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08 06 2026 The Gift of Prophecy · 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 Thursday, the
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  Speaker 2: sixth day of August in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the books
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  Speaker 2: of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is the Gift of Prophecy, the Gift of Pride. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: we will get under way. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us today and the privilege of the gift
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  Speaker 2: of prophecy and all that you have done so your
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  Speaker 2: people will not perish for lack of knowledge, not a
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  Speaker 2: lack of wisdom. Father, will you please teach us to
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  Speaker 2: follow you in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen, Amen, and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. Let me just say before I jump into
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  Speaker 2: the teaching solid Yeah, God is not here to wow you.
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  Speaker 2: He's not here to give you something like spectacular that
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  Speaker 2: will knock your socks off. Sometimes people who claim to
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  Speaker 2: have the gift of prophecy come up with some really
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  Speaker 2: like wow like stuff to make people feel like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: this must be true. And I know I didn't explain
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  Speaker 2: that clearly, but let me just say, when the prophet
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  Speaker 2: Nathan went to King David to talk to him about
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  Speaker 2: stealing your yah's wife and murdering your Rayah, he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: giving David King David some brand new insight. It was
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  Speaker 2: that David, for at least a year, had been running
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  Speaker 2: away from the truths that he already knew, he knew
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  Speaker 2: good and well that he should not have done what
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  Speaker 2: he did. And God was like, in order to take
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  Speaker 2: you to the next level, I need to send this
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  Speaker 2: prophet directly to you so you can know that these
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  Speaker 2: words came from me. There are times that God opens
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  Speaker 2: up our understanding because we have not studied the Word
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  Speaker 2: and accepted it as clearly as we ought to have.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe like in the days of King Josiah and the
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  Speaker 2: prophet tests hold that the people of God misplaced the
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  Speaker 2: word of God. The books of the Law were gone,
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  Speaker 2: and God said, We're going to restore this, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to do it through prophecy, through the prophet test,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to return you back to the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God. I know I'm leaving out a lot. But
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  Speaker 2: I just want you to know that prophecy is not
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  Speaker 2: always or primarily about predicting the future. We know that
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  Speaker 2: there is that gift of we're telling, but it is
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  Speaker 2: also about speaking on behalf of God to build up,
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  Speaker 2: exhort and comfort his people in the present. That is telling,
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  Speaker 2: that is telling forth, that is being the mouthpiece of
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  Speaker 2: God in this unique way. And there are times that
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  Speaker 2: you will speak, if you have this gift of prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: things that you could not natively have known except the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost had given you the truth there. And so
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  Speaker 2: the church needs this gift now as much as it
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  Speaker 2: ever has, may I just say, maybe even more than
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  Speaker 2: it ever has. And God gave his people messengers all
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  Speaker 2: throughout the lifespan of his people, the congregation, yes, and
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  Speaker 2: even in our day we have that privilege. And so
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson comes in from First Corinthians, chapter fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verse three, First Corinthians, chapter and
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  Speaker 2: I will read verse three. The Bible reads, but he
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  Speaker 2: that prophesieth, or the one who prophesies, speaks to people
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  Speaker 2: for their strengthening, encouragement and consolation or support. And so
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  Speaker 2: this verb to prophesy, the word here profe teoh, no anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I can't pronounce it right now. Profe two oh, profe
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  Speaker 2: two oh. I was mixing it up with profe tastes,
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  Speaker 2: and so it got my tongue twisted. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: tongues yesterday. It means to prophesy to speak on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of another. The word carries both the sense of foretelling
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  Speaker 2: and telling forth, speaking truth from God into the lives
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  Speaker 2: of his people for their building up. Not merely to
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  Speaker 2: reveal future events, so to reveal future events that we
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  Speaker 2: could not otherwise know on our own is only part
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  Speaker 2: of the gift of prophecy. Okay, So the gift of
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  Speaker 2: prophecy is pastoral in its core. You understand like God
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  Speaker 2: is protecting, He's nurturing, he's correcting, he's guiding. In the
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  Speaker 2: gift of prophecy. He gives us this gift to strengthen
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  Speaker 2: the weak, to encourage the discouraged, and to comfort those
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  Speaker 2: who are also grieving. It is the voice of God
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  Speaker 2: meeting his people in our most pressing needs. God has
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  Speaker 2: given us this blessing, and so the action step is
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  Speaker 2: to ask God to use your words today. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that when He uses you with your words that
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  Speaker 2: that is necessarily that gift, but just think about it,
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  Speaker 2: apply it to you, like how can I build someone up,
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  Speaker 2: or to encourage someone who may be struggling, or to
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  Speaker 2: bring comfort to those who are carrying a heavy burden.
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  Speaker 2: And that will bring us into into sort of the
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  Speaker 2: principle of what God is after as he ignites the
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  Speaker 2: hearts and minds of those that are his messengers. The prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Our second lesson comes in from Amos chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse seven. Amos Chapter three and verse seven. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth
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  Speaker 2: his secret unto his servants. The prophets. Let me read
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  Speaker 2: it from the New English translation. Certainly the sovereign Lord
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  Speaker 2: does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants.
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  Speaker 2: The prophets. What Pastor Henry Monroe Wright used to teach
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  Speaker 2: us when I was under his tutelage for probably about
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  Speaker 2: twenty years of my life at church and in ministry,
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  Speaker 2: was that God would not do anything important, nothing that
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  Speaker 2: is mission critical related to the people of God and
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  Speaker 2: how we come into the earth and how we serve
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  Speaker 2: people on planet Earth. He will do nothing important. And
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  Speaker 2: so this kind of connection that God is talking about
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  Speaker 2: is a secret counsel. It's an intimate circle of confidence,
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  Speaker 2: like God reveals his purposes to his prophets the way
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  Speaker 2: a trusted friend shares what others do not know. The
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  Speaker 2: prophetic gift is rooted in intimacy with God, not just
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  Speaker 2: supernatural ability. So shaken fallen and licking your head on
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  Speaker 2: the ground and waking up and being able to say
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  Speaker 2: stuff you didn't know before is not an indicator of
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  Speaker 2: the gift of prophecy. The Bible says of Moses that
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  Speaker 2: God spoke to him mouth to mouth, like face to face.
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  Speaker 2: He breathed into the life of Moses. He inspired Moses
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  Speaker 2: so that when Moses spoke, he was speaking verily the
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  Speaker 2: words of God. And so I'm grateful that God never
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  Speaker 2: leaves us without the witness in the earth, and so
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  Speaker 2: God has always chosen to speak through human vessels who
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  Speaker 2: walk closely with him. The prophetic gift is not given
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  Speaker 2: to the spectacular. This gift is given to those who
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  Speaker 2: are in the counsel of God through surrender, through prayer
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  Speaker 2: and obedience. We're not going to go into the markers
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  Speaker 2: of the prophet, but I will just say the true prophet.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say that these must be godly people
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  Speaker 2: who have a deep intimacy with God, and yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: grateful that he has this gift in the earth still today.
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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,