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02 20 2024 The Lord’s Test · 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 already Tuesday, February twenty twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our lesson study through this series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is the Lord's Test. The Lord's Test.
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  There are times, brothers and sisters, is that God tests us And
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  it's a blessing because He could just leave us out there to you know,
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  flail around until yeah, we meet our untimely demise. So God's tests are
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  for his glory and for our benefit. We'll get into that in just a
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  moment, but first I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask you
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  to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online
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  community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you
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  are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way
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  that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for this
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  day and for the privilege of being tested and tried by you. Thank you
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  for not leaving us into the hands of our enemies. But God, I
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  pray now that you will give us the strength to go through and the wisdom
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  to go through your testing, because we know that once we do, and
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  we have yielded our will to you, that this will bring holiness into our
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  lives. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  So what we're going to do is begin by reading from the book Testimonies
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  for the Church, Volume four, and I'll read page from page one hundred
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  forty six. That's Testimonies for the Church, Volume four, and I will
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  read from page one hundred forty six, and it reads God requires prompt and
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  unquestioning obedience of his law. But men are asleep or paralyzed by the deceptions
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  of Satan, who suggests and excuses and subst in subterfuges and conquers their scruples,
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  saying, as he said to even the garden, ye shall not surely
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  die? Can I just pause for a moment? We may not use those
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  terminologies as much today unless we're in the military. Right. But what he's
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  saying here is that the devil has a habit of distracting people. He has
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  a habit of distracting people. God says we should go left, and the
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  devil insinuates doubt and tells us go right, or go down, or just
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  sit still, don't go where God says. And then like a torpedo huh
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  in a warship, underwater a submarine, he boom sends it and then boom.
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  If we accept that insinuation, we really blow up our situation, like
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  we mess up our lives by listening to the enemy. That's all He's interested
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  in, blowing a hole in our commitment with God, and so disobedience.
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  Continuing the quote not only hardens the heart and conscience of the guilty one,
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  but it tends to corrupt the faith of others. Have you realized that when
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  you have chosen to sin, sometimes people are watching, yes or yeah.
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  Let me start with the people watching part. People are watching, and then
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  they're like, oh, my goodness, my brother, my sister. If
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  they're doing that, then now they feel like they have permission to do the
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  thing that is not holy. Or there are people who may not have seen
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  you do anything wrong, but when they need you, they need holy advice,
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  they need you, They're in need of healing and prayers, they need
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  you. You're not available. Why why not, I should say, because
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  God forbid? Maybe you have been nursing and babying and rocking these sins,
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  these darling little sins, and then don't have the power, sort of like
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  the disciples when the people were like, well, why is it that your
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  disciples can't cast out these devils? Why can't your disciples do these things?
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  And of course it was because they were not fully connected to God, they
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  were semi connected. I wish I had the time. Let me continue.
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  Disobedience not only hardens the heart and conscience of the guilty one, but tends
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  to corrupt the faith of others, that which looked very wrong to them at
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  first gradually loses this appearance by being constantly before them, till finally they question
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  whether it really is a sin and unconsciously fall into the same error. That's
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  the end of the quote. So God is teaching us that we need to
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  immediately once he brings it to our awareness, our consciousness. This is the
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  way walking in it. He wants us to immediately walk in the truth that
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  he shows us, not wait, not delay, not like the man in
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  the New Testaments, And almost thou persuadest me, no, no, no,
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  no, no, no, Now is the time. Now is the
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  time. Let me read now from the Book of Psalms, the Book of
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  Psalms, chapter eighty one, and I will read verses seven and eight.
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  The Bible reads, in your distress, you called out, and I rescued
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  you. I answered you. From the dark thunder cloud, I tested you
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  at the waters of Marabah Sillah. I said, listen, my people,
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  I will warn you, oh Israel, if only you would obey me,
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  there must never be another god among you. You must not worship a foreign
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  god. I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought you
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  out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill
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  it. But my people did not obey me. Israel did not submit to
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  me. I gave them over to their stubborn desires. God, please do
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  not give me over. I hope you're praying this prayer with me. When
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  you test me and try me, please teach me to live according to your
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  principles. Please don't turn me over to my foolish desires and unholy desires.
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  Please don't do that. Huh. But my people did not obey me.
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  Israel did not submit to me. I gave them over to their stubborn desires.
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  They did what seemed right to them. If only my people would obey
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  me, if only Israel would keep my commands, then I would quickly subdue
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  their enemies and attack their adversaries. Lord, help us to humble ourselves before
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  you. This is a real prayer, brothers and sisters, so that we
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  can honor you, so that when you see us, you can be pleased,
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  just like when you saw Jesus Ah. So that when we are in
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  these trials and tribulations, you can get the honor for getting us through them,
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  not dragging us out from them, not putting us in a position where
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  we are constantly saying sorry, sorry, sorry, please forgive me, forgive
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  me, forgive me, But to be yielded to you in such a way
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  that you can say, have you considered my servant? Fill in your name
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  here? Have you considered my servant? Who is living like I have prescribed?
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  There is none like this person, these persons, and all the earth.
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  God is looking for faithfulness, but he's putting it in the bosoms of
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  people who will just yield our will to him. And I'm really encouraged by
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  his word in this regard. And let me just give There are so many
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  things we need to read here, but let me give some key points from
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty one and one hundred and five. The
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  first one is to trust in the Lord's plan, and the Bible reads in
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  eighty one verse ten, I am the Lord, your God, who brought
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  you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will
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  fill it. All we need to do is open our mouths wide in this
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  regard right, and he will fill it. This teaches us to trust God's
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  plan and his provision even when the situation seems challenging. Here's another one,
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  learn from our past mistakes. I neglected to mention Psalm chapter seventy eight,
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  this time in verse ten, they did not keep God's covenant, and they
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  refuse to live according to his law. Reflect on the times that we and
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  other people of God did not do the right thing, whether personal or those
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  from before us, and strive not to repeat them. There are some things
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  we just don't need to do. And then, of course, beware of
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  spiritual hardening of our hearts. In eighty one and verse eleven, the Bible
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  reads, but my people did not listen to me, Israel did not obey
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  me. Be vigilant against the spiritual hardening of our hearts. Be holy and
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  thankful that God is willing to continue to get us through these tests so that
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  we can have a testimony that God is powerful enough to make his people holy.
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  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 el David
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  Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,