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01 23 2024 The Lord Is a Refuge in Adversity · 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 Tuesday, January twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El 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 the Lord is a refuge in adversity. The Lord is
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  a refuge in adverse. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  before we do, I'd like to welcome you and ask you to go over
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  It is a way for us to continue to build faith and fellowship at your
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  daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for the opportunity that we have to open up your word. I'm asking
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  you now please to give us the fullness of your Holy spirit. Please teach
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  us how to love and to serve you, and to recognize and then flee
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  to you, because you are a refuge and a fortress, our God,
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  in whom we will trust in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  again. The Lord is a refuge in adversity. Have you read or heard
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  the song The Lord our Rock a shelter in a time of storm? By
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  the way the Lord our Rock and him we hide, He's a shelter in
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  the time of storm. And it's reality. It's reality for us. It's
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  the Psalmist's testimony, but it is our testimony. If we will flee into
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  the bosom of God, if you will say, into the protective armor of
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  God and be safe. And so we're going to read from the book of
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  Psalms, chapter seventeen to begin our discussion. And while I am reading,
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  I'm asking you, if you have ever needed God and He has been your
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  hiding place, your refuge, just type a one in the chat or in
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  the comment section if you're listening after the fact, and the Bible reads,
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  show Thy marvelous loving kindness, Oh Thou that savest by thy right hand them
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  which put their trust in thee, from those that rise up against them,
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  Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of
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  thy wings, from the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies who
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  come pass me about. And then the Psalmist continues on that same vein.
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  But look at what the Psalmist didn't do. The Psalmist didn't act as if
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  God wasn't hearing. The Psalmist knew fully well that God would save and show
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  marvelous loving kindness. Or what this actually means is make thy favors distinguished.
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  And so if you're going through a trial that only God can deliver you from,
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  if you're going through a trial that requires something a more than human ingenuity
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  and strength, make thy favors distinguished is what we want. We want God
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  to manifest himself, so that it is clear that only God, a God
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  of heaven and earth, the God of the universe, is the one who
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  delivered. Oh Thou that savest. Right out of the actual Seventh Day Adventist
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  Bible Commentary, Volume three, it reads, it is impossible to read the
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  Psalms without feeling the presence of the Savior in the Psalmist's prayers. The Psalmist
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  is praying, let me give you an example from the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter one hundred and six, verse twenty one. They forgot God, their
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  Savior, which had done great things in Egypt. Remember, God's people were
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  delivered, and God's people and in almost entire generation of people just decided to
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  turn their backs on God. How about in Isaiah chapter nineteen and verse twenty
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  And it shall be for a sign for a witness unto the law of hosts
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  in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry unto the Lord because of
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  the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior and a great one,
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  and he shall deliver them. So the same God who is our deliverer,
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  the same God who is a refuge and in a time of storm, is
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  doing it today. He is our deliverer. He was their deliverer, He
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  was their shelter. He is our shelter. He is the one that gives
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  angels charge over you, brothers and sisters, wherever you happen to be.
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  About five minutes after we have begun this discussion today, he is the same
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  God that delivered his people, and he will deliver you. Let me read
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  from Psalm chapter thirty one, Versus one through three, the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter thirty one Versus one through three, and the O Lord, do
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  I put my trust? Do you trust God more than anything? Huh?
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  Let me be Let me never be ashamed. Deliver me in thy righteousness.
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  Bow down thine, ear to me, deliver me speedily. Be thou my
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  strong rock for a house of defense, to save me verse three. For
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  Thou art my rock and my fortress. Therefore, for thy Name's sake,
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  lead me and guide me. Now we have something that we didn't talk about.
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  That phrase for Thy Name's sake. You see, there are times that
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  we ask God for things simply because we want them. And I'm not saying
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  that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I'm saying here that God is jealous
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  over his name. He is jealous over his honor. So whatever glorifies God,
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  he's interested in for his name's sake. Remember when God's people had gone
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  so far that God God said to Moses, you know what, I'm going
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  to destroy all of them, and I'm going to make a great nation.
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  I'm going to rise up a nation out of thee And Moses is like,
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  no, but God, if you do that, then your enemies will say
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  that you only delivered them from captivity so you could destroy them. It's it's
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  like you were not able to actually save them. He didn't say those words,
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  but you can get that implication that last part. And he said,
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  for thy name's sake, for your name's sake, please don't destroy these people.
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  These are your people. And so God is jealous over his name.
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  He is more than able to deliver you and for his name's sake. When
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  we are praying, we are asking him to bring us under the banner of
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  his refuge, and we are grateful that He hears and answers prayers even today.
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  Let's go to Psalm chapter ninety one. In closing here Psalm Psalm's chapter
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  ninety one, and we will read verses two through say him, one of
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  the most well known psalms. I will say of the Lord, he is
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  my refuge and my fortress, my God. In him, I will trust,
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  surely he will deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the
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  noisome pestilence. Can I just say that during the COVID crisis, my wife
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  and I and our son Josiah began praying immediately once we understood that it was
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  a pandemic. We started to pray Psalm chapter ninety one. We did whatever
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  was sensible during that time. We live far from neighbors, if you want
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  to say so, nobody's nobody's whatever is blowing into our window because we didn't
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  live close. But the bottom line is we did what was sensible to get
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  through the crisis. But we did not depend on those things that we considered
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  to be sensible. We did those things which are sensible, and then said,
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  God, will you please keep your promise that you will deliver us from
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  the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. And God did no
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  matter what was going on around us. It was like He set a shield
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  around us. Even when I had to travel and I was in and among
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  people who were infected, unfortunately with the worst parts of the virus. When
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  it was still deadly, God delivered us. Thank God verse four. He
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  shall cover us with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust.
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  His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for
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  the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day. He
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  is our refuge, even in adversity of a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah.