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02 04 2024 The Majestic Warrior · 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, February four, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is the Majestic Warrior. The Majestic Warrior.
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  Get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book and let
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  us know where you are in the world. They're in that little site,
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  your Daily Portion dot com. This is how we will continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  the privilege that we have to open up your word. I pray that you
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  will fill us with your holy spirit. Teach us how to serve you,
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  teach us how to do your will, and reveal yourself as the majestic warrior
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  in our lives. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men.
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  Again. I'm going to jump in before I get into the other passage that
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  I'd like to read. I'm going to jump into the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter eighteen, and I'll read verses three through fifteen, and the Bible reads
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  the Lord thundered from heaven, and the most high uttered his voice, hailstones
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  and calls of fire. He sent out his arrows and scattered the foe lightnings
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  in abundance. He vanquished them. Then the channels of the sea were seen,
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  the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O Lord,
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  and the blast of breath from your nostrils, And so the lesson writer aptly
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  put it this way, The sheer determination and magnitude of God's action should disperse
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  any doubt about God's great care and compassion for the sufferers, or about his
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  ability to defeat evil. He we just need to wait for him to do
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  it. Now we see there are times that God is in the person of
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  Jesus. Christ is represented as a lamb, a meek and lowly one.
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  But listen, Jesus is also seen in the Bible as the lion of the
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  mighty tribe of Judah, the captain of the Lord's hosts, right, the
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  commander of the Lord's armies. He's the one who is able to destroy wickedness
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  with just a thought. And so we need to get into our minds that
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  God teaches that he is who we need him to be at the time that
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  we need him to be. In the Psalms, King David, who was
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  known as a successful warrior, assumes his role as a skilled musician and praise
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  as the Lord as the only deliverer and sustainer of his people. Praise and
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  prayer to the Lord are David's sources of strength, which are more powerful than
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  any weapon of war. God alone is to be trusted and worshiped. Let's
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  go ahead into the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy that's the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter seventy six, and we will read beginning at verse three, and
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  the Bible reads there break heed the arrows of the bow, the shield and
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  the sword, and the battle sillah, Thou art more glorious and excellent than
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  the mountains of prey. Thus stouthearted are spoiled. They have slept their sleep,
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  and none of the men might have found their hands at thy rebuke,
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  o, God of Jacob. Both the chariot and the horse are cast into
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  a deep sleep. Thou even thou art to be feared, and who may
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  stand in thy sight? When once thou art angry, thou didst cause judgment
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  to be heard from heaven. The earth feared and was still when God arose
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  to judgment to save all the meek of the earth. And let me just
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  read verse twelve. He shall cut off the spirit of princes. He is
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  terrible to the kings of the earth. You see, we see a picture
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  of God and earthly kings. In contrast in the Book of Daniel chapter eleven,
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  chapters eleven and twelve right, and in other parts. Like in Daniel
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  chapter two, we see we see earthly kingdoms and God's kingdom. In contrast,
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  kingdoms stand up. Babylon it stood up like in strength. It stood
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  up, and then and then it it had to sit down, right and
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  then and then Meto Persia had to had stood up, and and then it
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  has to sit down. In Grecia it it stood up, and then it
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  had to sit down. And then and then the Western Roman Empire it stood
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  up, and then it had to sit down. And then Papal Rome had
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  to stand up and then and then sit down. And of course we see
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  the divisions of Western Rome. Uh even today we see much of what that
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  is in terms of modern Europe. And we see that even though these nations
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  stand up and try to stand together, they cannot adhere, like they cannot
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  come together as a united front in the way that maybe they had intended.
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  All kingdoms, all earthly kingdoms, they stand up, and then they must
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  sit down. And then we see in again Daniel chapter eleven, we see
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  all kinds of alliances and marriages and interesting ways that humans try to engineer power
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  on planet Earth. And those kingdoms they stand up, and then they must
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  sit down and then the Bible says in Daniel chapter twelve that Michael, whom
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  we know and understand to be Jesus, one who is what God is.
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  Jesus, he stands up, and then the Bible says that he stands up
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  for his people. He stands up for his people. Let's call him in
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  this case the same as this majestic warrior, where God is seen as the
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  one who stands against his foe, the devil, and everything that would try
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  to subjugate God's people, whether it be disease, whether it be your bad
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  finances, whether it be actual earthly kingdoms, whether it be some oppressor,
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  even your mindset. If you will yield your will to God, he can
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  give you a new mindset. But this majestic warrior, Jesus Christ, he
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  stands up, and the only time you see him sit down after this is
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  when he sits down on the throne of the universe. Finally, he will
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  be enthroned in a way that the entire universe will see him as King of
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  kings and Lord of lords. No more trials, no more tribulations for the
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  people of God. For those who have chosen to submit their wills to God,
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  there is power and so really and truly the question is on whose side
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  do you find yourself when you're experiencing doubt. Do you side with the war
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  who God is and then just follow his commands, or do you follow the
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  mindset that you are in at the moment when your money is shorter than the
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  month and you are trying to decide whether to do something dishonest or to continue
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  with your faith. Do you choose the warrior who God is or do you
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  choose something else a temptation? That is the question. And so as we
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  read through the Book of Psalms, chapter eighteen seventy six and one hundred and
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  forty four, these hymns of praise to the Lord for his awesome power over
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  the evil forces that threaten his people come to the surface, They come to
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  the forefront. They portray God and his Majesty as warrior and judge. You
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  see, sometimes nations, when they are angry and they have wars, they
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  are unjust. And I say that again nations sometimes when they are angry and
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  they have wars, they are not always just. But the Bible shows here
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  that when God is seen as the warrior, he is also seen as judge
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  and justice. In the Bible, and righteousness almost always are synonymous. The
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  image of God as warrior is frequent in the psalms and highlights the severity and
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  urgency of God's response to his people's cries and suffering. So if you are
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  suffering under the hand of any oppressor, you continue to cry out to God
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  and the majestic Warrior will stand up for you and then vanquish the enemy.
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  Have a wonderful day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with l David
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  Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,