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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 us

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

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

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

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

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is Friday, March twenty two,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our Lesson study
series through the Book of Psalms,

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and our caption for this preparation day
morning is turn it around for God.

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Turn it around for God. How
many times has God turned it in air

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quotes around for you? Those challenges
that you have been facing, Yes,

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those things that you thought could never
be overcome, temptations, trials, Huh.

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Sometimes you've had challenges with people and
you thought that maybe God couldn't turn

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it around for you. Well he
did. He did, and if he

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has not, all you need to
do is submit to him. And in

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time that's God's time, not my
time, not your time, not some

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pastor or preacher's time. But in
time he will turn it around in the

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appropriate way for you. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will

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get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us this new day

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and for the privilege that we have
to open up your word. Please fill

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us with your Holy spirit, give
us the opportunity in our minds to do

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your will. Help us to love
you and serve you with everything that we

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have and everything that we are.
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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a men again. Turn it around
for God. We're really talking about repentance.

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It's not that we have something that
we can give to God, like

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something that can enrich him in some
way. And so it's not like when

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He turns it around for us.
It is that we are turning ourselves around.

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Yes, we are receiving through the
Holy Spirit, repentance that is godly

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sorrow for sin. And then we
turn like we turn our shoulder and you

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know your head and your shoulders kind
of control what your balance will be.

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And so when we are off balance
with God, then we turn the shoulder

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and make an about turn or write
about turn, or an about face,

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depending on where you are in the
world. And so that's what we're talking

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about today. Pray, brothers and
sisters for true repentance. I'm not asking

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you to do anything that I am
not doing for myself. The Bible says

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in Romans chapter two that repentance is
a gift from God. Yes, and

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there are some people who have spurned
the gift, people who have decided that

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they don't need to turn the shoulder, that they're just fine how they are.

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But God has given us the privilege
through the Holy Spirit, to see

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our sin as it is, and
then to turn the shoulder or turn away

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from sin and toward God and also
have the kind of godly sorrow for sin

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that we see in the experience of
King David in the Book of Psalms,

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chapter fifty one. And so what
I'm going to do now is begin reading

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from the book Steps to Christ.
And if you have been following me for

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years, you have heard me say
more than once that Steps to Christ is

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my favorite book. Outside of the
Bible. And now you will see partially

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see why. And I begin reading
at page twenty two. There are many

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who fail to understand the true true
nature of repentance. So we're not talking

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about an intellectual pursuit, but spiritually
we fail to understand. So many people

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fail to understand. You don't have
to continue that way though, continuing the

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quote multitudes sorrow that they have sinned
and even make an outward reformation because they

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fear that they're wrongdoing will bring suffering
upon themselves. So this is sort of

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a self focused behavior change. I
just need that to settle in. That

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is a self focused behavior change.
That's not what God is after, Okay,

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but this is not the repentance in
the Bible verse. They lament the

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suffering rather than the sin. That's
why brothers and sisters, Matt pause right

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here. This is why I say
that we need to be praying for repentance,

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pray for the gift of God that
is called repentance, because we he

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can't generates godly sorrow for sin.
We can't appropriately evaluate in our own minds

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what godly sorrow feels like or is
like. And so that's why we need

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we need this gift, and the
Bible I mean. And this quote continues,

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such as the grief of Esau when
he saw that the birthright was lost

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to him forever. Balem, terrified
by the angel standing in his pathway with

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the drawn sword, acknowledged his guilt
lest he should lose his life. But

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there was no genuine repentance for sin, no conversion of purpose, no adberance

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of evil. Ah Judas Iscariot,
after betraying his lord, exclaimed, and

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here we go. He has the
right words. But here we go.

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I have sinned in that I have
betrayed the innocent blood. That's coming from

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the Book of Matthew, chapter twenty
seven and verse four HM. Now from

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the Book Prophets and King's page fifty. This is good stuff, y'all.

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Although God dwells not in temples made
with hands, yet he honors with his

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presence the assemblies of his people.
So the Bible says that we should not

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forsake the assembling of ourselves together with
other people, like, like minded people

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who are seeking to worship and to
serve God, as the manner of some

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is like, we should we should
come together, come together for a true

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worship of God. But he honors
us with his presence. Right, continuing

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the quote, he has promised that
when they come together to seek Him,

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to acknowledge their sins, and to
pray for one another, he will meet

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with them by his spirit. So, brothers and sisters, are there times

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that you neglect to come together with
God's people because maybe you have been church

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hurt? Oh well, wait a
minute, I can't nor I can't just

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blurt that out because I've been church
hurt. Many of you have been church

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hurt. And you can think of
people who sat in the bench next to

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you. Maybe God forbid, there
are people who were supposed to be leading

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you and something went terribly wrong,
and now you blame God for what humans

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have done. One of the things
that my pastor my pastor, and I

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call him my pastor. He's the
one who baptized me. He's the one

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who who ordained me in the eldership. He's the one that gave Simona and

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I our premarital counseling and so much
more. Pastor Henry Monroe, Right,

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he used to say the problem with
God's people is God's people. Yeah,

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the problem with God's people is God's
people. It's it's not God like.

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We make mistakes and we behave in
ways toward one another that is displeasing to

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God. And then God gets the
blame because because we're supposed to be representing

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God. But really God is not
to blame. We are to blame.

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And so all of us need repentance. All of us need repentance, we

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need reformation, We need reformation,
yes, revival and reformation. But this

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continues, the quote continues. Let's
see, unless they worship him in spirit

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and in truth and the beauty of
holiness, they're coming together will be of

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no avail of such. The Lord
declares this, people draweth nigh unto me

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with their mouth, and honoreth me
with their lips, with their heart is

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far from me. Those who worship
God must worship him in spirit and in

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truth, or the Father seeketh such
to worship him. That's the end of

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the quote from the book Prophets and
King's page fifty. And so, really,

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what is our action item for today? Our action item for today again

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is to pray for repentance. We
need to be seeking God. It is

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our privilege to be seeking God and
saying God. I know that there are

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times in my life that I have
not done what you would have me to

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do. I realize that I have
not served you with my entire life,

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my entire heart. Maybe you have
even hurt other people. Maybe Ah,

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But God, will you please give
me the mind that loves you, that

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loves your will, that is not
afraid of some kind of spiritual reprisals.

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But really, all I want is
to serve you because I love you.

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Would you give me godly sorrow for
sin? Lord? Would you give me

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the ability to turn the shoulder and
do what you would have me to do.

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This is our way to turn it
around for God. Thanks for joining

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us listening. Friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but

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

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daily portion with el David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,