Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
It is Wednesday, February twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
is no exception. We are continuing in our lessons study series through the Book
of Psalms, and our caption for today is deceitfulness of the wicked Way.
Deceitfulness of the wicked Way. Get into that in just a moment, But
first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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world, in the little form there at your daily portion dot com. This
is the way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and then get underway. Father in Heaven, please give us this
day our daily bread of understanding, our daily bread of wisdom and holiness.
Please teach us how to serve you. Teach us how to in the few
moments that we have in life, to live holy lives and not play around
with wickedness for even a moment. In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and
Amen again. I think sometimes we try to explain away sin. I just
need to to settle in for just a moment. Sometimes we minimize it to
make ourselves feel better or to make ourselves feel like we are more victorious than
we actually are, rather than going to God and humility and saying, God,
please deliver me from myself, like deliver me from the impact of my
predecessors. Not my predecessors, that's probably not the right word. Of my
four bearers, like the people who lived before me in my gene pool,
my grandmam, my grandpa, and my great great greats all the way back.
Those individuals who would have left an unfortunate legacy of unholy actions and activities.
Right, Yes, we know that the Holy Spirit is available because he
wants to glorify God in our lives. Like the songwriter would have said,
in my life, Lord be glorified in my life, Lord be glorified today.
And so that's what we are at after. And so we want to
see the deceitfulness of wickedness as it really is and not be deceived like Eve
was in the Garden of Eden when the devil tried to nice it up and
make it seem dress it up and make it seem beautiful, make it smell
good, make it look good, make it taste good, until at last
it stings and snaps like a serpent or some other other creature that means,
you know good. We are going to read now from the Book of Psalms,
the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and forty one, and then
we will circle back and get some lessons. Okay, and the Bible reads,
Oh Lord, I cry out unto you, Come quickly to me.
Pay attention to me when I cry out to you. May you accept my
prayer like incense, my uplifted hands, like the evening offering. Of course,
this is relevant to those individuals who lived in the sacrificial system. It
may not be relevant to you in Detroit, Michigan in twenty twenty four,
or if you see it with that language, or it may not be something
that you can relate to in Acra, Ghana in twenty twenty four. But
what he is simply saying that does relate to us is please accept my prayers.
Have you ever prayed in various places in Kenya Nairobi? Have you ever
prayed and ask God to please hear your prayer and it felt like, well,
I don't know if he's listening. Not that you necessarily doubt, but
you're just hoping and saying, God, please hear my prayer. God,
please hear my prayer. This is what David is saying. He wants God
to hear him. Oh Lord. Verse three, place a guard on my
mouth, protect the opening of my lips. And if you remember the Book
of James, the Bible says that there is a lot of power in the
tongue. Ah, life and death is in the tongue. Yeah, so
we need to be clear on that. Verse four, do not let me
hate, No, do not let me have excuse me evil desires or participate
in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I do not eat in their
I do not eat their delicacies. May the Godly strike me in love and
correct me. May my head not refuse choice oil. Indeed, my prayer
is a witness against their evil deeds. So God is the man of God
is asking God to teach him not to be stubborn. I've ever had a
call from someone, or a text message, or someone pull you up in
real life and said, listen, I see what's going on. I'm asking
you to please just submit yourself to God like. Don't do that what you're
doing right now, Please please choose not to do that, choose to serve.
Serve God like. This is the mistake that you are making, and
I can be of service to you. This is what he's saying right here.
May the Godly strike me in love and correct me. Verse seven.
Now I mean verse six. They be thrown over the side of a cliff
by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant
as when one plows and breaks up soil, so our bones are scattered at
the mouth of shill. That's the grave. Ha. Surely I am looking
to you, O Sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not
expose me to danger. Please protect me from the snare they have laid for
me and the traps the evil doers have set. Let the wicked fall into
their own nets while I escape. So much to say, so little time.
Let's break these down into some lessons and look at the passages one more
time again. In verse three, it says, Oh, Lord, place
a guard on my mouth, protect the opening of my lips. The man
of God is saying, please, just protect me from temptation. So that's
an action step for us. We seek God's face, we seek his presence
as protection from temptation. Verse four, do not let me have evil desires.
We need to maintain self control. Self control. Here comes another one
from verse four, do not let me turn to evil. Yes, resist
the allure of wickedness. Resist the allure of wickedness. There are times that
people come and gossip to you. You can resist the allure of entertaining that
gossip. There are times that you want to look on some things on your
cell phones or on the internet. Somehow on some of those devices rokup or
something else right, you want to push play on some of those videos that
they flash in front of you had no intention you were going to watch a
real estate video, and then something else popped up as an ad and you're
like, oh, a trailer to something. You're like, oh, my
goodness, what do I do resist the allure of wickedness? How about committing
to unceasing prayer? Verse eight, I cry out unto you, Oh Lord,
I say ye, are you are my shelter? So during those same
times of trial or triumph, God is welcoming us to unceasing prayer, having
conversations with God all day, every day, at any point of time,
not just the three or five times that some of us pray and set that
time aside or a part, but also in just our daily movements. We're
in the vehicle, we're on public transportation, we're in the gym exercising,
or we're having a discussion with someone, and we just really don't know what
to do. Commit yourselves, brothers and sisters, to unceasing prayer and then
understand the progressive nature of temptation. There are times that temptation comes and then
we just nibble at it, and temptation gets hotter, and then we nibble
at it, and then temptation gets even hotter, and then we realize after
it's too late, that we have been drowned in the temptation. Why because
we played around with it. So the devil has this cunning way of fastening
people into his grasp, and God is giving us the privilege to see that
that's how it is, and then flee to him and say, God,
deliver me from this kind of evil. And of course, be patient and
wait on God. According to verse eight, be patient and trust and wait
upon God. His timing is different than ours, but he is a shelter.
He is a shelter during the times that we are tempted. Have a
wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,