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08 02 2024 Listen for God’s Voice · 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,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, August two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Listen for God's Voice. Listen for God's Voice.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: the world. At your Daily portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for this day and for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this time of preparation for the Sabbath that
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  Speaker 2: is coming. Father, thank you for this time of preparation
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  Speaker 2: for the second coming of Jesus. And I just pray
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  Speaker 2: that we will capitalize on it and that we will
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  Speaker 2: be holy in your sight. In Jesus name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Listen for God's voice. And when
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  Speaker 2: I was creating the caption, I was thinking I could
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  Speaker 2: say listen to God's voice, listen to God, but I
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  Speaker 2: deliberately said it this way, listen for God's voice because
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  Speaker 2: I I want you to visualize, like envision being in
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  Speaker 2: anticipation of his voice. You're somewhere and you're waiting for guidance,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't yet have the guidance. You are somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: you're at home, you're on the road, you're at work,
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  Speaker 2: you're at play, you're at the gym exercising, you're on vacation,
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  Speaker 2: you're in the taxi. It doesn't matter where you are.
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to poise yourself in your mind.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to position yourself in your mind to
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  Speaker 2: be waiting for and hoping for God to speak to you,
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  Speaker 2: like we're listening for his voice, We're awaiting his command,
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  Speaker 2: we are awaiting his instructions for him to say this
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  Speaker 2: is the way. Walk in it. Listen for God's voice.
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  Speaker 2: And now let me talk about prayer for just a
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  Speaker 2: moment as well, because a young man when he was
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  Speaker 2: in theological training, when I worked in university work, I
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  Speaker 2: remember him preaching to us on a Wednesday assembly and
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  Speaker 2: he said that there are far too many people that
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  Speaker 2: when we pray, and I want people to get the visual,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to say it in a way that the
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  Speaker 2: people on the radio will get it. When we pray,
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  Speaker 2: we say, Lord, speak to me. And during this time
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  Speaker 2: of silence those who are listening and not able to
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  Speaker 2: see me, I covered both of my ears quickly, Lord
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  Speaker 2: speak to me. Close, cover my ear. And that was
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  Speaker 2: symbolic to him as not just rejection. That is that's
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  Speaker 2: the easy one, like we know that. But no, it's
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  Speaker 2: like the people we pray and talk to God and
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  Speaker 2: talk to him and talk to him and talk to him. Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and then we run away and go into our daily whatever,
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  Speaker 2: thankful that God has put us into a position where
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  Speaker 2: we can hear his voice. We can listen for his
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  Speaker 2: voice and receive his instruction. We want to be prayerful
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  Speaker 2: and listen during prayer so we can do what God says.
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  Speaker 2: We're prayerful. We're listening in prayer so we can know
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  Speaker 2: and do what God has said. Okay, and so from
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer the Desire of Ages, page three sixty
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  Speaker 2: three reads, Thus in all who are under the training
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  Speaker 2: of God is to be revealed a life that is
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  Speaker 2: not in harmony with the world, it's customs or its practices.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone needs to have a personal experience. In obtaining
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  Speaker 2: a knowledge of the will of God, we must individually
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  Speaker 2: hear Him speaking to the heart. Did you get that?
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  Speaker 2: We must individually hear Him speaking to the heart when
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  Speaker 2: every the other voice is hushed, and in quietness we
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  Speaker 2: wait before him. The silence of the soul makes more
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  Speaker 2: distinct the voice of God. He bids us be still
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  Speaker 2: and know that I am God Psalms, chapter forty six
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  Speaker 2: and verse ten. Here alone can we truly rest. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the effectual preparation for all who labor for God.
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  Speaker 2: Amid the hurrying, throng and the strain of life's intense activities.
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  Speaker 2: The soul that is thus refreshed will be surrounded with
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  Speaker 2: an atmosphere of light and peace. The life will breathe
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  Speaker 2: out fragrance and will reveal a divine power that will
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  Speaker 2: reach men's hearts. That's the end of the quote. God
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  Speaker 2: is saying to us that we need to quiet ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean in a creepy way like some
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  Speaker 2: people will show us on the internet or in some
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  Speaker 2: strange religious practice. I don't mean that. What I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: is we need to know that God is able to
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  Speaker 2: get his message through when we are a captive audience.
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  Speaker 2: We need to shut off the television, shut off those
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  Speaker 2: enabled devices. We need to shut off our thoughts about
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  Speaker 2: who knows what that's going on, and make ourselves receptive
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  Speaker 2: to God's voice. We may meditate, but not just meditate
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  Speaker 2: by emptying our minds. That is not the kind of
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  Speaker 2: meditation that Christians do. I'm talking about the kind of
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  Speaker 2: meditation that is listening for God's voice. Meditate, like David said,
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  Speaker 2: upon the word of God. You could be meditating and saying,
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  Speaker 2: but Lord, you said that I as one of your children.
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  Speaker 2: I am like a tree planted by the rivers of waters.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? And we're listening for God's voice? Now,
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean God, that you prepare a table
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  Speaker 2: before me in the presence of mine enemies? What does
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  Speaker 2: it mean? God? Now I'm listening for God's voice when
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  Speaker 2: you say, behold what manner of love the Father hath
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  Speaker 2: bestowed upon us? That we should be called the sons
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  Speaker 2: of God, the children of God beloved? Now we are
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  Speaker 2: the sons of God. And it doesn't yet appear what
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  Speaker 2: we shall be, but we know that when you appear, God,
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  Speaker 2: we shall be like you, for we shall see you
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  Speaker 2: as you are. That everybody who has this hope in
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  Speaker 2: us we must purify ourselves even as you are pure.
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  Speaker 2: What did you mean by that? How can I be
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  Speaker 2: made pure? God? I'm struggling, And now we listen, We
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  Speaker 2: listen for the voice of God. How can I be
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  Speaker 2: made strong when I feel weak? God? Now we quiet
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  Speaker 2: ourselves and we listen for the voice of God. We're
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  Speaker 2: meditating on his word and we are listening for his voice.
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  Speaker 2: I think you get the point, and so I actually
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  Speaker 2: forgot you were there as I'm speaking about this, I
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  Speaker 2: am going away like in my own mind now listening
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  Speaker 2: for God's voice. But let me just now give you
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  Speaker 2: a few teaching tools before we come to a swift closed.
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  Speaker 2: In the Book of Psalms, chapter forty six and verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, be still and know that I am God.
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  Speaker 2: Be still, this is what God is saying. And know
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  Speaker 2: that I am God. And so amid the chaos. God
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  Speaker 2: wants us to be still and find a sanctuary of
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  Speaker 2: peace so he can speak to us his will, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that He is God. Not our bills, not our challenges,
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  Speaker 2: not the things that we love most, not our success,
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  Speaker 2: not our families, not our careers, our businesses, our social
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  Speaker 2: media following, but God, He is God. And then in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter ten and verse twenty seven, Jesus says, very simply,
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  Speaker 2: my sheep hear my voice, and I am known of them,
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  Speaker 2: and they follow me. And so we want to emphasize
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  Speaker 2: the importance of a personal experience with God, recognizing his
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  Speaker 2: voice and then doing whatever he says. And let me
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  Speaker 2: just get one more in one more. In and Hebrews
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  Speaker 2: chapter eleven and verse six, the Bible says, but without faith,
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  Speaker 2: it is impossible to please him. For He that cometh
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  Speaker 2: to God must believe that He is, and that He
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  Speaker 2: is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Trust God,
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  Speaker 2: seek him, and know he promised that he will be
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  Speaker 2: fond of you. Peace.
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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,