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02 10 2024 Your Mercy Reaches Unto the Heavens · 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 Sabbath, February ten, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is Elle 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 your mercy reaches unto the heavens.
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  Your mercy reaches unto the Heavens. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  go over to your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community, pick
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  up your Daily Portion book that is one of the ways that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship at your Daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and
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  pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  this privilege to invest time in your word today. Please, Lord, help
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  us to be holy because You're holy. Please teach us to serve you with
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  everything we have and everything we are. In Jesus' name. I pray Amen
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  and Amen again. Yeah. So welcome, welcome, Welcome, welcome,
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  welcome. It's funny my watch thought I was speaking to it, and it's
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  like transcribing everything that I'm saying, and I'm like, wow, even the
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  watch wants the Gospel. But let me not get distracted here. It is
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  our privilege to continue in this discussion. And I'm going to read the Memory
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  text right now and then we will make a few points and let you get
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  on into your sabbath. Okay, And the Bible reads here in the Book
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  of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter fifty seven, verses nine and
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  ten. I will praise you, oh Lord, among the peoples. May
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  I ask you a question. Do you find pleasure in praising God? That's
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  the question. Do you find pleasure in praising God. I hope you do.
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  I hope you do, and the Bible continues. I will sing to
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  you among the nations. Remember that song. Brighten the corner where you are,
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  wherever you happen to be. If you physically are somewhere, if you
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  are somewhere in cyberspace, and people are experiencing you and your ministry to them,
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  you could be saying a kind word. You could be showing a kind
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  gesture. You could be actually preaching the gospel. Some of you are preachers
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  and evangelists, Bible workers, Bible teachers, and just conscious minded people,
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  heavenly minded people. Are you doing this among the nations? For your mercy
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  reaches unto the heavens and your truth unto the clouds. And I'm so grateful
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  that God has given us the privilege of experiencing Him in this way so that
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  we can share and spread His news abroad, because it is the best news
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  that there is in the world. Some of you are addicted to bad news.
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  You switch on your televisions and pick your favorite television, your your your
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  favorite news outlet, and just watch it and watch it and watch it and
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  watch it for hours sometimes. And what God is saying is that there is
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  uh, there are a set of people where he said, like, how
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  beautiful are the feet upon the mountains, those who spread the great news of
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  Joe, like spread the great news of Jesus Christ being able to not just
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  save you, but to save anybody else who is willing to submit our will
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  to God. And so we thank God for that privilege. Now I'm going
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  to go through the Bible like I always do and see if we can find
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  some action steps. Okay, because again your mercy reaches into the heavens.
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  Have you ever experienced the mercy of God? Of course that's just a rhetorical
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  question. Obviously the answer is yes, all right, And so we begin
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  in the Book of Psalms, chapter forty and re read verse seventeen. But
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  I am poor and needy. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art
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  my help and my deliverer. Make no tarrying. Oh my God, I
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  want you to please just regularly think about your state, mean where you live.
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  I mean the reality of what happens if you are not connected to God.
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  And you're like, no, but that sounds negative. That's not what
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  I mean. What I'm saying is I want you to build an appreciation and
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  acknowledge the need that you have for him, the spiritual need, the practical
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  needs that you have for him, because it says I am poor and needy.
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  In fact, in the Book of Matthew chapter five, Jesus said,
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  blessed are the poor in spirit. And so it's about not just what I
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  need physically. It's about the fact that on my own I am separated from
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  God. On my own, I have no hope. On my own,
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  the only outcome is eternity, an eternal punishment that has an eternal, lasting
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  effect, no way into the presence of God because the wicked will be destroyed,
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  you see. And so God is saying, please acknowledge your spiritual need
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  for God's power his grace. I got a little tongue tied, but we
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  got there now. The Bible reads in the Book of Psalms, chapter one
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  hundred and thirty six and verse one, Oh give thanks unto the Lord,
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  for he is good, His mercy endearreth forever embrace God's eternal mercy, his
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  everlasting mercy. That means that if in nineteen fifty five you were born,
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  he was merciful to you. AI if in nineteen thirty two, your mother
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  or father was born, and He was merciful to them. Hi. If
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  in nineteen ninety seven you did something that you know good and well you shouldn't
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  have done, and God was clear in that regard in your mind, and
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  you did it anyway, he was merciful for you in that day. And
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  if in twenty twenty four, on this Sabbath morning, you are feeling holy,
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  you are like job like. You cannot call to your mind any sin
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  that you have not confessed that because you're still human. Ah. His mercy
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  endures forever. Cultivate a heart of gratitude for God's unending mercy, expressing thanks
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  through prayer and daily actions. Now we go to the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter one hundred and three and verse five. The Bible reads, Who satisfieth
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  thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles.
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  Here is the step trust in God's renewal and strength. Yeah. Every
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  day we say thank you Lord for our daily bread hah, and deliver us
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  from evil, forgive us our debts. Like these are daily realities. When
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  we need food, we need it from the hand of God on a daily
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  basis. When we need water, and strength. We need it from God
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  on a daily basis. If I need encouragement today because my body is not
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  functioning that the way that God intended. I am having renal failure, right,
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  I am having heart child lenges. I am having some kind of other
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  physical challenges because God forbid. Maybe I was shot like some of my friends,
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  shot and now bound in a paralytic situation. Hi. God's mercy endures
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  forever, and I need God's strength daily in times of weakness or fatigue.
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  Pray God's renewal of strength, trusting that He will provide the vigor that you
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  need. Yes, we continue with Let's go with just one more, Just
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  one more from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred three and verse thirteen.
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  Like a father pitieth his children. And I know some of you,
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  just like me, even though you may have known your father's maybe you lived
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  with your father's, lived in his presence in your family unit, or some
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  of you didn't know, you didn't have a healthy relationship with your father.
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  And then now it's like, oh, my God, how do I relate
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  to this passage? Like a father pitieth his children. My father didn't pity
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  me, huh, But it says, as a father pitieth his children,
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  he's teaching us the ideal. So the Lord pitieth them that respect or fear
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  him. So we need to approach God in prayer as a loving father.
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  And maybe there are times that you might say, God, I don't understand
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  love, but maybe you do. But even still, we can grow in
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  our understanding of love, and not just understanding, grow in our embracing of
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  love, grow in our dedication to the God who is love in all and
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  in the meantime we recognize that God's mercy reaches into the heavens and is mercy
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  as ever lasting. A wonderful Sabbath, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,