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 Sabbath, March twenty three, 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. This is our final week, can you imagine. Yes.
Our caption for today is wait on the Lord. Eight on the Lord.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
say welcome to you and happy Sabbath to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and
for the privilege we have to open up your word again. Please, Father,
in these sacred hours, give us the ability, give us the determination
to be patient with you and listen to you and wait on you. In
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again, wait on the Lord.
Well. As I would have alluded to in my prayer, some of
us are just entirely too impatient. Can I say that just one more time.
Some of us are entirely too impatient. We want what we want,
and we want it now. And I understand like I am that way.
I would like to have whatever I want now. I don't know. I
don't know why we're like that, But you know, some things are better
when we wait for them. And sometimes people say good things come to those
who wait. Yes, And so let's go to a passage of script and
then I'll change it up just a little bit in a moment and see if
we can gain anything else. And so the Bible reads in the Book of
Psalms, chapter twenty seven and verse fourteen, wait on the Lord, be
of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say
on the Lord. Verse twenty four of Psalms chapter thirty one says, be
of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. All ye that hope,
Or you could say, wait on the Lord now. In the Adventists
Bible commentary on Psalm chapter twenty seven, it says, in verse about verse
fourteen, wait on the Lord. The psalmist is primarily exhorting himself. So
can I just say, for a moment, whenever I'm speaking to you.
Whenever any good preacher is speaking speaking to you or teaching, we should be
first applying it to ourselves. See, when I come to you, I
am actually speaking to me. So if I say that we are impatient or
you are impatient, I'm thinking about me. I'm thinking about me first.
So if I say wait on the Lord, because this is what the scripture
says, I am saying to me first that I need to wait on the
Lord. And so he's exhorting himself primarily, his stronger self is encouraging his
weaker nature not to despair. Isn't that a good thing? Isn't it good
that we can say, Lord, I need you to help me wait,
and then we encourage ourselves. I think the Bible says that we need to
encourage ourselves at some times. Yes, wait on the Lord because some of
us are impatient. Now let me just say, also, if I were
to change the spelling in English from waiit to w eight, what would that
bring to your mind? You? See, some of us are relying on
ourselves too much. Oh, I think we're getting somewhere. Some of us
are relying upon our own understanding instead of in all of our ways acknowledging him
so that he can direct our paths. We want our own paths to be
directed by ourselves. Yeah, sometimes when we are in a rush and we
are not willing to waiit on the Lord, then our burdens get heavier because
we take on more trials than we need to. We manufacture problems, we
manufacture weaknesses and limitations in our spiritual journeys with God. And so when God
says that we need to wait on him, he's also saying that we need
to stop trusting ourselves and we need to learn to rely on God. Put
your weight, put all of your burdens on the Lord. Now, the
liston writer says, we have all. We have reached the final week in
this quarter's study of the Book of Psalms, the spiritual journey has taken us
through the experience of awe before the majestic Creator, King and judge, through
the joys of divine deliverance. Have you ever been delivered from anything? Brothers
and sisters, can you say with other people around the world that God has
delivered you from smoking or drinking, from gossiping. God has delivered you from
your enemies, people who have not meant you well, whether they are in
your family or outside, whether they are sitting in the bench next to you
in a church setting, or whether they're in a taxi cab somewhere anywhere in
your particular country. Has God ever delivered you from somebody who thought that they
were going to harm you, or even tried and did harm you, But
it didn't go as far as they had hoped, because God delivered you.
Hmm. So it says, through the joys of divine deliverance forgiveness, have
you been forgiven by God? Let me ask you another way? Having been
forgiven by God, did you also forgive others? Since God, for Christ's
sake has forgiven you? And continuing and salvation through moments of surrender in grief
and lament, and through the glorious promises of God's everlasting presence and the anticipation
of the unending universal worship of God. The journey continues, though, as
we live in the hope of the Lord's coming? Are you looking forward to
the coming of Christ? I can hear the song writer say, are you
ready for Jesus to come? Are you ready for Jesus to come? So
you can say one day this is our Lord? Are you ready for Jesus
to come. He's coming when our longing for God will find its ultimate fulfillment.
I get tired. I don't know if you do, but I get
tired of praying. Not because I'm tired of praying, but I'm tired of
not seeing God. I'm tired of imagining what he looks like. I'm tired
of imagining what his actual voice sounds like. Even when he does impress my
heart to where I know it is God communicating, I don't know what God's
actual voice sounds like. I'm tired of wondering what he looks like, how
he smells, what it would be like to walk with him and talk with
him. I'm tired of wanting to see him face to face. But right
now, though, nobody will see him and live and so we know that
we have to wait. Wait. But really and truly, I'm looking forward
to the day where I don't have to wait anymore. But we must wait.
We must wait, And it says here and through the glorious promises of
God's everlasting presence and the anticipation of the unending universal worship of God, the
journey contigues as we live in the hope of the Lord's coming, when our
longing for God will find its ultimate fulfillment. If there is a final word
that we can draw from the Psalms, it should be and he guesses,
brothers and sisters, wait hah, wait on the Lord. Now. Waiting
on the Lord is not an idle and desperate binding of one's time, biding
excuse me of one's time. Instead, waiting on the Lord is an act
of full trust and faith, a trust and faith revealed in action. If
you are putting your burdens on God, if you are a waiting God's guidance,
that means that you're not idle, brothers and sisters, but you are
actively revealing the faith that God has placed in your business. 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,