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02 22 2024 Blessings of Righteous Living · 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. Huh, good morning, morning, good morning.
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  It is Thursday, February twenty two, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host who couldn't find his unmute
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  button ha, And this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  every single day. Today is no exception. We are continuing in our lessons
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  study series through the Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is Blessings
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  of Righteous Living, Blessing of Righteous Living. We'll get into 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 pick up the Your Daily
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  Portion book. Also, let us know where you are in the world,
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  and don't forget to join our online community at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  thank you for giving us this day and giving us the privilege of opening your
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  word. Please teach us the benefits the blessings of righteous living in Jesus name.
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again. Now there is so much to
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  say, so little time, but the lesson writer says something right here in
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  the first paragraph of Many Blessings, the many blessings promised to those who revere
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  the Lord, Peace is perhaps one of the greatest. Can you agree with
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  that? Like, if you desire to have peace that passes all understanding,
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  go ahead and type of one in the chat. If you're watching online on
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  YouTube, on Facebook or some other platform, please go ahead and type of
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  one in the chat. I know the people on radio, television and podcast
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  can't do it, but you get the point. Like I want to see
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  if you want the peace of God, like the kind of peace that you
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  cannot purchase, You cannot barcher for the kind of piece that only comes from
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  God. Go ahead, and type of one in the chat. Now we
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  also are going to read from the book Great Controversy, The Great Controversy,
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  page six seventy five. And we can see the peace that God has planned
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  for his children in the earth made new, heavenly, the heavenly in heaven,
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  and in the earth made new. Okay, And so the Bible.
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  According to the quote in the Bible, the inheritance of the saved is called
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  a country Hebrews, Chapter eleven, verses fourteen through sixteen. There is there
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  the heavenly shepherd leads his flock to fountains of living waters. The tree of
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  Life yields its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for
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  the healing or the service of the nation. There are ever flowing streams,
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  clear as crystal. Can you see that? And beside them, waving trees
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  cast their shadows upon the paths, preparing for the ransomed of the Lord.
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  There the wide spreading plains swell into hills of beauty. The mountains of God
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  rear their lofty summits on those peaceful plains. Beside those living streams, God's
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  people so long pilgrims and wanderers shall find a home, and that is the
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  end of the quote. There are times that we don't feel like we belong
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  in certain places, whether it's because of our upbringing and someone making us feel
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  less than, or maybe it's our socioeconomic status where we feel like, oh,
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  because money is indeed an object and we can't afford the beauty that some
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  people purchase, that we begin to kind of take that personally and feel like,
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  oh, we're not worthy. Or people who do have the means to
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  purchase X, Y or z, but then there's abc that they can't purchase,
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  and maybe they don't feel worthy until they aspire and then gain that and
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  then it's rinse and repeat. The cycle just keeps going over and over and
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  over. But never do we find peace when we allow these paradigms of the
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  world to press in on our mindset. So what God is saying is really
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  basically what Jesus said. He said that He's going to prepare a place for
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  us, and when he does go to prepare a place for us, he's
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  going to return. He's going to come again and receive us unto himself that
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  where he is we can be, also we will be. Also, I
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  shouldn't have said, can right, And the Bible continues that I is not
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  seen, neither ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of humanity,
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  the things that God is preparing for his children. So I need you
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  to recognize that God is preparing a place. But first he's preparing of people.
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  If you are one of his people, he is preparing you. If
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  you're not one of his people, as yet, today is your day.
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  You can make a decision to begin to experience the blessings of the righteous.
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  Yes, and so we read from the Book of Psalms, the Book of
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  Psalms, chapter one, and I will read beginning at verse one, and
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  the Bible reads, how blessed is the one who does not follow the advice
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  of the wicked. So right now we have a blueprint. Don't follow the
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  advice of the wicked. There are so many things social media, so many
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  things in mainstream media, and people just coming to us directly in our daily
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  movements that would lead us away, like bad advice from the wicked, or
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  stand in the pathway of sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers.
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  Instead, he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord's commands. He meditates on his
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  commands both day and night. May I just say that God has given us
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  the blueprint for peace. He's given us the blueprint for connection with Him,
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  and He's given it to us in his word. All we need is God's
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  word and the fullness of the Holy Spirit to teach us how to live and
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  apply the principles of His word. And then we begin to understand what God
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  is saying. My pleasure is in God's commands verse three. He is like
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  a tree planted by flowing streams. It yields its fruit at the proper time,
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  and it's leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
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  Not so for the wicked. Instead, they are like wind driven chaff.
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  For this reason, the wicked cannot withstand judgment, nor can sinners join the
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  assembly of the godly. Certainly, the Lord guards the way of the godly.
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  This is the part that I love the most, that God guards the
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  way of the godly. But the way of the wicked ends in destruction.
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  And so God is saying that one of the blessings really in godly living is
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  to have him. The chief blessing of godly living is to have Him to
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  give us wisdom and guidance in every situation that we will face, every step
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  that we make, every move that we make. When we consult God first,
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  God is leading us along the pathway. Sometimes the pathway is littered with
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  pain and the journey is different. But there are many times that there is
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  triumphs, there is happiness, there is gladness. But at all times,
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  as long as we continue to surrender our mindset and will and activities to God's
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  care, we have peace. Yes, when we make decisions, we don't
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  know what's going to happen after we make the decision, we have peace because
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  we say, God, You're watching every move that I make. We have
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  peace in every situation. When even people come to us and they begin to
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  disrupt our lives and our peace, we can say, God, you see
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  what is happening here. You said that if I meditate on your law day
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  and night, if I yield my will to you, that you will give
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  me peace. I put these people or this person into your hands. Where
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  my peace is being disturbed, my connection with you is being disturbed. Will
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  you please make a transition in my life so that I can live like Jesus
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  lived. So many actual practical benefits and maybe you need to come into the
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  community, and we can talk about some of those. But let me just
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  give you just three things that you and I can do in order to have
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  the peace of God. First, of course, obviously is yielding our will
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  to Him. But then as an outgrowth of this, we embrace a heart
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  of generosity and compassion. In Psalm chapter one hundred and twelve and verse nine
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  we see that principle. Of course we find peace and his promises. So
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  every day we lay hold upon the promises of God and say, God,
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  how do these apply to me? And then, of course, ultimately we
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  reflect on the righteousness and sacrifice of Christ, consider the Cross and what Jesus
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  has done for you, and you will experience the blessing of holiness. Thanks
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  for 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
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,