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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.

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It is Tuesday, January sixteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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is Elle 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 is God is the
Judge. God is the Judge. We'll

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get into that in just a moment. I like to say welcome to you

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Portion dot com. This is a
way that we can continue to build faith

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

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Father and Heaven, thank you for
getting us thus far into our work

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weeknd for the opportunity to come aside
just a moment and rest with each other

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for a while. Please, God
give us understanding and help us to appreciate

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your holiness today in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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God is the judge. Now,
let me just shout to you, this

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is great news. Okay, maybe
I didn't shout it, but you could

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kind of hear my intent here right
like, this is great news because I

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have a question for you. Have
you ever been misjudged? Have you ever

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been missed? Miss judged? And
I actually underlined that part when I wrote

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it in my notes, and I
said that God sees all I've been in

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work situations, relationship situations, all
kinds of other challenges when people think they

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know but they don't know, and
then they make a determination made on bad

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inform, made based upon bad information, That is miss judging. Okay,

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okay, we'll get into that first. Now, let's go ahead and begin

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to take think about seven steps here
if we have enough time. Okay.

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So we're using the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy five as the backdrop,

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not about misjudging, but about the
beauty of God being judge right. He

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is the one that sees all,
He knows all, and justice, judgment,

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and righteousness. In the Bible,
when it's referencing God, it's all

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about holiness, okay, or righteousness. So the first thing is in verse

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two, when I shall see the
congregation, I will judge up rightly.

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So there's a redundancy here because we're
talking about God judging. Of course,

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God only has one way of judging, and that is uprightly. So what

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we do, though, is acknowledge
God's timing and sovereignty, his timing and

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sovereignty. Recognize that God's judgments are
fair and they are made at his perfect

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time. I wish I could really
get into some of my experiences, but

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I think it could get a little
weird depending on who's listening or watching.

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Right. But there are times that
you just wonder, why are people behaving

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a certain way, Why are they
quote judging me in this way? Why

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is it that they are doing X
based on what they heard, based on

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what they perceived because of somebody else's
actions and then aligning or assigning their actions

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with you just because you're close to
that other person. You see what I'm

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saying, Like it's almost like guilt
by association. What I tell to people

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when they're going through these kinds of
things is that God sees. God sees

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and he knows all. Here's a
case in point. Remember Hagar, Yes,

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Hagar and Sarah having a problem because
you know, Sarah got the bright

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idea that in order for God to
keep his promise to Abraham and Sarah to

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have a son or a seed who
would be the father of many nations.

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Right if you want to say,
she said, well, let's see,

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my husband and I are old.
Our reproductive situations are not functional. So

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one of the ways that we think
that we can actually answer God's answered God's

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call, like where God can keep
his promise is if Abraham you go into

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Hagar, you two have a baby, and then everything else problem solved and

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God didn't ask for any help,
like he said, what was going to

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happen? And there was a bad
relationship, and actually even into twenty twenty

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four, there are relationships that are
strained and even very dangerous or bad and

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broken relationships because of Abraham's listening to
Sarah and trying to do what God only

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could do. But you know what, God sent a messenger to Hagar,

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and he said it in a way
that she would understand, like he visited

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her to let her know that I'm
gonna bless your seed, and I see

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you, I see you. I'm
judging justly at the right time. Now

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go submit to yourself to Sarah.
But I see you and I see your

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seed. So again God's judgments are
fair and are made in his perfect timing.

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I wish I had the time.
Here is another one from verse six.

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From promotion cometh neither for promotion cometh
neither from the east, nor the

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west, nor the south. Now
we have to understand that true success and

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elevation come from God, not from
human arrogance, not from human actions.

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Refuse to boast in wickedness. Remember
it doesn't come from people, and it

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doesn't come from people's evil activities like
scammers and people who feel like that they

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are smarter than other people, people
who are shrewd and calculating, and how

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they do business, how they relate
to others. It doesn't come from there

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it comes from God. Here is
another one from verse seven. But God

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is the judge. He puteth down
one and set it up, setteth up

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another one. So we need to
trust God in his ultimate justice, because

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again the text says clearly God is
the judge. Have faith in God and

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that he will ultimately bring about justice, elevating the humble. Have you taken

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the low road? Brothers and sisters, have you ever humbled yourself and said,

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you know what, I know that
these people have the wrong idea.

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I know that I'm not getting my
just deserts my reward as I should get,

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not because I deserve it, but
because I have earned it. There

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are times that you have have not
gotten the pay that you deserve. There

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are times that you have not gotten
the recognition for your service that you deserve,

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and it was assigned or stolen to
some assigned to or stolen by someone

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else, And then they and their
families and their legacy may have benefited you.

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See. Uh, yeah, I
won't go too far down into that

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road, but just understand that God
is just and we can trust ultimately in

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his justice. Examine your own heart
and your actions. From verse nine,

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I will declare forever, I will
sing praises unto the God of Jacob.

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Regularly reflect on your actions and heart's
intentions, seeking to align them with God's

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will, and praising him for his
guidance and righteousness. Things don't always work

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out the same way. There are
times that you have to praise Him in

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the difficult times. There are times
that you praise him in triumph. There

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are times that you praise him in
the times that you just really don't understand.

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But you have read that God inhabited
the praises of his people, and

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so you praise Him for his mighty
acts and according to his excellent greatness.

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And you know that in reality,
if you praise God, you are coming

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into his prayers. So if you
examine your heart, if I examine my

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heart and say, God, am
I praising you because things are perfect?

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Am I praising you because I desire
something from you? Or am I praising

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you because You're worthy? You see, also celebrate God's righteous judgment. In

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verse three, the earth and all
the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I bear

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up the pillars of it Sillah.
Rejoice in God's just governance of the world,

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knowing that his judgments are always right
and ultimately bring stability into the chaos

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of life. There's so much more
that we could say, but I'm so

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thankful that God is the judge and
we are not. What a wonderful day,

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Peace, Thanks for joining us listening
to friends. Always remember we cannot

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

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

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a great day. Yeah,