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03 20 2024 Declare His Glory Among the Nations · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Wednesday, March twenty, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Psalms, and our caption for today is Declare His Glory among the Nations.
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  Declare His Glory among the Nations. Yes, we'll get into that in
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  just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask
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  So just please go to your daily Portion dot com. This is one
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  of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray and then get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  us this new day, and thank you for loving us so much. Thank
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  you for giving us your holy spirit. And I'm asking you to please give
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  us your spiritual understanding because we keep messing things up by leaning to our own
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  understanding. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen, and they men again
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  declare His glory among the nations. And so my initial response to that caption
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  was why. Like I tell you, I actually wrote it, and I
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  hand wrote it with this little pen right here, and see I wrote it
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  in my lesson study, and I said, why exclamation point question mark,
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  why why do we declare His glory among the nations? And some of you
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  may be saying, well, what does that mean? Or or how so?
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  Those are both very good questions. Let's begin by reading in the Book
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  of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety six, and see what
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  we can get out of it. Okay, And so the Bible reads,
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  sing unto the Lord a new song, Sing to the Lord all the arth,
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  sing to the Lord, praise his name, announce every day how he
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  delivers. Now, why would anybody want to sing praise and too? God?
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  Oh, because he's good, because he has been good to me,
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  not just been good in general, which is an attribute of his character,
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  his goodness. Ah. But I may sing unto the Lord this new song.
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  I may praise his name and announce to people because he has been good
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  to me. And as it says here in verse two, how he delivers.
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  So here's a question. Has God ever delivered you from anything? Has
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  He delivered you from sin, from the penalty of sin? One day He's
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  going to deliver us from the presence of sin? Has he ever delivered you
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  from the power of a sin? Just pick one. You used to lie,
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  and now you love to tell the truth. You used to drink and
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  become drunken, and now you believe in sobriety and holiness, being in control
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  of your own mind at all times under the Holy Spirit. Maybe you used
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  to say bad words, like say things that you know are offensive to God
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  and even to people. But now you just speak the kinds of things that
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  are uplifting. Yes, and so, if God has delivered you, the
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  Bible says, announce every day how He delivers you, me being here with
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  you on a daily basis. For those who are listening on radio, television,
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  right on the internet on podcasts, I am announcing to you every day
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  how He delivers Why because listen or in what way? There's no way I
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  would have done this years ago. Absolutely no way I would have done this
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  years ago. Like in the early nineties, my lifestyle was not in alignment
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  with God's deliverance, if you want to say, I lived an anti God
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  lifestyle. But now I can say every single day that I awake, that
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  He is delivering me. Verse three. Tell the nations about his splendor,
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  Tell all the nations about his amazing deeds. He created the world's brothers and
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  sisters. I said, worlds plural. For the Lord is great and certainly
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  worthy of praise. He is more awesome than all gods. For all the
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  gods of the nations are worthless. But the Lord made the sky, so
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  those false gods that people worship in erect. Sometimes we go to certain kinds
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  of restaurants and they have the idol actually in the restaurant because I like a
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  certain cuisine. And when you go in there, you can see the kinds
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  of gods that they actually worship. And my son Josiah, he hates seeing
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  those idols, like he closes his eyes, covers his eyes. It's like,
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  man, I don't even want to see this. Yeah, Okay,
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  he is more awesome than all of those false gods for the For all the
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  gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky. Majestic
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  splendor emanates from him. His sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful. Ascribe to
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  the Lord, Old families of the nations, Ascribe to the Lord splendor and
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  strength. Yes, when you had a need and you prayed to God,
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  he supplied all your need according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus.
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  Yes Ah. When you needed encouragement, he sent a person or he
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  sent through his Holy Spirit the impression in order to lift you up. When
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  you were comfort less, he comforted you. Mm hm. It takes time
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  sometimes because we're humans and we go through ups and downs and we have our
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  challenges. Jesus, even as he was on the cross, he cried out
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  to his father, why have you forsaken me? Yes, even in Gethsemane,
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  he sweat as it were great drops of blood because of the heavy spiritual
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  stress load that was on him. But the Bible says that at the appropriate
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  time he came forth victoriously right and with the keys of victory in his hand.
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  And God puts the keys of victory through Christ Jesus into your hands when
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  he delivers you from whatever it is that you are going through, or he
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  comforts you along the pathway, or he is with you through the trial and
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  the tribulation. You see, and there are times that we just triumph.
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  I don't want to make it seem as if that is the only thing we
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  have to deal with trials and tribulations. There are times of triumph. And
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  when you triumph, he is right there with you. He smiles with you,
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  how he laughs with you, he leaps with joy, spiritually speaking with
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  you. And he has people on planet Earth that will rejoice with you.
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  Why because He loves you. The Lord reigns people. Verse eleven. Let
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  the sky rejoice, the earth be happy. Let the sea and everything in
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  it shout, The fields and everything in them celebrate. Ah. Then let
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  the trees of the forest shout for joy before the Lord, for he comes.
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  For he comes, well, my Bible texts close by itself. That's
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  weird, hah. For he comes to be judge of the earth, He
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  judges the world. He judges the world fairly, and the nations in accordance
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  with his justice. There was so much language in the passage about God and
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  his power, God and the fact that he created everything that we can see,
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  whether animate or inanimate. Right well, in the Book of Revelation,
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  chapter fourteen, we see that that Jesus or God here fear God in verse
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  seven, and give glory to him, and his hour of judgment is come,
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  and worship him that may heaven and earth, and sea and the fountains
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  of waters. One of the reasons why it is so much of an honor
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  for us to declare his glory among the nations is because He created everything.
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  He created us. This distinguishes him, among other things, this distinguishes him
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  from all false gods. He created the worlds yes, and by God's grace
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  he is recreating you. If you say yes to God, then your life
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  will be a glory among the nations. Let Him recreate you today. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great
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  day. Yeah.