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10 25 2026 General and Special Revelation · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God, to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges? On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Sunday, October 25, 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: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series, The Gift
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  Speaker 2: of Prophecy, and our caption for today is General and
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  Speaker 2: Special Revelation. General and Special. and special revelation. You're like, what? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to please go over to yourdailyportion.com.
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  Speaker 2: Will you please, please go ahead and click that button
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  Speaker 2: under the big header that says, stop guessing what to
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  Speaker 2: do with your life, discover God's design for your life.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, if you click that begin the assessment button,
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  Speaker 2: you will come away after you've invested a few minutes
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  Speaker 2: of time with a personal blueprint, a clear picture of
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  Speaker 2: a first step toward using it. Please do so and
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  Speaker 2: enrich the kingdom with the gifts that God has given you. Also, also, please,
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  Speaker 2: are a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then get underway. Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this new work week and for giving us the revelation.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever way you want to give us revelation, we thank you, Father.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to live like people who are fully
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  Speaker 2: enlightened with your truth and relationship with you. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: name I pray, amen and amen again. General and special thanks. So,
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  Speaker 2: most importantly for me today is that God speaks with
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  Speaker 2: us because we are fallen. So, God is so invested
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  Speaker 2: in his creatures, his creation. that he speaks to us
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  Speaker 2: because we're fallen, because we need him, because we also
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  Speaker 2: live in a world that is fallen and the people
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  Speaker 2: are suffering. And he wants us to know why we
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  Speaker 2: are here and why we can have hope in his love. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we know that nature reveals his power and his love, right?
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says the firmament displays his handiwork, and
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  Speaker 2: yet only his special revelation in Jesus Christ and the
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  Speaker 2: scriptures makes clear the plan of salvation, the plan of redemption.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you look into Bible book of Romans
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  Speaker 2: chapter 1, we see that God has revealed himself through nature.
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  Speaker 2: We know this. So it says, the Bible writer says,
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  Speaker 2: the invisible things of God are revealed in the visible,
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  Speaker 2: even the eternal Godhead. But we see in nature marks
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  Speaker 2: of God and his divine nature and his love for
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  Speaker 2: us and his love. preparation for us, etc. Yes, but
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  Speaker 2: that's imperfect. And we see also in Romans that God,
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  Speaker 2: He educates our conscience through the Holy Spirit to where
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  Speaker 2: we become even a law unto ourselves, to where we
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  Speaker 2: cannot be with an excuse. Like, we can't make no
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  Speaker 2: excuses because He puts some stuff in our minds to
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  Speaker 2: help us understand right and wrong, even before we understand
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  Speaker 2: the gospel. But God doesn't leave us there. He also
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  Speaker 2: now takes us into the fullness of the gospel of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ to where we can see in his life, work,
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  Speaker 2: and ministry what it is like to be connected with
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  Speaker 2: God and what the requirements or responsibilities are. And so
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  Speaker 2: that special revelation through Christ and in the scriptures makes
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  Speaker 2: clear the path of righteousness, the path of salvation. And
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  Speaker 2: so Our first lesson now comes in from the Bible
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  Speaker 2: book of Psalms. Somebody heard this in your brain because
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  Speaker 2: I started to kind of quote it. Psalms chapter 19,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verse 1. That's the Bible book
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  Speaker 2: of Psalms chapter 19, and I will read verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, the heavens declare the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever looked up there, y'all? Like, have you
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  Speaker 2: ever been somewhere on a clear night and seen something?
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  Speaker 2: the beauty, the stars that shine, the heavenly bodies that
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  Speaker 2: you can see so far away. But clearly, if you've
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  Speaker 2: been on an airplane, when you were so high up
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  Speaker 2: that you could see some things from a vantage point,
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  Speaker 2: that is just so remarkable. Or even if you've been
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  Speaker 2: like me, I went to a mountainous place, the highest
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  Speaker 2: paved road in the U.S., which was in Colorado, they
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  Speaker 2: call it something different now, the amount they call it
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  Speaker 2: different now, but it was 14,000, I think 152 feet
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  Speaker 2: above sea level. And I said, God, tree line is
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  Speaker 2: at like, I looked down there like I could see it.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it in my brain, 10 or 11,000 feet
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  Speaker 2: above sea level in that area. So we're looking down
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  Speaker 2: at where trees stop growing. And we're up there with
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  Speaker 2: this wonderful breeze and this beautiful light in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the day. And I'm like, God, this is so beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: so beautiful. So I can see that God is revealing himself.
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  Speaker 2: But now, as I spoke to a sister named Claire,
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  Speaker 2: who used to be an F-18 pilot, who is now
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  Speaker 2: a pilot for commercial pilot, I asked her, what was
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  Speaker 2: her experience when she used to be up there in
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  Speaker 2: that F-18? She said she felt near to God. We
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  Speaker 2: were talking about something literal because they can go high.
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  Speaker 2: And she said she felt near to God just being
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  Speaker 2: up there, just being up there. And so the declaration
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  Speaker 2: that we're talking about is the recounting of the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God. So the heavens themselves tell the glory of
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  Speaker 2: God for anyone who will look up. Creation is God's
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  Speaker 2: first sermon. Well, To the people who don't know him, especially,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I should have said. Preaching his power and
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  Speaker 2: caring love without a word. So look at the sky.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the creation around you. Like right now, outside
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  Speaker 2: of my window, there are thousands of trees of different
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  Speaker 2: varieties and beauty. Even though in the morning, you can't
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  Speaker 2: really see that kind of thing. I know it's out there.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's out there. I can't see it at
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  Speaker 2: five in the morning, but it's out there. And then
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  Speaker 2: when the sun comes up, I can see. I can
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  Speaker 2: see some of the beauty of God out there. So
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  Speaker 2: look up and see and experience the creation today and
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  Speaker 2: let it turn your heart toward God, though, to praise him,
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  Speaker 2: the God who made it. Not to praise nature, not
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  Speaker 2: to elevate nature as a God, but to praise the
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  Speaker 2: God of creation. because he is faithful. Now, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: as I would have preempted earlier, Romans chapter 1 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 20, Romans chapter 1 and verse 20, for the
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  Speaker 2: invisible things of him... from the creation of the world
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  Speaker 2: are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
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  Speaker 2: even his eternal power and Godhead. That means that we
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  Speaker 2: are able to perceive with our minds, to understand and
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  Speaker 2: grasp things about the grandeur of God based on what
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  Speaker 2: he has created. And so his eternal power, his divine
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  Speaker 2: nature are perceived through the things that he has made.
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  Speaker 2: Even in 2026, we can still see the handiwork and
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  Speaker 2: grandeur of God. The witness of creation is real, tangible.
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  Speaker 2: You can touch it, feel it. All of your senses
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  Speaker 2: can experience nature, leaving every heart able to see that
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  Speaker 2: there is a divine maker. There is an intelligent God
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  Speaker 2: who cares for us. Now, I want you to point
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  Speaker 2: out to someone today a piece of God's handiwork you
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  Speaker 2: have noticed. Sometimes I I noticed my wife, she's a
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  Speaker 2: part of God's handiwork, Simone. I'm like, ah, look at Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Like she is a part of his handiwork using creation
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  Speaker 2: to speak of the creator. Yes, nature speaks of nature's God.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see if I can read a little bit
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  Speaker 2: from education. The book Education, page 113. God's healing power
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  Speaker 2: runs through all nature, even before the need exists. The
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  Speaker 2: healing agencies are in readiness as soon as a part
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  Speaker 2: is wounded. Every energy is bent to the work of restoration.
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  Speaker 2: That's because God did this. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day.