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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to 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

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morning. It is Friday, February
nine, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El 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 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 we want justice? We want justice?

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Or do we It's really a question
is it a statement? Is it

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a question? We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first i'd

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like to say welcome to you and
ask you to please go ahead over to

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That is one of the ways that
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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and

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Heaven, thank you for giving us
this new day and for the privilege that

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we have to open up your word
again, and thank you for this time

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of preparation. Please give us your
mindset while we prepare for connection with you.

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In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and a man again. We

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want justice now. The fact is
that justice and righteousness are synonymous in the

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Bible. And I say that again, Justice and righteousness are the same in

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the Bible. And that means that
if we're seeking justice, we're actually seeking

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holiness. Holiness in our behaviors,
our holiness in our mindset, holiness in

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our activities on a daily basis,
holiness in the systems that we have set

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up in our civic society. Well, maybe maybe we might get a little

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bit in trouble here if we look
at it in that way. But really,

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really equity is equity. If somebody
is in a court system or proceeding

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then It needs to be fair.
Right. If someone is in a situation

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where someone needs to pay for a
service or a product, then it needs

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to be fair how they are charged, how those products of services are delivered.

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If we want justice, then really
and truly we want equity. We

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want holiness, You want education for
a certain set of people, it needs

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to be equal across the board.
If you have access us, I have

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access. If I have access,
you have access the things that we need

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on a daily basis, food,
water, clothing, shelter. It needs

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to be to where it is not
unfairly slanted one way or the other.

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We want justice, but the fact
is, where our spirituality is concerned,

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we want justice and mercy because yeah, we have sinned and come short of

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the glory of God. And what
we need is for God to make us

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holy and to forgive us of our
sins and cleanse us from all on righteousness,

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so that when we are in judgment
we are covered in the righteousness of

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Jesus Christ. And then justice and
mercy can come together and do something special

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and miraculous for people who yield our
will to him. I think I said

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enough right there, Let's go ahead
and jump into the lesson for today.

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And this is one that often people
forget if you're a person who follows Sabbath,

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school and churches and so forth,
people just kind of skip over and

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gloss over the Friday. And I'm
thinking, why there's so much truth here,

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And so let me go ahead and
begin with the Book of Psalms.

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That's the Book of Psalms, chapter
fifty eight, and I will read beginning

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at verse ten, or actually I'll
just read verse ten this time. And

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the Bible reads the righteous shall rejoice
when he seeth the vengeance. He shall

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wash his feet in the blood of
the wicked. And that sounds harsh.

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That sounds harsh. But wait a
minute, no, wait a minute,

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no, nothing's wrong with that.
What we need is to cultivate a heart

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for justice and fairness. There are
people out here oppressing people. We don't

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need to lay down for that and
make it seem as if that's not a

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big deal. Like we need to
stand up and fight for justice, whatever

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it takes, as long as we
do not defile our characters, we stand

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up for justice and righteousness. We
actively seek to understand and address the issues

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of injustice in our actual communities.
This is not theoretical brothers and sisters,

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and people say, oh, oh, but we're living on planet Earth and

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Jesus is coming soon, and you
don't want to get caught up into Okay,

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right, What if with Martin Luther
King Junior in the United States of

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America did not get into that because
he was a man of the cloth,

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if you want to say, like
a preacher, what if he didn't get

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himself involved? You see? And
so there is a way to do it

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when we seek God's face and then
he will give us direction. Let me

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not get too caught up into that
one. Let's move to the next one.

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From the Book of Matthew, chapter
five and verse eleven, Blessed are

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ye when men or people shall revile
you and persecute you, and shall say

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all manner of evil against you falsely
for my sake. And of course the

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thought continues in verse twelve. We'll
pause right there. What we need to

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develop when we are dealing with this
society where justice seems difficult to find at

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times, is to develop a resilience
in the face of persecution. Inside of

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the quote faith, outside of the
faith. In fact, Jesus is referencing

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people who were supposed to be holy
that are reviling you and saying all manner

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of evil against you falsely for his
sake. Yeah, rejoice, he said,

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and be exceeding glad for greatest your
reward in heaven. For so persecuted

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they the prophets which were before you. You Like, how, Dave,

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how did you have what would make
you think that these are people who are

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supposed to be people of God?
Because the people who persecuted prophets were like

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supposed to be people of God.
Yeah, okay, let's continue. Hah.

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So the practical step in this regard
is when facing ridicule or opposition for

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what you believe and hold true,
focus on staying strong to your faith in

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God. Use these experiences as opportunities
to deepen your trust in God. Trouble

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won't last always, brothers and sisters. So let's go to the book of

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Psalms. And I know we're running, but you can always rewind this.

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to today, rewind it, and
you're good to go. Okay. So

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in Psalms, chapter one hundred and
forty six and verse three, the Bible

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reads, put not your trust in
princes nor in the son of Man,

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in whom there is no help.
Yeah, so what we need is spiritual

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wisdom because human wisdom just won't make
it. It just won't make it.

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The best philosophers fail. May I
say that again. And it's not that

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there's nothing that you can glean.
But what I'm saying is if you're trying

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to if you're trying to solve the
problem with poverty, you're trying to resolve

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the problem with different diseases like HIV
AIDS, Like if you're trying to resolve

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the problem with obesity, you're trying
to resolve the problem with education gaps in

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certain cities and states and countries.
Yeah, you need wisdom that is beyond

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human wisdom. And so what we
need is before taking action on issues,

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we need to pray for guidance and
discernment there are things that we cannot see

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with our natural eyes, and then
seek God's wisdom first rather than relying solely

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on human ideas and strategies. So
you see the cooperation there. We seek

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God first, and then we expect
that He will teach us how to deal

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with the thing that is right in
front of us on planet Earth. Okay,

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let's go to Psalms, chapter twenty
seven and verse fourteen. Wait on

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the Lord, the Bible says,
be of good courage, and he shall

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strengthen thine heart. Wait, I
say on the Lord. Yeah. Practice

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patience and trust God's timing in times
of waiting our uncertainty. Practice patience and

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remind yourself. Tell yourself self.
God is still working. He is faithful,

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He has been faithful in the past, and he will continue to be

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faithful until Jesus comes. We want
justice. Well you be the judge.

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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,