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01 01 2024 Meet the Psalmists · 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
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Monday, January one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you Gun's word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our new lesson study series, the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is Meet the Psalmists. Meet the Psalmists.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment. First, I'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,
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  and also let us know where you are in the world. At your Daily
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  Portion dot com and y'all just pray. Pray for me. I get the
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  years mixed up, and I said twenty twenty four today, But who knows
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  what I'll say tomorrow and the next day and the next day until I get
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  used to the fact that we are marching forward in time and time waits for
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  no one. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Bother and a heaven. Thank you for this new day and for this
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  new year. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to continue to live and
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  to do your will. Please, please teach us lessons from your word and
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  help us not to just choose this as some academic exercise where we get more
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  information and then we're good to go. Please teach us transformation, like make
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  us holy in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Meet
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  the Psalmists. I'm going to read the first paragraph from the lesson study,
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  and then we're going to learn something from the Word. Okay. So the
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  King David, whose name appears in the titles of most Psalms, was active
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  in organizing the liturgy of Israel's worship. He is called the Sweet Psalmist of
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  Israel. The New Testament attests to David's authorship for various psalms, and then
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  of course the citations are there. Numerous psalms were composed by temple musicians who
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  were also Levites. So most people who don't really understand the scriptures as yet
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  really attribute most of the psalms to King David, because maybe that's the person
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  they know the most. But for example, Psalm chapter fifty and Psalms chapters
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  seventy three through eighty three was by Asath Psalm forty two, forty four through
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  forty nine, eighty four and eighty five, eighty seven and eighty eight by
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  the Sons of Korra, Psalm eighty eight also by Heman the Ezra Height,
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  and Psalm eighty nine by Ethan the Ezra Height beyond them Solomon, and then
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  it gives examples and Moses Psalm chapter ninety authored some psalms. And so now
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  we know that there was a compilation of authors who actually presented the psalms,
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  obviously also under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But now that we know
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  this, I want us to learn some lessons. For instance, let's go
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  to the Book of Psalms chapter twenty five and I'll read beginning at verse one.
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  That's the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty five, And I will read
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  beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads unto thee, O Lord,
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  do I lift up my soul, Oh my God, I trust in THEE.
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  Let me not be ashamed. Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
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  Yay. Let none that wait on thee be ashamed. Let them be ashamed,
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  which transgress without cause. Show me thy ways, O Lord, we
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  can learn that we should seek the face of God. That's not what I
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  intended to say. But thank God, we are looking for him to teach
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  me thy past, lead me in thy truth, and teach me for Thou
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  art the God of my salvation. Brothers and sisters. Sometimes we get a
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  little bit ahead of our skis, and we forget that God is the one
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  who saves us. Sometimes we believe the social media hype about ourselves if we're
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  known in social media. Sometimes we believe with the people on the road or
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  in the church say about us if it's positive, and we begin to believe
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  the filters that we put over our faces on TikTok and Instagram. Yes,
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  but God is saying that he is the one that is our salvation. And
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  E even if our righteousness seems good, it's as filthy rags. So really
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  our trust must always be in Him, never believing the hype about ourselves.
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  The Bible continues on THEE do I wait all the day? And so these
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  verses encourage us to seek God's guidance in times of need. And you want
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  to say, well, when are times of need? Like every single day
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  we need holiness? Huh? We need his righteousness. We need sometimes when
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  we are in trials and tribulations, we need to be relieved of our suffering
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  or to have the power and determination to push through our suffering. So seek
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  guidance in times of need. Let's go to Psalm chapter forty two and verse
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  one. I love the entire chapter, but we just don't have a time.
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  Have the time? And the Bible reads as the heart panteth after the
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  water brooks. You can hear the song in your mind, can't you?
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  So pantoth my soul after THEE Oh God. And of course the chapter continues,
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  why art thou cast down O my soul? And then the writer wants
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  to be encouraged, like, encourage myself to hope in God? Even the
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  living God who has never left us. He never leaves us, he neither
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  forsakes us. So we express a deep longing for God. Have you ever
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  been thirsty? Have you ever been thirsty? And I don't mean just a
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  little bit thirsty because you may be missed one or two cups of water in
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  the last few hours. I'm talking about the kind of thirst where your or
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  dehydration, where your cells are nearly depleted of the minerals that they need,
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  the electrolytes that they need in order to function and to keep us functioning.
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  Have you ever been thirsty? And so, what this man of God is
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  saying is that we deeply long for God. And these verses actually demonstrate the
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  deep spiritual longing and desire for God, similar to what we experience on our
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  spiritual journey. So it's not about water, it's not about the deer.
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  It's it's all about us seeking after God to the point that we are desperate
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  for Him. And at no point should we think that we are not desperate
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  for Him. At no point should we become complacent or satisfied and say,
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  well, this is it, this is all I need. We every day
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  we seek his face, we seek his guidance. We seek his presence,
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  we seek his holiness, we seek his favor, We seek the wisdom that
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  He gives as he places our feet one step before the other on the path
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  of righteousness. And of course that on that point we go to Psalm chapter
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  seventy five and verse one. Unto THEE, Oh God, do we give
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  thanks unto THEE, do we give thanks for that Thy name is near thy
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  wondrous works. Declare So this Psalm teach us to acknowledge and to give thanks
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  to God for his righteousness. I said, for his righteousness. I said
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  a little bit earlier, that our righteousness is or as filthy rags. I
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  said that even our best works are as filthy rags. So when we go
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  to God we are so happy. Why because, yeah, we're not in
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  a class doing an exam. The proctor is not against us. Like nobody
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  is saying we're cheating. We're saying that even though we do our best,
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  it is woefully if we woefully fall short. And therefore it is our privilege
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  to yield our will to God. And when we yield our will to God,
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  and we receive the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And when the judgment is
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  happening. The judgment is happening. God sees Jesus and his righteousness, and
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  of course that means that we are welcomed into the family because of the beloved
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  Christ. I've ever felt like you didn't measure up? H Have you ever
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  felt like there was a test and you were failing it? Have you ever
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  felt like, oh, my goodness, every time I try to do good,
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  I only do evil. Yeah, in that case, just fall into
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  the care of God. And of course, in Psalm chapter eighty eight,
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  verses one through three, we won't read it, there is a lament because
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  of suffering, but this song provides a model for expressing our deepest sorrows and
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  our laments to God. We're not blaming him, we're not indicting him,
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  but we call unto him and say, Lord, just please hear my prayer.
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  And then we of course celebrate God's faithfulness. I hope you have a
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  wonderful day. We'll see you tomorrow with the Lord's fairs life peace. Thanks
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  for joining us listening to 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,