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03 11 2024 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem · 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 Monday, March eleven, 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 pray for the piece of Jerusalem. Pray for
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  the piece of Jerusalem. Imagine that is called the City of Peace. Yes,
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  we'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome to everyone joining us. I see you. Welcome to everyone joining
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  us, especially those joining for the very first time. I'm asking you to
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  please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.
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  asking you to join the new community at your Daily portion dot com. We
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  are thankful or it's a way for us to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  thank you for this day and the privilege we have to open your word.
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  Please give us your holy Spirit and teach us how to love you and to
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  serve you. Give us peace with you, peace among your people, peace
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  in Jerusalem as we await the coming of Jesus Christ. In Jesus' name,
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  I pray, Amen and amen. Again. Let me just say that the
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  people of God were really focused on peace in Jerusalem back in the day of
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  the Psalms right because it represented the true presence of God, it represented right
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  relationship with God. And as long as the cityous city of Peace, was
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  unpeaceful, then the people of God knew something was not right between them and
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  God. And so what we're looking forward to in twenty twenty four is the
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  coming of Jesus Christ. And after we have lived with God in heaven for
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  a thousand years, we will receive the New Earth as a blessing. The
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  Holy city New Jerusalem will come down from God out of heaven as a bride
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  adorned for her husband. It will become it will become the capital, if
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  you will, of the New Earth. And maybe we'll just have to see
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  it may be the capital of the universe for all I know, but we'll
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  just have to get there. But we know that the New Jerusalem will will
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  indeed be where God dwells. And so we give thanks for the opportunity to
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  take a peek and see what we can learn for our relationship with God.
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  From the Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
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  twenty two, and we will read beginning at verse one, the Bible reads,
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  I think some of us have said this before. I was glad when
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  they said, unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.
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  Our feet shall stand within thy gates, Oh Jerusalem. Jerusalem is bilded
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  as a city that is compact together, whether the tribes go up the tribes
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  of the Lord unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name
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  of the Lord. And so when we are gathered together as God's people,
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  do we give thanks or do we just complain? It's a question. I'm
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  not suggesting anything. I'm asking when we are together, do we invest the
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  time to give praise to God and thank him for what he has done and
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  for who he is? Do we give praise and thanks when we are in
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  his presence? Do we become a testimony? For those who see us from
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  the outside, And they wonder, well, who are these people? What
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  is their connection with God? If there is a God from the people's perspective,
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  And then they say, well, if if there is a God and
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  these people represent him, then I want to be among the people of God.
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  You see, all right? And so the word testimony in the sense
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  of an institution ordained by God. So when God talks about a testimony in
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  this context, or the Psalmist says this, it is that people need to
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  see us as a representation, a representative of God ordain, like to have
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  the stamp of God on us, almost like the prodigal son who received the
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  signet ring representing his father. After he the child, the boy had gone
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  astray, and he comes home, he repents, he gives his heart back
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  to his father, and of course by extension to God. And then the
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  Bible says that the father put on him the signet that represents the family.
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  That means that you truly are a representative of this family. So to give
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  thanks to the name of God is what our purpose is. Okay, let
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  me continue. Let me continue here. The Bible reads. Let me start
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  with pray for the peace verse six of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that love
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  thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For
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  my brethren and companion's sake. I now say, peace be within thee.
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  Because of the House of the Lord, our God, I will seek thy
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  good. This is such a blessing for thy brethren. Let's talk about that.
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  From the commentary, it was too obvious advantage of Israel that there should
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  be peace in Jerusalem. Lay down Verses eight and nine. Laid down two
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  great principles that should actuate every believer. Love for our brethren, our brothers
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  and sisters, Love for the people of God. Those who love God,
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  will love the people of God that compose the family of God. I know
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  that sounds like obvious, like why are you pausing? Well, because there
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  are times that people don't love each other. Remember Jesus said, he said,
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  there's a commandment, a new commandment that I give unto you, and
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  it's to love love one another. And then there is another one that says,
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  by this, people will know that you are my disciples if you have
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  love one toward another. It seems like a foregone conclusion, but sometimes in
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  it's missing. Sometimes we gossip God forbid, but sometimes we are not looking
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  out for the best interest of one another. Sometimes we allow people to disrespect
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  our brothers and sisters by sharing their personal business which is not there, and
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  while they're doing it for the purpose of building them up, but rather to
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  tear them down. And so when God says that it's a privilege for us
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  to love one another, that we will demonstrate in that love that we are
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  your God's children, then now it becomes clear. And so here are a
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  few things that we should incorporate into our understanding. Okay, as we are
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  coming to a swift clothes Number one embraced pilgrimage as a metaphor. Pilgrimage as
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  a metaphor. Verses one through five of Psalm chapter one hundred and twenty two
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  says, again, I rejoice with those who said to me, let us
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  go to the house of the Lord. So consider your spiritual life as a
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  journey with other believers, so that we can encourage one another. So embrace
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  the pilgrimage that we have now based on what we saw back then in those
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  passages, and say, you know what, we're on this journey together.
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  We are nearing home. Remember that vibe that him we are nearing home,
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  And so we do this together. Also we celebrate spiritual gatherings, are rejoiced
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  with those who said to me. So this suggests the importance of cherishing spiritual
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  gatherings to strengthen community bonds. Also justice and fairness among our communities. Yes,
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  we can resolve our disputes internally. We can go like Matthew eighteen says,
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  if we have a challenge with one of our brothers and sisters, just
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  between us and that person, and if those individuals that are having difficulty receive
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  one another, then we have won our brothers, we have won our sister.
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  And then of course Matthew eighteen gives us a fulsome journey or a pathway
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  if it doesn't work out quite in the way that we intended. But the
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  point is we look for justice and fairness and peace and unity among us in
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  our faith community at all costs. And then number four promote peace and unity.
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  That's the same concept, peace and unity. And then encourage living in
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  peace with God, living in peace with God, like do you keep your
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  do you keep your experience with God, your record with God up to date.
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  Agreement with God is confession peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,