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08 06 2025 Marching Forward by Faith · 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 Wednesday, August six,
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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 our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Marching Forward by Faith. Marching Forward by Faith.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and also
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  Speaker 2: let us know where you are in the world at
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you, thank you for giving us forward motion,
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  Speaker 2: forward toward all things that matter to you. One day
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  Speaker 2: we know that we will be forward and upward. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to live with you eternally. Please teach us
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  Speaker 2: to prepare now in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. We're marching forward, forward, onward to Zion, beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful Zion. I'm looking forward to the day that we
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  Speaker 2: don't have to do these lessons anymore. As much as
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy this, I've been doing this or a variation
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  Speaker 2: of it for decades, but I look forward to the
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  Speaker 2: day that we will be face to face with God.
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  Speaker 2: We will be in heavenly places, and then the earth
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  Speaker 2: made new like I'm looking forward to that day. Until then,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and march together. We're going into the
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  Speaker 2: Bible book of Exodus chapter fourteen. Exodus chapter fourteen, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read verse thirteen, and the Bible reads and
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  Speaker 2: Moses said, unto the people, fear not, fear not stand still.
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  Speaker 2: That's one command, fear not. Second command, stand ye still
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  Speaker 2: and then see the salvation of the Lord. Ooh, somebody
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  Speaker 2: needs to fear. Not right now, someone needs to realize
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  Speaker 2: that motion just because you're frantic and don't know what
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  Speaker 2: to do, and you're just I have to do something.
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  Speaker 2: Taking it into your own hands is not the answer
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  Speaker 2: to your prayer. It is to stand still. But not
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  Speaker 2: just to stand still, but stand still for the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of seeing, discerning, experiencing the salvation of the Lord, which
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  Speaker 2: he will show to you. Not that we will mindlessly
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  Speaker 2: and frantically hope that well is this it?
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  Speaker 1: God? No? Is this it?
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  Speaker 2: And and then ah, and then you see the anxiety here. No,
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  Speaker 2: He will show to you the day today, for the
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  Speaker 2: Egyptians whom ye have seen today. See this as whatever
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  Speaker 2: barrier this is, whatever separates you from optimal experience with God,
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  Speaker 2: whatever is binding you, whatever the addiction is huh, whatever
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  Speaker 2: the bad habit is, whatever the sin besetting sin is,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the break in your mindset is. See this as
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  Speaker 2: the Egyptians today. For the Egyptians whom ye have seen today,
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  Speaker 2: ye shall see eat them again, know more. And in
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  Speaker 2: case you don't know what no more means forever. So immediately,
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  Speaker 2: immediately I want you to reflect on a moment where
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  Speaker 2: you doubt it God, doubt it, but God came through anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've doubted, because not everybody has
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  Speaker 2: that spiritual gene. I just made that up. That doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: But there are people who who do doubt, or on
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  Speaker 2: occasion doubt. But just reflect on a moment where you
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  Speaker 2: have doubted, but God came through anyway. And I want
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  Speaker 2: you to not just reflect on it. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to write it down, type it with your two thumbs
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  Speaker 2: in your phone or whatever it is. Write it down,
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  Speaker 2: and thank Him for being faithful even though you doubted
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  Speaker 2: him and you were afraid. Number two comes in from
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter fourteen, verses fifteen and sixteen, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord said, unto Moses, wherefore criest thou unto me,
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  Speaker 2: speak unto the children of Israel, that they go which
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  Speaker 2: way forward, not backward forward? But lift thou up thy
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  Speaker 2: rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea. And
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  Speaker 2: guess what God is saying to him to do? Now
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  Speaker 2: divide it. We need to see where God gave the
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  Speaker 2: command that we're to don't not fear. We're to stand
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  Speaker 2: still and see what God is about to do. Don't complain.
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  Speaker 2: Don't complain. There's no need to complain because I've already
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  Speaker 2: given you the blueprint. Just follow wherever I lead. Now,
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  Speaker 2: don't complain, Moses. Why are you worrying? Moses? The people
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  Speaker 2: are in your ears, Moses. The mountains are on on
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  Speaker 2: either side, the Egyptians are behind you. And the only
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  Speaker 2: obstacle between you and the freedom that I have already
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  Speaker 2: begun is this little sea. You're just worried about this
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  Speaker 2: little sea. Come on, in the minds of the people.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to stretch forth your hand and then
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  Speaker 2: divide it. See, trusting God means moving forward, even if
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  Speaker 2: the way is not very clear to you. I said
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  Speaker 2: to you. See, we need the vision of God, like
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  Speaker 2: when God is healing blind eyes in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: It's not only for people who have actual problems with
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  Speaker 2: their retina, their cornea, whatever other thing that's going on
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  Speaker 2: in their eyes. The organ called the eyes is e
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  Speaker 2: an organ I don't know whatever eyes are not just that.
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  Speaker 2: But our vision sometimes is skewed based on the sinful
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  Speaker 2: world we live in. Our vision is often skewed based
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  Speaker 2: on our experiences and our perception of those experiences, and
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  Speaker 2: so what God is saying here is that Moses had
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  Speaker 2: to act before the sea parted, otherwise the sea wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have parted. And I know that's very logical, but if
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  Speaker 2: you're standing in front of us sea, have you ever
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  Speaker 2: been to the sea like I live in the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 2: I see the Caribbean Sea on a regular basis. I
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  Speaker 2: can't imagine standing over Lover's leap, forget over Lover's leap,
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  Speaker 2: going down that that hm, I don't know, going down
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  Speaker 2: that hill, and then standing there where those waves are crashing,
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  Speaker 2: and God saying, lift up your rod, David, And I'm
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  Speaker 2: expecting that the sea is going to open up, so
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  Speaker 2: the so lovers leap that side. That's south coast, so
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  Speaker 2: going to South amesa straight through to South America. I
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  Speaker 2: can't imagine that. Honestly, my mind is not able to
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  Speaker 2: really make sense of that. But does it matter? So
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  Speaker 2: the action step is take one uncomfortable step this week.
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  Speaker 2: Really today is better if you just do it today,
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  Speaker 2: like in a few minutes, Like take that uncomfortable step
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  Speaker 2: that reflects your trust in God's direction, even if the
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  Speaker 2: outcome is not yet visible. Ask God for his vision.
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  Speaker 2: Number three and final comes in from Exodus, chapter fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse thirty. The Bible reads, thus the Lord saved
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  Speaker 2: God's people Israel that day out of the hand of
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  Speaker 2: the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
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  Speaker 2: God didn't just delay the enemy. He didn't just hold
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  Speaker 2: them back like. He didn't just put like a cloud
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  Speaker 2: between them, or a pillar of fire or something between them.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't make them just hear some stuff and confuse them.
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  Speaker 2: Not this time, He completely removed them because they chose
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  Speaker 2: not to love Love. Those marauders decided not to love
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  Speaker 2: love the enemies of God's people, and God decided that
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  Speaker 2: they did not want the mercy of God. And so
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  Speaker 2: his salvation is complete and final. The action step is
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  Speaker 2: trust God to finish what he starts. I think the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, he who began a good work in you
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  Speaker 2: is able to complete it. Huh. He will keep whatever
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  Speaker 2: you surrender to him until the day of Jesus's appearing.
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  Speaker 2: Name one burden you have been holding onto, and now
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  Speaker 2: release it to him in prayer today, believing it's not
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  Speaker 2: just delayed but destroyed. That burden can be lifted at
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  Speaker 2: Calvary beginning right now, march forward in faith, fear not.
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  Speaker 2: God is with you. 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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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.