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03 13 2024 Safety and Peace of Zion · 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 Wednesday, March thirteen, 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 new Lesson Studies. Why do I say new,
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  our lesson Studies series through the Book of Psalms. I'm thinking about next quarter
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  already, can you imagine? Hah? But today our caption is safety and
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  Piece of Zion. And yes, I am preparing for the next quarter already.
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  I started reading. So that's how I got my little brain confused here.
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  But just keep tracking with me, y'all. Pray for me a couple
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  more weeks and we will be in there. Yes, okay, safety and
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  piece of Zion. And we're coming from the Book of Psalms chapter forty six
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  in just a moment. But before we do, I'd like to welcome everyone
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  joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking
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  you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our online community.
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  It is a new online community because the other one was purchased by another
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  company and then poof, it's gone. So four hundred and odd of us
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  that we're there together are no longer there, so we moved to a new
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  platform at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for this day.
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  Please help us to find safety in you. In Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. I did mention that we are coming from
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  the Book of Psalms chapter forty six. And one thing that you may not
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  know is the reformer Martin Luther actually would sing all kinds of hymns as he
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  was going through his times of trouble and distress, and one that he actually
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  penned a mighty Fortress from number five hundred and six in our Hymno goes something
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  like this, amighty fortress is our God, oublework, never faing our helper,
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  he amid the flood of mortal ills, preving for still our ancient foe.
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  Do seek to workuse woll. His craft and power are great and armed
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  with cruel will hate hon Earth is not his equal. Did we, in
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  our own strength confide our striving would be loseing we're we're not the right man
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  on our side? The man of God's own tsing dost ask who that?
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  Maybe? Christ Jesus? It is he Lord sabe off his name from age
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  to age the same, and he must win the badtle so much more.
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  But we don't have the time. See where I'm going with this, And
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  so in that vein now we read from the Book of Psalms, chapter forty
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  six, and I'll read beginning at verse one, And I think this will
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  resonate with you. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
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  in trouble. Therefore, will not we fear, though the earth may be
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  removed, and though the mountains may be carried into the midst of the sea,
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  though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with
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  the swelling. Thereof sillah that means pause, we contemplate what God is saying.
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  Here there is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad. The
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  city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High,
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  God is in the midst of her. God is in the midst of whom.
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  God is in the midst of his people, brothers and sisters, no
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  matter what the trials and tribulations are, no matter the fact that the enemy
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  down here seems to be taking control of every single thing, no matter what
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  your bank account looks like or does not look like, no matter what your
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  relationships look like or do not look like. The Bible is teaching us that
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  God is in the midst of his people as long as we are serving him.
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  Yes, He's in the midst of us. And if we, God
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  forbid, make a mistake and we need to be corrected, God will correct
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  us. Yes, in love. And if we are submissive to Him in
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  the end, then He is in the midst of us. He will,
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  He will be our tabernacle. He is our refuge and our fortress. He
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  is our God. We must trust him. Verse five. God is in
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  the midst of her, and she shall not be moved. I can hear
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  that him. Really, it's a probably a it's probably a spiritual I shall
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  not I shall not be moved. Can you hear that in your mind?
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  Huh? God shall help her? And that right early the heathen raged and
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  the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice and the earth melted. The
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  Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
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  Do you realize the Lord of hosts. That's a big deal, Like that's
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  something that maybe we don't say in our normal, everyday speaking. But the
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  Lord of hosts, the hosts of the heavenly armies. There are angels who
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  excel in strength that are at his beck and call when you are in trouble.
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  One inspired writer said that God would just as soon empty all of Heaven
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  of all of its angels to send to your aid than to allow just one
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  little weak sinner. Huh, one little weak sinner who wants to do God's
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  will to fall into sin. So we see now that God is good.
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  You want to say, well, how good is he? He is so
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  good that wherever you happen to be in the world, right now, whatever
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  trials or tribulations, whatever triumphs or tests that you are in experiencing today,
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  that he is your refuge. Huge, He's the one in whom you can
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  trust. So the Lord of Hosts is with us. Ah, the God
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  of Jacob is our refuge, Sillah. Come behold the works of the Lord.
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  What desolations he has made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease
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  unto the end of the earth. Can I just say that inspiration tells us
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  that during the war that was in the United States of America that determined whether
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  slavery as we knew it back in those days would continue, yes or no,
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  the war between the North and the South, that inspiration says that God
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  was with the North to vanquish the South so that the beginning of the end
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  of slavery could take place. See, God is definitely in the midst of
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  us. Right Behold the works of the Lord. Let me say it again,
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  what desolations he hath made on the earth. He maketh wars to cease
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  unto the end of the earth. He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear.
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  In sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still.
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  Let me just pause right there, let me pull it down just a little
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  bit and say it in a way that makes more sense. Be still and
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  know that I am God. See sometimes he's not in the whirlwind. He's
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  not in the conflagrations. He is not in the fires, he is not
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  in the earthquakes, he is not in the commotion. Sometimes sometimes I say
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  ah. Sometimes it is the still small voice for which we are listening,
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  where he says, just know that I am God. This is the way
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  he would say, walk he in it. I will be exalted among the
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  among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. Is God exalted
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  in your life? I think there is a song that says, be exalted,
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  be exalted. Can you hear it? Oh Lord, can you say
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  in your life that you want God to be exalted? Not just in the
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  earth? Verse eleven and final. The Lord of Hosts is with us,
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  The God of Jacob is our refuge. There are terms in this psalm that
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  maybe we have missed our us among you. See God is with all of
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  his people. Yes, so when there are people who love Him and we
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  are among that congregation, and I mean worldwide, that congregation, we need
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  to know that because he loves all of us, he is with all of
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  us, and he is going to make us a testimony to all who are
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  looking on planet Earth. A wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening to
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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,