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01 07 2024 Fostering the Use of the Psalms in Prayer · 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 Sunday, January seven, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name Iszelle 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, and our caption for today is fostering the use of Psalms in prayer.
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  Fostering the use of Psalms in prayer. We'll get into that in just
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  a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you. Welcome,
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  Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege to come together again
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  and for the new week that you have entrusted to our care. Into our
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  care. I pray God now that we will do what you have demonstrated through
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  the life of Jesus Christ. Please teach us to pray. Teach us to
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  be devoted and connected with you and then make a difference in this world.
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  In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again, fostering the use
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  of psalms in prayer. Now, yesterday I broached something with you. I
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  don't know if I did a good job, so I'm going to do it
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  again. Right. So, when Jesus gave his disciples, I'll call it
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  this blueprint for that instance, when they said, Jesus, will you teach
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  us to pray like John taught his disciples. His intent was not for us
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  to recite the prayers that he recite over and over what he prayed in that
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  moment. It was a It was a It was a way to actually connect
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  with God and for his disciples to see what it means to connect with God.
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  Like. Prayer is the breath of the soul. Right, prayer is
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  like is like is like speaking to God as unto a friend. Some of
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  you may have heard this coming out of Missus White's writings. If you don't
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  know about that, then maybe we'll have to look at it another time.
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  But what I'm saying is he was not giving us a prescription and say recite
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  this and then you will have prayed. No, it is connecting with God
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  from our own experiences. It's connecting with God and listening for his voice,
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  not just speaking. And so I want you to get that clear, clear,
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  clear clear if in case I did not say this appropriately yesterday, and
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  so the lesson writer says this, a simple way of introducing the Psalms into
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  daily life is to devote time each day in reading of a song, beginning
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  with Psalms chapter one and following the order given by the psalter. Another way
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  is to read the psalms that correspond to your present situation. In fact,
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  let me just say that I'm going to try to pronounce the lesson writer's name
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  Dragoslava soundtrack, sir soundtrack. I'll just say, and I probably mispronounced.
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  I apologize if you hear this, sir, please let me know how to
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  actually pronounce your name appropriately. But he's really giving us a blueprint about connecting
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  with God through the scriptures. In this case, the backdrop is the Psalms.
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  But this is key. Like. Another way is to read the psalms
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  that correspond to your present situation, whatever it happens to be. There are
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  psalms of lament, psalms of communal lament that means other people are also lamenting
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  whatever is happening. Huh. And we come together right the thanksgiving psalms,
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  the hymns, the penitential psalms, those are the ones where we are repenting
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  of our sins and saying Lord, like in Psalm chapter fifty one, where
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  David was doing the same because of his murderous thoughts and actions, because of
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  the conspiracies, because of the adultery and other things that he was doing,
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  lying in the case of Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite, and then all of
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  Uriah's men that he enlisted without them even fully understanding to murder him. You
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  see penitential psalms, the wisdom psalms seeking God's wisdom and guidance, historical psalms,
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  psalms containing anger and rage, and pilgrimage psalms. And then he offers
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  much more here. But what I want to do is give some actionable points
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  from this lesson. Okay, And so the first one is coming from the
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  Book of Psalms, chapter one, one hundred and five and verse five.
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  And again I'm going to give you pass a lob if you will, and
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  basketball speak like teachers, read, actually read in your groups, your small
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  groups like actually read the Bible, don't talk about the Bible, and at
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  nauseum, actually read it. And so the Bible says, sing unto the
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  Lord, Sing unto the Lord, and declare his glory, talk of his
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  wondrous works. That's in Psalms chapter one hundred five and verse five. And
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  then in the Book of Colossians chapter three and verse sixteen it says, let
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  the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
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  one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
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  hearts unto the Lord. And then one more in the Book of James chapter
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  five and verse three, is any among you afflicted, let him pray is
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  ay Mary, let him sing songs. And so in this regard here is
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  a key takeaway that I hope that you will gather. The psalms play a
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  vital role in the believer's worship experience. That's what we're talking about. We're
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  talking about connecting with God in a special way. And I've told you some
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  of what the lesson writer said, but it's about that, through our emotions
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  and through our insights that we get in the psalms. These were real live
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  people. We talked about that the other day, real live people with real
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  live experiences. And since this is given to us by inspiration of God,
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  then we can look at it because it is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
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  right, for instruction, for correction and righteousness, so that the people
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  of God may be perfect, that is complete, thruly furnished unto all good
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  works. And so this is a practical God. Really for a connection with
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  God. I know I keep saying that connection with God because people sometimes gloss
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  over. Sometimes we think it's about arguing with people. We think it's about
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  forcing our points. We think it's about about preaching and teaching, and I
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  do preach, I do teach. But really it's about a relationship with God.
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  That's what he's after. When Jesus said, have them make me a
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  sanctuary that I may dwell among them, he was being very clear he wanted
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  to be among his people. Then when you read way in the Book of
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  Revelation, toward the very end, the end the end of the book,
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  in chapters twenty one and twenty two, we see that the Tabernacle of God
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  is with us like there was no need for a temple there John didn't see
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  one because Jesus Christ the Lamb is the temple thereof. And so God has
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  always just really literally wanted to connect with us because when we sinned, we
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  made it very difficult because sin separates. Okay, and so here are some
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  practical methods of incorporating the psalms, and I'll say them quickly. Number one,
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  daily reading. It sounds simple. Just read the psalms, read and
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  then their situational reading. It's the kind of reading that says, Lord,
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  I am happy today, and then you read psalms related to that, I
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  am not happy today, and then some psalms like forty two connecting with that
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  and how to get connected with God and that, and then of course reflect
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  reflect on what God through the Holy Ghost is showing you from these very psalms.
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  If a wonderful rest of your day, Peace, Thanks for joining us
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  listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,