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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 us

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through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of

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that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
your Daily Portion with your host, author

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speaker, Elle David Harris. Good
morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Friday, February twenty three, 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 Guy'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 genuine happiness. Genuine happiness. I

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am so great that we have this
opportunity on this preparation day to continue to

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reach God's heart through his word and
then begin to live according to his principles.

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with, because this is one of
the ways that we continue to spread the

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Word of God throughout the entire world. You have no idea how far and

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why this little modest program has gone. And I am grateful that God has

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seen fit to have us together so
we can continue to do so until Jesus

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comes. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for
this day and for the privilege you have

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entrusted to us to open your word
again. Please give us genuine happiness today

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in Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and amen again. Yeah. Sometimes,

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as one of those song writers would
have said long ago, some of

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us are looking for love in all
the wrong places. Some of us are

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looking for happiness in all the wrong
places. And what God is giving us

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in our lesson study today is the
root to true and lasting peace and happiness.

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Let me begin with one of my
favorite books. Probably my favorite book,

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let me say not one of them. It's my favorite book outside of

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the Bible. The booksteps to Christ, page one hundred and eighteen, and

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it reads, thank God for the
bright pictures which he has presented to us.

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Let us group together the blessed assurances
of His love, that we may

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look upon them continually. You see, sometimes we let me pause right here.

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Sometimes we pulled together all of the
difficulties. Are the times that we

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say, why me, Lord,
I've gone through this or that, and

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I'm so tired of going through this
or that? When will it end?

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Well? God hasn't promised that on
planet Earth any of these difficulties will end.

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Sometimes he does give us the blessing
of going through a trial. It's

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a cycle. We go through it, and then we go through to triumph

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where we begin to feel and experience
the burden being lifted. And that happens

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a lot. But there are times
that we don't. Will that disturb your

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happiness? Will that disturb your peace? So what our sister, the late

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missus Ellen White, is sharing with
us is that we should group together the

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assurances of his love, like do
that? And here's some of it.

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The son of God leaving his father's
throne. That's an assurance of his love.

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He didn't have to come down here
clothing his divinity with humanity. I

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don't even think we begin to understand
what that means. The eternal God the

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sun. According to Micah chapter five, verse two, he's eternal. He's

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the one who created us. He
created the world's according to John chapter one,

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Hebrews chapter one, and other places. He clothed all of that power

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that put Orion's nebula where it is. The one who created gravity, like

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the one who created the heavens and
the earth. He is the one who

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came down here clothing his divinity in
humanity so he could save us, beaten

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and bruised, suffering privation and hunger, dealing with the emotions of people that

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are supposed to love him, betraying
him, and on and on we go.

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I didn't even begin to scratch the
surface. He did that for you

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and for me, that he might
rescue man. Continuing the quote from the

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Power of Satan, his triumph in
our behalf, opening heaven to men,

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revealing to human vision the present chamber
where the deity unveils his glory. The

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fallen race. That means the human
race uplifted from the pit of ruin into

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which sin has plunged it, and
brought again into connection with the infinite God,

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and having endured the divine test through
faith in our Redeemer, clothed in

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the righteousness of Christ, and exalted
to his throne. These are the pictures

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which God would have us to contemplate. That was a long list, Brothers

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and sisters, the manifestation of His
love. Can we just go back here?

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I want to go back here for
this vision revealing to human vision the

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presence chamber where the Deity unveils his
glory. Things down here on planet are

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Earth are so dark and dismal,
So dark and dismal. I'm reading through

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the Book of Job and seeing how
a man who was fully connected to God

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holy yielded to God's will in one
day lost nearly everything, all of his

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possessions gone, children gone, His
wife well, that's a different discussion.

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But his wife was trying to lead
him in a couple of days, like

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to paths of unrighteousness. Right,
his three friends and then some bonus dude

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named Elihu or Elihu, I don't
know how to pronounce his name. Figured

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that they were all going to be
so brilliant and teach job why he was

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going through the trial he was going
through, when in fact, none of

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those dudes understood anything about what was
happening. They sounded so intelligent, they

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sounded so holy, And when he
was going through his deepest trials, he

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had no help from anybody. And
yet and still God showed him that he

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can uplift us from the pit of
ruin, restore us when we are going

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through challenges. He can reveal the
bright light of the face of God in

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our situations to say that this earth
is not our final home. Our trials

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won't last always, and He will
always be with us, and He will

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never forsake us as long as we
continue to yield our will to God.

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And I'm thankful for these testimonies,
these testimonies, the presence chamber where God

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unveils his glory. I'm so thankful
for that glimpse. Now, I'm going

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to give just a few tips if
you want to say, or lessons from

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the Book of Psalms, chapter one
hundred and forty one. That there was

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an allusion to that chapter in this
day's lesson. So let me go to

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verse three, set a guard,
Oh Lord, over my mouth, Keep

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watch over the door of my lips. You realize that our mouths get us

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into all kinds trouble. So guard
your speech. Brothers and sisters, you

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want to be happy in the Lord. You want to experience the blessings of

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God. Yeah, guard your speech. Guard your speech. Don't speak a

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negative word, don't complain, do
not gossip. Praise the Lord every opportunity

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you have, give thanks and show
gratitude every opportunity that you have with your

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mouth. Please do so. So
guard your speech. Of course, resist

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temptation. That's a gimme. You
should understand that already, but let's read

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it from verse four, Psalm chapter
one one. Do not let my heart

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be drawn to what is evil,
to take part in the wicked deeds with

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men who are evil doers. So
resist temptation. Understand the subtle nature of

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temptation, and run like steer clear
of temptations, because going into temptation means

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we go into sin, and we
don't want to do that. We don't

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want to be separated from God.
We also need to trust in God's justice

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from verse eight. But my eyes
are fixed on you, o Sovereign Lord,

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in you, I take refuge,
Do not give me over to death,

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like there is something going on in
the chapter where of course there's always

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this push and pull, like this
contrast between the injustice that happens on planet

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Earth, the wickedness of people and
as they appear, some of them to

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prosper, and what's going on over
here. So we have to trust in

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God's justice, his holiness, have
faith in God's ultimate justice and that he

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will vindicate his character in your life. And then finally we give God thanks

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because Jesus is coming. Genuine happiness
comes in serving the Lord. Have a

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wonderful day. 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,