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02 23 2024 Genuine Peace · 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 Friday, February twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you Guy's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is genuine happiness. Genuine happiness. I
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  am so great that we have this opportunity on this preparation day to continue to
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  reach God's heart through his word and then begin to live according to his principles.
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  Hopefully you're clicking the share button if you're on social media or YouTube or
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  somehow you're watching a podcast, listening to the podcast if you're on television or
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  radio, please just go to your Daily Portion dot com, pick up one
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  your friend's family, people you work with, and others that you may exercise
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  with, because this is one of the ways that we continue to spread the
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  Word of God throughout the entire world. You have no idea how far and
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  why this little modest program has gone. And I am grateful that God has
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  seen fit to have us together so we can continue to do so until Jesus
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  comes. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and for the privilege you have
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  entrusted to us to open your word again. Please give us genuine happiness today
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  in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Yeah. Sometimes,
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  as one of those song writers would have said long ago, some of
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  us are looking for love in all the wrong places. Some of us are
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  looking for happiness in all the wrong places. And what God is giving us
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  in our lesson study today is the root to true and lasting peace and happiness.
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  Let me begin with one of my favorite books. Probably my favorite book,
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  let me say not one of them. It's my favorite book outside of
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  the Bible. The booksteps to Christ, page one hundred and eighteen, and
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  it reads, thank God for the bright pictures which he has presented to us.
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  Let us group together the blessed assurances of His love, that we may
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  look upon them continually. You see, sometimes we let me pause right here.
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  Sometimes we pulled together all of the difficulties. Are the times that we
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  say, why me, Lord, I've gone through this or that, and
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  I'm so tired of going through this or that? When will it end?
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  Well? God hasn't promised that on planet Earth any of these difficulties will end.
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  Sometimes he does give us the blessing of going through a trial. It's
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  a cycle. We go through it, and then we go through to triumph
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  where we begin to feel and experience the burden being lifted. And that happens
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  a lot. But there are times that we don't. Will that disturb your
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  happiness? Will that disturb your peace? So what our sister, the late
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  missus Ellen White, is sharing with us is that we should group together the
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  assurances of his love, like do that? And here's some of it.
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  The son of God leaving his father's throne. That's an assurance of his love.
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  He didn't have to come down here clothing his divinity with humanity. I
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  don't even think we begin to understand what that means. The eternal God the
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  sun. According to Micah chapter five, verse two, he's eternal. He's
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  the one who created us. He created the world's according to John chapter one,
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  Hebrews chapter one, and other places. He clothed all of that power
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  that put Orion's nebula where it is. The one who created gravity, like
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  the one who created the heavens and the earth. He is the one who
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  came down here clothing his divinity in humanity so he could save us, beaten
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  and bruised, suffering privation and hunger, dealing with the emotions of people that
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  are supposed to love him, betraying him, and on and on we go.
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  I didn't even begin to scratch the surface. He did that for you
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  and for me, that he might rescue man. Continuing the quote from the
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  Power of Satan, his triumph in our behalf, opening heaven to men,
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  revealing to human vision the present chamber where the deity unveils his glory. The
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  fallen race. That means the human race uplifted from the pit of ruin into
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  which sin has plunged it, and brought again into connection with the infinite God,
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  and having endured the divine test through faith in our Redeemer, clothed in
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  the righteousness of Christ, and exalted to his throne. These are the pictures
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  which God would have us to contemplate. That was a long list, Brothers
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  and sisters, the manifestation of His love. Can we just go back here?
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  I want to go back here for this vision revealing to human vision the
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  presence chamber where the Deity unveils his glory. Things down here on planet are
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  Earth are so dark and dismal, So dark and dismal. I'm reading through
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  the Book of Job and seeing how a man who was fully connected to God
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  holy yielded to God's will in one day lost nearly everything, all of his
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  possessions gone, children gone, His wife well, that's a different discussion.
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  But his wife was trying to lead him in a couple of days, like
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  to paths of unrighteousness. Right, his three friends and then some bonus dude
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  named Elihu or Elihu, I don't know how to pronounce his name. Figured
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  that they were all going to be so brilliant and teach job why he was
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  going through the trial he was going through, when in fact, none of
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  those dudes understood anything about what was happening. They sounded so intelligent, they
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  sounded so holy, And when he was going through his deepest trials, he
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  had no help from anybody. And yet and still God showed him that he
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  can uplift us from the pit of ruin, restore us when we are going
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  through challenges. He can reveal the bright light of the face of God in
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  our situations to say that this earth is not our final home. Our trials
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  won't last always, and He will always be with us, and He will
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  never forsake us as long as we continue to yield our will to God.
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  And I'm thankful for these testimonies, these testimonies, the presence chamber where God
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  unveils his glory. I'm so thankful for that glimpse. Now, I'm going
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  to give just a few tips if you want to say, or lessons from
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and forty one. That there was
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  an allusion to that chapter in this day's lesson. So let me go to
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  verse three, set a guard, Oh Lord, over my mouth, Keep
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  watch over the door of my lips. You realize that our mouths get us
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  into all kinds trouble. So guard your speech. Brothers and sisters, you
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  want to be happy in the Lord. You want to experience the blessings of
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  God. Yeah, guard your speech. Guard your speech. Don't speak a
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  negative word, don't complain, do not gossip. Praise the Lord every opportunity
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  you have, give thanks and show gratitude every opportunity that you have with your
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  mouth. Please do so. So guard your speech. Of course, resist
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  temptation. That's a gimme. You should understand that already, but let's read
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  it from verse four, Psalm chapter one one. Do not let my heart
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  be drawn to what is evil, to take part in the wicked deeds with
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  men who are evil doers. So resist temptation. Understand the subtle nature of
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  temptation, and run like steer clear of temptations, because going into temptation means
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  we go into sin, and we don't want to do that. We don't
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  want to be separated from God. We also need to trust in God's justice
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  from verse eight. But my eyes are fixed on you, o Sovereign Lord,
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  in you, I take refuge, Do not give me over to death,
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  like there is something going on in the chapter where of course there's always
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  this push and pull, like this contrast between the injustice that happens on planet
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  Earth, the wickedness of people and as they appear, some of them to
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  prosper, and what's going on over here. So we have to trust in
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  God's justice, his holiness, have faith in God's ultimate justice and that he
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  will vindicate his character in your life. And then finally we give God thanks
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  because Jesus is coming. Genuine happiness comes in serving the Lord. Have a
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  wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,