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01 08 2026 Prayer Power · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It's Thursday, January eighth,
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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 prayer Power, Prayer power.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard it? Yes? More prayer, more power
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  Speaker 2: less prayer no power like. Okay, before I go too
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  Speaker 2: far afield, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. Please
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community. Make sure you pick up the Your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion Life application guide and let us know where
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  Speaker 2: you are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot
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  Speaker 2: com and listen, there is a donate button. It is red,
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  Speaker 2: it's bright red. I want you to click that if
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  Speaker 2: God has put it in your heart to support the
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  Speaker 2: ministry again at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's pray. Father, We thank you, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this privilege of prayer, the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of the power that comes through connecting with you. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us never to turn our backs on prayer. Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Let me give you
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  Speaker 2: a simple definition that we received under inspiration way back
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  Speaker 2: in the eighteen hundreds. Prayer is the opening of the
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  Speaker 2: heart to God as to a friend. So let's not
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  Speaker 2: make it complicated, right. Also, prayer does not bring God
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  Speaker 2: down to us. And I know somebody's thinking I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: it backwards. Prayer does not bring God down to us,
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  Speaker 2: but it brings us up to God. What absolutely absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: and so we want to be seated with Christ Jesus
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  Speaker 2: in heavenly places. And one of the ways is through prayer,
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  Speaker 2: elevating our mind, elevating our intentions, elevating our submission to God.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I just said. Submitting to God is
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  Speaker 2: elevating us into His presence, and this is where we
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  Speaker 2: need to be while we make impact on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time, so let me just
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and begin by reading a couple of quotes.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're starting to get my pattern. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: go this way to walk with God is to place
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  Speaker 2: every step in the light he gives. Let me say
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  Speaker 2: it again, to walk with God is to place every
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  Speaker 2: step in the light he gives. Sometimes we're confused, and
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  Speaker 2: unnecessarily so because we won't seek God's face, we won't
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  Speaker 2: allow God to guide us in the paths of righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: We would rather chat GPT the guidance. And if you've
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  Speaker 2: named yours, you might call it chat. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what you call it. Whatever AI model you might be using,
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  Speaker 2: or Google or something else, you might be asking it
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  Speaker 2: for every step, you know exactly what you want based
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  Speaker 2: on a computer telling you what you want. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, how did we get here? How do
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  Speaker 2: we replace our actual intelligence with artificial intelligence? And don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong. I use AI, but AI does not
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  Speaker 2: use me. Come on, somebody just got that. If you
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  Speaker 2: just got that type of one in the chat, I said,
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  Speaker 2: I use AI like many of you do, but I
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  Speaker 2: do not allow AI to use me. And so we
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  Speaker 2: cannot artificially inflate or use AI in order to drive
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  Speaker 2: our relationship with God because God caused us through Christ
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  Speaker 2: to be able to overcome all sin, to overcome everything
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  Speaker 2: that has separated between us and God. And that is
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  Speaker 2: not something a machine can give us. From the book
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  Speaker 2: Acts of the Apostles, page four hundred and eighty three,
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  Speaker 2: it reads, the path of obedience is the path of holiness.
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  Speaker 2: God's will is is made known in his word, and
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  Speaker 2: those who obey his word will not walk in darkness.
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  Speaker 2: You want light. Surrender your will to God, and he
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  Speaker 2: will mark out a path before your feet, and you
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  Speaker 2: will know where to go, when and how. And so
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson is that Paul prayed for believers to
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  Speaker 2: be filled with the knowledge of God's will. We get
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  Speaker 2: that from Colossians chapter one and verse nine, that ye
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  Speaker 2: might be filled with the knowledge of His will and
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  Speaker 2: all wisdom. How many know that wisdom is in fact
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ in First Corinthians chapter one, Verses thirty and
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  Speaker 2: thirty one. The Bible teaches us that if you study
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  Speaker 2: closely Proverbs chapter eight, you will see that as well,
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  Speaker 2: that the personification of wisdom in Proverbs chapter eight, when
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  Speaker 2: you get down to the middle and final parts of
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  Speaker 2: that pass of that book and chapter, you will see
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  Speaker 2: this is Jesus Christ right, And so he wants us
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  Speaker 2: to be filled with the knowledge of His will and
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  Speaker 2: all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
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  Speaker 1: And so this.
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  Speaker 2: Wisdom is about divine insight. So, Fia, is your name Sophia, Sophia,
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  Speaker 2: That's what your name means, wisdom and divine insight. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: just got delivered today. Yeah, if your name is Sophia,
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  Speaker 2: then the Greek word that's used here in this passage
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  Speaker 2: about this same wisdom is Sophia. It's divine insight. So
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  Speaker 2: I want you to know that God has placed within
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  Speaker 2: your bosom, Sophia, the kind of insight that only comes
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  Speaker 2: from Him. The action step for today is ask God
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  Speaker 2: to give you wisdom to recognize his will in just
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  Speaker 2: one of the decisions that you need to make today. God,
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  Speaker 2: what is your will for me? If there's another way,
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  Speaker 2: let this cut pass from me. Jesus said, Ah, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't just say it, but yeah, this is his experience
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  Speaker 2: in the garden of Gethsemane, right before he was to
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  Speaker 2: give his life for us. Nevertheless, not as I will,
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  Speaker 2: but as thou wilt. This is what Jesus did. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number two, Paul prayed that believers would walk worthy of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. The Bible reads in for in Colossians chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse ten, So that you may live worthily
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  Speaker 2: or walk worthy of the Lord and please him in
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  Speaker 2: all aspects. Did you know that we can please God? Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that when Jesus was being baptized in
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  Speaker 2: the Jordan River, that there was the voice of God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, from Heaven, resoundingly saying, this is my beloved son,
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  Speaker 2: in whom I am well pleased, And so we can
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  Speaker 2: please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good deed.
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  Speaker 2: And so to walk or to live in conduct and
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  Speaker 2: in action. This is what God is saying, that he
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  Speaker 2: that when we are we are walking worthy with the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: It means to live in conduct with God and action.
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  Speaker 2: I mix up myself with God. We are giving him
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  Speaker 2: all that we have, so we can walk and live
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  Speaker 2: in all good conduct and in action. So our action
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  Speaker 2: step in this regard is to choose one behavior, one
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  Speaker 2: thing that we do. Is it what we're eating today,
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  Speaker 2: what we're drinking today, with whom we speak today, what
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  Speaker 2: we stop on as where zoop zoop zoop. Maybe God
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  Speaker 2: forbids just scrolling aimlessly in social media or on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: Choose one behavior today that reflects a life worthy of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. Finally, lesson number three, Paul prayed that believers
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  Speaker 2: would be strengthened with divine power and live with gratitude.
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  Speaker 2: We see that in Colossian Chapter one, verses eleven and twelve.
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  Speaker 2: I will read some of it strengthened with all might.
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  Speaker 2: That's God's might, that's his power, that's divine strength. That's
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  Speaker 2: what that word do. Numbness means giving thanks unto the Father.
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  Speaker 2: What is your action step? Begin or end your day
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  Speaker 2: by thanking God for one specific blessing. I wake up
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  Speaker 2: in the morning and I'm barely awake. I'm stumbling in
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  Speaker 2: the darkness, and I'm thanking God, thank you for waking
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  Speaker 2: me up this morning. God, I appreciate you, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for waking me up this morning. Because some people didn't
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  Speaker 2: wake up, and I'm glad that you have still a
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  Speaker 2: work for me to do so. In any event, there
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  Speaker 2: was much power that God gives when we pray. 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,