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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 Sabbath, July five,

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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 new

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Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our

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caption for today is the Burning Bush, and I'm going

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to let you know that tomorrow it's the Burning Bush

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as well, but we'll look at it in a different way.

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Before we begin, I'd like to just say welcome to

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all of you, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please go ahead and join our online community and let

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us know where you are in the world at your

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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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Thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity to

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come together on this Sabbath morning to have a divine

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encounter with you. Please transform our lives today. In Jesus's name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again the burning bush. So

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we're going to begin by reading from the Bible book

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of Exodus, Exodus chapter three, and I will read verses

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seven and eight, and the Bible reads and the Lord said,

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I have surely seen the oppression of my people. I

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have said to you before when we see this experience

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that Moses is having with God, and God saying that

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I have seen the oppression of his people, that means

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that God is divinely near. He's divinely near to you

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this Sabbath morning. I don't want to waste time to

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get to this like he is divinely near to you.

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But the question is do you want him here? Are

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you welcoming him? Whether two or three are gathered together

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in name he is in the midst of us. And

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we know that there are hundreds. And depending on the

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time of the day, you may watch the replay. It

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may be thousands together or hundreds of thousands if you're

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on the radio together for His glory. And even still,

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if it's just you and it's you and God and

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you're there. He inhabits the praises of his people. He

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has orchestrated in arrange a divine encounter for you. What

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is God saying to you? What is God's saying to you?

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And are you listening? Are you listening? And the Bible continues,

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I've seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt,

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and I have heard their cry because of their task masters. See,

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the people of God were bound. Are you bound? I

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know their sorrows. I have come down now to deliver

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them out of the hand of their oppressors and to

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bring them up from the land to a good and

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large land flowing with milk and honey. So there is

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a point where God says, enough is enough, It is

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time to deliver. So the question is are you patient enough?

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Are you patient enough to trust God, cooperate with him

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and wait for him to deliver you. Let me ask

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you the questions again. Really it's a battery of questions.

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Are you patient enough to trust God, cooperate with God

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and wait for him to deliver you? That's the question.

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Let's content continue, and so the lesson writer says that

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God calls us. God's call to us will often change

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the direction of our lives. I talked about that. I

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think it was Thursday when all my notes vanished and

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I was trying to read piece this stuff together, and

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I'm like, God, what in the world is going on here?

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And he gave me the resounding message that He changes

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our plans at times, so we can rely on him,

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if you remember. However, if we follow that call, then

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we discover that God's path is always the best route

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for us. It's always been the best route for us.

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But sometimes we chuck out, we chuck off ahead of him,

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we run ahead of him. But God is saying, I'm here.

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I'm here to be with you. I'm here here to

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give you the understanding that you need. But more than that,

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I am here to transform you, it says, continuing. However,

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sometimes at first it isn't really easy to accept God's call.

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So if the reality for you right now I need

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you to tell yourself the truth between you and God.

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Are you really open to his redirection or his direction?

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Are you really open to God changing the pathway that

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you thought you should be on in order to answer

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his call. If the answer is yes, then we just God,

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We just by God, pray your strength. And if the

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answer is ah, I don't know or no, then now

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is the time. Like mark this date on your calendar,

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July five, and say, God, this is the day that

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I will surrender my will to you, even though I

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don't fully understand what that means. Wherever you say, whether

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thou goest, I will go, where thou leadest, I will follow. Oh,

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and by his grace, please just follow him. I know

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it's easy for me to say because I don't know

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where exactly he's leading you. But can I just say that,

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like I've been led by God, I am being led

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by God. And there are times part of me, there

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are times that He changes my pathway, my direction to

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and so we just thank God for that privilege, and

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so we go into learn another lesson. The first lesson

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is a mindset shift. It's a mindset shift that I

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need for all of us to embrace. Are you ready

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for it. It's the shift that says no excuses, no excuses.

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That's the shift we Where we think God's command is

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easy or difficult is irrelevant. It's so difficult it's easy

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for you to say, oh, okay, well I'll just go

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and do it, No big deal. Either way, it's irrelevant.

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What our view of this call, this command is is irrelevant.

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And I know maybe I'm speaking in extreme language, but literally,

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the only pathway to eternal success is doing what God says,

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when he says, and how he says it. I said,

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when he says, how he says, and when he says it,

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You can say it whichever direction you want to say it.

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What he says, when God says, how he says it.

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Either way, submitting to God and his plan is the

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only pathway to success. And so the action though for

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our lives comes few fold. Let's see how much time

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we have here. Number one, trust that your cries are

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not ignored. We said earlier that God heard the moanings,

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the groanings of his people, and he said, is now

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time for me to come down and to deliver them.

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So trust that your cries are not being ignored by God,

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and continue to pray even when the deliverance of God seems,

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I said, seems delayed. The second lesson comes from this

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part of the text. I've read it already in Exodus,

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chapter three and verse eight. I am now come down

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to deliver them and to bring them up onto a

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land flowing with milk and honey. I've said this to

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you before that God doesn't always just bring us out

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of something. He takes us into something much greater, much greater. Now,

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we are not the ones to determine what is greater,

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what is better, but we know that if God is

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taking us from somewhere and he's taking us to somewhere else,

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it's because it's for his glory and for our benefit.

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It has to be greater. It has to be greater.

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When Joseph was taken to Potiphar and he was the

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head whatever, he was a butler in Potiphar's house, it

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was a place that was better. And when he was enslaved,

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it was a place that was better. It was a

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place that was for God's glory and his benefit. When

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he was when he was taken to prison, it was

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for the glory of God and for the benefit of

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Joseph and others throughout the generations, and so we don't

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want to ask God simply for survival. We want to thrive.

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As I have said this before, ask God what he's

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leading you toward, not only what he's taking you away from.

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See the burning Bush experience is a way for us

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to connect with God and for him to transform us.

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We'll talk some more about it tomorrow. Thanks for joining

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us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,