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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 Thursday. It's

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July three, 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 Exodus from or the Journey to the

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Promised Land Exodus the Journey to the Promised Land, and

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today our caption is a change of Plans. I got

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a story for you in a second, a change of plans.

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We'll 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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This is one of the ways we continue to build

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

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get underway. Father, We thank you for today. Thank you

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for changing plans sometimes because listen, we have no idea

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what we're doing or where we're going. Please give us

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your understanding. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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A change of plans. Okay, so we have a real

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life example. Just a few minutes ago, I was begging

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God and asking him like, what in the world just happened?

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Two days of my note in my Sabbath school lesson

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app vanished, just vanished, And I'm like, God, what are

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you trying to teach me? And then it clicked, Wait

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a minute, A change of plans. You see, there are

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times that we trust our preparation. There are times that

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we trust our training, there are times that we trust

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even technology. And God is saying we have to be

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open to a change of plans. You see in Moses's experience.

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We see in Exodus chapter two, verses eleven through twenty five,

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we see that Moses had really I mean, if you

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read that all the way through to Deuteronomy, chapter thirty

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four and verse seven, you see that Moses lived one

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hundred and twenty years. For the first forty years, the

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first forty years he was in Egypt. He was in Egypt.

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He was being prepared, he was writing his notes. He

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was the grandson of the Pharaoh, the king of the time.

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He was being prepared to possibly be the pharaoh at

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the appropriate time. He had preparation. But then forty more

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years because of something he had done. That's a long story.

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We don't need to identify all of those details now.

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For the first forty years he's in Egypt, and the

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second forty years he is in Jethro's house in Midian.

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You see, he was learning in the first forty years

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from the world's perspective, how to be the best according

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to the world's I don't mean evil, but just the

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world's standard. Those were plans. In the next forty years.

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God is showing him godly leadership. The next forty years

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is godly leadership. This is how it should look when

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you're leading my people. And then for the final forty

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years of his life. He's actually having to do it.

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He's having to do it. He thought he was prepared

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in the first forty years, he was being prepared in

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the way for eternal purposes during the next forty years,

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and now he has to actually live those plans that

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God had. So my question to you this morning is

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are you willing to change plans when God changes your

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plans or when He allows something to happen. Like for me,

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it's very disturbing. I'm very organized, I'm analytical. I am

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very clear on where I am going and how I'm

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going to get there. And when my notes disappeared for

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this morning and tomorrow for that matter, when it disappeared

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and I was tempted to recreate the notes, I said, no,

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God has already given you the message. He's already told

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you what he wants you to say, So trust him.

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Don't trust your notes. Now, I'm going to go to

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what's left of the notes now and give you four

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part of me lessons four lessons. And so the first

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lesson comes in from Exodus chapter two. Exodus chapter two,

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and I will read in let's see verse fifteen. Let's

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go to Exodus chapter two in verse fifteen and the

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Bible reads, but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh,

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that's in that first forty years, and dwelt in the

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land of Midian, where he would invest the next forty years.

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So Moses acted impulsively. He acted impulsively, and his royal

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career ended in an instant. You see, there are decisions

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that we make every single day. We have to decide.

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Are these decisions going to have eternal consequences? Uh oh,

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Wait a minute. So the Bible is teaching us that

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God used this disruption to reorient his life to divine calling.

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And so the action for today in this moment is,

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don't mistake disruption for disqualification. Do not mistake disruption for disqualification.

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Use seasons of exile. Use seasons when things don't go

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the way that you want them to. Use season when

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you seasons when you lose almost all of your notes,

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when that goes away, use that as preparation for your

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true purpose. Number two. Number two comes from verse twelve

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of Exodus chapter two. And he looked this way in

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that way, and when he saw that there was no man,

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he slew the Egyptian. Wait a minute. The world may

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misjudge you, but God knows your intent. Now, I'm not

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going to go into a discussion about whether he should

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or should not have slayed the Egyptian. You know what

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is right. But the fact is, see, Moses decided he

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thought that he could he could enact justice in that moment.

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He thought he could take the law into his own hands.

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That's what he thought, and that backfired on him. How'd

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that work out for you? Moses? Fill in your name here?

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How does it work when you thought that you were

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going to do something that made sense in that moment

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and you realize way a minute that didn't work out?

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Speaker 1: Right? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Oh, so Pharaoh interpreted this as rebellion. Still, God didn't

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throw him away. God didn't throw Moses away. He didn't

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throw them away. So even when intentions are are and

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motives are mixed up and wrong, and now you're wondering

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what you should or should not have done, just remember

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go to God and choose to be faithful. Choose to

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be faithful to God, and then let God vindicate in

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his timing. There are times that we have to pay

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debt to our debt to society. There are times that

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we have to overcome stigma. There are times that we

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have to go through trials and tribulations. There are times,

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but then there is a time for God to vindicate

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himself in our lives, to show the world that He

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is able and indeed willing and available to get his

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will done through you. Number three comes from Exodus chapter two,

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verses twenty three to twenty five. God heard their groaning,

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meaning God's people, and remembered his covenant. God works through

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time or over time, over time where we're concerned, not

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just moments in time, So he's not just looking at

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a snapshot in our lives. He knows what he's going

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to do. He knows the covenant that he made with Abraham.

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He knew exactly how he was going to use Moses, Aaron,

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and everybody else, Joshua, Caleb, everybody else. And when he

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heard the groaning of his people at the appropriate time,

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God took notice of them. He remembered them, He acknowledged

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them as his own. So we want you to trust.

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I want to trust that God is working in multiple dimensions.

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He's not limited to ours. Even when our story feels

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disconnected from a larger picture, I said, feels And then,

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of course, in Romans chapter eight and verse twenty eight.

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All things work together for the good of those who

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love God to the called according to the purpose. God

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can redeem our poor choices for greater outcomes. Moses's rash

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decision wasn't God's plan, but God had went through it

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and used it. His exile became his training ground for leadership. Yeah.

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God has a way of changing plans. It's not always comfortable.

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Speaker 1: But we go with Thanks for joining us listening to friends.

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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,