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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 Friday. It's

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July eighteenth, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.

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Of course, we're going from Egypt. We're on our journey

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to the Promised Land. And our cap for today is yeah,

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when things go wrong or maybe seem to go wrong,

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I don't know when things go wrong. We'll get into

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that in just a moment. But first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and

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also please let us know where you are in the

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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

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we thank you for giving us the opportunity to come

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into your presence. Please teach us to be holy. In

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. God has

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given us the privilege of being holy. God said that

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we we should be perfect for the Lord. Our God

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is perfect, or you could say, because so, God is

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the cause of our ability to do exactly what he said.

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I'm not going to go into a detailed argument or

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discussion like they did back in eighteen eighty eight and

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get confused or sidetracked. I know what God said, and

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that means that we need to be covered in the

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righteousness of Christ and simply surrender our will to Him,

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full stop, full stop. So when things do go quote wrong,

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we know we're still covered. You understand, when we are

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submitted to the will of God and we are yielding

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our will to God, it's a nevertheless not my will,

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not as I will, but as thou wilt. It's one

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of those gets so many experiences if in fact we

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are simply surrendering our will to God. And so I'll

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give you a paraphrase from Exodus chapter five, verses six

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through nine. As we begin, ye shall no more give

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the people straw to make brick. This was the Pharaoh,

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the king's response when God pardon me through Moses now

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goes into Pharaoh and says, let my people go so

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that they can sacrifice in the wilderness, so that they

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can serve me. Let my people go. This is not

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a request, It is not a negotiation. It is a

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command from God himself, Blessed be his name. You gonna

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let God's people go, Pharaoh and Pharaoh's like, now, I'm

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not doing that. In fact, since y'all want rest, you

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want a sabbath, what I'm gonna do is make it

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more difficult for you, just like every slave master in

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history has done. So, you shall no more give the

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people what they need in order to do their work.

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You won't give them that anymore. I'm gonna take that

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straw away from you that you need to make brick

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and hithertofore, let them go and gather the straw for themselves.

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And the tail of the bricks which they did make

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hithertofo ye shall lay upon them, and ye shall not

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diminish aught thereof. Let me say it in another way,

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you will no longer give the people straw to make

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brick as before. Let them go and gather it for themselves.

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But the number of bricks which they made before, you

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shall still require it of them. So I'm gonna make

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it more and more difficult, three four five times more difficult.

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It was essential for binding the clay to the bricks,

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and he said, no, I'm not going to do that.

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And even though without the straw that was essential to

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bind the clay to make the bricks, and the bricks

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would crack and crumble if that was not there, and

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it would slow them down immensely. The Pharaoh, that broken,

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wicked king, that dude, wrote an executive order and set

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you will continue to do everything I just said without

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the resources that you need. You're going to figure it

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out all on your own. And so Pharaoh's command meant

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that they still had to produce those durable bricks without

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being supplied the necessary material. Have you ever been in

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a situation where the resources you need to do your

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job have been withdrawn? I said, have you ever been

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in a situation where the resources that you needed to

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do your job were withdrawn? You had six people in

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your office, Now you got two, huh, you and your

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admin assistant, and now you still have to come up

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with the exact same or maybe increased productivity. That's some

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slave stuff, just like Pharaoh did back then. And so

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we see that he didn't care anything about that. The

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quota or the tale was still required of them. So

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Pharaoh deliberately and the people of God's labor to break

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their spirit. Oh, there's a command from your God. I

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hear all of what you're saying. Yeah, let's see how

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this goes. So the goal was to discredit Moses and Aaron,

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making it seem like obedience to God would just bring suffering.

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You want rest, You say you want to be a Christian,

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You say you want to follow God in air quotes, Well,

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I'll show you what happens when people defy me. This

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is what the Pharaoh is saying. This is what Nebuchadnezzar

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tried until God got to him. Ah, the Pharaoh, this Pharaoh.

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That's what he tried until God got to him too.

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And so this represents Satan's strategy like he's not creative,

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it's the same strategy. It's been so effective that he's

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been rinsing and repeating it from the day of Cain.

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Increase burdens to distract from spiritual responsibility, spiritual awareness, spiritual awakening. Yes,

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the moment that you commit yourself to God to get sick. Uh,

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the moment you commit to doing God's will, you say

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you're going to go into work early so that you

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can be sure to be prepared. You're gonna worship, You're

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gonna bring the levels down so that you can deal

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with all of the stressors of the day. And then

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you got people who also decide they're gonna come into

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work early, and they're gonna start playing music that you

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don't agree with, or they're going to come into your

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office bump bump bump. Can I talk to you about something?

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And it's like, ah, God, what in the world. And

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so the added burden was intended to crush the rising

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hope and that the people of God were to be

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enlightened by God's promise of deliverance. And so in the

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In the Book of Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred

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and fifty eight, it reads, the people of God had

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expected to be freed from bondage. Right you got this great,

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big deliverer. Whom shall we say part of me? I

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paused a quote right there, whom shall I say to

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the children of Israel sent me I Am. Thus shalt

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thou say to the children of Israel, I Am have

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sent me unto you. And then when they go into

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Pharaoh and they say, let my people go, and Pharaoh

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does this, it's like, hold on. We were supposed to

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be free, continuing the quote now, but instead of this,

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their burdens were greatly increased. These discouraged, discouraging results were

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due not to a failure of the divine plan, but

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to the unbelief of the people and the cruelty of

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the oppressors. Page two hundred and fifty nine. It is

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the law of human mind that by beholding we become changed.

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If the mind dwells upon the difficulties, Come on, y'all,

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those of you who are bound to negative thinking, those

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of you who are bound to complaining, those of you

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who are bound to looking at your cup that has

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some fresh clean water as all ways half full, half empty,

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or whatever you want to call it, it's almost empty.

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Them people like, if that is you here it is,

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let me start it again. It is the law of

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human mind that by beholding we become changed. If the

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mind dwells upon the difficulties and in justice, it will

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produce discouragement. So whatever you're focusing on, that's what you're

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going to become. If it's always negative, if it's always

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the bottom, if it's always something that's just not right,

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then that's what it'll do, and it'll produce discouragement. But

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God desired his people to look to him and not

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to Pharaoh. Interesting, so when things go wrong, yield to guys.

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Speaker 1: For joining us listening. Friends, always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion

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with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,