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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 Monday, February twelve,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I
am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's
Word every single day, and today is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series through the Book of

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Psalms, and our caption for today
is create in me a clean heart,

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Create in me a clean heart.
And I am so grateful that God has

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given us the opportunity to open His
word again today. And before we get

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into our details that are life changing, I promise you this is a transformational

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day, not informational. I would
like to just say, welcome to you,

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and thank you for those who come
in day in and day out,

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and who have been sharing sharing this
program with other people. Because again,

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this is not just about me speaking
to you as if I have nothing better

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to do early in the morning every
single day. It's been years, you

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know, thousands of consecutive days.
It is really simply because God wants his

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word to reach into the farthest throes
of the earth so that one day Jesus

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Christ can come. And so you
are really contributing to the gospel by simply

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clicking that share button, and many
of you are doing it so faithfully,

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and God sees that I am grateful
that we can work together to continue to

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build the Kingdom. Let's go ahead
and pray and then get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for this
day and for loving us so much that

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you have given us mercy. You
have given us a glimpse of your justice

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and righteousness and the fact that you
are able to cleanse us from all of

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our unrighteousness. Please help us to
come into that deep well of your love

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and live according to your principles.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. What an incredible
passage of scripture is the Book of Psalms,

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chapter fifty one. The Book of
Psalms, chapter fifty one incredible.

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And I say it's incredible because we
see a story of a man whom if

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you were to read the account of
God like in twenty twenty four, God

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would say that this is a man
after his heart, This is a man

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that was the measure of righteousness for
kings. Yes, he said of Josiah.

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God said of Josiah that Josiah was
righteous in all of his ways.

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He turned neither to the left,
neither to the right, but was holy.

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He was righteous, just like his
father or his forebearer, his ancestor

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David. And it's like, wait
a minute, wait a minute, wait

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a minute, wait a minute.
And I'm not trying to be sacrilegious,

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but it's almost like you're saying,
like, but God, did you not

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see David's life? How could you
use him as a measure of righteousness?

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Like he was the one that could
not build the temple, and King Solomon

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needed to build the temple. When
God said, it was good that it

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was within thine heart that you wanted
to do this, to erect and to

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build restore this this temple, this
monument to who I am on planet Earth.

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But there's too much blood on your
hands. David, the same one

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that huh, well, yeah,
took a man's wife, killed them and

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then was a conspira and then and
set other people up for conspiracy to commit

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murder and more and worse. Yeah, but God says that he is the

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standard. He was the standard of
kings. Was Jesus ascended the throne of

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David. Yeah, when Zedekiah vacated
the throne, there was no more king

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Ah and coming out of the tribe
of Judah until Jesus now the king of

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kings and Lord of lords. And
I don't want to get too far afield,

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but Jesus Christ comes through that line, and it's amazing because of his

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story, and so I've already given
allusion to it, and you basically know

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the story. King David was not
doing what he should have been doing while

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while God's people were at war.
And he's there at home at the palace

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and he looks down and he sees
he sees a woman bathing, and instead

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of just seeing the woman bathing,
he begins to gaze instead of instead of

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breaking his gaze, he begins to
lust, and instead of repenting of his

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life lust and confessing to God that
he was being lustful, he went and

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he got her, and then they
had sex, and then they had a

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child, and then he tried to
cover up everything before the child was born

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to you know, get your yah
to come and to have intercourse with his

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wife. And then and that was
Bathsheba's husband. Yeah, and then that

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didn't work out, and so basically
he killed him. He sent he sent

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his men with a message to your
to the people at the front and said,

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hey, put Uriyah forward, now, yeah, put him forward,

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and then move back from him so
that the enemies of God can destroy him.

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And then now we know that that
is like the rest is history.

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And then for a year, for
a year, history and inspiration tells us,

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for a year King David did not
repent. He struggled. It was

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just a mess. He struggled against
his conscience. The Holy Ghost was was

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on him to let him know,
like this is not right. Need to

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repent of all of the evil that
you have done in this regard. And

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after that year was finished, of
course, there came a time also in

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the meantime that Nathan came to him
and showed him clearly where he had gone

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wrong, not that he didn't know, but he needed he needed a kickstart,

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like he needed an Adam, where
are you? Like? He needed

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God to show him himself. And
thankfully it put inside of David's bosom,

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or awakened in him this contrite spirit, as in the Book of Psalms,

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chapter fifty one, one of the
most beautiful things you can read when you

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have found yourself on the wrong side
of righteousness. And so the Bible reads,

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beginning at verse one, so much
to say, and no time.

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Have mercy upon me, Oh God, according to thy loving kindness. Notice

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that he is calling upon God's loving
kindness and his tender mercies, not upon

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his ability to turn away from sin, not from his ability to to be

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sorry for sin or some other reason. Because David now he wants to be

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righteous. No, he said,
because of your character. Please, and

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thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions, wash me throughly from mine iniquity.

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Do you realize that iniquity is doing
sin knowing God is watching and not really

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caring. Hmm, iniquity and cleanse
me from my sin. So he wants

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to be delivered from transgressions and iniquity
and sin. So every kind of way

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you look at unrighteousness, he wants
to be delivered from hm hmm. For

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I acknowledge verse three, my transgressions
and my sin is ever before me.

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May I just say right here that
confession is agreement with God. So when

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we speak to God, we confess
our sins. We are saying, yes,

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God, this is what I did, this is what I didn't do,

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these things that are not pleasing in
your sight. And I agree with

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you. I agree with what you
say about these things. I agree with

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what you say about what needs to
be done. That is confession mm hm

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Verse four against THEE and THEE only
have I sinned and done this evil in

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thy sight? Thou mightest be justified. That means holy and righteous. You

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are correct when thou speakest and be
clear when thou judgest, behold, I

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was shapen in iniquity and in sin
did my mother conceive me? So he

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is admitting that as a human being, he is faulty before he ever did

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or did not do anything. Just
the human nature is a problem until or

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unless we are what we are redeemed, until or unless we are born again

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that's not an excuse, that's just
the reason. Verse six. Behold,

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thou desirest truth in the inward parts
and the hidden part. Thou shalt make

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me to know wisdom. Purge me
with hissop, and I shall be clean.

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Wash me and I shall be whiter
than snow. So if God can

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purge and cleanse and clear a person
of guilt for murder, for adultery,

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for being the king, and turning
away from his responsibility, remember to whom

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much is given, much is to
be required. If he can do that

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for David, what can he do
for me? If he can do that

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for David, what could he do
for you? Hide thy face from my

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sins and blood out mine iniquities.
Create a clean heart within me, Oh

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God, and renew a right spirit
within me. Cast me not away from

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Thy presence, and take not thy
holy spirit from me. And once you

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have done that, God, I
promise I will teach transgressors your way God

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has cleansed you. Teach others how
to have a right relationship. Thanks for

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joining us listening. Friends, Always
remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has been

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your daily portion with El David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,