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

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

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

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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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday, March

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twenty two, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series for the final week uniting Heaven

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and Earth christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption

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for today is lesson on Outreach. Lessons on Outreach. Before

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we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to

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Portion dot com. Will you please join our online community

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thank you for your support and your compassion, and I'm

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asking you to please just continue to pray for the ministry.

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Let's pray. Father, We thank you. Thank you for the

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opportunity to come together again, for the privilege of opening

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up your word. And I'm asking you please to help

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us to be a witness in Jesus's name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Lessons on outreach. Okay, okay, okay,

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so let's go ahead and begin first lesson. Let me

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just say, don't just make up stuff that's not in

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my notes. I'll get back to the real ones, but

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don't make up stuff. There are times that the people

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of God try to manufacture ways to reach the world

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for Christ and not ask God, like, what would you

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have us to do? There are many times that God

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would just tell us, but we make up. Sometimes we

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make up programs and then we beg our brothers and

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sisters for our quote support. And then when things don't

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turn out the way that we had anticipated. Then sometimes

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we feel dejected, and it's like, well, why do you

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feel dejected because you contrived away. You made up a

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way for this thing to work, rather than simply asking

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God and then following his lead. So that one was

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a bonus, it was free. Let's begin now from John

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Nevians Andrews. The work of God advances most surely when

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it is born by faithful people who love the cause

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and care for the people. So this is a basic,

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a baseline reality. If you do what if you if

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you are faithful, you love the cause and care for

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the people. So this is a submission. This is a

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submission to God perspective, because the only way we can

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be faithful is if we submit our will to God.

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The only way we can love the cause and love

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the people is if the Holy Spirit is filling our lives.

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And so this is a submission principle. So our first

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lesson now comes in from the Bible Book of Colossians,

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chapter four and verse seven, and it says, our dear brother,

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a faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will

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tell you all the news about me. Paul didn't rely

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only on letters. He entrusted the gospel work to faithful people,

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including Taykikus, who would carry the truth, who would carry

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context and encouragement in person. So our lesson is that

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outreach is built on trusted messengers. We are messengers of

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the Lord. And there are times that we have people

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with us, men, women, and sometimes boys and girls who

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are engaged in the ministry of outreach, and we need

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to deliver the truth to the people. We need to

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deliver encouragement, We need to deliver felt needs. There are

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things that happen in people's lives that are beyond us

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talking on the internet, and God would have us to

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send people, send messengers into those particular areas where people

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are who have these particular needs, and that is a

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representation of God's love. We are the hands and feet

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of God, and therefore there are times that our brothers

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and sisters are hands and feet of a larger ministry.

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Maybe your ministry is headquartered in fill in the blank city,

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and then a town that is one hundred miles away

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has some particular felt needs. What is the thing to

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do for people who love the work, who love the ministry,

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and love the people who are faithful to God to

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literally physically go there, to go there and to carry

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the work and message to the people. So and so

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the action step is to ask yourself, could you trust

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who you could trust to represent Christ accurately? Now accurately

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is such a a stilted term. Who can you trust?

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Who can represent Christ in the way that He has

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already shown us? When I was hungry, you fed me,

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when I was in prison, You visited me, when I

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was naked, you clothed me. The way that you treat

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the least of these, my brethren, you are also treating me.

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But more importantly, am I one of the people that

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God can send? Am I one of those people who

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are feeding and healing and touching and holding holding hands

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with people who need to be held up in times

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of need and need for comfort. Our lesson number two

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comes in for from Colossians chapter four and verse eight,

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where we read whom I have sent unto you for

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the same purpose that he might know your estate. So

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now we know what Taikakus was going to know your

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estate and comfort your hearts. So Paul sent this gentlemen

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an Anisimus, not only to deliver facts, but to strengthen

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the hearts and maintain personal connection can I just say

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in the faith community. I don't know in what community

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you are, but that's the reason for elders Biblically, that's

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the reason for bishops, that's the reason for deaconet the

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deconet body. That's the reason for the people who are

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also in the different ministries. Are you a women's ministries

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a person, a men's ministries person, a prayer ministries person,

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And so the pastor of the church, let's just see

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that pastor as Moses. And then when there are different

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things going on inside of the faith community, the people

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who are more attached many times to the rest of

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the people are to deal with all of the challenges,

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all of the needs, all the problems, unless it reaches

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a certain level where it's like, okay, only the pastor

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can be the one to assist, because the pastor is

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the one with either the wisdom or the resources, et cetera.

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This is what I call the jath Row model. Okay,

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And Moses got that, he got that guidance from his

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father in law. And so the gospel moves through encouragement,

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but not only information, Okay, encouragement hands on and not

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only information. Our final lesson is coming in from the

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next verse, verse nine, with Onissimus, a faithful and beloved

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brother who is one of you. They shall make known

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unto you all the things which are done here. So

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these brothers are carrying messages of hope back and forth

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between Paul and the people of God. Onissimus was a

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once a runaway slave. Paul now calls him faithful and

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sends him as part of the gospel mission. And so

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the lesson is that God uses restored lives as a

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witness from what have you been restored brothers and sisters.

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It could be from within the faith, or as you

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were coming in the faith, where you while in the faith,

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did you make an error that costs the people some credibility,

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that maybe cost some time or money, and you have

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now repented. Or maybe you're a person who didn't know

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the Lord at all, and now you're coming into the

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household of faith and lending the help that God has

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called you. But God uses restored lives no matter what,

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as witnesses of his glory. If He can do it

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for you, he can do it for me, and vice versa.

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Make it a great day.

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Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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