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01 21 2024 My Frame Was Not Hidden From You · 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 Sunday, January twenty one, 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 continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms. Under the caption my frame was not hidden from you. My frame
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  was not hidden from you. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Also pick
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  up the Your Daily Portion book. This is one of the ways that we
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  build faith and fellowship at your daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us this new day and for the privilege you have entrusted to us
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  to serve you. Please teach us love, teach us that we are always
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  in your presence and that we should live holy because we're always in your presence.
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  In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. My frame
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  is not hidden from you. So I remember the other day. I actually
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  said something about the lesson writer and said he, but someone corrected me and
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  said it is a woman. So please pardon me for not knowing and mixing
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  that up. I apology the lesson writer, though, did say on today's
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  lesson, did you ever want to help someone but had no means? Likewise,
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  some people try to help you but did not understand your needs. Unlike
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  even the most loving and best intentioned people, God has both the perfect knowledge
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  of us and of our circumstances, and also the means to help us.
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  Can I just tell you that I have been frustrated over the years. I
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  don't think that I'm more complex than any other human, but I am self
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  aware because of my training and my profession, right, so fine, Sometimes
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  when I need assistance, people don't invest enough time in getting to know the
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  me of the situation and the need of the situation, and then it frustrates
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  me because the advice sometimes oftentimes is not applicable. Why because they didn't get
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  to know me, They did not get to know the situation, and then
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  they just use sort of a blanket approach like God is with you, right,
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  it's something set up for something better in the future or whatever it is.
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  And so one thing that is so good is that when people come to
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  us and they have needs, we can immediately go to God and say,
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  God, I don't know this person, even if you think you do,
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  I don't know this person God, and I know that this person has needs
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  that only you can supply. Would you please guide me? I pray that
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  prayer even in my practice every day people come to me because I'm a coach,
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  an elite level coach. People come with all kinds of complexities, and
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  I say, God, I don't know what to do. Can you guide
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  me? And one hundred percent of the time he does guide me. But
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  beyond that, though, we are to direct people to the one who can
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  actually help, and that is God himself. Therefore, the lesson writer says,
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  his promise to help and deliver are not shot shallow like I was talking
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  about a moment ago platitudes, but firm assurances. So we're going to the
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  three concepts that are at the beginning of the lesson, Power, presence,
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  and goodness of God. So we're going to the Book of Psalms, chapter
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  one and thirty nine, verses one through six, and the Bible reads,
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  Oh Lord, you examine me and know me. You know when I sit
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  down? Did you just sit down? Brothers and sisters, like, did
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  you just sit down? I'm sitting here in my studio. It's a big
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  old desk in front of me. Right here, I'm sitting in a fairly
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  comfortable seat. God knows when I sit down and when I get up,
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  even from far are away. You understand my motives. And you're like,
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  so he understands the minute details. He understands even the intents of our heart.
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  Yes, verse three, you carefully observe me when I travel. I'm
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  on, I'm going to travel in just a couple of hours. I'm going
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  outside of this house. If the Lord spares my life until then, and
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  I'm going to take my son to school. My wife and I are gonna
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  go and exercise together. When I travel or when I lie down to rest,
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  I go to bed at eight at eight o'clock at night, when I
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  go down to rest, you are aware of everything I do. Certainly,
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  my tongue does not frame a word without you, oh Lord, being thoroughly
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  aware of it. God knows what you're thinking. He knows what you're feeling.
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  He knows when you speak, if God forbid people are gossiping. He
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  knows that when you are speaking that He is good. And how good he
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  is. So I think. In the Book of Malachi, chapter three,
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  the closing verses, God says, I observe and hear how you speak about
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  me, and I write it in a book. Yes, verse six,
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  verse five, you squeeze me in from behind and in front, and you
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  place your hand on me. Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension. It is
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  so far beyond me I am unable to fathom it. So we see the
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  power of God. He sees and experiences all of the minute details of our
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  lives and the great big situations. And he is the one who has the
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  power to guide us along the paths of righteousness. Let's go to the presence
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  Psalm one thirty nine, verses seven through twelve. Where can I go to
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  escape your spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence? If I
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  were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to
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  sprawl out in shield, you would be there. If I were to fly
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  away on the wings of the dawn and settle down on the other side of
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  the sea, even there, your hand would guide me. You, your
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  right hand would grab hold of me. If I were to say, certainly,
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  in the darkness, will it cover me? And the light will turn
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  tonight around me, even when the darkness is too dark for you to see,
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  and the night is bright as day. Darkness and light are the same
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  to you. Have you ever heard that whatever happens in the dark will come
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  into the light? Have you ever heard the story of Jonah As he was
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  in the belly of the great fish or the whale, depending on depending on
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  if it's newer Old Testament. When he was in the belly of that beast
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  in the sea, God was there. He understood exactly what he was doing,
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  and he was there to guide and to chide and to correct and to
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  direct Jonah. So God is there? So how do you live knowing that
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  God is there? When people want to talk to you about certain things?
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  Do you speak as if God is present? When you want to entertain yourself
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  with things on your devices, your phones, your tablets, the television,
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  ah, if you go out of the home for entertainment, do you live
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  as if God is there something that he can enjoy as well? Something he
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  can guide you into the paths of righteousness through? Yes, knowing that when
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  you are having also troubles and trials on the road, do you know that
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  He is there? Yes, I hope. So when you are in the
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  hospital, when you are at work and facing some complexities, do you recognize
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  He is there? In your use of artificial intelligence? Do you know that
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  He is there? Boy, what have we come to in twenty twenty four?
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  We have devices that can and machines that can do things that were unfathomable
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  twenty years ago. Go and then the goodness of God. Of course,
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  from Psalms chapter one hundred and thirty nine, verses thirteen and eighteen. Thirteen
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  through eighteen, we'll read a few of the verses. Certainly you made my
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  mind and heart You wove me together in my mother's womb. I will give
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  you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly.
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  And then, of course the Bible continues along that vein. I am so
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  thankful that there is nothing hidden from God. But can I tell you the
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  real trick? Maybe that's not a good word, the secret. God knows
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  everything about you, and he loves you anyway. Isn't that wonderful? That
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  a wonderful day? Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,