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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 Sunday, March
three, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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

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

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Psalms. Our caption for today
is the Lord's Unstoppable Faithfulness. The Lord's

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Unstoppable Faithfulness. I love this subject. I love it. I love it.

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I love it. We'll get into
it in just a moment, but

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and we will continue to build faith
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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father in Heaven, thank you

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for this day and for giving us
a new week, a work week that

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we can honor you. And I
pray God now that we will appreciate and

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live according to the principles of your
character because of your unstoppable faithfulness in our

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lives. In Jesus name, I
pray Amen and a men again, the

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Lord's unstoppable faithfulness. Great is thy
faithfulness? That is what comes to my

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mind that blessed him number one hundred
in our faith communities him. No,

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great is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my father. And it actually follows

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the discussion of the one who wrote
in Lamentations, Thy your mercies are ever

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lasting, like they fail, not
great is thy faithfulness. They're new every

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morning. Do you get up in
the morning and just talk to God about

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his faithful Listen, say, God, You've been so faithful to me.

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You have delivered me from trials of
the past. Even though I have some

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trials today, I have seen where
you have delivered me in the past.

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Even though I have pains today and
difficulties today, I've seen how You've delivered

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me from these different difficulties and different
trials over the years that I've been alive.

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I've seen your your mighty works and
your excellent greatness in my life and

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the lives of others. And so
when I am down, I know I

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can ask myself, like David,
why art thou cast down? Oh my

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soul hope in God. God has
been good. So this is what we

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want to do. We want to
look at the faithfulness of God and how

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he is, he is, he
is in he is. I want to

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use a right word, because we're
talking about God. He is uncompromising with

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his faithfulness. Let me just say, let's go ahead into the Bible now.

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The Bible Book of Psalms, chapter
one, US, chapter seventy eight,

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and verse fifty four. The Bible
says, He performed awesome deeds and

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acts of judgment in your midst Ah, in your midstough Egypt, against Pharaoh

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and all of his servants, all
of his servants. We quoted this the

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other day, but today we're looking
at it from the perspective that we recognize

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his faithfulness and deliverance. He's faithful, and he delivered his people, even

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though he knew that his people would
be stiff necked. He knew that his

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people would murmur once they crossed over
the Red Sea and we're in the wilderness

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now, and God had swallowed up
all of their enemies in the Red Sea.

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They would say, would did you
come out? Did you bring us

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out here to die in the wilderness? Would to God that we would be

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back in Egypt. And it's like, wait a minute, you mean where

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you were a slave and you were
oppressed, do you mean that when we

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were talking about delivering you, when
God was talking about delivering you, the

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Pharaoh and his people put more burdens
on you. You mean that place,

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Yep, that place. God knew
that they would be this way, and

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yet he still performed awesome deeds and
acts of judgment in your midst yes against

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Pharaoh and all of his servants.
He still delivered his people. Unbelievable.

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Remember his unstoppable faithfulness. Let's keep
going. Let's keep going. To verse

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fifty five and the Bible reads,
he drove the nations out from before them.

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He assigned them their tribal allotments,
and settled the tribes of Israel in

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their homes. The people who would
not repent, the people who got in

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the way of God and his movements, the people who stood up against God's

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people instead of yielding, as God
would have given every nation around the opportunity

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to become his people. But they
chose to go against God and to be

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God's enemies. Let's see they God
gave his people all of the places that

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he promised Abraham he would give them. He he wants us to learn from

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the conquest of Canaan, the settlement
in Canaan. God shows his guidance in

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giving Israel, God's people a homeland
despite their unfaithfulness. I am not telling

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you these things in order to give
you permission or to give me permission to

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be unfaithful and say, well,
God is going to do great things regardless

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of my faithfulness or unfaithfulness, So
it doesn't really matter. I'm just gonna

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live my life a certain way because
you know, I'll eat, drink and

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be merry because tomorrow we die.
No no, no no no no no

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no no no no no no.
There's so much more, but we're not

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going to talk about this so much
more. We're just showing that because of

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God's great love, he is faithful
even when we are unfaithful. What that

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means in our lives individually is another
study. Okay, And so we go

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now down to verse seventy. The
Bible reads, he chose David his servant

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and took him from the sheep fold. Acknowledge God's sovereignty in leadership. God

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does some things that just don't make
sense, like what you're going to choose

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a shepherd boy has one of the
arguably the best kings that God's people have

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ever seen. Yep, you mean
you're going to You're you're going to give

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him that kind of authority and power. Yeah, even though you know what

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he's going to do with Bethsheba and
what he's going to do to your yah.

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Yep, that's exactly right. And
then he's going to be the standard

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of kings. Yep. So when
Josiah at age eight becomes a king,

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it says that he will he did
not look to the left nor to the

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right, but he was faithful,
he was holy, just like his father

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David. Wait a minute, what
but David was not Wait a minute,

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Yeah, well, David knew how
to repent. Read Psalm fifty one.

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David knew how to run after the
heart of God. You see in his

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whole lifestyle how he ran after the
heart of God even after he made mistakes.

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Yes, and so I'm thankful that
God is sovereign in his leadership,

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like he puts people in position in
a way that we don't understand, and

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it is not our business. We
just say thank God for being kind enough

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to set people in position to accomplish
his will. Okay, and we're going

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to go against forgetfulness here in verse
forty two of Psalm chapter seventy eight.

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The Bible reads, they did not
keep in mind his power talking about the

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same people that God delivered Ah,
the same people that he was faithful toward.

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It says here they did not keep
in mind his power or the day

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when He redeemed them from the enemy. So we need to be aware.

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I said yesterday. I think it
was that we have no need to fear

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for the future except we forget what
God has done for us in the past.

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So we need to be aware of
forgetting God's deeds. God's people and

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their forgetfulness of God's wonders is a
warning against spiritual amnesia. Can I just

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say that again? It is a
warning against spiritual amnesia. Yes, And

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one more passage before we go today, from the book of Psalm chapter seventy

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eight, verse sixty two. God
rejected them and delivered them over to destruction

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because they rebelled against his command.
So listen, do not choose to say

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that God is faithful no matter what. And so I can live just any

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old kind of way. There is
futility. There is unholiness in delaying our

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obedience to God, because that is
disobedience. God's faithfulness is unstoppable, but

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he is not to be played with. Of a wonderful thing. Thanks for

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

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

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