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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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

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

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to 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

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morning. It is Sabbath, January
twenty twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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

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

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no exception. We are continuing in
our lesson study series through the Book of

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Psalms, and we are beginning lesson
number four under the caption the Lord hears

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and Delivers, The Lord hears and
Delivers. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but first I'd like
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Portion dot com. It is a
way that we continue to build faith and

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fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for
giving us this new day and for the

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privilege you have entrusted to us today
to serve you. I am asking you,

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now, Lord, to please teach
us that you hear and you answer

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our prayers. Please teach us to
serve you with everything that we are in

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Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. The Lord hears and

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he delivers. The question is do
you believe it? Yeah, that's the

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beginning of our discussion today. Do
you believe it that God hears and he

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delivers. We're going to begin by
reading from the Book of Psalms. That's

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the Book of Psalms, chapter thirty
four, and I will read verses seventeen

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through nineteen. That's the Book of
Psalms, chapter thirty four, and I

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will read beginning at verse seventeen,
the Bible reads the righteous cry. The

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question is are you righteous? Brother? Are you righteous? My sister?

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Are you one of God's righteous people? Because you're great on your own,

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but because you are accepting the righteousness
of Christ in your life, you agree

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with God, you're submitting your will
to God. If that is the case,

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the Bible is saying to us that
the righteous cry, and the Lord

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he heareth and delivereth them out of
all their troubles. Can I just say,

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just for a moment right here,
that for God to hear and to

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act, or to hear and to
do our simultaneous are not simultaneous synonymous.

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To hear and to do are synonymous. So when God is hearing, that

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means that he's doing something. In
this case, he is delivering them out

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of their troubles. Who's he delivering
the righteous? The righteous who cry?

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Verse eighteen, The Lord is nigh
unto them that are of a broken heart.

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Have you ever had a broken heart? Brothers and sisters, have you

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ever been so sad that you had
a palpable feeling of pain and agony through

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trials and tribulations. That's one of
the ways that our hearts are broken.

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But also there is a brokenness that
says, you know what, I realized

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that even my own righteousnesses are as
filthy rags, Even the great things that

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I do are woefully inadequate. And
therefore I will yield myself to God that

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kind of broken heart. And the
Bible says, and He saveth such as

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be of a contrite spirit. Have
you ever needed to be saved? I

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saved from sin. I was sinking
deep in sin. Remember that song far

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from the peaceful show, a very
deeply stained within, sinking to rise no

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more. And then the Master of
the sea he heard my despairing cry,

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and from the waters he lifted me. Now safe am a God lifted me.

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Love lifted me when nothing else could
help. Love lifted me. And

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it's a wonderful thing to know that
God is love verse nineteen. Many are

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the afflictions of the righteous. We
go through things, brothers and sisters,

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but the Lord delivereth them out of
them all. I'm going to read something

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very similar from the Book of Psalms, chapter one five, beginning at verse

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eighteen. The Lord is nigh unto
them that call upon him, to all

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that call upon him. In truth, he will fulfill the desire of them

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that fear him. Do you respect
God? He also will hear their cry.

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Remember, when God hears, he
does something. When we hear the

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voice of God, the expectation is
that we will do something. He will

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hear their cry and will save them. My mouth Verse twenty one shall speak

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the praise of the Lord and He
and let all flesh bless His holy name

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forever and ever. I want to
go back to verse nineteen. He will

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fulfill the desire of them that fear
him to fulfill. The desire means that

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holy hearts will desire only that which
is holy. So God has no problem

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fulfilling such desay. He does not
promise to grant the desire of the sinner,

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Huh, it will not be wise
for him to do so. And

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so you have heard in other places
that God answers prayers, and he does.

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He answers prayers, he delivers.
He hears from people, especially who

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are submitted to him. So it's
a wonderful thing to know that the Lord

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he hears and he delivers. Now, let me ask you again, do

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you believe that? Do you believe
that God inclines his ear to you?

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Remember that song hear our prayer?
O Lord, hear that hear our prayer.

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O Lord, incline thine ear to
us. So we have the hearing,

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and grant now we have the doing. Grant us your peace. When

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God hears he does. When God
hears from his children, he acts and

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he delivers. What a mighty God. And so I'm going to read write

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from the Lesson Study, because something
interesting comes up in the first paragraph.

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Again and again, the psalms highlight
the truth that the sovereign Lord who created

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and sustains the universe also reveals himself
as a personal God who initiates and sustains

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a relationship with his people. Did
you get that God initiates, The personal

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God who cares about the affairs of
human beings, initiates and sustains a relationship

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with his people. So even though
he is sovereign, even though he is

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all powerful, all knowing, blessed
be his name, he is near.

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And then again the writer says that
God initiates and sustains relationship with this people.

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Do you remember when Adam and Eve
sinned and the garden of Eden,

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Eve took of the fruit that was
forbidden, and then she, after eating,

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gave to her husband, and he
also ate. And so now Adam

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and Eve are both on the opposite
side of the will of God. And

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Adam being the one who was created
first, the one who was who was

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the representative of the human race,
is now separated from God. And so

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the question is what next, Like, what happens when Adam, the one

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who represents the human race, that
Adam is separated from God. Well,

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the Bible says that Adam heard the
voice or heard the voice of God as

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he walked in the garden, and
he hid himself, and so God God

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called out to Adam and said,
where are you Adam? Not because God

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didn't know where he was, but
because God delivers his people like he hears

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and delivers his people. He hears
the problem that Adam is having and Eve

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is having, right, and he
goes down there to deliver. Yes,

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Adam made a terrible error and sinned
against God. But God wanted Adam to

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know where he was, and so
he said, I was naked, and

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so I hid myself naked and afraid. Well, who told you that you

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were naked? Adam? Did you
do what I said not to do?

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And then of course the blame game
starts and so forth. But the reality

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is that God delivered Adam and Eve
through the plan of salvation and the righteousness

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of God and began to deliver them. He's delivering you even today. Thanks

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for joining us listening, Friends,
always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with El David
Harris naked. A great day, Yeah,