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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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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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 Marning, Good morning. It is Friday. It's

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July twenty five, 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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and our caption for today is a hardened Heart, a

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hardened Heart. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just 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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online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application Guide.

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We're going to use that one today, and also please

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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. Father, we thank you for this

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time of preparation, this day of preparation. Somebody once said,

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the way that we prepare for the Sabbath is likely

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the way we prepare to meet you when Jesus comes. Father,

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Please please teach us connection with you, help us to

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love you with everything we are, in everything we have.

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In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and Amen again. A

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hardened heart, a hardened heart. So what I'm going to

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do is read a quote from the book Patriarchs and Profits,

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page two hundred and sixty eight. It's right there in

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the less and right after that, we're going to apply

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this lesson to us professionally in the professional space for

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those who haven't already picked up the Life Application Guide.

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We are segmenting these applications in four different ways, and

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we'll tackle the professional way because we need to apply

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this stuff like we don't just read it and say

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this is what happened in history and overly spiritualize it.

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There are things that we need to be doing today

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based on these lessons, and so I read it reads

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thus his or God's people were permitted to experience the

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grinding cruelty of the Egyptians, that they might not be

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deceived concerning the debasing influence of idolatry. So really they're

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able to see now, like, if you're planning on going

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the direction of idolatry, not just the way those folks

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were doing it. But in any way, this is not

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the pathway for you. We're going to show you how

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this thing really works. Let me continue, Let me continue.

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In his dealing with the Pharaoh, the Lord manifested his

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hatred of idolatry and his determination to punish cruelty and oppression. Remember,

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even when God spoke to his people and he was like, oh,

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you're out there fasting. You're fasting, but you're not delivering

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people from oppression. In captivity, you're still overreaching, like you're

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underpaying people that are giving you there all when you

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have the capacity to pay more. You're oppressing them and

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enslaving in some cases. That is not the kind of

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fast that I have taught you. I've taught you to

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set the captives free. I've taught you to remove the

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hand of oppression. I've taught you fairness and impartiality. And

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then he continues, but this is the reality here. There

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is no exercise of supernatural power to harden the heart

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of the king. Let me just say that again. Some

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people are mixed up about what we've studied multiple days. Now.

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I won't go back over it. But God did not

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impose some supernatural thing on the king so that he

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would be stubborn. That's not what happened. God gave to

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Pharaoh the most striking evidence of actual divine power in

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the same way that he did way in the future

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when Nebekadnezzar had a little problem with God. Let me

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just say, okay, and so and so, but the monarch

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stubbornly refused to heed the light. Let me just say,

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if you are a world leader, you are a leader

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of a country. If you're a president, you are a

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prime minister, you are a queen, you are a king,

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or some other designation that I'm not familiar with. I apologize.

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Just know this that God is ready, willing and available.

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Having set you up in your position, He's ready. He's

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willing and available for you to rule or to be

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a leader under a democratic system, whatever your system is

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in a way that is pleasing to him. We are

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not bound to make the mistakes of our ancestors. We

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are not bound to make the mistakes of people who

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are from other cultures in those ancestries. We are bound

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if we surrender our will to God to be successful,

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and God can show us how to be successful. So

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every display of infinite power was rejected by him and

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rendered him the more determined in his rebellion. That's what

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he chose. By the way, the seeds of rebellion, that

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sol that he sold when he rejected the first miracle

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produced their harvest. Yeah, God is not mocked. And it's

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not only for the leaders of countries. It's for the

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leaders of God's people in church or religious communities. It's

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the leaders in our families. Huh. It's the leaders in

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any thing. When you're at work, in your workplace, you're

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in an organization where it's a nonprofit, whatever the case.

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And not just leaders but people who also support and follow.

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All we need to do is say yes to God

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when he comes knocking, Yes to God when he starts

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to show us the right pathway, and we will be safe.

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But let's go back to our professional application in this reality.

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Here for today's lesson, we're using when as a framework,

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an acronym in this case W. What is important now?

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In leadership, temporary remorse without lasting correction damages trust and

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invites future disaster. I want you to see this in

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your workplace. In leadership temporary remorse. There are people who

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have got gotten caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

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There are people who have overreached. There are people who've

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done insider trading. There are people who've gotten caught in

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some compromising positions. You understand, there are people who have

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been reprimanded in their leadership role for filling the blank

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and for a moment, for a moment, they had remorse.

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Or you if you're listening, If it's you, then just listen.

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God is giving you the blueprint here, please okay. And

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so temporary remorse without lasting correction damages trust and invites

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future disaster. I could go into the news cycle and

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give some really interesting commentary on some of the things

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we have seen, but I won't. Let's go to I

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internalize the insight. Pharaoh's public confessions never turned into lasting reform.

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Let me say that again. Pharaoh's public confessions never turned

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into lasting reform, sort of like Lucifer. As he began

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began to go down that slippery pathway to destruction, he

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becomes Satan, the accuser of the brethren. Lord, help us

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to see in our lives where we God forbid are

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going down that pathway. He could have he could have

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surrendered his will like he didn't have to continue down

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the pathway because he rebelled in heaven. He didn't have

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to get kicked out with his angel his evil angels.

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He could have, he could have repented, but he chose

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not to. Good leadership responds to correction with lasting, a

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lasting course adjustment. Shout to the HR professionals around the

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world that have put put individuals on remediate remediated remediation

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plans and given people the pathway to regain success. Now,

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what is the next best move? This is our action

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step review one leadership mistake that you have made. You

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may have if you've addressed it with words but not

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consistent change. This is for us to look in the mirror.

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I'm a leader too, I'm the backbone of leadership. I'm

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a number two style of leader, but I'm a leader. Nonetheless,

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some of you are primary leaders. Look in the mirror,

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Look in the mirror. If you've addressed it with only

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words but not consistent change, take one concrete action this week,

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I would say, beginning today. Oh well it's Friday, but

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still to demonstrate true correction. Yeah, so much to say,

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so little time. But God has a way of getting through,

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even in our professional space. Make it a great day, peace.

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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 E. L. David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,