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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 Monday, August eleven,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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, and our caption

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for today is Quail and Mana, Oh my Quail and Manna.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to just say

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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 pray, Father, thank you for this day. Thank you

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for your daily bread, the daily bread that you have

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given to us. Please help us to love you and

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love your provision. In Jesus' name. I pray Amen and

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Amen again, give us this day our daily bread. Now

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I know that God was teaching us when Jesus was praying,

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that we should be grateful and ask him and be

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appreciative of ask him for and be appreciative of our sustenance.

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He gives us sustenance. And so of course it doesn't

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mean bread literally, like grain based baked bread literally. But

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but there is a context now, and we're looking at

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quail versus manna in the story of the Exodus, because

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God had made provision for his people, but they seemed

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not to be satisfied. And so we go now to

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Exodus chapter sixteen, and this time we'll read just verse fifteen,

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and the Bible reads and when the children of Israel

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saw it, we're talking about the bread from heaven that

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God had given them because they needed to be able

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to eat for those forty years. God made provision for

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them when they saw it, they said to one another,

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it is manna. I'll come back for that. For they

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wisked not what it was. And Moses said, unto them,

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this is the bread which the Lord hath given you

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to eat. You see, Adam and Eve had the same problem.

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In a way. The Bible says that he had given

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God had given them from every tree of the garden

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to eat, except the one in the midst of the garden,

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which was the not tree of the knowledge of good

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and evil. So God had made provision for them. But

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both Adam and Eve Eve fell into sin through deception. Right,

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Adam jumped into sin. Both of them ate what God

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said not to eat, and there are consequences for going

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against God. Was the fruit poisonous? No, was there anything

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wrong with the fruit? No, except that God had tested

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them and said, you will eat from every tree except

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this one. It was a test of loyalty. And so

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in the same case. Here, in the same way, here

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we see that God had given the children of Israel

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bred from heaven. But they were dissatisfied. And when they

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looked at it, they said, what is it? What is it?

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That's what manna actually means. What is it? It reflects

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the mystery and the provision. So God makes provision even

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though they didn't quite understand what it was. But even

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still it wasn't what they wanted. They didn't want that.

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They didn't want God's provision. They wanted God to bow

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to their requirements of him, and so they instead asked

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for quail. Now, quail's a clean meat. You know it's

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clean meat. But God didn't provide quail for their benefit.

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Oh wait a minute. Now it becomes a judgment because

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there are times that God gives us what we pray for,

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even though He has shown us what his real and

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true ideal provision is. And because we pre this press press,

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press press, God sometimes will give us what we ask for.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he gave them what they asked for, and they

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also got sickness. They also got judgments. They also became

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more separated from God because they did not believe in

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God enough to accept his provision. And so manna wasn't

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just bred from heaven. It was really an object lesson

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of trust. When God makes provision for me, do I

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trust him? When I am anticipating God making provision, do

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I trust him for it? Or do I do I

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manufacture ways to provide for myself. I wish I had

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the time to really deal with this. But the fourfold

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weekly miracle of Mana, which is highlighted in Exodus chapter sixteen,

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verses twenty two to thirty, highlighted God's sanctification of the

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seventh day Sabbath, weekly test of obedience, and memory of

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God's power and creation, his sovereignty, and his creation. The

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failure to trust God's provision was seen as unbelief and rebellion. Moses,

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you're taking us into the wilderness to kill us off. Moses,

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We had all kinds of flesh in Egypt. Why can't

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we have that now? And God is providing himself as

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an object lesson. Yeah, there are times that God provides

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himself and we prefer other gods. We do have other

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gods before him. He is the bread, Jesus is the

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bread from heaven. And we choose the other gods, the

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gods of our images online like sometimes we believe the

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filters we put over our faces and our followings, right, yeah,

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like subscribe and share, Like sometimes we get to the

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point where we believe the hype about ourselves and we

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replace God with the spiritual degradation. Of quail instead of

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the read from Heaven. So the failure to trust God's

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provision was rebellion. Now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,

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page two hundred ninety four. Oh, somebody just got it,

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I said, rebellion. I couldn't nice it up. I could

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not nice it up. And it reads the they murmured

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for the flesh pots of Egypt. But the Lord had

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heard their murmurings. He gave them flesh in the evening

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and bred in the morning. He would prove them to

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them whether they would walk in his law or not.

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From the book Councils on Health, page one hundred and eighteen.

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God might have rained down manna from heaven every hour

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of the day, but he chose to give it in

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the morning to teach them order, discipline, and trust. And so,

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in the context of their day, the food crisis in

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the wilderness was a test of obedience. God used daily

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provision and the Sabbath rhythm to teach the people of

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God how to live in covenantal dependence. When you get

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your paycheck on the cadence that you're accustomed to or

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rhythm that you're accustomed to, are you trusting the paycheck,

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or are you trusting God? When something goes weird, you

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lose a contract. I've lost contracts, so many contracts over

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the last thirteen or so years, or I shouldn't say

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so many, but a couple of very pivotal ones. And

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it was disappointing. But I've never been confused, like God

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is the one that makes the provision, not the people

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who are paying these these checks, you see. And so

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the repetitive murmuring showed a pattern of distrust even after

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God had given them clear miracles. But it's easy for

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us to look back and criticize, and maybe even objectively

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so what they had done. Yeah, but what about me today?

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Gratitude must outweigh my grumbling. In fact, I need to

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not grumble. If you find that you're a complainer, stop it.

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Let me just say that I don't have time to

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nice that one up. God has proven himself before. Trust

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him again. Don't hoard some of you got food that's

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rotting in your cupboards. You get all kinds of stuff

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in your house that you don't need. Stop hoarding. Trust

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God for today's bread. Manna represents daily grace, not weakly stockpiles.

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So much more to say so little time, but let

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me just say God gave them boundaries, God gave them

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a rhythm, and He gave them himself in daily form.

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Make it a great 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,