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03 24 2024 The Call of Waiting · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's 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 to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Sunday, March twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Psalms. This is our final week. Can you imagine. Our caption
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  for today is the Call of Waiting. The Call of Waiting. We'll get
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  into that in just a moment. Before we do, I'd like to just
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  say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com join our online community there, make sure you answer the two questions
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  so that the system doesn't kick you out. And also pick up the Your
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  Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and
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  for giving us the opportunity to connect with you and with your people. Please
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  teach us how to wait. Teach us how to wait in Jesus name.
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so yes, we covered
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  a little bit of what my mindset is about waiting on the Lord, straight
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  from the scriptures, and I gave you another thought process besides wai t,
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  putting our w ei ghd he on the Lord is a posture. It is
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  a lifestyle of trust, putting our weight on the Lord. Now from the
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  lesson writer, perhaps one of the greatest stresses in life is the stress of
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  waiting. Mm hmm. No matter who we are, where we live,
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  what our station in life is, we all at times must wait for things.
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  I can attest to that, from waiting in line in a store to
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  waiting to hear a medical prognosis. We wait, which we don't always like
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  doing. Mm hmm. Okay, and so the immature believer. This is
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  what I thought when I read that paragraph. The immature believer trusting God without
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  knowing God's details and timelines. Okay, So when we're waiting on God,
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  we are awaiting whatever it is that He has for us, whatever his instructions
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  are, his guidance. We're in a trial, we're having difficulties, yes,
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  or we're just waiting for an answer from God. King Saul was waiting
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  for an answer from God, but because he lived a life contrary to God's
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  will, he waited in vain. But God's people, God's people, have
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  to stop being immature. When we get impatient, we need to really consider.
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  God has everything under control. He knows exactly what he's doing, and
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  so all we need to do is wait for God to say or do what
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  is best, rather than to become antsy and impatient, because when we become
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  impatient, we make poor decisions. Yes, okay, so let's go and
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  read a few passages, a couple of which we have already read, but
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  let's read them again. From the Book of Psalms, Chapter twenty seven,
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  Verse fourteen. Wait on the Lord be of good courage, and he shall
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  strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. Okay now from
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  thirty seven verses nine and thirty four. For evil doers shall be cut off,
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  and those who wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
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  Now we see a contrast between people who don't love God and people who do.
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  The people who don't love God and who will not choose to love God,
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  those people will be cut off. They will be put out of their
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  misery. They will nobody is forced to have a right relationship with God.
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  Nobody is forced to live eternally. They will be cut off. But those
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  who wait upon the Lord, wait on him for what everything. We trust
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  God for everything, we will inherit the new Earth. You see, the
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  earth as it is is not our final home. Heaven is not our home.
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  And I know, I know, I just confuse somebody's brain. You
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  said, wait a minute, Heaven's not our home. No, I mean,
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  if you really read what the Bible says, beginning at Revelation chapter twenty,
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  we know that when Jesus comes, When Jesus comes, his people whoever
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  are actually choosing to be saved at the last. In the end, those
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  individuals will go to stay in heaven for a thousand years, and after the
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  thousand years are finished. The Bible teaches us, going into Revelation chapter twenty
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  one, and then in Matthew chapter five, that God is going to give
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  us the New Earth once it is cleansed, once all sin and sinners are
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  destroyed. God is going to give the meek the new Earth. The meek
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  will inherit the New Earth. Verse thirty four. Wait on the Lord and
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  keep his way, and he shall exalt thee in to inherit the land.
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  When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. Okay, let's
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  go through to chapter thirty nine, verses seven and eight. Now, Lord,
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  what wait I for? My hope is in you. Deliver me from
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  all my transgressions. Make me not the reproach of the foolish. So part
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  of waiting on the Lord, part of being among God's people, his children,
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  is for us to be delivered from our transgressions and sins and iniquity.
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  So many big words to talk about being separated from God. Sometimes people us
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  sin, knowing full well that we're sinning God forbid. But that's what happens.
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  Yes, there are people who sin ignorantly, but the fact is we
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  all need to repent. We all need to turn the shoulder, we need
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  to turn away. I think it was on March fifth that we talked about
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  repentance. Yes, and so God wants us to be delivered. He wants
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  to deliver us from our transgressions. And that is a part of waiting on
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  the Lord. Okay Verse one of Psalm chapter forty. I waited patiently for
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  the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. So what
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  is one of what is one of the responses that come from God? When
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  we wait on God, he will listen to us. And when he listens
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  to and hears us, that means he delivers us. Remember we sing that
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  song sometimes, so if you want to call it a song, here our
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  prayer, Oh Lord, here our prayer. O Lord, incline thine ear
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  to us, and grant us thy peace. So when we wait on the
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  Lord and he hears us, he will give us his peace. In verse
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  six of Psalm chapter Psalm chapter sixty nine, the Bible reads, let not
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  them that wait on Thee, O, Lord, God of Hosts, be
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  ashamed for thy sake. Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my
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  sake, Oh God of Israel. So God, please please let it be
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  that when people see what you will do after we have waited on you,
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  that they'll say, oh, yes, he is a good God. Oh,
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  they will see that it was not in vain that we waited. Let
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  me read it in another version, the New English translation, Let none who
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  rely on you be disgraced because of me, Oh, sovereign Lord of Heaven's
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  armies. Let none who seek you be ashamed because of me, Oh,
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  God of Israel. Of course that had a specific, a specific application.
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  But the point in this case is when we wait on God, we will
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  not be ashamed. We will not be ashamed. And I know what I
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  just read. But we read in other passages that the people we should holy
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  people don't want God to be spoken badly of, and that we will be
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  ashamed when we serve him. Okay, Waiting on the Lord is more than
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  just hanging on. According to the lesson writer, it is a deep longing
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  for God that is compared to intense First in our dry land, the Psalmist
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  waits on many blessings from God, but his yearning to be brought close to
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  his God surpasses any desire and need in life. Wow, we look forward
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  to the coming of Jesus Christ. Why because this earth is not really working
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  out the way that it is, and we wait like a mother who is
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  about to give birth, that even the earth is yearning for the day that
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  Jesus Christ comes. Are you waiting for Jesus to come? Wait patiently on
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  the Lord. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,