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01 08 2024 Trust in Times of Trouble · 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 Monday, January eighth, twenty twenty three. Hello, I
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  keep saying twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello. My name is Elle
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  David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where
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  we give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our new Lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is trust in Times of Trouble? Can I say
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  it again, Trust in times of trouble. We're talking about trusting in God
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  and we're not going to just talk about it. We need to live that
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  reality where no matter what happens in our lives, we have so positioned the
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  God into our mindset that we trust him with all our hearts. We don't
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  lean to our own understanding. In all our ways. We acknowledge him because
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  we know that he will direct our paths. Yeah, at minimum, he
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  will direct our pathway. So let's go ahead and pray and then just jump
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  right in. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for getting us thus far in this new year. Thank you for loving
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  us and protecting us even during times of trouble. Least teach us not to
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  be fair weather friends of God. But literally, in all things we give
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  thanks because that is your will concerning us. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. Trust in times of trouble. Really, at
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  all times, can I just say that I wrote that in my notes so
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  I wouldn't forget it, Like, at all times, at all times,
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  we are to trust God. It is our privilege to trust him. Have
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  you ever been in a situation where you could not see where God was leading?
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  And then after some time it could be months, it could be weeks,
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  It could be days, It could be moments. In a moment of
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  emergency, it could be years. In my case, I've seen several instances
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  where it took years for me to see some of what God was really doing
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  in my life when he allowed those troubles to pass through his filter and then
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  hit my life. Why because he was after something in my character. He
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  was after something in using my situation to be of assistance to others. And
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  I am not unique. Everyone under the sound of my voice or those who
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  are not able to to hear, but you're reading and close caption for the
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  hearing impaired you too. God is using in order to glorify himself and to
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  edify you, because why he wants you to be saved. He wants you
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  to be saved. And so the question that I have for you as we
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  open up really this morning is when the going gets rough, what do you
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  do? What do you do? When times are rough, you don't understand
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  what God is doing, you are under due rest and fully understress negative stress,
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  that is, what do you do? I remember when I was a
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  twenty three year old actually was before then, like twenty two year old person
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  in the psych field, right, it was right before I was promoted.
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  I was direct care in the psych field in Maryland, right, And I
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  remember really begging God for more than three years to deliver me, deliver me
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  from the stress I was under based on things that were happening at work.
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  And you know, I prayed and prayed and prayed, went to prayer meetings,
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  different prayer meetings and asked the people to pray as well and put it
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  up on the prayer list. And people were praying get David out of this
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  situation. And then I spoke to my friend and mentor, Ralph. Ralph
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  may be old enough to be my dad, he may be, if so
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  barely. Anyway, he was my mentor, and I talked to him about
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  the situation, and he quietly said, now, Dave, be a good
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  soldier. God is with you. See, he didn't beg God to get
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  me out of the situation, right. He didn't give me those fanciful words
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  that say, well God has something better for you, right, that trouble
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  won't last all ways, and these are all good things sometimes, right.
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  But what he taught me was something that was even more critical that in the
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  moment of my stress, negative stress, and I was bound in my mind
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  to one thing, and that was to get out of it. He wanted
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  me to know that God is with you. When you pass through the waters,
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  He's with you. He will not allow those to overflow you. When
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  you are in the fires, he is with you. He will not allow
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  them to scorch or to burn you. You will be like those three young
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  men in those heat in the fiery furnace. The fire did not touch them,
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  neither was there any smell of smoke on them. And only that which
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  bound or binded them was burned. And that was those chords, you understand.
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  And so the question again, what do you do when times get rough?
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  Now, what I want you to do is read with me from the
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  Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter forty four and verse one.
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  And I have to be honest, Sister Glenda Molesey system Glenda Moseley comes
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  to my mind in this situation. I need you to hear this carefully.
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  We have heard with our ears, Oh God, our fathers have told us
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  what work thou didst in their days in the times of old. And what
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  I need you to do, Sister Mosley, I need you to do.
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  All of our brothers and sisters around the world has reflect on past deliverances.
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  Has God been good to you? I mean, this is really a rhetorical
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  question. I need you to type in the chat a great big yes.
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  Has he be good to Has He been good to you? If your name
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  was Job? Hmm. If your name was Job, could Job say yes,
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  God has been good to me? Of course he could say that and
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  it be true, because when Job was in his darkest day, it was
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  really that God was really God leading him through the paths of righteousness, you
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  see, and so reflect on past deliverances. It could be the times that
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  God delivered you from trials and tribulations, temptations right the threats of disease and
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  tempests outside where earthquakes and all kinds of other noxtws ntural disasters, or I
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  should say, unnatural disasters have threatened your life in the past, but you're
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  still here. So I need you to reflect on the past deliverances. You
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  are in a trial right now, a crucible in your life. Remember that
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  God has kept you in the past, and therefore His track record is good
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  with you, his resume, his curriculum. Vite. If you want to
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  say is good with you now? I want you to go with me to
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  verse twenty three of Psalm chapter forty four, and I want you to express
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  honest emotions in prayer. Do not make up stuff to make yourself feel better.
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  Do not take that name and enclaimant mentality that so many people have that
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  they dislike. Don't claim that. Brother. If you are sad, tell
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  God you're sad. If you're feeling dejected and rejected, tell God that be
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  honest with him and with you. Yes, and then and then submit all
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  of that. And the Bible reads, awake, why sleep ast thou,
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  Oh Lord? Rise? Cast us not off forever? And so the Psalmist
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  felt like God had forsaken him. And in case you are self righteous and
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  sanctimonious in nature overly religious, I need you to remember that Jesus, as
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  he was on the cross, he said, my God, my God,
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  why hast thou forsaken me? So, even Jesus, as he was living
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  on planet Earth in order to buy us, to purchase our pardon, he
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  felt in some moments that he had been forsaken. Of course, he was
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  not forsaken, but that was what he felt, and he was honest with
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  God, our father. It's important to be honest with God about our feelings,
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  not because God doesn't know, but because we need to be clear when
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  we confess. We confess we are really agreeing with what God says. So
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  if I feel that there is darkness and there is no darkness, then I
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  confess that God's way is the truth. Ah. When I say God,
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  you've forsaken me, and God has not forsaken me, I confess that what
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  he is saying is true and not what my feelings say. And here are
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  a few other things that we need to be doing. In verse twenty six,
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  seek God's redemption huh in verse six, cling to faith despite whatever circumstantire
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  in in verse four, acknowledge God's sovereignty and of course this is from Psalm's
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  chapter forty four. In Verse twenty two, foster community in lament like there
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  are people who are going through, but you all together can be delivered.
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  And then fifty nine and verse eight continual prayer for deliverance. That is key.
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  We thank God for trust in j thanks for joining us listening to friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el
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  David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,