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 Sunday, April twenty eight, 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 the Great Controversy.
Our caption for today is God's Word Alone, God's Word Alone. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first I like to say welcome
to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,
and let us know where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion
dot Com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new morning and for the privilege
of a new work week. Father, Please give us guidance as we move
into all that you will have for us to do. Father, please give
us an appetite for you and for holiness. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. So I need you to be honest, please
and thanks. Like, how's your appetite? Do you have a healthy appetite?
I said, do you have a healthy appetite? And when I ask
about healthy appetite, I'm not asking about whether your appetite has heft to it
or that you did desire a lot of things. When I say healthy appetite,
I'm asking do you have an appetite for healthy things? Healthy food,
healthy entertainment, huh, healthy relationships? Do you have an appetite for healthy
things? And of course, the truth of the answer is between you and
God. If you'd like to share in the chat, please go ahead.
But this is really something we all need to resolve between us and God.
And so in the Bible Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred nineteen, Beginning
at verse one hundred three, the Bible reads, how sweet are thy words
to my taste? Are you seeing where we're going this morning? How sweet
are thy words unto my taste? Yay, sweeter than honey to my mouth?
How many of you love honey? I love honey. I love how
it tastes. There is a kind of honey that I wish I could taste,
but I've not been to that side of the world to get it.
Manuka honey. I want to get it straight from New Zealand. I think
that's where it is predominant. Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth verse
one hundred and four. Through thy precepts, I get understanding. Therefore,
I hate every false way. And so the Psalmist's appetite for God's words and
how sweet it is to his mouth makes him detest every false way. Can
I just say it another way. When we have a healthy appetite, those
things that work against us, those things that work against our health, those
things that work against our spiritual health, those things become detestable to us,
you see, hateful to us. In fact, Job said something very interesting
in the Book of Job Chapter twenty three, beginning at verse twelve, neither
have I gone back from the command of his lips. This is when Job
was in the hottest part of his trial. He couldn't understand what was going
on. He wanted a days man or a mediator between him and God to
try to explain, like, what in the world is going on in my
life? I'm holy? I know that I'm holy, And he wasn't talking
about self righteousness. Like he could not think of anything that he had not
confessed. He could not think of any place that he was not in agreement
with God. He knew that he was in right standing in air quotes with
God, and yet his life was in upheaval. He could not figure out
what the thing was. And he had three friends plus one three plus one
friends and then his wife who were not helping any at all. But he
still said, neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips.
I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food verse thirteen.
But he it is in one mind, and who can turn him?
And what soul desireth even that he doeth. And so again again, Job
considered everything that God said to be premium. It was like a seven course
meal to him. He desired them more the words of God's mouth as more
than his necessary food. Every single one of us have to eat. I
have fasted for twenty three days before. I'm talking about no food, nothing
in my mouth to chew, no smoothies, only green drink. Yes,
uhhah, for twenty three days. And then I was like, okay,
it's time to eat now. They're people who have starved themselves because of some
religious, social, or political thing. But at some point, either we're
gonna eat or we're gonna die. That's just the way it is. Because
God created us in a way that we need that sustenance. We need a
balance of all of the key elements that God has put in nature for us
to eat, you see. And so he said he esteemed the word of
God's mouth as more than is necessary food. And then in Psalm chapter one
hundred and nineteen Psalmchapter chapter one hundred and nineteen, verse one sixty two,
I rejoice in your instructions like one who finds much plunder. How is your
diet, brothers and sisters, that is the question. And of course we
see that John Wycliff's passion was to translate the Bible. Remember we're talking about
God's word and the appetite that we must have for God's word. He had
a passion to translate the Bible into English so that the average person could read
and understand it. Did you get that? So we don't need necessarily.
I know sometimes we preachers and teachers sometimes get ahead of our skis and we
get all intelligent on you and start sharing what this word meant in this certain
other language and what it means to us today based on that ancient language.
But what God did for us is that in many of the tongues languages I'm
saying of the world, he has brought humans to translate them in the Bible
so that people common people, not people necessarily with PhDs and other terminal degrees,
people with all kinds of higher education and learning. No, people who
are just walking around every day, doing our business every day, whatever it
is that God wants us to do, will be able to access what God
has to say to his people. Yes, And so I want to give
a few things before we come to a swift close here, because it's like,
well, how do we apply this? How do we apply this?
So here's a question. How does finding sweetness and come in God's commands influence
your decision making your daily decisions? How does finding sweetness in God's words influence
how you make decisions? Right? Because sometimes people when they read and hear
the word of God, sometimes people start to kind of WinCE and it just
like, ah, I don't really want to do that, and they find
reasons that it is inconvenient to do what God says. And so what we're
finding, having read in Psalm one nineteen already, we're finding that if we
will see, like, if we will change our perception, our perspective,
huh, and understand that God's word is sweet, sweeter than honey, that
we will embrace it more quickly. Yes, sometimes it's bitter, it feels
bitter, but we should still see it as sweet. Yes, sometimes it
is difficult, but we should see it as sweet. Why because it is
the word of God, It's the word of life. These are the words
of life, okay. And so another question is is what role does early
communion play in your spiritual life? And this is coming right out of the
Bible, Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen, Verse one forty
seven I am up early before dawn crying for help. I find hope in
your word. Jesus would go and in commune with God his father a great
while before day, and also pray. He would pray, listen for the
voice of God, yes, and speak to God honestly as to a friend.
And so God's word alone can sustain us. Subsist on it, feast
on it, peast. 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,