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03 18 2026 Praying for One Another · 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: 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 Wednesday, March eighteen,
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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 praying for one another.
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  Speaker 2: Praying for one another. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for giving us the opportunity to pray,
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  Speaker 2: and I pray that we will we will keep keep
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  Speaker 2: our brothers and sisters lifted. Please in Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again praying for one another. The lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer said some of the most important words. It's we
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  Speaker 2: can say to someone who was struggling with issues of
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  Speaker 2: various kinds, be they family, health, money, or something else,
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  Speaker 2: is that I'm praying for you. Now, let me just
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  Speaker 2: say what this is not like. Don't let that be
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  Speaker 2: something that absolves you in your own mind of the
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  Speaker 2: responsibility of being of service too. Like saying that I'm
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  Speaker 2: praying for someone doesn't mean that I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: act on their behalf. That just means that I am
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  Speaker 2: going to the one the only one that can truly
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  Speaker 2: help is God, and I'm going to him for him
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  Speaker 2: to give you the relief that you need. And if
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  Speaker 2: God shows me how I can be a part of
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  Speaker 2: the solution. Then by all means that too, okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so it's not a cop out. Prayer is not a
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  Speaker 2: way like saying I'm praying for you. Is not a
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  Speaker 2: way for us to kind of say, okay, well, well
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  Speaker 2: did that, so I don't have to do anything. Let
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  Speaker 2: me know how it goes. M M. That's not it.
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  Speaker 2: But now let's talk about what it is in this context.
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  Speaker 2: We're going into the Bible book of Colossians, chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: and we will read beginning at verse two Colossians chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: and we are beginning at verse two, and the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: be devoted to prayer, keeping alert with thanksgiving. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that I say often is that when we
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  Speaker 2: are talking to God and asking him for things, we're
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  Speaker 2: asking for his will to be done, that we should
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  Speaker 2: be spies, like we should be voyeurs, peeking into God's
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  Speaker 2: windows to see when the very moment is that he
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  Speaker 2: actions whatever it is that we've been praying about, whether
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  Speaker 2: he says no and puts us in a position where
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  Speaker 2: that thing ain't about to happen, or if he says
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  Speaker 2: yes and we can see the movements there. In either case,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to spy into the windows of God
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  Speaker 2: and be the first one at the first moment that
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  Speaker 2: He begins to act, to go in there and say
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  Speaker 2: thank you. I want you to say thank you, like,
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  Speaker 2: hurry up and get to the thank you part. Hurry
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  Speaker 2: up and get to the gratitude part. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to be the first ones to say thank you. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So we continue in prayer and watch unto Thanksgiving. At
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  Speaker 2: the same time, pray for us too. So the Bible
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  Speaker 2: writer the apostle is saying, pray for us too, that
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  Speaker 2: God may open a door for the message, so that
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  Speaker 2: we may proclaim the mystery of Christ for which I
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  Speaker 2: am in Chaine. Of course, that had a specific application
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  Speaker 2: to Paul in his current situation at the time. But
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  Speaker 2: let me just say this. Let me say this, Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: you are praying for me over here with your daily portion.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully you have it in your mind that you will continue,
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  Speaker 2: that you will continue to pray because God is the
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  Speaker 2: one that is in control, and that this Gospel of
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom must be preached for a witness, and then
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  Speaker 2: and only then shall the income so continue to pray
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  Speaker 2: for the spreading of the gospel. I just used your
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  Speaker 2: daily portion as the example. But whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: you were doing in order to spread the Gospel, then
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  Speaker 2: let that be your reality as well, that you pray
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  Speaker 2: that the Gospel will be spread from your vantage point
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  Speaker 2: as well. One of the ways that I knew that
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  Speaker 2: the COVID nineteen crisis could not continue was because I
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  Speaker 2: saw that even though there were some advances in technology
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  Speaker 2: and the way that we would share the Gospel, some
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  Speaker 2: lessons that we learned about how we could do things creatively,
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  Speaker 2: I also could tell, besides the fact that so many
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  Speaker 2: people were losing their lives, that it was an impediment
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  Speaker 2: to the Gospel. Right. The pandemic was an impediment to
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel and so many different ways. So I prayed,
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  Speaker 2: and I knew that this had to end because it
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  Speaker 2: was an impediment to the Gospel. The same with certain
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  Speaker 2: kinds of paradigms in terms of how countries are ruled,
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  Speaker 2: wherever there is an iron curtain where their politics are concerned,
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  Speaker 2: or the rule of the governing bodies of a particular country,
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  Speaker 2: like communism as an example, that is an impediment to
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel. I remember that there were certain parts of
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  Speaker 2: the Communist parts of the world where the Gospel could
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  Speaker 2: not be preached in the way that we know it
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  Speaker 2: should be preached. God brought those walls down, and even
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  Speaker 2: the communist press of a particular place or region I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking of where beginning after that was over where God
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  Speaker 2: broke those walls down. They were printing life giving, truth
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  Speaker 2: filled literature on their used to be communistic press, you understand.
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  Speaker 2: And so whatever is in the way, we pray that
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  Speaker 2: God will open up the door and remove those barriers,
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  Speaker 2: just like Paul preached, and he said, pray verse four,
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  Speaker 2: that I may make it known, make what known the
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  Speaker 2: mystery of Christ, make it known as I should. And
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  Speaker 2: so when we are praying for one another, we are
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  Speaker 2: praying yes for our well being. We are praying yes
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  Speaker 2: for our success spiritually and practically. Yes, we are praying
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  Speaker 2: for one another's safety, one another's health, one another having
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  Speaker 2: wisdom in the things of God. But we also pray
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  Speaker 2: that God will show us the pathway to success as
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  Speaker 2: we spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, especially living in
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  Speaker 2: the last days. And so we have just a quick
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  Speaker 2: three lessons. Number One, prayer is persistent and watchful and grateful,
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  Speaker 2: and that comes in from what we read in Colossians
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  Speaker 2: for in verse to continue in prayer that's persistent, watchful,
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  Speaker 2: well yeah, watch in the same yes, and grateful where
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  Speaker 2: there's thanksgiving. So Paul presents prayer as an ongoing posture,
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  Speaker 2: not an occasional response to some stimuli or maybe the
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  Speaker 2: COVID crisis that I mentioned, or communism or whatever else
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  Speaker 2: that's going on. The believer remains steady, the believer remains alert,
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  Speaker 2: the believer remains thankful. Prayer stays active because God is active. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: So when we're praying, we're speaking to God as to
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  Speaker 2: a friend. And if God is active, then our praying
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  Speaker 2: is active. Gratitude anchors prayer in trust rather than anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: It's not always a desperate call. It can be at times.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we are desperate, like Peter when he was drowning,
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  Speaker 2: when he should have been buoyant and faithful, but he said, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: save me, like I perish, like the do was drowning.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes there is that sort of emergency positioning. But
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  Speaker 2: not only then. We should remain awake, remain spiritually alert,
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  Speaker 2: remain steadfast, and connect it to God so that whatever
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  Speaker 2: God is speaking in the moment, we're able to hear.
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  Speaker 2: So prayer is a two way street. When we're praying
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  Speaker 2: for others, when we're praying for ourselves, we are speaking
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  Speaker 2: to God and also listening to whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: God has for us, and then we will do what
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  Speaker 2: He says. By his grace. Continue to pray for one another,
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  Speaker 2: especially in spreading the Gospel. 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,