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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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July eleven, 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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus. We're

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going on a journey from Egypt to the Promised Land,

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and our caption for today is the transform Life, the

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Transformed Life. 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. Please pick up the Your Daily Portion book

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and let us know where you are in the world

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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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And before I pray, I just want to say that

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I know that there are a good number of people

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who skip literally except now that you are with us

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with your Daily Portion, but a lot of people skip

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Friday's lesson. In all the churches I've been in in

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all over all of these years, people just kind of

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use Friday many times as kind of an afterthought, like Okay, yeah, yeah,

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let's get to the next lesson. But thankfully, when we're

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together in this manner, I even give the Friday a title.

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It's not further thought. There's a title each week. I

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don't know, type A one in the chat. If you've

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noticed that we actually give a title to Friday, and

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it's not an afterthought here at your Daily Portion. A

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lot of good work has been put into these lessons,

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so I want to make sure that we get as

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much as we possibly can. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you

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for this day and for the privilege to come together

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in this fashion on preparation Day. Please prepare our hearts

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to connect with you and then help us to actually

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connect with you today. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen

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and Amen again. Do you remember the most transformative moment

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or day of your life? The most transformative or transformational

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day or moment of your life? Do you remember that day?

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What did God do for you or through you? I

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don't know.

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Speaker 1: Was it for you?

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Speaker 2: Was it through you? How did you change? Yeah? And

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as a result, how did people around you change? I

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remember when in nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety five, Herbert

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Nelson reached out to me in Solona, I was working

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at the time, and he said, your friend is preaching

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at whatever church. I mean, he didn't say whatever church,

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but at a certain church in Alexandria, Virginia. I think

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he said next week. I don't remember that detail. But

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to make a long story short, I was not a believer.

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I did not go to church, despite how I was

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brought up. That's a whole different discussion. But it was

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in the moment that I actually said yes to my

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brother Herb and I went to church on that particular

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Sabbath in twenty nineteen ninety five. And then when Pastor

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Melvin Hayden, the third Melvin Hayden. Third, we called him Trey.

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Most people call him Trey Hayden when he preached a sermon, friends,

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how many of us have them? And it was that day.

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It was that day that I decided that God was

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all I needed in my life, like I needed to

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be transformed by God. And I heard the call that

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God gave me through the preacher that day. That was

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the most transformative moment of my life. And listen, Herb

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Nelson is now you know, if you want to say

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responsible for millions of people hearing the gospel, just in

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the case of him witnessing to me, you understand that

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was a transformative moment. There would have been know your

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daily portion without Herb Nelson. And then we can go

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down the chain of the people who impacted my life,

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you see, and of course the prayers of my dear

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late mother. So how did the transformation that God made

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in your life impact you and impact the world around you.

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So we're going into the Bible for some lessons as

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we close off this week. In Exodus chapter three, Versus

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one and two, the Bible reads, now Moses kept the

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flock of jethrow. See this is in that second set

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of forty years of his life. We talked about three.

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This is the second set. He's no longer there as

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the grandson of Pharaoh in Egypt. Now he is in Midian,

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and he's with Jethro, of course, among other things, for

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fourteen more years. And it says he kept his flock,

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and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in

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a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush.

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And so now we see that he's having the closest

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encounter with God that he can possibly have. It was

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a bush that was a flame ablaze, and the voice

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of God comes from that experience, that spectacle, and says, Moses,

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take off your shoes from off your feet, because I

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have transformed this moment. I have transformed this space. I

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am about to transform you in a way that you

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could not have imagined. Take off your shoes from off

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your feet, because now this experience the ground on which

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thou standest is holy. Now now it's holy. It was

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ordinary until I came here. The bush was ordinary before

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I came here. You were ordinary before I came here.

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This moment was ordinary until I came here. And now

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everything is extraordinary because God is here and he's about

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to speak and transform. Can you imagine what was the

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moment when God transformed you? How did it change you?

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How did it change the world around you? You remember

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the time, okay? And so Moses was off the grid.

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Of course, if there was a grid, he was hidden.

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He was forgotten and likely content. But God doesn't lose

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track of his people. The people that he invested in.

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He knew from before he created Moses, before he formed

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him in am Ram and jacobed in his mommy's womb,

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before he formed him in his mommy's womb. He knew

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him well, and he knew that he would be among

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the people of God at the time that they needed

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to be delivered. So God doesn't lose track of his people.

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The call came when Moses wasn't even thinking about it.

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He was doing his thing. And so the action for

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us really is to stop. Assuming you're off of God's radar,

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where can I go from your presence? The Bible writer said,

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if I go into heaven, you're there. If I go

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into the pit of the grave, you are there. No

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matter where I am in the world, you are there.

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In the deepest parts of the sea and of the ocean. Ah,

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you are there. If you are locked up in a prison,

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then God is there with you. It doesn't matter where

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you are. God is there. When John was on the

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Aisle of Patmas, Yes, and he was exiled, God was

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there with him, and we can continue. So God is there.

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So stay faithful in the wilderness and that place that

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it may be an intermediate space somewhere, that a transitional space,

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somewhere that God is about to continue to train you

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so that He can activate you for higher service. God

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calls when it is time. Number two comes from Exodus,

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chapter three and verse ten. We're running. We're running. The

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Bible reads, Come now therefore, and I will send thee

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unto Pharaoh. So God often calls us back to the

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place that we ran from. Sometimes it's the reset button.

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Sometimes people run prematurely from trials rather than asking God

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for his guidance. Some of us run away from things

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and then God has to set us back. It's a

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reset button. I wish I had the time to deal

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with that, but it's a reset button, and we have

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to go back so that we can move forward. And

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so the action really for us is that we need

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to revisit our Egypt with God's strength not our trauma.

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Don't write off off a place He plans to redeem

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through you. When he sends you back, he's sending you

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back for higher service, greater mission, for transformation, for you

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and for others. Number three comes from Exodus, chapter four

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and verse twenty. The Bible reads, and Moses took his

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wife and sons and set them upon the donkey, and

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he returned. So obedience to the call unlocks our purpose.

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Start moving in the moment that God calls you. Purpose

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gets clear in motion. Not why we're sitting and spinning

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our wheels, hah, not while sitting still and waiting for guarantees.

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And of course a yes to God can transform history

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and the future. 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,