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10 23 2026 Keeping Jesus and His Word at the Center · 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: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Friday, October 23, 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, The Gift
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  Speaker 2: of Prophecy, and our caption for today is Keeping Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and His Word at the Center. Keeping Jesus and His
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  Speaker 2: Word at the Center. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: go over to yourdailyportion.com. Those of you who have not
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  Speaker 2: done so already, go ahead and click that link. Begin
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  Speaker 2: the assessment button. It's right there, right there under the
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  Speaker 2: big header. Stop guessing what to do with your life.
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  Speaker 2: Discover God's design for your life. You will come away
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  Speaker 2: after you've invested just a few minutes of your time
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  Speaker 2: with a personal blueprint, a clear picture of how you
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  Speaker 2: have been gifted by God, like he designed you for
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  Speaker 2: a particular purpose, a way to serve. The word behind
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  Speaker 2: each of those gifts and the first step toward using it. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: So go ahead and do that. And also, if the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is so inclining you, please contribute to Your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Ministries because Your Daily Portion Ministries is a listener
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  Speaker 2: and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. God, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day of preparation. Will you help us to listen
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  Speaker 2: to your words and and reject the words of the enemy,
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  Speaker 2: and live according to your principles. Thank you. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: name I pray. Amen and amen again. I am sure
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  Speaker 2: that over all of these years, I mean, we've been
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  Speaker 2: talking for like, wow, it's been, do you realize we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking to each other for about 12 years straight? Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I have likely said to you, that we
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  Speaker 2: need to be listening for the voice of God. And
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  Speaker 2: to the ancient people of God, to hear or listen
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  Speaker 2: and to do are one. Shema. To listen is to
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  Speaker 2: also execute on what you've heard. To listen is to
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  Speaker 2: apply by doing. So listen and do. That's Shema. And
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  Speaker 2: so when God's word is there, faith cometh by hearing
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  Speaker 2: and hearing by the word of God. When we're hearing
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  Speaker 2: the word of God, are we truly hearing? Are we
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  Speaker 2: truly listening? Because if we are, then we will do.
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  Speaker 2: God's transforming us even as we are listening right now.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, the devil has this habit of mixing
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  Speaker 2: up words. so that people will hear his voice rather
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  Speaker 2: than the voice of God. The primary work of every
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  Speaker 2: true prophet is not to bring people to knowing faithful
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  Speaker 2: relationship without the Holy Spirit. You see what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people try to take that stuff into their own hands.
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  Speaker 2: And they feel like because they are so gifted, because
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  Speaker 2: they have eloquence of speech, they have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: drive people toward a goal that they feel like that
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  Speaker 2: all of that lays in their responsibility. But God is
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  Speaker 2: saying that the primary work of every true prophet is
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  Speaker 2: to bring people into a knowing, faithful relationship with God
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  Speaker 2: by the Holy Ghost. And this is what... What's going
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  Speaker 2: on in young Ellen's minds at that time in her life? Remember,
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  Speaker 2: every Friday over the last few weeks, we spoke about
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  Speaker 2: young Ellen. Her ministry had two focuses, to lead people
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus and to point them to his word. How
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  Speaker 2: can we know what is the word of God? Only
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  Speaker 2: by the Holy Ghost. Do you understand? And so Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was showing us that he is the author and finisher
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  Speaker 2: of our faith and that by the Holy Spirit, we
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  Speaker 2: will actually be able to live his principles. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 2: were some people living during Jesus's time who really were
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  Speaker 2: not on his team. They really were not fans of Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: but they somehow were leaders in the faith fellowship. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, you search the Scriptures, for in them ye
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  Speaker 2: think you have eternal life. By searching, he meant. By
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  Speaker 2: searching them, by intellectually seeing them, by thinking that they
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  Speaker 2: were bringing people into relationship with God, by thinking that
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  Speaker 2: they were bringing people to know God, by thinking that,
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  Speaker 2: by doing it so in a performative way, they felt
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  Speaker 2: like they were on the right track. But Jesus was like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: In them ye think ye have eternal life. They are
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  Speaker 2: they that testify of me. So Jesus was saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: I am the one who's right here with you. I
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  Speaker 2: am teaching you the ways of righteousness. You look like,
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  Speaker 2: from an outward perspective, you look like you're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be on the right track, but inside you are dead
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  Speaker 2: men's bones. Why? Because you have not allowed the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost to transform you. And the word of God that
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about is not a part of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Keeping Jesus and his word at the center means to
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  Speaker 2: actually live according to what the word is saying, not
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  Speaker 2: just talking about it. Humans have a habit of talking
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  Speaker 2: a good game. So fix your eyes on Jesus today,
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  Speaker 2: would you please, and invest, I've said this to you before,
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  Speaker 2: unhurried time in his presence. Yes, so the Bible actually
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  Speaker 2: reads in our second lesson in a Psalms. I almost
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  Speaker 2: said first Psalms. No. Psalms chapter 119 and verse 105.
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  Speaker 2: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light.
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  Speaker 2: unto my path. Your word is a lamp for me
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  Speaker 2: to walk by and a light to illuminate or illumine
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  Speaker 2: my path. God's word lights the path when the way
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  Speaker 2: ahead is dark. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ellen always pointed
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  Speaker 2: people to the scripture as the light that people needed
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  Speaker 2: to follow and the rule of faith and practice. Is
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  Speaker 2: that what you do? We see Moses did the very
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  Speaker 2: same thing. Huldah, again, I told you she was one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite Old Testament prophets, or she's a prophetess,
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  Speaker 2: because she guided the people back to the lost books
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  Speaker 2: of the law during King Josiah's reign. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 2: I want you to take one decision today to the Scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to measure it by the Scriptures. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I want to do X. This is the decision I
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  Speaker 2: have to make. Has God already revealed the truth in
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  Speaker 2: His Word? And then let God enlighten your path rather
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  Speaker 2: than your own reasoning. All right, third lesson as we
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  Speaker 2: come to a swift close is coming in from Matthew 12.
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  Speaker 2: 4 and verse 4, it was Jesus' response to the
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  Speaker 2: devil's temptation for Jesus to turn stone into bread. But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, You see, if you're really hungry, Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: it's not the food, the manna that you get, even
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  Speaker 2: miraculous manna in the Old Testament as God's people were,
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  Speaker 2: God led them, almost said it in a passive way,
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  Speaker 2: but even as God led them through the wilderness and
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  Speaker 2: gave them food from heaven, the kind that they could
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  Speaker 2: actually eat and it would nourish them, Jesus said in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter 6, but they ate that and then they died.
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  Speaker 2: They ate that and then they died. So no matter
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  Speaker 2: in what way you gratify yourselves and no matter in
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  Speaker 2: what way you do these things, those things will expire.
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  Speaker 2: And when they expire, you're left with nothing. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to give you that word that endures where you
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  Speaker 2: will never hunger, you will never thirst again. And that
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  Speaker 2: is the Word of God. And so feed on a portion.
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  Speaker 2: I think you heard what I just said, your daily portion.
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  Speaker 2: Feed on a portion of God's word today, taking it
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  Speaker 2: slowly enough that it nourishes you and changes you. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day. 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.