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02 21 2024 Deceitfulness of the Wicked Way · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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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 Wednesday, February twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle 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
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our lessons study series through the Book
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  of Psalms, and our caption for today is deceitfulness of the wicked Way.
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  Deceitfulness of the wicked Way. Get into that in just a moment, But
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  first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community, pick up the
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  Your Daily Portion book, and also let us know where you are in the
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  world, in the little form there at your daily portion dot com. This
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  is the way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray and then get underway. Father in Heaven, please give us this
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  day our daily bread of understanding, our daily bread of wisdom and holiness.
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  Please teach us how to serve you. Teach us how to in the few
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  moments that we have in life, to live holy lives and not play around
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  with wickedness for even a moment. In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and
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  Amen again. I think sometimes we try to explain away sin. I just
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  need to to settle in for just a moment. Sometimes we minimize it to
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  make ourselves feel better or to make ourselves feel like we are more victorious than
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  we actually are, rather than going to God and humility and saying, God,
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  please deliver me from myself, like deliver me from the impact of my
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  predecessors. Not my predecessors, that's probably not the right word. Of my
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  four bearers, like the people who lived before me in my gene pool,
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  my grandmam, my grandpa, and my great great greats all the way back.
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  Those individuals who would have left an unfortunate legacy of unholy actions and activities.
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  Right, Yes, we know that the Holy Spirit is available because he
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  wants to glorify God in our lives. Like the songwriter would have said,
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  in my life, Lord be glorified in my life, Lord be glorified today.
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  And so that's what we are at after. And so we want to
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  see the deceitfulness of wickedness as it really is and not be deceived like Eve
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  was in the Garden of Eden when the devil tried to nice it up and
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  make it seem dress it up and make it seem beautiful, make it smell
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  good, make it look good, make it taste good, until at last
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  it stings and snaps like a serpent or some other other creature that means,
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  you know good. We are going to read now from the Book of Psalms,
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and forty one, and then
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  we will circle back and get some lessons. Okay, and the Bible reads,
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  Oh Lord, I cry out unto you, Come quickly to me.
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  Pay attention to me when I cry out to you. May you accept my
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  prayer like incense, my uplifted hands, like the evening offering. Of course,
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  this is relevant to those individuals who lived in the sacrificial system. It
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  may not be relevant to you in Detroit, Michigan in twenty twenty four,
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  or if you see it with that language, or it may not be something
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  that you can relate to in Acra, Ghana in twenty twenty four. But
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  what he is simply saying that does relate to us is please accept my prayers.
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  Have you ever prayed in various places in Kenya Nairobi? Have you ever
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  prayed and ask God to please hear your prayer and it felt like, well,
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  I don't know if he's listening. Not that you necessarily doubt, but
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  you're just hoping and saying, God, please hear my prayer. God,
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  please hear my prayer. This is what David is saying. He wants God
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  to hear him. Oh Lord. Verse three, place a guard on my
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  mouth, protect the opening of my lips. And if you remember the Book
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  of James, the Bible says that there is a lot of power in the
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  tongue. Ah, life and death is in the tongue. Yeah, so
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  we need to be clear on that. Verse four, do not let me
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  hate, No, do not let me have excuse me evil desires or participate
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  in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I do not eat in their
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  I do not eat their delicacies. May the Godly strike me in love and
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  correct me. May my head not refuse choice oil. Indeed, my prayer
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  is a witness against their evil deeds. So God is the man of God
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  is asking God to teach him not to be stubborn. I've ever had a
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  call from someone, or a text message, or someone pull you up in
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  real life and said, listen, I see what's going on. I'm asking
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  you to please just submit yourself to God like. Don't do that what you're
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  doing right now, Please please choose not to do that, choose to serve.
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  Serve God like. This is the mistake that you are making, and
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  I can be of service to you. This is what he's saying right here.
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  May the Godly strike me in love and correct me. Verse seven.
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  Now I mean verse six. They be thrown over the side of a cliff
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  by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant
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  as when one plows and breaks up soil, so our bones are scattered at
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  the mouth of shill. That's the grave. Ha. Surely I am looking
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  to you, O Sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not
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  expose me to danger. Please protect me from the snare they have laid for
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  me and the traps the evil doers have set. Let the wicked fall into
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  their own nets while I escape. So much to say, so little time.
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  Let's break these down into some lessons and look at the passages one more
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  time again. In verse three, it says, Oh, Lord, place
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  a guard on my mouth, protect the opening of my lips. The man
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  of God is saying, please, just protect me from temptation. So that's
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  an action step for us. We seek God's face, we seek his presence
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  as protection from temptation. Verse four, do not let me have evil desires.
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  We need to maintain self control. Self control. Here comes another one
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  from verse four, do not let me turn to evil. Yes, resist
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  the allure of wickedness. Resist the allure of wickedness. There are times that
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  people come and gossip to you. You can resist the allure of entertaining that
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  gossip. There are times that you want to look on some things on your
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  cell phones or on the internet. Somehow on some of those devices rokup or
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  something else right, you want to push play on some of those videos that
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  they flash in front of you had no intention you were going to watch a
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  real estate video, and then something else popped up as an ad and you're
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  like, oh, a trailer to something. You're like, oh, my
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  goodness, what do I do resist the allure of wickedness? How about committing
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  to unceasing prayer? Verse eight, I cry out unto you, Oh Lord,
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  I say ye, are you are my shelter? So during those same
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  times of trial or triumph, God is welcoming us to unceasing prayer, having
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  conversations with God all day, every day, at any point of time,
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  not just the three or five times that some of us pray and set that
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  time aside or a part, but also in just our daily movements. We're
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  in the vehicle, we're on public transportation, we're in the gym exercising,
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  or we're having a discussion with someone, and we just really don't know what
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  to do. Commit yourselves, brothers and sisters, to unceasing prayer and then
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  understand the progressive nature of temptation. There are times that temptation comes and then
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  we just nibble at it, and temptation gets hotter, and then we nibble
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  at it, and then temptation gets even hotter, and then we realize after
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  it's too late, that we have been drowned in the temptation. Why because
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  we played around with it. So the devil has this cunning way of fastening
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  people into his grasp, and God is giving us the privilege to see that
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  that's how it is, and then flee to him and say, God,
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  deliver me from this kind of evil. And of course, be patient and
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  wait on God. According to verse eight, be patient and trust and wait
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  upon God. His timing is different than ours, but he is a shelter.
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  He is a shelter during the times that we are tempted. Have a
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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,