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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 Tuesday, August

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twenty six, 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 day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our

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caption for today is God's Original Plan. God's Original Plan.

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Will get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion

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Life application guide, and let us know where you are

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in the world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for

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giving us this new day. Thank you for giving us

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the privilege to be wherever we are in the world.

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And yet at the same time, converge upon the truths

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of your word. Teach us all to surrender our will.

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In the same moment, here in Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. God's original plan? What is God's

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original plan for you? I said for you, not for

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the people of Israel, not for the people of Egypt,

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not for the people way back thousands of years. I'm

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saying for you, what is God's original plan? Well, I

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know that God's intent was for all of us to

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live eternally. He wanted Adam and Eve to succeed at

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that tree of the knowledge of good and evil test

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and then we move into eternity, where they would have

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no longer conditional immortality, but they would have been stuck

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as holy as they were when they created, when God

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created them. That was God's original plan. But of course

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humans messed it up, and now we are on the

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plan that leads us back to that place, the plan

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of salvation. And so the lesson writer wants us to

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consider from the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty three, verses

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twenty to thirty three, what methods did God desire to

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use for conning the promised land? Very interesting, very interesting.

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And then the question, well, the statement it was not

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God's intention for God's people to fight for their new territory.

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Did you notice that it was not his intention for

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the people of God to fight for their new territory.

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It was to be given to them. It had been promised.

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God made the promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and

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it should have been received as God's gift to his people.

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And so later on in the story, of course, we're

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fast forwarding when the spies were sent to see what's

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going on in the land, and most of the spies said,

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there are giants over there. We in our own eyes

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are like grasshoppers, and they're giants. And there were only

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two how many people? Two people who had the perspective

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of God based on this covenantal promise that God made

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to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that God can give and

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will give this land to us because God made the promise.

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It had nothing to do with their ability to war

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or to fight, to scheme or to connive. It had

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nothing to do with their skills. It had everything to

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do with their submission. So God's plan is to give

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us all that he has promised, and we simply surrender

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our will in order to receive it. Okay. And so

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really let's go with our first historical context. This section

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comes after God's law the Covenant is delivered at Mount Sinai.

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God's people is still encamped there, and now God lays

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out how he will bring them into the promised land,

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not by human conquest, but by divine intervention and conditional obedience. Okay.

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And so God's victory was not based on his people's might.

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The conquest of Canaan was to be a testimony of

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God's divine justice. God's people didn't earn. I think somebody's

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getting it the land by merit or by strength. According

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to Deuteronomy chapter four versus I mean Deuteronomy chapter nine,

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verses four through six. It was a fulfillment of his

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covenant with Abraham. How are you saved, brothers and sisters,

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How are we saved? I'm talking about the plan of salvation.

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The Bible teaches us that we are saved by grace

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through faith, and not of works right, not of our

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own works, not of ourselves. It is the gift of God,

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lest any one of us should should boast. And so

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in the same way, when we yield ourselves to God,

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surrender our wills to God, we receive the inheritance. It's

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very simple. We receive the inheritance. It's not that we earn,

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it's not that we work harder, It's that we yield

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to God's will. And having yielded to his will, we

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are now empowered to do exactly what he said. Yes,

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it's simple as that. Now, in an everyday application sense,

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we see that God still leads his people today into

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spiritual territories he has prepared, whether ministries, relationships, or callings.

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What was God's original plan as you live on planet

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Earth and are you fulfilling it today? I'm talking about

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even in your relationships. I'm talking about in your professional life.

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I'm talking about in your personal development. Are you aware

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of who you are? And if you are, are you

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maturing so that you become the best, the better version

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of who God created you to be? Every single day

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you're growing good, better, best. Never let it rest until

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the good is better and the better better. Every single

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day we're climbing. We're climbing, but the victory it comes

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by trust and obedience, not by striving in human strength.

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Before rushing on to conquer, I know that there are

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a subset of people who love to dominate and conquer,

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and maybe that is good in certain circumstances. But in

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this case, before we rush out to conquer, we pause

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and ask, is God leading this or is it me?

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Am I obeying the instructions that God has given me.

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So let God go before you, let him lead you. Behold,

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the Bible says I send an angel before the number two.

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Don't make peace ha with sin. God told his people

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not to make covenant with the nations surrounding as they

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were on their way through to the promise in verse

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thirty two. Spiritually this still applies. We cannot partner with practices, habits,

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or alliances that draw us away from God. There are

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opportunities that will be presented to us all throughout our

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lives where we can make alliances with people who have

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no intention of serving God. They have no intention of

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serving God. Their goal has nothing to do with God's will.

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So we need to cut ties with anything that invites

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compromise right now. As I said, creeping compromise is almost

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a thing of the past. Now we're just it's emboldened

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like quick compromise. Whether it's in our entertainment, it's in

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our business decisions, or in our habits. There must not

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be any quote peace treaty with sin. And then, of course,

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finally we'll pause right here. Victory comes little by little.

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God may not give us an instant breakthrough. You may

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have to wander through the wilderness. But if God is

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leading you by day, he's leading you by night. We're

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still in the right place. So some battles they take

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time on purpose. We're still growing into the victories. God

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has already seen and prepared for us, and so we

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trust the process. We trust the God of the process.

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Be faithful in the small steps. Et always says, small

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steps great distances. Growth and dominion are progressive. Yeah, walk

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in to God's original plan for you. Pet.

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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,