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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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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 morning.

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It is Monday, January eighth,
twenty twenty three. Hello, I

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keep saying twenty three, twenty twenty
four. Hello. My name is Elle

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where

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we give you God's word every single
day, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our new Lesson
study series through the Book of Psalms,

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and our caption for today is trust
in Times of Trouble? Can I say

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it again, Trust in times of
trouble. We're talking about trusting in God

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and we're not going to just talk
about it. We need to live that

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reality where no matter what happens in
our lives, we have so positioned the

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God into our mindset that we trust
him with all our hearts. We don't

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lean to our own understanding. In
all our ways. We acknowledge him because

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we know that he will direct our
paths. Yeah, at minimum, he

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will direct our pathway. So let's
go ahead and pray and then just jump

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right in. Father in Heaven,
thank you for giving us this new day

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and for getting us thus far in
this new year. Thank you for loving

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us and protecting us even during times
of trouble. Least teach us not to

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be fair weather friends of God.
But literally, in all things we give

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thanks because that is your will concerning
us. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Trust in
times of trouble. Really, at

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all times, can I just say
that I wrote that in my notes so

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I wouldn't forget it, Like,
at all times, at all times,

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we are to trust God. It
is our privilege to trust him. Have

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you ever been in a situation where
you could not see where God was leading?

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And then after some time it could
be months, it could be weeks,

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It could be days, It could
be moments. In a moment of

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emergency, it could be years.
In my case, I've seen several instances

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where it took years for me to
see some of what God was really doing

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in my life when he allowed those
troubles to pass through his filter and then

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hit my life. Why because he
was after something in my character. He

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was after something in using my situation
to be of assistance to others. And

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I am not unique. Everyone under
the sound of my voice or those who

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are not able to to hear,
but you're reading and close caption for the

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hearing impaired you too. God is
using in order to glorify himself and to

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edify you, because why he wants
you to be saved. He wants you

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to be saved. And so the
question that I have for you as we

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open up really this morning is when
the going gets rough, what do you

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do? What do you do?
When times are rough, you don't understand

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what God is doing, you are
under due rest and fully understress negative stress,

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that is, what do you do? I remember when I was a

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twenty three year old actually was before
then, like twenty two year old person

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in the psych field, right,
it was right before I was promoted.

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I was direct care in the psych
field in Maryland, right, And I

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remember really begging God for more than
three years to deliver me, deliver me

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from the stress I was under based
on things that were happening at work.

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And you know, I prayed and
prayed and prayed, went to prayer meetings,

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different prayer meetings and asked the people
to pray as well and put it

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up on the prayer list. And
people were praying get David out of this

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situation. And then I spoke to
my friend and mentor, Ralph. Ralph

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may be old enough to be my
dad, he may be, if so

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barely. Anyway, he was my
mentor, and I talked to him about

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the situation, and he quietly said, now, Dave, be a good

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soldier. God is with you.
See, he didn't beg God to get

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me out of the situation, right. He didn't give me those fanciful words

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that say, well God has something
better for you, right, that trouble

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won't last all ways, and these
are all good things sometimes, right.

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But what he taught me was something
that was even more critical that in the

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moment of my stress, negative stress, and I was bound in my mind

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to one thing, and that was
to get out of it. He wanted

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me to know that God is with
you. When you pass through the waters,

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He's with you. He will not
allow those to overflow you. When

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you are in the fires, he
is with you. He will not allow

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them to scorch or to burn you. You will be like those three young

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men in those heat in the fiery
furnace. The fire did not touch them,

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neither was there any smell of smoke
on them. And only that which

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bound or binded them was burned.
And that was those chords, you understand.

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And so the question again, what
do you do when times get rough?

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Now, what I want you to
do is read with me from the

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Book of Psalms, the Book of
Psalms, chapter forty four and verse one.

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And I have to be honest,
Sister Glenda Molesey system Glenda Moseley comes

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to my mind in this situation.
I need you to hear this carefully.

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We have heard with our ears,
Oh God, our fathers have told us

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what work thou didst in their days
in the times of old. And what

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I need you to do, Sister
Mosley, I need you to do.

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All of our brothers and sisters around
the world has reflect on past deliverances.

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Has God been good to you?
I mean, this is really a rhetorical

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question. I need you to type
in the chat a great big yes.

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Has he be good to Has He
been good to you? If your name

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was Job? Hmm. If your
name was Job, could Job say yes,

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God has been good to me?
Of course he could say that and

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it be true, because when Job
was in his darkest day, it was

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really that God was really God leading
him through the paths of righteousness, you

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see, and so reflect on past
deliverances. It could be the times that

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God delivered you from trials and tribulations, temptations right the threats of disease and

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tempests outside where earthquakes and all kinds
of other noxtws ntural disasters, or I

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should say, unnatural disasters have threatened
your life in the past, but you're

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still here. So I need you
to reflect on the past deliverances. You

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are in a trial right now,
a crucible in your life. Remember that

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God has kept you in the past, and therefore His track record is good

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with you, his resume, his
curriculum. Vite. If you want to

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say is good with you now?
I want you to go with me to

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verse twenty three of Psalm chapter forty
four, and I want you to express

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honest emotions in prayer. Do not
make up stuff to make yourself feel better.

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Do not take that name and enclaimant
mentality that so many people have that

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they dislike. Don't claim that.
Brother. If you are sad, tell

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God you're sad. If you're feeling
dejected and rejected, tell God that be

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honest with him and with you.
Yes, and then and then submit all

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of that. And the Bible reads, awake, why sleep ast thou,

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Oh Lord? Rise? Cast us
not off forever? And so the Psalmist

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felt like God had forsaken him.
And in case you are self righteous and

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sanctimonious in nature overly religious, I
need you to remember that Jesus, as

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he was on the cross, he
said, my God, my God,

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why hast thou forsaken me? So, even Jesus, as he was living

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on planet Earth in order to buy
us, to purchase our pardon, he

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felt in some moments that he had
been forsaken. Of course, he was

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not forsaken, but that was what
he felt, and he was honest with

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God, our father. It's important
to be honest with God about our feelings,

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not because God doesn't know, but
because we need to be clear when

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we confess. We confess we are
really agreeing with what God says. So

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if I feel that there is darkness
and there is no darkness, then I

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confess that God's way is the truth. Ah. When I say God,

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you've forsaken me, and God has
not forsaken me, I confess that what

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he is saying is true and not
what my feelings say. And here are

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a few other things that we need
to be doing. In verse twenty six,

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seek God's redemption huh in verse six, cling to faith despite whatever circumstantire

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in in verse four, acknowledge God's
sovereignty and of course this is from Psalm's

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chapter forty four. In Verse twenty
two, foster community in lament like there

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are people who are going through,
but you all together can be delivered.

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And then fifty nine and verse eight
continual prayer for deliverance. That is key.

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We thank God for trust in j
thanks for joining us listening to friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with el

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David Harris, make it a great
day. Yeah,