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 Sabbath, January twenty twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El 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 we are beginning lesson number four under the caption the Lord hears
and Delivers, The Lord hears and Delivers. We'll get into that in just
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Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for the
privilege you have entrusted to us today to serve you. I am asking you,
now, Lord, to please teach us that you hear and you answer
our prayers. Please teach us to serve you with everything that we are in
Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The Lord hears and
he delivers. The question is do you believe it? Yeah, that's the
beginning of our discussion today. Do you believe it that God hears and he
delivers. We're going to begin by reading from the Book of Psalms. That's
the Book of Psalms, chapter thirty four, and I will read verses seventeen
through nineteen. That's the Book of Psalms, chapter thirty four, and I
will read beginning at verse seventeen, the Bible reads the righteous cry. The
question is are you righteous? Brother? Are you righteous? My sister?
Are you one of God's righteous people? Because you're great on your own,
but because you are accepting the righteousness of Christ in your life, you agree
with God, you're submitting your will to God. If that is the case,
the Bible is saying to us that the righteous cry, and the Lord
he heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Can I just say,
just for a moment right here, that for God to hear and to
act, or to hear and to do our simultaneous are not simultaneous synonymous.
To hear and to do are synonymous. So when God is hearing, that
means that he's doing something. In this case, he is delivering them out
of their troubles. Who's he delivering the righteous? The righteous who cry?
Verse eighteen, The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.
Have you ever had a broken heart? Brothers and sisters, have you
ever been so sad that you had a palpable feeling of pain and agony through
trials and tribulations. That's one of the ways that our hearts are broken.
But also there is a brokenness that says, you know what, I realized
that even my own righteousnesses are as filthy rags, Even the great things that
I do are woefully inadequate. And therefore I will yield myself to God that
kind of broken heart. And the Bible says, and He saveth such as
be of a contrite spirit. Have you ever needed to be saved? I
saved from sin. I was sinking deep in sin. Remember that song far
from the peaceful show, a very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no
more. And then the Master of the sea he heard my despairing cry,
and from the waters he lifted me. Now safe am a God lifted me.
Love lifted me when nothing else could help. Love lifted me. And
it's a wonderful thing to know that God is love verse nineteen. Many are
the afflictions of the righteous. We go through things, brothers and sisters,
but the Lord delivereth them out of them all. I'm going to read something
very similar from the Book of Psalms, chapter one five, beginning at verse
eighteen. The Lord is nigh unto them that call upon him, to all
that call upon him. In truth, he will fulfill the desire of them
that fear him. Do you respect God? He also will hear their cry.
Remember, when God hears, he does something. When we hear the
voice of God, the expectation is that we will do something. He will
hear their cry and will save them. My mouth Verse twenty one shall speak
the praise of the Lord and He and let all flesh bless His holy name
forever and ever. I want to go back to verse nineteen. He will
fulfill the desire of them that fear him to fulfill. The desire means that
holy hearts will desire only that which is holy. So God has no problem
fulfilling such desay. He does not promise to grant the desire of the sinner,
Huh, it will not be wise for him to do so. And
so you have heard in other places that God answers prayers, and he does.
He answers prayers, he delivers. He hears from people, especially who
are submitted to him. So it's a wonderful thing to know that the Lord
he hears and he delivers. Now, let me ask you again, do
you believe that? Do you believe that God inclines his ear to you?
Remember that song hear our prayer? O Lord, hear that hear our prayer.
O Lord, incline thine ear to us. So we have the hearing,
and grant now we have the doing. Grant us your peace. When
God hears he does. When God hears from his children, he acts and
he delivers. What a mighty God. And so I'm going to read write
from the Lesson Study, because something interesting comes up in the first paragraph.
Again and again, the psalms highlight the truth that the sovereign Lord who created
and sustains the universe also reveals himself as a personal God who initiates and sustains
a relationship with his people. Did you get that God initiates, The personal
God who cares about the affairs of human beings, initiates and sustains a relationship
with his people. So even though he is sovereign, even though he is
all powerful, all knowing, blessed be his name, he is near.
And then again the writer says that God initiates and sustains relationship with this people.
Do you remember when Adam and Eve sinned and the garden of Eden,
Eve took of the fruit that was forbidden, and then she, after eating,
gave to her husband, and he also ate. And so now Adam
and Eve are both on the opposite side of the will of God. And
Adam being the one who was created first, the one who was who was
the representative of the human race, is now separated from God. And so
the question is what next, Like, what happens when Adam, the one
who represents the human race, that Adam is separated from God. Well,
the Bible says that Adam heard the voice or heard the voice of God as
he walked in the garden, and he hid himself, and so God God
called out to Adam and said, where are you Adam? Not because God
didn't know where he was, but because God delivers his people like he hears
and delivers his people. He hears the problem that Adam is having and Eve
is having, right, and he goes down there to deliver. Yes,
Adam made a terrible error and sinned against God. But God wanted Adam to
know where he was, and so he said, I was naked, and
so I hid myself naked and afraid. Well, who told you that you
were naked? Adam? Did you do what I said not to do?
And then of course the blame game starts and so forth. But the reality
is that God delivered Adam and Eve through the plan of salvation and the righteousness
of God and began to deliver them. He's delivering you even today. 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 naked. A great day, Yeah,