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01 12 2024 MERCY! · 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 Friday, January twelve, 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, and our caption for today is just one word, just one word.
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  What is it? Mercy? Uh? Our day is about mercy.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but 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 please join our online community. I want you to pick up the
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  Your Daily Portion book and also please let us know in that platform where you
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  are in the world, at your daily portion dot com. This is a
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  way for us to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  us this time of preparation. Please prepare our minds and our hearts to experience
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  you to the fullest degree possible. Father, Please help us to be merciful,
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  because you have been merciful toward us. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again we're talking about mercy. Mercy, all right.
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  Okay, So the lesson writer actually used a quote from the book Education,
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  pages one sixty two to one sixty eight, but I'm only going to read
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  a small portion of it, and it reads, how often by words of
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  holy song are unsealed in the soul, the springs of penitent and faith,
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  of hope and love and joy. Indeed, many a song is a prayer.
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  That's the end of the quote. Let me ask you how many times,
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  really, not how many times? Let me ask it this way.
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  Have you ever sung a song in worship in church on the road as you
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  were lifting your mindset toward God and you and you were really just praying.
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  Huh, there's a song here our prayer, Oh Lord, here our prayer,
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  Oh Lord, and cline thine ear to us and grant us thy peace.
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  And that was a song, yes, but it was actually a prayer
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  where you were speaking to God, a I will lift up mine eyes to
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  the hills from whence cometh my help? Remember that song, My help cometh
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  from the Lord. And then the continue they continue, and it's and and
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  and then the and then the psalmness just just really uh clearly is sensing the
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  help that she has my help all of my health. And then of course
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  the choir is there ready, and you're like, wait a minute, but
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  I'm actually I'm actually praying while I'm singing. And this song, this psalm
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  is a prayer. I think you understand where I'm going with this. And
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  so I'm thankful that we have these psalms and hymns and spiritual songs that we
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  can make melody in our hearts unto God and actually begin to connect with God.
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  And many times we are asking Him for his mercy, his mercy.
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  Now, I wanted to do something different this morning. I really challenged myself
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  for this study. I wanted to see what we could learn about God,
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  and I want you to just be really clear about the perspective today about God
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  through Psalm fifty one. And then I wanted to see what names has God
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  revealed to us that would teach us something from the same chapter. And you're
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  like, what, Yeah, let's see what we can get here. Okay,
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  So we're gonna go to the Book of Psalms, chapter fifty one and
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  verse three, and the Bible reads, for I know my transgressions, and
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  my sin is always before me. You see, that is what the passage
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  says, right, God is fully aware of our sins and our need for
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  his mercy. You know the name that comes to my mind, el Royi
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  or Roi, el Roi, the God who sees me. I think there
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  was a woman named Hagar who needed to be seen at the time, and
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  she was having contention with Sarah over Ishmael and Isaac. It was just a
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  mess. And to know that God would come to her and manifest himself so
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  that she would know that God sees her. How about in the Book of
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  Psalm chapter fifty one and verse two. I guess I don't have to say
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  Psalm fifty one anymore. The Bible reads, wash me through lee from mine
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  iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Here was another word, another
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  name. Blessed be his name, Jehovah Rafa. Jehovah Rafa, the Lord
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  who heals. In fact, my son Josiah's name means Yahweh heals, all
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  right, Jehovah Rafa, the Lord who heals. Do you think if you
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  need to be cleansed, if I need to be cleansed from my sin and
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  iniquities and transgressions and unrighteousness, that I need healing. I think if I'm
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  broken, then I would need healing. It is the name of God who
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  which is a strong tower, and those who flee into him are safe.
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  Jehovah Rapha, the Lord who heals. Let's see now, let's go to
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  verse ten, verse ten, creating me a clean heart, O God and
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  renew a steadfast or a right spirit within me. See, he's the God,
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  God that sanctifies and renews the name Jehovah. And I'm gonna mess this
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  one up. I apologize Jehovah mccad ah man. I messed it up.
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  I messed that one up. I actually was supposed to type this one out
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  phonetically so I could remember. But it means the one the Lord who sanctifies.
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  Okay, And then comes verse four, verse four against you. And
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  you only have I sin end and done what is evil in your sight.
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  So you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Yes,
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  God's judgments and righteousness are just. God's judgments are righteous. Excuse me and
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  just. This is Jehovah sid Canu, Jehovah Sidknu, the Lord our righteousness.
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  So I think the Bible says this is the name by which he will
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  be called the Lord our righteousness. Yes, here we are in verse twelve,
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  Verse twelve. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and grant
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  me a willing spirit to sustain me. M Restore to me the joy of
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  your salvation, and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. This name
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  Jehovah Shalom, the Lord is our peace. Here's another one, verse eleven,
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  verse eleven. Don't cast me from your presence or take your holy spirit
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  from me. L Alam, the ever Lasting God. He is asking for
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  God's eternal presence, which is unending. God's eternal presence, which is unending.
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  What have we learned about God that he is a present help in our
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  times of trouble. He's the one who was, and is and is to
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  come. He's the one who was in your past when your grandpa or grandma
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  struggle with the same things that you struggle with. Right, he knew that
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  you would be born because he was going to create you, and you would
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  struggle sometimes in the same ways. But he was there in your past.
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  Yes, he is the one who is. He's the one who knows right
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  at this moment, which you have need of. He's the one who is
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  to come. He knows your futures. So at any point in time,
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  God is there to take care of what you need in the way of mercy.
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  Here's the last one for today, verse thirteen. Then I will teach
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  transgressors your ways so that sinners will turn back to you el elyon the most
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  High God, Blessed be his name. God is the supreme ruler of the
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  universe. He always leads sinners or his ways lead sinners to repentance. He's
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  the God of mercy. There's so much more I could say, but I
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  think you get the message. God is a good God. Blessed be his
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  name. And very merciful peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David
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  Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,