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09 07 2026 Motivation · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God, to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges? On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion.
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  Speaker 2: With your host, author, speaker, L. David Harris. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. It is Monday, September 7, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your daily portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of 1 and 2 Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is, Motivation, Motivation. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: please go over to yourdailyportion.com. Will you please just go
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  Speaker 2: ahead for your own benefit? Click the button. I just
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  Speaker 2: put an arrow on my screen to that button to
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  Speaker 2: begin today. the assessment to stop guessing what to do
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  Speaker 2: with your life. Discover God's design for your life. This
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  Speaker 2: is it. This is it. You will come away with
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  Speaker 2: a personal blueprint, a clear picture of how you are
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  Speaker 2: gifted by God, the word behind each gift, and a
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  Speaker 2: first step toward using it for your For God's glory and,
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  Speaker 2: of course, for the benefit of others. So go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and get that. It's a free resource. It's exceptional, if
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  Speaker 2: I must say so, under God. Myself, we worked on
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  Speaker 2: it for years. And so I'm grateful. And if you would,
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  Speaker 2: please also click the contribute button because Your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: everybody who continues to type in the chat, type in
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  Speaker 2: the comment section, who also do contribute in whatever way
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  Speaker 2: that you provide encouragement. I'm just very grateful for you.
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  Speaker 2: And for those who are just on going, long-time listeners
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  Speaker 2: and viewers, I'm very grateful for you as well. For
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  Speaker 2: our new listeners and viewers, yes, you are now part
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  Speaker 2: of the family. You can't do anything about it. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you can, but I hope you won't. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Thank you for this day. Will you motivate
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  Speaker 2: us by the things that matter? In Jesus' name I pray,
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  Speaker 2: amen and amen again. motivation. Let me just say that
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  Speaker 2: that's not a word that I normally use where I
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  Speaker 2: am concerned because it's just not a part of my vocabulary.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I'm not saying I don't know the word
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  Speaker 2: or I don't value the word, but there are some
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  Speaker 2: people who don't use it in a way that that
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  Speaker 2: really drives me. OK, and so maybe that's you. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's a misunderstanding of the term motivation. It's it's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: And I happen to work for and with the number
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  Speaker 2: one motivational speaker in the world right now, right now.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a brother. He's a believer. He's a believer,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm grateful that he has even, E.T., the hip-hop preacher,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Thomas, Dr. Eric Thomas, but he has even changed
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  Speaker 2: my perspective about the term, okay? And so when we're
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  Speaker 2: thinking about this, now I'm like, okay, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just the part that drives me, but what
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  Speaker 2: is my intention here? What is the intention or motivation
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  Speaker 2: behind what I am doing? Are you starting to get
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  Speaker 2: a different picture for those of you who generally are
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  Speaker 2: not using that term from day to day? Are you
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  Speaker 2: starting to get a different picture? And so let me
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  Speaker 2: use it like this, okay? So my first or most
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  Speaker 2: important thing for today is giving, and we're talking about God,
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  Speaker 2: giving into the ministry purpose. Sometimes people mistake that for
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  Speaker 2: a transaction, a financial transaction. Really, what God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: it's an overflow of the heart that has truly encountered
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  Speaker 2: the grace of God. God loves a cheerful giver. God
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  Speaker 2: loves a cheerful giver because that is a demonstration that
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  Speaker 2: the grace of God has landed. That is a demonstration
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  Speaker 2: that the grace of God has has landed, okay? And so,
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson comes in from 2 Corinthians 9 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 7. where the Bible reads, each one of you
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  Speaker 2: should give just as he has decided in his heart.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says in the King James Version, purposive in
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  Speaker 2: his heart. So let him give, not grudgingly or reluctantly,
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  Speaker 2: not of necessity or compulsion, because God loves a cheerful,
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  Speaker 2: a smiling giver. Is that the way that you are?
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  Speaker 2: I remember when God was having his people to build
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  Speaker 2: the sanctuary, have them build me a sanctuary that they may,
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  Speaker 2: that God may dwell among them. The Bible teaches us that.
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  Speaker 2: And as God was calling for them to.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say give toward that building. He told Moses, go
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  Speaker 2: to the people and those who will give freely take
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  Speaker 2: an offering. Those who give freely receive that at their hands.
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  Speaker 2: But those who are grudging don't like let them keep it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm not interested in the ones that are
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  Speaker 2: are doing it without reason. Okay. And so that word
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  Speaker 2: actually is where we get the word hilarious. The Greek
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  Speaker 2: word is hilarious. Can you imagine? Cheerful, glad, hilarious in
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  Speaker 2: its giving. The English word hilarious comes directly from this
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  Speaker 2: Greek word. God loves the giver whose generosity is so
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  Speaker 2: free and so full that it borders on joyful abandon.
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  Speaker 2: Grudging obedience to a giving obligation is not what he
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  Speaker 2: is after. And so God is not looking for the
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  Speaker 2: largest gift. Remember, the woman who gave that mite is
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  Speaker 2: less than a United States penny. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: if you all use pennies anymore. But that might, the
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  Speaker 2: widow's might in the scriptures, when she gave, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says she gave of her need and she gave more
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  Speaker 2: than them all that gave out of their abundance. You see,
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  Speaker 2: God is looking for the freest heart like that woman.
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  Speaker 2: The cheerful giver has understood something about grace that reluctant
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  Speaker 2: givers are not seeing at the moment. When grace becomes real,
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  Speaker 2: giving becomes a part of their joy regimen. Can I
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  Speaker 2: just call it a regimen rather than a burden? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you should be excited to give because God has
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  Speaker 2: been so good to you. You should be excited to
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  Speaker 2: return that which God has placed into your life, into
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  Speaker 2: your bank account, into your energy pool. Like when you
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  Speaker 2: are helping people and it feels like you're getting more tired,
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  Speaker 2: just know that God is the one that can help
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  Speaker 2: you have the rest that you need. He's the one
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  Speaker 2: that can give you that recovery regimen. He's the one
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  Speaker 2: that can energize you to continue going. So God is
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  Speaker 2: asking you or commanding, in fact, to give what he
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  Speaker 2: has only given to you. Before your next act of giving,
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  Speaker 2: this is how we actionize this, ask God to fill
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  Speaker 2: your heart with genuine cheerfulness. Not the performance of gratitude,
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  Speaker 2: but the real joy of someone who has seen what
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  Speaker 2: they have received and cannot wait to return to God. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Our next one comes in from verse 6, 2 Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter 9 and verse 6. By this I say, this
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  Speaker 2: is what Paul said, he which soweth sparingly shall also
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  Speaker 2: reap sparingly. He that sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.
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  Speaker 2: Sowing a seed. I'm talking about like if you cast
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  Speaker 2: seed where you're growing things. I remember growing grass. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a city boy. But when we lived in the country,
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  Speaker 2: I remember getting rid of 30 trees in order to
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  Speaker 2: extend the backyard some because we had all this property
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  Speaker 2: in West Virginia. And I was like, ah, that feels
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  Speaker 2: too close. Well, after we got all the stumps out
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  Speaker 2: and everything, it's like, okay, we need grass. And I
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  Speaker 2: would just broadcast the seeds, literally just reach into that
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  Speaker 2: bag and fling the seeds all over the place. My
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  Speaker 2: wife thought I had lost it. But when she saw
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  Speaker 2: that grass... She said, this dude, she didn't say it
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  Speaker 2: in these words, but this dude, he sowed the seed
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  Speaker 2: in a happy and abundant way. And we got abundant
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  Speaker 2: grass back there. So what God is saying is like
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  Speaker 2: the songwriter would have said, you can't beat God giving
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  Speaker 2: no matter how hard you try. The more you give,
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  Speaker 2: the more he gives to you. So keep giving. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord is really true. You can't beat God giving no
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  Speaker 2: matter how hard you try. So let it be a
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  Speaker 2: generosity war. The Lord gives to you and you give
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  Speaker 2: to those that God has put into your sphere of influence.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all make it a great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with L.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. Make it a great day.