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02 02 2024 God Confidence · 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 Friday, February 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 series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is God Confidence, God Confidence. We'll
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  get into that in just a moment, but first to say welcome to you
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  and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  pick up the Your Daily Portion book and also let us know in that platform
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  where you are in the world, so that we can continue to build faith
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  and fellowship at your Daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  us this day of preparation, and for your Holy Spirit who has been so
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  faithful at leading us and guiding us thus far. Father, please fill us
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  with your Holy Spirit, teach us to serve you with everything that we are,
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  and to put all of our faith and trust and confidence in you.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again God confidence.
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  Let me ask you a question in whom do you have confidence? Is
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  it in yourself? Because you have done some things very well well for many
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  years, and people have congratulated you or maybe even said, you know what,
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  I'm really thankful for what God has done in your life. And then
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  maybe sometimes the confidence starts to go in your direction. Do you have confidence
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  in your children, confidence in your bank account, confidence in your boss or
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  the business leader you may follow on Facebook or YouTube? Where is your confidence?
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  Is your confidence in your abilities? You're an athlete, You've excelled at
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  the highest levels against the greatest competition. Where is your confidence? That's a
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  question that we all need to be answering. But before we get into some
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  of that detail. I would like to talk about this chapter in one of
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  my face No actually my favorite book outside of the Bible, Steps to Christ.
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  It's a short little book, but it is so powerful. The final
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  chapter is is rejoicing in the Lord, and the writer goes into an interesting
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  discussion as she sees in her in her, in her understanding. She sees
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  two people walking on the pathway. So she's walking with with a woman,
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  and this woman is supposed to be a representative of people of God. The
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  people of God are are symbolized by this woman. And so they're walking through
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  through a field, and there is so much beauty in that field. There
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  are lilies, there are pink flowers, there are roses, and all kinds
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  of other other flowers. And so the woman, for some reason, she
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  starts to see the thorns and the briars. And the writer is saying,
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  but hold on, do you not see all of the beautiful flowers here?
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  Why is it that you're focusing on the briars? She said, do not
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  focus on the brier They will only wound you. Now, the reality is
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  there are so many people who have confidence in ourselves and in other things,
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  and so when trials come we lose focus, we lose confidence, we lose
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  trust, we lose our desire sometime to serve God. Why because our confidence
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  has been misplaced, it has been in the wrong reality. What God is
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  saying is that what he says is true, what he says is real.
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  He said that we're not to look on the things which are seen, because
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  those things are temporal, but the things which are not seen, which are
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  eternal, you see. And so God is giving us the privilege to be
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  a good mouthpiece for him, the kind of mouthpiece that is different than one
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  that you see in the Book of Malachi chapter three, that are throwing up
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  their hands and saying, you know, what is the benefit of me serving
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  God? Because I still have all of these trials, And God is saying,
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  well, I'm writing down these things in a book. I'm keeping a
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  record of how you speak about me, how you misrepresent me. And what
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  I'm also gonna do is listen to the people of God. I'm going to
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  listen to the people who have God confidence, and I'm going to record even
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  that when they are showing, or when I am showing the world, the
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  difference between those who are holy and those who are not. And so We're
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  going to center our attention now in the book of Psalms, chapter fifty six.
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  Psalms, chapter fifty six, and see what else God is saying to
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  us, beginning at verse one, have mercy on me, oh God,
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  for men are attacking me. See those are thorns, those are briers.
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  Those are the experiences that David could focus on while the Philistines had him captured
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  in death right all day long. Hostile enemies are tormenting me. Those who
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  anticipate my defeat attack me all day long. Indeed, many are fighting against
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  me, Oh, Exalted One. When I am afraid, wait a minute,
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  he's not. He's not. Wait a minute. I think he's about
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  to make a pivot. I think he's about not to be looking at the
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  thorns and the briers and those things that will wound him. He's not going
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  to continue to look at the things and speak of the things that would make
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  him not be a good testimony to those who are also going through trials.
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  When I am afraid, what does he do? I trust in you,
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  in God, I boast in his promise. In God, I trust.
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  I am not afraid. Did you get that? When I am afraid,
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  I trust in you in God, I boast in his promise. In God,
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  I trust, I am not afraid. Do you see the difference.
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  A moment ago he was talking about the fear that would come upon him,
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  like those thorns in those briers, that would only wound him. That natural
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  reason response that comes when we look at things from a human perspective. And
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  he said, you know, when I feel fearful, I change my mindset
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  immediately. And I trust in you, In God, I boast in his
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  promise. In God, I trust, I am not afraid. When men,
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  or mere men, what will they do to me? All day long?
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  They cause me trouble. They make a habit of plotting my demise.
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  They stalk and lurk as they watch my every step, as they prepare to
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  take my life, because they are bent on violence. Do not let them
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  escape, and your anger bring down the nations. Oh God, you keep
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  track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container, in a
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  bottle. Are they not recorded in your scroll? Remember I said that God
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  takes a record, and I got that out of the Book of Malachi,
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  chapter three. Well it's here too, God takes a record Verse nine.
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  My enemies will turn back when I cry out for your help. You see,
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  some of you have enemies of broken relationships. Some of you have enemies
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  of depression and doubt. Some of you have enemies of despair. You have
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  enemies of where is my next meal coming from? Because my money is shorter
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  than my month, my trials are longer than my faith. And God is
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  saying that he will put those enemies to flight. But only when you cry
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  out to him. I know God is on my side Verse ten. In
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  God, I boast in his promise. Do you get that again? His
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  confidence is where in God I boast in his promise. See, God made
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  a promise to his people that he would never leave us, he would not
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  forsake us, he would not put us in a position that could not be
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  overcome. Look at the life of Joseph. I'm reading the Bible in chronological
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  order these days. And yes, in early in mid January, I moved
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  from the story of Joseph and then him passing away, and then it moves
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  directly into the story of Job. Before you see God's people in captivity in
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  Egypt, right, And I'm looking at the story of Job and saying,
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  but, oh, my goodness, like Job went through an incredibly hard trial,
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  but his confidence even when he was tired, even when he was saying,
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  I need a daze man, I need an intermediary between God and I.
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  Yes, even then, he did not lose his faith. He said,
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  just like David here and God, I boast in his promise. I
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  boast in his promise. I trust in God. I am not afraid.
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  And whom is your confidence? I hope it's God. Peace. Thanks for
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  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 been
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  your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,