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 Monday, January one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
Portion where we give you Gun's word every single day and today is no exception.
We are continuing in our new lesson study series, the Book of Psalms,
and our caption for today is Meet the Psalmists. Meet the Psalmists.
We'll get into that in just a moment. First, I'd like to say
welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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Portion dot com and y'all just pray. Pray for me. I get the
years mixed up, and I said twenty twenty four today, But who knows
what I'll say tomorrow and the next day and the next day until I get
used to the fact that we are marching forward in time and time waits for
no one. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Bother and a heaven. Thank you for this new day and for this
new year. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to continue to live and
to do your will. Please, please teach us lessons from your word and
help us not to just choose this as some academic exercise where we get more
information and then we're good to go. Please teach us transformation, like make
us holy in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Meet
the Psalmists. I'm going to read the first paragraph from the lesson study,
and then we're going to learn something from the Word. Okay. So the
King David, whose name appears in the titles of most Psalms, was active
in organizing the liturgy of Israel's worship. He is called the Sweet Psalmist of
Israel. The New Testament attests to David's authorship for various psalms, and then
of course the citations are there. Numerous psalms were composed by temple musicians who
were also Levites. So most people who don't really understand the scriptures as yet
really attribute most of the psalms to King David, because maybe that's the person
they know the most. But for example, Psalm chapter fifty and Psalms chapters
seventy three through eighty three was by Asath Psalm forty two, forty four through
forty nine, eighty four and eighty five, eighty seven and eighty eight by
the Sons of Korra, Psalm eighty eight also by Heman the Ezra Height,
and Psalm eighty nine by Ethan the Ezra Height beyond them Solomon, and then
it gives examples and Moses Psalm chapter ninety authored some psalms. And so now
we know that there was a compilation of authors who actually presented the psalms,
obviously also under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But now that we know
this, I want us to learn some lessons. For instance, let's go
to the Book of Psalms chapter twenty five and I'll read beginning at verse one.
That's the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty five, And I will read
beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads unto thee, O Lord,
do I lift up my soul, Oh my God, I trust in THEE.
Let me not be ashamed. Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Yay. Let none that wait on thee be ashamed. Let them be ashamed,
which transgress without cause. Show me thy ways, O Lord, we
can learn that we should seek the face of God. That's not what I
intended to say. But thank God, we are looking for him to teach
me thy past, lead me in thy truth, and teach me for Thou
art the God of my salvation. Brothers and sisters. Sometimes we get a
little bit ahead of our skis, and we forget that God is the one
who saves us. Sometimes we believe the social media hype about ourselves if we're
known in social media. Sometimes we believe with the people on the road or
in the church say about us if it's positive, and we begin to believe
the filters that we put over our faces on TikTok and Instagram. Yes,
but God is saying that he is the one that is our salvation. And
E even if our righteousness seems good, it's as filthy rags. So really
our trust must always be in Him, never believing the hype about ourselves.
The Bible continues on THEE do I wait all the day? And so these
verses encourage us to seek God's guidance in times of need. And you want
to say, well, when are times of need? Like every single day
we need holiness? Huh? We need his righteousness. We need sometimes when
we are in trials and tribulations, we need to be relieved of our suffering
or to have the power and determination to push through our suffering. So seek
guidance in times of need. Let's go to Psalm chapter forty two and verse
one. I love the entire chapter, but we just don't have a time.
Have the time? And the Bible reads as the heart panteth after the
water brooks. You can hear the song in your mind, can't you?
So pantoth my soul after THEE Oh God. And of course the chapter continues,
why art thou cast down O my soul? And then the writer wants
to be encouraged, like, encourage myself to hope in God? Even the
living God who has never left us. He never leaves us, he neither
forsakes us. So we express a deep longing for God. Have you ever
been thirsty? Have you ever been thirsty? And I don't mean just a
little bit thirsty because you may be missed one or two cups of water in
the last few hours. I'm talking about the kind of thirst where your or
dehydration, where your cells are nearly depleted of the minerals that they need,
the electrolytes that they need in order to function and to keep us functioning.
Have you ever been thirsty? And so, what this man of God is
saying is that we deeply long for God. And these verses actually demonstrate the
deep spiritual longing and desire for God, similar to what we experience on our
spiritual journey. So it's not about water, it's not about the deer.
It's it's all about us seeking after God to the point that we are desperate
for Him. And at no point should we think that we are not desperate
for Him. At no point should we become complacent or satisfied and say,
well, this is it, this is all I need. We every day
we seek his face, we seek his guidance. We seek his presence,
we seek his holiness, we seek his favor, We seek the wisdom that
He gives as he places our feet one step before the other on the path
of righteousness. And of course that on that point we go to Psalm chapter
seventy five and verse one. Unto THEE, Oh God, do we give
thanks unto THEE, do we give thanks for that Thy name is near thy
wondrous works. Declare So this Psalm teach us to acknowledge and to give thanks
to God for his righteousness. I said, for his righteousness. I said
a little bit earlier, that our righteousness is or as filthy rags. I
said that even our best works are as filthy rags. So when we go
to God we are so happy. Why because, yeah, we're not in
a class doing an exam. The proctor is not against us. Like nobody
is saying we're cheating. We're saying that even though we do our best,
it is woefully if we woefully fall short. And therefore it is our privilege
to yield our will to God. And when we yield our will to God,
and we receive the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And when the judgment is
happening. The judgment is happening. God sees Jesus and his righteousness, and
of course that means that we are welcomed into the family because of the beloved
Christ. I've ever felt like you didn't measure up? H Have you ever
felt like there was a test and you were failing it? Have you ever
felt like, oh, my goodness, every time I try to do good,
I only do evil. Yeah, in that case, just fall into
the care of God. And of course, in Psalm chapter eighty eight,
verses one through three, we won't read it, there is a lament because
of suffering, but this song provides a model for expressing our deepest sorrows and
our laments to God. We're not blaming him, we're not indicting him,
but we call unto him and say, Lord, just please hear my prayer.
And then we of course celebrate God's faithfulness. I hope you have a
wonderful day. We'll see you tomorrow with the Lord's fairs life peace. Thanks
for joining us listening to 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,