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09 09 2026 Attitude · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, September 9, 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 Attitude. Attitude. How do you measure that? Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: and get underway? Father, we thank you for getting us
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  Speaker 2: thus far into our week. And thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the ability to be transformed. Like, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: transforming people. And God, please give us the kind of
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  Speaker 2: attitude that pleases you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen
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  Speaker 2: and amen again. So just about 30 years ago when
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  Speaker 2: I was in management in the psych field, I remember
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  Speaker 2: our HR director telling me because I had some, let's
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  Speaker 2: call them challenging staff back in those days. Some of
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  Speaker 2: my staff were challenging and that is an understatement. But
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  Speaker 2: one thing that he used to teach me, and he
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  Speaker 2: would say it directly, he was like, attitude is not
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  Speaker 2: something that you say when you are correcting people. You
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  Speaker 2: have an attitude problem. Because it's like, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: How do you quantify that? Like, what are the key
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  Speaker 2: performance indicators that say that your attitude is improving? So
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  Speaker 2: we didn't use attitude when we had to deal with correction,
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  Speaker 2: but attitude. But biblically, if we think of it closer,
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  Speaker 2: I think the Bible is going to give us a
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  Speaker 2: blueprint for a positive and a holy attitude. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to that in just a second. But the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing before we get there, in my mind, is that
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  Speaker 2: the Macedonians gave out of extreme poverty with exceeding and
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  Speaker 2: abundant joy. Wait a minute, I'm starting to get sort
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  Speaker 2: of a feel of what a positive or a godly
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  Speaker 2: kind of attitude would be. Yeah, even though they had poverty,
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  Speaker 2: when they gave, it was a joyful experience because they
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  Speaker 2: had first given themselves to the Lord. So they're already
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  Speaker 2: on a pathway of giving, giving, giving, giving themselves to God,
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  Speaker 2: giving themselves to God every day in the morning, every
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  Speaker 2: day along the pathway until time to go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: They're giving. And so during that process, now God is
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  Speaker 2: giving them the ability to be joyful. Yes, total consecration always,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, produces generous living. May I say that again?
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it another way. When we completely surrender ourselves
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  Speaker 2: to God, that puts us in a position where we
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  Speaker 2: live generously. Okay, so we're going to go here to
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  Speaker 2: 2 Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 2. where the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: how that in a great trial of affliction, this is
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  Speaker 2: the description of these brothers and sisters in Macedonia, of affliction,
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  Speaker 2: the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded
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  Speaker 2: unto the riches of their liberality. Can I say it
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  Speaker 2: another way? How in a severe test of affliction, their
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  Speaker 2: abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the
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  Speaker 2: wealth of their generosity. Okay, so the joy that God
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  Speaker 2: gave them, which was their strength, had an overflowing effect
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  Speaker 2: to where they were generous. To overflow in this text
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  Speaker 2: means to abound. to exceed what is expected or required?
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  Speaker 2: Do you love your spouse in an overflowing and abundant way?
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  Speaker 2: Do you love your children in an overflowing and abundant way?
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  Speaker 2: The people that you, after you come off the telephone
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  Speaker 2: or on the way out, you say, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Is that an overflowing kind of experience or is it
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  Speaker 2: just what's required? The Macedonians' generosity was not a trickle
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  Speaker 2: proportion of to their poverty. It overflowed. It wasn't like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: whatever I have left, if I can squeeze it out,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give that to those who have need. No,
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  Speaker 2: it overflowed. What came out of them exceeded what should
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  Speaker 2: have been possible given what they had. That kind of
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  Speaker 2: overflow has godly results. I almost said supernatural, but that's
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  Speaker 2: just too generic. godly results. And so joy and poverty
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  Speaker 2: produced overflow. So this is what we need to do,
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  Speaker 2: thinking about that. Like, what is my situation? Ask God
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  Speaker 2: today to fill you with the abundant joy that makes
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  Speaker 2: generosity feel like overflow rather than a sacrifice. And let
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  Speaker 2: that joy be the source of your next act of giving.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I receive a dollar, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: unless I'm asleep or somewhere where I don't have a device.
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  Speaker 2: But barring that, as soon as I get a dollar,
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  Speaker 2: I pull up the apps where I send out the
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  Speaker 2: benevolence and tithe and offering. I'm talking about immediately. I
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  Speaker 2: don't waste a moment. As soon as I see it in,
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  Speaker 2: I say, thank you, God. Transfer, transfer, transfer. Click, click, click.
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  Speaker 2: Here's your receipt. Benevolence fund for this ministry. Benevolence fund
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  Speaker 2: for that ministry. Whatever other aspects of this ministry. Tithe.
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  Speaker 2: And then if there are human beings that are outside
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  Speaker 2: of that benevolence giving, then we start that in motion, too.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't want to be in a position where
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm holding back because then you start
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  Speaker 2: counting pennies. And you start saying, what are your needs
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  Speaker 2: and that kind of crazy thought? And what could I
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  Speaker 2: do with all of this money I'm about to give away?
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  Speaker 2: No wonder other people seem to have a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: more of whatever, because they're not returning the way that
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  Speaker 2: we are returning and giving. And it's like, ah, that's
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  Speaker 2: a silly, devilish thought and argument. And instead of entertaining
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  Speaker 2: that under God, I just hurry up and get it
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  Speaker 2: out of there. I can't even pull it back if
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  Speaker 2: I want to because we move it quickly. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I choose to do. But ask God to do that
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  Speaker 2: and let that joy be a source again for that
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  Speaker 2: next time of giving. Let me read from Testimonies to
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  Speaker 2: the Church or for the Church, Volume 9 and page 245.
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  Speaker 2: When the heart is right, when it is consecrated to
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  Speaker 2: God— The possessions will be held as his entrusted talent
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  Speaker 2: to be used for the advancement of his cause. There
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  Speaker 2: will be no need to urge such persons to give.
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  Speaker 2: You see all of those campaigns that happen inside church? Uh-oh,
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  Speaker 2: you won't have to urge them. They will rather urge
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  Speaker 2: that they be allowed to give. I'm going to read
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  Speaker 2: it one more time. This one has to settle in.
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  Speaker 2: Under inspiration, the messenger of the Lord said, When the
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  Speaker 2: heart is right, when it is consecrated to God, the
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  Speaker 2: possessions will be held as his entrusted talent to be
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  Speaker 2: used for the advancement of his cause. There will be
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  Speaker 2: no need to urge such persons to give. They will
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  Speaker 2: rather urge. that they will be allowed to give. And
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  Speaker 2: so what do we need to do? What do we
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  Speaker 2: need to do right before we close? Give yourself to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord today. Before you give anything else, make it
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  Speaker 2: the first and most deliberate act of your day and
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  Speaker 2: watch how it changes your attitude with which everything else
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  Speaker 2: flows from you. Yeah, I think I have a better
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  Speaker 2: understanding of what an attitude that is pleasing to God
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  Speaker 2: looks like. Generosity, overflow. 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. David Harris. Make it a great day.