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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 Sunday, January twenty eight, 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 study series through the Book

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of Psalms, and our caption for
today is the Days of Evil, The

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Days of Evil. We'll get in
to that in just a moment, but

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

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and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new week
and this new day, and for the

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privilege that we have to call on
your name. I'm praying Father now that

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you will deliver us from these days
of evil, that you will deliver us

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from all things that do not please
you. In Jesus name, I pray

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Amen and a men again the days
of evil? All right? And so

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I want to go down to the
bottom of the lesson study and read a

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quote from the book Desire of Ages
before I get into the reading from the

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Scriptures, and it comes from page
six hundred and seventy one, and it

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reads, the honor of God,
the honor of Christ, is involved in

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the perfection of the character of his
people. Can I say that again,

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the honor of God, the honor
of Christ, is involved in the perfection

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of the character of his people.
Can I just say, just for a

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moment here, that a lot of
times we ask for God to do things

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because we desire them, and we
should. I mean, He wants us

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to ask anything, and if it's
according to his will, he will hear

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us, and then he will grant
the thing that we desire of him.

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And so that's important. But at
the same time, we see in the

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time of Moses when God said he
was going to destroy his people because there

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is stiff necked people, and Moses
said, for thine own name's sake,

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do not destroy these people. These
are your people, God. And so

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what I want you to see in
this quote is that the honor of God

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and the honor of Christ is involved
in the perfection of the character of his

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people. So if you're having a
problem with patience, then you can call

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upon God and say, Lord,
in order for me to honor you,

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this is not a word play,
Brothers and sisters, In order for me

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to honor you, would you please
please deliver me from this fill in the

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blank like if you have a problem
with patience, if you have a problem

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with gossip, if Lord, it
is honoring to you. We know that

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it is honoring to you, It
is honoring to Jesus. Could you please

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deliver me from this gossiping tongue.
It is an honor to you, it

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is an honor to Jesus' father.
Please, will you deliver me from my

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impatience. Please make me more holy? Will you please make me a better

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father, a better brother, a
better sister, a better daughter. Will

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you please please teach me how to
listen for your voice in a new way

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like Enoch did he walked with you. Because it is honoring to you,

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it is honoring to Jesus. Will
you please do so? And it is

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not that God somehow is waiting for
us to say the perfect catchphrase, because

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the Bible does tell us that we
don't know what to pray for as we

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ought, but the Holy Spirit moans
and groanings that cannot be uttered. So

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we are clear on that. But
let me just again say that because it

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is honoring to God, it is
honoring to Christ. Our goal is to

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call our attention and to bring it
into our prayer time so that we are

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in alignment with God. That whatever
it is that we ask, whatever it

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is that we desire, it is
about honoring God ultimately. Okay, And

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so the question on the bottom of
the lesson, how do you understand this

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important truth and what should it mean
in your own Christian life? I gave

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you you an example, and so
we're going to go back up to the

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Book of Psalms, the Book of
Psalms, chapter seventy four, and read

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verse beginning at verse eighteen, and
the Bible reads, remember this, that

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the enemy hath reproached, Oh Lord, and that the foolish people have bla

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hath blasphemed thy name, Oh,
deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove

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unto the multitude of the wicked.
Forget not the congregation of the poor forever

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have respect unto the covenant. Or
the dark places of the earth are full

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of habitations of cruelty. Oh,
let not the oppressed return shame. Let

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the poor and needy praise Thy name. Arise, O Lord, plead thine

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own cause. Remember how the foolish
man reproacheth thee daily. You see,

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so again, the Psalmist is saying
here about all of the oppressed, all

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of the poor. And you see
that citation about or that allusion to turtle

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doves. Those individuals who had to
offer the sacrifice of turtle doves were the

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ones who didn't have the means to
bring the larger sacrifice that was prescribed in

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the sanctuary service. And so God
is saying that the oppressed, the poor,

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the needy, and all of these
individuals who seem to have been forgotten.

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For your own namesake, God,
plead your own cause. Remember how

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the foolish man reproaches the daily.
Please come through for these people. Why

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because the days are evil, because
your name is at stake, Will you

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do what you promised to do?
You see, So when we are praying,

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we are calling the power of God
to bear on the things that he

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has already said that he hates.
The Psalmist seeks to grasp the great controversy

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between God and the evil one.
He points to God's unfathomable forbearance as well

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as his infinite wisdom and power.
The problem of evil in the Psalms is

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primarily theological. It inevitably concerns questions
about God. Thus, the destruction of

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Jerusalem in the Temple is seen principally
as a divine scandal because it provided an

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opportunity for the heathen to blaspheme God, and I can continue reading, but

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I won't. I think you get
the point. And so when we see

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in the Psalms that there are manifestations
of evil like people who are proud continue

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to seem to prosper. Now we
call into discussion and not as if we

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can, as if we can put
God on trial, but we call into

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discussion God, what does this mean
about you? It means? Does it

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mean that you are patient? And
for it doesn't mean that you are holy?

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And then you will at some point
destroy those who are destroying others?

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What does it say about God?
This is what we need to be looking

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for every time we read the scriptures. What does this say about you?

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God? What does it say about
you? And if we were to read

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in a book of Psalms, chapter
seventy nine, it looks like we won't

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have enough time, But I'll read
just a couple of verses. Psalm chapter

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is seventy nine. We see this
message repeated, and I will read beginning

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at verse five, and the Bible
reads again, how long wilt thou be

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angry? Oh Lord? Forever shalt
thy jealousy burn like fire. Pour out

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thy wrath upon the heathen that have
not known thee, upon the kingdoms that

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have not called upon thy name,
For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste

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his dwelling place. Oh, remember
not against us former iniquities. Let thy

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tender mercy speedily prevent us, For
we are brought very low one more verse

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verse nine, help us, o, Lord of our salvation, the glory

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of thy name, and deliver us
and purge away our sins for thy name's

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sake. So you see that he
is calling. The Psalmist is calling upon

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the name of God to do what
we know God's character is to do for

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his name's sake, not to satisfy
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But in the days of evil,
it is time for God to roar

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from his sanctuary and arise and show
that he is good. Indeed, have

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a wonderful than Thanks for joining us
listening. 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,