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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 morning.

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It is Thursday, February one,
twenty twenty four. Can you believe

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it. Hello, My name is
El David Harris. I am your host,

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

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day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study

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series through the Book of Psalms,
and our caption for today is less Less

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the Righteous be tempted, Bless the
Righteous be tempted. We'll get into that

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in just a moment. The first
I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please again go over
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know where you are in the world
at your daily portion dot com. This

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is how we build faith and fellowship. All right, Let's go ahead and

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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father in heaven, thank you

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for giving us your spirit, your
presence. Please give us your understanding,

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teach us how to serve you,
and help us not to be yielding to

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temptation to go another route, to
leave you. Because things are difficult and

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the wicked seem to be prospering.
I just pray that you will give us

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the discipline to yield our will to
you at all times. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again.
All right, So the righteous do

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get tempted at times, but we
have the privilege of what resisting temptation.

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When I was young, I remember
there was a hymn that they used to

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play in church, yield not to
temptation, for yielding his sin, and

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then and then not the Bible,
But then the hymn writer would take us

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through this journey about connecting ourselves to
God and pressing forward regardless of how the

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devil entreats us and how our inner
thoughts and feelings seem to betray us.

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And the things of the world that
seem to drag on our desire to do

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something different. We are not to
yield to temptation. Why because yielding is

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sin. So temptation is not the
problem, it's what happens next. Do

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you realize that God has promised that
even if you are tempted when you are

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in pain, you are tempted when
you have not enough money more than the

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month that is available to you.
Hah, there are difficulties that you experience

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in relationships. He said, There
hath no temptation taken you, but such

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as is common to man. But
God is faithful, who will with the

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temptation provide a way of escape that
ye may be able to bear it.

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So again, God has not left
his people. God has not left his

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people. But the fact is that
we are tempted, right And so there

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is a quote here I want to
find it again. It's from the Reformation

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Commentary on the Scriptures, page eleven, and it's a very simple concept,

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but it says these things, reading
from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy

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three, These things mock those who
ignore the first verse of this psalm,

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which is a summary of the whole
Psalm, How good the God of Israel

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is to those who are upright in
heart. We see in the Book of

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Psalms, chapter seventy three, the
lesson writer says that this is focused on

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the current iniquity of this world.
He is unable to see the big picture

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from God's point of view. The
problem that the prosperity of evil posed to

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his faith is overwhelming. He believed
also that his argument about the uselessness of

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faith was based on reality. He
believed that that faith was useless and that

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that was based on reality. Well, it's not based on reality. It

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is not useless, you see.
And so let's go to the Book of

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Psalms. We won't read the whole
chapter. There are a lot of verses

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there, but we're going to read
from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy

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three, a couple of a few
verses, and then we'll discuss just a

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little bit on it. Okay,
Oops, I'm back in Psalms chapter seventy

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seven. I think that was from
yesterday, Psalms chapter seventy three, And

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I will read beginning at verse one. Certainly God is good to Israel and

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to those whose motives are pure.
So God is giving us a heads up

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to just say straight through the pen
of the inspired Bible writer that he is

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good and that his mercies are everlasting, like no matter what you're going through,

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his motives are always pure Verse two. But as for me, my

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feet almost slip, Thank God?
Can somebody just say thank God for almost

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ah almost slipped, My feet almost
slid out from under me. For I

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envied those who are proud and observed
the prosperity of the wicked. Have you

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ever seen those some of them millionaires
and billion millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires,

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that seem to be prospering above you, and you wonder, well, if

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they're not doing what God says?
And I'm not saying that all of these

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wealth rich or wealth people are not
doing God's will, but I'm talking about

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the ones that you see our living
lifestyles contrary to the will of God.

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Have you ever felt like those individuals
are prospering and you're not? Verse four.

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For they suffer no pain. Their
bodies are strong and well fed.

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They are immune to trouble common to
men. They do not suffer as other

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men do. Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing.

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Their prosperity causes them to do wrong. Their thoughts are sinful, They mock

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and say evil things. They proudly
threaten violence. They speak as if they

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rule in heaven and lay claim on
the earth, and on and on and

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on. Verse eleven, they say, how does God know what we do?

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Is the most high aware of what
goes on? Take a good look.

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This is what the wicked are like. Those who always have it so

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easy, get richer and richer.
I conclude, did surely in vain have

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I kept my motives pure and maintained
a pure lifestyle. Now listen, and

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I need you to listen very carefully. You know, God takes a record.

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He keeps a record of what we
say and our thoughts, what we

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do. And in Malachi there is
this part where God shows that he draws

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a line in the sand and he
says, I am keeping a record of

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what my people say and the lifestyles
of those who don't know me. And

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what I'm saying is that while you
are struggling with this thought that I'm not

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good, that it is not worth
serving me, I'm going to demonstrate the

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difference between my people and the people
who don't love me, and so it

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is our privilege to borrow God's breath. It is our privilege to have eternal

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life. It is our privilege that
when we do go through trials and tribulations,

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we do not have to go through
them alone. It is our privilege

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to see the reality and not the
deceptive thought that the enemy has put in

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our minds that people, all people
do go through trials and tribulations. Ah,

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But the difference is the wicked have
nowhere to go. Now, the

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wicked have an opportunity to yield their
will to God. But if you are

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a servant of the most High God, Blessed be his name, banish the

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thought that God has forgotten you.
Banish the thought that He is allowing the

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wicked to prosper and that you will
falter once you when you have an opportunity

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to read in the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter twenty eight, all of the

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verses, but especially look at the
contrast between verses one through fourteen and the

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remaining verses of that chapter. And
just know that God does not sleep,

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He does not slumber. His promises
are sure. He has not forgotten you.

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But this earth as it is today
is not our final home. He

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is transforming our characters so that one
day, when Jesus does return, that

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he will be able to take us
to heaven for a thousand years and then

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give us the earth made new after
the thousand years are finished. In the

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meantime, though he does causes people
to prosper, he does causes people to

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become the lender and not the borrower, the head and not the tail.

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But you have to go into the
scriptures and see what it is in his

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mind that when he does that,
what our responsibilities are. Yeah. Have

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a wonderful day, peace, not
difficult too. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Friends. Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every

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word that comes from the mouth of
God. This has been your daily portion

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with El David Harris. Make it
a great day. Yeah,