for
the same purpose that he might know your estate. So
now we know what Taikakus was going to know your
estate and comfort your hearts. So Paul sent this gentlemen
an Anisimus, not only to deliver facts, but to strengthen
the hearts and maintain personal connection can I just say
in the faith community. I don't know in what community
you are, but that's the reason for elders Biblically, that's
the reason for bishops, that's the reason for deaconet the
deconet body. That's the reason for the people who are
also in the different ministries. Are you a women's ministries
a person, a men's ministries person, a prayer ministries person,
And so the pastor of the church, let's just see
that pastor as Moses. And then when there are different
things going on inside of the faith community, the people
who are more attached many times to the rest of
the people are to deal with all of the challenges,
all of the needs, all the problems, unless it reaches
a certain level where it's like, okay, only the pastor
can be the one to assist, because the pastor is
the one with either the wisdom or the resources, et cetera.
This is what I call the jath Row model. Okay,
And Moses got that, he got that guidance from his
father in law. And so the gospel moves through encouragement,
but not only information, Okay, encouragement hands on and not
only information. Our final lesson is coming in from the
next verse, verse nine, with Onissimus, a faithful and beloved
brother who is one of you. They shall make known
unto you all the things which are done here. So
these brothers are carrying messages of hope back and forth
between Paul and the people of God. Onissimus was a
once a runaway slave. Paul now calls him faithful and
sends him as part of the gospel mission. And so
the lesson is that God uses restored lives as a
witness from what have you been restored brothers and sisters.
It could be from within the faith, or as you
were coming in the faith, where you while in the faith,
did you make an error that costs the people some credibility,
that maybe cost some time or money, and you have
now repented. Or maybe you're a person who didn't know
the Lord at all, and now you're coming into the
household of faith and lending the help that God has
called you. But God uses restored lives no matter what,
as witnesses of his glory. If He can do it
for you, he can do it for me, and vice versa.
Make it a great day.
Speaker 1: Peace. 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,