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 --> 00:00:15,080 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 --> 00:00:34,280 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,880 morning. It is Wednesday, March twenty, twenty twenty four. Hello, 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,880 my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,200 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,399 is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book 12 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:56,359 of Psalms, and our caption for today is Declare His Glory among the Nations. 13 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:00,679 Declare His Glory among the Nations. Yes, we'll get into that in 14 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:03,319 just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask 15 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:07,560 you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our 16 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,480 online community and listen. If you answer all of the questions. There, 17 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:19,280 then you will automatically be enrolled into the community where you can ask your questions. 18 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,159 We can have discussions surrounding the lesson study, but if you don't, 19 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,280 the system's going to kick it out and then send you a message to say, 20 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,079 hey, you never filled out the two answers to the questions, okay, 21 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,280 So just please go to your daily Portion dot com. This is one 22 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,040 of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead 23 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:42,439 and pray and then get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for giving 24 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:47,120 us this new day, and thank you for loving us so much. Thank 25 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:49,840 you for giving us your holy spirit. And I'm asking you to please give 26 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:57,239 us your spiritual understanding because we keep messing things up by leaning to our own 27 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:01,239 understanding. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen, and they men again 28 00:02:01,719 --> 00:02:09,039 declare His glory among the nations. And so my initial response to that caption 29 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:13,680 was why. Like I tell you, I actually wrote it, and I 30 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:15,879 hand wrote it with this little pen right here, and see I wrote it 31 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:21,960 in my lesson study, and I said, why exclamation point question mark, 32 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:27,439 why why do we declare His glory among the nations? And some of you 33 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,560 may be saying, well, what does that mean? Or or how so? 34 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:36,240 Those are both very good questions. Let's begin by reading in the Book 35 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,719 of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety six, and see what 36 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:42,759 we can get out of it. Okay, And so the Bible reads, 37 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,879 sing unto the Lord a new song, Sing to the Lord all the arth, 38 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:53,159 sing to the Lord, praise his name, announce every day how he 39 00:02:53,759 --> 00:02:58,840 delivers. Now, why would anybody want to sing praise and too? God? 40 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:02,599 Oh, because he's good, because he has been good to me, 41 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,080 not just been good in general, which is an attribute of his character, 42 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:14,719 his goodness. Ah. But I may sing unto the Lord this new song. 43 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:22,599 I may praise his name and announce to people because he has been good 44 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:28,159 to me. And as it says here in verse two, how he delivers. 45 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,919 So here's a question. Has God ever delivered you from anything? Has 46 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:36,879 He delivered you from sin, from the penalty of sin? One day He's 47 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:40,520 going to deliver us from the presence of sin? Has he ever delivered you 48 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,639 from the power of a sin? Just pick one. You used to lie, 49 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:51,280 and now you love to tell the truth. You used to drink and 50 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:58,360 become drunken, and now you believe in sobriety and holiness, being in control 51 00:03:58,439 --> 00:04:02,680 of your own mind at all times under the Holy Spirit. Maybe you used 52 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:08,039 to say bad words, like say things that you know are offensive to God 53 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:12,759 and even to people. But now you just speak the kinds of things that 54 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,519 are uplifting. Yes, and so, if God has delivered you, the 55 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:23,040 Bible says, announce every day how He delivers you, me being here with 56 00:04:23,079 --> 00:04:26,600 you on a daily basis. For those who are listening on radio, television, 57 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:31,319 right on the internet on podcasts, I am announcing to you every day 58 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:36,360 how He delivers Why because listen or in what way? There's no way I 59 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:41,639 would have done this years ago. Absolutely no way I would have done this 60 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,079 years ago. Like in the early nineties, my lifestyle was not in alignment 61 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:54,800 with God's deliverance, if you want to say, I lived an anti God 62 00:04:55,439 --> 00:04:59,639 lifestyle. But now I can say every single day that I awake, that 63 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,040 He is delivering me. Verse three. Tell the nations about his splendor, 64 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:09,040 Tell all the nations about his amazing deeds. He created the world's brothers and 65 00:05:09,079 --> 00:05:14,959 sisters. I said, worlds plural. For the Lord is great and certainly 66 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,879 worthy of praise. He is more awesome than all gods. For all the 67 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:25,759 gods of the nations are worthless. But the Lord made the sky, so 68 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,600 those false gods that people worship in erect. Sometimes we go to certain kinds 69 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,720 of restaurants and they have the idol actually in the restaurant because I like a 70 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:40,199 certain cuisine. And when you go in there, you can see the kinds 71 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:44,839 of gods that they actually worship. And my son Josiah, he hates seeing 72 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,000 those idols, like he closes his eyes, covers his eyes. It's like, 73 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,160 man, I don't even want to see this. Yeah, Okay, 74 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:57,959 he is more awesome than all of those false gods for the For all the 75 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,399 gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky. Majestic 76 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:09,279 splendor emanates from him. His sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful. Ascribe to 77 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:14,399 the Lord, Old families of the nations, Ascribe to the Lord splendor and 78 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,120 strength. Yes, when you had a need and you prayed to God, 79 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:24,040 he supplied all your need according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus. 80 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,399 Yes Ah. When you needed encouragement, he sent a person or he 81 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,279 sent through his Holy Spirit the impression in order to lift you up. When 82 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,480 you were comfort less, he comforted you. Mm hm. It takes time 83 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:43,040 sometimes because we're humans and we go through ups and downs and we have our 84 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,720 challenges. Jesus, even as he was on the cross, he cried out 85 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:50,439 to his father, why have you forsaken me? Yes, even in Gethsemane, 86 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:57,480 he sweat as it were great drops of blood because of the heavy spiritual 87 00:06:57,639 --> 00:07:03,439 stress load that was on him. But the Bible says that at the appropriate 88 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:10,199 time he came forth victoriously right and with the keys of victory in his hand. 89 00:07:10,279 --> 00:07:15,279 And God puts the keys of victory through Christ Jesus into your hands when 90 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:18,120 he delivers you from whatever it is that you are going through, or he 91 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:25,079 comforts you along the pathway, or he is with you through the trial and 92 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,680 the tribulation. You see, and there are times that we just triumph. 93 00:07:28,759 --> 00:07:30,720 I don't want to make it seem as if that is the only thing we 94 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,560 have to deal with trials and tribulations. There are times of triumph. And 95 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:39,199 when you triumph, he is right there with you. He smiles with you, 96 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,560 how he laughs with you, he leaps with joy, spiritually speaking with 97 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:48,279 you. And he has people on planet Earth that will rejoice with you. 98 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:54,519 Why because He loves you. The Lord reigns people. Verse eleven. Let 99 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,600 the sky rejoice, the earth be happy. Let the sea and everything in 100 00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:05,199 it shout, The fields and everything in them celebrate. Ah. Then let 101 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:11,319 the trees of the forest shout for joy before the Lord, for he comes. 102 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,879 For he comes, well, my Bible texts close by itself. That's 103 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,759 weird, hah. For he comes to be judge of the earth, He 104 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:28,319 judges the world. He judges the world fairly, and the nations in accordance 105 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:35,360 with his justice. There was so much language in the passage about God and 106 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:41,080 his power, God and the fact that he created everything that we can see, 107 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:43,840 whether animate or inanimate. Right well, in the Book of Revelation, 108 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:52,559 chapter fourteen, we see that that Jesus or God here fear God in verse 109 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:58,200 seven, and give glory to him, and his hour of judgment is come, 110 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,879 and worship him that may heaven and earth, and sea and the fountains 111 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:07,519 of waters. One of the reasons why it is so much of an honor 112 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:15,120 for us to declare his glory among the nations is because He created everything. 113 00:09:15,759 --> 00:09:22,279 He created us. This distinguishes him, among other things, this distinguishes him 114 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:31,200 from all false gods. He created the worlds yes, and by God's grace 115 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:35,720 he is recreating you. If you say yes to God, then your life 116 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:43,759 will be a glory among the nations. Let Him recreate you today. Peace. 117 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,039 Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by 118 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,720 bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 119 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,720 This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great 120 00:09:56,799 --> 00:10:00,279 day. Yeah.