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11 05 2026 Divine Message and Human Imperfections · 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 Thursday, November 5, 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 Divine Message Today.
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  Speaker 2: and human imperfections. Divine message and human imperfections. My, my, my.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment. But before
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  Speaker 2: we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to go over to yourdailyportion.com. When you get there,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to click that button. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: show it on my screen here. It's a yellow button.
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  Speaker 2: yellow arrow pointing to the real button, begin the assessment.
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  Speaker 2: And if you invest just a few minutes of time,
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  Speaker 2: and I put a little timer on there so you
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  Speaker 2: can see how much time you're investing, you can stop guessing.
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  Speaker 2: Stop guessing what to do with your life. God has
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  Speaker 2: designed you a certain way. So I want you to
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  Speaker 2: discover God's design for your life. God has shown me mine.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to be helpful to you so you
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  Speaker 2: can know what God has called you to do. So
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  Speaker 2: you'll come away after you've invested this time prayerfully with
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  Speaker 2: a personal blueprint, a clear picture of how God gifted
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  Speaker 2: you and the word behind each one of those gifts.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, a first step toward using it. I
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  Speaker 2: left out some stuff here, but I promise you, you
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  Speaker 2: will come away with some good clarity from God. Also,
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  Speaker 2: if you would, please, will you contribute to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Ministries? Because we are a listener and viewer supported ministry.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. God,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for putting us in a position to
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  Speaker 2: see that even though we don't make excuses for our humanity,
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  Speaker 2: we don't make excuses for our brokenness. We don't rest
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  Speaker 2: on our laurels because we are imperfect on our own.
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  Speaker 2: But God, you have chosen to equip and call us
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  Speaker 2: so we can do your work despite our imperfections. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to rely on you to do that work. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen again. And so,
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  Speaker 2: and so, the most important thing to me today, and
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  Speaker 2: this is exciting because it removes the unnecessary burden that
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  Speaker 2: people use against other human beings, making it seem as
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  Speaker 2: if somebody has obvious imperfections that they are somehow disqualified
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  Speaker 2: for the service of God. So this pulls the levels
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  Speaker 2: way down because we see human beings in the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: subject to like passions like us who have made mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: who did recover from those errors, who do not make
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  Speaker 2: or did not make excuses for their sin or imperfection,
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  Speaker 2: and God used them mightily. The Bible teaches us that
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  Speaker 2: God entrusted the treasure of His truth in earthen vessels.
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  Speaker 2: That's human beings. I'll keep it like that until I
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  Speaker 2: read the passage again. So that the surpassing power would
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  Speaker 2: clearly be His and not ours. Though His messengers were fallible,
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  Speaker 2: that is, they made mistakes, and they didn't need to
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  Speaker 2: continue to make mistakes, but they could make mistakes if
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  Speaker 2: they just didn't choose to trust God in a moment, huh?
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  Speaker 2: But though his messengers were fallible and their writings bear
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  Speaker 2: the marks of human understanding, we can have full confidence
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  Speaker 2: that the divine truths of Scripture are faithfully revealed. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time to go into the many
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  Speaker 2: details here, that illustrate this, but you can study that
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  Speaker 2: on your own. Let's make this time make sense. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaches us, and I've read this to you before
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  Speaker 2: in our first lesson in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 7. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 7, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, but we have this treasure in earthen vessels that...
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  Speaker 2: The excellency of the power may be of God and
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  Speaker 2: not of us. I'm going to read it in another translation.
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  Speaker 2: But what God is saying here is that when he
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  Speaker 2: uses human beings, he just shows that it's obvious. When
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  Speaker 2: the miraculous outcomes come, it's obvious when all of the
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  Speaker 2: positive things that we now learn to expect when God
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  Speaker 2: is at work, when all of those things happen, when
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  Speaker 2: people's lives are transformed, when God uses human beings, it
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  Speaker 2: is obvious that we don't have what it takes on
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  Speaker 2: our own. When we see the imperfections of people like Moses,
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  Speaker 2: we see the imperfections of the people like Mary Magdalene,
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  Speaker 2: She was the first speaking evangelist, if you want to say,
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  Speaker 2: after the resurrection that we know of, at least. When
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  Speaker 2: God is using the woman at the well, he's using
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  Speaker 2: now the woman who was caught in the very act
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  Speaker 2: of adultery, and she went and the Bible says God
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  Speaker 2: empowered her to walk away from that lifestyle. When God
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  Speaker 2: uses these people, ordinary people, Just like me and you
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  Speaker 2: who are willing to do as God commands. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: reading the lyrics out of my brain of the song. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: when he does that, it becomes obvious that God is
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  Speaker 2: at work. Because there's no way in the world that
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  Speaker 2: we broken, frail human beings could come up with the
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  Speaker 2: results that are transforming lives of people. I'll read it
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  Speaker 2: in the New English translation. But we have this treasure
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  Speaker 2: in clay jars. so that the extraordinary power belongs to
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  Speaker 2: God and does not come for us, from us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: surpassing greatness, that exceeding measure that comes as a result,
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  Speaker 2: that extraordinary measure comes because of the Holy Ghost and
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  Speaker 2: not merely because of the people that God chose to
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  Speaker 2: equip and to call. God placed his treasure in fragile clay.
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  Speaker 2: so that the surpassing power would clearly be his. He
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  Speaker 2: delights to shine his glory through weak and ordinary people
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  Speaker 2: just like us. So let God use you today. Stop
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out how you can be a better
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  Speaker 2: human being on your own so you can become qualified,
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  Speaker 2: in air quotes, to do what God has told you
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  Speaker 2: to do. Let him use you today in your weakness,
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  Speaker 2: trusting that God's power will is made perfect in your weakness.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing Brother Paul in my mind. Not your strength.
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  Speaker 2: That is not what shines through. It is God himself
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  Speaker 2: that shines through. Now I'm going to read from, let's
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  Speaker 2: go with the Bible book of Psalms chapter 119. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible book of Psalms chapter 119 says, And I'll read
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  Speaker 2: verse 89, where the Bible reads,' Forever, O Lord, thy
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  Speaker 2: word is settled in heaven.' It stands firm, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. It is established. It is fixed in heaven. So,
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  Speaker 2: God's words stand firm and are settled forever in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: and secure despite the frailty of those who penned them
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  Speaker 2: so that we could read them in 2026. secured and
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  Speaker 2: settled in heaven, despite the frailties of those who wrote them.
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  Speaker 2: So you can rest your entire weight on the truth
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  Speaker 2: that God chose to inspire holy men of God to write.
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  Speaker 2: Women who were not in those Bible scriptures writing, but
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  Speaker 2: God sent those messages to the people who needed them
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  Speaker 2: at the right time. I told you my favorite one
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  Speaker 2: is Huldah. She came up during I think it was
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  Speaker 2: the 18th year of the reign of King Josiah. Our
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  Speaker 2: son's name is Josiah for a reason. But God sent
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  Speaker 2: that woman of God, that messenger of the Lord to
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  Speaker 2: them so they could rediscover the books of the law
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  Speaker 2: and know what was going to come to pass and
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  Speaker 2: know that God was going to spare Josiah from seeing
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  Speaker 2: some of that. But the bottom line is God sent
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  Speaker 2: his men, his women in this process so that he
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  Speaker 2: could send his settled, his protected, his truth to human beings.
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  Speaker 2: And we can know that it was indeed God's word. 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.