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07 01 2025 The Hebrew Midwives · 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 Tuesday, July one,
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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 Exodus the Journey to the Promised Land, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the Hebrew Midwe Lives the
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew Midwives. 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: application guide at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, We thank you, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day, thank you for holy women, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: people who would rather die than dishonor you please make
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  Speaker 2: us this way in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again, Death before dishonor. Can I just say that
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  Speaker 2: right now? You see when God? Okay, let me say
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  Speaker 2: like this in the New Testament, the people of God
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  Speaker 2: said in the Early Church, the first century Church, should
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  Speaker 2: we should we listen to God or humans if there
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  Speaker 2: is an option where like the devil presented to Eve
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  Speaker 2: at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil,
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  Speaker 2: He offered her an opportunity to do something opposite of
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  Speaker 2: what God's will was, and she decided to do what
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  Speaker 2: was opposite of God's will. When Jesus was in the
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  Speaker 2: wilderness tempted of the devil, yeah, the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: the devil gave him the opportunity to do the opposite
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  Speaker 2: of what God said. But what did Jesus choose? He
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  Speaker 2: chose what God said, and so death before dishonor like
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  Speaker 2: we need to make a decision every single day that
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  Speaker 2: we awake. Are we going to be on the Lord
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  Speaker 2: side or on the devil side? How we use our
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  Speaker 2: money the Lord's side or the devil side? How we
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  Speaker 2: treat our spouses in children Lord's side or the devil's side.
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  Speaker 2: How we move when we are on the road and
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  Speaker 2: there is road rage, etc. How are we going to move?
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  Speaker 2: Are we on the Lord side or or the devil's side?
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  Speaker 2: Let me just read really quickly from the lesson writer.
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  Speaker 2: Now one cannot understand the Book of Exodus without presupposing
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  Speaker 2: teaches teachings of Genesis. The people of God moved to Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: and after a time of great prosperity and peace, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they were enslaved. God did not abandon his people to
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  Speaker 2: their problems. Many of the people of God despaired of
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  Speaker 2: their plight. We read about that so many places in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. Yet in the time of distress, God comes
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  Speaker 2: to help with his mighty hand. Did you hear that
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  Speaker 2: in the time of distress, God came to help with
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  Speaker 2: his mighty hand. The Bible encourages us, encourages us. In
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Psalms, Chapter fifty and verse fifteen. Call
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  Speaker 2: upon me in the day of trouble, and I will
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  Speaker 2: deliver you, and you will glue glorify me. Now this
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  Speaker 2: is very interesting to me. I'm going to share a
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  Speaker 2: couple of lessons in a moment. But God's purpose for
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  Speaker 2: our lives is often for his glory, I shouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: often it is for his glory and for our benefit.
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  Speaker 2: How does whatever it is that God is delivering us
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  Speaker 2: through or from, how is it that through whatever we
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  Speaker 2: are going through in our lives, whether triumph for trial,
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  Speaker 2: how does it magnify Him as the just and loving
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  Speaker 2: God that he is. He's all powerful, blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're in triumph or you're in trial. How does
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  Speaker 2: this show him to others about what he can do
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  Speaker 2: for us and through them. If he can do it
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  Speaker 2: for you, he can do it for your friends. If
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  Speaker 2: he can do it for you or through you, he
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  Speaker 2: can do it for your relatives. He can do it
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  Speaker 2: through and for you. He can do it for the
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  Speaker 2: that you meet on the road. And so here are
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  Speaker 2: a few life lessons that I'd like to share from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one, Verses nine through twelve, etc. The first one
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  Speaker 2: is that true courage is obeying God when we are
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  Speaker 2: pressured to conform. Let me read it now. In verse
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  Speaker 2: seventeen of Exodus chapter one, the Bible reads, but the
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  Speaker 2: midwives feared God even though there was a death decree,
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  Speaker 2: even though they got a clear command from the pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: or the king of that time, that they should destroy
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  Speaker 2: the children, the boys, those people of God's boys, it says,
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  Speaker 2: and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded.
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  Speaker 2: See let me read it from the New English translation.
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  Speaker 2: But the midwives, they feared God and did not do
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  Speaker 2: what the king of Egypt had told them. They let
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  Speaker 2: the boys. And so what does that mean for me?
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  Speaker 2: I need to act in this way? I need to
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  Speaker 2: identify one area where I am pressured to conform. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Bible says, don't be conformed to this world,
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  Speaker 2: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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  Speaker 2: So is there an area that you are feeling tempted
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  Speaker 2: to conform? Is it in your entertainment choices? Is it
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  Speaker 2: in the conversations where people are calling you or texting
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  Speaker 2: you and wanting to take you down a rabbit hole
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  Speaker 2: where you know God would not have you to be
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  Speaker 2: Wherever you are feeling the pressure to conform. You want
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  Speaker 2: to bust back. When you are thinking about whether you
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  Speaker 2: should argue with your spouse yes or no. When you're
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  Speaker 2: tempted to conform, write that down, identify it. And now
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  Speaker 2: I want you to pray deliberately God, I am feeling
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  Speaker 2: pressure to conform in this key area to the way
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  Speaker 2: that the devil would have me do it. Pray for
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  Speaker 2: boldness to honor God above all. Number two comes from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse twenty one. And it came to
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  Speaker 2: pass because the midwives feared God that he made them houses.
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  Speaker 2: God honors those who honor him. God honors those who
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  Speaker 2: honor him. He will honor you if you honor him.
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  Speaker 2: If you stand up for Jesus, he will stand up
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  Speaker 2: for you. I think you're getting it. I think you're
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  Speaker 2: getting it because the midwives they actually believed in God.
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  Speaker 2: Like they trusted in God, they respected God. He blessed
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  Speaker 2: them with the families of their own. Obedience to God's
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  Speaker 2: will never goes unnoticed in heaven. And so what must
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  Speaker 2: I do today? Well? Reflect today on a time when
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  Speaker 2: obeying God brought unexpected blessings. You've had blessing upon blessings
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  Speaker 2: in the past. You may be in that season of
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  Speaker 2: blessings right now. Now. I want you to thank him.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you him in prayer for seeing and rewarding the
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  Speaker 2: faithfulness that he put in you. He's rewarding the good
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  Speaker 2: work that he put in your bosom. It wasn't of
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  Speaker 2: your own strength, lest any person should boast, but he
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  Speaker 2: still gave you the reward. Let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: He gave you the reward that Jesus is worthy of.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, just because you cooperated with him. Now, let's
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  Speaker 2: go to verse fifteen of Exodus, chapter one, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads and the King of Egypt spake to the
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew midwives, of which the name of one was Shiffra,
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  Speaker 2: the name of the other poor or in another translation,
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  Speaker 2: the king said to the Hebrew wives, one of whom
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  Speaker 2: was Shiffra, and the other poa. Now it says here
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  Speaker 2: that we don't need a title they He just went
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  Speaker 2: to the midwives and went to They were normal women.
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  Speaker 2: They were average everyday women, but they trusted God. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: to see here. These midwives were not queens or warriors.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the scripture names them and not the pharaoh. See,
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  Speaker 2: we can go through history, ancient history, and figure out
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  Speaker 2: who the pharaoh of that time was. But these women
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  Speaker 2: were named by God because God knows your name. God
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  Speaker 2: knows your name. Even though sometimes we demigrate, subjugate, and
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  Speaker 2: disrespect women, the Bible is showing us that God respects
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  Speaker 2: these women of God, and he didn't even name the pharaoh.
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  Speaker 2: Their quiet defiance changed the course of history. Don't minimize
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  Speaker 2: your roles, serve faithfully where you are. Your obedience will
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  Speaker 2: impact generations. 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,