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01 20 2024 The Lord Hears and Delivers · 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, January twenty 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 we are beginning lesson number four under the caption the Lord hears
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  and Delivers, The Lord hears and Delivers. We'll get into that in just
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  a moment, but first I'd like to ask you to please go over to
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  let us know on that platform where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Portion dot com. It is a way that we continue to build faith and
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  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 the
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  privilege you have entrusted to us today to serve you. I am asking you,
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  now, Lord, to please teach us that you hear and you answer
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  our prayers. Please teach us to serve you with everything that we are in
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  Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The Lord hears and
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  he delivers. The question is do you believe it? Yeah, that's the
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  beginning of our discussion today. Do you believe it that God hears and he
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  delivers. We're going to begin by reading from the Book of Psalms. That's
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter thirty four, and I will read verses seventeen
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  through nineteen. That's the Book of Psalms, chapter thirty four, and I
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  will read beginning at verse seventeen, the Bible reads the righteous cry. The
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  question is are you righteous? Brother? Are you righteous? My sister?
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  Are you one of God's righteous people? Because you're great on your own,
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  but because you are accepting the righteousness of Christ in your life, you agree
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  with God, you're submitting your will to God. If that is the case,
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  the Bible is saying to us that the righteous cry, and the Lord
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  he heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Can I just say,
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  just for a moment right here, that for God to hear and to
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  act, or to hear and to do our simultaneous are not simultaneous synonymous.
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  To hear and to do are synonymous. So when God is hearing, that
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  means that he's doing something. In this case, he is delivering them out
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  of their troubles. Who's he delivering the righteous? The righteous who cry?
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  Verse eighteen, The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.
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  Have you ever had a broken heart? Brothers and sisters, have you
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  ever been so sad that you had a palpable feeling of pain and agony through
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  trials and tribulations. That's one of the ways that our hearts are broken.
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  But also there is a brokenness that says, you know what, I realized
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  that even my own righteousnesses are as filthy rags, Even the great things that
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  I do are woefully inadequate. And therefore I will yield myself to God that
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  kind of broken heart. And the Bible says, and He saveth such as
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  be of a contrite spirit. Have you ever needed to be saved? I
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  saved from sin. I was sinking deep in sin. Remember that song far
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  from the peaceful show, a very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no
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  more. And then the Master of the sea he heard my despairing cry,
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  and from the waters he lifted me. Now safe am a God lifted me.
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  Love lifted me when nothing else could help. Love lifted me. And
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  it's a wonderful thing to know that God is love verse nineteen. Many are
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  the afflictions of the righteous. We go through things, brothers and sisters,
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  but the Lord delivereth them out of them all. I'm going to read something
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  very similar from the Book of Psalms, chapter one five, beginning at verse
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  eighteen. The Lord is nigh unto them that call upon him, to all
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  that call upon him. In truth, he will fulfill the desire of them
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  that fear him. Do you respect God? He also will hear their cry.
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  Remember, when God hears, he does something. When we hear the
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  voice of God, the expectation is that we will do something. He will
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  hear their cry and will save them. My mouth Verse twenty one shall speak
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  the praise of the Lord and He and let all flesh bless His holy name
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  forever and ever. I want to go back to verse nineteen. He will
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  fulfill the desire of them that fear him to fulfill. The desire means that
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  holy hearts will desire only that which is holy. So God has no problem
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  fulfilling such desay. He does not promise to grant the desire of the sinner,
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  Huh, it will not be wise for him to do so. And
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  so you have heard in other places that God answers prayers, and he does.
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  He answers prayers, he delivers. He hears from people, especially who
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  are submitted to him. So it's a wonderful thing to know that the Lord
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  he hears and he delivers. Now, let me ask you again, do
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  you believe that? Do you believe that God inclines his ear to you?
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  Remember that song hear our prayer? O Lord, hear that hear our prayer.
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  O Lord, incline thine ear to us. So we have the hearing,
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  and grant now we have the doing. Grant us your peace. When
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  God hears he does. When God hears from his children, he acts and
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  he delivers. What a mighty God. And so I'm going to read write
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  from the Lesson Study, because something interesting comes up in the first paragraph.
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  Again and again, the psalms highlight the truth that the sovereign Lord who created
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  and sustains the universe also reveals himself as a personal God who initiates and sustains
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  a relationship with his people. Did you get that God initiates, The personal
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  God who cares about the affairs of human beings, initiates and sustains a relationship
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  with his people. So even though he is sovereign, even though he is
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  all powerful, all knowing, blessed be his name, he is near.
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  And then again the writer says that God initiates and sustains relationship with this people.
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  Do you remember when Adam and Eve sinned and the garden of Eden,
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  Eve took of the fruit that was forbidden, and then she, after eating,
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  gave to her husband, and he also ate. And so now Adam
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  and Eve are both on the opposite side of the will of God. And
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  Adam being the one who was created first, the one who was who was
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  the representative of the human race, is now separated from God. And so
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  the question is what next, Like, what happens when Adam, the one
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  who represents the human race, that Adam is separated from God. Well,
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  the Bible says that Adam heard the voice or heard the voice of God as
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  he walked in the garden, and he hid himself, and so God God
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  called out to Adam and said, where are you Adam? Not because God
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  didn't know where he was, but because God delivers his people like he hears
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  and delivers his people. He hears the problem that Adam is having and Eve
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  is having, right, and he goes down there to deliver. Yes,
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  Adam made a terrible error and sinned against God. But God wanted Adam to
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  know where he was, and so he said, I was naked, and
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  so I hid myself naked and afraid. Well, who told you that you
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  were naked? Adam? Did you do what I said not to do?
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  And then of course the blame game starts and so forth. But the reality
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  is that God delivered Adam and Eve through the plan of salvation and the righteousness
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  of God and began to deliver them. He's delivering you even today. Thanks
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  for 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
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  been your daily portion with El David Harris naked. A great day, Yeah,