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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 Wednesday, February twenty one, 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 lessons study series through the Book

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of Psalms, and our caption for
today is deceitfulness of the wicked Way.

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Deceitfulness of the wicked Way. Get
into 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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join our online community, pick up the

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world, in the little form there
at your daily portion dot com. This

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is the way that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then get underway.
Father in Heaven, please give us this

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day our daily bread of understanding,
our daily bread of wisdom and holiness.

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Please teach us how to serve you. Teach us how to in the few

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moments that we have in life,
to live holy lives and not play around

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with wickedness for even a moment.
In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and

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Amen again. I think sometimes we
try to explain away sin. I just

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need to to settle in for just
a moment. Sometimes we minimize it to

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make ourselves feel better or to make
ourselves feel like we are more victorious than

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we actually are, rather than going
to God and humility and saying, God,

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please deliver me from myself, like
deliver me from the impact of my

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predecessors. Not my predecessors, that's
probably not the right word. Of my

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four bearers, like the people who
lived before me in my gene pool,

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my grandmam, my grandpa, and
my great great greats all the way back.

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Those individuals who would have left an
unfortunate legacy of unholy actions and activities.

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Right, Yes, we know that
the Holy Spirit is available because he

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wants to glorify God in our lives. Like the songwriter would have said,

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in my life, Lord be glorified
in my life, Lord be glorified today.

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And so that's what we are at
after. And so we want to

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see the deceitfulness of wickedness as it
really is and not be deceived like Eve

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was in the Garden of Eden when
the devil tried to nice it up and

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make it seem dress it up and
make it seem beautiful, make it smell

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good, make it look good,
make it taste good, until at last

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it stings and snaps like a serpent
or some other other creature that means,

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you know good. We are going
to read now from the Book of Psalms,

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the Book of Psalms, chapter one
hundred and forty one, and then

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we will circle back and get some
lessons. Okay, and the Bible reads,

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Oh Lord, I cry out unto
you, Come quickly to me.

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Pay attention to me when I cry
out to you. May you accept my

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prayer like incense, my uplifted hands, like the evening offering. Of course,

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this is relevant to those individuals who
lived in the sacrificial system. It

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may not be relevant to you in
Detroit, Michigan in twenty twenty four,

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or if you see it with that
language, or it may not be something

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that you can relate to in Acra, Ghana in twenty twenty four. But

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what he is simply saying that does
relate to us is please accept my prayers.

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Have you ever prayed in various places
in Kenya Nairobi? Have you ever

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prayed and ask God to please hear
your prayer and it felt like, well,

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I don't know if he's listening.
Not that you necessarily doubt, but

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you're just hoping and saying, God, please hear my prayer. God,

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please hear my prayer. This is
what David is saying. He wants God

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to hear him. Oh Lord.
Verse three, place a guard on my

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mouth, protect the opening of my
lips. And if you remember the Book

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of James, the Bible says that
there is a lot of power in the

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tongue. Ah, life and death
is in the tongue. Yeah, so

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we need to be clear on that. Verse four, do not let me

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hate, No, do not let
me have excuse me evil desires or participate

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in sinful activities with men who behave
wickedly. I do not eat in their

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I do not eat their delicacies.
May the Godly strike me in love and

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correct me. May my head not
refuse choice oil. Indeed, my prayer

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is a witness against their evil deeds. So God is the man of God

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is asking God to teach him not
to be stubborn. I've ever had a

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call from someone, or a text
message, or someone pull you up in

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real life and said, listen,
I see what's going on. I'm asking

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you to please just submit yourself to
God like. Don't do that what you're

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doing right now, Please please choose
not to do that, choose to serve.

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Serve God like. This is the
mistake that you are making, and

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I can be of service to you. This is what he's saying right here.

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May the Godly strike me in love
and correct me. Verse seven.

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Now I mean verse six. They
be thrown over the side of a cliff

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by their judges. They will listen
to my words, for they are pleasant

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as when one plows and breaks up
soil, so our bones are scattered at

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the mouth of shill. That's the
grave. Ha. Surely I am looking

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to you, O Sovereign Lord.
In you I take shelter. Do not

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expose me to danger. Please protect
me from the snare they have laid for

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me and the traps the evil doers
have set. Let the wicked fall into

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their own nets while I escape.
So much to say, so little time.

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Let's break these down into some lessons
and look at the passages one more

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time again. In verse three,
it says, Oh, Lord, place

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a guard on my mouth, protect
the opening of my lips. The man

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of God is saying, please,
just protect me from temptation. So that's

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an action step for us. We
seek God's face, we seek his presence

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as protection from temptation. Verse four, do not let me have evil desires.

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We need to maintain self control.
Self control. Here comes another one

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from verse four, do not let
me turn to evil. Yes, resist

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the allure of wickedness. Resist the
allure of wickedness. There are times that

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people come and gossip to you.
You can resist the allure of entertaining that

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gossip. There are times that you
want to look on some things on your

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cell phones or on the internet.
Somehow on some of those devices rokup or

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something else right, you want to
push play on some of those videos that

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they flash in front of you had
no intention you were going to watch a

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real estate video, and then something
else popped up as an ad and you're

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like, oh, a trailer to
something. You're like, oh, my

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goodness, what do I do resist
the allure of wickedness? How about committing

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to unceasing prayer? Verse eight,
I cry out unto you, Oh Lord,

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I say ye, are you are
my shelter? So during those same

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times of trial or triumph, God
is welcoming us to unceasing prayer, having

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conversations with God all day, every
day, at any point of time,

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not just the three or five times
that some of us pray and set that

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time aside or a part, but
also in just our daily movements. We're

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in the vehicle, we're on public
transportation, we're in the gym exercising,

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or we're having a discussion with someone, and we just really don't know what

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to do. Commit yourselves, brothers
and sisters, to unceasing prayer and then

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understand the progressive nature of temptation.
There are times that temptation comes and then

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we just nibble at it, and
temptation gets hotter, and then we nibble

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at it, and then temptation gets
even hotter, and then we realize after

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it's too late, that we have
been drowned in the temptation. Why because

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we played around with it. So
the devil has this cunning way of fastening

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people into his grasp, and God
is giving us the privilege to see that

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that's how it is, and then
flee to him and say, God,

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deliver me from this kind of evil. And of course, be patient and

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wait on God. According to verse
eight, be patient and trust and wait

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upon God. His timing is different
than ours, but he is a shelter.

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He is a shelter during the times
that we are tempted. Have a

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wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for
joining us listening. Friends. Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,