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04 22 2025 Given What You Asked For · 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,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, April
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is given what you asked for, Given
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  Speaker 2: what you asked for. 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: to pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion guide. We
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day and for loving us beyond our capacity to believe.
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  Speaker 2: I ask you to give us the fullness of your
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  Speaker 2: holy spirit. Teach us to serve you with everything we
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  Speaker 2: have and everything that we are, and teach us to
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  Speaker 2: require and request only the things that you blame. Y
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and a man again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: given what you asked for. Now I do tell the
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  Speaker 2: truth here and say that I really don't like the
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  Speaker 2: saying be careful what you pray for. I like to say, rather,
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  Speaker 2: be prayerful what you care for. Be prayerful about the
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  Speaker 2: things that you care about. But let me just come
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  Speaker 2: back a little bit. I'm going to dial it back.
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  Speaker 2: I will say it one time. This is the context.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful what you pray for, because you just might
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  Speaker 2: get it rings true when we're praying for stuff that
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  Speaker 2: we should not have. The people of God prayed for
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  Speaker 2: quail when God was giving them manna from heaven. They
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  Speaker 2: got it, and they also got diseases and death. You understand,
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  Speaker 2: God's people asked for a king. When God was their king,
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  Speaker 2: they got what they desired, and their women were pillaged,
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  Speaker 2: their properties were taken and spoiled, and the nation started
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  Speaker 2: its decline very clearly because human kings that are not
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  Speaker 2: full of God's holy spirit come with all kinds of wickedness.
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  Speaker 2: And so sometimes the processes that we use in order
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  Speaker 2: to select the leaders that should be over us. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you're listening very clearly, do have consequences if the
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  Speaker 2: leaders do not love God. I didn't say talk about
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  Speaker 2: loving God. I said, actually love God. Somebody can hear
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  Speaker 2: me this morning. But more than that, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to hear the scriptures. The Bible teaches us that God's
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  Speaker 2: original plan in Isaiah chapter thirty three, verse twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, in the creation we see this reality God
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  Speaker 2: being the one that should rule over us because he's just,
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  Speaker 2: he's holy, he only thinks of our beds best interest. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: he's perfect, the Bible reads here, the Lord is our judge,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king.
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  Speaker 2: But then, of course the Bible teaches us that the
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  Speaker 2: people demanded a human king. And in the context of
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  Speaker 2: like the other nations, we want a king like the
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  Speaker 2: other nations. What the other nations were wicked? Bible says
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  Speaker 2: here in First Samuel, chapter eight and verse five, make
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  Speaker 2: us a king to judge us like all the nations.
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  Speaker 2: It almost sounds like when Aaron was down at the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the mount, when Moses was in the cloud
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  Speaker 2: with God at the top of Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai.
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  Speaker 2: He's receiving the blueprint to teach us about salvation. He's
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  Speaker 2: receiving the ten Commandment law ten Commandment law etched and
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  Speaker 2: emblazoned on sapphire stones, the law of love. He's receiving that.
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  Speaker 2: And the people are saying, we don't know where Moses is.
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  Speaker 2: Give us a God that we can serve it. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know where Moses is, we don't know what happened
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  Speaker 2: to him. Let's have something else, like let's replace God
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  Speaker 2: right here, because Moses is the one that connects us,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't know where he is, So they get antsy,
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  Speaker 2: they lose their minds, and fool full. Aaron, who is
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be the image or the representation of connecting
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  Speaker 2: people to God and speaking to God for the people,
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  Speaker 2: he erects a golden calf, and the people sell their
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  Speaker 2: souls because they want something like the other nations. Uh oh,
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  Speaker 2: we need to be very prayerful what we care for
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  Speaker 2: in this case too. Now the Bible teaches us in
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  Speaker 2: First Samuel, chapter eight, all of these details. I'll read
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  Speaker 2: a few of the passages from verse four, five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I'll just pause right there. Then all
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  Speaker 2: the elders of God's people gathered themselves together and came
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  Speaker 2: to the prophet Samuel unto Rama and said, unto him,
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  Speaker 2: behold thou warn't old, and thy sons walk not in
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  Speaker 2: thy ways. Now make us a king to judge us
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  Speaker 2: like all the nations. Did you hear what you just said?
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  Speaker 2: People of God, you want to be judged like all
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  Speaker 2: the other nations. You want a leader that is not God.
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  Speaker 2: You want a leader who fronts like he is like God.
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  Speaker 2: But ain't come on now, And the Bible says, but
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  Speaker 2: the thing displeased Samuel of course it displeased the prophet
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  Speaker 2: of God. Of course it did, because they were now
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  Speaker 2: rejecting God. They were trying to replace God with a
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  Speaker 2: human ingenuity. The Bible said, the thing displeased Samuel when
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  Speaker 2: they said, give us a king to judge justin. Samuel
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  Speaker 2: prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord said, unto Samuel,
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  Speaker 2: hearken unto the voice, Oh God, hearken unto the voice.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear the process. It was a
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  Speaker 2: process that was chosen by the people to replace God,
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  Speaker 2: and God accepted their vote m M. Bible says, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord said, unto Samuel, hearken unto the voice of
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  Speaker 2: the people. In all that they say, unto THEE. For
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  Speaker 2: they have not rejected THEE, but they have rejected me.
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  Speaker 2: That I should not rule over them. Be careful what
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  Speaker 2: you pray for. In this case, you just might get it.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just understood what I said. There are times that
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  Speaker 2: people come together and determine what they desire, or at
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  Speaker 2: least what they think they desire, and when we get it.
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  Speaker 2: When they get it, we also get all of the
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  Speaker 2: terrible consequences that come with rejecting God. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: nations are reeling from poor decisions, choosing leaders that don't
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  Speaker 2: love God. I wish I had the time. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: teaches here that there is an appeal of a king,
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  Speaker 2: conformity of desire like the other nations, and so the
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  Speaker 2: peers together the nation pressured each other. There was a
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  Speaker 2: cultural acceptance. There was a fear of being different. There
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  Speaker 2: was a visible leadership that they desired. They desired a
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  Speaker 2: visible leadership. They wanted tangible authority. They wanted human solutions.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted a visible what they considered to be security
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  Speaker 2: and immediate answers. Rather than being in connection with God,
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  Speaker 2: submitting themselves to him, hearing his voice through the power
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Ghost, and whenever God would choose to
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  Speaker 2: speak to them through holy prophets. Well, there was a
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  Speaker 2: trust to transfer. They decided to trust humans. They decided
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  Speaker 2: to trust their own mindset. They have rejected me, God said.
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  Speaker 2: They trusted human systems. They were relying on what they
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  Speaker 2: thought would be visible help, doubting God's methods and seeking
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  Speaker 2: worldly security. And the Bible does teach us when they
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  Speaker 2: shall say peace and safety in rejection of God, sudden
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  Speaker 2: destruction shall come upon the earth when we do this,
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  Speaker 2: and of course we have this even in our day,
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  Speaker 2: so really the core issue remains choosing human ways over
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  Speaker 2: God's leadership only have negative and terrible consequences.
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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,