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, February nineteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is Elle 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 teach us to number our days.
Teach us to number our days. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and
Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of opening up your word,
and I'm asking you to fill us with your holy spirit, teach us how
to serve you and love you. And I pray God that you will give
us the wisdom to use the time or invest the time that you've entrusted to
us until either we pass away or Jesus comes. Help us to be wise
in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. Yeah, sometimes thinking
about death can be discouraging, yes, because you know some people might think
that's a morbid thought. I don't sit around contemplation my death because you know,
I don't know if today's the day or never is the day, you
see. But I do recognize that I am only entrusted with a certain amount
of time. Either A we don't know when Jesus is going to return specifically,
or B I have an opportunity right in front of me to make an
impact in this world in Jesus's name, or see, maybe I will meet
my untimely demise. I am not sure why because I'm human and God has
not given me the privilege or I'm not privy to the understanding of when i
should live or when I should die. So I don't worry myself about that.
I am concerned about this moment in time, just about three minutes since
we began this broadcast this morning. That's what I'm worried about. That's what
I'm concerned about. Maybe worried is not the right terminology, Okay. And
so God wants us to keep our focus on Him and then invest the time
has given to us, okay. And so we're going to begin today by
reading in the Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety,
and see what the Lord has for us here. And the Bible reads here
the Lord or Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place. That's our sanctuary,
our protective refuge. Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations,
before the mountains were brought forth or ever Thou hadst formed the earth or the
world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. So we have
established from the scriptures that God has been here for us from before there was
a beginning. Yes, our grandparents and their grandparents and their great great great
grandparents to ceaseless generations in the past until the beginning, I should say,
not ceaseless. God has been with his people. And the good thing is
that before there was ever an earth, before he formed any thing that we
can see, animate or inanimate, God has always been the all wise,
all powerful God, Blessed be his name. And so that means that even
when we have trials, he's still God, and he's able to help us
through those trials. When we're having tribulations, he's still God. He's able
to help us through those tribulations. Yes, even when we are trying.
In triumph and gladness and joy, he is still that saying God who has
the power to create and then also to recreate all of us, make us
holy, make us new. While he still creates and forms planets and solar
systems and whatever else God is out they're doing that is beyond our understanding.
Okay. Verse three, Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest return ye
children of men, for a thousand years in thy sight, but as yesterday
when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. And then
the Bible continues verse ten. Let me switch versions. Now, the days
of our lives add up to seventy years or eighty if one is especially strong,
But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Can I
get a witness like life is not is not a cake walk. It is
not easy. So if we get seventy, or by strength we get eighty,
or some of you are already living into the nineties. And further,
God is saying that, yes, there will be troubles, and the Bible
continues, yes, they pass quickly and we fly away. So even if
it is seventy eighty ninety, one hundred, two hundred years, if there
were someone two hundred years of age, even that would be very quickly.
Why because in God's sight, because He's eternal, a thousand years as a
day, and a day is as a thousand years. We're here today,
gone today. I did not say tomorrow. So teach us to number our
day Verse twelve. This is what the passage is. So teach us to
consider our mortality that we might live wisely. So God wants us, and
he invites us into a relationship with him that no matter how much time we
have, whether it's a long time like some of these people. Nine hundred
and sixty nine years. Ha. The Man of God lived Methusalem nine hundred
and thirty years. The Man of God Adam lived. Yes, whether it's
that or if it is just seven or eight or nine years, or seven
or eight or nine decades, regardless, let God be the wisdom that we
need in our lives so that we please Him and make an impact on those
around us. An impact on our families, transformative impact on our communities,
the houses of worship, and I mean communities related to those houses of worship,
and even those who are in cyberspace, those are also long. Those
are incredible, big communities that we have impact on. Okay, So that
is the basic principle. Now we move to the Book of Psalms, the
Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and two and verse eleven. Do you
ask God? Do you ask God in the morning to please teach you what
you must do, what you must say, how you must impact the lives
of other people. Let's see in verse eleven of one hundred and two the
Book of Psalms. My days are coming to an end. I am withered
like grass. See I live in the perpetual springtime zone. And well sometimes
it goes into scorching heat summer zone. But I don't have winter like you
may have winter, depending on where you live. And I see when the
grass is here and gone today, gone today, here today. Sometimes the
sun is scorchingly hot in the months like lie in August, and the grass
that was green is no longer green, and some of it actually dies,
you see, and so many of you have seen that. But the Bible
continues verse twelve. But you Lord rule forever, and your reputation indoors,
you will rise up and have compassion on your people for his time to have
mercy on her for the appointed time has come. Of course, there is
a specific application here. But I want us to grasp and lay hold of
the fact that God knows the number of days that he has entrusted to us.
He is merciful to us, and He has empowered us to what overcome
any sin, temptation, trial, and live victorious lives. And if God
forbid we should stumble and fall, he has given us the kind of mercy
that we need in order to begin to live like him in recovery. Okay,
now we move to the Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and three,
verses fourteen through sixteen. The Bible says, he knows what we are
made of. He realizes we are made of clay. A person's life is
like grass, like a flower in the field that flourishes, but when the
hot wind blows, it disappears. Wow, and one can no longer even
spot the place where it grew. And I thank God. But the Lord
continually shows verse seventeen loyal love to his faithful followers and his faithful and is
faithful to their descendants, to those who keep his covenant and who are careful
to obey his commands. Teach us God to number our days and to experience
your faithfulness. But in the meantime, help us to make the kind of
impact you have entrusted to us. 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,