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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 Wednesday, January
three, twenty twenty three. No,

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it's twenty four. Hello. My
name is El David Harris. I am

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your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word

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every single day, and today is
no exception. We are continuing in our

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new lesson study series through the Book
of Psalms, and our caption for today

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is inspired Prayers. Let me just
say that I always have a challenge.

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If you've been with me since about
twenty seventeen, you see, every time

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the year changes, I mix it
up and I get the date wrong,

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like what year is it? Anyway, I am so thankful that you are

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patient with me it is my brain, not my heart. And yes,

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so please go over when you have
an opportunity to your Daily Portion dot com

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join our online community. Also pick
up the Your Daily Portion book and let

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That is a way that we continue
excuse me to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and

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Heaven. Thank you for giving us
this new day and the blessing of this

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new year. Thank you for giving
us a window into the mindset of people

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who have surrendered to You, and
the fact that we can look about prayers

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in the scriptures. Please make us
holy in Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and a man again inspired prayers. Now we could say prayers like the

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activity of prayer when we open up
our hearts to God as to a friend.

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Or it could be prayers like people
who pray. Something to think about.

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Let's begin from the book of Second
Samuel, chapter twenty three as we

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begin our discussion today, verses one
and two Second Samuel, chapter twenty three,

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and I will read verses one and
two the Bible reads. Now these

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be the last words of David David, the son of Jesse, said,

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and the man who was raised up
on high, the anointed of God,

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of Jacob and the sweet Psalmist of
Israel said, the Spirit of the Lord

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spake unto me, and his word
was in my tongue. His word was

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in my tongue. One of the
things that we need to understand about prayer

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is, like I said a little
bit earlier, it is a connection.

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It is a dialogue between us and
God. I said, diea log,

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not monolog And so when the Spirit
of God spoke, he spoke to David.

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So if the spirit of God is
speaking to David, and David's lifestyle

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is one as a person who walks
with God, who speaks to God as

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to a friend, then that means
it's a two way street. You see

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where this is going. And so, as a young man said to a

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congregation of people many years ago,
I was there at the Sligo Church in

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Tacoma Park, Maryland, and the
young man said that there were so many

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of us who when we pray,
we say, and I want the people

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who are listening on the radio and
on podcasts to imagine the visuals Lord speak

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to me. And then okay,
and so in the silence that you heard

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there, I started to cover my
two ears with my hands. Speak to

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me, Lord. And yet my
posture, my attitude, my lifestyle,

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God forbid, is covering my ears. And so what God is saying to

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us here in this brother's story is
that we need to understand prayer as a

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divine and human dialogue. Let's read
from the Book of Romans, the Book

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of Romans, chapter eight, verses
twenty six and twenty seven, and the

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Bible reads likewise, the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities, for we know not

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what we should pray for as we
ought. But the Holy Spirit himself maketh

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intercession for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered. And he that searcheth the

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hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession of

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the saint for the saints, according
to the will of God. And so

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the Bible is teaching us that even
though it's a divine and human dialogue,

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the human side is broken. Have
you ever felt like you didn't know what

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to say to God? Or maybe
you feel like you do know what to

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say to God, but you're not
able to really hear or experience and understand

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what he is saying to you,
or maybe you believe and know that you're

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saying what you think is the right
thing, and then you wonder later like

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maybe maybe I should I should tweak
my prayers. The fact is that no

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matter where we come down in this
discussion, we literally don't know what to

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pray for. But the thing that
is so sweet about this is even though

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that is our reality, or since
that is our reality, God has not

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left us alone. He has positioned
us with the Holy Spirit, who is

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making all of this makes sense,
all of it, Matt, because he

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knows the will of God our Father. Like Jesus Christ, the Son has

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given everything he is, all of
heaven and one gift in order for our

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prayers to be accepted. Like he
is that sweet smelling savor that when the

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prayers of the saints as send to
God our Father, that those prayers become

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meaningful because He is our righteousness.
And so the Holy Spirit has not left

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us alone to come up with the
perfect right words. Of course, we

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do our best. We're not trying
to be disrespectful, right, but when

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we pray, we need to know
that the Holy Spirit is doing something very

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special in order for us to have
the things that matter to God, that

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glorify God and edify us. So
recognize the role of the Holy Spirit in

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prayer. Oh, the Bible teaches
us that the Holy Spirit intercedes on our

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behalf even when we struggle to find
the right words in prayer. The Bible

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also teaches us in the Psalms to
pray in all circumstances. In another place,

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it says, in everything give thanks. It is the will of God

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concerning us. Right. So when
we're giving thanks, we're speaking to God.

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We're opening up our hearts and our
minds and our mouths sometimes in praise

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and in conversation with God as to
a friend. And so we know that

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in that moment, God inhabits the
praises of his people. He inhabits the

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praises. So we have the presence
of God in our situations. And when

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we pray in all circumstances, yes, we have the presence of God in

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all of our circumstances. Also,
we can use the Psalms as a model

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for our prayers. Since Jesus himself
quoted the Psalms, we can use them

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as a model for our own prayers. Learning how to express our feelings,

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our desire, and our needs to
God. When we have needs, also

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find universal expression of the human experience. The psalms cross cultural, religious,

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and ethnic boundaries, providing a universal
language for expressing human experiences to God in

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prayer. You see, we're more
alike than we are different. We are

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more alike than we are different.
Sometimes people get that confused when God says

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that his word is going to go
to every nation, kindred tongue, tribe

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and people. It is because we
are more alike than we are different.

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We all have the same needs.
We have a need to eat and to

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drink. We have a need to
rest. We need relationship, We need

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to belong, we need to transcend
in the sense that we need a connection

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with our creator God. We all
are more alike than we are and so

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I thank God that we can find
these expressions. No matter what the languages

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were that the Bible was written in, no matter what cultures that the scriptures

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covered, we are more alike than
we are different. You know another way

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that we are alike. We all
have need for a savior, huh,

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not us savior Jesus Christ, the
one True and Living Son of God.

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We are thankful that He has given
us everything so that we can be saved,

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and that we are also alike in
the sense that God loved us so

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much that he gave us again heaven, all of heaven in one gift,

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so much we can learn from these
and sprited prayers and pray IRGs in scripture.

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Have a wonderful day, Peep,
thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with El

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David Harris. Make it a great
day. Yeah,