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10 24 2023 Abraham’s Spirit of Prayer · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Tuesday, October twenty four, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's
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  mission, my mission, and our caption for today is Abraham's Spirit of Prayer.
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  Abraham's Spirit of Prayer. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com join our online community. Please also pick up
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  somebody you're trying to assist in life. Yes, and let us know where
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  you are in the world at your daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us this new day and for the privilege we have to pray.
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  Please teach us more about connecting with you through prayer. Looking at Abraham's
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  story in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again Abraham's spirit of prayer.
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  Now I'm going to read from the Lesson and then quote from Patriarchs and
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  Profits, page one hundred and forty, and it reads Abraham had learned to
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  love of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomara. So can I just say for
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  just a moment here that there are times that we are in situations where people
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  don't love God and we indoctrinate our brains to despise or dislike because after all,
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  we're supposed to come apart, come out from them, and be separate.
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  Right, Yeah, Well that is not the intent. Like God showed
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  us through his gift of Jesus Christ, that Jesus came to seek and to
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  save the lost. And so there is not a hatred for people who don't
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  know or love God. In fact, the love of God that constraineth us
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  constraineth us to love people into the kingdom. You see where this is going.
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  So we don't love the world or the things of the world, but
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  we do love the people, because we love the sinner, but not the
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  sin. You see where this is going. And so Abraham. Abraham had
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  learned to love the inhabitants of Sodom, Gomara, and the cities close by.
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  This is why his prayer was honest, and sincere he already had fought
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  against the kings, who had defeated the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah. After
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  Abraham's victory, Bera, the son of the king of Sodom, came to
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  meet Abraham with Melchizedek. Beira asked to have his people returned to their homes.
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  Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself. And that's
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  from Genesis chapter fourteen, verse twenty one. This is an indication of the
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  love of this king for its people. Since one of the great characteristics of
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  Abraham was love. He loved the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and prayed for
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  them and their people. Love for the perishing souls inspired Abraham's prayer. That
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  last sentence came from patriarchs and prophets, page one hundred and forty. Okay,
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  so love for the perishing souls inspired Abraham's prayer. Do you love those
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  who are losing their lives because they're not connected with God? That's a question
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  necessarily for you to answer for me, because it's not my business. But
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  that's the question, like, do you love people who have not connected with
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  God or have somehow disconnected from God? Do you love them enough to lead
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  them to God? Do you love them enough to lead them to Christ?
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  That's the question. God loved us so much that he gave us his only
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  begotten son. Jesus did not die for righteous people, for scarcely for a
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  righteous person would one dare to die. But when while we were yet sinners,
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  Christ died for the young God. You see where this is going.
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  And so if we are going to follow the example of Jesus Christ, then
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  we can see in the ministry of Abraham love for people who do not love
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  God, and that love must be transformative. Jesus is love for us is
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  transformative. He loves us where we are, but he loves us enough not
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  to leave us where we are. Yeah. Okay, so let's go with
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  an action step, right, embrace a loving attitude in your prayers. Let
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  me read from Genesis chapter eighteen and verse seventeen, and the Bible reads,
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  and the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that which I will do?
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  So, develop a genuine love and concern for others in your prayers,
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  interceding for their needs and challenges when they are not of where this is incredible
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  because God is welcoming us into the intercessory role. Okay, let me say
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  it another way. God is welcoming us in to the role that Jesus has
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  in a lot of ways as our intercessor. He is the mediator of the
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  covenant, like he is the one who gave himself in order to give us
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  the opportunity to be saved. Yeah. And so when we intercede, we
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  are accepting the spirit of Christ looking out for the well being of those who
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  would otherwise be destroyed if they do not repent. You see where this is
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  going. Okay, here's another one from verse twenty seven of Genesis chapter eighteen,
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  and Abraham answered and said, behold now I have taken upon me to
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  speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. So the first
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  one we were talking about, embrace a loving attitude in your prayers. And
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  that's because God came to Abraham and told him what he was about to do,
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  and that was something that was untenable to Abraham. He was like,
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  no, but God, are you going to do this this way? And
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  then he begins to reason with God intercede, right, and so in humility,
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  now as we see here, behold now I have taken upon me to
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  speak unto the Lord. We don't rush into God's presence. We don't make
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  it seem as if we can kick down his door and speak to him any
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  old kind of way, because we're speaking as to a friend. No,
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  we're speaking as to a friend who is the creator of the universe, like
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  the one who is all powerful, all knowing, blessed be his name.
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  Like, we aren't going in there acting like we're speaking to someone we can
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  boss around. So Abraham went into this situation with humility. But guess what,
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  we can approach this with humility, but we persistently advocate for others humility,
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  yes, persistence, yes, yes, We're not afraid to go back
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  to God and say, but God, could you please, for your own
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  name's sake, do this thing that honors and glorifies you and benefits other people.
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  Now, when God answers and he's clear, then we move on.
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  That's a different discussion, right, show steadfastness in your requests even when answers
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  are not evident. Yeah, let's continue. Number three, intercede consistently for
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  individuals. The Bible reads and James chapter five and verse sixteen, the effectual
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  fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Have you been fervent in your
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  praying? Have you been effectual in your praying? The effectual fervent prayer of
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  a righteous man availeth much. Pray consistently and specifically for individuals you've interacted with
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  and you've ministered to, asking God to work in their hearts and their situations,
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  and of course, draw inspiration from Jesus's intercessory role. Who is it
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  that condemneth? The Bible asks, is it Christ that died? Yea rather
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  that is risen again? Who is even at the right hand of God who
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  also maketh intercession for us? From the Book of Romance, Chapter eight,
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  verse thirty four. Knowing that Jesus is there interceding on the behalf of us,
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  He's there also intervening in the affairs of people who do not know or
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  love God, then that should inspire us to act. Inspire us to act,
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  except now the spirit of Abraham's type of praying every wonderful day. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great
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  day. Yeah,