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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 us

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

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

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
Your Daily Portion with your host, author

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speaker, Elle David Harris. Good
morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Sunday, March ten,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,

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and our caption for today is a
day in your courts is better than

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one thousand? A day in your
courts are our best better than a thousand.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you
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faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion
dot com. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven. Thank you for

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giving us this new morning and the
privilege we have to enter into your pavilion,

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enter into a worship experience with you
relationship. Father, Please please help

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us to do so. Wisely,
help us to come in with a heart

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full of praise, receptive to your
Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, I

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pray, Amen and Amen again.
A day in your courts is better than

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a thousand, Okay. So we're
going to begin by reading in the Book

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of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty four, and see what

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the Lord has to say. And
by the way, this was composed by

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David when he was exiled from from
Jerusalem. Remember Jerusalem, the city of

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Peace represented to the people of God, the presence of God, the prosperity

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of God. And so if you're
exiled from from Jerusalem, then there's some

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passion that goes on in your heart
and mind as as you seek the face

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of God. Okay, and so
let's go to verse one, and the

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Bible reads, how amiable, which
means lovely, How amiable are thy tabernacles,

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O, Lord of Hosts, my
soul longeth, yea, even fainteth

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for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh crieth out for

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the Living God. Have you ever
been in a situation where you cried out

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for God? You cried out for
God. You remember the times that you

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prayed and it felt like God was
answering your prayers quickly, or you were

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experience experiencing a good time among the
people of God. But now it seems

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that something has changed. Ah.
Have you ever been in a situation where

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you longed for the presence of God
because something seems to have changed in your

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relationship and you're crying out to God. Well, this was going on in

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David's life. My heart and my
flesh crieth out for the Living God.

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Yea. The sparrow hath found an
house and a swallow, a nest for

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herself where she may lay her young
even thine alters, Oh, Lord of

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Hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy

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house. I need you to see
the House of God as a blessing.

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You realize that the House of the
Lord is a house of praise, a

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house of prayer for all people.
In the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty

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six, the Bible talks about people
who feel separated from God because maybe they

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were born outside of the community of
faith. Maybe they are considered what the

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Old Testament people would have seen as
unclean, right or or broken, and

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somehow ceremonially unacceptable. And God said, there, for those who are covenant

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keepers, for those who keep the
Sabbath holy, pardon me. Those individuals

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must not call themselves a stranger.
They must not call themselves a dry tree.

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The people of God would have understood
that language. They need to be

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calling themselves among God's people. He
said, because my house is a house

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of prayer for all people, I'm
going to give covenant keepers a name that

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is better than of sons and of
daughters. It's a name that will remain

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forever. And so we see here
that people are saying, like, listen,

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I need to be in your presence. They will be still praising thee

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verse four Sillah blessed is the man
whose strength is in you, in whose

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heart are the ways of them?
Let me just pause for a moment and

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the lesson. The lesson writer says
that the psalmist longs and faints to make

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the sanctuary his permanent abode, so
he can be near to God forever.

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You ever long for the time that
Jesus will come? Have you ever thought

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you know? I'm really tired of
this life the way that it is.

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I think that almost every single day, like I'm tired of this life as

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it is. I don't like traffic
at all, like I hate and despise

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traffic. I don't like diseases.
I don't like when our brothers and sisters

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are in need. I don't like
being in need. I don't like being

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in a situation where I feel distant
from God or from His people. I

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don't like trials or tribulation or temptations. And so I long. I long

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for being in the House of God
forever, living in God's presence, according

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to the lesson writer, makes a
sanctuary a unique place. In the sanctuary,

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worshippers can behold the beauty of God
Ah and be satisfied with the goodness

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of His house. And this is
an unparalleled experience that happens when a person

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is in relationship with God, which
consists of praising him finding strength in him.

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Do you find strength in God?
Do you invest time in the mornings

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when you wake up to say God, I praise you for Do you find

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and make time for God and say
I thank you for I am grateful that

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you and trusting in Him. The
sanctuary is the place where such a relationship

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is nourished through worship and fellowship with
other believers. See. One of the

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mistakes that people make is to try
to do this alone. You don't have

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a community that you're attached to,
and I mean a faith community of people

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who understand that God is so good? Well, how good is he?

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He's so good that his mercies endure
forever, like people who understand what it's

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like to be forgiven from our sins. Those times that we promise God we

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would live a certain way and did
not live that way, Those times that

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we have broken our promises to other
people, and we need the strength to

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get up and go forward, making
amends and learning from our mistakes and still

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moving forward. Yes, so,
the people, the fellowship of believers is

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a part of this sanctuary. This
place of quiet rest, this place of

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refuge that God has set up for
as people remember, God's house is a

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house of prayer for all people,
and so the living presence of God in

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the sanctuary gives worshipers a glimpse of
God's glorious kingdom and the taste of eternal

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life. There's so much more that
we can say here. Let me see

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how many more verses we can get, and if we can get one or

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two takeaways. Okay, verse six, who passing through the valley of Baka

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make it a well a rain,
also fillth with pools. They go from

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strength to strength, every one of
them. And Zion appereth before God,

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O, Lord, God of Hosts, hear my prayer. Give ear,

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Oh God of Jacob. Behold,
Oh God, our shield, look upon

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the face of Thine Anointed, For
a day in thy courts is better than

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a thousand. I had rather be
a doorkeeper in the house of God than

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to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a son

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and shield. The Lord will give
grace and glory. No good thing will

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he withhold from them that walk uprightly, Lord of Hosts. Blessed is the

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man that trusts in thee. Do
you trust God? Do you trust God

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more than anything? Do you love
God more than anything? Today can be

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the day that we begin to build
trust and love for God. Here are

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a few takeaways. We are longing
for the presence of God. We should

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always long for the presence of God. Also, beauty and satisfaction is in

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God's house. Happiness is in relationship
with God. Blessings radiate from the presence

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of God's strength along the journey is
what we're after. And then we want

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to live a worthy life away from
the sanctuary as we prepare for the time

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that Jesus comes. A wonderful rest
of your day, peace, 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,