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 Tuesday, March twenty six, 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. Our caption for today is bringing in the Sheaves. It reminds me
of a hymn, bringing in the Sheaves, and we'll get into that in
just a moment, But first i'd like to say welcome to you and ask
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way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
and then we will get underweigh Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us
this new day to live. I pray that we will live the restored life
in Jesus' name. I pray Amen and Amen again. So the first thing
that I wrote in my notes for today's lesson study is restoration. This is
the impression that I am getting from what God is saying to us through these
words restoration. And you want to say, well, well, restoration of
what? Like, why did you start there? I'm thinking about restoration of
your dignity. There are people who are bringing their heads low because of what
they have may be done, or maybe God forbid what was done to them.
They are victims of many different types of abuse, whether inside of the
faith, the household of faith, or somewhere else in secular society, in
the community. They have experienced some things that they wish they could forget.
And I definitely could write a book on that about myself. In fact,
I have written about these things before. But you want to have your dignity
restored. There's some people who need their confidence restored. And I know we're
not supposed to be focused on ourselves. I want to be careful how I
say this right. We are supposed to, though, have God confidence to
know when God is with me, that there is no trial, no temptation,
there is no difficulty, there is no mountain. There is nothing on
this planet or anything that the devil could throw at us that we cannot overcome.
We can have the kind of confidence that says God, because I am
hid with Christ in You, then whatever is coming my way, I can
get through it. So we need a restoration of confidence because we have failed
ourselves. We have made promises to us and then somehow we've broken them because
we are faulty. Like our promises feel like ropes of sand. Father.
If you deliver me from X, then I promise I will do why And
now I've lost my confidence? Okay, maybe some people compare themselves with others
and they have lost confidence because they think or perceive that the other person is
more proficient and who knows what. But what God wants to do is restore
our confidence, our ability to trust, our ability to love. Again.
We have been betrayed and disrespected, and we're not too sure if we can
love again God. What God wants to restore this and so many more things?
What is God restoring in you? Go ahead and type it in the
chat. If you are online or in even a podcasting platform, you can
put it as a comment as you leave a review, an honest review of
this study. What is it that God is restoring in you? Now?
The lesson writer said, the Lord's miraculous deliverances in the past are an inexhaustible
source of inspiration for God's people and their source of hope for the future.
Are you looking forward to the future. Some of us have forebodings. We
are hurt, we are concerned, we are fearful. We are even some
of us paranoid about what will happen in the future. But you know,
God has said, we don't have anything to fear for the future, except
we forget how God has led us in the past. His track record is
is good with us. Reading the past deliverance was so great that it could
be described as a dream come true experience, as in Isaiah chapter twenty nine,
verses seven and eight. Notice that the generation that praises the Lord in
Psalm Chapter one twenty six, for his past deliverance of his people from captivity
is presently in captivity. And I say that again. It's almost like,
let me say it in a different way. It's almost like when Paul was
in prison and he said, Ah, rejoice in the Lord allway. And
again I say rejoice, and you're like, but brother, you're in prison.
Yeah, but his mind was not in prison. Is your mind in
prison? Prison to debt, prison to your past mistakes, prison to feeling
unforgiven even though you have come to God honestly, huh and with integrity saying
God, I agree with you. I did do this thing in a way
that you're not pleased with. And I am now asking you to give me
the ability to turn away from the sin. And I am committed to turning
away from sin. Ah. But now I am still self focused, and
I feel like I'm not forgiven because who knows what well? God is so
good to us that his credit is good. His credit is good. What
he has done in the past is a manifestation of what he will continue to
do along the continuum of time until Jesus comes. He will continue to be
good. He delivered them God's people in the past, and so he will
deliver me. He will deliver us. You see. So yes, God's
people were in captivity, but they have seen where God has delivered people in
the past, and so this is a good way to continue our lesson now.
In the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and twenty two and verse
one, the Bible says, I rejoiced because they said to me, we
will go to the Lord's temple. So one of the ways that we will
continue in this mind of restoration is to have joy and excitement in worship.
And I did not say exaggerated fluff when I said excitement. We have joy
and jubilant praise, because as we see in the Book of Exodus, chapter
fifteen, as we see in the Book of Revelation, chapter fifteen, we
see that we can sing the song of Moses and then by extension and the
lamb, because God has triumphed over Pharaoh and his writers. God has triumphed
over your sins. God has triumphed over your doubts. God has triumphed over
all of the things that would have easily beset to you, except now you
have yielded your will to Him and therefore we go into His temple with joy
and excitement. Also also psalmchapter one hundred and twenty two and verse six,
the Bible reads, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, may those who love
her prosper. We want to pray for community peace and prosperity. Of course,
here it was speaking about the city of Peace, God's people. It
emphasized the importance of praying for the well being of our spiritual community and seeking
God's peace and prosperity for his people. But may I extend it just a
little bit. Even when God's people were in Babylon, he said that I
need you to do whatever it takes. Of course, we could not take
for granted God's holiness, though, do whatever it takes to make sure that
everything that is around you, everything you touch, even as you are in
captivity, that it will prosper. And so we pray for peace among the
community of God's people. But we also pray and move so that whatever is
happening in the society around us will be better, like when Joseph was working
in society, when Danielle was working in society. Are you getting the message
here? Whenever God's People are present in any society, that society must must
grow and be more prosperous. And I think I'll just think of one more
from the Book of Revelation, chapter twenty one and verse three. Hope in
God's eternal presence, we are looking forward to the day and the Tabernacle of
God is among God's people, and he will be with them, and God
himself will be with them and be their God Ah bringing in the Shees restorationist.
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 E. L. David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,