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01 22 2024 Assurance of God’s Care · 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 twenty two, 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 through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is Assurance of God's Care. Assurance of God's
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  Care. We will get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your
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  Daily Portion dot com and pick up the Your Daily Portion book. Also join
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  our online community. There. Many times I will put my notes some notes
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  regarding the lesson study and action items. And you are really there to ask
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  your questions and make your comments. If you don't see any activity, it's
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  because you're not active. You see. I am here. I am starting
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  the discussion by speaking to you every single day, and it's been here and
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  I've been doing this for years, many years, every day and in the
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  community. Now it is your time to speak back. Okay, at your
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  daily portion dot com. Let me go ahead and pray, and then we
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  will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege
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  of opening your word again and for loving us so much that we can have
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  the assurance of your care. Please teach us to be holy in Jesus' name.
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  I pray, Amen, and a man again the assurance of God's care.
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  Now I'm not looking at you because I wanted to go write real quickly
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  to the lyrics from Hymn number ninety nine in the SDA hymn. No,
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  God will take care of you. Be not dismayed, whate'er be tied.
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  God will take care of you. Beneath his wings of love. Abide.
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  God will take care of you. Let me read verse two through days of
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  toil when your heart doth fail, God will take care of you. When
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  dangerous fears fearce excuse me your path a sail. God will take care of
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  you. All you may need He will provide. God do you believe that
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  will take care of you. Nothing you ask will be denied. God will
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  take care of you. And you're like, wait a minute, nothing I
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  ask. You know that if we ask an according to his will, he
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  hears us. So we just need to be aligned with his will and he
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  will hear us. Verse four. No matter what may be the test,
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  God will take care of you, lean weary one upon his breast. Are
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  you weary, brothers and sisters, God will take care of you. And
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  here comes that familiar refrain. God will take care of you through every day
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  or all the way. He will take care of you. God will take
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  care of you. This is not just hype, brothers and sisters, It
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  is the reality. It is the reality. And we have the assurance of
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  God's care as long as we will surrender our will to him. And so
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  from the Book of Psalms, we're going to begin our discussion. The Book
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  of Psalms, chapter forty and verse one, the Bible reads, I waited
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  patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry?
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  Have you ever cried in the midnight seasons, brothers and sisters. Have you
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  ever been in so much pain that you were not able to describe it?
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  Have you had kidney stones? Have you had nerve damage and pain? You've
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  been in accidents, You've been through chemo and radiation and proton treatments because of
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  cancer, or you have been on some other kinds of medications because you have
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  lupus. Have you ever been in such pain because you have broken a bone
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  or something else? And maybe your heart has been broken. You've been in
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  pain because of a relationship that failed. You've been in pain because God forbid,
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  someone has abused you and you do not know how to get out.
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  The Bible is teaching that if we wait patiently for the Lord, he will
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  incline his ear to us. That means he's listening, he's hearing. He
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  heard my cry. And I told you before that when the he ruse hear
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  this, hearing and doing are synonymous. Where God is concerned to hear and
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  to do our synonymous. When you hear his voice, do not harden your
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  heart when you hear his voice, do what he says, as he's leading
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  along the paths of righteousness. When God is hearing your cry Verse two,
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  he brought me up also out of the horrible pit, out of the myrie
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  clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings verse
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  three. And he hath put a new song. See God is hearing,
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  but he's also acting. He's active. He has put a new song in
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  my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall see it and fear
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  and shall trust in the Lord. So when we see it, when we
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  learn to respect God, when we hear the voice of God, then we
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  should trust in God. His resume, his track record is good with us.
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  We have seen him be good for millennia and generations, and so he
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  will continue to be good today. So I'm thankful that God has shown us
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  his character. Here. Let's go to Psalm chapter fifty. We're going to
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter fifty. I normally put it in my note
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  so I don't have to search for it, but I didn't do it this
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  time. Fifty and verse fifteen, and the Bible reads and call upon me
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  in the day of trouble. Maybe I should go back maybe I should go
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  back offer unto God verse fourteen, thanksgiving, and pay your vows unto the
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  most High, and call upon me. This is what God is inviting us
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  to do in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee and thou
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  shalt glora phi me. Verse sixteen shows that He doesn't do this for people
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  who don't love him, and so what God is teaching us today in this
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  particular text is that we should be quick to call upon God's name. Whether
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  we are praising him, we call him by name, huh. When we
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  are in trouble and trials, we call him by name. And then the
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  Bible says he will deliver us. Many times when we pray, especially when
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  I'm praying in public for maybe a problem that is happening in the lives of
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  God's people, I say, God, please, once you have done this,
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  give us a voice with which a mouth with which to praise you,
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  because really and truly, there are so many people, so few people who
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  excuse me, who are on the lookout for the answer to God's prayer.
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  So that we can also give thanks. Remember those lepers he healed. Jesus
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  healed some lepers, and then there was only one who said thank you,
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  And Jesus said, well, what happened to the rest of these people?
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  We're the rest of them people that I healed? Where are they? And
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  only one has come back to say thank you? Oh God? So what
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  God is teaching us is that He will take care of us, and all
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  we need to do is glorify Him. Become a testimony to people when they
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  see our good works, that they will also glorify God, our father,
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  and say, what a good God that we serve Verse twenty two. Let's
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  go to verse twenty two. Now consider this, ye, that forget God,
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  lest I tear you in pieces, and there shall be none to deliver.
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  And then, of course, of course God is active in our affairs.
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  If you read in the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and twenty
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  one, you see an incredible image of God being here. I will lift
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  up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help. My help
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  cometh from the Lord which made heaven and the earth. So the same the
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  one who spoke and it stood fast, the same one who before there was
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  sun, moon or stars, said let there be light, and there was
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  light, who burst upon the darkness and moved through the Holy Ghost upon the
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  face of the waters. And everything he said was good, good, and
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  very good. That same one is our help. M m. He will
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  not suffer thy foot to be moved. He will He that keepeth Thee will
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  not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall never slumber nor sleep.
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  So God will keep you from sliding, or God forbid backsliding. If you
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  just, if I just surrender my will your will to God, have a
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  wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,