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01 30 2024 Where Is God? · 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. It
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  is Tuesday, January thirty, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is
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  El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is where is God? Where Is God? We'll
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  get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  and happy happy Tuesday to everyone joining us for the very first time, and
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  real practical steps in spiritual development. Okay, at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  and Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of coming into your presence
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  with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise. Father, I ask you now
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  to please help us to see you, even in the difficult situation, see
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  you in the great situations. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. Likely I neglected to give our caption for today. Where is
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  God? Where is God? Ask that question again? Where is God?
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  And then I'll answer it Where he's always been. Heaven is his throne and
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  earth is his footstool. Like he is our God that inhabiteth eternity. He's
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  the God that does not sleep, He does not slumber. He is always
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  present. He's our ever present help in trouble. Where is God? He
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  is there, and he is available to everyone who submits our will to him.
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  We'll get into that detail in just a moment. In just a moment.
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  The lesson writer asks an important question, what can we learn from the
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  Psalmist's responses to God's apparent and I really need to put that in a big
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  underscored bolded air quotes apparent absence? How do you respond to times when God
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  does not going? God seems silent? What sustained your faith? You got
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  that? How do you respond in times when God seems to be silent?
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  What sustains your faith? And I always make allusion to this psalm because it
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  represents this discussion well in the Book of Psalms, Chapter forty two and verse
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  and verse one. As a heart or as a deer panteth after the water
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  brooks, So panteth my soul after thee Oh God, my soul thirsteth for
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  God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
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  The Psalmist is having some challenges right now in his life. Ah,
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  He's a hunted, fugitive pa trying to find refuge in a cave and rocks
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  of the wilderness, exiled from the House of God, where he had found
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  his joy in participating in Sabbath services. But now he is crying out to
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  God, saying, where where are you? Like? Where is it?
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  When shall I appear before God. My tears have been my meat day and
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  night, while they continually say, unto me, where is thy God?
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  Where is thy God? Can you hear him crying out to God? Can
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  you hear him crying out to God? People are saying, you're not here
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  from me God. I have cancer. People are saying that you're not here
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  with me. God. I've lost my job. People are saying that my
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  God is not here with me. God. I lost my child in child
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  birth, and I saw my wife having such challenges and then the child is
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  gone. Where is your God? People are saying, you get held up
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  by gunmen and robbed and worse. Where is your God? Was he there?
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  Of course the answer is absolutely he was there. And of course David
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  said, my tears have been my meet day and night, while they continually
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  say, unto me, where is your God? When I remember these things,
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  I pour out my soul in me. You see he didn't turn away
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  from God. He turned toward God. Huh, For I had gone with
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  the multitude. I went with them to the House of God. See,
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  he's remembering those good days. He's remembering the times when he could see and
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  experience the mercy of God. Even in his emotions. Yes, with the
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  voice of joy and praise and multitude that kept Holy Day. And so he
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  asks himself a question. Now we see it is under inspiration of the Holy
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  Ghost. Why art thou cast down, O, my soul? And why
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  art thou disquieted within me? And then he begins to encourage himself. I
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  think there is a song that says that I encourage myself to have faith in
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  the Lord. He said, I hope thou in God, or I shall
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  yet praise Him or the help of his countenance. Oh, my God,
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  my soulace casts down within me. He's being honest. He hasn't. He
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  hasn't acted like everything is peachy keen, because he has faith in God,
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  because he has hope in God. He didn't act like things suddenly were feeling
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  better to him. He said, you know what, my solace casts down
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  within me. Therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan. I
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  will remember what you've done, God, I will remember what you have done
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  in the past, and of the Hermonites. And from the hill Mizar deep
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  coleth unto deep, and at the noise of thy waterspouts at the at thy
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  waves, and thy billows are gone over me. Yet the Lord will command
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  his loving kindness in the daytime. I think somebody said that that that that
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  that weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
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  He said, Ah, Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the
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  daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me and my prayer
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  unto God, the God of my life. I will say, unto God,
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  my Rock, why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because
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  of the oppression of the enemy, as with a sword in my bones mine
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  enemies reproach me while they say daily unto me? Where is Thy God,
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  Oh God? Why art thou cast down all my soul? Why art thou
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  disquieted within me? If you have ever felt this way, go ahead and
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  type of one in the chat. If you've ever felt like you want to
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  know where is God in this certain situation. I'm not asking about you losing
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  faith. I'm saying in the moments that your faith is still strong, but
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  your courage is weak. You're wondering, God, when will you come through
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  from me? Go ahead and type of one in the chat. Hmm.
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  And then he said, hope thou in God he's encouraging himself or I shall
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  yet praise him. You to get this now, brothers and sisters. When
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  he is in that worst state, that difficulty, he says, I'm going
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  to praise him. Praise him for a mighty acts, Praise him for his
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  excellent greatness. Praise him. In the difficult times. You realize that God
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  inhabited the praises of his people. When you're seeking his face, when you
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  have surrendered your will to him and you are wondering in those moments of despair,
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  Hi, in those moments when you feel like giving up, you ask,
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  where is my God? I want you to hope in God and then
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  praise him. You want the presence of God in your life. Praise Him,
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  who is the health of my countenance and my God. You see,
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  we named Simona and I we named our son after God. A few to
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  multiple times. When I say that, I mean his name is Josiah,
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  which means yahweh, heals, yahweh, heals. His middle name is Adam,
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  that was the first man created. Jesus calls himself the second atom.
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  And then of course you know his surname is Harris, so yah heals.
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  Josiah, the first man Adam, who Jesus said of himself that he's the
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  second atom, and then Harris, and so that means that his initials are
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  Jah. I understand the whole Hebrew about no Jay, but we understand that
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  Jah is a name that we attribute to God. So when I am wondering
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  where is God, I look into my family unit and I see my son,
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  and I say, God, You've been good to me, and my
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  hope is in you, and be wonderful. Thanks for joining us listening to
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  friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,