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03 22 2026 Lessons on Outreach · 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: 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, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series for the final week uniting Heaven
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  Speaker 2: and Earth christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is lesson on Outreach. Lessons on Outreach. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: will not be able to do without you. So thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your support and your compassion, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please just continue to pray for the ministry.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray. Father, We thank you. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to come together again, for the privilege of opening
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  Speaker 2: up your word. And I'm asking you please to help
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  Speaker 2: us to be a witness in Jesus's name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Lessons on outreach. Okay, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go ahead and begin first lesson. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say, don't just make up stuff that's not in
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  Speaker 2: my notes. I'll get back to the real ones, but
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  Speaker 2: don't make up stuff. There are times that the people
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  Speaker 2: of God try to manufacture ways to reach the world
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  Speaker 2: for Christ and not ask God, like, what would you
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  Speaker 2: have us to do? There are many times that God
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  Speaker 2: would just tell us, but we make up. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: make up programs and then we beg our brothers and
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  Speaker 2: sisters for our quote support. And then when things don't
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  Speaker 2: turn out the way that we had anticipated. Then sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we feel dejected, and it's like, well, why do you
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  Speaker 2: feel dejected because you contrived away. You made up a
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  Speaker 2: way for this thing to work, rather than simply asking
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  Speaker 2: God and then following his lead. So that one was
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  Speaker 2: a bonus, it was free. Let's begin now from John
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  Speaker 2: Nevians Andrews. The work of God advances most surely when
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  Speaker 2: it is born by faithful people who love the cause
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  Speaker 2: and care for the people. So this is a basic,
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  Speaker 2: a baseline reality. If you do what if you if
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  Speaker 2: you are faithful, you love the cause and care for
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  Speaker 2: the people. So this is a submission. This is a
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  Speaker 2: submission to God perspective, because the only way we can
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  Speaker 2: be faithful is if we submit our will to God.
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  Speaker 2: The only way we can love the cause and love
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  Speaker 2: the people is if the Holy Spirit is filling our lives.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is a submission principle. So our first
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  Speaker 2: lesson now comes in from the Bible Book of Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse seven, and it says, our dear brother,
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  Speaker 2: a faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will
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  Speaker 2: tell you all the news about me. Paul didn't rely
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  Speaker 2: only on letters. He entrusted the gospel work to faithful people,
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  Speaker 2: including Taykikus, who would carry the truth, who would carry
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  Speaker 2: context and encouragement in person. So our lesson is that
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  Speaker 2: outreach is built on trusted messengers. We are messengers of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. And there are times that we have people
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  Speaker 2: with us, men, women, and sometimes boys and girls who
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  Speaker 2: are engaged in the ministry of outreach, and we need
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  Speaker 2: to deliver the truth to the people. We need to
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  Speaker 2: deliver encouragement, We need to deliver felt needs. There are
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  Speaker 2: things that happen in people's lives that are beyond us
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  Speaker 2: talking on the internet, and God would have us to
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  Speaker 2: send people, send messengers into those particular areas where people
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  Speaker 2: are who have these particular needs, and that is a
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  Speaker 2: representation of God's love. We are the hands and feet
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  Speaker 2: of God, and therefore there are times that our brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters are hands and feet of a larger ministry.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe your ministry is headquartered in fill in the blank city,
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  Speaker 2: and then a town that is one hundred miles away
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  Speaker 2: has some particular felt needs. What is the thing to
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  Speaker 2: do for people who love the work, who love the ministry,
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  Speaker 2: and love the people who are faithful to God to
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  Speaker 2: literally physically go there, to go there and to carry
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  Speaker 2: the work and message to the people. So and so
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  Speaker 2: the action step is to ask yourself, could you trust
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  Speaker 2: who you could trust to represent Christ accurately? Now accurately
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  Speaker 2: is such a a stilted term. Who can you trust?
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  Speaker 2: Who can represent Christ in the way that He has
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  Speaker 2: already shown us? When I was hungry, you fed me,
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  Speaker 2: when I was in prison, You visited me, when I
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  Speaker 2: was naked, you clothed me. The way that you treat
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  Speaker 2: the least of these, my brethren, you are also treating me.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, am I one of the people that
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  Speaker 2: God can send? Am I one of those people who
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  Speaker 2: are feeding and healing and touching and holding holding hands
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  Speaker 2: with people who need to be held up in times
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  Speaker 2: of need and need for comfort. Our lesson number two
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  Speaker 2: comes in for from Colossians chapter four and verse eight,
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  Speaker 2: where we read whom I have sent unto you for
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  Speaker 2: the same purpose that he might know your estate. So
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  Speaker 2: now we know what Taikakus was going to know your
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  Speaker 2: estate and comfort your hearts. So Paul sent this gentlemen
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  Speaker 2: an Anisimus, not only to deliver facts, but to strengthen
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  Speaker 2: the hearts and maintain personal connection can I just say
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  Speaker 2: in the faith community. I don't know in what community
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  Speaker 2: you are, but that's the reason for elders Biblically, that's
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  Speaker 2: the reason for bishops, that's the reason for deaconet the
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  Speaker 2: deconet body. That's the reason for the people who are
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  Speaker 2: also in the different ministries. Are you a women's ministries
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  Speaker 2: a person, a men's ministries person, a prayer ministries person,
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  Speaker 2: And so the pastor of the church, let's just see
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  Speaker 2: that pastor as Moses. And then when there are different
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  Speaker 2: things going on inside of the faith community, the people
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  Speaker 2: who are more attached many times to the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the people are to deal with all of the challenges,
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  Speaker 2: all of the needs, all the problems, unless it reaches
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  Speaker 2: a certain level where it's like, okay, only the pastor
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  Speaker 2: can be the one to assist, because the pastor is
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  Speaker 2: the one with either the wisdom or the resources, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I call the jath Row model. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And Moses got that, he got that guidance from his
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  Speaker 2: father in law. And so the gospel moves through encouragement,
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  Speaker 2: but not only information, Okay, encouragement hands on and not
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  Speaker 2: only information. Our final lesson is coming in from the
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  Speaker 2: next verse, verse nine, with Onissimus, a faithful and beloved
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  Speaker 2: brother who is one of you. They shall make known
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  Speaker 2: unto you all the things which are done here. So
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  Speaker 2: these brothers are carrying messages of hope back and forth
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  Speaker 2: between Paul and the people of God. Onissimus was a
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  Speaker 2: once a runaway slave. Paul now calls him faithful and
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  Speaker 2: sends him as part of the gospel mission. And so
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  Speaker 2: the lesson is that God uses restored lives as a
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  Speaker 2: witness from what have you been restored brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: It could be from within the faith, or as you
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  Speaker 2: were coming in the faith, where you while in the faith,
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  Speaker 2: did you make an error that costs the people some credibility,
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  Speaker 2: that maybe cost some time or money, and you have
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  Speaker 2: now repented. Or maybe you're a person who didn't know
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  Speaker 2: the Lord at all, and now you're coming into the
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  Speaker 2: household of faith and lending the help that God has
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  Speaker 2: called you. But God uses restored lives no matter what,
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  Speaker 2: as witnesses of his glory. If He can do it
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  Speaker 2: for you, he can do it for me, and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,