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11 06 2026 A Treasure Through Human Hands · 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, November 6, 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, A treasure
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  Speaker 2: through human hands. A treasure through human hands. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about who I call Ellen, Auntie Ellen. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: I call her Auntie Ellen. I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that she did back in the
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  Speaker 2: day under the inspiration of God as well, okay? But
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  Speaker 2: before we do, I'd like to say welcome to you
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  Speaker 2: Ministries is a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray. And then we will get underway on
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  Speaker 2: this preparation day morning. God, we thank you for for
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  Speaker 2: using us even though we're frail, even though we're subject
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  Speaker 2: to error. God, we've made mistakes in the past, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to say that we don't need to make
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  Speaker 2: mistakes in the future, but if we do, I want
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  Speaker 2: to say thank you, God, that you have chosen to
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  Speaker 2: cover us to get us back on the right track.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Please give us your
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  Speaker 2: wisdom this day. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen, amen,
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  Speaker 2: and amen again. A treasure through human hands. A treasure
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  Speaker 2: through human hands. And so we've described part of the
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  Speaker 2: process that God used. And I know that seems so
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  Speaker 2: unspiritual to some of you who are the touchy-feely relational kind,
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  Speaker 2: the creative types. You're like, what? The process? Why do
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  Speaker 2: you make it sound like that? Well, it was in
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  Speaker 2: fact and indeed a process because God is orderly. Even
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  Speaker 2: the creation was indeed and in fact a process. And
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  Speaker 2: God employed this process through the Bible writers. He employed
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  Speaker 2: this process through who we call extra-biblical prophets, meaning people
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  Speaker 2: like Nathan and Huldah, I keep saying her name, Anna
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  Speaker 2: and others, whose names we know but did not write
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. Elijah, as far as I know, didn't
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  Speaker 2: write any scriptures. Elisha, as far as I know, didn't
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  Speaker 2: write any scriptures. Joseph, You know what I'm saying? So
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  Speaker 2: God gave wisdom to these men and women of God.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, yeah, the gift keeps on giving. The
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  Speaker 2: gift of the Holy Ghost keeps on giving. And as
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  Speaker 2: Joelle and in the book of Acts, we would have
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  Speaker 2: seen God continues to work through his people, even in
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  Speaker 2: our day. But way back in the day, in the
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  Speaker 2: late 1800s and the early 1900s, the woman I said
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  Speaker 2: I call Auntie Ellen, Ellen White's experience paralleled the Bible's
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  Speaker 2: own messengers receiving a divine commission to write out what
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  Speaker 2: God revealed to her. Same process like the prophets who
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  Speaker 2: were before her. And in fact, whatever she wrote needed
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  Speaker 2: to be subject to those established prophets and prophecies that
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  Speaker 2: we now see in Scripture. She carried a treasure from
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  Speaker 2: God through her own human frailties. In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: never claiming infallibility, that would have disqualified her straight out
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  Speaker 2: the gate. Any human being that stands up and beats
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  Speaker 2: his or her chest and makes it seem as if
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  Speaker 2: they are infallible and you got to listen to me
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  Speaker 2: because I'm me, then you run far, far, far from
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  Speaker 2: them because God has not sent them. But the sister
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  Speaker 2: had seen very clearly that God alone was infallible and ungrateful.
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  Speaker 2: And so, in Jeremiah chapter 1 and verse 9, we
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  Speaker 2: read for our first lesson, Then the Lord put forth
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  Speaker 2: his hand, and he touched my mouth. This is what
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  Speaker 2: God did in the life of Jeremiah. Touched his mouth,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord said unto me, Behold. Ooh, this is good.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good, but I cannot imagine. Even though I
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  Speaker 2: know I have spoken, as we do daily, we speak
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  Speaker 2: the words of God. And I want to be very
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  Speaker 2: careful that I am not saying that I have the
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  Speaker 2: gift of prophecy. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. But let me just say, when we speak
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  Speaker 2: a word on behalf of God in season and out
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  Speaker 2: of season, a word of kindness and comfort, a word
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  Speaker 2: of rebuke and chastening, when God leads us, that is
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  Speaker 2: an experience that we need to take seriously. We need
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  Speaker 2: to take it seriously. But this brother had the experience
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  Speaker 2: of God touching his mouth and saying, behold, I have
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  Speaker 2: Put my words in your mouth. My God, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to read it from the New English translation is a
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  Speaker 2: little more here that we can see there. OK, so
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  Speaker 2: then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my
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  Speaker 2: mouth and said to me, I will most assuredly. Are
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  Speaker 2: you are you hearing these words? I will most assuredly
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  Speaker 2: give you the words you are to speak for me.
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  Speaker 2: What if that brother decided that he was going to
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  Speaker 2: speak some other words? Yeah, what if that brother Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: decided that he was going to add something to it
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  Speaker 2: or take it away, take something away from it? What
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  Speaker 2: if he decided to paraphrase the inspiration that God has
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  Speaker 2: given me? God, I'm asking you to please give us
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost so that we can see, so that
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  Speaker 2: we God is in control. We need to see that
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  Speaker 2: God is in control. Okay, so he put his words
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  Speaker 2: in his mouth. So as God put his words into
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah's mouth, so he commissioned Sister Ellen, I call her
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  Speaker 2: Auntie Ellen, like I said, to write what he revealed.
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  Speaker 2: He still calls feeble and hesitant and enables them for
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  Speaker 2: the tasks that he gives. So, say yes to God,
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  Speaker 2: to a task that God is giving you today, trusting
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  Speaker 2: him to enable what you feel unable to do. Okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: The second lesson that we're going to read right here,
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  Speaker 2: right here, is coming in from 1 Corinthians chapter 13,
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  Speaker 2: The Bible book of 1 Corinthians chapter 13, and I
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  Speaker 2: will read in verse 9. 1 Corinthians chapter 13, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read in verse 9, where the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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  Speaker 2: So there is a portion which is partial. So even
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  Speaker 2: when God makes a revelation, he's not telling us everything
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  Speaker 2: for all times. The Bible is showing us that God
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  Speaker 2: is revealing whatever He decides to reveal. I think the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that what God, in a roundabout way, what
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  Speaker 2: God has revealed is for our learning. And then the
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  Speaker 2: sister said, beyond this we are not to penetrate. So
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  Speaker 2: the secret things of God are for Him, but what
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  Speaker 2: He reveals is for our transformation and His glory. What
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  Speaker 2: He reveals is for our transformation, though, and His glory.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm grateful. And so what do we do with that, though?
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  Speaker 2: What do we do with that? What we do for that,
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  Speaker 2: with that, excuse me, is to hold on to our
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  Speaker 2: understanding today what God has revealed and do this with humility,
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  Speaker 2: leaving room to grow as God alone remains infallible. I
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  Speaker 2: am so grateful that God has made himself very, very clear.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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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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  Speaker 1: daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.