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03 26 2024 Bringing in the Sheaves · 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, March twenty six, 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. Our caption for today is bringing in the Sheaves. It reminds me
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  of a hymn, bringing in the Sheaves, and 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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  you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online
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  community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you
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  are in the world again at your Daily portion dot com. This is a
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  way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
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  and then we will get underweigh Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us
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  this new day to live. I pray that we will live the restored life
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  in Jesus' name. I pray Amen and Amen again. So the first thing
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  that I wrote in my notes for today's lesson study is restoration. This is
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  the impression that I am getting from what God is saying to us through these
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  words restoration. And you want to say, well, well, restoration of
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  what? Like, why did you start there? I'm thinking about restoration of
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  your dignity. There are people who are bringing their heads low because of what
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  they have may be done, or maybe God forbid what was done to them.
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  They are victims of many different types of abuse, whether inside of the
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  faith, the household of faith, or somewhere else in secular society, in
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  the community. They have experienced some things that they wish they could forget.
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  And I definitely could write a book on that about myself. In fact,
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  I have written about these things before. But you want to have your dignity
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  restored. There's some people who need their confidence restored. And I know we're
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  not supposed to be focused on ourselves. I want to be careful how I
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  say this right. We are supposed to, though, have God confidence to
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  know when God is with me, that there is no trial, no temptation,
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  there is no difficulty, there is no mountain. There is nothing on
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  this planet or anything that the devil could throw at us that we cannot overcome.
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  We can have the kind of confidence that says God, because I am
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  hid with Christ in You, then whatever is coming my way, I can
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  get through it. So we need a restoration of confidence because we have failed
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  ourselves. We have made promises to us and then somehow we've broken them because
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  we are faulty. Like our promises feel like ropes of sand. Father.
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  If you deliver me from X, then I promise I will do why And
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  now I've lost my confidence? Okay, maybe some people compare themselves with others
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  and they have lost confidence because they think or perceive that the other person is
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  more proficient and who knows what. But what God wants to do is restore
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  our confidence, our ability to trust, our ability to love. Again.
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  We have been betrayed and disrespected, and we're not too sure if we can
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  love again God. What God wants to restore this and so many more things?
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  What is God restoring in you? Go ahead and type it in the
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  chat. If you are online or in even a podcasting platform, you can
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  put it as a comment as you leave a review, an honest review of
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  this study. What is it that God is restoring in you? Now?
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  The lesson writer said, the Lord's miraculous deliverances in the past are an inexhaustible
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  source of inspiration for God's people and their source of hope for the future.
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  Are you looking forward to the future. Some of us have forebodings. We
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  are hurt, we are concerned, we are fearful. We are even some
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  of us paranoid about what will happen in the future. But you know,
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  God has said, we don't have anything to fear for the future, except
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  we forget how God has led us in the past. His track record is
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  is good with us. Reading the past deliverance was so great that it could
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  be described as a dream come true experience, as in Isaiah chapter twenty nine,
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  verses seven and eight. Notice that the generation that praises the Lord in
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  Psalm Chapter one twenty six, for his past deliverance of his people from captivity
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  is presently in captivity. And I say that again. It's almost like,
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  let me say it in a different way. It's almost like when Paul was
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  in prison and he said, Ah, rejoice in the Lord allway. And
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  again I say rejoice, and you're like, but brother, you're in prison.
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  Yeah, but his mind was not in prison. Is your mind in
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  prison? Prison to debt, prison to your past mistakes, prison to feeling
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  unforgiven even though you have come to God honestly, huh and with integrity saying
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  God, I agree with you. I did do this thing in a way
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  that you're not pleased with. And I am now asking you to give me
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  the ability to turn away from the sin. And I am committed to turning
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  away from sin. Ah. But now I am still self focused, and
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  I feel like I'm not forgiven because who knows what well? God is so
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  good to us that his credit is good. His credit is good. What
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  he has done in the past is a manifestation of what he will continue to
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  do along the continuum of time until Jesus comes. He will continue to be
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  good. He delivered them God's people in the past, and so he will
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  deliver me. He will deliver us. You see. So yes, God's
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  people were in captivity, but they have seen where God has delivered people in
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  the past, and so this is a good way to continue our lesson now.
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  In the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and twenty two and verse
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  one, the Bible says, I rejoiced because they said to me, we
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  will go to the Lord's temple. So one of the ways that we will
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  continue in this mind of restoration is to have joy and excitement in worship.
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  And I did not say exaggerated fluff when I said excitement. We have joy
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  and jubilant praise, because as we see in the Book of Exodus, chapter
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  fifteen, as we see in the Book of Revelation, chapter fifteen, we
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  see that we can sing the song of Moses and then by extension and the
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  lamb, because God has triumphed over Pharaoh and his writers. God has triumphed
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  over your sins. God has triumphed over your doubts. God has triumphed over
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  all of the things that would have easily beset to you, except now you
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  have yielded your will to Him and therefore we go into His temple with joy
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  and excitement. Also also psalmchapter one hundred and twenty two and verse six,
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  the Bible reads, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, may those who love
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  her prosper. We want to pray for community peace and prosperity. Of course,
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  here it was speaking about the city of Peace, God's people. It
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  emphasized the importance of praying for the well being of our spiritual community and seeking
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  God's peace and prosperity for his people. But may I extend it just a
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  little bit. Even when God's people were in Babylon, he said that I
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  need you to do whatever it takes. Of course, we could not take
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  for granted God's holiness, though, do whatever it takes to make sure that
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  everything that is around you, everything you touch, even as you are in
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  captivity, that it will prosper. And so we pray for peace among the
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  community of God's people. But we also pray and move so that whatever is
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  happening in the society around us will be better, like when Joseph was working
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  in society, when Danielle was working in society. Are you getting the message
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  here? Whenever God's People are present in any society, that society must must
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  grow and be more prosperous. And I think I'll just think of one more
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  from the Book of Revelation, chapter twenty one and verse three. Hope in
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  God's eternal presence, we are looking forward to the day and the Tabernacle of
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  God is among God's people, and he will be with them, and God
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  himself will be with them and be their God Ah bringing in the Shees restorationist.
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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 E. L. David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,