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08 22 2026 Love-driven Ministry · 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.
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  Speaker 3: It is Sabbath, August twenty two, twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 3: my name is El David Harris. I am your host
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  Speaker 3: den This is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 3: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 3: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 3: books of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 3: today is love driven ministry, Love driven Ministry. Before we
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  Speaker 3: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you
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  Speaker 3: and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: dot com. Will you please go ahead and click where
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  Speaker 3: it says here, stop guessing what to do with your life,
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  Speaker 3: discover God's design for your life. Everybody has received the gift,
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  Speaker 3: even so minister the same to one another. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what God's call is for all of us. But you'll
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  Speaker 3: come away with a personal blueprint, a clear picture of
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  Speaker 3: how you are gifted, the word behind each gift, and
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  Speaker 3: the first step toward using it. Go ahead and click
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  Speaker 3: begin the assessment right there and get underway with what
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  Speaker 3: God's plan is for your life. Also, when you have
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  Speaker 3: your Daily Portion Ministries is a listener and viewer supported ministry.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We
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  Speaker 3: thank you for giving us this Sabbath time and for
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  Speaker 3: the blessing you have been to us. Will you teach
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  Speaker 3: us to move in ministry like Jesus did In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 3: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah, your mind should
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  Speaker 3: be thinking like you should be thinking like why do
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  Speaker 3: we even need to talk about love driven ministry? Well,
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  Speaker 3: the reason is simple. There are so few people on
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  Speaker 3: planet Earth who are in quote ministry that do it
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  Speaker 3: from the right motives. And it's like, okay, LD, do
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  Speaker 3: you have the data on that one? Well, the truth
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  Speaker 3: is that the majority has never been right. Not even
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  Speaker 3: within the church. Over the centuries or millennia that the
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  Speaker 3: church in air quotes have existed has existed, the majority
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  Speaker 3: are never right. It's the few, it's the remnant. It's
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  Speaker 3: the ones who are really connected to God, who have
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  Speaker 3: his heart in ministry. And so that's why we have
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  Speaker 3: to say it. Remember when Jesus was here, he said,
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  Speaker 3: I have a new commandment to tell you about. And
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  Speaker 3: now I pull up my seat and with bated breath,
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  Speaker 3: I'm listening Jesus. Okay, what is this new commandment that
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  Speaker 3: you're going to share with us? Jesus? And he said,
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  Speaker 3: love one another? And I'm thinking love, yep. But I
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  Speaker 3: thought we always were to love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought that was always the principal thing. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you have always been love. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But for some reason, there are human beings, even in
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  Speaker 3: the faith fellowship, that completely miss it. So as we
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  Speaker 3: have this baseline, we begin with what I consider to
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  Speaker 3: be the most important thing today, and it is that
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  Speaker 3: Paul was beaten. That's true. He was shipwrecked and starved
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  Speaker 3: and still writing letters of love to a church that
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  Speaker 3: had caused him grief that has to come from God.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say it again, beaten, shipwrecked, starved, and still
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  Speaker 3: writing letters of love to a church that had cost
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  Speaker 3: him grief. That is what ministry driven by love of
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  Speaker 3: Christ looks like. That doesn't mean that we have to
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  Speaker 3: be shipwrecked or beaten or starved or jailed for our faith.
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  Speaker 3: But it does mean that when we see this kind
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  Speaker 3: of movement, we know it is under the power of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost. And so we read from Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 3: Second Corinthians, chapter one, beginning at verse three, Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 3: Chapter one, beginning at verse three, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 3: Blessed be God, even the father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 3: the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,
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  Speaker 3: who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may
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  Speaker 3: be able to comfort them which are in any trouble
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  Speaker 3: by the comfort wherewith we ourselves have been comforted. And
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  Speaker 3: so God is talking about through Paul, consolation or encouragement,
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  Speaker 3: the same root as a word that I can't pronounce.
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  Speaker 3: The name, Oh, that's paraclet, the name of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 3: God's comfort is not given only for personal relief. So
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  Speaker 3: the comforter Jesus told us about the Holy Spirit is
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  Speaker 3: the one who drives God's comfort. It flows through the
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  Speaker 3: comforted person into the lives of those who are still
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  Speaker 3: in affliction. That's called empathy in some ways. Right, we
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  Speaker 3: have gone through some things. Jesus said, freely, ye have received.
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  Speaker 3: So God gives you comfort. God gives you love, He
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  Speaker 3: gives you encouragement, consolation, and all that comes through this
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  Speaker 3: power of the Holy Ghost. And since that is the case,
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  Speaker 3: God is saying you freely give. You received freely. Now
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  Speaker 3: I need you to freely give. And so it flows
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  Speaker 3: through the comforted person into the lives of those who
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  Speaker 3: are still in affliction. And so every trial, this is
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  Speaker 3: our lesson for lesson number one, every trial God brings
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  Speaker 3: you through. And I want you to listen for that
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  Speaker 3: word through God is taking you through the trials.
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  Speaker 2: He will not.
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  Speaker 3: Allow you to go to the trials unless He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: take you through the trials. Okay, it's preparation for ministry.
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  Speaker 3: The comfort he pours into your suffering is not meant
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  Speaker 3: to stop with you. And so yes, we thank God
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  Speaker 3: and we praise him when when He takes us through
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  Speaker 3: those great trials and tribulations. Yes, but we're not to
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  Speaker 3: be like resting on our laurels and saying shoo, fine,
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad I got through that. Hm hm, God saying
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  Speaker 3: that since you've gotten through that, I need you to
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  Speaker 3: help others get through too, because you have that lived experience.
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  Speaker 3: You know what great things I have done for you,
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  Speaker 3: And so it's meant for us to be passing it
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  Speaker 3: to someone else who was still in that dark place
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  Speaker 3: that you have already survived. And so what do we look,
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  Speaker 3: What does this look like in practice? Think of someone
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  Speaker 3: who's going through a trial you've already been through, and
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  Speaker 3: reach out to them today with the specific comfort God
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  Speaker 3: gave you in that same season. You see, the Bible
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  Speaker 3: says that we God's people overcame him the devil by
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  Speaker 3: the blood of the lamb and by the word of
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  Speaker 3: our testimony, because we love not our lives, even to
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  Speaker 3: the point of death. That was, of course in a
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  Speaker 3: certain era, but that is the heart posture of the
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  Speaker 3: people of God, even in twenty twenty six. Our lesson
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  Speaker 3: number two comes in from Tewod Corinthians, chapter two and
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  Speaker 3: verse four with a Bible reads, for out of much
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  Speaker 3: affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote unto you with
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  Speaker 3: many tears, not that ye should be grieved but that
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  Speaker 3: ye might know the love which I have more abundantly
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  Speaker 3: unto you. So he's saying, I don't. I'm not asking
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  Speaker 3: you to cry for me. I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 3: try to console me necessarily. But I just want you
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  Speaker 3: to know that every time I go through these trials
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  Speaker 3: for the sake of the Gospel, I'm thinking of you.
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  Speaker 3: Every time these trials come upon my back because of
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  Speaker 3: the calling God is placed on my life, I am
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  Speaker 3: thinking of you. And so this is a self giving,
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  Speaker 3: unconditional type love. Paul wrote a painful letter with tears
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  Speaker 3: because he loved the people in Corinth. Not in spite
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  Speaker 3: of that love, but because of that love.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get the difference there?
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't writing to them because he wanted them to
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  Speaker 3: feel bad and say, listen, look at what I'm going
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  Speaker 3: through because of you, Because of the love. The hard
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  Speaker 3: words were delivered in genuine love, and one of the
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  Speaker 3: and there, and that's one of the highest expressions of agape,
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  Speaker 3: that love in spite of what you do, that even
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  Speaker 3: though it's painful for me, I am coming to you
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  Speaker 3: in love because I have your best interest at heart.
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  Speaker 3: I have the will of God at heart, and your
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  Speaker 3: best interest at heart. Love driven ministry looks like that.
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  Speaker 3: How does it look in your life? Make it a
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  Speaker 3: great day, Peace, Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day, Yeah,