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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 ahead, morning, Good morning,

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good morning. It is Wednesday,
March twenty seven, twenty twenty four.

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Hello, my name is Elle David
Harris. I am your host,

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

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and today is no exception. We
are continuing in our Lesson study series.

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This is the final week through the
Book of Psalms, and our caption

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for today is Waiting in God's Sabbath
Rest. Waiting in God's Sabbath Rest.

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

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welcome to you and ask you to
go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, pick
up the your Daily Portion book and

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let us know, please and thanks. Where you are in the world,

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I still have gotten over a thousand
responses where that is concerned. It helps

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me to see, like where are
God's people, Where are the people who

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are also spreading the gospel of Jesus
Christ into all the world from your vantage

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point, and it gives me encouragement. So please, that's all the reason

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is. I will admit that's all
it is, Ah, but please do

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so at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. Please
let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day, this new morning, for
the privilege that you have entrusted to us

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to open up your word. And
I ask you that we will live this

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word now in Jesus's name, Amen
and Amen again, waiting in Sabbath rest.

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That's an interesting way of starting the
lesson. We're going into the Book

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of Psalms chapter ninety two in just
a moment, but first I want to

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read from the lesson writer the praise
of God for the great works of his

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hands and the eden like portrayal of
the righteous. Clearly point to creation.

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So we see here really an answer
to the question that comes right before this,

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But I'll get into that in a
moment. And then the first aspect

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of the first aspect that Sabbath commemorates, the Psalm also magnifies the Lord for

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his victory over enemies as the God
of justice, and so reinforces the second

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Sabbath theme, redemption from evil.
Thus, Psalm chapter ninety two extols God

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for his past creation and present sustaining
of the world, and it points to

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the end time hope in eternal divine
peace and order. Are you tired of

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disorder? I'm talking about disorder in
your mind, disorder at work, this

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ordering your household, disordering your society
and community, I want to say,

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and I don't want to mix it
up, but I may make a mistake

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here. But I was looking at
how things are organized in the country,

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either of Gambia or Namibia, and
I was like, I was awe struck.

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I was like, wait a minute. Wait. When I was watching

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some videos and I said, wow, this place is orderly. It's one

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of them. You tell me which
one of one of them it is.

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It's like it's actually awe inspiring it's
it's it's it's like I was arrested by

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the fact that this place was so
orderly. It's one of them, one

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of them. But anyway, most
places in society are not orderly. People

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are disorderly. People's thoughts are disorderly. They're intense. And what they plan

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to do with people or two people
disorderly, what their plans and goals are,

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and their businesses disorderly, what they
plan at work disorderly, just looking

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for the next best fill in the
blank. And it's just like, okay,

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can we just focus on one thing, disorder and let's not talk about

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law breaking in our societies, right. Ah, But we have the privilege

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of seeing the order of God's creation. How he said that everything he had

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created is good, good, very
good. Right, and then sin entered

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into the world and things change.
Society went crazy, people went off spiritually,

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and even in nature, things went
the opposite way of what God had

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intended when he created us. You
see. Ah, But what God is

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saying to us is when we look
at how the Sabbath is, what it

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commemorates is God's power in creation.
It shows us that He is the one

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who sanctifies us, which is recreation. So we see the power of God

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in creation and the power of God
in transforming our lives to make us holy

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after everything went awry and the world
became disorderly. And so two aspects of

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the Sabbath highlighted in the book of
Psalms chapter ninety two. As I've already

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said, is creation and also redemption
from evil. Let me read verses one

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and two of Psalm chapter ninety two. Oh Most High, oh wait,

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I started writing in the middle of
the sentence. It is good to give

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thanks to the Lord, to sing
praises to your almost High, to declare

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your loyal love in the morning and
your faithfulness during the night. And so

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this again commemorates his power, his
love, and his creation. Okay,

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and so we should be practicing gratitude. Are you thankful to God? There

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are times that people receive from God
and don't go back and give him thanks.

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As you are inhaling and exhaling right
now, that's a reason to be

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grateful. Huh. As you do
eat your next meal, whether it's what

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you want or what you need,
that's a reason to be thankful for the

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fact that you are listening here or
watching right now. And God is speaking

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to you through his word. That
is a reason to give thanks, because

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it is good to give thanks to
the Lord and to sing praises to his

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name. So make a daily habit
of expressing gratitude for God's creation and his

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blessings in our lives. Now.
In verse five of the Book of Psalms,

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chapter ninety five, the Bible reads, how great are your works,

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Oh Lord, your plans are very
intricate, intricate, intrict I always say,

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Get okay, So invest time in
nature. Look around and see what

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God has done, what his works, the works of his hands, the

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works of him saying let there be
light, And there was light, and

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saying that the waters should be filled
with teams of fish and all kinds of

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other sea creatures. Yes, think
about the great works that God has put

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into place, and then and then
consider the complexity of the beauty of it

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all, and say, God,
you did that for us, because you

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know what is coming has never been
seen or experienced before. He's done so

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much, so many things that are
so beautiful, even after the even at

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the aftermath of volcanoes. The most
beautiful countries of the world, our volcanic

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countries, where destruction comes, but
then all kinds of new life and new

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growth and beautiful things in nature comes
in the aftermath. It's the weirdest thing

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to me. Maybe I shouldn't say
weird, but it's weird because so much

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destruction and then the recreation is so
beautiful. And that's in the world that

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has fallen. But have not seen, neither hath ear heard, neither have

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it entered into the heart of humankind, the things that God is preparing for

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his children. So we reflect on
God's works and of course continue to give

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gratitude. Now on the Sabbath in
particular, let's read now from the Book

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of Psalms, chapter ninety two again
round verse twelve. The images of palm

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trees and ceedars of Lebanon. They
portray this is what I'm referencing here.

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They portray God's people. Grow in
faith. Use the Sabbath hours to grow

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in your understanding of God and to
find rest in His creation and redemption.

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So get out into nature and see
what great things God has done there.

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And think, wait a minute,
God is renewing people too. He has

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the power to create and to renew
in nature. Can he create and renew

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in my human nature to make me
more like him. And of course we

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want to stay or remain remove,
remain rooted in faith of God. This

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is one of the things that we
do as we experience the sabbath rests,

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looking forward to the coming of the
Lord Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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

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word that comes from the mouth of
God. This has been your daily portion

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with el David Harris, make it
a great day. Yeah,