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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, good morning, good

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morning. It is Sabbath, March
twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in our lesson study series through the

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Book of Psalms. This is our
final week, can you imagine. Yes.

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Our caption for today is wait on
the Lord. Eight on the Lord.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and happy Sabbath
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get

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underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new day and

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for the privilege we have to open
up your word again. Please, Father,

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in these sacred hours, give us
the ability, give us the determination

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to be patient with you and listen
to you and wait on you. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and amen again, wait on the Lord.

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Well. As I would have alluded
to in my prayer, some of

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us are just entirely too impatient.
Can I say that just one more time.

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Some of us are entirely too impatient. We want what we want,

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and we want it now. And
I understand like I am that way.

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I would like to have whatever I
want now. I don't know. I

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don't know why we're like that,
But you know, some things are better

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when we wait for them. And
sometimes people say good things come to those

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who wait. Yes, And so
let's go to a passage of script and

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then I'll change it up just a
little bit in a moment and see if

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we can gain anything else. And
so the Bible reads in the Book of

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Psalms, chapter twenty seven and verse
fourteen, wait on the Lord, be

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of good courage, and he shall
strengthen your heart. Wait, I say

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on the Lord. Verse twenty four
of Psalms chapter thirty one says, be

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of good courage, and he shall
strengthen your heart. All ye that hope,

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Or you could say, wait on
the Lord now. In the Adventists

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Bible commentary on Psalm chapter twenty seven, it says, in verse about verse

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fourteen, wait on the Lord.
The psalmist is primarily exhorting himself. So

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can I just say, for a
moment, whenever I'm speaking to you.

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Whenever any good preacher is speaking speaking
to you or teaching, we should be

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first applying it to ourselves. See, when I come to you, I

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am actually speaking to me. So
if I say that we are impatient or

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you are impatient, I'm thinking about
me. I'm thinking about me first.

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So if I say wait on the
Lord, because this is what the scripture

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says, I am saying to me
first that I need to wait on the

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Lord. And so he's exhorting himself
primarily, his stronger self is encouraging his

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weaker nature not to despair. Isn't
that a good thing? Isn't it good

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that we can say, Lord,
I need you to help me wait,

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and then we encourage ourselves. I
think the Bible says that we need to

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encourage ourselves at some times. Yes, wait on the Lord because some of

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us are impatient. Now let me
just say, also, if I were

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to change the spelling in English from
waiit to w eight, what would that

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bring to your mind? You?
See, some of us are relying on

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ourselves too much. Oh, I
think we're getting somewhere. Some of us

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are relying upon our own understanding instead
of in all of our ways acknowledging him

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so that he can direct our paths. We want our own paths to be

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directed by ourselves. Yeah, sometimes
when we are in a rush and we

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are not willing to waiit on the
Lord, then our burdens get heavier because

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we take on more trials than we
need to. We manufacture problems, we

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manufacture weaknesses and limitations in our spiritual
journeys with God. And so when God

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says that we need to wait on
him, he's also saying that we need

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to stop trusting ourselves and we need
to learn to rely on God. Put

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your weight, put all of your
burdens on the Lord. Now, the

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liston writer says, we have all. We have reached the final week in

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this quarter's study of the Book of
Psalms, the spiritual journey has taken us

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through the experience of awe before the
majestic Creator, King and judge, through

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the joys of divine deliverance. Have
you ever been delivered from anything? Brothers

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and sisters, can you say with
other people around the world that God has

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delivered you from smoking or drinking,
from gossiping. God has delivered you from

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your enemies, people who have not
meant you well, whether they are in

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your family or outside, whether they
are sitting in the bench next to you

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in a church setting, or whether
they're in a taxi cab somewhere anywhere in

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your particular country. Has God ever
delivered you from somebody who thought that they

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were going to harm you, or
even tried and did harm you, But

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it didn't go as far as they
had hoped, because God delivered you.

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Hmm. So it says, through
the joys of divine deliverance forgiveness, have

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you been forgiven by God? Let
me ask you another way? Having been

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forgiven by God, did you also
forgive others? Since God, for Christ's

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sake has forgiven you? And continuing
and salvation through moments of surrender in grief

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and lament, and through the glorious
promises of God's everlasting presence and the anticipation

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of the unending universal worship of God. The journey continues, though, as

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we live in the hope of the
Lord's coming? Are you looking forward to

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the coming of Christ? I can
hear the song writer say, are you

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ready for Jesus to come? Are
you ready for Jesus to come? So

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you can say one day this is
our Lord? Are you ready for Jesus

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to come. He's coming when our
longing for God will find its ultimate fulfillment.

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I get tired. I don't know
if you do, but I get

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tired of praying. Not because I'm
tired of praying, but I'm tired of

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not seeing God. I'm tired of
imagining what he looks like. I'm tired

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of imagining what his actual voice sounds
like. Even when he does impress my

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heart to where I know it is
God communicating, I don't know what God's

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actual voice sounds like. I'm tired
of wondering what he looks like, how

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he smells, what it would be
like to walk with him and talk with

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him. I'm tired of wanting to
see him face to face. But right

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now, though, nobody will see
him and live and so we know that

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we have to wait. Wait.
But really and truly, I'm looking forward

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to the day where I don't have
to wait anymore. But we must wait.

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We must wait, And it says
here and through the glorious promises of

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God's everlasting presence and the anticipation of
the unending universal worship of God, the

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journey contigues as we live in the
hope of the Lord's coming, when our

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longing for God will find its ultimate
fulfillment. If there is a final word

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that we can draw from the Psalms, it should be and he guesses,

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brothers and sisters, wait hah,
wait on the Lord. Now. Waiting

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on the Lord is not an idle
and desperate binding of one's time, biding

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excuse me of one's time. Instead, waiting on the Lord is an act

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of full trust and faith, a
trust and faith revealed in action. If

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you are putting your burdens on God, if you are a waiting God's guidance,

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that means that you're not idle,
brothers and sisters, but you are

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actively revealing the faith that God has
placed in your business. Thanks for joining

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us listening. Friends, Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with el David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,