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03 23 2024 Wait on the Lord · 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 Sabbath, March twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Book of Psalms. This is our final week, can you imagine. Yes.
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  Our caption for today is wait on the Lord. Eight on the Lord.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome to you and happy Sabbath to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  that community. This is one of the ways that we can continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and
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  for the privilege we have to open up your word again. Please, Father,
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  in these sacred hours, give us the ability, give us the determination
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  to be patient with you and listen to you and wait on you. In
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  Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again, wait on the Lord.
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  Well. As I would have alluded to in my prayer, some of
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  us are just entirely too impatient. Can I say that just one more time.
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  Some of us are entirely too impatient. We want what we want,
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  and we want it now. And I understand like I am that way.
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  I would like to have whatever I want now. I don't know. I
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  don't know why we're like that, But you know, some things are better
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  when we wait for them. And sometimes people say good things come to those
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  who wait. Yes, And so let's go to a passage of script and
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  then I'll change it up just a little bit in a moment and see if
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  we can gain anything else. And so the Bible reads in the Book of
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  Psalms, chapter twenty seven and verse fourteen, wait on the Lord, be
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  of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say
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  on the Lord. Verse twenty four of Psalms chapter thirty one says, be
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  of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. All ye that hope,
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  Or you could say, wait on the Lord now. In the Adventists
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  Bible commentary on Psalm chapter twenty seven, it says, in verse about verse
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  fourteen, wait on the Lord. The psalmist is primarily exhorting himself. So
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  can I just say, for a moment, whenever I'm speaking to you.
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  Whenever any good preacher is speaking speaking to you or teaching, we should be
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  first applying it to ourselves. See, when I come to you, I
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  am actually speaking to me. So if I say that we are impatient or
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  you are impatient, I'm thinking about me. I'm thinking about me first.
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  So if I say wait on the Lord, because this is what the scripture
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  says, I am saying to me first that I need to wait on the
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  Lord. And so he's exhorting himself primarily, his stronger self is encouraging his
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  weaker nature not to despair. Isn't that a good thing? Isn't it good
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  that we can say, Lord, I need you to help me wait,
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  and then we encourage ourselves. I think the Bible says that we need to
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  encourage ourselves at some times. Yes, wait on the Lord because some of
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  us are impatient. Now let me just say, also, if I were
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  to change the spelling in English from waiit to w eight, what would that
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  bring to your mind? You? See, some of us are relying on
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  ourselves too much. Oh, I think we're getting somewhere. Some of us
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  are relying upon our own understanding instead of in all of our ways acknowledging him
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  so that he can direct our paths. We want our own paths to be
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  directed by ourselves. Yeah, sometimes when we are in a rush and we
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  are not willing to waiit on the Lord, then our burdens get heavier because
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  we take on more trials than we need to. We manufacture problems, we
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  manufacture weaknesses and limitations in our spiritual journeys with God. And so when God
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  says that we need to wait on him, he's also saying that we need
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  to stop trusting ourselves and we need to learn to rely on God. Put
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  your weight, put all of your burdens on the Lord. Now, the
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  liston writer says, we have all. We have reached the final week in
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  this quarter's study of the Book of Psalms, the spiritual journey has taken us
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  through the experience of awe before the majestic Creator, King and judge, through
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  the joys of divine deliverance. Have you ever been delivered from anything? Brothers
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  and sisters, can you say with other people around the world that God has
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  delivered you from smoking or drinking, from gossiping. God has delivered you from
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  your enemies, people who have not meant you well, whether they are in
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  your family or outside, whether they are sitting in the bench next to you
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  in a church setting, or whether they're in a taxi cab somewhere anywhere in
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  your particular country. Has God ever delivered you from somebody who thought that they
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  were going to harm you, or even tried and did harm you, But
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  it didn't go as far as they had hoped, because God delivered you.
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  Hmm. So it says, through the joys of divine deliverance forgiveness, have
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  you been forgiven by God? Let me ask you another way? Having been
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  forgiven by God, did you also forgive others? Since God, for Christ's
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  sake has forgiven you? And continuing and salvation through moments of surrender in grief
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  and lament, and through the glorious promises of God's everlasting presence and the anticipation
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  of the unending universal worship of God. The journey continues, though, as
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  we live in the hope of the Lord's coming? Are you looking forward to
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  the coming of Christ? I can hear the song writer say, are you
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  ready for Jesus to come? Are you ready for Jesus to come? So
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  you can say one day this is our Lord? Are you ready for Jesus
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  to come. He's coming when our longing for God will find its ultimate fulfillment.
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  I get tired. I don't know if you do, but I get
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  tired of praying. Not because I'm tired of praying, but I'm tired of
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  not seeing God. I'm tired of imagining what he looks like. I'm tired
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  of imagining what his actual voice sounds like. Even when he does impress my
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  heart to where I know it is God communicating, I don't know what God's
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  actual voice sounds like. I'm tired of wondering what he looks like, how
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  he smells, what it would be like to walk with him and talk with
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  him. I'm tired of wanting to see him face to face. But right
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  now, though, nobody will see him and live and so we know that
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  we have to wait. Wait. But really and truly, I'm looking forward
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  to the day where I don't have to wait anymore. But we must wait.
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  We must wait, And it says here and through the glorious promises of
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  God's everlasting presence and the anticipation of the unending universal worship of God, the
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  journey contigues as we live in the hope of the Lord's coming, when our
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  longing for God will find its ultimate fulfillment. If there is a final word
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  that we can draw from the Psalms, it should be and he guesses,
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  brothers and sisters, wait hah, wait on the Lord. Now. Waiting
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  on the Lord is not an idle and desperate binding of one's time, biding
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  excuse me of one's time. Instead, waiting on the Lord is an act
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  of full trust and faith, a trust and faith revealed in action. If
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  you are putting your burdens on God, if you are a waiting God's guidance,
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  that means that you're not idle, brothers and sisters, but you are
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  actively revealing the faith that God has placed in your business. 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,