1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,919 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,720 is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,400 of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,120 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:25,160 of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:30,839 live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,679 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, good morning. 8 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:39,119 It is Monday, February nineteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my 9 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,079 name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,240 Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is 11 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,520 no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:56,439 Psalms, and our caption for today is teach us to number our days. 13 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,520 Teach us to number our days. We'll get into that in just a moment, 14 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,439 but first I like to say welcome to you and ask you to please 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,840 go over to your Daily Portion dot com, please join our online community, 16 00:01:08,079 --> 00:01:11,840 pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and that is one of the ways 17 00:01:11,879 --> 00:01:18,640 that we can build faith and fellowship again at your daily portion dot com. 18 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:22,719 Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and 19 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:26,000 Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of opening up your word, 20 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,159 and I'm asking you to fill us with your holy spirit, teach us how 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,159 to serve you and love you. And I pray God that you will give 22 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:38,200 us the wisdom to use the time or invest the time that you've entrusted to 23 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,560 us until either we pass away or Jesus comes. Help us to be wise 24 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,799 in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. Yeah, sometimes thinking 25 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:56,200 about death can be discouraging, yes, because you know some people might think 26 00:01:56,239 --> 00:02:00,959 that's a morbid thought. I don't sit around contemplation my death because you know, 27 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,480 I don't know if today's the day or never is the day, you 28 00:02:05,519 --> 00:02:10,080 see. But I do recognize that I am only entrusted with a certain amount 29 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,120 of time. Either A we don't know when Jesus is going to return specifically, 30 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:20,439 or B I have an opportunity right in front of me to make an 31 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:24,479 impact in this world in Jesus's name, or see, maybe I will meet 32 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,199 my untimely demise. I am not sure why because I'm human and God has 33 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,759 not given me the privilege or I'm not privy to the understanding of when i 34 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,479 should live or when I should die. So I don't worry myself about that. 35 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:44,039 I am concerned about this moment in time, just about three minutes since 36 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,800 we began this broadcast this morning. That's what I'm worried about. That's what 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,840 I'm concerned about. Maybe worried is not the right terminology, Okay. And 38 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:59,560 so God wants us to keep our focus on Him and then invest the time 39 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:04,439 has given to us, okay. And so we're going to begin today by 40 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:07,000 reading in the Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter ninety, 41 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,280 and see what the Lord has for us here. And the Bible reads here 42 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,120 the Lord or Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place. That's our sanctuary, 43 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:23,599 our protective refuge. Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations, 44 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,520 before the mountains were brought forth or ever Thou hadst formed the earth or the 45 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:35,199 world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. So we have 46 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:39,759 established from the scriptures that God has been here for us from before there was 47 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:45,680 a beginning. Yes, our grandparents and their grandparents and their great great great 48 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:51,360 grandparents to ceaseless generations in the past until the beginning, I should say, 49 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,879 not ceaseless. God has been with his people. And the good thing is 50 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:00,560 that before there was ever an earth, before he formed any thing that we 51 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:05,159 can see, animate or inanimate, God has always been the all wise, 52 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:11,520 all powerful God, Blessed be his name. And so that means that even 53 00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:15,199 when we have trials, he's still God, and he's able to help us 54 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,560 through those trials. When we're having tribulations, he's still God. He's able 55 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,240 to help us through those tribulations. Yes, even when we are trying. 56 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,560 In triumph and gladness and joy, he is still that saying God who has 57 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:33,879 the power to create and then also to recreate all of us, make us 58 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:40,160 holy, make us new. While he still creates and forms planets and solar 59 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,040 systems and whatever else God is out they're doing that is beyond our understanding. 60 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,079 Okay. Verse three, Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest return ye 61 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:55,160 children of men, for a thousand years in thy sight, but as yesterday 62 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,839 when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. And then 63 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,519 the Bible continues verse ten. Let me switch versions. Now, the days 64 00:05:03,519 --> 00:05:11,519 of our lives add up to seventy years or eighty if one is especially strong, 65 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:15,399 But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Can I 66 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:19,480 get a witness like life is not is not a cake walk. It is 67 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:25,319 not easy. So if we get seventy, or by strength we get eighty, 68 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:30,000 or some of you are already living into the nineties. And further, 69 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,160 God is saying that, yes, there will be troubles, and the Bible 70 00:05:35,199 --> 00:05:40,439 continues, yes, they pass quickly and we fly away. So even if 71 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:44,759 it is seventy eighty ninety, one hundred, two hundred years, if there 72 00:05:44,759 --> 00:05:48,399 were someone two hundred years of age, even that would be very quickly. 73 00:05:48,439 --> 00:05:53,040 Why because in God's sight, because He's eternal, a thousand years as a 74 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:55,519 day, and a day is as a thousand years. We're here today, 75 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,519 gone today. I did not say tomorrow. So teach us to number our 76 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:04,800 day Verse twelve. This is what the passage is. So teach us to 77 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:13,519 consider our mortality that we might live wisely. So God wants us, and 78 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,079 he invites us into a relationship with him that no matter how much time we 79 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:23,319 have, whether it's a long time like some of these people. Nine hundred 80 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,920 and sixty nine years. Ha. The Man of God lived Methusalem nine hundred 81 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,040 and thirty years. The Man of God Adam lived. Yes, whether it's 82 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:36,480 that or if it is just seven or eight or nine years, or seven 83 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:43,879 or eight or nine decades, regardless, let God be the wisdom that we 84 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,000 need in our lives so that we please Him and make an impact on those 85 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:54,079 around us. An impact on our families, transformative impact on our communities, 86 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:59,079 the houses of worship, and I mean communities related to those houses of worship, 87 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,360 and even those who are in cyberspace, those are also long. Those 88 00:07:03,399 --> 00:07:09,399 are incredible, big communities that we have impact on. Okay, So that 89 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,800 is the basic principle. Now we move to the Book of Psalms, the 90 00:07:13,839 --> 00:07:17,600 Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and two and verse eleven. Do you 91 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,600 ask God? Do you ask God in the morning to please teach you what 92 00:07:21,639 --> 00:07:27,519 you must do, what you must say, how you must impact the lives 93 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:30,519 of other people. Let's see in verse eleven of one hundred and two the 94 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,240 Book of Psalms. My days are coming to an end. I am withered 95 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:42,279 like grass. See I live in the perpetual springtime zone. And well sometimes 96 00:07:42,279 --> 00:07:46,439 it goes into scorching heat summer zone. But I don't have winter like you 97 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,279 may have winter, depending on where you live. And I see when the 98 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:56,000 grass is here and gone today, gone today, here today. Sometimes the 99 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,439 sun is scorchingly hot in the months like lie in August, and the grass 100 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,360 that was green is no longer green, and some of it actually dies, 101 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,279 you see, and so many of you have seen that. But the Bible 102 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:16,319 continues verse twelve. But you Lord rule forever, and your reputation indoors, 103 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,879 you will rise up and have compassion on your people for his time to have 104 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:24,959 mercy on her for the appointed time has come. Of course, there is 105 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:28,639 a specific application here. But I want us to grasp and lay hold of 106 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,240 the fact that God knows the number of days that he has entrusted to us. 107 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:39,440 He is merciful to us, and He has empowered us to what overcome 108 00:08:39,639 --> 00:08:43,320 any sin, temptation, trial, and live victorious lives. And if God 109 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,240 forbid we should stumble and fall, he has given us the kind of mercy 110 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:54,039 that we need in order to begin to live like him in recovery. Okay, 111 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,600 now we move to the Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and three, 112 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,240 verses fourteen through sixteen. The Bible says, he knows what we are 113 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,360 made of. He realizes we are made of clay. A person's life is 114 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:11,480 like grass, like a flower in the field that flourishes, but when the 115 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:16,799 hot wind blows, it disappears. Wow, and one can no longer even 116 00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:22,120 spot the place where it grew. And I thank God. But the Lord 117 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:28,799 continually shows verse seventeen loyal love to his faithful followers and his faithful and is 118 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,440 faithful to their descendants, to those who keep his covenant and who are careful 119 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:39,720 to obey his commands. Teach us God to number our days and to experience 120 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:41,919 your faithfulness. But in the meantime, help us to make the kind of 121 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:46,720 impact you have entrusted to us. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, 122 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,600 Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 123 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:56,000 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David 124 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,279 Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,