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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 Sabbath, February seventeen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,

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and our caption for today is Wisdom
for Righteous Living. That's wisdom for

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righteous living. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to you,
and again, great big happy Sabbath to

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everyone joining us, especially those who've
never been here before. We are delighted

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that you are here. And if
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And if you're on Facebook, then
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channel that you're on. But in
the case that you are curious, we

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are really pushing the gospel into all
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listening on television and radio and podcast. It's a privilege because Jesus said He's

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going to come. When is he
going to come? When this gospel of

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the Kingdom is preached into all the
world for a witness? And so we

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do our part in your daily portion. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us another day,

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especially the Sabbath day. We are
grateful. Please teach us to love you

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and to serve you. Teach us
not to give up our hope. Teach

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us that you have given wisdom in
these last days for a reason. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
amen again wisdom for righteous living. May

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I just say I have been reading
through the Bible chronologically, and when I

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say chronologically, there are two ways
that you can see that I mean in

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the order of the events, not
in the order of the writing of the

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books. Okay, and so I'm
going through, or I went through last

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month, the Book of Job,
the Book of Job, and Job chapter

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thirty one is in particular, it's
particularly intriguing to me. If you will

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read that, you will see the
heart of a righteous person who has searched

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himself for anything that is disagreement with
God, and is standing on principle to

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say, I know that I am
connected to God. I don't understand what's

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happening in my life, but I
know that I have nothing between my soul

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and my Savior. What an interesting
story. I won't get off into that,

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because that's not the nature of our
discussion this sabbath. But I just

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want you to go with me now
to the Book of Psalms, the Book

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of Psalms, chapter ninety, and
we will read verse twelve. The Book

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of Psalms, chapter ninety, and
will read verse twelve. Job was a

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stellar experience, a stellar example of
someone who was full of God's wisdom.

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Okay, and so the Bible reads, so teach us to number our days,

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why that we may gain a heart
of wisdom. Let me read it

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again, So teach us to number
our days. My question here is why.

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And then the Bible writer answers it
that we may gain a heart of

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wisdom. Well, what does that
mean the text actually means? Or that

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gain a heart of wisdom actually means
get a heart of wisdom, get a

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heart of wisdom. Do you have
a heart of wisdom? Remember the Bible

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says if anybody lacks wisdom, we
need to ask of God, and He

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will give to everyone who does so
liberally and will not hold back anything.

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Right, So, if we are
after God's wisdom, we are after the

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heart of God. God wants to
give us a heart of wisdom. We

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are after the heart of God.
Well what does that mean? That sounds

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real poetic, Dave. Well,
truly, if you study the Book of

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Proverbs chapter eight, especially the closing
verses, several closing verses, and then

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First Corinthians Chapter one, Versus thirty
and thirty one, you will see that

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Jesus Christ himself is wisdom. And
so, as the Bible writer penned in

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the Book of Proverbs chapter two,
if we search for wisdom as for silver,

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and seek for it as for hidden
treasure, then we will have the

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knowledge of God. And so forth, we will receive Jesus Christ into our

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lives. Now, there are many
examples of people in the scriptures, because

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I wanted to see in living color
what it looked like for people in scriptures

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to be wise. Here are some
examples, and I went through the whole

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Bible, but just ten examples.
Here is the woman of Proverbs chapter thirty

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one. This woman is an arch
type of wisdom, showing skill in management,

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care of her household, entrepreneurship,
and strength of character. And that's

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from the Book of Psalms chapter thirty
one, especially verses ten through thirty one.

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Okay, what about Abigail. Abigail
if you read the story in First

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Samuel, chapter twenty five, there
are multiple verses, but I'll just say

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read the entire chapter. You'll see
that Abigail displayed remarkable wisdom when dealing with

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her husband. That dude was evil. Let me just say, charlish is

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what the Bible called her husband.
But when dealing with David presenting preventing excuse

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me, bloodshed by her understanding and
timely intervention. It wasn't just that Abigail

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was brilliant, because she was,
but she also knew how to apply the

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wisdom that God had placed in her
life and mind, and she prevented a

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lot of death. There were a
lot of people that could have been hurt

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as a result of her husband's ridiculous
behavior. Deborah a prophetess and judge of

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Israel, known for her wisdom and
leading Israel, providing guidance, and her

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role in victory over the Canaanite forces
in the Book of Judges chapters four and

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five, and then the ones like
Solomon. You know Solomon the King.

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He was famous for wisdom granted by
God. He is best known for his

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judicious ruling and the wealth of wise
sayings in the Book of Proverbs. These

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are attributed to him. Then,
of course you know Joseph. You know

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Joseph who was given unusual wisdom concerning
how he should deal with being a captive

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by the Ishmaelites, and then moved
over to Potiphar. He became a big

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man, if you want to say, in Potiphar's household, but of course

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he ran into some challenges with Potaphar's
wife, and then coming out of that

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household, he's in jail. And
even in jail he becomes like the prisoner,

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if you want to say, and
wisdom of God is given to him.

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And at the point appointed by God, somehow, some way, miraculously,

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God put into the mind of one
of the men that was once locked

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up with Joseph and put him into
a situation where he could influence a good

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pharaoh, may I say, a
good pharaoh in Egypt, and then impact

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the lives of people around the then
known world, because famine was a really

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deadly foe at the time, and
so God used the wisdom that he placed

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into Joseph to save a lot of
lives. And then we have Daniel,

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we have Moses, Paul, the
Apostle, King David, Queen Esther,

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just to name a few. And
so the outcome of numbering our days,

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or the reason I should say for
numbering our days, is that we may

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gain our heart of wisdom. These
ten individuals demonstrate what a heart of wisdom

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looks like. And so what do
we need to actually do? Number one?

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We seek God with all of our
hearts and follow what we find when

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we seek him, Like when He
gives us understanding. He said, if

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you seek with you, if you
seek me with all your heart, you

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will find me when you find him. Brothers and sisters, do what he

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says, Meditate on God's word,
find joy and delight in his statutes,

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Strive to live a blameless life like
job lived, be vigilant against temptation,

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and then, of course, regularly
reflect on the fact that we're here for

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just a moment, so invest the
time in making a difference in this world.

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Peace. 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,