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10 05 2026 The Elijah Message · 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: 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, October 5, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L.
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  Speaker 1: 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 called The Gift of Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is The Elijah Message. The Elijah Message. Before
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the opportunity to open up your word. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please give us the fullness of your
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit and give us the heart that of Elijah
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  Speaker 2: in these last days. Give us the spirit that you
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  Speaker 2: gave Elijah. In Jesus' name I pray, amen, amen, and
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  Speaker 2: amen again. Okay, so the Elijah message. This is so
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  Speaker 2: beautiful because God has given us a blueprint for leading men, women,
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  Speaker 2: and children to the Lord. And Elijah was a very,
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  Speaker 2: very good example. On Mount Carmel, God answered by fire
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  Speaker 2: and called his people to turn from their idols back
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  Speaker 2: to him again. You see, that's a message that is
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  Speaker 2: befitting every single believer. That is a message for every
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  Speaker 2: person who, well, has had an encounter with God and
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  Speaker 2: now has to reckon with, like, what is the life
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  Speaker 2: right now? Like, what is my lifestyle going to be
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  Speaker 2: right now based on what I am hearing from God?
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  Speaker 2: And so there we saw that. But before Jesus returns,
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  Speaker 2: the Elijah message sounds again. So I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: make this so complicated that we can't make it make sense.
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  Speaker 2: Calling for the revival of true godliness that begins in
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  Speaker 2: the heart and the home. So our first lesson comes
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  Speaker 2: in from 1 Kings 18, verse 39. That's the Bible
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  Speaker 2: book of 1 Kings 18, and I will read verse 39.
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads, and when all the people saw it,
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  Speaker 2: they fell on their faces and said, the Lord, he
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  Speaker 2: is God, the Lord, he is God. This is when
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  Speaker 2: God manifests his presence with Elijah and rejected all of
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  Speaker 2: the false prophets of Baal and Asherah. Sometimes people say
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  Speaker 2: there were 400 false prophets or 450 false prophets. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, did you not realize that there were 850
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  Speaker 2: false Not just 400, 850 false, false worshipers, right? And
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  Speaker 2: so what we're seeing here on Mount Carmel way back
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  Speaker 2: then is that God said, you know what? I need
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  Speaker 2: these people to know without doubt that I am the creator.
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  Speaker 2: I am the one that is here to transform lives.
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  Speaker 2: I am the one that is to cast down every idol.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the one to show you that the way to righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: the way to eternity is only with me. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to manifest my presence through my prophet, Elijah. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to make it unmistakable. And so the true and
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  Speaker 2: living God showed that. So when fire came down from heaven,
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  Speaker 2: God's people knew. that the Lord alone is God, because
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  Speaker 2: they were waffling, quite frankly. It's not that they intellectually
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  Speaker 2: didn't know, but they were waffling. Like these people, for
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  Speaker 2: some reason, even though God had led his people through
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness, by a pillar of cloud by day, a
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  Speaker 2: pillar of fire by night, over on dry ground, through wilderness,
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sea through the Jordan River all of those
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  Speaker 2: years later, vanquishing every foe and every nation that they encountered.
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  Speaker 2: And yet the people of God still seemed to be confused.
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  Speaker 2: I say seemed in air quotes. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. Do you seem to be confused when God
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  Speaker 2: has been so good to you in the past, so
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  Speaker 2: good to people you know, good to the people of God?
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  Speaker 2: And when you are faced with a difficult, which you
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  Speaker 2: consider to be a difficult decision, you go the other way.
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  Speaker 2: How when God is seeing you in that doom scroll,
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  Speaker 2: like you're scrolling through your phone and there are videos
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  Speaker 2: that you can choose from. or videos you can refuse,
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  Speaker 2: and God forbid you choose the ones that you should refuse.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it that the people of God choose death
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  Speaker 2: when God is always providing life? Why is it that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the people of God are choosing darkness rather than
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  Speaker 2: light when we are children of light in a dark
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  Speaker 2: and perverse generation? So God is calling us to see
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  Speaker 2: that God is God and then name one thing, that
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  Speaker 2: has taken God's rightful place, if there's anything, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying all of us are this way, but some of
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  Speaker 2: us are, that has taken God's rightful place in your
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  Speaker 2: life and turn from it today and turn to God today,
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  Speaker 2: not later, not in 30 minutes, not 100 minutes from now,
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  Speaker 2: not next week, but right now. Our second lesson comes
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  Speaker 2: in from Matthew, First Kings chapter 18 and verse 21.
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  Speaker 2: I am, uh, Going to read verse 21, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, how long halt ye between two opinions? So
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  Speaker 2: God has already manifest his presence. He's already manifest that
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  Speaker 2: he is God alone, and he is with the prophet Elijah,
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  Speaker 2: and he is saying, now you have an opportunity. This
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  Speaker 2: is it. How long halt ye between two opinions? If
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  Speaker 2: the Lord be God, follow him. If Baal, then follow him.
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  Speaker 2: And the people answered him, not Baal. Pardon me, a word.
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  Speaker 2: So that word, that word to hesitate means to limp,
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  Speaker 2: to waver between two sides. So Elijah called God's people
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  Speaker 2: to stop wavering.
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  Speaker 1: Stop wavering.
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  Speaker 2: Stop wavering and give God their whole heart. God still
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  Speaker 2: asks for undivided devotion. Should I just say he commands?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not ashamed to say that he commands. Not a
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  Speaker 2: heart limping between two loyalties. I remember an elder who
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  Speaker 2: was like a father to me when I got baptized.
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  Speaker 2: His name is Ralph. Ralph used to say, God wants
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  Speaker 2: all or nothing at all. Because the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: he's a jealous God. Yeah, he wants all or nothing
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  Speaker 2: at all. So pick a side. Pick a side. Be
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  Speaker 2: hot or cold or be on the other side. Hot
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  Speaker 2: or cold or on the other side. But when you're
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  Speaker 2: waffling between two opinions, then it nauseates God, as we
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  Speaker 2: see in the message to the Laodiceans. Hot and cold
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  Speaker 2: waters are of good value. They are of good therapeutic value,
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  Speaker 2: refreshing value, therapeutic value. But to be between hot and
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  Speaker 2: cold and whatever is on the negative side of this
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  Speaker 2: thing is to be lukewarm. And that causes God to
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  Speaker 2: be nauseated, if you want to say. And that's a
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  Speaker 2: way of him explaining what it's like. And so today
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  Speaker 2: we want to settle, settle where I have been wavering,
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  Speaker 2: if anywhere. and give God my heart and allegiance in
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  Speaker 2: my heart. All or nothing at all. Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: this is not one of those shouting, jump up and
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  Speaker 2: say amen kinds of messages. This is a message that
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  Speaker 2: is solemn. It is somber that says, God, today is
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  Speaker 2: the day. I'm reading from Selected Messages, Book 1, for
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  Speaker 2: the final quote, page 121. A revival of true godliness.
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  Speaker 2: Among us is the greatest and most urgent of all
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  Speaker 2: our needs. To seek this should be our first work.
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  Speaker 2: There must be earnest effort to obtain the blessing of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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