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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 Friday. It's

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August eighth, two thy 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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I almost said through the Book of Moses, through the

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Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is when

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faith falters, When your faith falters. We'll get into that

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in just a moment, but first i'd like to say

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welcome to you and ask you to go over to

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Portion life application guide and let us know where you

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,

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We thank you for this day of preparation, preparation day.

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We know that Sabbath is coming on, but in the meantime,

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we're preparing our hearts for you. Not just our bathrooms

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and our cupboards, not just our kitchens and our bedrooms,

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not just our clothing. We are preparing our minds God,

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because we have an appointment with you. Please, Father, give

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us faith, the kind of faith that pleases you. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There are

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times in people's lives where their faith falters, Yeah, type

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of one in the chat. If your faith has ever faltered,

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I don't mean that you lost faith completely. Maybe you

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had I don't know, but that's not what I'm saying.

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I'm saying, has it ever faltered where it started to

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get a little rocky? You needed help? Lord, I believe,

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but help thou might unbelieve. Yeah, when that kind of

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thing happens. God already knows who we are, but we

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know that he's our compassionate God, Blessed be his name,

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who will will will bolster our faith if we are

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willing to receive this, so that we can lay hold

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on the power of God. Okay, and so I'm going

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to begin by reading from Patriarchs and prophet It's a

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really good book, page two hundred and eighty two, and

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it reads, for God was for no, no, no. Let

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me start right here. The people of God had little

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knowledge of God and a little faith in him, and

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they would have become terrified and disheartened. If well, that's

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not they. It just says disheartened. I was about to

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give context. Let me just keep reading. They were unarmed,

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unaccustomed to war, their spirits were depressed by long bondage

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initially needs you to see this like generations of people

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bound in captivity by a fearful, despotic leader, a tyrannical

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leader who thinks he's God because the culture he actually

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teaches it. So this false view of who he is

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is tied to the culture of the people. The historical

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mindset of the people had him as the God of

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all the gods. They were unarmed, unaccustomed to war, their

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spirits were depressed by long bondage, and they were encumbered

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with women's and children, flocks and herds. In leading them

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by the way of the Red Sea, the Lord revealed

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himself as a god of compassion as well as of judgment.

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You're like the Red Sea? Why is that? Why is

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that like compassionate? That seemed impossible, Like why would God? Oh?

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Because if they went another way, they would have encountered

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some some real warriors. So imagine you have the Egyptians

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on your heels, and then you got some real warriors

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in another in another region, just waiting for some bait

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to come into the water, you feel me. So God

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is saying, no, I'm gonna take you away, because they

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would have become so discouraged they would have just given up,

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because even as they were taken through the Red Sea,

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that journey wore them out in many ways. But God said, Okay,

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I'm gonna take them this way because I know that

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they're not gonna make it if I take them the

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other way. Okay. And so God is compassionate, and he's

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also judge. And we see the judgments. We've already read

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about the judgment that came upon upon the Egyptians who

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were chasing them. And so our first lesson comes in

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from Exodus, chapter thirteen, Verses seventeen and eighteen. God led

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them not through the way of the land of the Philistines,

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although it was near. So let me just pause right

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here and say that there are times that you wonder,

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why is God taking me way around them? Alberry Bush?

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Why is God taking me the long way to my success?

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Like why do I have to go this way? Not

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only because God is all wise blessed be his name,

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and compassionate, blessed be his name, beneficent and merciful. We

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thank God for God, but because he knows that if

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He takes you the way that you desire, that fast way,

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that highway, that quick way, that is the way that

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you will lose your faith. That is the way that

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you will lose focus. That is the way that you

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did not anticipate. The things that were along, that were

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littered on that pathway, the growth that you would not

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have experienced if you went that way, and all of

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these things that you just can't know. Because God's thoughts

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are high above your thoughts, just like the heavens are

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above the earth. That is the reality. And so what

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God is saying is that he led us people just

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like it says in the text, he led us people

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about through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea.

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You see, God could pastor his people in the wilderness. Ah,

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he could shuttle them through the Red Sea. And so

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even when we don't understand the path that God has

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laid before our feet, God chooses what will grow us

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and not crush us. So think of a time that

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God redirected you. You just knew the pathway to your success,

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whatever kind of success was your promotion. You just knew

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that your success was moving to this particular city or

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this neighborhood. And God said, no, that's not the way

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we're going. You just knew that your path to success

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was healing on this date in this year. And God said, no,

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where we're going to do is something else right now?

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Write out how that detour showed his mercy, even if

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it was uncomfortable. Our next lesson comes in from Exodus,

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chapter fourteen and verse thirty one, and the Bible reads,

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and Israel saw that great work which the Lord did

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upon the Egyptians. So the people of God saw what

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God did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lords,

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they worshiped him, they believed the Lord and his servant Moses.

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So finally, finally, the people of God are starting to

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click it in, like, Wow, this God that we've been

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moaning and groaning, unto this one who is close enough

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to hear our groanings and to deliver us. Yahweh blessed

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be his name, this God. We believe in him. So

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God patiently builds our trust. Over time, he shows up

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to teach us not to shame us. And our step

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is if your faith is low right now, I'm talking

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about right now, I'm talking about eight minutes and some

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seconds into our broadcast this morning, invest five minutes to

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recount or remember three ways that God has done some

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things for you in the past, where He's come through

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for you. And finally, in Exodus, chapter fifteen and verse two,

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the Lord is my strength and song. He is become

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my salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare

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him and habitation. Prayer is a weapon of remembrance and strength.

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Worship seals our memory. Hm Worship seals our memory about

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what God has done. It prepares us to face what

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is ahead with courage. Because if God has done no,

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not if since God has done these things, and he

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has triumphed gloriously in my life, in the past and

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in other people's lives, then he can do it again

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and indeed will, and so we can sing. This is

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our action step sing or speak a personal prayer of

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praise to God today, Write it out or find one

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in the Psalms. Not for what you're hoping he will do,

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but for what he has allready done. When your faith falters,

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give that faltering faith to God, and he will strength.

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Speaker 1: When you're joining us people, 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,