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03 29 2024 Wait Patiently for 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.
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  It is Friday, March twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are really at the end of our lessons study series through
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  the Book of Psalms, and I just want to congratulate everybody who has continued
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  with us us through this entire core and have received the benefits of being in
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  God's presence and considering his word and asking him to apply his principles to your
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  life. So congratulations for your sticktuitive ness. That's what the old teachers used
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  to say when I was young, yes, And for the fact that God
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  is making transformational moves in your life. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for the quarter that you have entrusted to us through the book of Psalms.
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  So much to say, so much to say in so little time,
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  but we did our best. Father. I'm asking you now to please give
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  us the embodiment of those principles. Let your Holy Spirit fill us. Please
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  help us to now turn the power that you are placing within us out toward
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  the earth and give to as many people as will yield their will to you.
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  And I pray that ultimately, ultimately we will wait patiently for you and
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  not become antsye or lose our focus as we await the coming in Jesus name.
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  I pray, Amen and amen again, wait patiently for God. And
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  I know we we spoke about this the other day, right about waiting on
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  the Lord, and I said we should wait for the on the Lord like
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  the texts say, because he will do what he has promised to do in
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  his own time. But I also had recommended that we place our w EI
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  g H T on the Lord, as we are awaiting him in all things.
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  But sometimes waiting seems to us as burdensome or unsearchain. According to the
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  lesson writer and lonely, we should remember the disciples on the day of Jesus's
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  ascension. And that's what we're going to do. We're going into the Book
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  of Acts, chapter one, and we will read beginning at verse for to
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  show like one of the ways, like principally, how we should be waiting
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  on the Lord. And the Bible reads here. While he was with them,
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  he declared, do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there. This is
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  after Jesus raised from the dead. He said he would lay down his life
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  and then take it up again. And he took it up again, thank
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  God. And he said, now, so don't leave Jerusalem, but wait
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  there for what my father promised. So when we're waiting on the Lord,
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  we're awaiting the promise of God. And while we are awaiting the promise of
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  God, and it depends on the situation, we know that the promise of
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  God in this case was the fullness of the Holy Ghost for their time.
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  Yes, they would receive power. I'm going to read that in just a
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  moment. But while we are waiting for God and for him to fulfill his
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  promises, we are sting in him. We are putting our weight on him,
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  knowing that he will do exactly what he promised that he would do.
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  And so the Bible continues what you heard about from me. For John verse
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  five baptized you with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit
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  not many days from now. So when they heard excuse me, so,
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  when they gathered together, they began to ask him, Lord, is this
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  the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel? These guys are still
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  earthly minded. God never said that he was going to do that what they
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  were expecting. He was talking about Thy Kingdom, Come, Thy will be
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  done on earth as it is in Heaven, like restoring in the mindsets of
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  the people, kingdom mindset, the kind of mindset that says, this earth
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  as it is today is not our final home. That one day He's going
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  to restore or the planet and cause it to grow in infinitely for the rest
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  of the sea. I shouldn't say the rest. Throughout the ceaseless ages of
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  eternity, we're looking forward to that day. But anyway, they were focusing
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  on the earth, and some of us, not me, I hope God
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  forbid, not you, I hope God forbid. Are still focused on the
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  earth narrowly, And so the Bible continues verse seven. He told them,
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  you were not permitted to know the times or the periods that the Father has
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  set by his own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost
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  is come upon you, and you will be my witnesses. So they were
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  waiting for a transformation. Even though they should have known and understood what Jesus
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  was gonna say, they were still looking at earthly things. And he said,
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  no, what you're going to receive. What you're going to receive is
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  going to be far beyond your ability to understand. It's not going to be
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  earth and earthly kingdom. It's not going to be some tiny little thing that
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  you had hoped. No, I'm going to give you the power of the
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  Holy Spirit, and then you will be my witnesses of my creative power,
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  my witnesses of my ability to deliver people from abusive relationships, my ability to
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  give you wisdom in business, give you wisdom and your personal development, ah
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  to be able to deliver you from addictions, to sin, to drugs to
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  alcohol, right to yourself, to make you humble in my presence, when
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  you are accustomed to being proud. God is going to do a new thing.
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  You will be a witness in Jerusalem, into all Judea and Samaria,
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  and to the farthest parts of the earth. After he had said this,
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  while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hit him from
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  their sight as they were still staring into the sky while he was going Suddenly
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  two men, how many men, two men in white clothing stood near them
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  and said, men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into
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  the sky, as if to say I'm pausing right here, as if to
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  say that you're all inspired? Yes, that should inspire you, But what
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  do you think is going to happen later? Like he did promise that the
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  Holy Ghost is going to come upon you, he did promise that he's going
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  to prepare a place for you. And once he has gone to do that,
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  that's what he's doing. Now, He's going to prepare a place for
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  you. He will come again. He will return to receive you unto himself,
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  so that wherever he is you can be with him also. So why
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  are you still standing there? Aghast is what they were saying. Why do
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  you stand here looking up into the sky. This same Jesus was taken up
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  from you into heaven. He will come back in the same way you saw
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  him go in to heaven. Isn't it wonderful that God always keeps his promises.
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  We have seen so many promises in the Psalms, in particular that God
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  is going to keep He is keeping in some cases even now. And so
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  as we reflect on what we have learned during this quarter through the book of
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  Psalms, let us keep our focus on the fact that if we wait on
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  the Lord and he sees us waiting, he will keep his promise to renew
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  our strength. He will give us the energy that we need to go through
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  the trials that will come. He will give us the energy we need in
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  order to encourage other people who are going through difficulties. He will give us
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  the strength and the courage to show gratitude even when things seem dark and dismal.
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  We're looking for the morning light and we're looking forward to be joyful,
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  being joyful, But right now we're not feeling so joyful when we feel burdened.
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  But God has promised that he will lighten our load. These are the
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  lessons that God wants us to experience. Because Jesus Christ is coming. He's
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  coming, and every eye will see him. Every eye will see him.
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  He's coming, and his reward will be with him to give everybody according to
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  the works that we have done. If then Christ is dwelling in our hearts,
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  we know that He will work both in us to will and to do
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  of his good pleasure and a wonderful way. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,