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10 26 2026 The Process of Inspiration · 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 Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: 26th 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 Process of Inspiration. My God, The
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  Speaker 2: Process of Inspiration. I like this one. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, we thank you. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this day and giving us that breath. You
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  Speaker 2: have lent us your breath and it is still in
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  Speaker 2: our lungs. Otherwise, we wouldn't even be here. So, God,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this, and thank you for your word.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray, amen and amen again. God-breathed
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  Speaker 2: is the process of the inspiration. Can I just hurry
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  Speaker 2: up and jump in right there? Can I jump in
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  Speaker 2: right there? The Bible reads in our first lesson, 2
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  Speaker 2: Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16, all Scripture— 2 Timothy chapter
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  Speaker 2: 3 and verse 16—I'm running, so let me slow down— all
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  Speaker 2: Scripture— is given by inspiration of God. Coming back to that,
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  Speaker 2: and it is profitable. I've read this to you a
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  Speaker 2: few times recently for doctrine. That's everything that the Bible teaches.
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  Speaker 2: You all stop, and the people who do this, stop
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  Speaker 2: identifying certain fundamental beliefs in your faith community as what
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  Speaker 2: doctrine is, and then everything else is a different category.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else is the love of God or everything else
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  Speaker 2: is the gospel or everything else is practical in air quotes.
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  Speaker 2: Stop all of that. That don't even make sense. Doctrine
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  Speaker 2: is Bible teaching. That's why the Bible says all of
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures given by inspiration of God and is profitable
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  Speaker 2: for doctrine. That's all of the scripture. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: learning about the love of God from John chapter 3,
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  Speaker 2: Or 1 John chapter 3, that's doctrine. You're learning about
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  Speaker 2: the love of God in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, charity.
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  Speaker 2: That is doctrine. That's Bible teaching. It's simple. Don't make
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  Speaker 2: it complicated. For doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
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  Speaker 2: in righteousness. So that idea of inspiration means God-breathed. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the Greek term actually means. God breathed. So all
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  Speaker 2: scripture is given by God breathing this. He breathed. And
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  Speaker 2: that is how we got what the men experienced so
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  Speaker 2: we could have the scriptures. What does God breathe look like?
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  Speaker 2: I think the Bible says that God breathed. God took
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  Speaker 2: the dust of the earth and formed he a man
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  Speaker 2: in the garden of Eden. And then he breathed into
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  Speaker 2: that man, Adam. He breathed into him the breath of
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  Speaker 2: life and Adam animated. Adam became a living soul. And
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  Speaker 2: so if there is a dead word out there, If
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  Speaker 2: there is a word that has no use, if there
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  Speaker 2: is a word out there that does not enliven you,
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  Speaker 2: that does not activate or transform you, then that is
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  Speaker 2: not the word of God. Because God's word, when you
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  Speaker 2: receive it, gives you life, brothers and sisters, because it's
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  Speaker 2: breathed in the same way that you inhale right now.
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  Speaker 2: And you are able to exhale in all of those
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  Speaker 2: processes that are in play when we inhale and exhale.
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  Speaker 2: then the word of God is that and even so
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  Speaker 2: much more because this is the eternal word of God.
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  Speaker 2: You're not even eternal at this moment. You can go
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  Speaker 2: to sleep and pass away and rest until the coming
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord Jesus Christ. But that word is going
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  Speaker 2: to prevail. That word is going to endure. So when
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  Speaker 2: God breathed his word, it stands to reason that we
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  Speaker 2: would receive that breath into our lives and we too
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  Speaker 2: become living based on his word. And so the whole
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  Speaker 2: of Scripture carries the breath of God, I love it,
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  Speaker 2: and profits us in every way for a righteous life.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible is not a history book, even though there's
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  Speaker 2: history in it. The Bible is not a book of nature,
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  Speaker 2: even though there's nature in it, huh? The Bible is
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  Speaker 2: not a book of biology, even though there's biology in it.
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  Speaker 2: I can go on and on and on and say
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  Speaker 2: the same kinds of things for the key areas that
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  Speaker 2: are beneficial to us on planet Earth. But the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is God's breath to our soul right now. Yes, this
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  Speaker 2: is what sets the Bible apart as the very word.
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  Speaker 2: of God. This is why we are not frivolous with
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  Speaker 2: the Word of God. This is why we don't take
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  Speaker 2: it lightly. This is why we don't go into the
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  Speaker 2: Scriptures without praying. We don't go into the Scriptures without
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  Speaker 2: asking God to let those Scriptures transform us before we
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  Speaker 2: begin trying to change people and preach to people and
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  Speaker 2: teach people and exhort and comfort people from the Word,
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  Speaker 2: which we must do. But we don't do it before
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  Speaker 2: we allow that life to become a part of our lives.
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  Speaker 2: So give God, just do something for yourself. Give God's
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  Speaker 2: word the authority in your life today that its divine
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  Speaker 2: origin deserves, obeying one thing that it asks of you,
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. If you love me, Jesus said, you'll keep
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  Speaker 2: my commandment. So go into that word that God has
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  Speaker 2: entrusted to us and begin to live as a result. Now, now, now,
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  Speaker 2: I've said it before, but I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 2: say it again from 2 Peter 1 and verse 20.
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  Speaker 2: 2 Peter 1 and verse 20. The Bible reads, above
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  Speaker 2: all that was said a moment ago in that passage
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  Speaker 2: in 2 Peter, you'll have to read it to know
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  Speaker 2: what was said. Know this first, above all, that no
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  Speaker 2: prophecy of the Scripture... is of any private interpretation. So
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  Speaker 2: you don't get to just make it up, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get to say, I feel. You can say,
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  Speaker 2: I feel, but what you feel is cool, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not relevant in this discussion. You understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: So the prophecy is interpreted by the God of the prophecies.
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  Speaker 2: In the same way we've seen people in the past,
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  Speaker 2: in Joseph's day, in Nebuchadnezzar's day, when they were subject
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  Speaker 2: to dreams and prophecies and they didn't know how to
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  Speaker 2: deal with them, the men of God went to God
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  Speaker 2: himself and said, God, what are we supposed to do
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  Speaker 2: with this? And God gave the interpretation. The same is
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  Speaker 2: true with the Scriptures. The Bible interprets itself. You've heard
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  Speaker 2: that colloquially. People say it all the time. We preachers
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  Speaker 2: and teachers say it all the time. But can I
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  Speaker 2: just help you by reading in the Bible, book of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: chapter 28, verses 9 and 10? The Bible actually teaches
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  Speaker 2: us that the key in that text to understanding the
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  Speaker 2: truths of God is by comparing Scripture with Scripture. Precept
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  Speaker 2: upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there
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  Speaker 2: a little. You want to understand the scriptures? You use
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures under God to understand them. This interpretation and
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  Speaker 2: origin is from God. Scripture didn't arise from the prophets.
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  Speaker 2: People say man wrote the Bible. Are you silly? Bible
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  Speaker 2: says the fool says that kind of thing, that there
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  Speaker 2: was no God in their heart. Yes, it didn't come
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  Speaker 2: from the prophet's imagination, but from God himself. The messages
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  Speaker 2: they carried were objective truth, not to be tampered with
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  Speaker 2: or distorted. So approach the word of God with humility,
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  Speaker 2: knowing it is of divine origin.
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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.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day.