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03 04 2024 Remembering History and the Praise of God · 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 Monday, March four, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El 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 remembering the history and praise of
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  God. Remembering the history and praise of God. 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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  ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  thank you for giving us this privilege to open your word again today. Please
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  teach us your word, teach us to live according to the principles, and
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  teach us to remember to remember you. In Jesus's name, I pray,
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  amen and Amen again. I have to admit that while I was, you
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  know, listening and listening to the intro and I'm getting myself prepared, then
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  it came to my mind a hymn that I love, and so I'm not
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  prepared to play the music, but I do want to sing one or two
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  refrains, one or two verses of it, even though I won't have the
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  music cued up. I didn't plan for this. But this is what's jumping
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  into my mind as we consider what God has done for us, And this
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  is from number three hundred and seventeen out of our hymnal here, and it's
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  lead me to Calvary. Lead me to Calvary, because we've been talking about
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  forgetting and remembering, forgetting what God has done for us and how that negatively
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  impacts our experience with God in our lives, right, And so I want
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  to I want to in that vein just just share a little bit here and
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  see what we can do with the rest of our time. Okay, And
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  here it is, King of my life. I crown thee now thine shall
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  the glory be? Lest I forget thy thorn crowned brow. Lead me to
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  Calvy. Show me the tune where thoust laid tenderly mornt, and when a
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  chosen roads of light raid guarded the wist thou left. Let me get to
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  that last verse. May I be willing Lord to bear daily my cross for
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  the even the cup of grief to bear Thou hast born for me. Lest
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  I forget get save money, lest I forget tha akony. Last I forget
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  thy love for me. O lead me to Callvarie. And so what we
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  need to do is always be in remembrance of what God has done for us.
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  I've said it to you many times before, but I needed to settle
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  into your spirit to remember what God has done, remember the history of God
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  and his people, and then give him praise because we don't want to forget.
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  We do not want to forget. And so the lesson writer says in
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and five, this recalls key events
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  that shape the covenantal ref relationship between God and his people. For us,
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  we see Calvary, right, I'm saying that it focuses on God's covenant with
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  Abraham to give the promised land to him and to his descendants, and how
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  this promise confirmed to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is providentially fulfilled in Joseph
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  and Moses and Aaron and in the time of conquest of Canaan. The Psalm
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  gives hope to God's people in all generations because God's marvelous works in the past
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  you see lead me to Calvary. You see what Jesus did there on the
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  cross to save us from our sins. Yes, what he has done in
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  the past. What He's done in the past guarantees God's unchanging love to his
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  people in all times. If something happened to the current, the electricity in
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  this broadcast was interrupted right here, we would have gotten enough to chew on
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  for a generation. We must remember that God has been faied faithful to us.
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  We must remember that not only did He give his people the earthly promised
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  land, but He through Christ has given us eternal life and the inheritance that
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  He has promised for our generations in the past. And I'm thankful that He
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  has been so kind. How kind has he been to include you and to
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  include me? Yes? And so in verse five of the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter one hundred and five, the Bible reads, remember the miraculous deeds
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  performed. God performed his wonders and the decisions of his mouth. And so
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  we're talking about God's promises, and then what he did based on his promises.
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  And so God, in his faithfulness and his promises is something we need
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  to remember. We need to remember. And then, of course verse seventeen
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  the Bible reads verse seventeen, he sent a man before them, Joseph was
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  sold as a ser right and so Joseph was sold into slavery, yes,
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  by his own brothers. Then those persons who purchased him, the Ishmaelites,
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  then sold him to Potiphar. Potiphar had him in his household, and he
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  a god because God has been good to had been good to Joseph even though
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  he was still captive. He was like a chief captive, if you want
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  to say. And then and then something went very wrong in Potiphar's house,
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  and then he goes to jail. And then in jail he becomes like the
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  chief inmate, right, and then after that, you know, a long
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  story short, this dude becomes like the second man next to Pharaoh in Egypt.
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  And because of the faithfulness of God in Joseph, he was able to
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  save people's lives literally through famine and privation and the gods. And then God's
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  hand is clearly seen. And so we see in the providence of God,
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  his fulfillment of promises through the life of people like Joseph, through the lives
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  of people like Moses and Aaron and others, we see God's providential care.
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  So if you're in the midst of a trial and you wonder, well,
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  why am I in this place in this station, ask God, well,
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  what would you have me to do while I am in this situation? Why
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  is it that I'm going through this pain? What would you have me to
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  do while I am in this pain? When I am experiencing disappointments? What
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  is the glory that you want to get out of this moment that I am
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  being disappointed? Even if it's for years. I have a testimony, brothers
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  and sisters, and many of you do too, of God's watch care and
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  how all of that he brought full circle in order to bring glory to him
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  himself. And so we want to look at the kind of faith that the
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  patriarchs had. In verse six, the Bible reads, his servant Israel,
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  whom he chose, is a person that we can see. We can see
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  in history when Jacob, when Jacob decided to turn his heart toward God fully
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  and not let God go until he blessed him. God transformed his life from
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  the supplanter, the tinnel, the crook, the scammer, named Jacob and
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  made him to be so aligned with God that he gave him the name of
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  God's people. He gave him the name that God assumed for himself through Christ
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  He gave him the culture and heritage inheritance in his bosom, and he is
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  now the one whom God has chosen and a representative of God's people all around.
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  And so this suggests a call to follow their example, all of God's
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  people's example for endurance and loyalty. When they have been loyal, remember the
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  history and praise God for his thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,