Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good
morning. It is Thursday, January eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
is no exception. We are continuing in our new lesson study series and I'll
probably stop saying new like in the next couple of days through the Book of
Psalms, and our caption for today is all restore us again, Oh,
restore us again. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity
to open up your word. And I'm asking you to please, please,
please give us your holy spirit, teach us how to love and to serve
you, teach us to do your will. And I pray that we will
experience the fullness of restoration to what you intended for our lives from before there
was a beginning in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.
All right, restore us again. We're going to read these passages from the
Book of Psalms, chapter sixty, verses one through five, and then as
a point of reiteration, we'll read a couple of the verses again. Okay,
And so the lesson writer says, for what occasions do you think this
psalm's psalm would be a suitable prayer? For what occasions would you think this
psalm would be a suitable prayer? And now I want you to type it
in the chat once we read it, you should just load up the chats
which you're with your answers, and then how can we benefit from the psalms
of lament even in a joyous season in life? Okay, so we're gonna
read verses one through five, and like I said, we'll circle back in
just a moment. The Bible reads, Oh God, thou hast cast us
off, thou hast scattered us. Thou hast been displeased, so turned thyself
to us again. Thou hast made the earth to tremble. Thou hast broken
it. Heal the breaches thereof, for it shaken. Thou hast showed thy
people hard things. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
displayed because of the truth Sillah, that thy beloved may be delivered. Save
with thy right hand and hear me. Have you ever prayed that prayer?
Please save me, like, please deliver me, Please hear me like please
let me see and experience the blessing of your right hand, that right hand
of power, like that right hand of deliverance, that right hand of comfort,
the right hand of cheer, like the right hand of fellowship. When
I feel like even in the household of faith. I am separated. I'm
dejected. I feel like a dry tree. Oh I think I'm going into
the Book of Isaiah again, chapter fifty six. I feel like a eunuch.
I feel like a stranger. But God said that his house is a
house of prayer for all people. So we thank God that he has given
us a window into the minds and hearts of people that he has inspired when
they were having difficulties, so he can say, Okay, God, how
do I get through my difficulties? How did this holy woman? How did
this Holy man get through their trials? Their sadness, their anger, any
difficulty, temptations, Yeah, suffering loss and not knowing what to do,
that feeling of just blah, You don't know what to say if it's sadness
or if it's whatever, it is, a malaise. How do we get
through these things? Well, of course God pulled back the curtain of these
people's lives so you and I could see. And so what I want you
to do. Let's go back to verse two of Psalm chapter sixty. Thou
hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast broken it, heal the breaches
thereof for it shaketh by show of hands. How many of you live on
planet Earth? Yep, I know. Maybe you've taken you've taken airplanes up
into the sky. Well that's still planet Earth. Maybe maybe, I don't
know, maybe you've gotten with a couple of those companies where you can take
rocket ships to outer space. Or maybe you're an astronaut or a cosmonaut or
some other kind of knot and you've been to outer space and you've looked down
on planet Earth. I can't take it for granted. It's possible, right,
yeah, but you are earthly, You're an Earthling. You are created
to live on planet Earth right now. And that means that if you live
on planet Earth with me, that there is suffering that all of us will
encounter. Doesn't mean that we'll all suffer in the same ways, but we
will be impacted. We will see it in our friends' lives, our lives,
our neighbors' lives, our loved ones lives, on the Internet, and
on the tion. We will see suffering. So we recognize universal suffering,
acknowledge that suffering is a shared human experience. All of that from verse two.
Human suffering or suffering is a shared human experience. We must not think
that we are so unique. Why is it that I'm always the one?
Fill in the negative blank. It's not true that you're always the one.
There are so many millions and even sometimes a couple of billions of people who
are going through exactly what you're going through, or at least a variation thereof.
So suffering is universal, and that means that our God, who created
all of us, has the antidote, and only our God does. Okay,
Number two, I want you to find strength in God's control. From
verse one, Oh God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered
us, thou hast been displeased. Oh turn thyself to us again, so
you see both sides. You've cast us off, you've been displeased. Oh
but please, could you turn yourself toward us so that your face can light
upon us so we may have your peace. This is what the Bible writer
is saying. We want your peace, and your face is the key to
our peace. We want to experience the brightness of the Let there be light,
and there was light before there was ever a sun, moon or stars.
Jesus burst upon the darkness with his effulgent brightness. I said it too
poetically. Jesus is the light. And before he created the sun, the
moon, and the stars, when he said let there be light, he
stepped out into the darkness and there was light. That's what I'm saying.
I wish I had the time to prove it to you. But in the
Revelation chapter twenty one, and John chapter one, and in other places,
we see that Jesus Christ himself is the light. So find strength in God's
control. Remember that God provide strengths and solutions during trials. Number three,
Let's go to verse three of Psalm chapter sixty. I think we have some
time. Thou hast showed thy people hard things. Thou hast made us to
drink the wine of astonishment. I want you and I want us to cultivate
compassion, develop empathy. Some of you are naturally empathetic, but some of
us are not. Develop empathy for others who are also in distress. You
see what happens when we are in trials and tribulations and distress and have suffered
loss, and then we begin to start looking at ourselves. We become selfish.
We become selfish. Carmel. Remember Mount Carmel, Elijah, God,
I'm the only one, and God is like, no, Listen, there
are seven thousand that have not bowed the need to bail God. I'm the
only one that lost my wife to death, and I'm tied. I've lost
multiple wives to death. I'm tired. Well. I think in the Book
of Matthew, chapter twenty two, we see a scenario that is feasible where
someone would have lost multiple spouses. You're not the only one. You are
not the only one. So just remember that you're not, and you can
become empathetic rather than self focused when you're going through things because someone is going
through what you're going through. Maybe someone is going through something even more challenging.
But really and truly, our goal is to have the God who created
us to restore us through all of the trials and tribulation, and he absolutely
can. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a
great day. Yeah,