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07 12 2025 Rough Start · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, July twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Exodus, and of course
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  Speaker 2: we're making our journey from Egypt to the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 2: We are nearing home. Let me just say that I
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  Speaker 2: heard that him and my mom when I just said that.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get into our lesson study for this morning,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: those joining us for the very first time. Please go
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  Speaker 2: over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our
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  Speaker 2: online community. Please pick up Well, let's not do it today.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, pick up your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Life application guide, but do it after the Sabbath. And
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  Speaker 2: also let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you. Thank you for the times that you
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  Speaker 2: are with us and we don't even recognize it. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being patient with us and loving and kind.
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  Speaker 2: And I pray that we will live the life that
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  Speaker 2: you have called us to live, even when things are difficult,
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  Speaker 2: and help us to come out on the other side
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  Speaker 2: into your promise with thanksgiving. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Rough start. If this were a
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  Speaker 2: group coaching or group counseling moment, a group coaching or
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  Speaker 2: group counseling moment, I bet I could get a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of people. There are hundreds of you watching live, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many people are listening live around
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  Speaker 2: the world right now, but there are so many of
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  Speaker 2: you that I like, I think would tell incredible stories
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  Speaker 2: about how rough your start was? Was it when you
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  Speaker 2: were born? There was some story attached to you being
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  Speaker 2: born in your mommy, going through some extreme challenges. It
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  Speaker 2: could be your start as a professional, your start in
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  Speaker 2: your relationships. It could be your start and your understanding
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  Speaker 2: of self, personal development, self awareness, etc. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that we could share a lot of incredible stories about
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  Speaker 2: how rough the start is. But before we get into
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  Speaker 2: how rough things are, we should say how good God is?
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  Speaker 2: Is the roughness or difficulty that we have gone through
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  Speaker 2: bigger than our God? More powerful than our God? And
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  Speaker 2: of course the answer, the obvious answer, is absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin in this story with God's people
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  Speaker 2: now to be delivered from captivity, and yeah, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a rough start. But the Bible reads in Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter five, verses one and two. Afterward, Moses and Aaron
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  Speaker 2: went in and told it, did not say asked. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, I don't care what language you read it in.
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  Speaker 2: Told Pharaoh. Now they're standing on business. They're ten toes down,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that it is God that is now speaking. Thus
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  Speaker 2: says the Lord God of Israel. Not asking you any questions, Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: because they're on God's business. Let my people go. They're
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  Speaker 2: speaking in God's voice. Now let my people go that
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  Speaker 2: they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: Let me put it to you this way. Pharaoh was
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  Speaker 2: in the way of God's people being true worshipers. Now
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  Speaker 2: I know I may have said it in a way
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  Speaker 2: that's melodramatic, but God is saying, my people are bound.
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  Speaker 2: They are limited. They are not as free as I
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  Speaker 2: need them to be to serve and to worship me,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore the barrier to that reality has to be
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  Speaker 2: broken down. Now you have an opportunity, Pharaoh. I just
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  Speaker 2: need you to listen. All you need to do is
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  Speaker 2: fly to gate, like open the gate, let my people go.
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  Speaker 2: It's very It's just as simple as that. Let them go,
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  Speaker 2: and they can now hold a feast to me in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness. We don't have time to cover this, but
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  Speaker 2: when Pharaoh, way later in the story, in case I
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  Speaker 2: forget to mention it, way later in the story, when
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh finally does seem like he was about to comply,
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, yeah, let everybody out except these babies
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  Speaker 2: from twenty years in younger. And God is like, I
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  Speaker 2: A a ah, let everybody out, And now that we
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  Speaker 2: know the end of the story. It's like, yeah, if
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  Speaker 2: God or Moses had allowed Pharaoh to get away with that,
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  Speaker 2: then only two people would have gone into the Promised Land,
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  Speaker 2: because Moses and Aaron were dead. The rest of the
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  Speaker 2: people of God at that moment, they died if they
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  Speaker 2: were older than twenty because of their lack of faith,
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  Speaker 2: And the only ones that went into the Promised Land
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  Speaker 2: were the people who were twenty years and younger at
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  Speaker 2: the time of their deliverance. But I don't have the
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  Speaker 2: moment at time to deal with that in detail. But
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  Speaker 2: the Bible continues, and Pharaoh said, oh, my goodness, these
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous words. Who is the Lord that I should obey?
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  Speaker 1: His voice?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Listen, there are a lot of people who have
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  Speaker 2: tried to test God over the years, a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Who is the Lord that I should obey him? He's like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: who was? And I don't even want to use I
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  Speaker 2: don't even want to get into the way that he
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  Speaker 2: would have been saying it, because that doesn't even feel
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  Speaker 2: right with me reporting this reality. But he was disrespectful
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  Speaker 2: to let Israel go. I don't know the Lord, nor
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  Speaker 2: will I let Israel go. Okay, Well, Okay, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you're right about you don't know the Lord. But listen,
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh was proud. But I promise you God did introduce himself.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you the question, but really it's
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  Speaker 2: a silly question. God introduced himself. Yes, did Pharaoh let
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  Speaker 2: God's people go? Absolutely? So when he's saying I don't
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  Speaker 2: know God and I'm not about to let his people go,
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  Speaker 2: God is like, okay, so listen, I'm gonna introduce myself
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to do exactly what I said. Spiritual
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  Speaker 2: crime does not pay. Let me say it again, spiritual
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  Speaker 2: crime does not pay. God gave you a direct command
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  Speaker 2: King Pharaoh. Forgot which Pharaoh was in power at the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: God gave command, So was Pharaoh crowd Yes, yes, his
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  Speaker 2: own words showed it in again that verse that I
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  Speaker 2: just read. So this arrogance at this is arrogance at
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  Speaker 2: its core. Pharaoh places himself above God himself. He questions
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  Speaker 2: God's identity and authority. In the same breath, he sounds
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  Speaker 2: exactly like the devil. He was the Devil's son. This
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  Speaker 2: is the posture of pride, the Bible says in Proverbs
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  Speaker 2: chapter sixteen and verse eighteen. Basically, don't do that. Pride
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  Speaker 2: goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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  Speaker 2: Think about anything that's attached to pride. Think about anything
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  Speaker 2: where you see the word pride, like lions are a pride,
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  Speaker 2: and we see they're not very good at hunting. They're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be. They are predators, but they're not nearly
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  Speaker 2: as successful as African wild dogs, who are at a
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  Speaker 2: in their success rate. But pride, when you attach pride
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  Speaker 2: to something, look for that something to be antithetical to
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  Speaker 2: God's ideal. Did God introduce himself?
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  Speaker 1: Yep?
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  Speaker 2: He did it over and over again, through miracles, through warnings,
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  Speaker 2: through direct statements, and then ultimately plagues and by the
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  Speaker 2: way God caused him caused the Pharaoh to fly the
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  Speaker 2: gate and actually let God's people go. But we're fast
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  Speaker 2: forwarding the story Exodus, chapter seven and verse five. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and the Egyptians shall know that I am
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  Speaker 2: the Lord when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt
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  Speaker 2: and bring out the children of Israel from among them. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: the Pharaoh asked the question, who is the Lord that
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  Speaker 2: I should let them go? I'm not going to let
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  Speaker 2: them go? And God is like, well, I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I am that I am. I'm going to cause you
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  Speaker 2: to let my people go, and then you'll know that
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  Speaker 2: I am the Lord. Oh God, What is it that
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  Speaker 2: God is going to deliver you from beginning at this moment.
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  Speaker 2: I talk to you about transform it transformation yesterday. But
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  Speaker 2: in this moment, even though you may be in that
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  Speaker 2: rough patch, you may be having a rough start, in
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  Speaker 2: this moment, God is introducing himself to your challenge as
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  Speaker 2: your problems, even your pride. He's introducing himself to your
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  Speaker 2: tribulations financially, relationally, is it a personal problem, and he
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  Speaker 2: will fly the gate. He will let you go if
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  Speaker 2: you will just trust him. Don't be proud like Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 2: The only introduction you need is to submit yourself to
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  Speaker 2: God and allow him to get you free from whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is that's binding you today.
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  Speaker 1: Peace, Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,