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 Monday, February five, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is Elle 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 Studies series through the Book
of Psalms, and our caption for today is justice for the oh Pressed,
Justice for the Oppressed. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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and fellowship at your daily portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven. Thank you for giving
us this new opportunity to open your word. And I'm asking you to please
give us your holy spirit teach us how to love you and to serve you.
I pray that you will give us the mindset of Jesus Christ and to
let the captives set the captives free, and to relieve the oppressed and help
the poor and needy. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
again justice for the oppressed. So we're going to begin in our discussion by
thinking through something, spiritually thinking through some things, and then we will move
to action. Okay. And so we begin by reading the passages from the
lesson Study, beginning at Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter nine,
and I will read verse eighteen the Book of Psalms, chapter nine, and
I will read verse eighteen, and the Bible reads for the needy shall not
always be forgotten. The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. Okay.
So we have a good starting point let's continue verse five of Psalms chapter
twelve, and the Bible reads for the oppression of the poor, for the
sighing of the needy. Now will I arise, Okay, seth the Lord.
I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. Okay.
Let me jump in here and say that God is still awake, slumbers,
He never sleeps. He knows the plight of those who are needy and
oppressed. Okay, Verse seventeen of Psalm chapter forty. We're going somewhere,
but I am poor and needy. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou
art my help and my deliverer. Make no tarrying, Oh my God.
So there are times that God's people are poor and needy. There are times
that we are oppressed. There are times that we see the wickedness of those
who are oppressing us, and we wonder where is our God. But the
Psalmist in this regard is saying that even though I'm poor, I'm needy.
Right, if I were among those who are poor and needy and know that
the Lord thinks on me, he knows that God is his deliverer, make
no tarrying, Oh my God. So he's asking God to please get to
his case. We'll get to it in a moment. Come on verse seven
of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirteen. Please pardon me. He raiseth
up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the
dunghill. And you're like, okay, so this is a common threat.
There are poor, there are needy. God has made promises to these people.
And many of these poor and needy are God's people or something. Well,
let's see. Let's see what Jesus said from the Book of Luke chapter
four, beginning at verse sixteen, and the Bible reads, And he came
unto Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as his custom was,
he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up four to
read. Now he is about to tell us about his ministry. And there
was delivered unto him a book of the prophet Essayus. And when he had
opened the book, he found the place where it was written. The spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to do what
the gospel to the poor. So that has something to do with the deliverance.
Yes, Ah, he had set me to heal the broken hearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of
the Lord. And then he closed the book. He gave it again unto
the minister, and sat down, and the eyes of them all were in
the synagogue, were fastened upon him, and he began to say unto them,
this day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears. And so many of
the times, if I continue through all of the passages that the lesson writer
prescribes, many of the times we missed the point. We see that Jesus
took action. We see that in his humanity he took action. So in
the Psalms, we see that God needs to thunder from heaven, from beyond
the clouds and the stuff, and to begin to deliver the oppressed and the
captives, to give food to the hungry and the needy. You see.
And then we see Jesus acting in his humanity as an agent of change,
an agent of God our Father. So what does that say about me today?
We see all of these promises for deliverance. What does that say for
me today? Well, now it's time for some action. Okay. So
in the Book of James, Chapter one and verse twenty seven, I hope
you are seeing yourself in these passages. Now the Bible reads pure religion.
Some of you call yourselves being in a religion, and all of us are
many of us do and undefiled be for God and the Father. Is this?
So there is a kind of religion that is pure and undefiled, not
just calling yourself to be a part of a denomination. But the kind of
religion that is pure and undefiled. Is this to visit the fatherless' that's action,
and the widows in their affliction, that is action. And to keep
himself unspotted from the world. And so what God is saying to us is
that we need to actually be compassionate. There are a set of people,
There are categories of people that God has given us the privilege to reach out
to. In this passage, do we see We see the fatherless, the
widows, and those who are afflicted. And God says that, oh,
while you are living in this way, be unspotted from the world, live
holy lives, and pure religion will be the outcome. So actively seek opportunities
to help and support the vulnerable, including the fatherless and the widows and those
in distress. This involves more than just acknowledging their plight. It calls for
tangible actions to alleviate their suffering. And So, if you're one of those
people who are wagging your fingers at God and saying, God, you promise
to deliver the poor and needy, why are there still so many? You
promise that you would deliver the captives and the fatherless, and to deal kindly
with the widows. Why do we have so many of them? Then,
really, and truly it's easy. Just go ahead and pick up a mirror.
Pick up a mirror. We know that God does things miraculously, But
pick up a mirror, brothers and sisters, and ask what have you done?
Whatever you see in that mirror, when you put it up before your
face, ask yourselves, what have you done? In order to fulfill the
promise that God has placed in his words so many times, because He expects
us to act in the same way that Jesus did. Of course, there
is another one in the Book of Proverbs, chapter thirty one. As we
come to a swift close, beginning at verse eight, open thy mouth for
those who cannot speak and the cause of those as appointed to destruction. Open
thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and the
needy. So we are to be advocates for justice and fair treatment for those
who have less means, be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves.
And of course this includes advocating for the rights of the vulnerable and oppress
and working toward fair treatment for them. And of course we know that we
need to be generous. Bible says that if we will give to the poor,
we are lending to God. So justice for the oppressed, give us
justice. Yeah, well, we need to advocate for that same justice.
Peace. 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,