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03 03 2024 The Lord's Unstoppable Faithfulness · 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
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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 Sunday, March three, 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. Our caption for today is the Lord's Unstoppable Faithfulness. The Lord's
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  Unstoppable Faithfulness. I love this subject. I love it. I love it.
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  I love it. We'll get into it in just a moment, but
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
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  for this day and for giving us a new week, a work week that
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  we can honor you. And I pray God now that we will appreciate and
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  live according to the principles of your character because of your unstoppable faithfulness in our
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  lives. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men again, the
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  Lord's unstoppable faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness? That is what comes to my
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  mind that blessed him number one hundred in our faith communities him. No,
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  great is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my father. And it actually follows
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  the discussion of the one who wrote in Lamentations, Thy your mercies are ever
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  lasting, like they fail, not great is thy faithfulness. They're new every
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  morning. Do you get up in the morning and just talk to God about
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  his faithful Listen, say, God, You've been so faithful to me.
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  You have delivered me from trials of the past. Even though I have some
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  trials today, I have seen where you have delivered me in the past.
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  Even though I have pains today and difficulties today, I've seen how You've delivered
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  me from these different difficulties and different trials over the years that I've been alive.
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  I've seen your your mighty works and your excellent greatness in my life and
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  the lives of others. And so when I am down, I know I
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  can ask myself, like David, why art thou cast down? Oh my
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  soul hope in God. God has been good. So this is what we
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  want to do. We want to look at the faithfulness of God and how
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  he is, he is, he is in he is. I want to
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  use a right word, because we're talking about God. He is uncompromising with
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  his faithfulness. Let me just say, let's go ahead into the Bible now.
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  The Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one, US, chapter seventy eight,
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  and verse fifty four. The Bible says, He performed awesome deeds and
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  acts of judgment in your midst Ah, in your midstough Egypt, against Pharaoh
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  and all of his servants, all of his servants. We quoted this the
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  other day, but today we're looking at it from the perspective that we recognize
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  his faithfulness and deliverance. He's faithful, and he delivered his people, even
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  though he knew that his people would be stiff necked. He knew that his
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  people would murmur once they crossed over the Red Sea and we're in the wilderness
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  now, and God had swallowed up all of their enemies in the Red Sea.
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  They would say, would did you come out? Did you bring us
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  out here to die in the wilderness? Would to God that we would be
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  back in Egypt. And it's like, wait a minute, you mean where
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  you were a slave and you were oppressed, do you mean that when we
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  were talking about delivering you, when God was talking about delivering you, the
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  Pharaoh and his people put more burdens on you. You mean that place,
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  Yep, that place. God knew that they would be this way, and
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  yet he still performed awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your midst yes against
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  Pharaoh and all of his servants. He still delivered his people. Unbelievable.
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  Remember his unstoppable faithfulness. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. To verse
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  fifty five and the Bible reads, he drove the nations out from before them.
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  He assigned them their tribal allotments, and settled the tribes of Israel in
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  their homes. The people who would not repent, the people who got in
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  the way of God and his movements, the people who stood up against God's
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  people instead of yielding, as God would have given every nation around the opportunity
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  to become his people. But they chose to go against God and to be
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  God's enemies. Let's see they God gave his people all of the places that
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  he promised Abraham he would give them. He he wants us to learn from
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  the conquest of Canaan, the settlement in Canaan. God shows his guidance in
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  giving Israel, God's people a homeland despite their unfaithfulness. I am not telling
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  you these things in order to give you permission or to give me permission to
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  be unfaithful and say, well, God is going to do great things regardless
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  of my faithfulness or unfaithfulness, So it doesn't really matter. I'm just gonna
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  live my life a certain way because you know, I'll eat, drink and
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  be merry because tomorrow we die. No no, no no no no no
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  no no no no no no. There's so much more, but we're not
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  going to talk about this so much more. We're just showing that because of
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  God's great love, he is faithful even when we are unfaithful. What that
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  means in our lives individually is another study. Okay, And so we go
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  now down to verse seventy. The Bible reads, he chose David his servant
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  and took him from the sheep fold. Acknowledge God's sovereignty in leadership. God
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  does some things that just don't make sense, like what you're going to choose
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  a shepherd boy has one of the arguably the best kings that God's people have
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  ever seen. Yep, you mean you're going to You're you're going to give
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  him that kind of authority and power. Yeah, even though you know what
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  he's going to do with Bethsheba and what he's going to do to your yah.
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  Yep, that's exactly right. And then he's going to be the standard
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  of kings. Yep. So when Josiah at age eight becomes a king,
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  it says that he will he did not look to the left nor to the
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  right, but he was faithful, he was holy, just like his father
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  David. Wait a minute, what but David was not Wait a minute,
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  Yeah, well, David knew how to repent. Read Psalm fifty one.
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  David knew how to run after the heart of God. You see in his
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  whole lifestyle how he ran after the heart of God even after he made mistakes.
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  Yes, and so I'm thankful that God is sovereign in his leadership,
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  like he puts people in position in a way that we don't understand, and
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  it is not our business. We just say thank God for being kind enough
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  to set people in position to accomplish his will. Okay, and we're going
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  to go against forgetfulness here in verse forty two of Psalm chapter seventy eight.
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  The Bible reads, they did not keep in mind his power talking about the
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  same people that God delivered Ah, the same people that he was faithful toward.
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  It says here they did not keep in mind his power or the day
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  when He redeemed them from the enemy. So we need to be aware.
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  I said yesterday. I think it was that we have no need to fear
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  for the future except we forget what God has done for us in the past.
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  So we need to be aware of forgetting God's deeds. God's people and
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  their forgetfulness of God's wonders is a warning against spiritual amnesia. Can I just
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  say that again? It is a warning against spiritual amnesia. Yes, And
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  one more passage before we go today, from the book of Psalm chapter seventy
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  eight, verse sixty two. God rejected them and delivered them over to destruction
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  because they rebelled against his command. So listen, do not choose to say
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  that God is faithful no matter what. And so I can live just any
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  old kind of way. There is futility. There is unholiness in delaying our
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  obedience to God, because that is disobedience. God's faithfulness is unstoppable, but
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  he is not to be played with. Of a wonderful thing. Thanks for
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  joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,