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

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

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

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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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, August six,

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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, and our caption

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for today is Marching Forward by Faith. Marching Forward by Faith.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick

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up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and also

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let us know where you are in the world at

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your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of the

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

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

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we thank you, thank you for giving us forward motion,

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forward toward all things that matter to you. One day

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we know that we will be forward and upward. We'll

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be able to live with you eternally. Please teach us

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to prepare now in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. We're marching forward, forward, onward to Zion, beautiful,

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beautiful Zion. I'm looking forward to the day that we

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don't have to do these lessons anymore. As much as

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I enjoy this, I've been doing this or a variation

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of it for decades, but I look forward to the

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day that we will be face to face with God.

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We will be in heavenly places, and then the earth

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made new like I'm looking forward to that day. Until then,

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let's go ahead and march together. We're going into the

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Bible book of Exodus chapter fourteen. Exodus chapter fourteen, and

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I will read verse thirteen, and the Bible reads and

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Moses said, unto the people, fear not, fear not stand still.

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That's one command, fear not. Second command, stand ye still

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and then see the salvation of the Lord. Ooh, somebody

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needs to fear. Not right now, someone needs to realize

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that motion just because you're frantic and don't know what

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to do, and you're just I have to do something.

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Taking it into your own hands is not the answer

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to your prayer. It is to stand still. But not

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just to stand still, but stand still for the purpose

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of seeing, discerning, experiencing the salvation of the Lord, which

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he will show to you. Not that we will mindlessly

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and frantically hope that well is this it?

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Speaker 1: God? No? Is this it?

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Speaker 2: And and then ah, and then you see the anxiety here. No,

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He will show to you the day today, for the

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Egyptians whom ye have seen today. See this as whatever

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barrier this is, whatever separates you from optimal experience with God,

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whatever is binding you, whatever the addiction is huh, whatever

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the bad habit is, whatever the sin besetting sin is,

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whatever the break in your mindset is. See this as

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the Egyptians today. For the Egyptians whom ye have seen today,

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ye shall see eat them again, know more. And in

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case you don't know what no more means forever. So immediately,

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immediately I want you to reflect on a moment where

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you doubt it God, doubt it, but God came through anyway.

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I don't know if you've doubted, because not everybody has

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that spiritual gene. I just made that up. That doesn't exist.

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But there are people who who do doubt, or on

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occasion doubt. But just reflect on a moment where you

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have doubted, but God came through anyway. And I want

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you to not just reflect on it. I want you

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to write it down, type it with your two thumbs

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in your phone or whatever it is. Write it down,

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and thank Him for being faithful even though you doubted

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him and you were afraid. Number two comes in from

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Exodus chapter fourteen, verses fifteen and sixteen, and the Bible reads,

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and the Lord said, unto Moses, wherefore criest thou unto me,

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speak unto the children of Israel, that they go which

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way forward, not backward forward? But lift thou up thy

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rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea. And

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guess what God is saying to him to do? Now

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divide it. We need to see where God gave the

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command that we're to don't not fear. We're to stand

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still and see what God is about to do. Don't complain.

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Don't complain. There's no need to complain because I've already

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given you the blueprint. Just follow wherever I lead. Now,

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don't complain, Moses. Why are you worrying? Moses? The people

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are in your ears, Moses. The mountains are on on

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either side, the Egyptians are behind you. And the only

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obstacle between you and the freedom that I have already

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begun is this little sea. You're just worried about this

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little sea. Come on, in the minds of the people.

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I want you to stretch forth your hand and then

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divide it. See, trusting God means moving forward, even if

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the way is not very clear to you. I said

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to you. See, we need the vision of God, like

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when God is healing blind eyes in twenty twenty five.

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It's not only for people who have actual problems with

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their retina, their cornea, whatever other thing that's going on

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in their eyes. The organ called the eyes is e

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an organ I don't know whatever eyes are not just that.

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But our vision sometimes is skewed based on the sinful

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world we live in. Our vision is often skewed based

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on our experiences and our perception of those experiences, and

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so what God is saying here is that Moses had

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to act before the sea parted, otherwise the sea wouldn't

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have parted. And I know that's very logical, but if

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you're standing in front of us sea, have you ever

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been to the sea like I live in the Caribbean.

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I see the Caribbean Sea on a regular basis. I

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can't imagine standing over Lover's leap, forget over Lover's leap,

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going down that that hm, I don't know, going down

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that hill, and then standing there where those waves are crashing,

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and God saying, lift up your rod, David, And I'm

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expecting that the sea is going to open up, so

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the so lovers leap that side. That's south coast, so

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going to South amesa straight through to South America. I

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can't imagine that. Honestly, my mind is not able to

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really make sense of that. But does it matter? So

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the action step is take one uncomfortable step this week.

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Really today is better if you just do it today,

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like in a few minutes, Like take that uncomfortable step

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that reflects your trust in God's direction, even if the

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outcome is not yet visible. Ask God for his vision.

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Number three and final comes in from Exodus, chapter fourteen

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and verse thirty. The Bible reads, thus the Lord saved

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God's people Israel that day out of the hand of

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the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.

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God didn't just delay the enemy. He didn't just hold

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them back like. He didn't just put like a cloud

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between them, or a pillar of fire or something between them.

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Speaker 1: Like.

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Speaker 2: He didn't make them just hear some stuff and confuse them.

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Not this time, He completely removed them because they chose

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not to love Love. Those marauders decided not to love

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love the enemies of God's people, and God decided that

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they did not want the mercy of God. And so

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his salvation is complete and final. The action step is

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trust God to finish what he starts. I think the

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Bible says, he who began a good work in you

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is able to complete it. Huh. He will keep whatever

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you surrender to him until the day of Jesus's appearing.

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Name one burden you have been holding onto, and now

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release it to him in prayer today, believing it's not

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just delayed but destroyed. That burden can be lifted at

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Calvary beginning right now, march forward in faith, fear not.

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God is with you. Make it a great day 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.