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06 14 2026 Out of the Overflow · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, June fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series about how to have a thriving relationship with God,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is out of the Overflow.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the Overflow. 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 your Daily Portion dot com. Will
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get under weigh. Father
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  Speaker 2: in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new work
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  Speaker 2: weekend the privilege of giving us overflow. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to live like we know who you are. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to live like we are in relationship with you
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  Speaker 2: and not just observing you. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. So the Bible is very clear
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  Speaker 2: about who a witness is. And when I say a witness,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about not the way that Christianese when I
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  Speaker 2: say Christianese speaking people say we're going to witness, We're
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  Speaker 2: going to witness, and then pick an activity that we
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  Speaker 2: have termed witness, which is why so many people are
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  Speaker 2: fearful of quote witnessing, the verb witnessing, the action witnessing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a true witness is someone who is receiving the grace
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  Speaker 2: of God freely have received. Jesus said, freely give. When
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  Speaker 2: we are transformed day by day, moment by moment, hour
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  Speaker 2: by hour by God, and we are sharing that in
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  Speaker 2: whatever way God has gifted us to share, we are witnesses.
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  Speaker 2: It's a present experience with God that is based on
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  Speaker 2: His word, based on the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: We are living by faith, and we are spreading that
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  Speaker 2: to other people. Is it how we behave toward them?
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  Speaker 2: Is it something that we do for them? Is it
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  Speaker 2: us telling the great things that God has done for
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  Speaker 2: us and saying, well, if he can do this for me,
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  Speaker 2: he can do it for you. Is it talking about
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  Speaker 2: or sharing in some way? How being in relationship with
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  Speaker 2: God brings liberty, it brings joy. Like witnesses are people
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  Speaker 2: who are having a present, living experience with God and
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  Speaker 2: are sharing it in whatever way God has said. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so I've oversimplified. I've oversimplified. But let's go ahead to
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  Speaker 2: our lesson number one that's coming in from Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, verses eighteen through twenty, and the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus came and spake unto them, saying all power
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  Speaker 2: is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go
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  Speaker 2: ye therefore and teach all nations. And of course it continues,
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  Speaker 2: and let me move to the rest of it. And lo,
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  Speaker 2: I am with you alway, even to the end of
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  Speaker 2: the world. So, whether we're teaching preaching, baptizing. We are
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  Speaker 2: sharing our testimony right and love, not our lives, even
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  Speaker 2: to the point of death. Whatever way God has called
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  Speaker 2: us to manifest this reality in our lives to the world.
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  Speaker 2: Just know that it's all power that God has in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus has and now is there with us always,
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  Speaker 2: so we can accomplish the goal, the goal of what witnessing.
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  Speaker 2: So God has given us the privilege of being complete
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  Speaker 2: without exception. Jesus covers the mission with total authority. He's
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  Speaker 2: not going to leave us, he's not going to forsake us.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to force us into a classroom and
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  Speaker 2: make it seem as if the only way we can
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  Speaker 2: be a witness is if we have witnessing training. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes we do have training that's related to the
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  Speaker 2: activities that we call witnessing. Is it evangelism class is
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  Speaker 2: it going door to door? Is it being at train stations.
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to hospitals and wellness centers to be
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  Speaker 2: of service to people who are unwell and healing. There
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  Speaker 2: are a number of ways, but the fact is we
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  Speaker 2: are God's witnesses and it's not just an activity. So
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  Speaker 2: and so, since he has this authority and since he
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  Speaker 2: is calling us to and empowering us to be witnesses,
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  Speaker 2: it's a complete assignment. He's giving us a complete assignment
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  Speaker 2: and a constant presence from himself so that we can
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  Speaker 2: accomplish his will. Nothing about this call is halfway or
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  Speaker 2: partial partial. So what is the action step in this case?
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  Speaker 2: Write down where you have limited God's all power, limited
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  Speaker 2: God's all authority? Is it because you say you're an introvert,
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  Speaker 2: so you can't be a witness because you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to preach on the road side. Well, he didn't say
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  Speaker 2: that everybody is going to preach on the road side.
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  Speaker 2: Are you limiting yourself because you say that you're a
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  Speaker 2: very sociable person or a really direct person, but some
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  Speaker 2: people that you're around are too passive in your estimation,
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  Speaker 2: and so that limits what you can and cannot do. Well, No,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't say to any of that. So write down
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  Speaker 2: where you have limited all Gods all in your life
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  Speaker 2: and surrender that area today BacT Chapter one and verse eight.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you anticipated this, the Bible reads for lesson
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  Speaker 2: number two. But ye shall receive what power after that
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Ghost has come upon you, and ye shall
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  Speaker 2: be my witnesses. You will be My witnesses everywhere you
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  Speaker 2: happen to be. And there is a method sometimes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible is teaching us that the precursor to
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  Speaker 2: being a witness is to receive power when the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost comes upon us. That power is ability. It's dunamus.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that's the Greek term. It's like dynamite. Remember dynamite.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day, we used to use that word
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Sometimes we say dandamite here. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why we call it that. But the point is
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  Speaker 2: that God gives us the kind of power that is
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  Speaker 2: explosive in nature, to the point that when from the
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  Speaker 2: epicenter this explosion happens, then the effects reverberate in concentric
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  Speaker 2: circles from where I am out into the uttermost parts
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  Speaker 2: of the world. God has given us the power of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy space to be His witnesses. So the question
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  Speaker 2: really is are you accepting of this power? Are you
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  Speaker 2: still limiting God by saying you can't I'm not like
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  Speaker 2: and measuring yourself by some other human being or another
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  Speaker 2: human's standard. God is saying, accept my power, and you
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  Speaker 2: will be witnesses wherever you are. Remember we were children
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  Speaker 2: some of us. If he grew up in a Christian
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  Speaker 2: household or environment. Brighten the corner where you are. Be
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  Speaker 2: a light in the corner where you are. That's what
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  Speaker 2: God is simply saying, be a light wherever you are. Now.
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  Speaker 2: In Acts, chapter four and verse thirteen, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John,
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  Speaker 2: they marveled and took knowledge of them that they had
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  Speaker 2: been with Jesus. And so witnessing flows from time invested
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus. The Holy Spirit gives power. The life reveals
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  Speaker 2: our connection with God. So we set aside focused time
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  Speaker 2: with God every day. Let's start with today and expect
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  Speaker 2: that your life will speak before your words. Do expect
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  Speaker 2: that your life will speak before your words?
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  Speaker 1: Do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so much more to say.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read from Steps to Christ, page seventy eight
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  Speaker 2: to No sooner does one come to Christ than there
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  Speaker 2: is born in the heart a desire to make known
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  Speaker 2: to others what a precious friend he or she has
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  Speaker 2: found in Jesus. Yeah, 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,