1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,599 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:10,480 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,599 --> 00:00:15,039 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,879 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,039 all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need 6 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:30,839 to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,159 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good 8 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:38,840 morning. It is Thursday, January eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello, 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,159 my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,119 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,320 is no exception. We are continuing in our new lesson study series and I'll 12 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:54,840 probably stop saying new like in the next couple of days through the Book of 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:00,520 Psalms, and our caption for today is all restore us again, Oh, 14 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,640 restore us again. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,319 I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask you to go over to 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,280 your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please pick up 17 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:18,000 also the Your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This is 18 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:23,519 a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and 19 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,400 then get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity 20 00:01:27,519 --> 00:01:30,560 to open up your word. And I'm asking you to please, please, 21 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,480 please give us your holy spirit, teach us how to love and to serve 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,359 you, teach us to do your will. And I pray that we will 23 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:45,599 experience the fullness of restoration to what you intended for our lives from before there 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,120 was a beginning in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. 25 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:56,599 All right, restore us again. We're going to read these passages from the 26 00:01:56,599 --> 00:02:00,200 Book of Psalms, chapter sixty, verses one through five, and then as 27 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:07,200 a point of reiteration, we'll read a couple of the verses again. Okay, 28 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,520 And so the lesson writer says, for what occasions do you think this 29 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:20,000 psalm's psalm would be a suitable prayer? For what occasions would you think this 30 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,520 psalm would be a suitable prayer? And now I want you to type it 31 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,479 in the chat once we read it, you should just load up the chats 32 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:30,879 which you're with your answers, and then how can we benefit from the psalms 33 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:36,520 of lament even in a joyous season in life? Okay, so we're gonna 34 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,759 read verses one through five, and like I said, we'll circle back in 35 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:44,120 just a moment. The Bible reads, Oh God, thou hast cast us 36 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:50,919 off, thou hast scattered us. Thou hast been displeased, so turned thyself 37 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,159 to us again. Thou hast made the earth to tremble. Thou hast broken 38 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,639 it. Heal the breaches thereof, for it shaken. Thou hast showed thy 39 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:06,759 people hard things. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. 40 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:10,599 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be 41 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:17,159 displayed because of the truth Sillah, that thy beloved may be delivered. Save 42 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:23,840 with thy right hand and hear me. Have you ever prayed that prayer? 43 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:30,960 Please save me, like, please deliver me, Please hear me like please 44 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:36,400 let me see and experience the blessing of your right hand, that right hand 45 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:40,080 of power, like that right hand of deliverance, that right hand of comfort, 46 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,800 the right hand of cheer, like the right hand of fellowship. When 47 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,680 I feel like even in the household of faith. I am separated. I'm 48 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:52,599 dejected. I feel like a dry tree. Oh I think I'm going into 49 00:03:52,639 --> 00:03:57,080 the Book of Isaiah again, chapter fifty six. I feel like a eunuch. 50 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,240 I feel like a stranger. But God said that his house is a 51 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:06,560 house of prayer for all people. So we thank God that he has given 52 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:13,919 us a window into the minds and hearts of people that he has inspired when 53 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,439 they were having difficulties, so he can say, Okay, God, how 54 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,240 do I get through my difficulties? How did this holy woman? How did 55 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:30,279 this Holy man get through their trials? Their sadness, their anger, any 56 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:36,120 difficulty, temptations, Yeah, suffering loss and not knowing what to do, 57 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,199 that feeling of just blah, You don't know what to say if it's sadness 58 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,839 or if it's whatever, it is, a malaise. How do we get 59 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:48,839 through these things? Well, of course God pulled back the curtain of these 60 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,279 people's lives so you and I could see. And so what I want you 61 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,399 to do. Let's go back to verse two of Psalm chapter sixty. Thou 62 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,639 hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast broken it, heal the breaches 63 00:05:02,759 --> 00:05:09,000 thereof for it shaketh by show of hands. How many of you live on 64 00:05:09,079 --> 00:05:13,839 planet Earth? Yep, I know. Maybe you've taken you've taken airplanes up 65 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:16,800 into the sky. Well that's still planet Earth. Maybe maybe, I don't 66 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,040 know, maybe you've gotten with a couple of those companies where you can take 67 00:05:20,199 --> 00:05:26,160 rocket ships to outer space. Or maybe you're an astronaut or a cosmonaut or 68 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:30,240 some other kind of knot and you've been to outer space and you've looked down 69 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:32,639 on planet Earth. I can't take it for granted. It's possible, right, 70 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:38,920 yeah, but you are earthly, You're an Earthling. You are created 71 00:05:38,959 --> 00:05:43,279 to live on planet Earth right now. And that means that if you live 72 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:46,439 on planet Earth with me, that there is suffering that all of us will 73 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:51,000 encounter. Doesn't mean that we'll all suffer in the same ways, but we 74 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:56,199 will be impacted. We will see it in our friends' lives, our lives, 75 00:05:56,199 --> 00:05:59,600 our neighbors' lives, our loved ones lives, on the Internet, and 76 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:03,800 on the tion. We will see suffering. So we recognize universal suffering, 77 00:06:04,199 --> 00:06:13,279 acknowledge that suffering is a shared human experience. All of that from verse two. 78 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,120 Human suffering or suffering is a shared human experience. We must not think 79 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,079 that we are so unique. Why is it that I'm always the one? 80 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:25,240 Fill in the negative blank. It's not true that you're always the one. 81 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:30,279 There are so many millions and even sometimes a couple of billions of people who 82 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:34,600 are going through exactly what you're going through, or at least a variation thereof. 83 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:40,920 So suffering is universal, and that means that our God, who created 84 00:06:40,959 --> 00:06:44,519 all of us, has the antidote, and only our God does. Okay, 85 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,920 Number two, I want you to find strength in God's control. From 86 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,399 verse one, Oh God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered 87 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,480 us, thou hast been displeased. Oh turn thyself to us again, so 88 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:03,120 you see both sides. You've cast us off, you've been displeased. Oh 89 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,959 but please, could you turn yourself toward us so that your face can light 90 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,560 upon us so we may have your peace. This is what the Bible writer 91 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,480 is saying. We want your peace, and your face is the key to 92 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,000 our peace. We want to experience the brightness of the Let there be light, 93 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,480 and there was light before there was ever a sun, moon or stars. 94 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:29,600 Jesus burst upon the darkness with his effulgent brightness. I said it too 95 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:33,160 poetically. Jesus is the light. And before he created the sun, the 96 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,199 moon, and the stars, when he said let there be light, he 97 00:07:36,319 --> 00:07:40,839 stepped out into the darkness and there was light. That's what I'm saying. 98 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,000 I wish I had the time to prove it to you. But in the 99 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,800 Revelation chapter twenty one, and John chapter one, and in other places, 100 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:56,199 we see that Jesus Christ himself is the light. So find strength in God's 101 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:05,839 control. Remember that God provide strengths and solutions during trials. Number three, 102 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,079 Let's go to verse three of Psalm chapter sixty. I think we have some 103 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,959 time. Thou hast showed thy people hard things. Thou hast made us to 104 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,720 drink the wine of astonishment. I want you and I want us to cultivate 105 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:26,600 compassion, develop empathy. Some of you are naturally empathetic, but some of 106 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:31,279 us are not. Develop empathy for others who are also in distress. You 107 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,720 see what happens when we are in trials and tribulations and distress and have suffered 108 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:43,200 loss, and then we begin to start looking at ourselves. We become selfish. 109 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:48,879 We become selfish. Carmel. Remember Mount Carmel, Elijah, God, 110 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:52,679 I'm the only one, and God is like, no, Listen, there 111 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,480 are seven thousand that have not bowed the need to bail God. I'm the 112 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,799 only one that lost my wife to death, and I'm tied. I've lost 113 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,200 multiple wives to death. I'm tired. Well. I think in the Book 114 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,279 of Matthew, chapter twenty two, we see a scenario that is feasible where 115 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:16,720 someone would have lost multiple spouses. You're not the only one. You are 116 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:24,559 not the only one. So just remember that you're not, and you can 117 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:30,120 become empathetic rather than self focused when you're going through things because someone is going 118 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:33,480 through what you're going through. Maybe someone is going through something even more challenging. 119 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:39,159 But really and truly, our goal is to have the God who created 120 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,320 us to restore us through all of the trials and tribulation, and he absolutely 121 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:48,840 can. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live 122 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:52,720 by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 123 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,480 This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a 124 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:00,279 great day. Yeah,