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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 Tuesday, August twelve,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 under the caption

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Watcher from the Rock, Water from the Rock. 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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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, thank you for giving us the opportunity

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to open up your word. And I pray that we

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will listen for your voice, that we will accept your

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provision as indeed what it is, your provision, and stop

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making up other stuff that we would rather have than you.

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And I pray that today we will be watered well watered.

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As a person in the wilderness who needs your watering

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in Jesus' name, I pray, amen and amen again. Well,

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in the wilderness, you need plenty of water. That's what

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the lesson writer said, and I agree totally. I wake

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up in the morning and I drink within the first hour.

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I drink at least forty some ounces as soon as

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I wake up, within the first hour, and then I

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may drink another twenty before what time for me six am,

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before six am, and then I drink multiple times throughout

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the day, large portions of water. Because even if I'm

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not in the wilderness, I need plenty of water. And

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so do you.

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Speaker 1: So do you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. In fact, in Jamaica, we say that water is life.

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Water is life. So God took care of this problem.

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Even though the people were quarrelsome they did not trust him,

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and they even tested his ability and willingness to give

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them water. In their unbelief, they look back to Egypt.

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So we begin now by reading from the Bible Book

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of Exodus, Exodus, chapter seventeen, and I'll read verse seven.

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And he called the name of the place Masa and

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Maraba because of the chiding of the children of Israel,

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and because they tempted the Lord, saying is the Lord

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among us or not? Let me ask you a question.

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Do you have a habit? Really, it doesn't even need

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to be a habit, But do you say is the

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Lord among us? When you don't get things the way

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that you expect, when you are wondering and worrying, do

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you wonder and worry about whether God is among you

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and your people, your family, the people you work with,

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wherever you live, whatever country you're in. Are you questioning

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God because you're being tested? Let me read this again

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from the amplified version of the Bible. He called the

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place Masa test and Maraba contention because of the quarreling

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of the sons of the people of God because they

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tested the patience of God saying is the Lord among

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us or not? And so I've already shown you based

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on the amplified version of the Bible, that massa actually

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means testing or trial, marabah, marabah, marrabah actually means quarreling

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or contention. But now comes the word rock. The word rock,

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and we're talking about Hebrew here often symbolizes God's strength, stability,

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and provision. So Jesus provides water in the wilderness from

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the rock, Jesus being the water of life that he

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gives freely, Jesus being the rock. Ha the stone that

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the builders rejected, has now become the head of the corner. Yes,

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so God has been the stabilizing foundation of the the

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Church of God, the people of God throughout the history

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of the People of God from Adam and Eve straightforward.

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I know what I just said. In fact, there are

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some people who believe that Jesus was saying upon this rock,

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meaning Peter, he will build his church. That would not

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make any sense at all, because if you build your

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church on a human, your church is going to fail.

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In fact, that same human that people think the Church

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of God was built upon had crumbled and failed almost

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after right after this discussion about the rock. But it

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was the belief that Peter had that he was still

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growing and maturing in the belief that you are You are,

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in fact, Jesus, son of the Living God, and that

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is the rock, Jesus Christ. He is the rock upon

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whom the people of God and the institutions of God's

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people have been built. He was the rock in the wilderness,

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and he is still the rock in our day. And

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so in the context, Israel had experienced miraculous manna and quail.

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Of course, even though God didn't want them to have

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the quail, he needed to teach them a lesson, and

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therefore they got the quail, and to the point that

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it ran out of it like they had so much

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quail that it made them sick. But it was still miraculous.

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Their journey brought them to refer them where no water

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was found. Instead of remembering God's recent provision they didn't

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even have to look back too far. Instead of remembering

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that and commemorating that, they complained. So that's the question,

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do you complain things don't go your way? Are you

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complaining things don't go as you anticipated? Are you complaining

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or worse? If you gave God a prescription, he go

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to the good doctor who is God, and you write

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him a prescription about how your healing must go, healing

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of your finances, healing of your relationships, healing of your

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physical health, your mental or emotional health. Like, are you

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writing prescriptions for God and when He does not fill

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them in the way that you anticipated or prescribed, are

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you upset with God? Asking is the Lord among us

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or not? That is a terrible dangerous situation. And I

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really don't care if anybody thinks that's a judgmental mindset

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from my perspective, because the truth is, the people of

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God were reprimanded for that. They were checked and corrected

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for that. God only said that was a lack of faith.

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So what am I supposed to say something different than God? No, sir,

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I'm not gonna do that, because God has already shown

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his perspective on this. And so from the book Patriarchs

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and Prophets, page two hundred and ninety eight, it reads,

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Moses smote the rock, but it was the Son of

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God who veiled in the cloudy pillar, stood beside Moses

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and caused the life getting giving water to flow. So

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Jesus is the one who was the provider in that moment.

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Moses simply did what God asks him to do. We're

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talking about the first go around, you see. So when

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Jesus was was smitten, oh my, when you read in

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Isaiah chapter fifty three, when he was smitten, he was smitten.

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He was wilful in that case, was wilful. He gave.

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He gave his life so that we can have eternal life.

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He submitted himself to that process. And so on the

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first go around, when Moses strikes the rock, it was

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a symbol of that God's provision. Now the second go

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around was a different thing altogether. I won't fast forward

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to that. We're not dealing with it today. But the rock,

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according to Paul in First Corinthians, chapter ten and verse four,

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was Christ Jesus was Christ Jesus. And then I guess

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we can apply now for ourselves. Don't test God's love

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when the circumstances get hard. Remember what He has done

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before for your for our fathers, for people that you know,

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for people in the Bible, for you. In fact, he

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has done some things that you can remember. So even

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when sometimes God's people Murmur. God provides, but his goal

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for me if I do God forbid Murmur, is growth,

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not indulgence. God isn't just. He's not enabling me by

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giving me quail God forbid, but he's saying, Okay, I'm

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gonna give it to you, but you need to see

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what's gonna happen when I go this way. You want

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a king, Okay, I'll give it to you, but you

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have to see what's going to happen because you didn't

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trust me. So Christ is still our rock, struck once

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for all, He provides living water. Make it a 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,