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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 Sunday. It's

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July six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series through the Book of Exodus and our

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caption for today again, I did tell you yesterday we'd

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hear it again, the burning bush, the burning Bush. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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our online community. Pick up the Your Daily Portion Life

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application guide on the Book of Exodus, and also 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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we thank you for this Sunday morning and for the

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opportunity to embark upon a new work week. Please help

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us to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth

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that you have entrusted to our care to have dominion

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over this. Please please help us to do your will

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though as we as we experience you today in Jesus name,

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I pray Amen and a man again the burning bush,

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the burning bush. Before we get to our lessons for today,

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I'd like to read from the lesson writer after Moses

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fled to Midian. Remember now, this is the second forty

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year period. We talked about his life broken up into

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three forty years periods. This is the second one. After

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Moses fled to Midian. He had a relatively easy life.

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He got married, he had two sons, Gersham and Eliezer.

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And so what we're gonna do now is read from

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the passage Exodus, chapter eighteen, Verses three and four, and

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look out for a clue of something we can apply

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to our own lives. The Bible reads beginning at verse three,

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with her two sons, of whom the name of one

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was Gersham, for he said, I have been a stranger

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in a foreign land land. So that was what Gersham meant. Okay.

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And verse four, and the name of the other Eliezer,

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for he said, the God of my father was my

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help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. So

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these two children of the Man of God had names.

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Those names were intentional. So this question that I want

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you to consider first is well, what's in a name?

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What is in a name? What we call something often

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determines or reveals our mindset about that same something. Let

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me give you an example. No, let me say it again. First,

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what we call something, how we name something often determines

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or reveals our mindset about the same thing. Let's say

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the experience that you're having right now. What if you

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call this difficult? This is difficult. I'm not saying that

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life is easy. I'm not saying that we shouldn't say

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what really is the reality? I'm just saying, like, what

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if that's the full stop? Like this is difficult? All

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caps and that's the end of the story. Or this

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is annoying, full stop like all caps exclamation point, and

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some of you are like, come on, Dave, are you

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saying we shouldn't be real with our feelings? Listen, hold on,

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hold on. This is terrible exclamation point, which is also

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a full stop exclamation point. That's the end of the discussion.

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What if the perspective, though, changes from this is difficult,

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this is annoying, this is terrible to this is going

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to make me stronger? God, with you, I can do

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all things. What if this is God's way of helping

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me to pray more. Some of you think this is

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hocus pocus, but I assure you that is why so

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many millions of people who say we are the people

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of God are limited in our mindset. We accept the

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Babylonian names for the things that God is allowing us

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to go through. Somebody just got that is their names Shadrack, Mishak,

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and Abednego were not the names that they should have

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been named. They were Hannah, Andaiah, Mishael, Azararah. They were

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named after God. But the ones who were subjecting them,

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subjugating them, attempting to bury them, gave them new names

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because the Babylonian name meant that they were giving the perspective.

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But never accept the name that the devil gives for

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your situation. This is annoying, this is terrible, this is difficult.

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Let's go again. This is going to make me stronger,

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Thank God. This is God's way of helping me to

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pray more. This is a blessing in disguise. So what

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do you call your current situation? Let me just pause

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right there and ask you, whatever you call it, what

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does that say about God? Let's continue in the lesson study.

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The lesson study actually says this time was not simply

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for Moses as he was in Midian to smell the

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flowers or whatever else is in the areas or the cacti.

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I don't know. These years walking with God or the

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Lord God blessed be his name, changed him and prepared

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him for the leadership role that God had in mind. Yeah.

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God is always up to something. Now let's learn. Let's

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learn some lessons, and then if we have time, we'll

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read another quote. Okay, and so the first lesson again

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comes from Exodus, chapter three and verse six. I am

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the God of thy Father, the God of Abraham and

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of Isaac and of Jacob. See God identifies himself to

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Moses through the lens of of covenant. That's it. God

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identifies himself or reveals himself to Moses through the lens

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of covenant. This reminds Moses and us that God does

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not forget what he started. I believe there is a

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song that came from the Bible that says, he who

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began a good work in you is able to complete it.

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And so God reveals himself or identifies himself through covenant.

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God has a good memory, and so today I want

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you to anchor your trust in God's character by remembering

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what he promised to those who came before you. Remember

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what God promised that is for your good, for your

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benefit to those who came before you. Number two from Exodus,

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chapter three and verse five, the Bible reads, put off

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thy shoes. This is what Moses experienced as he saw

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the burning bush and could not really quite understand whoa

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what is going on? But he knew he was in

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the presence. He said God, through the Angel of the

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Lord Prism, we'll talk about that tomorrow. Put off thy

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shoes from off thy feet, for the place where on

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thou standest is holy ground. God's presence transforms any place.

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Ordinary spaces become sacred. When God shows up. Is God

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showing up in your life right now, brothers and sisters.

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So the action is to treat your everyday moments with reverence.

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God is present right here, right now. I know that

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there are some of our brothers and sisters around the

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world that say, like Daniel, they pray three times per day,

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or like some of our other brothers and sisters who

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who pray at certain times per day, varying in you know,

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on the time, just a little variation on each of

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those five times per day. And you know, Lord bless

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people who think of it in that way, because you're

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connecting with God. But what God wants us to do

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is to rehearse the visible presence of God at all times,

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so that our lives become a prayer. When we are

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speaking to Him, it's a prayer. When we are speaking

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to others and knowing that God is listening and God

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is guiding, we are an open channel for whatever God

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has for us and for others. Then our lifestyle becomes prayer.

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So treat every day moments with reverence. You might be

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standing on holy ground and don't even know it. Oh,

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this is good, this is good. Let's continue peace. Thanks

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for joining 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,