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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 Friday except January twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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 Studies series through the Book

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of Psalms, and our caption for
today is almost like a song. Only

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trust Him, Only trust Him.
We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to go

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and in the meantime, there's a little

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box there and it asks where are
you in the world. I want you

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to type in that where you are
in the world. And that is one

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of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship at your daily portion

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dot Com. 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

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the privilege that we have to open
your word. Please teach us to trust

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you in all things. Please give
us your holy spirit. Thank you for

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this time of preparation for the Sabbath
that is coming. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Only trust him now. I did

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say this is an allusion to a
hymn, and I want to just read

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a few and a couple of stanzas
of this. Come every soul by sin

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oppressed. There's mercy in the Lord, and he will surely give you rest

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by trusting in his word. For
Jesus shed his precious blood rich blessings to

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bestow. Plunge now into the crimson
flood that washes. Why does snow?

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Yes, Jesus is the way,
the truth that leads you into rest.

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Believe in Him without delay, and
you are fully blessed and then the refrain

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only trust him, only trust him, only trust him now. He will

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save you. He will save you. He will save you now. And

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really, as much as we read
through the Psalms and we study and ask

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God for his guidance, we see
that refrain. Really throughout the Psalms,

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no matter which of the psalmists pen
the words under the inspiration of the Holy

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Spirit, we see trust God.
Trust in God with all that we have

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and all that we are. And
even through times of difficulties, even times

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of trial and tribulation, even times
of fierce temptation, we can trust God

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and give him thanks. Now we
are going to look at the story of

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Jacob in just a moment from Genesis, chapter thirty two. But before we

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do, I want to go into
the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page four

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hundred and ninety three, and I'll
begin to quote in a moment, the

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Psalms strengthen our faith in God,
who is the never failing refuge for those

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who entrust their lives into His mighty
hands. That's what the lesson writer has

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said. Now the quote God will
do great things for those who trust him.

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There's that word. The reason why
his professed pep will have no greater

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strength than that is that they trust
so much to their own wisdom. I

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need to just pause right there.
We need to have stronger faith. We

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need to have stronger or more strength. And the pathway to that is to

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distrust self, is to put all
of our trust in God into His wisdom

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and not our own. There are
times that we can't see a way out

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of any way, and so we
need God to show us a way out

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of no way. You see where
this is going. And therefore, and

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therefore I continue to quote and do
not give the Lord an opportunity, hold

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on an opportunity to reveal His power
in their behalf? Are you giving God

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an opportunity like? Are you opening
the door of your life into all of

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those secret spaces like in your mind
and in your activities, in your intentions?

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Are you giving God the space or
the opportunity to reveal His power on

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your behalf? Let me continue the
quote. He will help his believing children

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in every emergency if they will place
their entire confidence God. I pray that

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I will today, on this preparation
day, at the end of January,

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to put my entire confidence in you. Are you going to put your entire

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confidence in God. And let me
read it again, because I interrupted the

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thought. He will help his believing
children in every in every emergency, if

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they will place their entire confidence in
Him and faithfully obey him. Put your

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entire confidence in Him, faithfully obey
him, and you will experience the fullness

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of what the Psalmists have penned in
so many, so many passages. In

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Psalm chapter twenty three, where it
says that the Lord is my shepherd,

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I shall not be in want He
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That is a perspective that we need
to adopt. Even when it feels

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like we are in a dry and
dreary and weary land. We have to

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see that God is causing us to
lay down in green pastures where we can

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have comfort, where we can be
under His guidance and his protection, where

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we can be fed in the times
that we need food and sustenance and all

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of the resources that make our lives
or that we need in our lives and

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our daily activities. And so I'm
thankful that God has given us so many

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examples, including in the life of
Jacob, who messed his life up at

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a particular time, but he found
faith. He found faith at just the

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right time. He learned to put
his entire confidence in God and to follow

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him faithfully, even though his life
was a mess, even though he was

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under due rest, even though he
was running from his brother, who was

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seeking it seemed to kill him.
The Bible teaches us that Jacob found his

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rest and trust in God. And
so we go to Genesis chapter thirty two.

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And I want you to be on
the lookout for opportunities for you to

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put your trust in God. And
so the Bible reads in verse twenty four,

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and Jacob was left alone, and
there wrestled a man with him until

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the breaking of day. How many
of you know that that was not just

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an ordinary man. Let me continue
verse twenty five. And when he saw

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that he prevailed not against him,
he touched the hollow of his thigh,

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And the hollow of Jacob's thigh was
out of joint as he wrestled with him.

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And so the Bible is teaching us
that there was there was a wrestling

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match, There was a struggle.
There was a challenge that Jacob was going

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through at a time when he could
not find his faith. But he was

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learning in these moments that you know
what, I cannot trust myself. I

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cannot trust myself. How do I
know? Let me continue. The Bible

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continues here, and he said,
let me go. So this not ordinary

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man. This is indeed God in
the flesh before he came in the flesh,

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like Jesus before he came in the
flesh. And it says that he

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said, let me go for the
day breaketh. He said, I will

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not let thee go except thou bless
me. And he said, unto him,

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what is thy name? He said, Jacob? And he said,

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thy name shall be called no more
Jacob but Israel. For as a prince,

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thou hast power with God and with
men, and hast prevailed prevailed.

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And so the faith that God put
in Jacob's bosom in this time of emergency,

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in this time of dire need.
What time of emergency do you have?

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What time of dire need do you
have? Is it in relationships?

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Is it in your finances? Is
it in your spiritual journey? Is it

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in your personal development where you just
really don't know what you're about. God

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is saying that if you put your
trust in Him, then you can prevail

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with God and humans, and the
Bible says, and Jacob asked and said,

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tell me, I pray thee thy
name. And he said, wherefore

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is it that thou dost ask after
my name? And the Bible says he

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blessed him there. You know what, huh? Jacob called that place pinale

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because he had seen God face to
face, and he lived only trust him.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by

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

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This has been your daily portion with
El David Harris. Make it a great

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day. Yeah,