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06 15 2026 Unforced but With Power · 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 Monday, June fifteenth,
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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 right relationship with God,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is unforced but with power. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: unforced but with power. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, But first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: Please please, please, please, please, and thanks. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: this day and giving us the daily bread of your word,
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  Speaker 2: the daily bread of all that we need. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you please to show us how to live in power.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. We're
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  Speaker 2: living that way. Yes, yes, so the lesson writer. The
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer actually said in the beginning of the Lesson,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever wondered how Jesus maintained the motivation to labor, heal, comfort,
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  Speaker 2: preach and teach so many people every day? We're told
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  Speaker 2: that he saw the multitudes and he was moved with
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  Speaker 2: compassion for them because they were weary and scattered, like
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  Speaker 2: sheep having no shepherd. It was Jesus's love and compassion
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  Speaker 2: toward humankind that drove his labor. In a similar way,
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  Speaker 2: God's love in us should compel us. So now we know, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so what is the driver? We know who is the driver,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit? What is the driver? Love?
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  Speaker 1: Love?
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  Speaker 2: God's love in us should compel us to feel the
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  Speaker 2: burden of leading souls to him and to his truth.
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  Speaker 2: So it's love that constraineth us, as Paul would have said,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't use that word anymore, right, But it's
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  Speaker 2: love that compels us, love that compels us. So that's
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  Speaker 2: a good place for us to go ahead and begin
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study. With our first lesson coming in from
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter nine. I'll read it one more time and
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  Speaker 2: add what I left out in Matthew chapter nine and
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  Speaker 2: verse thirty six. But when Jesus saw, when he saw
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  Speaker 2: the multitudes, he was moved with compassion. You need to
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  Speaker 2: answer this question in your own time, in your own
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  Speaker 2: space with God. Am I compassionate? Are you compassionate? Some
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  Speaker 2: of us are less compassionate than others. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean people who are just evil. I'm not talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: But there are some people who just don't are not
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  Speaker 2: moved with compassion. Ask God, if that's the reality for you,
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  Speaker 2: where you're not able to feel with people, you're not
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  Speaker 2: you're not able to move based on people's needs, then
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  Speaker 2: just just ask God for power to do this. But
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  Speaker 2: he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted
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  Speaker 2: and were scattered abroad. And here is the clincher, as
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  Speaker 2: sheep having no shepherd in another translation that says they
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  Speaker 2: were bewildered and helpless. Can you imagine now your child
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  Speaker 2: being bewildered and helpless he or she can't find his
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  Speaker 2: or her way home or not able to find a
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  Speaker 2: way through their trial, this difficulty that they've been carrying
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  Speaker 2: for so long, and they're helpless, They're bewildered like sheep
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  Speaker 2: without a shepherd. You're not around. Imagine you're God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: like incarcerated. Imagine you are not able to help that
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  Speaker 2: baby that you have had, and thereby themselves you're locked
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  Speaker 2: away from your children. Or if that's not an image
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  Speaker 2: that that resonates with you, just imagine that there are
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  Speaker 2: people out here with no parents and they're just you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to even imagine that, like this is the reality.
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  Speaker 2: They're like sheep with no shepherd. You know that there
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of promise in their bosom, and they
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  Speaker 2: don't have someone to help them at this present time.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was moved with compassion when he saw this. When
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  Speaker 2: he saw this, tewod Corinthians, chapter five and verse fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll come through. I did say this, but
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  Speaker 2: let me read it now. You know where it is from.
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  Speaker 2: For the love of Christ constraineth us, for the love
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  Speaker 2: of Christ controls us. That means compel, It means to press,
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  Speaker 2: to hold together. God's work moves forward through love that compels,
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  Speaker 2: not forces, not pressures. And I know it seems like okay,
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  Speaker 2: well that's like a synonym, like they're the same words. No,
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  Speaker 2: God is not dragging us into the mission that he's
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  Speaker 2: given us. He's not giving us guilt trips from the
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  Speaker 2: podium on a Sabbath morning when we talk to our
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters about whatever we're supposed to be doing
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  Speaker 2: or have the opportunity to do together. No compassion produces
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  Speaker 2: action that reflects his character. And so the action step
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  Speaker 2: is that God ask him. Ask God to give you
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  Speaker 2: his compassion today. I said it already, but ask him
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  Speaker 2: God can you give me the kind of compassion that
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  Speaker 2: you have? I will say to you. I was speaking
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  Speaker 2: to a brother, a friend of mine a couple of
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  Speaker 2: months ago, who was starting to feel finally the burden
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  Speaker 2: of ministry. He was downtrodden. And I don't laugh, like
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  Speaker 2: like it's a joke. It's not a joke. But I
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  Speaker 2: chuckle and I'm like, ah, welcome to ministry. Now you
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  Speaker 2: are fit to be a minister. You're starting to feel
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  Speaker 2: the burden of compassion. You're feeling the burden of care.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't have that, then that means that
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  Speaker 2: something's wrong. So welcome to ministry. Look at people through
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's perspective and respond with care. Now we go through
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  Speaker 2: to our second lesson from Jeremiah chapter twenty Jeremiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty and verse nine. Jeremiah chapter twenty and verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads his word was in my heart
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  Speaker 2: as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and
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  Speaker 2: I could not stay. His message is like a fire
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  Speaker 2: that is shut up in my bones. I grow tired
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  Speaker 2: of trying to hold it in. I cannot contain. It's
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  Speaker 2: like fire consuming energy. See, Jeremiah was struggling because whenever
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  Speaker 2: he would do exactly what God told him to do.
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  Speaker 2: There was a point in his ministry where it brought
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of problems to his life, and he was like,
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  Speaker 2: I will not teach about this no more. It's just
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  Speaker 2: too heavy. And when he tried to hold it back,
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  Speaker 2: he tried to hold back the calling, he tried to
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  Speaker 2: hold back the message. It was like fire. It's like
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  Speaker 2: trying to hold fire in a paper bag. He could
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  Speaker 2: not do it anymore. And of course he had to.
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  Speaker 2: He had to move forward and give what God had
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  Speaker 2: given him. And so I'm thankful that the people of
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  Speaker 2: God in Revelation chapter twelve gave us an example in
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven. They overcame him meeting the devil by the
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  Speaker 2: blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.
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  Speaker 2: They love not their lives, even to the point of death.
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  Speaker 2: They have personal evidence in their lives that people can see.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what it means to be a witness. The
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  Speaker 2: real experience of God that produces a testimony cannot be contained.
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  Speaker 2: Personal witness carries power because it is lived truth, like
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  Speaker 2: people see it all over you, and it's not something
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  Speaker 2: simply that you say. So what share a specific way
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  Speaker 2: God has worked in your life. With someone today, how
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  Speaker 2: great works that God is doing in your life. It's unforced,
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  Speaker 2: but there is power because God's love compels us. 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,