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01 18 2024 Your Testimonies Are Very Sure · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Thursday, January eighteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is Elle 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
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  exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is your testimony speaking of God. Are very
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  sure your testimonies are are very sure. We'll get into that in just a
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  moment, but first I like to just say welcome to you and ask you
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  to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join the online community,
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  Please pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and also let us know
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  where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  a way that we can continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us the opportunity to open up your word. And I'm asking you,
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  Father, to give us your wisdom. Please teach us your testimonies,
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  help us to live according to those testimonies. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. There is a passage in the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter one hundred and nineteen that I really love that has to do with
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  God's people who are really connected to Him and those individuals being wiser than the
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  ancients, wiser than even their teachers. Why because they keep the testimonies of
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  God. So what I want to do is go into the Book of Psalms
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  chapter nineteen not one nineteen nineteen to see this transition of thought. It's very
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  intriguing to me. And it begins in verse one. The heavens declare the
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  glory of God. So even the now, let me not appreach you yet,
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  No, no, no, nope, okay, let me continue,
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  and the firmament showeth his handiwork day and today uttered speech, and night unto
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  night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not
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  heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words
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  to the end of the world. In them hath set he a tabernacle for
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  the Sun, which is as a bridegroom, coming out of his chamber and
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  Rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. He and his God going
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  forth is from the end of the earth in his circuit unto the ends of
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  it, talking about the Sun, and there is nothing hid from it or
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  the heat thereof. And then God does something very interesting in this transition.
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  So we see his his power. We see his creative no the we see
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  the power of his creation. Like he's the sovereign of the universe. Blessed
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  be his name. And He has created all things seen and unseen, like
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  animate and inanimate, like even you. He created you, all of your
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  four parents. He created you, Adam and Eve, the first people on
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  planet Earth. He created them. And so God is saying that he manifests
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  himself in his creation. And by the way, even in twenty twenty four,
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  you can get a glimpse of God through creation, sort of like the
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  sun. When you see the sun, it's everywhere in the world, or
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  maybe we can see the sun from everywhere in the world. And then he
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  does something very interesting. He makes this transition in verse seven and says,
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  the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul, just like his
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  creation. Wait a minute, what his creation is perfect? Yeah? When
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  he created everything, it was good, good, very good. It was
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  the same sovereign God, the same just and holy God that created the laws
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  of gravity, that created photosynthesis, the one who created those laws that say
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  matter left alone. At least that's the way we see it now. In
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  our context, tend to break down like and so forth, like cause precedes
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  effect. I wish I had the time. But what God is saying here
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  is that same God is the one who says, the law of the Lord
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  is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure,
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  making wise the simple. What the testimony of the Lord is sure, making
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  wise the simple the testimony. It comes from a Hebrew word that is frequently
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  used to describe the Ten Commandments. It means to bear witness. It's the
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  revelation of God in God's witness or testimony, because it is his own affirmation
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  concerning his nature, his attributes, and his commands. What does that mean?
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  We can see aspects of God's nature. We can see God's attributes of
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  God, of God's character, and his commands as He reveals himself in nature
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  in the Ten Commandments law through the power of the Holy Spirit. I wish
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  I had the time through the entire word of God, those sixty six blessed
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  books. So when we are talking about the testimonies of God, especially in
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  the case of his commandments, which are our transcript of his character, then
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  that means that nothing else we know of him, no other prism through which
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  we see aspects of his character, can be in conflict about him. Why
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  because his testimonies are sure, there's no air in it. There is no
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  way that he deviates from his testimonies, because they are a transcript of who
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  He is, at least in small bite forms, so we can see and
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  experience him. I'm so thankful. And that word actually for sure means amen,
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  to be faithful, to be lasting, to be firmly established. And
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  so even the simplest people, the simplest mindsets, if we submit ourselves to
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  God, can hear and experience these testimonies as an amen like a soul.
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  Let it be done even in our lives. God's promised to me that I
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  can actually keep his testimonies, which makes me wiser than even those in the
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  wisest settings who have not submitted to him. I wish I had the time.
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  Okay, So let's go to Psalm chapter ninety three and verse five.
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  The testimonies, Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh Thine house, O
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  Lord forever. So God's testimonies are described as extremely reliable, and his house
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  is characterized by holiness. You remember, the Bible says that God said to
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  Moses, make us sanctuary. Have them make me a sanctuary that I may
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  dwell among them. So that house, that tabernacle, that experience in the
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  pavilion and refuge of God is to be in his presence. You see his
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  testimonies when we embrace them, usher us into his presence. Here's another one.
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  Here's another one in verse one hundred and sixty five of the longest Psalm,
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  when nineteen it reads great peace have they do you have peace? Brothers?
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  And sis, I don't mean pseudo peace. I don't mean something that
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  you have told yourself while you're in the midst of the storm and you're just
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  looking as an optimist for a way to just settle yourself. I'm saying,
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  no real peace, Like do you have peace? The Bible says, great
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  peace have they which love Thy law? And nothing shall offend them. That
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  term to offend means to cause us to go away from him, Like there
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  were disciples who were offended in quotes because of him. And then Jesus looked
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  around about his disciples and said, will you also depart from me? Will
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  you also leave me? Will you also forsake me and turn your back from
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  me? And of course the disciples said, but God, where would we
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  go? Where would we go? So people who actually delight in God's law,
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  people who have real peace, it's because they love his law. And
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  there is nothing, absolutely nothing, when they love God's law that would cause
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  them to turn away from him. Okay. In verse two of the Book
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  of Psalms, chapter one, the Bible reads, but his delight is in
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  the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and
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  night. So delighting and meditating on the law of God is portrayed as a
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  pathway to righteousness. You want to be righteous, and look in his law.
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  Verse five books of the Bible talks a lot about it, but not
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  just the first five books. But look into his law and see what promises
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  he is making making. His law is the law of love, it is
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  the law of liberty. And when we embrace this, then we will continue
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  to be righteous. Have a wonderful day, peace. Thanks for joining us
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  listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,