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