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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, December twelve,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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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

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study series themes in the Gospel of John, and our

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caption for today is the Prayer of Jesus. The Prayer

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of Jesus. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you, and

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for

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the very first time. I'm asking you to go over

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where you are in the world at your Daily Portion

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. I want to say

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a great, big, happy birthday. My son does not watch

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me on YouTube much, but I just want to say

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a great, big, happy birthday to our one and only son, Josiah.

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So if you see him somewhere, yes, he's gonna be like,

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why did Daddy do this? If you see him somewhere,

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just tell him happy birthday. And of course, my good, good,

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good friend Sean, it is his birthday today as well.

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I just thank God for what he is doing in

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the life of our young man Josiah, because without God,

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Josiah would not be here. We thank God. Make it

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a great make it a great study. Let's go ahead

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and pray and get underway. Father, we thank you for

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giving us the opportunity to open up your word and

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to see what you have to say. I pray that

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we will learn from Jesus's ministry how to connect with

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you and how to do your will. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again the prayer of Jesus.

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Now we see Jesus praying a lot in the scriptures.

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We see him going taking himself aside, going to a

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solitary place, a great while before day, maybe like this time,

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like where you are. It may not be as early

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as it is where I am, but a great while

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before day. And then he there. We see that he

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was praying, and his disciples came to him and said,

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teach us how to pray, like John taught his disciples.

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We see that when one of his disciples was really

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getting beside himself and he was being proud, Jesus said,

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I have prayed for you. The devil has asked to

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have you, but I have prayed for you that your

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faith fail you not. And so we see that Jesus

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as he lived on planet Earth, was a model of prayer.

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And I'm grateful because that lets me know. If Jesus

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prayed and he got the results that he did, connecting

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with God our Father in the way that he did,

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then that is a blessing that I too can benefit from.

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And so the lesson writer says Jesus would soon be

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leaving this earth. He desired to share once again his

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love for his disciples. He wanted them to understand the

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close relationship between him self and the Father and the

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Holy Spirit. Did you get that? Yep? And he wanted

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to bring them into the same personal relationship with God,

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the Father, and the Spirit that he also had. Okay,

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so we have that very clear. One of the prayers, though,

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that we must never forget, is what is called by

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some of us, the high priestly or mediatorial prayer that

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is recorded in John chapter seventeen, John chapter seventeen. And

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I want to share a few points. Actually, let me

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read some of the prayer and I'll share a few points,

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because really it's twenty six verses long. I won't be

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reading all of that, but I'll read some of the prayer,

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and then I'll give a few points as well. And

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so the Bible reads in verse one from verse one,

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these words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven,

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and said, So he's praying with his eyes lifted toward heaven.

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I think Solomon is recorded as having his eyes lifted

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toward heaven and his hands spread toward God as he

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prayed and dedicated the temple to God. I wish I

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had the time to deal with what we just saw there.

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But anyway, it says Father, the hour is come. Glorify

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thy son, that thy son also may glorify Thee, as

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thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he

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should give eternal life to as many as thou hast

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given him. You see the heart of Jesus for the

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people of God, Yes, and this is the life eternal,

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that they might know THEE, the only true God, and

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Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. He wants us to

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know God. He wants us to know God our Father,

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in the same way that Jesus himself knew God knows

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God our Father. I have glorified Thee in the earth.

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I have finished the work which thou hast given me

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to do. And now, O, Holy Father, glorify thou me

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with thine own self, with the glory which I had

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with THEE. Before the world was You imagine Jesus was

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living on planet Earth. His own received him not, and

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only people by faith could see who Jesus was, so

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that they could be transformed by him. Jesus is longing

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to be back in the fullness of the form that

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he was before he took on human flesh, to be

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the brightness in a way that is unapproachable. Like as

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he was in Mount Horreb, and he told Moses, there

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shall no man see me and live. I said, when

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Jesus was in Mount Horeb, Mount SINAI, he said, I

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know what I just said. He said, no man shall

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see me and live. And he covered Moses's his eyes,

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and he hid him in a cleft of the rock,

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and he himself he caused his glory to pass by Moses.

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As Moses was in the hiding place of God, and

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he began to announce the glory. He began to announce

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the character of God. And yeah, so Jesus is longing

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to be back in that space. I have manifested thy

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name verse six, unto the men which thou gavest to me,

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out of the world, Thine they are, and thou gavest

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them me, and they have kept thy word. Now they

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have known all the things whatsoever thou hast given me

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are of thee or I have given unto them the

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words which thou gavest me, and they have received them

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and have known surely that I came out from thee,

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and they have believed that Thou didst send me. One

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more verse, I pray for them. I pray not for

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the world, but for them which Thou gavest to me,

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for they are Thine and so much more. I want

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you to think about some of the highlights. Though the

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lesson writer wanted us to take a peek and say

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what words or phrases in this chapter expresses the desire

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of Jesus for a close relationship of love between himself,

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the Father, and his disciples. I will share just a

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few in the moments that we have here in verse

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twenty one oneness he wants he wants unity, unity among

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the people of God in the same way that he

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is unified with the Father. And I said, in the

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same way, I need you to get this, especially in

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twenty twenty four in the last days, there are people

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who say that we love God, who are unifying in

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air quotes, unifying on all sorts of foolishness, unifying and

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disrespecting the truths that God has given us in his word.

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Also that we can be unified. No, no, no, Jesus

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gave a very clear qualifier. He said, I want them

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to be one or unified, in the same way that

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we are unified. The Father, Son and Holy Ghosts are

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unified on truth, not lies, truth not error, Truth and

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holiness not dishonesty and unholiness. So if you're gonna unify

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brothers and sisters, unify on that basis and that basis alone.

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I wish I had the time also a revelation of God.

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I made known your name to them, and I will

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continue to make it known. God wants us to make

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known his name and the earth in the same way

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that Jesus did as well. Make it a great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,