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10 12 2026 Identifying True Prophets · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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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 12, 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 Identifying True Prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Identifying True Prophets. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. God,
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for giving us the opportunity to come
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  Speaker 2: into your presence just one more time. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the prophets and the legacy that they have left. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you now to help us to be keenly
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  Speaker 2: aware of the truth of the prophets, not the falsehood
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  Speaker 2: of false prophets. In Jesus' name I pray, amen and
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  Speaker 2: amen again. Jesus, when he was speaking to his disciples
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  Speaker 2: as they were kind of confused and discouraged and wondering
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  Speaker 2: what in the world is going on in their day
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  Speaker 2: and what's going to happen in the last days. They
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  Speaker 2: asked Jesus a question, when shall these things be? What
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  Speaker 2: shall be the sign of thy coming and of the
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  Speaker 2: end of the world? Of course, Jesus told them a
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  Speaker 2: number of things, but he said, don't be deceived. That's
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  Speaker 2: what he started with. Don't be deceived because there will
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  Speaker 2: be false Christs and false prophets that will lead many astray.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be deceived by them. Don't be deceived by them.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that in these last days, if he
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  Speaker 2: said that 2,000 and some years ago, what would he
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  Speaker 2: say to us today? Same thing. Be not deceived. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to be false Christs and false prophets. And for me,
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing in that regard is that true
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  Speaker 2: prophets faithfully and honestly believe transmit God's messages. Did you
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  Speaker 2: hear that? Faithfully, honestly, honorably. May I just add that?
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  Speaker 2: Even when it costs them favor with the powerful, as
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  Speaker 2: Micaiah did standing alone against 400. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about him in a minute. God did not leave his
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  Speaker 2: people to guess who spoke for him, marking his prophets as,
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  Speaker 2: in this case, a men of God who reflected his character.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say, we know that it was
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  Speaker 2: not only men of God. I think of Huldah. She's
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite prophets, if you want to say, prophetesses,
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  Speaker 2: because during Josiah's time, she was the one that led
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  Speaker 2: him back. led him and his people, God's people, back
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  Speaker 2: to the word of God, the books of the law.
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  Speaker 2: But I digress. The Bible reads here in 1 Kings
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  Speaker 2: chapter 22 and verse 14. 1 Kings chapter 22 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 14. And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what
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  Speaker 2: the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak. It
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  Speaker 2: sounds too simple, doesn't it? Yeah, there are people who
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  Speaker 2: are speaking stuff that God didn't say. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who are testifying, huh? They're profiling. They are not telling
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  Speaker 2: the truth, and they are blaming God by saying they
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  Speaker 2: are messengers from God and then saying the things that
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  Speaker 2: are not godly. They are lying on God. But this
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  Speaker 2: prophet said, you know what? I'm going to commit myself
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  Speaker 2: to speak only what the Lord has given me, no
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  Speaker 2: matter what the cost. There are times that when we
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  Speaker 2: as people of God have to count the cost and
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  Speaker 2: recognize that when we're faithful, there is a price to pay.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm thankful that the hymn writer was correct when
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  Speaker 2: they penned the words, Jesus paid it all, all to
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  Speaker 2: him I owe sin, has left a crimson stain, and he, God,
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  Speaker 2: has washed it white as snow. So even though we
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  Speaker 2: will suffer persecution, even though when we are faithful to
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  Speaker 2: God's message and messages, There are times of tribulations and trials.
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  Speaker 2: There will be temptations that seem too hard to bear.
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  Speaker 2: Even though that is our reality, the Bible is teaching
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  Speaker 2: us that, oh, wait a minute, he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: with us, and only as the Lord lives will I
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  Speaker 2: say only what he says. I'm going to declare and
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  Speaker 2: utter and speak only God's words. No matter what, faithfulness
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  Speaker 2: to God's truth still matters more than the approval of
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  Speaker 2: of the people. So speak the Lord's truth today in
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  Speaker 2: every situation. You don't have to be a prophet to
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth. You don't need to do that. There
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  Speaker 2: are people who would silence you if they could, people
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  Speaker 2: who would flatter you if they could to stop you
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  Speaker 2: from saying what God wants you to say. That would
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  Speaker 2: make it seem to be easier, but trust God with
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  Speaker 2: the outcome. Trust God with the outcome. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: read from 1 Kings chapter 22 and verse 8. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what, well, part of the outcome was. You
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  Speaker 2: see me scratching my face? Yeah, part of the outcome
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  Speaker 2: was this. Here it comes. I hate him, for he
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  Speaker 2: doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. So the
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  Speaker 2: wicked king Ahab had a problem. He wanted the prophet
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  Speaker 2: to come and tell him nice stuff. What do they say?
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  Speaker 2: Pleasant truth. Pleasant truth. That's what the king, the wicked
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  Speaker 2: king Ahab, who was supposed to be a man of God,
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  Speaker 2: who was supposed to be doing God's work himself, but
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't, he wanted the prophet to lie. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: like the fact that the prophet was telling exactly what
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  Speaker 2: God would say. He hated and detested and he regarded
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  Speaker 2: the prophet's words with hostility. And quite frankly, when you
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  Speaker 2: think about the time When the people chose kings and
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  Speaker 2: God was like, I want you to choose me. And
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  Speaker 2: they were like, we want to have kings just like
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  Speaker 2: the heathen nations. And God said, OK, but this is
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. The prophet at that moment, that
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  Speaker 2: prophet of that time, Samuel, he was like, they're rejecting me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're rejecting me. And God was like, no, no. You're not,
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  Speaker 2: you're punching above your weight class, Samuel. This has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with you. They are rejecting me. And in
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  Speaker 2: this case, that's what Ahab was doing. Ahab hated Micaiah
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  Speaker 2: for telling the truth rather than what the king wanted
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  Speaker 2: to hear. A true messenger of God is measured by faithfulness,
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  Speaker 2: not by how warmly the message is received. faithfulness and
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  Speaker 2: not how warmly the message is received. And so, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to choose faithfulness today over approval, refusing to
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  Speaker 2: soften God's truth to win someone's favor. It doesn't work anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say, people lose respect for you. People
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  Speaker 2: use respect for you, not gain it. Let's see if
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  Speaker 2: we can get a third lesson here from 1 Samuel
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  Speaker 2: chapter 9 and verse 6. Behold now the 1 Samuel
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  Speaker 2: chapter 9 and verse 6, there is in this city
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  Speaker 2: a man of God. He is an honorable man. All
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  Speaker 2: that he saith comes surely to pass. Yeah, to be
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  Speaker 2: honored is what that reality was. Samuel was known in
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  Speaker 2: his community as a man of God. Are you known
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  Speaker 2: as a woman of God, a man of God in
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  Speaker 2: your community, a child of the king whose words came true?
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  Speaker 2: God still calls his people to a life whose integrity
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  Speaker 2: gives weight to their witness. Ah, God's people, when we
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  Speaker 2: come into a community, when people are saying whatever their
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  Speaker 2: experiences are with us, are they saying that this is
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  Speaker 2: consistent with the Word of God or something else? So
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  Speaker 2: live today so that your words and character line up.
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  Speaker 2: Letting your integrity lend weight to your witness for God.
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  Speaker 2: When they see you, when they see you, they should
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  Speaker 2: be seeing and saying, wait, that's what God is like. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: make it a great day.
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