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03 14 2024 Immovable Like Mount Zion · 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, March fourteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El 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 immovable like Mount Zion. Immovable like Mount
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  Zion. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com. Please join our online community. Listen. If you join the
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  online community, you're going to have to actually answer those two questions. If
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  you don't, then the system is going to kick it out and will not
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  let you in. Okay, So again your daily portion dot com. This
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  is one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  thank you for this new day and for the privilege that we have to open
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  up your word. Please give us wisdom and give us the fortitude to stand
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  and be like a rock in your presence. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. God wants you to be immovable. May I
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  just like pause right here at the beginning of our discussion today and say that
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  God wants you to be immovable. Yeah. He doesn't want us to be
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  tossed by every wind of doctrine like tossed to and fro. He doesn't want
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  us to skip along the pathway of life and whatever impacts that skipping, then
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  that impacts us like. No, he wants us to be firm. He
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  wants us to be set on the foundation which is Christ. And then,
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  like the writer of the song said, I shall not I shall not be
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  moved right, and yeah, we can be like that. How do we
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  know well, the Bible is going to show us in the Book of Psalms,
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred twenty five. But before we
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  get there, I'd like to read from the book Steps to Christ, Steps
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  to Christ, page one hundred six and one hundred seven, pages one hundred
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  six and one hundred seven, and it reads the entrance of sin into the
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  world, the incarnation of Christ, regeneration and the Resurrection, and many other
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  subjects presented in the Bible are mysteries too deep for the human mind to explain
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  or even fully comprehend. But we have no reason to doubt God's word because
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  we cannot understand the mysteries of His providence. Can I just pause for a
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  moment and say, if I were to ask most people like how far is
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  the Sun from planet Earth or maybe the moon. If you are advanced in
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  your understanding, then maybe you would just spout the number of miles and millions
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  of miles. If I said, well, what is the speed of light?
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  Maybe you would you would think for a moment and say, boy,
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  I haven't thought about that and since I was ten, but it's one hundred
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  and eighty six thousand miles per second, Like if I were to ask you
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  know anything about the law of gravity and say, well, what goes up
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  must come uh huh down, you would you would be able to answer that
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  very quickly. Or if I if I talk to you about some law of
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  thermo dynamics or or some other Lawton Newton law of motion, like you would
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  be able to say things quickly by rote memory or even wrote memory, or
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  maybe even a deeper understanding very quickly. But if I were to press you
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  on the details, how do you know that the speed of light is one
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  hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second? Like I don't know. How
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  do you know that the Sun is how many millions of miles away from planet
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  Earth? Well, I don't know. Have you been there? No?
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  How do you know what goes up must come down? How do you know
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  that when you sit down in that chair that the chair is not going to
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  collapse and you just drop on the ground Like how do you know? And
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  on and on. How do you know that matter left alone tends to decompose
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  or break down? Like? How do you know this? And most of
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  us, there's some scientists among us that would know the answers to all of
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  these questions, but the majority of us have no idea, and yet we
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  have no problem believing, or if you want to say, study and knowing
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  in air quotes these things. So when it comes to the things of God,
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  why is it that some skeptics have so much to say, like how
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  do we know this? How do we know that? And then somehow excuse
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  themselves from responsibility to God. God wants us to be firm and not movable.
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  And then the quote continues, everywhere our wonders beyond our ken or understanding.
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  Should we then be surprised to find that we cannot find that in the
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  spiritual world there are mysteries that we cannot fathom. The difficulty lies solely in
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  the weakness and narrowness of the human mind. God has given us in the
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  scriptures sufficient evidence of their divine character, and we are not to doubt his
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  word because we cannot understand all the mysteries of His providence. So He wants
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  us to be firm. He wants us to choose to trust in God and
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  chose trust over doubt. Choose trust over doubt. Now, let's go to
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and twenty five and I'll read beginning
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  at verse one, the Bible reads, those who trust in the Lord are
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  like Mount Zion. Of course there's a physical mount, yes, but this
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  also represents the people of God like okay, like Mount Zion. It cannot
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  be upended or it cannot be moved and will endure forever. So if we
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  are God's people, right, and we are the ones that He wants to
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  be immovable and to endure forever, what must we do? If He wants
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  us to be immovable and endure forever, what must we do? It's one
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  word. I said it very quickly, but it's just one word, and
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  it begins with the letter T trust trust in the Lord. When we trust
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  in the Lord, we're not movable. When the month is longer than our
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  money, we're not movable. When God forbid we experience health challenges, we
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  become unmovable, Like when we are experiencing problems in our relationships with our spouses,
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  our children, with people on the road, our next door neighbors,
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  the taxi people like the taximan, the taxi woman right, the bus driver,
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  some random person on the road, people with whom we exercise. Whenever
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  we have these challenges, what trust in God. Then we are what immovable?
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  Yeah, when we are faced with an opportunity to do something dishonest in
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  order to advance our own cause, we are what immovable? Why? Because
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  we trust God? Verse two. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the
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  Lord surrounds his people. He gave them a visual brothers and sisters, like
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  they could see the surrounding Jerusalem and could say, wait a minute. The
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  Angel of the Lord encamps round about those who what trust God, who believe
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  in Him, who live according to his principles, who submit our will to
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  him. And so the Lord surrounds his people now and forever. So God
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  wants us to have spiritual endurance. No, let me put it this way.
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  He doesn't just desire. He empowers us. He gives us the ability.
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  He has blessed us with the power to become enduring. Spiritual endurance is
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  within our grasp. Why because God is with us? Could there be times
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  that you might cite, like, are there times that you could identify right
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  now, like on the spot, like nearly nine minutes into our discussion today,
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  can you cite examples of when God was with you when you were in
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  that car accident? Was he with you when you had that breakup and the
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  relationship that you intended to go forever, but your partner did not agree Like
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  your husband. Your wife said, no, I don't want to live with
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  you anymore. Did did God abandon you when you lost your job, when
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  you went to school and did not get the grades that you intended to get,
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  when you did not meet your target at work and you got discipline for
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  it was God with you in all of those times that you were depressed during
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  the COVID nineteen health crisis. Was God with you. You see, if
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  we trust in God, then we will be immovable, like the mount called
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  Zaiaon. Have a wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David
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  Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,