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01 15 2024 The Lord Reigns · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Monday, January fifteenth, twenty twenty four. Ha ha
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  ha, I almost messed up again. My name is Elle David Harris.
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  I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion. We give you
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  God's word every single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms, and our caption for
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  today is the Lord Rains. I'm going to come back to that in just
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  a moment, but first I'd like to 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, and also please pick up your Daily Portion book. Let us know
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  where you are in the world because this is a way that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship at your daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you
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  for giving us this privilege to come together again and for your word that is
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  so true and it is transformative because your word is power. Thank you for
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  speaking over our lives. Now help us to live according to what you have
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  said in Jesus name. I pray a men and a man again. The
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  Lord rains, the Lord reigns. And of course, for those who have
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  been listening for any period of time, you may have recognized that I love
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  songs like I love psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. And so this passage
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  actually brings to my mind him number what is the number here? Him number
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  seven from the Seven day Adventist hym no And I'll share just a little bit
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  of it with you. And this audio is actually coming from the no Him
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  no him App. I want you to look that up. A K n
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  O w h y m n app. It's incredible. And yeah, let
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  me share just a little bit of it and then we can we can jump
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  into the lesson here it is let me sing a little bit here the Lord
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  in Zion raiin have led all the world, rejoices and come before his throne
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  of grace with tune fall hard and voice the Lord Incion rain, and there
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  his pray shall reign to him, shall princess bend the knee, and kings
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  there glory brings. I could sing all day, but I shouldn't because we
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  have something to talk about today. But the fact is really and truly that
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  God reigns like he reigns, he reigns, and we're going into the scriptures.
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  Let's begin in the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety seven and verse two
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  to see something about this reign of God as King of kings and Lord of
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  lords. It's an honor to worship and to serve him, I promise you
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  it is in the book inverts to it reads, clouds and darkness are round
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  about him. Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. And what
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  is the action item in that regard? Then then we should strive to live
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  a life of righteousness and fairness, mirroring God's righteous nature. It says he
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  is righteous, Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. We want
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  to be in his throne with him. I think Jesus said to those who
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  overcome, he will grant to sit with him in his throne, even as
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  he is overcome and is set in his father's throne. And therefore it is
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  our privilege right now to live a life of righteousness I'm saying it again,
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  and fairness mirror ring God's just or righteous nature. Here's another one from Psalm
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  chapter ninety seven and verse one. The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice,
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  let the multitude of the isles be glad thereof. And so we want
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  to celebrate God's sovereignty. Take time, I should say, invest time each
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  day to rejoice in God's sovereignty. Aren't you glad that God is sovereign over
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  all and not you. You don't need to make any decisions that have to
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  do with the eternity of people. You don't make decisions about people on all
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  of these continents on planet Earth. You don't make decisions about what happens to
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  all of the animals and all of the other elements and everything that is surviving
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  and thriving on planet Earth. Because God is the one who reigns, and
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  we should be celebrating his sovereignty. Invest time each day to rejoice about God's
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  sovereignty. Acknowledging his rule over your life and over the world will put a
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  hole in pride. You understand that, you recognize that He is sovereign over
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  all, and you celebrate that, it will put a hole in pride.
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  Let's go to verse five Psalms, chapter ninety seven, and the Bible reads
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  the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, and the presence
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  of the Lord of the whole earth. I want you also to invest moments
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  in nature. We were in nature the other day, my wife and I,
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  yes, and just enjoying the seaside the stones that were on that sea
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  side at Wikiwacky Beach in Saint Andrew, Jamaica, right, and we looked
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  at the dark colored sand. It's different than the sand on the North coast,
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  but it was it was a part of God's nature. And so we
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  invested time in nature, just quietly recognizing the blessing that God is in how
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  He has given us the privilege of being good stewards over it. So we
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  want to reflect on God's power and his presence in creation, not that God
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  is creation. We don't have the time to deal with that problem. But
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  God is the lord of, He is the creator of. He's the one
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  who is always in charge of the nature that we see. I love being
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  in Saint Elizabeth here in Jamaica. Right, it's a parish, and there's
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  a place called Lover's Leap. You can look that up. But there comes
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  a point when you walk toward this this like a little a little fence if
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  you want to say, so you don't accidentally fall over and then go down
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  into the sea. Right, there's a point where you can't descern, depending
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  on the way that the sun is shining or not shining, right, you
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  can't discern which part is the sky and which part is the sea. It
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  is the most incredible experience. It's weird because your body wants to process,
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  your mind and eyes want to process what's going on. Sometimes you can't see
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  whether that's the sky or whether that's the sea. So I appreciate the magnitude
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  of the God who created everything that we can see and cannot see, like
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  animate and inanimate, including us. I'm thankful. Let me just pause right
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  there. Let's see if we can do another verse here. Verse ten Psalm
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  chapter ninety seven. Ye that love the Lord hate evil. If you love
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  God, you hate evil. Brothers and sisters. He preserveth the souls of
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  his saints. He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. So
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  we want to join hands, join forces with God and combat evil with good.
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  He said, don't be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.
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  That's what he wants. Stand against injustice. I think our brother,
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  our brother, doctor Martin Luther King Junior, the late doctor Martin Luther King
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  Junior, said something like injustice anywhere is in justice everywhere. Stand against injustice
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  and evil, trusting in God's protection and his guidance. I'll share a couple
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  of more points. Find joy in God's ways that's from verse eleven, and
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  also express gratitude verse twelve. Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and
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  give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness, and each day in prayer of
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  thanksgiving, reflecting on God's holiness and goodness in your life. The Lord reigns?
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  Does he reign in your life? Our wonderful day? Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the Mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,