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10 10 2026 Old Testament Prophets · 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 Sabbath, October 10, 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 Old Testament Prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament prophets. Who is your favorite Old Testament prophet?
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  Speaker 2: here with me on YouTube. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. God, we thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath morning, and we thank you for those prophets that
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  Speaker 2: we have for so long followed. Father, I pray that
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  Speaker 2: you will give us the guidance in 2026 to continue
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  Speaker 2: to listen to what you have told us over the millennia.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen again. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just say that there are people in 2026— whose
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  Speaker 2: lives would be a thousand percent better if simply they
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  Speaker 2: would follow, we would follow what God gave us through
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  Speaker 2: the prophets. God guided his people through Old Testament prophets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to focus on them today. Frail human
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  Speaker 2: beings just like us who knew fear, prophets knew anger
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  Speaker 2: and discouragement, and yet carried their messages faithfully. Believe in
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  Speaker 2: the Lord your God and believe His prophets, for through
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  Speaker 2: them He still points spiritual travelers into the direction of God. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that is our resting place. God is our resting place,
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  Speaker 2: our tabernacle. Yes, and so I'm grateful that the Lord
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  Speaker 2: has given us 2 Chronicles chapter 20 and verse 20
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  Speaker 2: to begin today with our lesson number one. 2 Chronicles
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  Speaker 2: chapter 20 And verse 20, where the Bible reads, Believe
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  Speaker 2: in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established.
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  Speaker 2: Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. May I say
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  Speaker 2: it one more time? Have faith in the Lord your God.
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  Speaker 2: So the focus is God. The focus is not the prophets.
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  Speaker 2: We're just using the prophets as a way to see
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  Speaker 2: how is it that God wants us to connect with him?
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  Speaker 2: What are the messages that he's sharing with us? What
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  Speaker 2: is his guidance for us, even in our day? So
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  Speaker 2: the focus is God. Have faith in the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 2: and you will be safe. You will be established. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the Bible is saying. So for those of you
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  Speaker 2: who feel unsafe right now, you're trying to seek safety
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  Speaker 2: in another human being. Well, is that the way to go?
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  Speaker 2: Believe in the message of his prophets and you will win.
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  Speaker 2: God is saying that when we are to believe, we're
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  Speaker 2: to trust, to be firmly established in confidence. Faith in
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  Speaker 2: God and faith in his prophetic word are joined together
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  Speaker 2: in this call. They go together. So if you have
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  Speaker 2: faith in God, then that means what he says matters
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  Speaker 2: to you. And not only matters, but now it's actionable.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that you are doing by his grace.
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  Speaker 2: To trust the message he sends is to find yourself
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  Speaker 2: established and secure. Like I said, there are people who
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  Speaker 2: are looking for safety right now. You're looking for safety
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  Speaker 2: in your elected officials. Well, yeah, God sets up our
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  Speaker 2: elected officials, and he's the one that shifts them to others.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. But that's not where we find our safety.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you are looking for safety in the economy.
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  Speaker 2: That is not where you find your safety. May I
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  Speaker 2: say some of you are looking for safety in your family.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, it should be a safe place, but that
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  Speaker 2: is not where we find ultimate safety. God said in
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  Speaker 2: whatever he is sharing with us, whatever his commands are,
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  Speaker 2: whatever he enlightens the mind to believe through those prophets,
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  Speaker 2: those prophetic messages, that is where we will find our
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  Speaker 2: safety and security. So receive today. I know it's Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to take this for granted because we're going
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  Speaker 2: likely to our faith fellowship, our congregations. But receive one
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  Speaker 2: message today. When you hear it today, receive it today,
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  Speaker 2: that God has already given you through his word and
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  Speaker 2: act on it as a step of trust. Our next
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in from the Bible book of James, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible book of James chapter 5 and verse 17. James
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  Speaker 2: chapter 5 and verse 17. I hope you're tracking with me.
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  Speaker 2: If you're tracking with me so far, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: type a two. You're tracking with me so far. Go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and type a two in the chat. The Bible reads, Elias,
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  Speaker 2: that was Elijah. Elias was a man subject to like
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  Speaker 2: passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it
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  Speaker 2: might not rain. And it rained not on the earth
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  Speaker 2: by the space of three years and six months. So
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  Speaker 2: for three and a half years, the earth did not
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  Speaker 2: experience rain. And it was because the man of God
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  Speaker 2: trusted God. And when he and God spoke, that's how
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  Speaker 2: the rain stopped. Can you imagine? The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: Elijah was just like you. He had to pray just
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  Speaker 2: like you. He had to eat and drink just like you.
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  Speaker 2: He had to go home and lay down somewhere and sleep,
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  Speaker 2: just like you. When he had difficulties, he had to
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  Speaker 2: go to God and say, God, why is this this way?
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  Speaker 2: And what must I do in order to continue along
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  Speaker 2: your path of righteousness, just like you? And so he
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  Speaker 2: was not like an icon or an avatar that we
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  Speaker 2: are to look up to. Yes, we can see the
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  Speaker 2: example through Elijah, but we are not to think that
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  Speaker 2: Elijah somehow has become our prototype, if you want to say.
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  Speaker 2: And so these like feelings means with the same nature
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  Speaker 2: and frailties. So Elijah was a man of the same
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  Speaker 2: frail nature as we are. I said all of those
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  Speaker 2: other things in a rhythmic way just to come back
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  Speaker 2: to this. Yes, yeah, we share that same nature, and
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  Speaker 2: God worked mightily through him and his prayers. The God
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  Speaker 2: who used ordinary, struggling people then still uses people like
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  Speaker 2: us now. The same God who used ordinary people. I
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  Speaker 2: can hear my big brother and friends singing that song
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  Speaker 2: from when I was a young guy. Rodney Ware. I
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  Speaker 2: can hear ordinary people in my ears right now. And
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  Speaker 2: it says here that God still uses ordinary people. People
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  Speaker 2: just like me and you who are willing to yield
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  Speaker 2: to his command, right? Struggling people. And he still uses
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  Speaker 2: people like us today. Now, bring one earnest request to God.
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  Speaker 2: That's a serious request. Like, God, I need you, please.
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  Speaker 2: And with the boldness of Elijah, is it your health
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  Speaker 2: that you're struggling through? Is it a relationship that you're
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  Speaker 2: struggling through? Your finances? Whatever it is, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to take that to God boldly, trusting that he hears
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  Speaker 2: ordinary people who pray. God still uses, he still hears,
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  Speaker 2: and he still blesses ordinary people who pray. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read from the book Prophets and Kings with these last
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  Speaker 2: few moments, beginning in page 173. The history of Elijah's life,
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  Speaker 2: his lessons of great value, has lessons of greatest value.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord never forsakes the soul that trusts in him
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of a life of active labor, Elijah
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  Speaker 2: suddenly gave way to discouragement, and yet God did not
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  Speaker 2: forsake his servant. Yeah, happy Sabbath. I'll see you in
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we
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