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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, July nine,

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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 for Excuses four Excuses. 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. Thank

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you for continuing to support that that means that you

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needed clearly and yeah, so that's going very well. And

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at your daily portion dot com. This is one of

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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 this Wednesday morning. Thank you for

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getting us thus far into our work week. Please help

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us to never give you excuses. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. There is so much that I

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could say right here about excuses, but let me just

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ask you a simple question. Is God no inabilities? Are

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your trials, your temptations bigger than your God? Are your trials, temptations, inabilities, inadequacies,

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the things that you've done, your mistakes, your ability to

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sin bigger than your God. That's a real life question.

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And the reason why this matters is because sometimes people

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make the things that are our earthly reality bigger than

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the God who created us. We do not accept that mindset,

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not as real believers, we don't accept that mindset. And

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so this is something with which our brother Moses would

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have had to contend vital question for all of us.

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Did God call you or not? Did He call you

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or not to do whatever it is that he has. Well,

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now we're saying, yes, that he called you to do,

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and if he did call you, then trust him and

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get about the work. Yeah. I put that in all

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caps in my notes so we can remember that, okay.

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And so what we're going to do is, first of all,

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talk about the signs that God gave Moses to perform

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in order to strengthen his faith. Okay. So we go

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into first the Bible book of Exodus, Exodus, chapter four

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and verse three, and the Bible reads and he said

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cast it, meaning the staff, on the ground. And he

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cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent,

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and Moses fled from before it. So Moses was amazed

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by what God had done. He was like, WHOA, that

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was not expected. But this sign was to demonstrate God's

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power even over nature. The same one who said let

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there be light, and there was light was able to

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cause a staff to become a real live snake or serpent,

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unlike the sleight of hand that the Egyptian would have

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done later. So this sign demonstrated God's power over nature

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and to show that what Moses held in his hand

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became a divine instrument. Are you in God's hands? Are

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you in God's hands? Are you an instrument in his

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hands for his glory? Verse six of Exodus chapter four.

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And the Lord said furthermore to him, put now thine

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hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into

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his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his

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hand was leprous as snow. Wait a minute verse seven,

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and he said, put thine hand into thine bosom again.

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And he put his hand into his bosom, and he

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turned again as his other flesh. This shot sign showed

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God's power to afflict and to heal. He has mastery

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over disease and restoration. So there's literally nothing that the

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Egyptians could have thrown at them. There is literally no

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trial or temptation. There is literally nothing that could stand

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in the way of Moses and the people of God,

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as long as they trusted him. And then, of course,

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in verse nine we see, and it shall come to

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pass if they will not believe, thou shalt take of

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the water of the river and pour it upon the

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dry land, and the water shall become blood. And this

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sign symbolized God's authority over Egypt's life source, the Nile

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and foreshadowed the first plague. But let me just say

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as well, when you look at the plagues that would

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have come later, they attacked all of the false gods

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of the day, the false gods that the people worship,

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the God of fertility, the God of part of me.

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We go and continue. So God showing in these miracles

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that He's the one, true and living God. Blessed be

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his name. And so in verse thirteen the Bible reads,

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Oh my Lord, I pray, Oh Lord, send I pray

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thee by the hand of Him whom thou shalt send

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somebody else? What and the Lord verse fourteen was kindled.

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His anger was kindled against Moses. And so when God

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had shown him signs, when God had called him very clearly,

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given him clear instructions, and Moses decided that there were

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reasons why he couldn't do what God had said to him,

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and then gave the ultimate excuse at the end, like

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please just get somebody else to do this. God was angry.

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I was he angry? Because God created, God created the

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heavens and the earth. God created Moses. When Moses said that,

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you know he was slow of speech, God God said,

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I made your mouth. How could you say you're slow

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of speech when I made your mouth. Never mind the

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fact that we read now in Acts chapter seven that

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he was mighty in speech. God gave him erran just

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in case to take away all of his excuses. If

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God being the creator of his mouth, if God being

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the one who sent him, if God being the one

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who created the heavens and the earth and has complete

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control over every single thing in the universe, was not enough,

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he said, Okay, here's Aaron. So Aaron will be like

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a prophet to you. You'll be as God to him.

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He'll be your mouth. Peace. Now go, And Moses is like,

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please just send somebody else. So really we need to

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evaluate and tell ourselves the truth and tell God the truth,

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and say, God, I just really make an excuses I

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don't want to go. I'm afraid. Rather than making up

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all of these different reasons why and please and having

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all of these long discussions, just say God, I'm fearful.

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I feel like if I do this, then this will happen.

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Will you give me the strength to do exactly what

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you have asked me to do? And so the Bible

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teaches us that Moses made this discussion about him rather

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than about God. When we start to focus on ourselves,

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then we risk rebelling against God. Let me go to

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Exodus chapter four, verses eleven and twelve, where the Bible reads,

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and the Lord said, unto him who hath made man's mouth,

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or who maketh him unable to speak, or death, or

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seeing or blind, have not I the Lord? Now therefore go,

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and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee

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what to say. So the lesson that we need to

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know is God does not call the qualified, but qualifies

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the called. I didn't want to get tongue twisted. And

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the Bible says, for it is God that worketh in you,

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both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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Number two, God makes provision for our weaknesses, but not

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our excuses. See Moses ultimately humbled himself. But at some point,

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if Moses had not humbled himself, then God would have

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just moved on and used someone else. Yeah, he would

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have just used someone else. We have other situations in

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history where where God said, my grace is sufficient for you,

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but where people decided you know it, no it's not,

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And God just moved on sadly so and still got

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his will done. And then, of course, delayed obedience can

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cost us eternally. Delayed obedience is disobedience. Make it a

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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,