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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, August tenth,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Exodus. We are marching

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into Zion by the way, going from and going from

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Egypt straight through to the Promised Land Egypt to Canaan.

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And our caption for today is bitter waters. Oh my

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bitter waters. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. Please pick up your Daily

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Portion Life application guide and let us know where you

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are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father, We thank you for

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this new work week and for the privilege that you've

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given us to see what our ancestors experience with you rise,

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whether for good or for ill. Please teach us to

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not repeat the mistakes of the past, but learn from

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people like Joshua and Caleb and Abigail and others in

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the scriptures who who knew what the right pathans and

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then actually lived it. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again, bitter waters. So much to say, so

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little time. Let's go ahead and jump right into Exodus

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chapter fifteen. Exodus chapter fifteen Versus twenty two through twenty seven.

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And let me just say, for all of the teachers

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out there, you're preparing for Sabbath coming, you need to

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actually be preparing. That's how we're able to run through

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the lesson like we do here at your Daily Portion,

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because we're actually preparing. Please do that, and the people

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that you serve will thank you. Going in at verse

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twenty two, So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea.

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And if you're following, I'm gonna skip some parts. And

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now we go to verse twenty three. And when they

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came to Mara, they could not drink of the waters

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of Mara. Why not for they were bitter. And he

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cried unto the Lord, and the Lord verse twenty five

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showed him a tree fast forwarding, and the waters were

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made sweet. So God gave Moses the solution to the

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problem of no water, and then to the problem of

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the water. We now have discovered is not poddible, It

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is not drinkable, it is bitter. So God gave Moses

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the solution to their need for provision. Somebody just got that.

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Somebody just got that. This was not a health message discussion.

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This was not a well let's discover what tree that

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Moses used, and we can go find bitter water and

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it can be transformed to poddable water, like like some people,

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you know use instead of floculent some people use the

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seeds of of the maringa tree in order to purify water.

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This is not what we're talking about. We're not replacing

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God with the solutions that he gave that looked practical

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and actual. You see what I mean. Like, when God

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sends you a job, it's not the job that you worship.

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I think somebody just got it. When you are lonely

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and God sends you a companion, it's not the companion

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that you worship. You see, when God has resolved a

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part of confusion in your mind and he sends you

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another human being to give you some structure, it is

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not the other human that gave you structure that you worship.

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God is the provider in this case and in all cases.

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And so Mara, Mara. It means bitter. That's a Hebrew word.

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It means bitter. It symbolizes hardship and disappointed. Have you disappointment?

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Have you ever been mara, somebody's getting it? Have you

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ever been and bittered by your circumstance? M Have you

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ever been scarned in a relationship and now you are bitter?

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Have you ever had hardships whether you brought it upon

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yourself or it came from someone else? Have you ever

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been disappointed? There's some things that you want to do,

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and you've been begging God, please allow me to do this,

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and He has allowed you to be disappointed. Mara, it

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is bitter. And then and then there is another word introduced,

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ma tholk. Ma tholk. It means sweet, it's pleasant, satisfying

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to taste or experience. So God transforms their experience from bitter,

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a hardship, a disappoint meant when they were completely thirsty

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to the extreme. And finally they see the water that

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is set out before them and they realize they can't

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even drink it. And then God brings my tholk. It's pleasant.

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Now that hardship that was burying us in our minds

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is now pleasant. It is now satisfying, no longer disappointing.

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It's no longer bitter, but it is satisfying to the taste,

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satisfying to the taste. And so God's people's bitter water

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crisis is symbolized the bitterness of unbelief, oh and the

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need of faith under pressure. You see, when you're faced

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with a bitter trial, do you choose to have faith

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and to wait for my thought? Or do you complain

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to God and say, God, how could you bring me

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to this point? And I get disappointed? You see, And

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so the tree is seen as a test of obedience

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and divine cooperation, a symbolic for shadowing of the Cross,

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which brings sweetness to life's bitterness. Jesus turned the bitterness

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of the cross into sweetness of eternal life for anybody

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who chooses to believe. And then, of course, the miracle

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is both provisional and instruction. God gave them the water.

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We see that we've seen God make provision for them,

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provided a way out of Egypt, provided a way for

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them to be protected while in Egypt, provided a way

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for them to eat manna from heaven, bread from heaven.

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We have seen that He has provided the guidance that

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they needed in order to get through whatever they were

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going through. But it was also instructional. It taught here's

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a big word dependence on God in dry places. And

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so in the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred

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and ninety two, it reads, God permitted these trials to

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what test their faith. You're in a trial right now? Brother?

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Are you in a trial right now? Sister? God has

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permitted this to test your faith. Let me keep reading.

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Every difficulty was a call to prayer. Some of our

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brothers and sisters pray five times a day. Some of

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our brothers and sisters pray three times a day. And

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some of our brothers and sisters are following the model

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that Paul showed us and Enoch, who walked with God

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showed us of prayer without ceasing. You're like Dave. You

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can't bow and pray all day long and all night.

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That doesn't even make sense. But our attitude, our connection

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with God is can be a prayer without ceasing attitude.

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I would say, ask Enoch about that. But Enoch's in

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heaven right now. Why Because God wanted him with him.

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He saw that Enoch wanted to be connected to him

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to the degree that God couldn't wait until the end

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of time as we know it. He said, I need

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him with me now because he knows what it is

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to live though without ceasing experience with me. Okay. And

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so it's a lesson that the bitter experiences of life

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can be sweetened by trust in God. And now we

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apply it to ourselves. Don't judge God by your most

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recent hardship. Trust him beyond the bitterness. God doesn't always

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remove the desert, he doesn't always remove the bitter water,

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but he sweetens it. He sweetens what is bitter when

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you obey his voice. Obey.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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