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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 Thursday, March fourteen,
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 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 immovable
like Mount Zion. Immovable like Mount

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

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to say welcome to you and ask
you to go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online
community. Listen. If you join the

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online community, you're going to have
to actually answer those two questions. If

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you don't, then the system is
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let you in. Okay, So
again your daily portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we
continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for this new day and
for the privilege that we have to open

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up your word. Please give us
wisdom and give us the fortitude to stand

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and be like a rock in your
presence. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. God wants
you to be immovable. May I

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just like pause right here at the
beginning of our discussion today and say that

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God wants you to be immovable.
Yeah. He doesn't want us to be

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tossed by every wind of doctrine like
tossed to and fro. He doesn't want

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us to skip along the pathway of
life and whatever impacts that skipping, then

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that impacts us like. No,
he wants us to be firm. He

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wants us to be set on the
foundation which is Christ. And then,

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like the writer of the song said, I shall not I shall not be

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moved right, and yeah, we
can be like that. How do we

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know well, the Bible is going
to show us in the Book of Psalms,

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the Book of Psalms, chapter one
hundred twenty five. But before we

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get there, I'd like to read
from the book Steps to Christ, Steps

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to Christ, page one hundred six
and one hundred seven, pages one hundred

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six and one hundred seven, and
it reads the entrance of sin into the

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world, the incarnation of Christ,
regeneration and the Resurrection, and many other

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subjects presented in the Bible are mysteries
too deep for the human mind to explain

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or even fully comprehend. But we
have no reason to doubt God's word because

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we cannot understand the mysteries of His
providence. Can I just pause for a

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moment and say, if I were
to ask most people like how far is

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the Sun from planet Earth or maybe
the moon. If you are advanced in

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your understanding, then maybe you would
just spout the number of miles and millions

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of miles. If I said,
well, what is the speed of light?

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Maybe you would you would think for
a moment and say, boy,

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I haven't thought about that and since
I was ten, but it's one hundred

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and eighty six thousand miles per second, Like if I were to ask you

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know anything about the law of gravity
and say, well, what goes up

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must come uh huh down, you
would you would be able to answer that

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very quickly. Or if I if
I talk to you about some law of

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thermo dynamics or or some other Lawton
Newton law of motion, like you would

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be able to say things quickly by
rote memory or even wrote memory, or

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maybe even a deeper understanding very quickly. But if I were to press you

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on the details, how do you
know that the speed of light is one

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hundred and eighty six thousand miles per
second? Like I don't know. How

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do you know that the Sun is
how many millions of miles away from planet

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Earth? Well, I don't know. Have you been there? No?

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How do you know what goes up
must come down? How do you know

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that when you sit down in that
chair that the chair is not going to

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collapse and you just drop on the
ground Like how do you know? And

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on and on. How do you
know that matter left alone tends to decompose

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or break down? Like? How
do you know this? And most of

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us, there's some scientists among us
that would know the answers to all of

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these questions, but the majority of
us have no idea, and yet we

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have no problem believing, or if
you want to say, study and knowing

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in air quotes these things. So
when it comes to the things of God,

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why is it that some skeptics have
so much to say, like how

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do we know this? How do
we know that? And then somehow excuse

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themselves from responsibility to God. God
wants us to be firm and not movable.

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And then the quote continues, everywhere
our wonders beyond our ken or understanding.

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Should we then be surprised to find
that we cannot find that in the

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spiritual world there are mysteries that we
cannot fathom. The difficulty lies solely in

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the weakness and narrowness of the human
mind. God has given us in the

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scriptures sufficient evidence of their divine character, and we are not to doubt his

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word because we cannot understand all the
mysteries of His providence. So He wants

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us to be firm. He wants
us to choose to trust in God and

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chose trust over doubt. Choose trust
over doubt. Now, let's go to

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the Book of Psalms, chapter one
hundred and twenty five and I'll read beginning

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at verse one, the Bible reads, those who trust in the Lord are

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like Mount Zion. Of course there's
a physical mount, yes, but this

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also represents the people of God like
okay, like Mount Zion. It cannot

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be upended or it cannot be moved
and will endure forever. So if we

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are God's people, right, and
we are the ones that He wants to

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be immovable and to endure forever,
what must we do? If He wants

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us to be immovable and endure forever, what must we do? It's one

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word. I said it very quickly, but it's just one word, and

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it begins with the letter T trust
trust in the Lord. When we trust

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in the Lord, we're not movable. When the month is longer than our

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money, we're not movable. When
God forbid we experience health challenges, we

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become unmovable, Like when we are
experiencing problems in our relationships with our spouses,

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our children, with people on the
road, our next door neighbors,

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the taxi people like the taximan,
the taxi woman right, the bus driver,

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some random person on the road,
people with whom we exercise. Whenever

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we have these challenges, what trust
in God. Then we are what immovable?

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Yeah, when we are faced with
an opportunity to do something dishonest in

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order to advance our own cause,
we are what immovable? Why? Because

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we trust God? Verse two.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the

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Lord surrounds his people. He gave
them a visual brothers and sisters, like

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they could see the surrounding Jerusalem and
could say, wait a minute. The

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Angel of the Lord encamps round about
those who what trust God, who believe

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in Him, who live according to
his principles, who submit our will to

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him. And so the Lord surrounds
his people now and forever. So God

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wants us to have spiritual endurance.
No, let me put it this way.

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He doesn't just desire. He empowers
us. He gives us the ability.

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He has blessed us with the power
to become enduring. Spiritual endurance is

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within our grasp. Why because God
is with us? Could there be times

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that you might cite, like,
are there times that you could identify right

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now, like on the spot,
like nearly nine minutes into our discussion today,

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can you cite examples of when God
was with you when you were in

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that car accident? Was he with
you when you had that breakup and the

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relationship that you intended to go forever, but your partner did not agree Like

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your husband. Your wife said,
no, I don't want to live with

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you anymore. Did did God abandon
you when you lost your job, when

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you went to school and did not
get the grades that you intended to get,

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when you did not meet your target
at work and you got discipline for

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it was God with you in all
of those times that you were depressed during

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the COVID nineteen health crisis. Was
God with you. You see, if

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we trust in God, then we
will be immovable, like the mount called

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Zaiaon. Have a wonderful day.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with El David

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Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,