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02 19 2024 Teach Us to Number Our Days · 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 Monday, February nineteen, 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 teach us to number our days.
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  Teach us to number our days. 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, please join our online community,
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  pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and that is one of the ways
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  that we can build faith and fellowship again at your daily portion dot com.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and
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  Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of opening up your word,
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  and I'm asking you to fill us with your holy spirit, teach us how
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  to serve you and love you. And I pray God that you will give
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  us the wisdom to use the time or invest the time that you've entrusted to
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  us until either we pass away or Jesus comes. Help us to be wise
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  in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. Yeah, sometimes thinking
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  about death can be discouraging, yes, because you know some people might think
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  that's a morbid thought. I don't sit around contemplation my death because you know,
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  I don't know if today's the day or never is the day, you
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  see. But I do recognize that I am only entrusted with a certain amount
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  of time. Either A we don't know when Jesus is going to return specifically,
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  or B I have an opportunity right in front of me to make an
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  impact in this world in Jesus's name, or see, maybe I will meet
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  my untimely demise. I am not sure why because I'm human and God has
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  not given me the privilege or I'm not privy to the understanding of when i
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  should live or when I should die. So I don't worry myself about that.
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  I am concerned about this moment in time, just about three minutes since
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  we began this broadcast this morning. That's what I'm worried about. That's what
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  I'm concerned about. Maybe worried is not the right terminology, Okay. And
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  so God wants us to keep our focus on Him and then invest the time
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  has given to us, okay. And so we're going to begin today by
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  reading in the Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety,
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  and see what the Lord has for us here. And the Bible reads here
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  the Lord or Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place. That's our sanctuary,
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  our protective refuge. Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations,
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  before the mountains were brought forth or ever Thou hadst formed the earth or the
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  world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. So we have
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  established from the scriptures that God has been here for us from before there was
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  a beginning. Yes, our grandparents and their grandparents and their great great great
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  grandparents to ceaseless generations in the past until the beginning, I should say,
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  not ceaseless. God has been with his people. And the good thing is
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  that before there was ever an earth, before he formed any thing that we
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  can see, animate or inanimate, God has always been the all wise,
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  all powerful God, Blessed be his name. And so that means that even
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  when we have trials, he's still God, and he's able to help us
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  through those trials. When we're having tribulations, he's still God. He's able
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  to help us through those tribulations. Yes, even when we are trying.
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  In triumph and gladness and joy, he is still that saying God who has
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  the power to create and then also to recreate all of us, make us
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  holy, make us new. While he still creates and forms planets and solar
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  systems and whatever else God is out they're doing that is beyond our understanding.
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  Okay. Verse three, Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest return ye
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  children of men, for a thousand years in thy sight, but as yesterday
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  when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. And then
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  the Bible continues verse ten. Let me switch versions. Now, the days
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  of our lives add up to seventy years or eighty if one is especially strong,
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  But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Can I
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  get a witness like life is not is not a cake walk. It is
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  not easy. So if we get seventy, or by strength we get eighty,
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  or some of you are already living into the nineties. And further,
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  God is saying that, yes, there will be troubles, and the Bible
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  continues, yes, they pass quickly and we fly away. So even if
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  it is seventy eighty ninety, one hundred, two hundred years, if there
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  were someone two hundred years of age, even that would be very quickly.
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  Why because in God's sight, because He's eternal, a thousand years as a
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  day, and a day is as a thousand years. We're here today,
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  gone today. I did not say tomorrow. So teach us to number our
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  day Verse twelve. This is what the passage is. So teach us to
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  consider our mortality that we might live wisely. So God wants us, and
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  he invites us into a relationship with him that no matter how much time we
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  have, whether it's a long time like some of these people. Nine hundred
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  and sixty nine years. Ha. The Man of God lived Methusalem nine hundred
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  and thirty years. The Man of God Adam lived. Yes, whether it's
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  that or if it is just seven or eight or nine years, or seven
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  or eight or nine decades, regardless, let God be the wisdom that we
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  need in our lives so that we please Him and make an impact on those
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  around us. An impact on our families, transformative impact on our communities,
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  the houses of worship, and I mean communities related to those houses of worship,
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  and even those who are in cyberspace, those are also long. Those
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  are incredible, big communities that we have impact on. Okay, So that
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  is the basic principle. Now we move to the Book of Psalms, the
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  Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and two and verse eleven. Do you
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  ask God? Do you ask God in the morning to please teach you what
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  you must do, what you must say, how you must impact the lives
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  of other people. Let's see in verse eleven of one hundred and two the
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  Book of Psalms. My days are coming to an end. I am withered
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  like grass. See I live in the perpetual springtime zone. And well sometimes
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  it goes into scorching heat summer zone. But I don't have winter like you
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  may have winter, depending on where you live. And I see when the
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  grass is here and gone today, gone today, here today. Sometimes the
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  sun is scorchingly hot in the months like lie in August, and the grass
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  that was green is no longer green, and some of it actually dies,
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  you see, and so many of you have seen that. But the Bible
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  continues verse twelve. But you Lord rule forever, and your reputation indoors,
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  you will rise up and have compassion on your people for his time to have
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  mercy on her for the appointed time has come. Of course, there is
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  a specific application here. But I want us to grasp and lay hold of
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  the fact that God knows the number of days that he has entrusted to us.
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  He is merciful to us, and He has empowered us to what overcome
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  any sin, temptation, trial, and live victorious lives. And if God
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  forbid we should stumble and fall, he has given us the kind of mercy
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  that we need in order to begin to live like him in recovery. Okay,
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  now we move to the Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and three,
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  verses fourteen through sixteen. The Bible says, he knows what we are
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  made of. He realizes we are made of clay. A person's life is
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  like grass, like a flower in the field that flourishes, but when the
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  hot wind blows, it disappears. Wow, and one can no longer even
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  spot the place where it grew. And I thank God. But the Lord
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  continually shows verse seventeen loyal love to his faithful followers and his faithful and is
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  faithful to their descendants, to those who keep his covenant and who are careful
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  to obey his commands. Teach us God to number our days and to experience
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  your faithfulness. But in the meantime, help us to make the kind of
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  impact you have entrusted to us. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David
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  Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,