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03 10 2024 A Day in Your Courts is Better Than a Thousand · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sunday, March ten, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is a day in your courts is better than
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  one thousand? A day in your courts are our best better than a thousand.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  book and let people know where you are in the world. In that little
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  box it says where are you in the world, And we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
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  giving us this new morning and the privilege we have to enter into your pavilion,
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  enter into a worship experience with you relationship. Father, Please please help
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  us to do so. Wisely, help us to come in with a heart
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  full of praise, receptive to your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. A day in your courts is better than
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  a thousand, Okay. So we're going to begin by reading in the Book
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  of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty four, and see what
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  the Lord has to say. And by the way, this was composed by
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  David when he was exiled from from Jerusalem. Remember Jerusalem, the city of
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  Peace represented to the people of God, the presence of God, the prosperity
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  of God. And so if you're exiled from from Jerusalem, then there's some
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  passion that goes on in your heart and mind as as you seek the face
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  of God. Okay, and so let's go to verse one, and the
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  Bible reads, how amiable, which means lovely, How amiable are thy tabernacles,
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  O, Lord of Hosts, my soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
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  for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh crieth out for
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  the Living God. Have you ever been in a situation where you cried out
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  for God? You cried out for God. You remember the times that you
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  prayed and it felt like God was answering your prayers quickly, or you were
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  experience experiencing a good time among the people of God. But now it seems
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  that something has changed. Ah. Have you ever been in a situation where
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  you longed for the presence of God because something seems to have changed in your
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  relationship and you're crying out to God. Well, this was going on in
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  David's life. My heart and my flesh crieth out for the Living God.
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  Yea. The sparrow hath found an house and a swallow, a nest for
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  herself where she may lay her young even thine alters, Oh, Lord of
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  Hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy
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  house. I need you to see the House of God as a blessing.
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  You realize that the House of the Lord is a house of praise, a
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  house of prayer for all people. In the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty
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  six, the Bible talks about people who feel separated from God because maybe they
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  were born outside of the community of faith. Maybe they are considered what the
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  Old Testament people would have seen as unclean, right or or broken, and
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  somehow ceremonially unacceptable. And God said, there, for those who are covenant
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  keepers, for those who keep the Sabbath holy, pardon me. Those individuals
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  must not call themselves a stranger. They must not call themselves a dry tree.
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  The people of God would have understood that language. They need to be
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  calling themselves among God's people. He said, because my house is a house
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  of prayer for all people, I'm going to give covenant keepers a name that
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  is better than of sons and of daughters. It's a name that will remain
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  forever. And so we see here that people are saying, like, listen,
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  I need to be in your presence. They will be still praising thee
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  verse four Sillah blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose
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  heart are the ways of them? Let me just pause for a moment and
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  the lesson. The lesson writer says that the psalmist longs and faints to make
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  the sanctuary his permanent abode, so he can be near to God forever.
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  You ever long for the time that Jesus will come? Have you ever thought
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  you know? I'm really tired of this life the way that it is.
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  I think that almost every single day, like I'm tired of this life as
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  it is. I don't like traffic at all, like I hate and despise
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  traffic. I don't like diseases. I don't like when our brothers and sisters
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  are in need. I don't like being in need. I don't like being
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  in a situation where I feel distant from God or from His people. I
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  don't like trials or tribulation or temptations. And so I long. I long
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  for being in the House of God forever, living in God's presence, according
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  to the lesson writer, makes a sanctuary a unique place. In the sanctuary,
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  worshippers can behold the beauty of God Ah and be satisfied with the goodness
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  of His house. And this is an unparalleled experience that happens when a person
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  is in relationship with God, which consists of praising him finding strength in him.
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  Do you find strength in God? Do you invest time in the mornings
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  when you wake up to say God, I praise you for Do you find
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  and make time for God and say I thank you for I am grateful that
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  you and trusting in Him. The sanctuary is the place where such a relationship
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  is nourished through worship and fellowship with other believers. See. One of the
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  mistakes that people make is to try to do this alone. You don't have
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  a community that you're attached to, and I mean a faith community of people
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  who understand that God is so good? Well, how good is he?
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  He's so good that his mercies endure forever, like people who understand what it's
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  like to be forgiven from our sins. Those times that we promise God we
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  would live a certain way and did not live that way, Those times that
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  we have broken our promises to other people, and we need the strength to
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  get up and go forward, making amends and learning from our mistakes and still
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  moving forward. Yes, so, the people, the fellowship of believers is
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  a part of this sanctuary. This place of quiet rest, this place of
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  refuge that God has set up for as people remember, God's house is a
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  house of prayer for all people, and so the living presence of God in
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  the sanctuary gives worshipers a glimpse of God's glorious kingdom and the taste of eternal
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  life. There's so much more that we can say here. Let me see
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  how many more verses we can get, and if we can get one or
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  two takeaways. Okay, verse six, who passing through the valley of Baka
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  make it a well a rain, also fillth with pools. They go from
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  strength to strength, every one of them. And Zion appereth before God,
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  O, Lord, God of Hosts, hear my prayer. Give ear,
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  Oh God of Jacob. Behold, Oh God, our shield, look upon
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  the face of Thine Anointed, For a day in thy courts is better than
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  a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than
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  to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a son
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  and shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will
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  he withhold from them that walk uprightly, Lord of Hosts. Blessed is the
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  man that trusts in thee. Do you trust God? Do you trust God
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  more than anything? Do you love God more than anything? Today can be
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  the day that we begin to build trust and love for God. Here are
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  a few takeaways. We are longing for the presence of God. We should
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  always long for the presence of God. Also, beauty and satisfaction is in
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  God's house. Happiness is in relationship with God. Blessings radiate from the presence
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  of God's strength along the journey is what we're after. And then we want
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  to live a worthy life away from the sanctuary as we prepare for the time
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  that Jesus comes. A wonderful rest of your day, peace, Thanks for
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  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 been
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  your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,