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01 11 2024 Oh, Restore Us Again · 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 Thursday, January eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our new lesson study series and I'll
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  probably stop saying new like in the next couple of days through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is all restore us again, Oh,
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  restore us again. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please pick up
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  also the Your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  then get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  to open up your word. And I'm asking you to please, please,
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  please give us your holy spirit, teach us how to love and to serve
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  you, teach us to do your will. And I pray that we will
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  experience the fullness of restoration to what you intended for our lives from before there
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  was a beginning in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  All right, restore us again. We're going to read these passages from the
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  Book of Psalms, chapter sixty, verses one through five, and then as
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  a point of reiteration, we'll read a couple of the verses again. Okay,
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  And so the lesson writer says, for what occasions do you think this
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  psalm's psalm would be a suitable prayer? For what occasions would you think this
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  psalm would be a suitable prayer? And now I want you to type it
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  in the chat once we read it, you should just load up the chats
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  which you're with your answers, and then how can we benefit from the psalms
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  of lament even in a joyous season in life? Okay, so we're gonna
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  read verses one through five, and like I said, we'll circle back in
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  just a moment. The Bible reads, Oh God, thou hast cast us
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  off, thou hast scattered us. Thou hast been displeased, so turned thyself
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  to us again. Thou hast made the earth to tremble. Thou hast broken
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  it. Heal the breaches thereof, for it shaken. Thou hast showed thy
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  people hard things. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
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  Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
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  displayed because of the truth Sillah, that thy beloved may be delivered. Save
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  with thy right hand and hear me. Have you ever prayed that prayer?
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  Please save me, like, please deliver me, Please hear me like please
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  let me see and experience the blessing of your right hand, that right hand
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  of power, like that right hand of deliverance, that right hand of comfort,
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  the right hand of cheer, like the right hand of fellowship. When
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  I feel like even in the household of faith. I am separated. I'm
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  dejected. I feel like a dry tree. Oh I think I'm going into
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  the Book of Isaiah again, chapter fifty six. I feel like a eunuch.
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  I feel like a stranger. But God said that his house is a
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  house of prayer for all people. So we thank God that he has given
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  us a window into the minds and hearts of people that he has inspired when
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  they were having difficulties, so he can say, Okay, God, how
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  do I get through my difficulties? How did this holy woman? How did
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  this Holy man get through their trials? Their sadness, their anger, any
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  difficulty, temptations, Yeah, suffering loss and not knowing what to do,
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  that feeling of just blah, You don't know what to say if it's sadness
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  or if it's whatever, it is, a malaise. How do we get
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  through these things? Well, of course God pulled back the curtain of these
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  people's lives so you and I could see. And so what I want you
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  to do. Let's go back to verse two of Psalm chapter sixty. Thou
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  hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast broken it, heal the breaches
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  thereof for it shaketh by show of hands. How many of you live on
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  planet Earth? Yep, I know. Maybe you've taken you've taken airplanes up
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  into the sky. Well that's still planet Earth. Maybe maybe, I don't
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  know, maybe you've gotten with a couple of those companies where you can take
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  rocket ships to outer space. Or maybe you're an astronaut or a cosmonaut or
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  some other kind of knot and you've been to outer space and you've looked down
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  on planet Earth. I can't take it for granted. It's possible, right,
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  yeah, but you are earthly, You're an Earthling. You are created
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  to live on planet Earth right now. And that means that if you live
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  on planet Earth with me, that there is suffering that all of us will
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  encounter. Doesn't mean that we'll all suffer in the same ways, but we
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  will be impacted. We will see it in our friends' lives, our lives,
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  our neighbors' lives, our loved ones lives, on the Internet, and
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  on the tion. We will see suffering. So we recognize universal suffering,
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  acknowledge that suffering is a shared human experience. All of that from verse two.
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  Human suffering or suffering is a shared human experience. We must not think
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  that we are so unique. Why is it that I'm always the one?
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  Fill in the negative blank. It's not true that you're always the one.
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  There are so many millions and even sometimes a couple of billions of people who
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  are going through exactly what you're going through, or at least a variation thereof.
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  So suffering is universal, and that means that our God, who created
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  all of us, has the antidote, and only our God does. Okay,
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  Number two, I want you to find strength in God's control. From
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  verse one, Oh God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered
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  us, thou hast been displeased. Oh turn thyself to us again, so
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  you see both sides. You've cast us off, you've been displeased. Oh
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  but please, could you turn yourself toward us so that your face can light
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  upon us so we may have your peace. This is what the Bible writer
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  is saying. We want your peace, and your face is the key to
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  our peace. We want to experience the brightness of the Let there be light,
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  and there was light before there was ever a sun, moon or stars.
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  Jesus burst upon the darkness with his effulgent brightness. I said it too
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  poetically. Jesus is the light. And before he created the sun, the
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  moon, and the stars, when he said let there be light, he
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  stepped out into the darkness and there was light. That's what I'm saying.
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  I wish I had the time to prove it to you. But in the
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  Revelation chapter twenty one, and John chapter one, and in other places,
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  we see that Jesus Christ himself is the light. So find strength in God's
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  control. Remember that God provide strengths and solutions during trials. Number three,
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  Let's go to verse three of Psalm chapter sixty. I think we have some
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  time. Thou hast showed thy people hard things. Thou hast made us to
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  drink the wine of astonishment. I want you and I want us to cultivate
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  compassion, develop empathy. Some of you are naturally empathetic, but some of
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  us are not. Develop empathy for others who are also in distress. You
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  see what happens when we are in trials and tribulations and distress and have suffered
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  loss, and then we begin to start looking at ourselves. We become selfish.
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  We become selfish. Carmel. Remember Mount Carmel, Elijah, God,
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  I'm the only one, and God is like, no, Listen, there
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  are seven thousand that have not bowed the need to bail God. I'm the
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  only one that lost my wife to death, and I'm tied. I've lost
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  multiple wives to death. I'm tired. Well. I think in the Book
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  of Matthew, chapter twenty two, we see a scenario that is feasible where
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  someone would have lost multiple spouses. You're not the only one. You are
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  not the only one. So just remember that you're not, and you can
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  become empathetic rather than self focused when you're going through things because someone is going
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  through what you're going through. Maybe someone is going through something even more challenging.
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  But really and truly, our goal is to have the God who created
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  us to restore us through all of the trials and tribulation, and he absolutely
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  can. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a
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  great day. Yeah,