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03 22 2024 Turn it Around for God · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It
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  is Friday, March twenty two, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for this preparation day morning is turn it around for God.
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  Turn it around for God. How many times has God turned it in air
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  quotes around for you? Those challenges that you have been facing, Yes,
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  those things that you thought could never be overcome, temptations, trials, Huh.
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  Sometimes you've had challenges with people and you thought that maybe God couldn't turn
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  it around for you. Well he did. He did, and if he
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  has not, all you need to do is submit to him. And in
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  time that's God's time, not my time, not your time, not some
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  pastor or preacher's time. But in time he will turn it around in the
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  appropriate way for you. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for the privilege that we have to open up your word. Please fill
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  us with your Holy spirit, give us the opportunity in our minds to do
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  your will. Help us to love you and serve you with everything that we
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  have and everything that we are. Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  a men again. Turn it around for God. We're really talking about repentance.
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  It's not that we have something that we can give to God, like
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  something that can enrich him in some way. And so it's not like when
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  He turns it around for us. It is that we are turning ourselves around.
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  Yes, we are receiving through the Holy Spirit, repentance that is godly
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  sorrow for sin. And then we turn like we turn our shoulder and you
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  know your head and your shoulders kind of control what your balance will be.
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  And so when we are off balance with God, then we turn the shoulder
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  and make an about turn or write about turn, or an about face,
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  depending on where you are in the world. And so that's what we're talking
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  about today. Pray, brothers and sisters for true repentance. I'm not asking
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  you to do anything that I am not doing for myself. The Bible says
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  in Romans chapter two that repentance is a gift from God. Yes, and
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  there are some people who have spurned the gift, people who have decided that
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  they don't need to turn the shoulder, that they're just fine how they are.
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  But God has given us the privilege through the Holy Spirit, to see
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  our sin as it is, and then to turn the shoulder or turn away
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  from sin and toward God and also have the kind of godly sorrow for sin
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  that we see in the experience of King David in the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter fifty one. And so what I'm going to do now is begin reading
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  from the book Steps to Christ. And if you have been following me for
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  years, you have heard me say more than once that Steps to Christ is
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  my favorite book. Outside of the Bible. And now you will see partially
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  see why. And I begin reading at page twenty two. There are many
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  who fail to understand the true true nature of repentance. So we're not talking
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  about an intellectual pursuit, but spiritually we fail to understand. So many people
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  fail to understand. You don't have to continue that way though, continuing the
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  quote multitudes sorrow that they have sinned and even make an outward reformation because they
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  fear that they're wrongdoing will bring suffering upon themselves. So this is sort of
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  a self focused behavior change. I just need that to settle in. That
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  is a self focused behavior change. That's not what God is after, Okay,
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  but this is not the repentance in the Bible verse. They lament the
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  suffering rather than the sin. That's why brothers and sisters, Matt pause right
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  here. This is why I say that we need to be praying for repentance,
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  pray for the gift of God that is called repentance, because we he
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  can't generates godly sorrow for sin. We can't appropriately evaluate in our own minds
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  what godly sorrow feels like or is like. And so that's why we need
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  we need this gift, and the Bible I mean. And this quote continues,
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  such as the grief of Esau when he saw that the birthright was lost
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  to him forever. Balem, terrified by the angel standing in his pathway with
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  the drawn sword, acknowledged his guilt lest he should lose his life. But
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  there was no genuine repentance for sin, no conversion of purpose, no adberance
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  of evil. Ah Judas Iscariot, after betraying his lord, exclaimed, and
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  here we go. He has the right words. But here we go.
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  I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. That's coming from
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  the Book of Matthew, chapter twenty seven and verse four HM. Now from
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  the Book Prophets and King's page fifty. This is good stuff, y'all.
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  Although God dwells not in temples made with hands, yet he honors with his
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  presence the assemblies of his people. So the Bible says that we should not
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  forsake the assembling of ourselves together with other people, like, like minded people
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  who are seeking to worship and to serve God, as the manner of some
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  is like, we should we should come together, come together for a true
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  worship of God. But he honors us with his presence. Right, continuing
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  the quote, he has promised that when they come together to seek Him,
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  to acknowledge their sins, and to pray for one another, he will meet
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  with them by his spirit. So, brothers and sisters, are there times
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  that you neglect to come together with God's people because maybe you have been church
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  hurt? Oh well, wait a minute, I can't nor I can't just
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  blurt that out because I've been church hurt. Many of you have been church
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  hurt. And you can think of people who sat in the bench next to
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  you. Maybe God forbid, there are people who were supposed to be leading
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  you and something went terribly wrong, and now you blame God for what humans
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  have done. One of the things that my pastor my pastor, and I
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  call him my pastor. He's the one who baptized me. He's the one
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  who who ordained me in the eldership. He's the one that gave Simona and
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  I our premarital counseling and so much more. Pastor Henry Monroe, Right,
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  he used to say the problem with God's people is God's people. Yeah,
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  the problem with God's people is God's people. It's it's not God like.
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  We make mistakes and we behave in ways toward one another that is displeasing to
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  God. And then God gets the blame because because we're supposed to be representing
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  God. But really God is not to blame. We are to blame.
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  And so all of us need repentance. All of us need repentance, we
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  need reformation, We need reformation, yes, revival and reformation. But this
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  continues, the quote continues. Let's see, unless they worship him in spirit
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  and in truth and the beauty of holiness, they're coming together will be of
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  no avail of such. The Lord declares this, people draweth nigh unto me
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  with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips, with their heart is
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  far from me. Those who worship God must worship him in spirit and in
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  truth, or the Father seeketh such to worship him. That's the end of
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  the quote from the book Prophets and King's page fifty. And so, really,
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  what is our action item for today? Our action item for today again
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  is to pray for repentance. We need to be seeking God. It is
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  our privilege to be seeking God and saying God. I know that there are
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  times in my life that I have not done what you would have me to
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  do. I realize that I have not served you with my entire life,
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  my entire heart. Maybe you have even hurt other people. Maybe Ah,
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  But God, will you please give me the mind that loves you, that
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  loves your will, that is not afraid of some kind of spiritual reprisals.
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  But really, all I want is to serve you because I love you.
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  Would you give me godly sorrow for sin? Lord? Would you give me
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  the ability to turn the shoulder and do what you would have me to do.
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  This is our way to turn it around for God. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,