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02 14 2024 Praise to the Majestic and Merciful 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 Wednesday, February fourteen, 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 Praise to the Majestic and Mercyful God. Praise
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  to the Majestic and merciful God. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, continue
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  to pray and to share. I've not seen a lot of sharing in the
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  community lately, so maybe you're just satisfied with listening to me talk you to
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  death. But I think that you should avail yourselves. There are hundreds of
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  you in that community. I want you to avail yourselves of the opportunity to
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  discuss these words of God and wrestle with those challenging thoughts that sometimes we have,
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  or just seek encouragement, and we can build each other up in the
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  name of God. Also, also, I'm asking you to pick up your
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  Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the world at your
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  Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we can continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this day and for
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  getting us to the middle of the week. It's amazing what you do with
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  time. Thank you, Father. I pray now that you will give us
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  the fullness of your Holy spirit and that we will begin to really appreciate you
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  and your character. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men again.
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  All right, let's go ahead and begin. It seems like my watch
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  thinks that I'm speaking to it. It's crazy how we have these devices these
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  days, and it's taking a transcript of everything I'm saying. It's amazing.
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  I am not speaking to you. Watch okay, anyway, let me I
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  digress, all right, And so we're going to begin by reading in the
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  Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirteen and then go to one hundred
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  and twenty three if we have the time. One of the things that we
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  have been doing, if you've not picked up on it, is looking at
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  different aspects of God's character and not just looking at it, but learning to
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  appreciate God for who he is and what he offers to the universe. As
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  the eternal God who loves us all blessed be his name. He is so
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  powerful that he unfurled his brightness the deep and the darkness. And before and
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  before he created the sun, the moon, and the stars, he simply
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  said, let there be light, and he unfurled his brightness in that space
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  or the vacuum, really, and there was light. Jesus is the light,
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  brothers and sisters, and he wants us to see that light in a
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  different way in our lives through his word and through his work. In our
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  lives. So we begin now in verse one of the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter one hundred and thirteen, and the Bible reads, Praise the Lord.
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  Praise you servants of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. May
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  the Lord's name be praised now and forever more. Can I pause right here,
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  just for a moment. If you are having difficulties right now, it
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  doesn't matter what the nature of the difficulties are. The challenges that humans goes
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  through are common to all of us. Yes, some seem to be going
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  through difficulties that are more more challenging than others. But the fact is,
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  the fact is that God is with those who are willing to yield our will
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  to him. And so I mentioned that because if you want to guarantee the
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  presence of God in your life, the Bible says that He inhabits the praises
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  of this people. So you begin to praise God like we're reading in these
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  Psalms, and you will know that He is with you. Yes, whether
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  two or three are gathered together in his name, he'll be in the midst.
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  Yes, that is true. But what if you're all alone? What
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  if you're all alone? Can you praise the Lord for his mighty acts.
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  Can you praise him according to his excellent greatness. Can you praise him for
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  the things that he did for you just five minutes ago, when you should
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  have had an accident and did not, Or you did have an accident,
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  but you're still alive. Ah, When you had challenges with a disease and
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  you thought that you would never make it, but God extended your life for
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  just a couple of more years. Or your child who seemed to have lost
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  his or her mind and was disrespectful for a time, but you had a
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  glimmer of hope when he or she came home and started to say, Daddy,
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  mommy, I apologize, or really, I don't know what was getting
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  into me, but I know now that something wasn't right and I just need
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  you to help me out. Yes, And there are so many other scenarios
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  of pictures we could paint, But what I'm saying is when you praise the
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  Lord, he has promised that he will be with you, and he's worthy
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  of the praise. I'm not asking you to do anything, but the Bible
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  writers not asking you to do anything that is not a blessing. Verse four,
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  The Lord is exalted over all nations. His splendor reaches beyond the sky.
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  Who can compare to the Lord, our God, who sits on a
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  high throne. Verse six. He bends down to look at the sky and
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  the earth. Did you get that imagery? God bends down to look at
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  the sky in the earth you've forgotten on. Have you ever boarded a plane
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  and gone up to thirty forty fifty thousand feet? Maybe you are in the
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  military or in some other force, and gone above fifty thousand feet? And
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  the Bible is saying that God sits on his throne, and when he bows
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  low, he looks down at the sky. Unbelievable. Who can do that?
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  Who can do that except the God who created the skies? Verse seven.
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  He raises the poor from the dirt and lifts up the needy from the
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  garbage pile, that he might seat him with princes, with the princes of
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  his people. Have we seen where God has changed the situations of individuals who
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  were once poor and needy, And now they are seated among the leaders and
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  peep thought leaders of the world, making decisions unbelievable Verse nine. But it
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  is true. He makes the barren woman of a family a happy mother of
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  children. Praise the Lord. We have the testimony of Hannah, who beg
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  God, please give me a son, Give me a child, God,
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  please, and then I will dedicate him all the days of his life.
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  And once God decided to give her that child, Samuel, she did exactly
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  that. Once he was weaned from her breast, her breasts, she dedicated
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  him to the Lord. And Samuel is arguably one of the greatest prophets we
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  had ever seen and known. But I digress. So we thank God that
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  he also makes barren women of a family a happy mother of children, as
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  he sees fit. Now we look at Psalm one hundred and twenty three,
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  beginning at verse one, I look up toward you, the one enthroned in
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  heaven. Look as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
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  as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress.
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  So our eyes look unto you, Oh Lord, our God, until
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  he shows his favor. Show us favor, Oh Lord, show us favor,
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  For we have had our fell of humiliation, and then some verse four
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  and final, we have had our fill of taunts of the self assured and
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  the contempt of the proud, so much to say, so little time.
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  And so the Bible, in chapter one hundred and thirteen of the Psalms,
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  emphasizes God's supremacy and his graciousness. It shows God as high above the nations.
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  Yet he is also depicted as the one who stoops down and looks down
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  to the heavens at the and of the earth. It demonstrates both his power
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  and intimate involvement in the lives of his people. God has not created us
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  and then wound us up like a wind up toy and then just let us
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  go into oblivion. No, God is active in all things that we do.
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  And then in chapter one hundred and twenty three, God is depicted as
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  a master whose servants look to him for mercy. This psalm reflects a deep
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  dependence and trust in God, recognizing his authority and control over all circumstances.
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  So the blessing is that God is not one dimensional, like those false gods
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  that we erect, like those cars and homes that some people worship, like
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  those false gods coming out of the east that some worship, bout down their
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  faces and worship. God is the God whose character is so vast that he
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  is able to demonstrate his love and his power both and at the same time,
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  at a wonderful time. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,