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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

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Sunday, March twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Psalms. This is our final
week. Can you imagine. Our caption

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for today is the Call of Waiting. The Call of Waiting. We'll get

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into that in just a moment.
Before we do, I'd like to just

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say welcome to you and ask you
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Father and
Heaven, thank you for this day and

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for giving us the opportunity to connect
with you and with your people. Please

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teach us how to wait. Teach
us how to wait in Jesus name.

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so yes, we covered

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a little bit of what my mindset
is about waiting on the Lord, straight

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from the scriptures, and I gave
you another thought process besides wai t,

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putting our w ei ghd he on
the Lord is a posture. It is

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a lifestyle of trust, putting our
weight on the Lord. Now from the

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lesson writer, perhaps one of the
greatest stresses in life is the stress of

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waiting. Mm hmm. No matter
who we are, where we live,

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what our station in life is,
we all at times must wait for things.

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I can attest to that, from
waiting in line in a store to

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waiting to hear a medical prognosis.
We wait, which we don't always like

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doing. Mm hmm. Okay,
and so the immature believer. This is

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what I thought when I read that
paragraph. The immature believer trusting God without

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knowing God's details and timelines. Okay, So when we're waiting on God,

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we are awaiting whatever it is that
He has for us, whatever his instructions

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are, his guidance. We're in
a trial, we're having difficulties, yes,

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or we're just waiting for an answer
from God. King Saul was waiting

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for an answer from God, but
because he lived a life contrary to God's

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will, he waited in vain.
But God's people, God's people, have

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to stop being immature. When we
get impatient, we need to really consider.

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God has everything under control. He
knows exactly what he's doing, and

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so all we need to do is
wait for God to say or do what

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is best, rather than to become
antsy and impatient, because when we become

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impatient, we make poor decisions.
Yes, okay, so let's go and

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read a few passages, a couple
of which we have already read, but

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let's read them again. From the
Book of Psalms, Chapter twenty seven,

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Verse fourteen. Wait on the Lord
be of good courage, and he shall

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strengthen thine heart. Wait, I
say on the Lord. Okay now from

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thirty seven verses nine and thirty four. For evil doers shall be cut off,

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and those who wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

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Now we see a contrast between people
who don't love God and people who do.

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The people who don't love God and
who will not choose to love God,

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those people will be cut off.
They will be put out of their

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misery. They will nobody is forced
to have a right relationship with God.

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Nobody is forced to live eternally.
They will be cut off. But those

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who wait upon the Lord, wait
on him for what everything. We trust

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God for everything, we will inherit
the new Earth. You see, the

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earth as it is is not our
final home. Heaven is not our home.

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And I know, I know,
I just confuse somebody's brain. You

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said, wait a minute, Heaven's
not our home. No, I mean,

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if you really read what the Bible
says, beginning at Revelation chapter twenty,

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we know that when Jesus comes,
When Jesus comes, his people whoever

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are actually choosing to be saved at
the last. In the end, those

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individuals will go to stay in heaven
for a thousand years, and after the

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thousand years are finished. The Bible
teaches us, going into Revelation chapter twenty

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one, and then in Matthew chapter
five, that God is going to give

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us the New Earth once it is
cleansed, once all sin and sinners are

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destroyed. God is going to give
the meek the new Earth. The meek

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will inherit the New Earth. Verse
thirty four. Wait on the Lord and

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keep his way, and he shall
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When the wicked are cut off,
thou shalt see it. Okay, let's

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go through to chapter thirty nine,
verses seven and eight. Now, Lord,

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what wait I for? My hope
is in you. Deliver me from

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all my transgressions. Make me not
the reproach of the foolish. So part

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of waiting on the Lord, part
of being among God's people, his children,

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is for us to be delivered from
our transgressions and sins and iniquity.

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So many big words to talk about
being separated from God. Sometimes people us

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sin, knowing full well that we're
sinning God forbid. But that's what happens.

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Yes, there are people who sin
ignorantly, but the fact is we

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all need to repent. We all
need to turn the shoulder, we need

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to turn away. I think it
was on March fifth that we talked about

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repentance. Yes, and so God
wants us to be delivered. He wants

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to deliver us from our transgressions.
And that is a part of waiting on

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the Lord. Okay Verse one of
Psalm chapter forty. I waited patiently for

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the Lord, and he inclined unto
me and heard my cry. So what

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is one of what is one of
the responses that come from God? When

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we wait on God, he will
listen to us. And when he listens

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to and hears us, that means
he delivers us. Remember we sing that

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song sometimes, so if you want
to call it a song, here our

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prayer, Oh Lord, here our
prayer. O Lord, incline thine ear

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to us, and grant us thy
peace. So when we wait on the

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Lord and he hears us, he
will give us his peace. In verse

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six of Psalm chapter Psalm chapter sixty
nine, the Bible reads, let not

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them that wait on Thee, O, Lord, God of Hosts, be

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ashamed for thy sake. Let not
those that seek thee be confounded for my

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sake, Oh God of Israel.
So God, please please let it be

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that when people see what you will
do after we have waited on you,

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that they'll say, oh, yes, he is a good God. Oh,

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they will see that it was not
in vain that we waited. Let

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me read it in another version,
the New English translation, Let none who

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rely on you be disgraced because of
me, Oh, sovereign Lord of Heaven's

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armies. Let none who seek you
be ashamed because of me, Oh,

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God of Israel. Of course that
had a specific, a specific application.

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But the point in this case is
when we wait on God, we will

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not be ashamed. We will not
be ashamed. And I know what I

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just read. But we read in
other passages that the people we should holy

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people don't want God to be spoken
badly of, and that we will be

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ashamed when we serve him. Okay, Waiting on the Lord is more than

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just hanging on. According to the
lesson writer, it is a deep longing

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for God that is compared to intense
First in our dry land, the Psalmist

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waits on many blessings from God,
but his yearning to be brought close to

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his God surpasses any desire and need
in life. Wow, we look forward

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to the coming of Jesus Christ.
Why because this earth is not really working

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out the way that it is,
and we wait like a mother who is

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about to give birth, that even
the earth is yearning for the day that

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Jesus Christ comes. Are you waiting
for Jesus to come? Wait patiently on

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the Lord. Thanks for joining us
listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of

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God. This has been your daily
portion with el David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,