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01 05 2026 Paul’s Prayer Requests · 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: 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 Monday, January five,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Paul's Prairie Quests, resting
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  Speaker 2: subject today Paul's prayer Requests. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: We apply the study in our spiritual lives, our personal lives,
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  Speaker 2: two in the chat. I'm just curious. I want to
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  Speaker 2: see where we are with this.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, this is one of the ways we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let me just say very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: People are saying, did you change the music background for
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  Speaker 2: the opener and the clothes. Yes. This is actually the
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  Speaker 2: second time that we've done so since about October in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. So yep, once in a while we have
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  Speaker 2: to make do a refresh, and this is what we've
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  Speaker 2: done until the next time. Anyway, Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day and the fact that you have
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  Speaker 2: made this day and you've made us help us to
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  Speaker 2: rejoice and be glad in it. Father, and please, Father,
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  Speaker 2: teach us to pray like you taught your disciples and
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  Speaker 2: how the apostles learned to pray in Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again Paul's prayer requests. So let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and begin. Let's begin with a quote from Reflecting Christ,
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  Speaker 2: page seventy one. Reflecting Christ, page seventy one, and it reads,
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  Speaker 2: everything that Christians do should be as as parent as
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  Speaker 2: the sunlight. As transparent as the sunlight. You see, there
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  Speaker 2: are some sketchy things that happen. They're sketchy things that
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  Speaker 2: happen because people are hiding. They're hiding, and God is
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  Speaker 2: saying no. When you are connected to Me, when you
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  Speaker 2: are always praying and not fainting, when you are walking
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  Speaker 2: with me like Enoch did, you're praying without ceasing. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: when you are living the life that Paul lived once
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  Speaker 2: he was transformed and committed to my service, God speaking,
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  Speaker 2: then what you do is like follow me as I
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  Speaker 2: follow Christ style. Yeah, everything that Christians do should be
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  Speaker 2: as transparent as sunlight. One more quote. True love is
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  Speaker 2: a principle that comes from God, and wherever it is cherished,
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  Speaker 2: it will flow out in blessings to others jump into
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  Speaker 2: lesson number one. Lesson number one is coming in from Philippians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one and verse nine. Paul prayed for love that
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  Speaker 2: grows in knowledge and discernment. Are you praying for knowledge
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  Speaker 2: and discernment? I pray for wisdom. I need double the
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  Speaker 2: portion that God gave to Solomon. This is what I
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  Speaker 2: ask God for every day Philippians, chapter one and verse nine.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads and this, I pray that your
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  Speaker 2: love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
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  Speaker 2: in all judgment. So love, knowledge and discernment or judgment.
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  Speaker 2: Are you praying for that in the last days? If not,
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  Speaker 2: here is here is something that God wants us to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so this actually means this, This means deep, full
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  Speaker 2: knowledge and spiritual understanding that only comes from God. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says spiritual things are spiritually are spiritually discerned. And
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  Speaker 2: so there are things that happen on planet Earth, in politics,
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  Speaker 2: in media, in our everyday life, in our relationships, in
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  Speaker 2: our professional lives where God wants to tap us on
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  Speaker 2: the shoulder and give us insight that we would not have.
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  Speaker 2: We would not have otherwise. I lost the word I
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  Speaker 2: was going to use, and he is saying that if
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  Speaker 2: your mind is open to him, if you are continuing
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  Speaker 2: to pray, and you are receptive to his voice, then
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  Speaker 2: he will give you guidance that otherwise you could not
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  Speaker 2: possibly have gotten. Yes, it is the will of God.
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  Speaker 2: I remember a quote. Now, it is a will of
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  Speaker 2: God to grant an answer to the prayer of faith
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  Speaker 2: that which He would not bestow. Did we not thus ask?
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  Speaker 2: There are some blessings, some understanding, some knowledge, and some
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  Speaker 2: levels of love that come only when we are requesting
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  Speaker 2: it from God, seeking his face daily. And so our
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  Speaker 2: action in this regard is to ask God to deepen
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  Speaker 2: your love and to guide you by the scriptures and
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  Speaker 2: spiritual insight. Sometimes sometimes people say that they love us,
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  Speaker 2: but they show us. Otherwise, they say with their mouths
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  Speaker 2: that they love us, but they abuse us. They ask
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  Speaker 2: us to commit sin with them in a moment of passion,
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  Speaker 2: a moment of attraction, a moment of what they would
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  Speaker 2: call romance. I love you and then ask you to
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  Speaker 2: do something contrary to God's word. I love you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to do something violent toward people because of reprisals.
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  Speaker 2: That is not godly love. That is something that humans
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  Speaker 2: have made up under the unction of the enemy, the
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  Speaker 2: devil lessen number two. Did I just say that straight? Yep,
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  Speaker 2: I did Lessen number two. Paul prayed that believers would
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  Speaker 2: approve excellent things and live with sins seer purity. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: coming in from Philippians chapter one and verse ten, that
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  Speaker 2: ye may approve things that are excellent. Let me say
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  Speaker 2: it another way, so that you can decide what is excellent,
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  Speaker 2: what is best, and so be sincere and blameless for
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  Speaker 2: the day of Christ. So when God gives you discernment,
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  Speaker 2: when he gives you love, when he gives you more
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of Him, as we have fellowship in the Gospel,
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  Speaker 2: the work that He has given to us to lead
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  Speaker 2: people to a relationship with Him eternal life. Ultimately, he
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  Speaker 2: is saying that we also are to become blameless under
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  Speaker 2: God because He's giving us all of these manifold blessings,
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  Speaker 2: all of these manifold blessings, the excellent blessings, are guiding
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  Speaker 2: us to blamelessness when when Jesus returns. When Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 2: he's coming with his reward, he said. And when he comes,
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  Speaker 2: his reward is with me. He said. To give every
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  Speaker 2: person according as their work shall be and so if
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  Speaker 2: our work is submission to God, if our work is
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  Speaker 2: receiving the covering of Jesus Christ, if our work is
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  Speaker 2: to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our
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  Speaker 2: Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. If our work is to
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  Speaker 2: love God and love humans as God has prescribed for
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  Speaker 2: us and empowered us, then we will appear blameless. We
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  Speaker 2: will appear blameless at the second Coming, covered in the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of Christ. And so this means to be pure,
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  Speaker 2: judged by sunlight and transparent. Ooh, that's good. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: So the action is to choose one thing today that
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  Speaker 2: reflects transparency and moral clarity. Do you need to confess
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  Speaker 2: to someone that you've wronged? Do you need to be
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  Speaker 2: clearer when you are reporting at work, not leaving out
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  Speaker 2: the little details that you think are little because you
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  Speaker 2: just don't want anybody to know. Yet, now we're being
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  Speaker 2: transparent and we're being open because God wants us to
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  Speaker 2: be transparent and open. Lesson number three and final, Paul
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  Speaker 2: prayed that God's people would be filled with Christ's righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Did I not say that in verse eleven Philippians Chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by
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  Speaker 2: Christ unto the glory and praise of God. So the
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  Speaker 2: action is to thank God for giving you his righteousness
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  Speaker 2: and rely on his strength for obedience. When today thank
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  Speaker 2: God you have his righteousness. Now use it to glorify.
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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,