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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 Tuesday, March five,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I
am your host. That just spilled water

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all over my keyboard. Right well, I'm getting prepared for you, and

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this is your Daily Portion where we
give you God's word every single day,

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but today is no exception. We
are continuing in our lesson study through the

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Book of Psalms, and our caption
for today is remembering history and repentance.

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Remember history and repentance. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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

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you for this new day and for
the privilege we have to open up your

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word again. Please please teach us, Father how to turn our heart toward

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you. In Jesus' name, I
pray, Amen and amen again. Yes,

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if I gave you an opportunity to
define repentance, and I know that

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sounds so like I don't know,
it sounds so dry, like define repentance,

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okay, number two. But if
you were to define it, what

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would you say that it is?
Please? What would you say? Repentance

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is? Go ahead and type it
in the chat. What is repentance?

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Yes, okay, let's give you
another moment. What is repentance? Okay?

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So repentance is turning the shoulder.
So if I'm going east, if

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I'm walking in an easterly direction,
and I turn my shoulder and I go

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toward the west. That is partially
what repentance is. If I'm walking toward

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sin, I'm doing and thinking in
ways that God is not pleased, Yes,

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and then I turn the shoulder.
That is part of what repentance is.

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The other part that is critical is
it's godly sorrow for sin, not

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just regret because we've gotten caught in
the act of something that is undesirable and

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we just feel like, wow,
the penalty is too great, and so

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yeah, let me repent. No
no, no, no, no no.

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It's godly sorrow for sin. And
you're like, well, how do

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I get that? Romans chapter two
and verse four basically says that repentance is

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a gift from God. God giveth
repentance to his people, So we should

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not take that for granted. If
you can have godly sorrow for sin,

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it is because God put that inside
of your bosom. And I'm thankful,

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thankful that He has been that kind
toward us. Okay, And so now

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we go to the Book of Psalms
chapter one hundred and six and we begin

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to drill this concept of remembering our
history and learning, learning, learning to

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repent, turn away from sin toward
God and that he will give us sorrow,

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godly sorrow for our sins. And
so let's go to the Book of

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Psalm chapter one hundred and six and
verse thirteen, and the Bible reads here

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they quickly forgot what he had done
and did not wait for his instructions.

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So we need to recognize that,
like even my own in my own family

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line, I realize that I have
some of the gifts and the calling of

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people who have gone on before,
like people who are passed away now,

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people who have lived before, in
some of whom I've seen, I've seen

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their actions and activities, right,
And I recognize I have the same gifts,

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But I also I also need to
be watching out for the pitfalls.

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One person in particular, I'm like, oh, this dude was proud,

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Like this dude started to believe the
hype about himself way back in the seventies

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and eighties. And I'm like,
God, if you have created me like

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him and I have similar gifts in
calling to him, then it's possible that

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the enemy's going to try this trick
again, Like he's going to try the

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same trick that he did on these
certain people in my ancestry. Right,

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And so I'm prayerful against these things
because I'm recognizing the past failures and the

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historical sins of God's people, including
people in my own family. You see,

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we have to update this thing.
We need to not just look back

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to the Exodus and God's people there. We look there, but we have

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to see in our own lives.
How does this stuff apply? And so

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this serves as a reminder of the
importance of acknowledging and learning from past mistakes

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and failures. Okay, and then
we can go down to verse six where

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it reads, we have sinned like
our ancestors. We have done wrong,

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we have done evil, and so
God encourages us to recognize the personal and

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collective admission of guilt. Sometimes we
are among God's people, just like I

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think it was Isaiah said. He
said, wee was me, for I

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am undone. I am a man
of unclean lips, and I come from

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among a people of uncleaned lips.
And so we recognize we don't distance ourselves.

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People who stand up outside of places
of worship sometimes and they're pointing there

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their judgmental little fingers, and they
have even some people are on YouTube with

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hundreds of thousands of people following them
pointing their judgmental little fingers at the people

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of God and some of the leaders
among the people of God and judging them,

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condemning them, identifying their sins the
people that they're pointing at, and

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not actually taking responsibility for their own
sins. And so this is a collective

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thing, a collective and personal admission
of guilt. If you're among God's people,

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then you have to recognize you're a
part of the same family. And

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don't point your finger at people,
but say, God, we have sinned

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in this regard. Lord, give
your people, including me, repentance,

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teach us how to serve you.
Don't distance yourself, don't separate yourself,

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don't become dissident in your mind set. But see where we have gone astray,

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where we have fallen short, And
do your best, brothers and sisters,

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from within the flock and within the
family, to make the wrongs right,

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to repent and to point the way
to righteousness having repented yourselves. You

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see. And so I don't want
to get on my soapbox here, so

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I'll just pause right there. But
we all need to admit our guilt before

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God and then turn the shoulder,
turn toward God. In a way from

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our sins. I wish I had
the time. Let's go to verse twenty

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three of the Bible Psalm chapter one
hundred and six, and the Bible reads

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he had so he said he would
destroy them, had not Moses has chosen

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ones stood up in the breach before
him to keep his wrath from destroying them.

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You see. So, if I'm
pointing my judgmental little thing at you

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because you have sinned, and forgetting
myself and how I live right and have

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lived in the past right, I
become self righteous and I can't stand as

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an intercessor like Moses. Did you
see Moses stood in the gap. It

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says that he was an intercessor.
The roles of Moses and others who interceded

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for God's people prefigure Christ's intercessory role. You understand, you want to be

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like Jesus, brothers and sisters.
Yes, stand in the gap for somebody

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today like Job did for his children. He said, if in case these

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in their folly they sin against God, I need to stand in the gap

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for them. At the end of
Job's ordeal where his life turned into a

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mess, but God was keeping him. He was still keeping him. He

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had seemingly lost everything. He had
four friends that were not properly connected to

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God and a wife who had lost
her mind. Yes and yeah, so

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yeah, yeah, he stood in
the gap for those three friends when God

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said, I know I said four
before because I'm including Elihu. But in

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this case God said to those ali
fasts, he said, listen, you

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and your two friends need to go
to Job and ask him to intercede for

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you and offer sacrifice for you,
and then I will hear him and forgive

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you. You see, so we
can't be judgmental and be an intercessor at

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the same time. You see where
this is going so much more, God's

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unfailing love overcomes sin, personalizing the
historical lessons and not just looking at it

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as a history lesson, and then
we need to remember God's words in order

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to repent. A wonderful day.
Thanks thanks for joining us listening. Friends,

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with el

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David Harris, make it a great
day. Yeah,