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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 Tuesday, July one,

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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 Exodus the Journey to the Promised Land, and

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our caption for today is the Hebrew Midwe Lives the

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Hebrew Midwives. 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 click that red button

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as well, and pick up the Your Daily Portion Life

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application guide at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we

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

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this day, thank you for holy women, thank you for

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people who would rather die than dishonor you please make

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us this way in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again, Death before dishonor. Can I just say that

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right now? You see when God? Okay, let me say

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like this in the New Testament, the people of God

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said in the Early Church, the first century Church, should

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we should we listen to God or humans if there

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is an option where like the devil presented to Eve

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at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil,

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He offered her an opportunity to do something opposite of

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what God's will was, and she decided to do what

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was opposite of God's will. When Jesus was in the

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wilderness tempted of the devil, yeah, the Bible says that

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the devil gave him the opportunity to do the opposite

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of what God said. But what did Jesus choose? He

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chose what God said, and so death before dishonor like

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we need to make a decision every single day that

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we awake. Are we going to be on the Lord

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side or on the devil side? How we use our

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money the Lord's side or the devil side? How we

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treat our spouses in children Lord's side or the devil's side.

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How we move when we are on the road and

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there is road rage, etc. How are we going to move?

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Are we on the Lord side or or the devil's side?

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Let me just read really quickly from the lesson writer.

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Now one cannot understand the Book of Exodus without presupposing

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teaches teachings of Genesis. The people of God moved to Egypt,

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and after a time of great prosperity and peace, oh,

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they were enslaved. God did not abandon his people to

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their problems. Many of the people of God despaired of

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their plight. We read about that so many places in

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the scriptures. Yet in the time of distress, God comes

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to help with his mighty hand. Did you hear that

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in the time of distress, God came to help with

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his mighty hand. The Bible encourages us, encourages us. In

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the Book of Psalms, Chapter fifty and verse fifteen. Call

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upon me in the day of trouble, and I will

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deliver you, and you will glue glorify me. Now this

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is very interesting to me. I'm going to share a

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couple of lessons in a moment. But God's purpose for

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our lives is often for his glory, I shouldn't say

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often it is for his glory and for our benefit.

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How does whatever it is that God is delivering us

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through or from, how is it that through whatever we

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are going through in our lives, whether triumph for trial,

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how does it magnify Him as the just and loving

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God that he is. He's all powerful, blessed be his name,

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whether you're in triumph or you're in trial. How does

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this show him to others about what he can do

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for us and through them. If he can do it

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for you, he can do it for your friends. If

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he can do it for you or through you, he

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can do it for your relatives. He can do it

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through and for you. He can do it for the

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that you meet on the road. And so here are

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a few life lessons that I'd like to share from Exodus,

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Chapter one, Verses nine through twelve, etc. The first one

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is that true courage is obeying God when we are

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pressured to conform. Let me read it now. In verse

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seventeen of Exodus chapter one, the Bible reads, but the

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midwives feared God even though there was a death decree,

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even though they got a clear command from the pharaoh

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or the king of that time, that they should destroy

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the children, the boys, those people of God's boys, it says,

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and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded.

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See let me read it from the New English translation.

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But the midwives, they feared God and did not do

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what the king of Egypt had told them. They let

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the boys. And so what does that mean for me?

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I need to act in this way? I need to

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identify one area where I am pressured to conform. I

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think the Bible says, don't be conformed to this world,

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but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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So is there an area that you are feeling tempted

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to conform? Is it in your entertainment choices? Is it

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in the conversations where people are calling you or texting

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you and wanting to take you down a rabbit hole

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where you know God would not have you to be

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Wherever you are feeling the pressure to conform. You want

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to bust back. When you are thinking about whether you

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should argue with your spouse yes or no. When you're

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tempted to conform, write that down, identify it. And now

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I want you to pray deliberately God, I am feeling

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pressure to conform in this key area to the way

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that the devil would have me do it. Pray for

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boldness to honor God above all. Number two comes from Exodus,

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chapter one and verse twenty one. And it came to

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pass because the midwives feared God that he made them houses.

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God honors those who honor him. God honors those who

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honor him. He will honor you if you honor him.

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If you stand up for Jesus, he will stand up

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for you. I think you're getting it. I think you're

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getting it because the midwives they actually believed in God.

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Like they trusted in God, they respected God. He blessed

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them with the families of their own. Obedience to God's

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will never goes unnoticed in heaven. And so what must

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I do today? Well? Reflect today on a time when

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obeying God brought unexpected blessings. You've had blessing upon blessings

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in the past. You may be in that season of

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blessings right now. Now. I want you to thank him.

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Thank you him in prayer for seeing and rewarding the

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faithfulness that he put in you. He's rewarding the good

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work that he put in your bosom. It wasn't of

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your own strength, lest any person should boast, but he

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still gave you the reward. Let me put it this way.

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He gave you the reward that Jesus is worthy of.

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Mm hmmm, just because you cooperated with him. Now, let's

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go to verse fifteen of Exodus, chapter one, and the

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Bible reads and the King of Egypt spake to the

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Hebrew midwives, of which the name of one was Shiffra,

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the name of the other poor or in another translation,

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the king said to the Hebrew wives, one of whom

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was Shiffra, and the other poa. Now it says here

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that we don't need a title they He just went

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to the midwives and went to They were normal women.

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They were average everyday women, but they trusted God. Nothing

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to see here. These midwives were not queens or warriors.

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Yet the scripture names them and not the pharaoh. See,

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we can go through history, ancient history, and figure out

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who the pharaoh of that time was. But these women

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were named by God because God knows your name. God

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knows your name. Even though sometimes we demigrate, subjugate, and

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disrespect women, the Bible is showing us that God respects

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these women of God, and he didn't even name the pharaoh.

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Their quiet defiance changed the course of history. Don't minimize

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your roles, serve faithfully where you are. Your obedience will

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impact generations. Peace.

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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,