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08 11 2025 Quail and Manna · 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 Monday, August eleven,
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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 Quail and Mana, Oh my Quail and Manna.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for your daily bread, the daily bread that you have
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  Speaker 2: given to us. Please help us to love you and
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  Speaker 2: love your provision. In Jesus' name. I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again, give us this day our daily bread. Now
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  Speaker 2: I know that God was teaching us when Jesus was praying,
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  Speaker 2: that we should be grateful and ask him and be
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  Speaker 2: appreciative of ask him for and be appreciative of our sustenance.
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  Speaker 2: He gives us sustenance. And so of course it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean bread literally, like grain based baked bread literally. But
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  Speaker 2: but there is a context now, and we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: quail versus manna in the story of the Exodus, because
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  Speaker 2: God had made provision for his people, but they seemed
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  Speaker 2: not to be satisfied. And so we go now to
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter sixteen, and this time we'll read just verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and when the children of Israel
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  Speaker 2: saw it, we're talking about the bread from heaven that
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  Speaker 2: God had given them because they needed to be able
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  Speaker 2: to eat for those forty years. God made provision for
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  Speaker 2: them when they saw it, they said to one another,
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  Speaker 2: it is manna. I'll come back for that. For they
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  Speaker 2: wisked not what it was. And Moses said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: this is the bread which the Lord hath given you
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  Speaker 2: to eat. You see, Adam and Eve had the same problem.
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  Speaker 2: In a way. The Bible says that he had given
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  Speaker 2: God had given them from every tree of the garden
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  Speaker 2: to eat, except the one in the midst of the garden,
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  Speaker 2: which was the not tree of the knowledge of good
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  Speaker 2: and evil. So God had made provision for them. But
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  Speaker 2: both Adam and Eve Eve fell into sin through deception. Right,
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  Speaker 2: Adam jumped into sin. Both of them ate what God
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  Speaker 2: said not to eat, and there are consequences for going
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  Speaker 2: against God. Was the fruit poisonous? No, was there anything
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  Speaker 2: wrong with the fruit? No, except that God had tested
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  Speaker 2: them and said, you will eat from every tree except
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  Speaker 2: this one. It was a test of loyalty. And so
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  Speaker 2: in the same case. Here, in the same way, here
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  Speaker 2: we see that God had given the children of Israel
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  Speaker 2: bred from heaven. But they were dissatisfied. And when they
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  Speaker 2: looked at it, they said, what is it? What is it?
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  Speaker 2: That's what manna actually means. What is it? It reflects
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  Speaker 2: the mystery and the provision. So God makes provision even
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  Speaker 2: though they didn't quite understand what it was. But even
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  Speaker 2: still it wasn't what they wanted. They didn't want that.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want God's provision. They wanted God to bow
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  Speaker 2: to their requirements of him, and so they instead asked
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  Speaker 2: for quail. Now, quail's a clean meat. You know it's
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  Speaker 2: clean meat. But God didn't provide quail for their benefit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute. Now it becomes a judgment because
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  Speaker 2: there are times that God gives us what we pray for,
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  Speaker 2: even though He has shown us what his real and
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  Speaker 2: true ideal provision is. And because we pre this press press,
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  Speaker 2: press press, God sometimes will give us what we ask for.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he gave them what they asked for, and they
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  Speaker 2: also got sickness. They also got judgments. They also became
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  Speaker 2: more separated from God because they did not believe in
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  Speaker 2: God enough to accept his provision. And so manna wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just bred from heaven. It was really an object lesson
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  Speaker 2: of trust. When God makes provision for me, do I
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  Speaker 2: trust him? When I am anticipating God making provision, do
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  Speaker 2: I trust him for it? Or do I do I
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  Speaker 2: manufacture ways to provide for myself. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time to really deal with this. But the fourfold
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  Speaker 2: weekly miracle of Mana, which is highlighted in Exodus chapter sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: verses twenty two to thirty, highlighted God's sanctification of the
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  Speaker 2: seventh day Sabbath, weekly test of obedience, and memory of
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  Speaker 2: God's power and creation, his sovereignty, and his creation. The
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  Speaker 2: failure to trust God's provision was seen as unbelief and rebellion. Moses,
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  Speaker 2: you're taking us into the wilderness to kill us off. Moses,
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  Speaker 2: We had all kinds of flesh in Egypt. Why can't
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  Speaker 2: we have that now? And God is providing himself as
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  Speaker 2: an object lesson. Yeah, there are times that God provides
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  Speaker 2: himself and we prefer other gods. We do have other
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  Speaker 2: gods before him. He is the bread, Jesus is the
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  Speaker 2: bread from heaven. And we choose the other gods, the
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  Speaker 2: gods of our images online like sometimes we believe the
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  Speaker 2: filters we put over our faces and our followings, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like subscribe and share, Like sometimes we get to the
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  Speaker 2: point where we believe the hype about ourselves and we
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  Speaker 2: replace God with the spiritual degradation. Of quail instead of
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  Speaker 2: the read from Heaven. So the failure to trust God's
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  Speaker 2: provision was rebellion. Now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
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  Speaker 2: page two hundred ninety four. Oh, somebody just got it,
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  Speaker 2: I said, rebellion. I couldn't nice it up. I could
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  Speaker 2: not nice it up. And it reads the they murmured
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  Speaker 2: for the flesh pots of Egypt. But the Lord had
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  Speaker 2: heard their murmurings. He gave them flesh in the evening
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  Speaker 2: and bred in the morning. He would prove them to
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  Speaker 2: them whether they would walk in his law or not.
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  Speaker 2: From the book Councils on Health, page one hundred and eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: God might have rained down manna from heaven every hour
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  Speaker 2: of the day, but he chose to give it in
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  Speaker 2: the morning to teach them order, discipline, and trust. And so,
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  Speaker 2: in the context of their day, the food crisis in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness was a test of obedience. God used daily
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  Speaker 2: provision and the Sabbath rhythm to teach the people of
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  Speaker 2: God how to live in covenantal dependence. When you get
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  Speaker 2: your paycheck on the cadence that you're accustomed to or
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  Speaker 2: rhythm that you're accustomed to, are you trusting the paycheck,
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  Speaker 2: or are you trusting God? When something goes weird, you
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  Speaker 2: lose a contract. I've lost contracts, so many contracts over
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  Speaker 2: the last thirteen or so years, or I shouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: so many, but a couple of very pivotal ones. And
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  Speaker 2: it was disappointing. But I've never been confused, like God
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  Speaker 2: is the one that makes the provision, not the people
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  Speaker 2: who are paying these these checks, you see. And so
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  Speaker 2: the repetitive murmuring showed a pattern of distrust even after
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  Speaker 2: God had given them clear miracles. But it's easy for
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  Speaker 2: us to look back and criticize, and maybe even objectively
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  Speaker 2: so what they had done. Yeah, but what about me today?
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  Speaker 2: Gratitude must outweigh my grumbling. In fact, I need to
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  Speaker 2: not grumble. If you find that you're a complainer, stop it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say that I don't have time to
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  Speaker 2: nice that one up. God has proven himself before. Trust
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  Speaker 2: him again. Don't hoard some of you got food that's
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  Speaker 2: rotting in your cupboards. You get all kinds of stuff
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  Speaker 2: in your house that you don't need. Stop hoarding. Trust
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  Speaker 2: God for today's bread. Manna represents daily grace, not weakly stockpiles.
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  Speaker 2: So much more to say so little time, but let
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  Speaker 2: me just say God gave them boundaries, God gave them
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  Speaker 2: a rhythm, and He gave them himself in daily form.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,