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 Wednesday, March twenty, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is Elle 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 Declare His Glory among the Nations.
Declare His Glory among the Nations. Yes, we'll get into that in
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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and then get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day, and thank you for loving us so much. Thank
you for giving us your holy spirit. And I'm asking you to please give
us your spiritual understanding because we keep messing things up by leaning to our own
understanding. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen, and they men again
declare His glory among the nations. And so my initial response to that caption
was why. Like I tell you, I actually wrote it, and I
hand wrote it with this little pen right here, and see I wrote it
in my lesson study, and I said, why exclamation point question mark,
why why do we declare His glory among the nations? And some of you
may be saying, well, what does that mean? Or or how so?
Those are both very good questions. Let's begin by reading in the Book
of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety six, and see what
we can get out of it. Okay, And so the Bible reads,
sing unto the Lord a new song, Sing to the Lord all the arth,
sing to the Lord, praise his name, announce every day how he
delivers. Now, why would anybody want to sing praise and too? God?
Oh, because he's good, because he has been good to me,
not just been good in general, which is an attribute of his character,
his goodness. Ah. But I may sing unto the Lord this new song.
I may praise his name and announce to people because he has been good
to me. And as it says here in verse two, how he delivers.
So here's a question. Has God ever delivered you from anything? Has
He delivered you from sin, from the penalty of sin? One day He's
going to deliver us from the presence of sin? Has he ever delivered you
from the power of a sin? Just pick one. You used to lie,
and now you love to tell the truth. You used to drink and
become drunken, and now you believe in sobriety and holiness, being in control
of your own mind at all times under the Holy Spirit. Maybe you used
to say bad words, like say things that you know are offensive to God
and even to people. But now you just speak the kinds of things that
are uplifting. Yes, and so, if God has delivered you, the
Bible says, announce every day how He delivers you, me being here with
you on a daily basis. For those who are listening on radio, television,
right on the internet on podcasts, I am announcing to you every day
how He delivers Why because listen or in what way? There's no way I
would have done this years ago. Absolutely no way I would have done this
years ago. Like in the early nineties, my lifestyle was not in alignment
with God's deliverance, if you want to say, I lived an anti God
lifestyle. But now I can say every single day that I awake, that
He is delivering me. Verse three. Tell the nations about his splendor,
Tell all the nations about his amazing deeds. He created the world's brothers and
sisters. I said, worlds plural. For the Lord is great and certainly
worthy of praise. He is more awesome than all gods. For all the
gods of the nations are worthless. But the Lord made the sky, so
those false gods that people worship in erect. Sometimes we go to certain kinds
of restaurants and they have the idol actually in the restaurant because I like a
certain cuisine. And when you go in there, you can see the kinds
of gods that they actually worship. And my son Josiah, he hates seeing
those idols, like he closes his eyes, covers his eyes. It's like,
man, I don't even want to see this. Yeah, Okay,
he is more awesome than all of those false gods for the For all the
gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky. Majestic
splendor emanates from him. His sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful. Ascribe to
the Lord, Old families of the nations, Ascribe to the Lord splendor and
strength. Yes, when you had a need and you prayed to God,
he supplied all your need according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus.
Yes Ah. When you needed encouragement, he sent a person or he
sent through his Holy Spirit the impression in order to lift you up. When
you were comfort less, he comforted you. Mm hm. It takes time
sometimes because we're humans and we go through ups and downs and we have our
challenges. Jesus, even as he was on the cross, he cried out
to his father, why have you forsaken me? Yes, even in Gethsemane,
he sweat as it were great drops of blood because of the heavy spiritual
stress load that was on him. But the Bible says that at the appropriate
time he came forth victoriously right and with the keys of victory in his hand.
And God puts the keys of victory through Christ Jesus into your hands when
he delivers you from whatever it is that you are going through, or he
comforts you along the pathway, or he is with you through the trial and
the tribulation. You see, and there are times that we just triumph.
I don't want to make it seem as if that is the only thing we
have to deal with trials and tribulations. There are times of triumph. And
when you triumph, he is right there with you. He smiles with you,
how he laughs with you, he leaps with joy, spiritually speaking with
you. And he has people on planet Earth that will rejoice with you.
Why because He loves you. The Lord reigns people. Verse eleven. Let
the sky rejoice, the earth be happy. Let the sea and everything in
it shout, The fields and everything in them celebrate. Ah. Then let
the trees of the forest shout for joy before the Lord, for he comes.
For he comes, well, my Bible texts close by itself. That's
weird, hah. For he comes to be judge of the earth, He
judges the world. He judges the world fairly, and the nations in accordance
with his justice. There was so much language in the passage about God and
his power, God and the fact that he created everything that we can see,
whether animate or inanimate. Right well, in the Book of Revelation,
chapter fourteen, we see that that Jesus or God here fear God in verse
seven, and give glory to him, and his hour of judgment is come,
and worship him that may heaven and earth, and sea and the fountains
of waters. One of the reasons why it is so much of an honor
for us to declare his glory among the nations is because He created everything.
He created us. This distinguishes him, among other things, this distinguishes him
from all false gods. He created the worlds yes, and by God's grace
he is recreating you. If you say yes to God, then your life
will be a glory among the nations. Let Him recreate you today. Peace.
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.