1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,919 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,720 is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,400 of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,120 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:25,160 of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:30,839 live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,600 author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:40,119 It is Tuesday, January twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,000 name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 10 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:47,039 Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is 11 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:51,479 no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of 12 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:58,439 Psalms under the caption the Lord is a refuge in adversity. The Lord is 13 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:03,240 a refuge in adverse. We'll get into that in just a moment, but 14 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,120 before we do, I'd like to welcome you and ask you to go over 15 00:01:06,159 --> 00:01:10,280 to your Daily Portion dot com pick up the Your Daily Portion book. Also, 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,159 please let us know in that platform where you are in the world. 17 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:18,640 And also one more thing, one more thing, join our online community. 18 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,480 It is a way for us to continue to build faith and fellowship at your 19 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:27,079 daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will 20 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:32,079 get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day 21 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,120 and for the opportunity that we have to open up your word. I'm asking 22 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:41,159 you now please to give us the fullness of your Holy spirit. Please teach 23 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:46,040 us how to love and to serve you, and to recognize and then flee 24 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:49,560 to you, because you are a refuge and a fortress, our God, 25 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:56,439 in whom we will trust in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen 26 00:01:56,519 --> 00:02:02,120 again. The Lord is a refuge in adversity. Have you read or heard 27 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:07,480 the song The Lord our Rock a shelter in a time of storm? By 28 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:10,520 the way the Lord our Rock and him we hide, He's a shelter in 29 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:15,199 the time of storm. And it's reality. It's reality for us. It's 30 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:21,400 the Psalmist's testimony, but it is our testimony. If we will flee into 31 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,400 the bosom of God, if you will say, into the protective armor of 32 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:30,000 God and be safe. And so we're going to read from the book of 33 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,840 Psalms, chapter seventeen to begin our discussion. And while I am reading, 34 00:02:35,879 --> 00:02:40,400 I'm asking you, if you have ever needed God and He has been your 35 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:46,319 hiding place, your refuge, just type a one in the chat or in 36 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:51,120 the comment section if you're listening after the fact, and the Bible reads, 37 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:59,199 show Thy marvelous loving kindness, Oh Thou that savest by thy right hand them 38 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:05,039 which put their trust in thee, from those that rise up against them, 39 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,159 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of 40 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,680 thy wings, from the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies who 41 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:22,199 come pass me about. And then the Psalmist continues on that same vein. 42 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,680 But look at what the Psalmist didn't do. The Psalmist didn't act as if 43 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:34,960 God wasn't hearing. The Psalmist knew fully well that God would save and show 44 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:42,680 marvelous loving kindness. Or what this actually means is make thy favors distinguished. 45 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,360 And so if you're going through a trial that only God can deliver you from, 46 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:53,840 if you're going through a trial that requires something a more than human ingenuity 47 00:03:53,080 --> 00:04:00,319 and strength, make thy favors distinguished is what we want. We want God 48 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,919 to manifest himself, so that it is clear that only God, a God 49 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:09,360 of heaven and earth, the God of the universe, is the one who 50 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:14,919 delivered. Oh Thou that savest. Right out of the actual Seventh Day Adventist 51 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,040 Bible Commentary, Volume three, it reads, it is impossible to read the 52 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:30,360 Psalms without feeling the presence of the Savior in the Psalmist's prayers. The Psalmist 53 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,519 is praying, let me give you an example from the Book of Psalms, 54 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,560 chapter one hundred and six, verse twenty one. They forgot God, their 55 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:44,120 Savior, which had done great things in Egypt. Remember, God's people were 56 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:49,120 delivered, and God's people and in almost entire generation of people just decided to 57 00:04:49,199 --> 00:04:55,759 turn their backs on God. How about in Isaiah chapter nineteen and verse twenty 58 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,759 And it shall be for a sign for a witness unto the law of hosts 59 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,199 in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry unto the Lord because of 60 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:10,920 the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior and a great one, 61 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,000 and he shall deliver them. So the same God who is our deliverer, 62 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,680 the same God who is a refuge and in a time of storm, is 63 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:25,600 doing it today. He is our deliverer. He was their deliverer, He 64 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:29,879 was their shelter. He is our shelter. He is the one that gives 65 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,000 angels charge over you, brothers and sisters, wherever you happen to be. 66 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:40,160 About five minutes after we have begun this discussion today, he is the same 67 00:05:40,319 --> 00:05:45,120 God that delivered his people, and he will deliver you. Let me read 68 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:50,160 from Psalm chapter thirty one, Versus one through three, the Book of Psalms, 69 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:57,399 chapter thirty one Versus one through three, and the O Lord, do 70 00:05:57,439 --> 00:06:00,920 I put my trust? Do you trust God more than anything? Huh? 71 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:08,240 Let me be Let me never be ashamed. Deliver me in thy righteousness. 72 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:14,160 Bow down thine, ear to me, deliver me speedily. Be thou my 73 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:19,399 strong rock for a house of defense, to save me verse three. For 74 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:26,439 Thou art my rock and my fortress. Therefore, for thy Name's sake, 75 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:32,399 lead me and guide me. Now we have something that we didn't talk about. 76 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:38,480 That phrase for Thy Name's sake. You see, there are times that 77 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:41,759 we ask God for things simply because we want them. And I'm not saying 78 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,759 that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I'm saying here that God is jealous 79 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:53,199 over his name. He is jealous over his honor. So whatever glorifies God, 80 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,560 he's interested in for his name's sake. Remember when God's people had gone 81 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,720 so far that God God said to Moses, you know what, I'm going 82 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,800 to destroy all of them, and I'm going to make a great nation. 83 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,360 I'm going to rise up a nation out of thee And Moses is like, 84 00:07:08,439 --> 00:07:12,560 no, but God, if you do that, then your enemies will say 85 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,879 that you only delivered them from captivity so you could destroy them. It's it's 86 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,199 like you were not able to actually save them. He didn't say those words, 87 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:25,480 but you can get that implication that last part. And he said, 88 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:30,720 for thy name's sake, for your name's sake, please don't destroy these people. 89 00:07:30,079 --> 00:07:34,879 These are your people. And so God is jealous over his name. 90 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:41,240 He is more than able to deliver you and for his name's sake. When 91 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,360 we are praying, we are asking him to bring us under the banner of 92 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:50,040 his refuge, and we are grateful that He hears and answers prayers even today. 93 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:56,439 Let's go to Psalm chapter ninety one. In closing here Psalm Psalm's chapter 94 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,759 ninety one, and we will read verses two through say him, one of 95 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:05,439 the most well known psalms. I will say of the Lord, he is 96 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:11,759 my refuge and my fortress, my God. In him, I will trust, 97 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,720 surely he will deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the 98 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,160 noisome pestilence. Can I just say that during the COVID crisis, my wife 99 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:28,399 and I and our son Josiah began praying immediately once we understood that it was 100 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:33,120 a pandemic. We started to pray Psalm chapter ninety one. We did whatever 101 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:37,720 was sensible during that time. We live far from neighbors, if you want 102 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:43,320 to say so, nobody's nobody's whatever is blowing into our window because we didn't 103 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,080 live close. But the bottom line is we did what was sensible to get 104 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,720 through the crisis. But we did not depend on those things that we considered 105 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,519 to be sensible. We did those things which are sensible, and then said, 106 00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:01,159 God, will you please keep your promise that you will deliver us from 107 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:07,080 the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. And God did no 108 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,159 matter what was going on around us. It was like He set a shield 109 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,399 around us. Even when I had to travel and I was in and among 110 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,840 people who were infected, unfortunately with the worst parts of the virus. When 111 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:26,639 it was still deadly, God delivered us. Thank God verse four. He 112 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,600 shall cover us with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. 113 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,480 His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for 114 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,240 the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day. He 115 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:45,279 is our refuge, even in adversity of a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks 116 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,759 for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, 117 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,919 but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has 118 00:09:52,919 --> 00:10:00,279 been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah.