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 Friday, February twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you Guy'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 genuine happiness. Genuine happiness. I
am so great that we have this opportunity on this preparation day to continue to
reach God's heart through his word and then begin to live according to his principles.
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comes. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and for the privilege you have
entrusted to us to open your word again. Please give us genuine happiness today
in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Yeah. Sometimes,
as one of those song writers would have said long ago, some of
us are looking for love in all the wrong places. Some of us are
looking for happiness in all the wrong places. And what God is giving us
in our lesson study today is the root to true and lasting peace and happiness.
Let me begin with one of my favorite books. Probably my favorite book,
let me say not one of them. It's my favorite book outside of
the Bible. The booksteps to Christ, page one hundred and eighteen, and
it reads, thank God for the bright pictures which he has presented to us.
Let us group together the blessed assurances of His love, that we may
look upon them continually. You see, sometimes we let me pause right here.
Sometimes we pulled together all of the difficulties. Are the times that we
say, why me, Lord, I've gone through this or that, and
I'm so tired of going through this or that? When will it end?
Well? God hasn't promised that on planet Earth any of these difficulties will end.
Sometimes he does give us the blessing of going through a trial. It's
a cycle. We go through it, and then we go through to triumph
where we begin to feel and experience the burden being lifted. And that happens
a lot. But there are times that we don't. Will that disturb your
happiness? Will that disturb your peace? So what our sister, the late
missus Ellen White, is sharing with us is that we should group together the
assurances of his love, like do that? And here's some of it.
The son of God leaving his father's throne. That's an assurance of his love.
He didn't have to come down here clothing his divinity with humanity. I
don't even think we begin to understand what that means. The eternal God the
sun. According to Micah chapter five, verse two, he's eternal. He's
the one who created us. He created the world's according to John chapter one,
Hebrews chapter one, and other places. He clothed all of that power
that put Orion's nebula where it is. The one who created gravity, like
the one who created the heavens and the earth. He is the one who
came down here clothing his divinity in humanity so he could save us, beaten
and bruised, suffering privation and hunger, dealing with the emotions of people that
are supposed to love him, betraying him, and on and on we go.
I didn't even begin to scratch the surface. He did that for you
and for me, that he might rescue man. Continuing the quote from the
Power of Satan, his triumph in our behalf, opening heaven to men,
revealing to human vision the present chamber where the deity unveils his glory. The
fallen race. That means the human race uplifted from the pit of ruin into
which sin has plunged it, and brought again into connection with the infinite God,
and having endured the divine test through faith in our Redeemer, clothed in
the righteousness of Christ, and exalted to his throne. These are the pictures
which God would have us to contemplate. That was a long list, Brothers
and sisters, the manifestation of His love. Can we just go back here?
I want to go back here for this vision revealing to human vision the
presence chamber where the Deity unveils his glory. Things down here on planet are
Earth are so dark and dismal, So dark and dismal. I'm reading through
the Book of Job and seeing how a man who was fully connected to God
holy yielded to God's will in one day lost nearly everything, all of his
possessions gone, children gone, His wife well, that's a different discussion.
But his wife was trying to lead him in a couple of days, like
to paths of unrighteousness. Right, his three friends and then some bonus dude
named Elihu or Elihu, I don't know how to pronounce his name. Figured
that they were all going to be so brilliant and teach job why he was
going through the trial he was going through, when in fact, none of
those dudes understood anything about what was happening. They sounded so intelligent, they
sounded so holy, And when he was going through his deepest trials, he
had no help from anybody. And yet and still God showed him that he
can uplift us from the pit of ruin, restore us when we are going
through challenges. He can reveal the bright light of the face of God in
our situations to say that this earth is not our final home. Our trials
won't last always, and He will always be with us, and He will
never forsake us as long as we continue to yield our will to God.
And I'm thankful for these testimonies, these testimonies, the presence chamber where God
unveils his glory. I'm so thankful for that glimpse. Now, I'm going
to give just a few tips if you want to say, or lessons from
the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and forty one. That there was
an allusion to that chapter in this day's lesson. So let me go to
verse three, set a guard, Oh Lord, over my mouth, Keep
watch over the door of my lips. You realize that our mouths get us
into all kinds trouble. So guard your speech. Brothers and sisters, you
want to be happy in the Lord. You want to experience the blessings of
God. Yeah, guard your speech. Guard your speech. Don't speak a
negative word, don't complain, do not gossip. Praise the Lord every opportunity
you have, give thanks and show gratitude every opportunity that you have with your
mouth. Please do so. So guard your speech. Of course, resist
temptation. That's a gimme. You should understand that already, but let's read
it from verse four, Psalm chapter one one. Do not let my heart
be drawn to what is evil, to take part in the wicked deeds with
men who are evil doers. So resist temptation. Understand the subtle nature of
temptation, and run like steer clear of temptations, because going into temptation means
we go into sin, and we don't want to do that. We don't
want to be separated from God. We also need to trust in God's justice
from verse eight. But my eyes are fixed on you, o Sovereign Lord,
in you, I take refuge, Do not give me over to death,
like there is something going on in the chapter where of course there's always
this push and pull, like this contrast between the injustice that happens on planet
Earth, the wickedness of people and as they appear, some of them to
prosper, and what's going on over here. So we have to trust in
God's justice, his holiness, have faith in God's ultimate justice and that he
will vindicate his character in your life. And then finally we give God thanks
because Jesus is coming. Genuine happiness comes in serving the Lord. 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,