Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 01 26 2024 Only Trust Him

Transcript

01 26 2024 Only Trust Him · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
• 0:06
  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
• 0:10
  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
• 0:15
  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
• 0:20
  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
• 0:25
  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
• 0:31
  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
• 0:34
  It is Friday except January twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,
• 0:40
  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
• 0:43
  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
• 0:47
  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson Studies series through the Book
• 0:51
  of Psalms, and our caption for today is almost like a song. Only
• 0:56
  trust Him, Only trust Him. We'll get into that in just a moment,
• 1:02
  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go
• 1:03
  over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick
• 1:07
  up the Your Daily Portion book, and in the meantime, there's a little
• 1:12
  box there and it asks where are you in the world. I want you
• 1:15
  to type in that where you are in the world. And that is one
• 1:19
  of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship at your daily portion
• 1:25
  dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
• 1:30
  Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for
• 1:33
  the privilege that we have to open your word. Please teach us to trust
• 1:38
  you in all things. Please give us your holy spirit. Thank you for
• 1:42
  this time of preparation for the Sabbath that is coming. In Jesus name,
• 1:47
  I pray, Amen and Amen again. Only trust him now. I did
• 1:52
  say this is an allusion to a hymn, and I want to just read
• 1:57
  a few and a couple of stanzas of this. Come every soul by sin
• 2:04
  oppressed. There's mercy in the Lord, and he will surely give you rest
• 2:09
  by trusting in his word. For Jesus shed his precious blood rich blessings to
• 2:15
  bestow. Plunge now into the crimson flood that washes. Why does snow?
• 2:22
  Yes, Jesus is the way, the truth that leads you into rest.
• 2:28
  Believe in Him without delay, and you are fully blessed and then the refrain
• 2:35
  only trust him, only trust him, only trust him now. He will
• 2:40
  save you. He will save you. He will save you now. And
• 2:46
  really, as much as we read through the Psalms and we study and ask
• 2:52
  God for his guidance, we see that refrain. Really throughout the Psalms,
• 2:57
  no matter which of the psalmists pen the words under the inspiration of the Holy
• 3:00
  Spirit, we see trust God. Trust in God with all that we have
• 3:06
  and all that we are. And even through times of difficulties, even times
• 3:09
  of trial and tribulation, even times of fierce temptation, we can trust God
• 3:15
  and give him thanks. Now we are going to look at the story of
• 3:22
  Jacob in just a moment from Genesis, chapter thirty two. But before we
• 3:27
  do, I want to go into the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page four
• 3:32
  hundred and ninety three, and I'll begin to quote in a moment, the
• 3:37
  Psalms strengthen our faith in God, who is the never failing refuge for those
• 3:43
  who entrust their lives into His mighty hands. That's what the lesson writer has
• 3:49
  said. Now the quote God will do great things for those who trust him.
• 3:55
  There's that word. The reason why his professed pep will have no greater
• 4:00
  strength than that is that they trust so much to their own wisdom. I
• 4:08
  need to just pause right there. We need to have stronger faith. We
• 4:14
  need to have stronger or more strength. And the pathway to that is to
• 4:21
  distrust self, is to put all of our trust in God into His wisdom
• 4:27
  and not our own. There are times that we can't see a way out
• 4:30
  of any way, and so we need God to show us a way out
• 4:32
  of no way. You see where this is going. And therefore, and
• 4:35
  therefore I continue to quote and do not give the Lord an opportunity, hold
• 4:41
  on an opportunity to reveal His power in their behalf? Are you giving God
• 4:46
  an opportunity like? Are you opening the door of your life into all of
• 4:53
  those secret spaces like in your mind and in your activities, in your intentions?
• 4:59
  Are you giving God the space or the opportunity to reveal His power on
• 5:03
  your behalf? Let me continue the quote. He will help his believing children
• 5:10
  in every emergency if they will place their entire confidence God. I pray that
• 5:18
  I will today, on this preparation day, at the end of January,
• 5:25
  to put my entire confidence in you. Are you going to put your entire
• 5:29
  confidence in God. And let me read it again, because I interrupted the
• 5:33
  thought. He will help his believing children in every in every emergency, if
• 5:41
  they will place their entire confidence in Him and faithfully obey him. Put your
• 5:50
  entire confidence in Him, faithfully obey him, and you will experience the fullness
• 5:58
  of what the Psalmists have penned in so many, so many passages. In
• 6:02
  Psalm chapter twenty three, where it says that the Lord is my shepherd,
• 6:08
  I shall not be in want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
• 6:13
  That is a perspective that we need to adopt. Even when it feels
• 6:16
  like we are in a dry and dreary and weary land. We have to
• 6:20
  see that God is causing us to lay down in green pastures where we can
• 6:25
  have comfort, where we can be under His guidance and his protection, where
• 6:30
  we can be fed in the times that we need food and sustenance and all
• 6:35
  of the resources that make our lives or that we need in our lives and
• 6:41
  our daily activities. And so I'm thankful that God has given us so many
• 6:46
  examples, including in the life of Jacob, who messed his life up at
• 6:50
  a particular time, but he found faith. He found faith at just the
• 6:58
  right time. He learned to put his entire confidence in God and to follow
• 7:01
  him faithfully, even though his life was a mess, even though he was
• 7:05
  under due rest, even though he was running from his brother, who was
• 7:10
  seeking it seemed to kill him. The Bible teaches us that Jacob found his
• 7:15
  rest and trust in God. And so we go to Genesis chapter thirty two.
• 7:19
  And I want you to be on the lookout for opportunities for you to
• 7:24
  put your trust in God. And so the Bible reads in verse twenty four,
• 7:28
  and Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until
• 7:32
  the breaking of day. How many of you know that that was not just
• 7:34
  an ordinary man. Let me continue verse twenty five. And when he saw
• 7:40
  that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh,
• 7:45
  And the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him.
• 7:49
  And so the Bible is teaching us that there was there was a wrestling
• 7:53
  match, There was a struggle. There was a challenge that Jacob was going
• 8:01
  through at a time when he could not find his faith. But he was
• 8:05
  learning in these moments that you know what, I cannot trust myself. I
• 8:09
  cannot trust myself. How do I know? Let me continue. The Bible
• 8:13
  continues here, and he said, let me go. So this not ordinary
• 8:18
  man. This is indeed God in the flesh before he came in the flesh,
• 8:24
  like Jesus before he came in the flesh. And it says that he
• 8:30
  said, let me go for the day breaketh. He said, I will
• 8:33
  not let thee go except thou bless me. And he said, unto him,
• 8:39
  what is thy name? He said, Jacob? And he said,
• 8:43
  thy name shall be called no more Jacob but Israel. For as a prince,
• 8:48
  thou hast power with God and with men, and hast prevailed prevailed.
• 8:54
  And so the faith that God put in Jacob's bosom in this time of emergency,
• 9:00
  in this time of dire need. What time of emergency do you have?
• 9:05
  What time of dire need do you have? Is it in relationships?
• 9:09
  Is it in your finances? Is it in your spiritual journey? Is it
• 9:13
  in your personal development where you just really don't know what you're about. God
• 9:18
  is saying that if you put your trust in Him, then you can prevail
• 9:22
  with God and humans, and the Bible says, and Jacob asked and said,
• 9:26
  tell me, I pray thee thy name. And he said, wherefore
• 9:30
  is it that thou dost ask after my name? And the Bible says he
• 9:33
  blessed him there. You know what, huh? Jacob called that place pinale
• 9:39
  because he had seen God face to face, and he lived only trust him.
• 9:45
  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
• 9:48
  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
• 9:52
  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great
• 9:56
  day. Yeah,