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01 03 2024 Inspired Prayers · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good
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  morning. It is Wednesday, January three, twenty twenty three. No,
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  it's twenty four. Hello. My name is El David Harris. I am
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  your host, and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  every single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  new lesson study series through the Book of Psalms, and our caption for today
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  is inspired Prayers. Let me just say that I always have a challenge.
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  If you've been with me since about twenty seventeen, you see, every time
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  the year changes, I mix it up and I get the date wrong,
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  like what year is it? Anyway, I am so thankful that you are
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  patient with me it is my brain, not my heart. And yes,
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  so please go over when you have an opportunity to your Daily Portion dot com
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  join our online community. Also pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let
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  me know where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot Com.
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  That is a way that we continue excuse me to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and
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  Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new day and the blessing of this
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  new year. Thank you for giving us a window into the mindset of people
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  who have surrendered to You, and the fact that we can look about prayers
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  in the scriptures. Please make us holy in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and a man again inspired prayers. Now we could say prayers like the
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  activity of prayer when we open up our hearts to God as to a friend.
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  Or it could be prayers like people who pray. Something to think about.
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  Let's begin from the book of Second Samuel, chapter twenty three as we
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  begin our discussion today, verses one and two Second Samuel, chapter twenty three,
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  and I will read verses one and two the Bible reads. Now these
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  be the last words of David David, the son of Jesse, said,
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  and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of God,
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  of Jacob and the sweet Psalmist of Israel said, the Spirit of the Lord
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  spake unto me, and his word was in my tongue. His word was
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  in my tongue. One of the things that we need to understand about prayer
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  is, like I said a little bit earlier, it is a connection.
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  It is a dialogue between us and God. I said, diea log,
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  not monolog And so when the Spirit of God spoke, he spoke to David.
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  So if the spirit of God is speaking to David, and David's lifestyle
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  is one as a person who walks with God, who speaks to God as
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  to a friend, then that means it's a two way street. You see
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  where this is going. And so, as a young man said to a
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  congregation of people many years ago, I was there at the Sligo Church in
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  Tacoma Park, Maryland, and the young man said that there were so many
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  of us who when we pray, we say, and I want the people
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  who are listening on the radio and on podcasts to imagine the visuals Lord speak
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  to me. And then okay, and so in the silence that you heard
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  there, I started to cover my two ears with my hands. Speak to
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  me, Lord. And yet my posture, my attitude, my lifestyle,
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  God forbid, is covering my ears. And so what God is saying to
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  us here in this brother's story is that we need to understand prayer as a
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  divine and human dialogue. Let's read from the Book of Romans, the Book
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  of Romans, chapter eight, verses twenty six and twenty seven, and the
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  Bible reads likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not
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  what we should pray for as we ought. But the Holy Spirit himself maketh
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  intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the
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  hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession of
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  the saint for the saints, according to the will of God. And so
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  the Bible is teaching us that even though it's a divine and human dialogue,
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  the human side is broken. Have you ever felt like you didn't know what
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  to say to God? Or maybe you feel like you do know what to
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  say to God, but you're not able to really hear or experience and understand
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  what he is saying to you, or maybe you believe and know that you're
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  saying what you think is the right thing, and then you wonder later like
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  maybe maybe I should I should tweak my prayers. The fact is that no
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  matter where we come down in this discussion, we literally don't know what to
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  pray for. But the thing that is so sweet about this is even though
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  that is our reality, or since that is our reality, God has not
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  left us alone. He has positioned us with the Holy Spirit, who is
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  making all of this makes sense, all of it, Matt, because he
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  knows the will of God our Father. Like Jesus Christ, the Son has
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  given everything he is, all of heaven and one gift in order for our
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  prayers to be accepted. Like he is that sweet smelling savor that when the
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  prayers of the saints as send to God our Father, that those prayers become
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  meaningful because He is our righteousness. And so the Holy Spirit has not left
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  us alone to come up with the perfect right words. Of course, we
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  do our best. We're not trying to be disrespectful, right, but when
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  we pray, we need to know that the Holy Spirit is doing something very
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  special in order for us to have the things that matter to God, that
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  glorify God and edify us. So recognize the role of the Holy Spirit in
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  prayer. Oh, the Bible teaches us that the Holy Spirit intercedes on our
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  behalf even when we struggle to find the right words in prayer. The Bible
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  also teaches us in the Psalms to pray in all circumstances. In another place,
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  it says, in everything give thanks. It is the will of God
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  concerning us. Right. So when we're giving thanks, we're speaking to God.
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  We're opening up our hearts and our minds and our mouths sometimes in praise
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  and in conversation with God as to a friend. And so we know that
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  in that moment, God inhabits the praises of his people. He inhabits the
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  praises. So we have the presence of God in our situations. And when
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  we pray in all circumstances, yes, we have the presence of God in
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  all of our circumstances. Also, we can use the Psalms as a model
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  for our prayers. Since Jesus himself quoted the Psalms, we can use them
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  as a model for our own prayers. Learning how to express our feelings,
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  our desire, and our needs to God. When we have needs, also
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  find universal expression of the human experience. The psalms cross cultural, religious,
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  and ethnic boundaries, providing a universal language for expressing human experiences to God in
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  prayer. You see, we're more alike than we are different. We are
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  more alike than we are different. Sometimes people get that confused when God says
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  that his word is going to go to every nation, kindred tongue, tribe
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  and people. It is because we are more alike than we are different.
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  We all have the same needs. We have a need to eat and to
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  drink. We have a need to rest. We need relationship, We need
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  to belong, we need to transcend in the sense that we need a connection
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  with our creator God. We all are more alike than we are and so
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  I thank God that we can find these expressions. No matter what the languages
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  were that the Bible was written in, no matter what cultures that the scriptures
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  covered, we are more alike than we are different. You know another way
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  that we are alike. We all have need for a savior, huh,
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  not us savior Jesus Christ, the one True and Living Son of God.
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  We are thankful that He has given us everything so that we can be saved,
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  and that we are also alike in the sense that God loved us so
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  much that he gave us again heaven, all of heaven in one gift,
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  so much we can learn from these and sprited prayers and pray IRGs in scripture.
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  Have a wonderful day, Peep, thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,