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10 28 2026 Written Messages · 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 Wednesday, October 28, 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, Written Messages.
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  Speaker 2: Written Messages. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  Speaker 2: and the words behind these gifts and the first step
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  Speaker 2: toward using them to the glory of God. So this
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  Speaker 2: is an incredible resource to you all. I developed it
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  Speaker 2: over about two years and had been conceptualizing it for,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. God, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us your words and preserving them
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  Speaker 2: in our hearts. but giving us written, giving to us orally,
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  Speaker 2: all of them aligning by your Holy Spirit. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to live the words now. In Jesus' name I pray, amen, amen,
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  Speaker 2: and amen again. Written messages, written messages. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Shan the man, they used to call him Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Shands at Oakwood College, now Oakwood. Oakwood University that used
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  Speaker 2: to say that paper remembers. I don't remember the entire saying,
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  Speaker 2: but he used to say something about people forgetting, but
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  Speaker 2: paper remembering. And that's important because God had his prophets
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  Speaker 2: write down his messages to give them permanence. You always hear,
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  Speaker 2: you've heard thousands and thousands of times and maybe didn't
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  Speaker 2: even notice when the guy interviews me, Mac the Voice.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day, I hired a man named Mac.
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  Speaker 2: And he would say, author, speaker, L. David Harris, because
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  Speaker 2: that's in fact what I do. I am an author
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  Speaker 2: and I am a speaker, among other things. And that
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  Speaker 2: was important in the household that I grew up in
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  Speaker 2: because my dad was a call porter and a publishing man.
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  Speaker 2: Carl Porter is a literature evangelist, for those that don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think he probably started in the 70s. He probably
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  Speaker 2: started in the 70s because in the 80s, he was
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  Speaker 2: already on the move with that. And of course, I
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  Speaker 2: wrote professionally thousands and thousands, literally thousands and thousands of
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  Speaker 2: paid articles, etc. And many, many books with my name
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  Speaker 2: and books for other people, etc. And so the written
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  Speaker 2: books or the printed page is important to me. And
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  Speaker 2: the printed page in particular with the messages of God specifically.
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  Speaker 2: And so, but there are times that we would get
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  Speaker 2: those messages in audible form and then go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: translate that to whatever we're going to do in printed form. So,
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  Speaker 2: God has a way of using both so His truth
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  Speaker 2: could be transmitted transmitted faithfully throughout time. We are told
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  Speaker 2: in our faith community that the words that God has
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  Speaker 2: given us in printed page now need to be spread
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  Speaker 2: around the world like the leaves of autumn. And I
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  Speaker 2: know that not every country has autumn, but look in
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  Speaker 2: the United States, I guess you can look up when
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  Speaker 2: autumn begins, let's just say in the Northeast or in
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  Speaker 2: the Midwest. and see what the leaves of autumn look like.
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  Speaker 2: They dry and then they are spread all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Though the Bible was not written in perfect language, we
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  Speaker 2: just need to know that. God did not dictate the
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  Speaker 2: Bible to people and then choose a language that supposedly
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  Speaker 2: is per se holy. No, he used the language of
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  Speaker 2: the men that he was inspiring. it does carry an
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  Speaker 2: infallible message that will stand the test of time. And
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  Speaker 2: so let's give you one example. In Exodus chapter 17
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  Speaker 2: and verse 14, the Bible reads, And the Lord said
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  Speaker 2: unto Moses, Write this for a memorial. Oh, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: A memorial in a book and rehearse it in the
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  Speaker 2: ears of Joshua. So God was passing a legacy here.
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  Speaker 2: a legacy of God's dealings with humankind, his mercy, his
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  Speaker 2: ability to transform people who many times were very resistant
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  Speaker 2: to him, how he was able to deliver them from
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  Speaker 2: bondage and captivity and the laws, statutes, judgments that it
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  Speaker 2: was necessary to communicate to them in order to give
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  Speaker 2: them the pathway to righteousness and all of his works
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  Speaker 2: that were the plan of salvation. Write all of that
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  Speaker 2: in a book and rehearse it in the ears of
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  Speaker 2: Joshua because Joshua was about to carry the torch. He
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  Speaker 2: was the one to lead the next generation into the
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  Speaker 2: promised land. So, God wanted him to record, to inscribe.
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  Speaker 2: God told Moses to write his words down so they
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  Speaker 2: would endure as a lasting memorial. May I just say
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  Speaker 2: that we still are able to read some of what
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  Speaker 2: God told Moses to give to Joshua? In 2026, you
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  Speaker 2: know how many thousands of years ago this happened? And
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  Speaker 2: yet God has preserved a way for us to say,
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  Speaker 2: this is how good God has been to his people.
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  Speaker 2: These are the pathways that he has taken his people.
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  Speaker 2: These are the bumps and bruises that some of his
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  Speaker 2: people would have gone through because of their disobedience. This
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  Speaker 2: is the pathway. And so, and so, writing gives permanence
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  Speaker 2: to God's truth, carrying it safely across the generations. All
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  Speaker 2: the way down to us. I don't know when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is coming, but if it's, well, I won't say anything
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  Speaker 2: that I need that somebody will quote me on and
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  Speaker 2: then it'll be mistaken. It'll be taken out of context.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever Jesus comes, whenever Jesus comes, if he were to
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  Speaker 2: come in five minutes, you know, he, okay, I broke
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  Speaker 2: my own rule. If he were to come in five
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  Speaker 2: minutes time, right, then those words would have been preserved
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  Speaker 2: until now, right? If he comes into the future, in
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  Speaker 2: the future, then those words will be preserved up until
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  Speaker 2: the time that Jesus comes in the future. And where
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  Speaker 2: it matters is until all human probation is closed. But
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads in our second lesson in the book of, well,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you what to do. Write down one
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  Speaker 2: truth from God's word today that you want to hold
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  Speaker 2: on to, keeping it where you will return to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so here's a little book that I have right there. See,
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  Speaker 2: look at that. I still use books and pens and paper.
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  Speaker 2: I do use electronic stuff, but I use both. I digress.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read from John chapter 20 and verse 31 for
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  Speaker 2: our final lesson for today. The Bible reads, That Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the Christ, that's the promised one, the anointed, the
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  Speaker 2: Messiah who was promised throughout Old Testament prophecies, the Son
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  Speaker 2: of God, and that believing you might have life through
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  Speaker 2: his name. So God wasn't just trying to chronicle things
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  Speaker 2: like a history book. He wasn't giving you an archaeological
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  Speaker 2: evidentiary document so you could prove something. His goal is
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  Speaker 2: to transform you. His goal is that his name be
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  Speaker 2: magnified and that you submit your will to him so
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  Speaker 2: that you can be saved and you can become an
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  Speaker 2: agent of change so others can be saved. And we
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  Speaker 2: see that very clearly here for us to believe, to trust,
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  Speaker 2: and to place confidence in God. The fact that Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the Son of God, is the way, the pathway to salvation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.