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10 11 2026 The Humanity of Prophets · 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: 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 Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: 11th day of October in 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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 day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series, The Gift of Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is The Humanity of Prophets. The Humanity of Prophets.
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  Speaker 2: We sort of scratched that surface yesterday, but we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about it directly today. Before we do, I'd
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  Speaker 2: and we will get underway. God, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new work week, and thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath time that you entrusted to us yesterday. I pray, God,
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  Speaker 2: that now we will run forward in faith and do
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  Speaker 2: what you've called us to do, and that we will
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  Speaker 2: see prophets as not icons or avatars or some special people,
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  Speaker 2: except that you called them like you called us for
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  Speaker 2: whatever you've called us to be. But, God, please help
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  Speaker 2: us to be focused on you and not on them.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen again. It
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  Speaker 2: is not lost on me that in some faith fellowships,
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  Speaker 2: prophets are esteemed very highly, and I would say as
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  Speaker 2: well they should, but because they are God's servants more
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  Speaker 2: than anything else, we should not iconize these prophets. They
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  Speaker 2: are people who will walk into... building and start to
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  Speaker 2: what they call prophesy, and then everybody will stop. And
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  Speaker 2: perhaps if they in fact are true biblical prophets or
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  Speaker 2: they're prophets based on the four chests of a genuine prophet,
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  Speaker 2: then praise the Lord. But even then, they are human beings.
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  Speaker 2: They are not God. Yes, in those moments they speak
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  Speaker 2: for God, but they are not God. Some prophets foretell
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  Speaker 2: because God gives them the ability to to know things
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  Speaker 2: that in their own skill, their own ability, they could
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  Speaker 2: not have known. And then there are some who tell forth,
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  Speaker 2: they speak forth, they preach the word of God, the gospel,
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  Speaker 2: not based on predictive style of prophecy. But in any case,
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  Speaker 2: they're humans. And in the case of Elijah, we see
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  Speaker 2: that right after the fire fell on Mount Carmel, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Elijah collapsed. into fear and despair. And I am not
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  Speaker 2: going to lie to you. For the last couple of decades,
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  Speaker 2: I have had it in for Elijah in those moments.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie. I'm not acting like I've
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  Speaker 2: never fallen subject to human realities. I'm sure, obviously, you
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  Speaker 2: have too. But I just couldn't process, like, how is
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  Speaker 2: it that you are on Mount Carmel with 850 false prophets,
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  Speaker 2: you by yourself are there and God manifests his presence
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  Speaker 2: in a marked way. And then one woman decided that
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  Speaker 2: she was going to be evil and disrespectful to the
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  Speaker 2: same God. that manifest himself on Mount Carmel and you
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  Speaker 2: defeated all of those false prophets. And now you're afraid
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  Speaker 2: of one person who has something crazy to say out
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  Speaker 2: of her mouth. Like she doesn't know the God of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, Elijah, what in the, get a grip. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if David, King David were the one who
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  Speaker 2: had that same experience. You know, the one when he
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  Speaker 2: was young who killed Goliath, like what would have happened
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  Speaker 2: if it were King David? But then it occurred to
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  Speaker 2: me that even though King David, as a good soldier,
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  Speaker 2: a young soldier for the Lord, did what he did
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  Speaker 2: with Goliath. Well, there was one woman that was bathing
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  Speaker 2: and she wasn't even thinking about him. And David sold
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  Speaker 2: all he sold his whole life and generations of of
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  Speaker 2: his posterity down the river. for sexual indiscretion so i'm
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  Speaker 2: like okay okay okay ld got it we're humans and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes humans mess up god did not throw away elijah
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  Speaker 2: or david he didn't cast him off in his lowest
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  Speaker 2: moment but came near to feed him he actually literally
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  Speaker 2: fed him to restore him and to put him back
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  Speaker 2: to work like get back in the fight elijah what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing And so the fact is here in
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  Speaker 2: 1 Kings chapter 19 and verse 4 that he himself
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  Speaker 2: went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and
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  Speaker 2: sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for
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  Speaker 2: himself that he might die. He was asking God to
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  Speaker 2: end his life right there. I have been there. I've
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  Speaker 2: been there. Thirty-some years ago, I was just so worn
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  Speaker 2: out from my new Christian walk and my failures and
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  Speaker 2: my inability to understand how in the world I'm supposed
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  Speaker 2: to live a holy life. And I was just like, God,
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  Speaker 2: if you could just choose not to wake me up tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: I would be great. Like, thank you. But that was
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  Speaker 2: because both of us were foolish. Both of us were
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  Speaker 2: foolish when we thought that we understood what life and
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  Speaker 2: death really were. When we thought that if God would
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  Speaker 2: cut us short, that that would end all of our trials.
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  Speaker 2: What if we're not ready to be in the kingdom
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  Speaker 2: with God and we're asking him that crazy stuff? What
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  Speaker 2: if we are more self-centered than what we think we
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  Speaker 2: are and think that God doesn't know what he's doing?
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  Speaker 2: What if we're writing God a prescription rather than yielding
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  Speaker 2: our will to God and letting him be God and
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  Speaker 2: we serve him? But thankfully, thankfully, God did not do that.
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  Speaker 2: God did not do that. We are told that if
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  Speaker 2: God had done that, then Elijah would have been in
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  Speaker 2: a bad way, okay? And so Elijah sank so low
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  Speaker 2: that he asked to die, worn out and feeling alone
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  Speaker 2: in his ministry. Even the faithful can be overtaken by despair,
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  Speaker 2: can be. And God treats that despair with tenderness. Can
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  Speaker 2: I just say, newsflash, Elijah never died Elijah went straight
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  Speaker 2: to heaven without tasting of death. Yeah, full of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. God redeemed that brother and took him right
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  Speaker 2: to heaven on chariots of fire. So we know that
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  Speaker 2: God is able. So if discouragement has pressed you down,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, tell God honestly how you feel today
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  Speaker 2: and let him carry what has become too heavy for
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  Speaker 2: you to carry. Too heavy for you. Let me read
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  Speaker 2: from Prophets and Kings, page 173. I think I read
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  Speaker 2: from that yesterday. But it says here, the Lord does
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  Speaker 2: not lay upon anyone a burden greater than that person
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  Speaker 2: can bear. May I just say that? All of the
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  Speaker 2: trials that you go through, those were measured by God
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  Speaker 2: before they came to you. How all of those tribulations
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  Speaker 2: measured by God. The temptations measured by God before they
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  Speaker 2: came to you. Elijah, in his discouragement, learned the lesson
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  Speaker 2: he needed. God had a work for Elijah still to do.
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  Speaker 2: God has a work for you to do, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you to look backward at all of
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  Speaker 2: the things that you did wrong, not even what maybe
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  Speaker 2: you did a few minutes ago until this moment of reckoning.
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  Speaker 2: Give yourself to God. Let him transform you and get
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  Speaker 2: back in the fight and do the work that God
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  Speaker 2: has called you to do. Don't complain.
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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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