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01 06 2024 Teach Us to Pray · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Sabbath, January sixth, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and today we are considering teach us to pray. Very interesting teach us
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  to pray. If you are a BI student, this should resonate with you.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but let me just say
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  again a great big happy Sabbath to everyone joining us. I want to give
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  a great big shout out to whoever is listening on the radio you are on
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  up to two thousand. I wish it were two thousand, up to two
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  hundred radio stations around the world, and I'm thankful that you are here.
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  Of course, those who are online on the various platforms and on television and
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  listening after the fact on podcasts. I just thank God for your presence.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  thank you for giving us the privilege of opening up your word this Sabbath morning,
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  and I'm asking you to please give us your understanding. Teach us how
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  to serve you and ultimately Lord in this case, please teach us how to
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  pray. Teach us to pray as John taught his disciples in Jesus' name,
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again. So, as I said a little
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  bit earlier, if you're a Bible student, then our caption for today is
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  resonant with you. You you recognize this from a time or an interaction Jesus
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  was having with his disciples, and so the lesson writer uses the Book of
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  Luke as a backdrop. I'm going to go to Matthew chapter six, and
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  what I want you to do. What I want you to do is answer
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  this question. Really, what was Jesus really And I wrote this in all
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  caps. Let see this with my little pencil here and my device that can
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  take this digital pencil, right, so it's real life to me, is
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  what was Jesus really teaching when he taught his disciples to pray? What was
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  he really teaching? I wish we had five hours, but we just literally
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  don't. And did we get it when he was teaching them? Did we
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  get what he was teaching? So let me go to the Book of Matthew,
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  as I said, and read in chapter six, and let me just
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  say he was teaching a good amount of stuff about hypocrisy and not being like
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  hypocrites, not being like religious zealous who really just wanted people to see them
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  praying in air quotes, and not being people who are into vain repetitions like
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  the Heathens do, thinking that somehow they can impress God with so many words.
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  Right, Sometimes people get real rhythmic. If you're not a Heathen,
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  you may be a believer who somehow you get into a frenzy based on the
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  rhythmic way in which you pray, and you feel more excited and you feel
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  like that may be a way to connect with God more. You may not
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  say it that way, but when you're thinking about it, you cry more.
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  When you do it that way, right, you get more excited,
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  you get more intense in that way. But what God is saying, it's
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  a lot simpler than that. It's about part of me connection with God.
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  I wish I had the time, But the Bible says, be ye not
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  therefore, like unto them, I just really ran through this verse eight.
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  For your father knoweth what things ye have need of before you ask him.
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  So the first thing that we really need to hear in Jesus's teaching is that
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  God listens and he knows even before you speak, before I speak, he
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  knows what we have need of. So don't try to impress him. It's
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  not necessary, and really it just won't work. And then the Bible reads
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  verse nine after this manner, therefore pray ye see his children, his disciples,
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  Jesus's disciples were observing him in his own communion with God, and they
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  were like, please teach us how to connect with God. Like teach us
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  to pray like you do as John taught his disciples. And he said,
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  okay, well, this is what you do. Verse nine. After this
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  manner, therefore, pray ye our Father, which are in heaven hollowed,
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  be thy name. So we respect God, our father. We respect him,
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  and we know that he is indeed our father. He's holy, He's
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  holy. I don't have the time. Verse ten, Thy Kingdom, Come,
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  Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We want
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  God's will done in our lives, and the way that He has his will
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  done perfectly in heavenly places, we want that in our lives. Give us
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  this day our daily bread. What are you listening to today? Look behind
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  me, over my shoulder seat. There your daily portion. You thought I
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  got this from out the sky. Nope, if I didn't give us this
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  day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
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  debtors. Type in the chat what you're learning here, because I can't really
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  pull those all out today, huh. And lead us not into temptation,
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  but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the kingdom and the power and
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  the glory forever and ever a man. And then Jesus says, for if
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  ye forgive men their trespasses, your father will also forgive you. And then
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  he teaches us the converse, if you don't, then neither will the Father.
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  So so many jewels here about forgiveness, about relying on God for our
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  sustenance, about relying upon God for our spiritual sustenance, and teaching us how
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  we must forgive, how it is our privilege to forgive others, because after
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  all, for Christ's sake, God has forgiven us. So what was Jesus
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  really teaching and did we get it? Was he teaching us to recite his
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  prayer When people are reciting his prayer and they and then they say, let's
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  pray together, and then they say these exact words. Is that what Jesus
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  was getting at, like when he said this is what I'm going to teach
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  you after you ask the question, and then we just by wrote and sometimes
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  just sort of mindlessly say what Jesus said? Is that what his goal was
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  when he said that, oh, I think not, I think not.
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  Okay? And so here are some actionable items from Luke chapter eleven and verse
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  one. We read Lord teach us how to pray as John also taught his
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  disciples. Whereas if you study the life of Enoch how he walked with God,
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  then at every time at any time in the day or night, we
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  should be at whatever point we need to. We should be reaching out to
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  God. We should be reaching out to God. It's like walking with God.
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  But if you look into the life of Daniel, if you look into
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  what we can infer from this passage in Luke eleven and verse one, there
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  are times that we should dedicate to prayer. So while fervent and unrehearsed prayer
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  as merit that spontaneous concept that I mentioned, Jesus's disciples request in Luke chapter
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  eleven and verse one shows us seeking instruction that can enhance our devotional life.
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  Daniel he prayed three times a day inspecific besides when he was walking and interacting
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  with people. He had those times dedicated for connection with God. Jesus came
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  aside a great while before day, and then he also prayed connecting with his
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  father before he went in and about his daily duties. Okay, and then
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  we can utilize the Psalms, because after all we are talking about the Psalms,
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  we can utilize the Psalms as a prayer book. In the Book of
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  Psalms, chapter ninety six, verses one and two, it says sing unto
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  the Lord, a new song, sing unto the Lord. All the earth
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  sing unto the Lord. Bless his name and show forth his salvation from day
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  to day. And if you survey the book of psalms, you will find
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  many, many instances when you could say, okay, I can see how
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  inspiration shows to connect to God in prayer. We can learn from prayers from
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  God's people. In the Book of First Chronicles, chapter sixteen, verses seven
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  through nine, it says, then on that day David delivered this psalm to
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  thank the Lord, Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name,
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  make known his deeds among the people, sing unto him, sing psalms unto
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  him, and take and talk excuse me of all his wondrous works, and
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  so many other takeaways. But these will sit with for just now. If
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  a wonderful rest of your sabbath. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,