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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. It's

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the sixteenth day of July in twenty twenty five. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where we give you

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God's word every single day, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our lesson study series through the

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Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is uncircumcised lips.

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Uncircumcised lips. And I'm not going to lie to you. Immediately,

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I was like, what is Moses talking about. We'll get

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

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to say welcome to you and ask you to go

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over to your Daily Portion. Dot com. Please join our

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the world 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 for giving us

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this new day and for the privilege that you have

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entrusted to us to come together in this manner and

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then go from here into the world and do whatever

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we can to lead people to you. Please help us

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to do just that, lead people into right relationship with

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You in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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Uncircumcised lips. Now for me that already carried it carried

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spiritual or religious, that's really the word I want to use.

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It carried religious connotations. And I was thrown off by

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it because I'm like, but Moses, why would he be

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saying he's going to speak to a man who don't

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know God. I know what I just said, and saying

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it in those terms, right, And so I had to

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do a little bit of digging, a little bit of digging,

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and let me just read it now from Exodus chapter

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six and verse twelve Exodus chapter six, and I will

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read beginning at verse twelve, and the Bible reads, and

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Moses spake before the Lord, saying, behold, the children of

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Israel have not hearkened unto me. How then shall Pharaoh

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hear me? Who am of uncircumcised lips? Now in the

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amplified version of the Bible, it reads, for I am

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unskilled and inept in speech, and so regardless of all

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of the spiritual connotations that I would naturally draw from this,

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it literally means the word uncircumcised our roh. It almost

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sounds like oral, but it's our roh means it literally

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means closed off, obstructed. Then you have unclean or restricted.

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But if you look at it metaphorically to it describes

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something unready, insensitive or not fit for use. So this

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is what Moses's description of himself actually is. And so

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Moses is expressing insecurity or inadequacy in speaking in this context.

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And God responds with reassurance instead of removing the call

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you see in my field of psychology, way back in

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the day, negative reinforcement would have been. God gives the command.

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Moses complains, God removes the responsibility of the command and

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now God is reinforcing through a negative pathway that if

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you kick up dust, if you complain, then you can

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get away from whatever that prescribed activity is. Okay, And

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so God is not about to do that. He said, okay,

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I'm going to give you Aaron who will serve as

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your spokesperson. Now what now. In the book Patriarchs and Prophets,

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we read page two fifty four diffidence and self trust

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should not be a hindrance or self distrust should not

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be a hindrance to the service of God. The Lord

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will compensate for the deficiencies of his workers. So if

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you have deficiencies, so do I. If I have sufficient

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in if I have deficiencies, so do you. That is

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no excuse for not doing what God says. You think

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God didn't know when he called you brother, that you

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had these whatever it was, the way you speak, the

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way you look, the way you feel, where you came from,

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the perception of people when they hear from people who

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come from where you come from, or whatever other thing

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you can contrive in order to give God a way

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to say, Okay, you don't have to do it anymore.

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God knew that when he called you so Moses's feelings

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of unworthiness were real, okay in air quotes, but they

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did not disqualify him unless he became disobedient. That's a

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different discussion. They positioned him to depend upon divine power

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instead of human strength. You know, the Bible says in

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Jeremiah chapter six, in verse ten, their ear is uncircumcised

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and they cannot hearken. So that was a spiritual implication.

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But then Jeremiah in chapter one and verse six says, ah, Lord, behold,

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I cannot speak, for I am a child. You see,

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God said to Jeremiah before you were formed, before I

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formed you in your mother's room, I knew you well

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and that you would be a prophet to the nations.

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But you know what God actually says, Even even when

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you confess that you have unclean lips, even when you

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confess that you may be inept, God sees it in

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its reality and it's recorded under inspiration. In Acts chapter

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seven and verse twenty two, Stephen says Moses was mighty

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in words and in deeds, showing that God was in control.

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God was in control. You can't say that you're unprepared

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when God says you're ready, okay, And So there's so

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much I could say in the context of the people

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of God in that day. But now let's apply it

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for us every day, not directly out of our life

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application guide in a different way. Have you ever felt

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like Moses type of one in the chat? Have you

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ever felt in unprepared, like you're not supposed to be

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the one to do exactly what God has impressed or

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directly commanded you to do. I can give you examples

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of when I thought that, But I ran forward even

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with all of that baggage in my mind and in

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my spirit. But have you been insecure about speaking up,

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or wounded by past failures or quote church hurt. Have

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you been tempted to believe that you are too broken

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or unqualified to do exactly what God said that you

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must do. God doesn't call the eloquent. I've said it

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to you another way. God does not call the equipped,

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He equips the call but called. But in this case,

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God is not calling the eloquent, even though Moses really

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was eloquent. How could you have been trained forty years

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under Pharaoh and to become the next Pharaoh, presumably and

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not be eloquent. Come on, Come on, Moses, Come on Moses,

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stop looking at yourself. He makes those he called effective.

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So you may have uncircumcised lips in your own eyes.

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But God sees the vessel ready to be filled. That

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means you're an empty cup. You are an empty vessel,

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and God is gonna pour everything he is in order

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into you in order for you to be what God

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has called you to be. So much more I could say,

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but let me just say this that God, actually you

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know what. I don't want to get into tomorrow's lesson.

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I think I was about to run forward into tomorrow's lesson.

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So I'm going to give you just a couple of lessons.

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Pardon me, a couple of lessons and let you go.

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Number one is coming in from chapter six and verse

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seven from Exodus. I will take you to me for

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a people, and I will be to you for a God. See,

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the covenant stands even when confidence is lacking. So remind

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yourself today and every other day. Huh. Remind yourself daily.

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I belong to God. Say that to yourself like I

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belong to God. When your emotions fail, Yes, when your

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confidence is waning, I want you to remember you belong

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to God and anchor yourself in covenantal truth. And finally,

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don't talk to yourself. Don't talk yourself out of what

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God already talked you into. Your weakness is not the issue,

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your disobedience is. Uh oh. Make it a great day.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,