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01 10 2025 The Privilege of Prayer · 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 is Friday, January ten,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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, God's Love and Justice, God's Love and Justice.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into the details of our day's study,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for this day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for loving us so much that you welcome
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  Speaker 2: us into relationship with you. You welcome us into prayer
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  Speaker 2: with you, that pavilion, that safe place with you where
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  Speaker 2: we can build and grow and live. And I pray
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  Speaker 2: God that we will avail ourselves of the privilege in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a man again. So
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the privilege, the privilege of prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see prayer as a privilege, I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: just as a ministry and ministries are great, like I
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  Speaker 2: have a ministry. See This is a ministry, speaking to
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  Speaker 2: you about God and his word and praying for you
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  Speaker 2: and helping you to get closer to God, while I
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  Speaker 2: also get closer to God like That is a ministry
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  Speaker 2: and exceptional. But what I mean is not just that
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about you, dear brother, you dear sister, actually
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  Speaker 2: connecting with God. I speaking to God from your heart
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  Speaker 2: as to a friend. Ah. My favorite writer on well,
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  Speaker 2: one of my two favorite writers on prayer, actually said
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  Speaker 2: that when we are praying, it's not that we're bringing
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  Speaker 2: God down to us. Prayer does not bring God down
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  Speaker 2: to us, but elevates us, like in the words of Paul,
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  Speaker 2: into heavenly places with Christ Jesus. So prayer does not
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  Speaker 2: bring God down to us, but prayer brings us up
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  Speaker 2: to God. Can I ask you a question, and this
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  Speaker 2: one is simple, Ah, does the devil have any sway
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  Speaker 2: in heaven? Does he have any power or influence in
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  Speaker 2: heaven anymore? And of course the quick answer is no.
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  Speaker 2: Like for those of you who understand the Last Day's messages,
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  Speaker 2: you know that the devil was cast out of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says there was no place found for him.
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  Speaker 2: There was war in heaven. Past tense. Michael and his
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  Speaker 2: angels and the dragon and his angels fought tense, and
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  Speaker 2: there was past tense, no place found for him, meaning
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  Speaker 2: the devil. And then the Bible cup cries out and proclaims,
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  Speaker 2: woe unto the inhabitants of the earth and to the sea,
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  Speaker 2: because the devil is cast down unto you, having great wrath.
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  Speaker 2: And so that means that heaven is all clear the
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  Speaker 2: evil influence that the devil had as he was lucifer,
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  Speaker 2: and he no longer reflected the light of God, and
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  Speaker 2: he became the deceiver of the accuser of the brethren,
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  Speaker 2: the deceiver, the father of lies. Like as he became
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  Speaker 2: the dragon, he got kicked out. And so now heaven,
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  Speaker 2: heaven is a place where all righteousness dwells. You see
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  Speaker 2: where I'm going with this. So that means that when
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  Speaker 2: we're praying and we are connecting with God, and now
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  Speaker 2: we are elevated in our experience and tabernacling with God,
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  Speaker 2: we are in His presence through prayer, and now the
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  Speaker 2: devil literally has no impact or influence over us when
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  Speaker 2: we're truly praying, when we're sincerely yielded to God's will,
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  Speaker 2: and we are in that space of prayer, the devil
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  Speaker 2: has no power because he's not welcome in heaven. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so I need you to understand that when temptations
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  Speaker 2: come and you run to God in prayer, now you're
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  Speaker 2: elevated above the power of the temptation. I think you
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  Speaker 2: know where we're going with this. When tribulations come and
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  Speaker 2: you run into the Pavilion of God, the sanctuary city
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  Speaker 2: of God, I think you heard what I just did there.
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  Speaker 2: When you go into the Sanctuary City of God and
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  Speaker 2: you are praying to him, Now, those trials don't have
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  Speaker 2: the impact that the devil would love for them to have.
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  Speaker 2: What the devil intended for evil. Think of Joseph's story.
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  Speaker 2: What the devil intended for evil? God intended for good.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we are praying, we should see it
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  Speaker 2: as a privilege. Now, let me say this very clearly.
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  Speaker 2: When we pray, sometimes we speak. You see how I've
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  Speaker 2: been just running my mouth for the entire time for
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  Speaker 2: the last six minutes. Yes, when we pray, we talk
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  Speaker 2: to God, and He wants to hear our voices, even
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  Speaker 2: though or the voices as we say it in our minds.
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  Speaker 2: If we don't do it audibly right. But even though
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  Speaker 2: he knows everything, he knows what we're thinking. But he
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  Speaker 2: loves to hear us to communicate what is on our hearts,
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  Speaker 2: to make our requests, to give our thanks and to
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  Speaker 2: give him praise. He loves that. But let me just
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  Speaker 2: say this, he also loves for us to listen. You see,
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  Speaker 2: we're opening up our hearts to God as to a friend.
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  Speaker 2: But can you imagine if you have a friend that
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  Speaker 2: just runs her mouth, runs his mouth just blah blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and does not
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  Speaker 2: give you a moment to speak edge wise, like you
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  Speaker 2: can't get a word in because that person is only
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  Speaker 2: interested in dumping their brains into your ears. See, we
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  Speaker 2: don't need to treat God that way. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: to treat God that way. We need to listen to him.
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  Speaker 2: Hear our prayer. Oh Lord, here our prayer. O Lord, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: incline thine ear to us and grant us thy peace.
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  Speaker 2: But teach us how to listen God, Ah. Teach us
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  Speaker 2: to number our days, because these few days that we
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  Speaker 2: have on this planet are full of trouble, and we
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  Speaker 2: need to be able to hear your voice. And then
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  Speaker 2: do your will. Here, oh people of God, here, oh
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  Speaker 2: israel Ah. The Lord, our God is one Lord, and
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt love him with all your heart and everything
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  Speaker 2: that you have hauh, and to do his will.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 2: From the book the Book Steps to Christ actually my
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  Speaker 2: favorite book outside of the Bible, bar none. We read
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  Speaker 2: from page let's see what page one hundred. Keep your wants,
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  Speaker 2: your joys, your sorrows, your cares, and your fears before God.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot burden him, you cannot weary him. He who
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  Speaker 2: numbers the hairs on your head is not indifferent to
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  Speaker 2: the wants, or that is, the needs, the wants of
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  Speaker 2: his children. The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy.
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  Speaker 2: According to John James excuse me, chapter five and verse eleven,
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  Speaker 2: his heart of love is touched by our sorrows and
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  Speaker 2: even by our utterances of them. Take to him everything
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  Speaker 2: that perplexes the mind. Nothing is too great for him
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  Speaker 2: to bear, for he holds up the world. He rules
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  Speaker 2: over all of the affairs of the universe. But nothing
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  Speaker 2: that in any way concerns our peace is too small. God,
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  Speaker 2: where are my keys? I can't find them. God, that
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  Speaker 2: dog that's outside my window. Barking is annoying me and
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  Speaker 2: I need some rest. Can you make the dog just
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  Speaker 2: calm down? Father? What in the world is going on
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  Speaker 2: with all this? I know, I know we need rain,
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  Speaker 2: but I need a little bit of sunshine. I'm feeling depressed.
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  Speaker 2: None of that is too hard for God to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: No calamity can befall the least of his children. No
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  Speaker 2: anxiety harass the soul, No joy or cheer, no sincere
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  Speaker 2: prayer escape the lips of which our heavenly Father is unobservant,
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  Speaker 2: or in which he takes no immediate interest. He loves you,
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  Speaker 2: he loves me. It is a privilege for us to
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  Speaker 2: lift up our minds, lift up our hearts, lift up
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  Speaker 2: our voices to God in prayer. Please continue to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,