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01 02 2024 A Song for Every Season · 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 Tuesday, January two, twenty twenty three. 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 lesson study through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is a song for every season, a
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  song for every season. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to say welcome, welcome, welcome to you, and ask
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  you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our online community.
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  Please please also let us know in that system where you are in the
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  world and pick up the Your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  This is a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us the privilege of calling you our father, and for all
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  of the incredible experiences that your children had as they were traversing the life of
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  holiness, and the psalms that have been recorded to glorify you and to edify
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  us. Please help us to see and hear and experience all that we need
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  to from these passages, and then live for you in Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and damen again a song for every season. There are so
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  many seasons in our life. There are times of joy, there are times
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  of thanksgiving and praise, even when we're having difficulty. There are times that
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  we are sad or angry or somehow dejected or feel lonely. And God is
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  saying to us through the book of Psalms that He is there through all of
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  those times, all of those seasons in our lives. When we're having children,
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  when God forbid we have lost a child, like when we are healthy
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  or God forbid, there are times that our health is imperiled. There are
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  times that we meet into accidents and have injuries, and sometimes we get that
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  frightful diagnosis, and God is saying, because I love you, I have
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  a message for you in every season of your life. We know that God
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  loves us, We know that He is there, and through thick and thin,
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  we know that He will give us guidance as the wise who leads us
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  beside the still waters. Right. And I think you know where that came
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  from in the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty three, and so a song
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  for every season. Now, the lesson writer pointed out or highlighted Psalm chapter
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  three, chapter thirty three, verses one through three, and Chapter one hundred
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  and nine, verses six through fifteen as a place of consideration. And so
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  these actually convey different facets or a range of human experience. And they they
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  show the emotions and situations that people encounter. And so in the Book of
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  Psalms, chapter three, verses one through three, the Bible reads, Lord,
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  how are they increased that trouble me? Many are they that rise up
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  against me? Many there be which say of my soul there is no help
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  for him in God Sillah. But thou o Lord art a shield for me,
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  my glory and the lifter of my head. And so these verses actually
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  express feelings of being overwhelmed and opposed by numerous enemies. Have you ever felt
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  opposed by numerous enemies at work and your community at home? Have you ever
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  felt like on the road, on the way to work or on the way
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  to school, that you have so many enemies you have to go through the
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  garrisons, the different gang communities, or the different places where different gangs are
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  in control, and you feel like the pressure is overwhelming, or maybe it's
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  a socioeconomic gauntlet that you're going through and you're trying to figure your way through
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  it. Well, this is showing that the psalmist finds comfort and protection in
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  God, acknowledging him as the source of strength, and not only strength,
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  but defense. When people are gossiping about you, he is your defense and
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  strength. Yes, when you have unfortunately made mistakes, and maybe it's repeated
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  mistakes, and then you are now in the fellowship of believers and some of
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  the quote believers seem to be more like enemies me, more like foes than
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  friends, and you're wondering, well, what can I do? Well,
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  you have to remember that God is your strength, He is your defense,
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  and He has a way of dealing even with his children who are judgmental and
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  pose more challenges than they do encouragement, okay. And so in the Book
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  of Psalms, chapter thirty three, verses one through three, we read,
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  rejoice in the Lord, oh ye righteous, for praise is comely for the
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  upright that means beautiful or attractive. Verse two. Praise the Lord with harp,
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  sing unto him with the sultry, and an instrument of ten strings sing
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  unto him with a new song, play skillfully with a loud noise. And
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  so these passages actually reflects a mood of joy and celebration. You see praise,
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  you see sing a new song, loud noise. This is the attitude
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  of people who are are full of praise. It doesn't mean that people are
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  always happy, but there are people who recognize that He God inhabited the praises
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  of his people, whether happy or sad, whether joyful or downcast. When
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  we praise the Lord, we guarantee that we are in his presence and He
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  is in ours. And so this encourages the righteous to praise God with music
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  and song, indicating a time of happiness and worship, in this case happiness
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  and worship. But again I want to underscore three times, read and bolded
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  letters, and then highlight that we don't have to wait until we are happy
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  in order to praise God. He's worthy regardless of what's going on in our
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  lives. And if we can rehearse and practice this attitude, letting this mind
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  be in us, which is also was also in Christ, Jesus that humbled
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  himself before God, our father. We will at all times have a praise
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  even when there is difficulty. Now I want you to, when you have
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  an opportunity, look at Psalms chapter forty two for an indication of that.
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  Now we read in the Book of Psalms chapter one hundred and nine, beginning
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  at verse six, Set thou a wicked man over him, and let Satan
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  stand at his right hand. What eh, when he shall be judged,
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  Let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin. Let his days
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  be few, and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless
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  and his wife a widow. Wow, that's scary. Let his children be
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  continually vagabonds and beg Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the stranger spoil
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  his labor. Let their feed none to extend mercy unto him. Neither let
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  there be any to favor his fatherless children. Wow, that's heavy. Let
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  his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following, let their name
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  be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord,
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  and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them
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  be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them
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  from the earth. And so this is a stark contrast, if you did
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  not notice, right to the other two, as it expresses a deep desire
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  for justice and retribution. This sawmist is not saying what he wants to do.
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  He is saying he wants God to hear from heaven see the wickedness of
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  the wicked he who are choosing not to repent, and to deal with them
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  against an adversary. It's a cry for the punishment of the wicked, reflecting
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  anger and the plea for divine intervention against one's wicked, unrepentant enemies. But
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  together, since we looked at all three of these. These psalms illustrate the
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  broad spectrum of human emotions in all situations. What an interesting set of passages.
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  God has put them there so that he can receive glory, yes,
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  but it is instructional so that we can have holiness in our minds and know
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  that even though we're human, we can and must submit our will to God.
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  Wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,