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02 15 2024 Forget Not All His Benefits · 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, February fifteen, 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 forget not all his benefits. Don't forget
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  his benefits. Yeah, we'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first I'll like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com click that join button so you can come into
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  the community and also pick up the your Daily portion book. And last but
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  not least, let us know where you are in the world, so we
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  can just continue to see like the Gospel of the Kingdom is being preached into
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  all the world for a witness, and we know that very soon the end
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  will come. Yes, this is one way that we continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Batherine Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of opening your word
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  again. And I pray that you will teach us to listen for your benefits,
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  to know how good you have been, and then live like people with
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  gratitude. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again
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  forget not all his benefits. All right, So I'm going to read from
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  the book Desire of Ages Get us started, page eighty three, that the
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  Desire of Ages page eighty three, and it reads, it would be well
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  for us to spend a thoughtful hour each day in contemplation of the life of
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  Christ. We should take it point by point. Did you get that?
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  So every day that you live looking at the life of Christ with a worshipful
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  and prayerful mind is key to spiritual success. Let me say it another way,
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  where Missus White says here we should take it point by point. Let
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  me continue and let the imagination grasp each each scene. So when he was
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  born and there was nobody to worship him except a few people. Ah,
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  when he was with his parents and and his parents were on the run to
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  protect him from herod. Yes, to take those scenes of when he was
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  in the temple and speaking with them the leaders, and the leaders being amazed,
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  thinking this is a little boy, like how is it that he understands
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  these things? And when he was in the Jordan river, seeing when he
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  was a light having been baptized, and then the father's voice is heard from
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  heaven. This is my beloved son and whom I am well pleased. And
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  then the Holy ghost is lighting upon him as a dove. Yes, when
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  he was on the cross and it was darkness all around, and people jeering
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  him, and at the same time he is asking his father to forgive them,
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  for they know not what they do. Take it point by point,
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  see it in your mind. And it says here, especially the closing moments,
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  and continuing the quote, as we thus dwell upon his great sacrifice for
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  us, And so our focus is his sacrifice for us. Our confidence in
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  him will be more constant, our love will be quickened. Like think about
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  it, God, you did this for me. You went through all of
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  this for me. People ripped out your beard and beat you in the head
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  with a stick and put on a crown of thorns. And you did this.
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  You did this so that you could save me. You took on all
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  of my sins and sorrows in one moment. And everybody around the world who
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  has ever lived or will ever live, has this same benefit. You did
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  that for us. Let me continue. We shall be more deeply imbued with
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  his spirit. If you would be saved at last, or we would be
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  saved at last. We must learn the lesson of penitence and humiliation at the
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  foot of the cross. That's the end of the quote. And so Jesus's
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  life is the perfect example. And one elder said to me many years ago,
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  while I was learning and I was becoming an elder. He said that
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  before we are reborn born, Jesus is our savior, and he's all of
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  our savior, really, but that is who he is to us. But
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  as we are reborn, when we become born of the water and of the
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  spirit, he becomes our example. You see, before we are born,
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  we can't follow his example. And so I guess the invitation really right now
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  is for anybody listening or watching to give your life to Christ if you've not
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  done so already, and then as you continue along the pathway in relationship with
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  Him, then you will be able to be humble just like Jesus was.
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  You'll be giving and caring just like Jesus was. You'll have power to deliver
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  people from different challenges that are in their lives. If he sees fit just
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  like Jesus did. He said, freely ye have received, freely give.
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  He said, when I go back to Heaven and the Holy Spirit comes upon
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  you, greater works than these shall ye do. Why because Jesus said,
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  I go unto my Father. Yes. And so the power of the Holy
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  Ghost, the example and victory that Jesus left behind as a legacy, and
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  the fact that He is with us alway, even unto the end of the
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  earth, gives us a reason to thank him, gives us a reason for
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  which to be thankful. So these are just some of the benefits of being
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  in connection with God. And so let's go ahead and begin to read from
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and three. We won't be able
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  to read the entire chapter, but please in your spare time do that.
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  In your time of worship, please do that. And the Bible reads beginning
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  at verse one. Praise the Lord, oh my soul, AH, with
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  all that is within me. Praise his holy name. God is holy,
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  you know, Ah. Praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, oh
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  my soul. Do not forget all his kind deeds, or forget not all
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  his benefits. He is the one who forgives all your sins. Can you
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  see how this is a reason to praise him. Yes, he is the
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  one who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who delivers your
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  life from the pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,
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  who satisfies your life with good things, so your youth is renewed like an
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  eagle's. The Lord does not The Lord does what is fair and executes judge
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  justice for all the oppressed. The Lord revealed his faithful acts to Moses,
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  his deeds to the Israelites. The Lord is compassionate and merciful. He is
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  patient and demonstrates loyal love. He does not always accuse, He does not
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  stay angry, He does not deal with us as our sins deserve. He
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  does not repay us with the dis misdeeds that our misdeeds deserves. And then
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  I will just pause right here and go down to verse nineteen. The Lord
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  has established his throne in heaven. His kingdom extends over everything. Praise the
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  Lord, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees
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  and obey his orders. Praise the Lord, all, you warriors of his,
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  you servants of his who carry out his desires. And twenty two.
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  In final, praise the Lord all that he has made in all regions of
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  his kingdom. Praise the Lord, oh my soul, if you think about
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  it, If you think about it, the Psalmist is saying that we should
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  come into line with all of nature and creation throughout the universe, with the
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  angels who praise him, Yes, with those beings seen in Revelation chapters four
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  and five. We praise him with all of the creatures that he has created
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  that are not human beings, the animals and the creation, the seas and
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  the skies, the sun that comes out like a bridegroom, that is released
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  from his chamber, where the entire earth is able to see and cannot escape
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  its rays. We are to praise God. Why because He's good, his
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  mercy endures forever, and so since we are saved by grace through faith,
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  it is that we should have a heart of gratitude. Praise the Lord,
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  oh my soul, forgetting out all of his deeds. His deeds have to
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  do with me being saved as well his creative power. Yes, but his
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  deeds are in recreating humans who were suffering from the burden of sin, but
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  now can become his children. So much to say, no time, but
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  don't forget his benefits. God is good and his mercy endures forever. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great
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  day. Yeah,