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 Thursday, March fourteen, 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 through the Book of Psalms,
and our caption for today is immovable like Mount Zion. Immovable like Mount
Zion. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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is one of the ways 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 this new day and for the privilege that we have to open
up your word. Please give us wisdom and give us the fortitude to stand
and be like a rock in your presence. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. God wants you to be immovable. May I
just like pause right here at the beginning of our discussion today and say that
God wants you to be immovable. Yeah. He doesn't want us to be
tossed by every wind of doctrine like tossed to and fro. He doesn't want
us to skip along the pathway of life and whatever impacts that skipping, then
that impacts us like. No, he wants us to be firm. He
wants us to be set on the foundation which is Christ. And then,
like the writer of the song said, I shall not I shall not be
moved right, and yeah, we can be like that. How do we
know well, the Bible is going to show us in the Book of Psalms,
the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred twenty five. But before we
get there, I'd like to read from the book Steps to Christ, Steps
to Christ, page one hundred six and one hundred seven, pages one hundred
six and one hundred seven, and it reads the entrance of sin into the
world, the incarnation of Christ, regeneration and the Resurrection, and many other
subjects presented in the Bible are mysteries too deep for the human mind to explain
or even fully comprehend. But we have no reason to doubt God's word because
we cannot understand the mysteries of His providence. Can I just pause for a
moment and say, if I were to ask most people like how far is
the Sun from planet Earth or maybe the moon. If you are advanced in
your understanding, then maybe you would just spout the number of miles and millions
of miles. If I said, well, what is the speed of light?
Maybe you would you would think for a moment and say, boy,
I haven't thought about that and since I was ten, but it's one hundred
and eighty six thousand miles per second, Like if I were to ask you
know anything about the law of gravity and say, well, what goes up
must come uh huh down, you would you would be able to answer that
very quickly. Or if I if I talk to you about some law of
thermo dynamics or or some other Lawton Newton law of motion, like you would
be able to say things quickly by rote memory or even wrote memory, or
maybe even a deeper understanding very quickly. But if I were to press you
on the details, how do you know that the speed of light is one
hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second? Like I don't know. How
do you know that the Sun is how many millions of miles away from planet
Earth? Well, I don't know. Have you been there? No?
How do you know what goes up must come down? How do you know
that when you sit down in that chair that the chair is not going to
collapse and you just drop on the ground Like how do you know? And
on and on. How do you know that matter left alone tends to decompose
or break down? Like? How do you know this? And most of
us, there's some scientists among us that would know the answers to all of
these questions, but the majority of us have no idea, and yet we
have no problem believing, or if you want to say, study and knowing
in air quotes these things. So when it comes to the things of God,
why is it that some skeptics have so much to say, like how
do we know this? How do we know that? And then somehow excuse
themselves from responsibility to God. God wants us to be firm and not movable.
And then the quote continues, everywhere our wonders beyond our ken or understanding.
Should we then be surprised to find that we cannot find that in the
spiritual world there are mysteries that we cannot fathom. The difficulty lies solely in
the weakness and narrowness of the human mind. God has given us in the
scriptures sufficient evidence of their divine character, and we are not to doubt his
word because we cannot understand all the mysteries of His providence. So He wants
us to be firm. He wants us to choose to trust in God and
chose trust over doubt. Choose trust over doubt. Now, let's go to
the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and twenty five and I'll read beginning
at verse one, the Bible reads, those who trust in the Lord are
like Mount Zion. Of course there's a physical mount, yes, but this
also represents the people of God like okay, like Mount Zion. It cannot
be upended or it cannot be moved and will endure forever. So if we
are God's people, right, and we are the ones that He wants to
be immovable and to endure forever, what must we do? If He wants
us to be immovable and endure forever, what must we do? It's one
word. I said it very quickly, but it's just one word, and
it begins with the letter T trust trust in the Lord. When we trust
in the Lord, we're not movable. When the month is longer than our
money, we're not movable. When God forbid we experience health challenges, we
become unmovable, Like when we are experiencing problems in our relationships with our spouses,
our children, with people on the road, our next door neighbors,
the taxi people like the taximan, the taxi woman right, the bus driver,
some random person on the road, people with whom we exercise. Whenever
we have these challenges, what trust in God. Then we are what immovable?
Yeah, when we are faced with an opportunity to do something dishonest in
order to advance our own cause, we are what immovable? Why? Because
we trust God? Verse two. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the
Lord surrounds his people. He gave them a visual brothers and sisters, like
they could see the surrounding Jerusalem and could say, wait a minute. The
Angel of the Lord encamps round about those who what trust God, who believe
in Him, who live according to his principles, who submit our will to
him. And so the Lord surrounds his people now and forever. So God
wants us to have spiritual endurance. No, let me put it this way.
He doesn't just desire. He empowers us. He gives us the ability.
He has blessed us with the power to become enduring. Spiritual endurance is
within our grasp. Why because God is with us? Could there be times
that you might cite, like, are there times that you could identify right
now, like on the spot, like nearly nine minutes into our discussion today,
can you cite examples of when God was with you when you were in
that car accident? Was he with you when you had that breakup and the
relationship that you intended to go forever, but your partner did not agree Like
your husband. Your wife said, no, I don't want to live with
you anymore. Did did God abandon you when you lost your job, when
you went to school and did not get the grades that you intended to get,
when you did not meet your target at work and you got discipline for
it was God with you in all of those times that you were depressed during
the COVID nineteen health crisis. Was God with you. You see, if
we trust in God, then we will be immovable, like the mount called
Zaiaon. Have a wonderful day. 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,