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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 one,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you Gun's word
every single day and today is no exception.

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

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and our caption for today is Meet
the Psalmists. Meet the Psalmists.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment. First, I'd like to say

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welcome to you and ask you to
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Portion dot com and y'all just pray. Pray for me. I get the

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years mixed up, and I said
twenty twenty four today, But who knows

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what I'll say tomorrow and the next
day and the next day until I get

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used to the fact that we are
marching forward in time and time waits for

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no one. Let's go ahead and
pray, and then we will get underway.

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Bother and a heaven. Thank you
for this new day and for this

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new year. Thank you for giving
us the opportunity to continue to live and

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to do your will. Please,
please teach us lessons from your word and

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help us not to just choose this
as some academic exercise where we get more

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information and then we're good to go. Please teach us transformation, like make

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us holy in Jesus' name. I
pray, Amen and Amen again. Meet

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the Psalmists. I'm going to read
the first paragraph from the lesson study,

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and then we're going to learn something
from the Word. Okay. So the

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King David, whose name appears in
the titles of most Psalms, was active

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in organizing the liturgy of Israel's worship. He is called the Sweet Psalmist of

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Israel. The New Testament attests to
David's authorship for various psalms, and then

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of course the citations are there.
Numerous psalms were composed by temple musicians who

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were also Levites. So most people
who don't really understand the scriptures as yet

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really attribute most of the psalms to
King David, because maybe that's the person

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they know the most. But for
example, Psalm chapter fifty and Psalms chapters

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seventy three through eighty three was by
Asath Psalm forty two, forty four through

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forty nine, eighty four and eighty
five, eighty seven and eighty eight by

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the Sons of Korra, Psalm eighty
eight also by Heman the Ezra Height,

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and Psalm eighty nine by Ethan the
Ezra Height beyond them Solomon, and then

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it gives examples and Moses Psalm chapter
ninety authored some psalms. And so now

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we know that there was a compilation
of authors who actually presented the psalms,

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obviously also under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit. But now that we know

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this, I want us to learn
some lessons. For instance, let's go

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to the Book of Psalms chapter twenty
five and I'll read beginning at verse one.

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That's the Book of Psalms, chapter
twenty five, And I will read

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beginning at verse one, and the
Bible reads unto thee, O Lord,

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do I lift up my soul,
Oh my God, I trust in THEE.

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Let me not be ashamed. Let
not mine enemies triumph over me.

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Yay. Let none that wait on
thee be ashamed. Let them be ashamed,

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which transgress without cause. Show me
thy ways, O Lord, we

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can learn that we should seek the
face of God. That's not what I

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intended to say. But thank God, we are looking for him to teach

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me thy past, lead me in
thy truth, and teach me for Thou

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art the God of my salvation.
Brothers and sisters. Sometimes we get a

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little bit ahead of our skis,
and we forget that God is the one

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who saves us. Sometimes we believe
the social media hype about ourselves if we're

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known in social media. Sometimes we
believe with the people on the road or

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in the church say about us if
it's positive, and we begin to believe

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the filters that we put over our
faces on TikTok and Instagram. Yes,

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but God is saying that he is
the one that is our salvation. And

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E even if our righteousness seems good, it's as filthy rags. So really

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our trust must always be in Him, never believing the hype about ourselves.

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The Bible continues on THEE do I
wait all the day? And so these

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verses encourage us to seek God's guidance
in times of need. And you want

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to say, well, when are
times of need? Like every single day

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we need holiness? Huh? We
need his righteousness. We need sometimes when

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we are in trials and tribulations,
we need to be relieved of our suffering

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or to have the power and determination
to push through our suffering. So seek

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guidance in times of need. Let's
go to Psalm chapter forty two and verse

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one. I love the entire chapter, but we just don't have a time.

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Have the time? And the Bible
reads as the heart panteth after the

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water brooks. You can hear the
song in your mind, can't you?

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So pantoth my soul after THEE Oh
God. And of course the chapter continues,

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why art thou cast down O my
soul? And then the writer wants

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to be encouraged, like, encourage
myself to hope in God? Even the

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living God who has never left us. He never leaves us, he neither

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forsakes us. So we express a
deep longing for God. Have you ever

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been thirsty? Have you ever been
thirsty? And I don't mean just a

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little bit thirsty because you may be
missed one or two cups of water in

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the last few hours. I'm talking
about the kind of thirst where your or

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dehydration, where your cells are nearly
depleted of the minerals that they need,

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the electrolytes that they need in order
to function and to keep us functioning.

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Have you ever been thirsty? And
so, what this man of God is

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saying is that we deeply long for
God. And these verses actually demonstrate the

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deep spiritual longing and desire for God, similar to what we experience on our

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spiritual journey. So it's not about
water, it's not about the deer.

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It's it's all about us seeking after
God to the point that we are desperate

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for Him. And at no point
should we think that we are not desperate

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for Him. At no point should
we become complacent or satisfied and say,

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well, this is it, this
is all I need. We every day

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we seek his face, we seek
his guidance. We seek his presence,

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we seek his holiness, we seek
his favor, We seek the wisdom that

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He gives as he places our feet
one step before the other on the path

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of righteousness. And of course that
on that point we go to Psalm chapter

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seventy five and verse one. Unto
THEE, Oh God, do we give

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thanks unto THEE, do we give
thanks for that Thy name is near thy

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wondrous works. Declare So this Psalm
teach us to acknowledge and to give thanks

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to God for his righteousness. I
said, for his righteousness. I said

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a little bit earlier, that our
righteousness is or as filthy rags. I

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said that even our best works are
as filthy rags. So when we go

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to God we are so happy.
Why because, yeah, we're not in

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a class doing an exam. The
proctor is not against us. Like nobody

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is saying we're cheating. We're saying
that even though we do our best,

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it is woefully if we woefully fall
short. And therefore it is our privilege

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to yield our will to God.
And when we yield our will to God,

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and we receive the righteousness of Jesus
Christ. And when the judgment is

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happening. The judgment is happening.
God sees Jesus and his righteousness, and

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of course that means that we are
welcomed into the family because of the beloved

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Christ. I've ever felt like you
didn't measure up? H Have you ever

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felt like there was a test and
you were failing it? Have you ever

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felt like, oh, my goodness, every time I try to do good,

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I only do evil. Yeah,
in that case, just fall into

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the care of God. And of
course, in Psalm chapter eighty eight,

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verses one through three, we won't
read it, there is a lament because

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of suffering, but this song provides
a model for expressing our deepest sorrows and

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our laments to God. We're not
blaming him, we're not indicting him,

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but we call unto him and say, Lord, just please hear my prayer.

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And then we of course celebrate God's
faithfulness. I hope you have a

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wonderful day. We'll see you tomorrow
with the Lord's fairs life peace. Thanks

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for joining us listening to 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

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,