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08 10 2025 Bitter Waters · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, August tenth,
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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. We are marching
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  Speaker 2: into Zion by the way, going from and going from
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  Speaker 2: Egypt straight through to the Promised Land Egypt to Canaan.
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  Speaker 2: And our caption for today is bitter waters. Oh my
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  Speaker 2: bitter waters. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, We thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this new work week and for the privilege that you've
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  Speaker 2: given us to see what our ancestors experience with you rise,
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  Speaker 2: whether for good or for ill. Please teach us to
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  Speaker 2: not repeat the mistakes of the past, but learn from
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  Speaker 2: people like Joshua and Caleb and Abigail and others in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures who who knew what the right pathans and
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  Speaker 2: then actually lived it. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again, bitter waters. So much to say, so
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  Speaker 2: little time. Let's go ahead and jump right into Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen. Exodus chapter fifteen Versus twenty two through twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say, for all of the teachers
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  Speaker 2: out there, you're preparing for Sabbath coming, you need to
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  Speaker 2: actually be preparing. That's how we're able to run through
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  Speaker 2: the lesson like we do here at your Daily Portion,
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  Speaker 2: because we're actually preparing. Please do that, and the people
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  Speaker 2: that you serve will thank you. Going in at verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're following, I'm gonna skip some parts. And
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  Speaker 2: now we go to verse twenty three. And when they
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  Speaker 2: came to Mara, they could not drink of the waters
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  Speaker 2: of Mara. Why not for they were bitter. And he
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  Speaker 2: cried unto the Lord, and the Lord verse twenty five
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  Speaker 2: showed him a tree fast forwarding, and the waters were
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  Speaker 2: made sweet. So God gave Moses the solution to the
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  Speaker 2: problem of no water, and then to the problem of
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  Speaker 2: the water. We now have discovered is not poddible, It
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  Speaker 2: is not drinkable, it is bitter. So God gave Moses
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  Speaker 2: the solution to their need for provision. Somebody just got that.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just got that. This was not a health message discussion.
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  Speaker 2: This was not a well let's discover what tree that
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  Speaker 2: Moses used, and we can go find bitter water and
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  Speaker 2: it can be transformed to poddable water, like like some people,
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  Speaker 2: you know use instead of floculent some people use the
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  Speaker 2: seeds of of the maringa tree in order to purify water.
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  Speaker 2: This is not what we're talking about. We're not replacing
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  Speaker 2: God with the solutions that he gave that looked practical
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  Speaker 2: and actual. You see what I mean. Like, when God
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  Speaker 2: sends you a job, it's not the job that you worship.
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  Speaker 2: I think somebody just got it. When you are lonely
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  Speaker 2: and God sends you a companion, it's not the companion
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  Speaker 2: that you worship. You see, when God has resolved a
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  Speaker 2: part of confusion in your mind and he sends you
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  Speaker 2: another human being to give you some structure, it is
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  Speaker 2: not the other human that gave you structure that you worship.
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  Speaker 2: God is the provider in this case and in all cases.
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  Speaker 2: And so Mara, Mara. It means bitter. That's a Hebrew word.
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  Speaker 2: It means bitter. It symbolizes hardship and disappointed. Have you disappointment?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever been mara, somebody's getting it? Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever been and bittered by your circumstance? M Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever been scarned in a relationship and now you are bitter?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever had hardships whether you brought it upon
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  Speaker 2: yourself or it came from someone else? Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: been disappointed? There's some things that you want to do,
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  Speaker 2: and you've been begging God, please allow me to do this,
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  Speaker 2: and He has allowed you to be disappointed. Mara, it
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  Speaker 2: is bitter. And then and then there is another word introduced,
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  Speaker 2: ma tholk. Ma tholk. It means sweet, it's pleasant, satisfying
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  Speaker 2: to taste or experience. So God transforms their experience from bitter,
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  Speaker 2: a hardship, a disappoint meant when they were completely thirsty
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  Speaker 2: to the extreme. And finally they see the water that
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  Speaker 2: is set out before them and they realize they can't
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  Speaker 2: even drink it. And then God brings my tholk. It's pleasant.
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  Speaker 2: Now that hardship that was burying us in our minds
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  Speaker 2: is now pleasant. It is now satisfying, no longer disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: It's no longer bitter, but it is satisfying to the taste,
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  Speaker 2: satisfying to the taste. And so God's people's bitter water
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  Speaker 2: crisis is symbolized the bitterness of unbelief, oh and the
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  Speaker 2: need of faith under pressure. You see, when you're faced
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  Speaker 2: with a bitter trial, do you choose to have faith
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  Speaker 2: and to wait for my thought? Or do you complain
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  Speaker 2: to God and say, God, how could you bring me
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  Speaker 2: to this point? And I get disappointed? You see, And
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  Speaker 2: so the tree is seen as a test of obedience
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  Speaker 2: and divine cooperation, a symbolic for shadowing of the Cross,
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  Speaker 2: which brings sweetness to life's bitterness. Jesus turned the bitterness
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  Speaker 2: of the cross into sweetness of eternal life for anybody
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  Speaker 2: who chooses to believe. And then, of course, the miracle
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  Speaker 2: is both provisional and instruction. God gave them the water.
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  Speaker 2: We see that we've seen God make provision for them,
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  Speaker 2: provided a way out of Egypt, provided a way for
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  Speaker 2: them to be protected while in Egypt, provided a way
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  Speaker 2: for them to eat manna from heaven, bread from heaven.
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  Speaker 2: We have seen that He has provided the guidance that
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  Speaker 2: they needed in order to get through whatever they were
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  Speaker 2: going through. But it was also instructional. It taught here's
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  Speaker 2: a big word dependence on God in dry places. And
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  Speaker 2: so in the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ninety two, it reads, God permitted these trials to
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  Speaker 2: what test their faith. You're in a trial right now? Brother?
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a trial right now? Sister? God has
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  Speaker 2: permitted this to test your faith. Let me keep reading.
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  Speaker 2: Every difficulty was a call to prayer. Some of our
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters pray five times a day. Some of
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  Speaker 2: our brothers and sisters pray three times a day. And
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  Speaker 2: some of our brothers and sisters are following the model
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  Speaker 2: that Paul showed us and Enoch, who walked with God
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  Speaker 2: showed us of prayer without ceasing. You're like Dave. You
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  Speaker 2: can't bow and pray all day long and all night.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't even make sense. But our attitude, our connection
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  Speaker 2: with God is can be a prayer without ceasing attitude.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, ask Enoch about that. But Enoch's in
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  Speaker 2: heaven right now. Why Because God wanted him with him.
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  Speaker 2: He saw that Enoch wanted to be connected to him
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  Speaker 2: to the degree that God couldn't wait until the end
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  Speaker 2: of time as we know it. He said, I need
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  Speaker 2: him with me now because he knows what it is
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  Speaker 2: to live though without ceasing experience with me. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's a lesson that the bitter experiences of life
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  Speaker 2: can be sweetened by trust in God. And now we
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  Speaker 2: apply it to ourselves. Don't judge God by your most
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  Speaker 2: recent hardship. Trust him beyond the bitterness. God doesn't always
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  Speaker 2: remove the desert, he doesn't always remove the bitter water,
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  Speaker 2: but he sweetens it. He sweetens what is bitter when
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  Speaker 2: you obey his voice. Obey.
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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,