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10 13 2026 Functions of 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 Tuesday, October 13, 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: We are continuing in our Lunar Essence Study series, The
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  Speaker 2: Gift of Prophecy, and our caption for today is Functions
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  Speaker 2: of Prophets. Functions of Prophets. of Prophets. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. God, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Thank you for this day, and thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us a clear blueprint and the job description,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, for the prophets. And I know that
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  Speaker 2: you've given us all your job descriptions. Father, please help
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  Speaker 2: us to follow in Jesus' name, I pray. Amen and
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  Speaker 2: amen again. The functions of the prophets. Now, I did
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  Speaker 2: say before, and I said it really quickly, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was two days ago, that God has equipped prophets
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  Speaker 2: to foretell, that is, to know stuff that they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: know on their own and in a predictive sort of manner,
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  Speaker 2: share what God is saying, right? And also to tell forth.
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  Speaker 2: It's like speaking. It's a A special way. Okay, good.
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  Speaker 2: But beyond this, the Bible is teaching us that God
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  Speaker 2: gave us prophets to guide kings, priests, and the nations
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  Speaker 2: back to his will. I'm speaking of a specific level
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  Speaker 2: of ministry warning against the deadly desire to be like
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  Speaker 2: everyone else. This is why in the ancient times of
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  Speaker 2: God's people that many of the prophets were murdered, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: because the people of God didn't want the guidance. They
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  Speaker 2: just literally didn't, and they couldn't make the prophets stop
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  Speaker 2: unless they killed the prophets, and they went to the
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  Speaker 2: extreme just to stop the word of God. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a cautionary tale for all of us. Where are you? Like,
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  Speaker 2: are you in a position where you despise the words
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  Speaker 2: of God so much that you would do anything to
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  Speaker 2: extinguish them? Or are you in a position where you
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  Speaker 2: are embracing the word of God and yielding your will
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  Speaker 2: to him? And so, yeah, whatever their human frailties, these
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  Speaker 2: prophets were men and women of prayer. Are you a
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  Speaker 2: man or woman of prayer? Type in the chat. Are
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  Speaker 2: you a praying person? Men and women of the word.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a person that is full of the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God? You are seeking God's face through His Word
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  Speaker 2: and faithful service. Are you a servant of the living God,
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  Speaker 2: the Most High God? Blessed be His name. Is that
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  Speaker 2: your reality? Go ahead and type in the chat. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, speaking God's truth to power. And we see
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  Speaker 2: in 1 Samuel 8 and verse 6, 1 Samuel chapter
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  Speaker 2: 8 and verse 6, that when the people's demands troubled Samuel,
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  Speaker 2: his first response was to pray. I'll read the passage
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  Speaker 2: in a moment, but that was his first response. God's
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  Speaker 2: servants still bring their burdens and disappointments to him, God,
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  Speaker 2: before anyone else. There are too many people listening to
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  Speaker 2: me right now. You may be watching me on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: or some other platform who take it to people and
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  Speaker 2: pray to people. You're praying to people. Every time you
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  Speaker 2: have a problem, you are calling people to resolve them. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Every time you have a problem, you are using your
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  Speaker 2: two thumbs and texting people to solve them. Every time
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  Speaker 2: you have a problem, you're going on WhatsApp to people
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  Speaker 2: to solve them. Every time you have a problem, you're
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  Speaker 2: in social media posting on your Instagram, Tik Tok. Facebook
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  Speaker 2: or whatever other usual suspects there are taking those problems
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  Speaker 2: to people rather than to God. And you're saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: but I need somewhere to air this out. I need
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  Speaker 2: somebody to hear me. And it's like, ah, but what
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  Speaker 2: can those people do when you load them up with
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  Speaker 2: all of those problems? The fact is that you just
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  Speaker 2: don't want to pray. I don't even know how to
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  Speaker 2: say it another way. And God's people need to learn
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  Speaker 2: how to take these things to God, the one who
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  Speaker 2: can actually do something about it, and then take your
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  Speaker 2: testimonies to the people. Take your problems to God and
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  Speaker 2: then take your testimonies to the people. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time. People are like, oh, what has gotten
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  Speaker 2: him up today? I'm just saying. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says here in 1 Samuel 8 and verse 6, But
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  Speaker 2: the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a
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  Speaker 2: king to judge us. because they were trying to replace God.
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  Speaker 2: And Samuel did what? Prayed unto the Lord. I'm so thankful.
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  Speaker 2: God's servants still do this. Bring our burdens, bring our
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  Speaker 2: disappointments to him before anything or anyone else. So take
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  Speaker 2: the thing that troubles you most to God today in prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Before you act, react, or tell somebody else. Talk to God.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that can solve it. Now we go
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  Speaker 2: to verse 18, 1 Samuel chapter 8, for our second lesson.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads, And ye shall cry out in
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  Speaker 2: that day because of your king, which ye shall have
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  Speaker 2: chosen you. And the Lord will not hear you in
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  Speaker 2: that day. You selected, you preferred the king rather than God.
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  Speaker 2: What are you preferring? And it's not my business. Please,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to type it in the chat
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  Speaker 2: because this is a confession between you and God. But
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  Speaker 2: if anything, what are you choosing in place of God?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a bank account? Is it a relationship that
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  Speaker 2: you know good and well that you should not be in?
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  Speaker 2: A romantic relationship, a liaison, a dangerous liaison. Is it
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  Speaker 2: something in social media? You're putting on filters because somebody
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  Speaker 2: else is putting on filters. You're posing in front of
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  Speaker 2: vehicles and homes that you can't afford just to put
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  Speaker 2: on airs so people can think that you have arrived.
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  Speaker 2: What is it that you, if anything, have been putting
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  Speaker 2: in place of God? And ye shall cry out in
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  Speaker 2: that day because of your king, that thing that you
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  Speaker 2: put before God, which ye shall have chosen you, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord will not hear you today. So repent. That's
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line. For any of us who are going
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  Speaker 2: that pathway, we've seen this movie before. Turn back to
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  Speaker 2: God and put God, allow God to be in his
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  Speaker 2: rightful place. God's people wanted to be like the nations
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  Speaker 2: around them, and they rejected God's warning through his prophet.
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  Speaker 2: The pull to look like everyone else still leads God's
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  Speaker 2: people away from his best. So examine that place, one
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  Speaker 2: place where you are copying the world, if in any way,
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  Speaker 2: around you, and choose God's way instead today. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to read from the book Prophets and Kings, page 713.
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  Speaker 2: 1 and 732, I'll paraphrase some of it, the kings,
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  Speaker 2: or pardon me, the prophets to whom these great truths
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  Speaker 2: were revealed longed to understand the full import of the
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  Speaker 2: message committed to them. Those who at the present time
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  Speaker 2: proclaim the messages of warning and of mercy should walk
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  Speaker 2: humbly with God. Like I said, we've seen this movie before.
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  Speaker 2: We see what happened during the times of the prophets,
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  Speaker 2: of Old Testament especially. And God is saying, learn the
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  Speaker 2: lesson from them. Be faithful. The ones who are faithful,
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  Speaker 2: learn from them how to be faithful to God under
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost and do God's will no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be afraid of the faces of those who reject
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  Speaker 2: the message, but know that you've been faithful to God
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  Speaker 2: and offer to God faith. yourself has set apart for
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  Speaker 2: him today. 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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