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07 06 2025 The Burning Bush · 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. It's
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  Speaker 2: July six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series through the Book of Exodus and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today again, I did tell you yesterday we'd
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  Speaker 2: hear it again, the burning bush, the burning Bush. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: application guide on the Book of Exodus, and also let
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  Speaker 2: Daily portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this Sunday morning and for the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to embark upon a new work week. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth
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  Speaker 2: that you have entrusted to our care to have dominion
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  Speaker 2: over this. Please please help us to do your will
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  Speaker 2: though as we as we experience you today in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a man again the burning bush,
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  Speaker 2: the burning bush. Before we get to our lessons for today,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to read from the lesson writer after Moses
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  Speaker 2: fled to Midian. Remember now, this is the second forty
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  Speaker 2: year period. We talked about his life broken up into
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  Speaker 2: three forty years periods. This is the second one. After
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  Speaker 2: Moses fled to Midian. He had a relatively easy life.
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  Speaker 2: He got married, he had two sons, Gersham and Eliezer.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we're gonna do now is read from
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  Speaker 2: the passage Exodus, chapter eighteen, Verses three and four, and
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  Speaker 2: look out for a clue of something we can apply
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  Speaker 2: to our own lives. The Bible reads beginning at verse three,
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  Speaker 2: with her two sons, of whom the name of one
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  Speaker 2: was Gersham, for he said, I have been a stranger
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  Speaker 2: in a foreign land land. So that was what Gersham meant. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And verse four, and the name of the other Eliezer,
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  Speaker 2: for he said, the God of my father was my
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  Speaker 2: help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. So
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  Speaker 2: these two children of the Man of God had names.
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  Speaker 2: Those names were intentional. So this question that I want
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  Speaker 2: you to consider first is well, what's in a name?
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  Speaker 2: What is in a name? What we call something often
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  Speaker 2: determines or reveals our mindset about that same something. Let
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  Speaker 2: me give you an example. No, let me say it again. First,
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  Speaker 2: what we call something, how we name something often determines
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  Speaker 2: or reveals our mindset about the same thing. Let's say
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  Speaker 2: the experience that you're having right now. What if you
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  Speaker 2: call this difficult? This is difficult. I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 2: life is easy. I'm not saying that we shouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: what really is the reality? I'm just saying, like, what
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  Speaker 2: if that's the full stop? Like this is difficult? All
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  Speaker 2: caps and that's the end of the story. Or this
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  Speaker 2: is annoying, full stop like all caps exclamation point, and
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  Speaker 2: some of you are like, come on, Dave, are you
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  Speaker 2: saying we shouldn't be real with our feelings? Listen, hold on,
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  Speaker 2: hold on. This is terrible exclamation point, which is also
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  Speaker 2: a full stop exclamation point. That's the end of the discussion.
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  Speaker 2: What if the perspective, though, changes from this is difficult,
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  Speaker 2: this is annoying, this is terrible to this is going
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  Speaker 2: to make me stronger? God, with you, I can do
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  Speaker 2: all things. What if this is God's way of helping
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  Speaker 2: me to pray more. Some of you think this is
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  Speaker 2: hocus pocus, but I assure you that is why so
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  Speaker 2: many millions of people who say we are the people
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  Speaker 2: of God are limited in our mindset. We accept the
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  Speaker 2: Babylonian names for the things that God is allowing us
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  Speaker 2: to go through. Somebody just got that is their names Shadrack, Mishak,
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  Speaker 2: and Abednego were not the names that they should have
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  Speaker 2: been named. They were Hannah, Andaiah, Mishael, Azararah. They were
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  Speaker 2: named after God. But the ones who were subjecting them,
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  Speaker 2: subjugating them, attempting to bury them, gave them new names
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  Speaker 2: because the Babylonian name meant that they were giving the perspective.
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  Speaker 2: But never accept the name that the devil gives for
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  Speaker 2: your situation. This is annoying, this is terrible, this is difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go again. This is going to make me stronger,
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  Speaker 2: Thank God. This is God's way of helping me to
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  Speaker 2: pray more. This is a blessing in disguise. So what
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  Speaker 2: do you call your current situation? Let me just pause
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  Speaker 2: right there and ask you, whatever you call it, what
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  Speaker 2: does that say about God? Let's continue in the lesson study.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson study actually says this time was not simply
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  Speaker 2: for Moses as he was in Midian to smell the
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  Speaker 2: flowers or whatever else is in the areas or the cacti.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. These years walking with God or the
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  Speaker 2: Lord God blessed be his name, changed him and prepared
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  Speaker 2: him for the leadership role that God had in mind. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: God is always up to something. Now let's learn. Let's
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  Speaker 2: learn some lessons, and then if we have time, we'll
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  Speaker 2: read another quote. Okay, and so the first lesson again
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  Speaker 2: comes from Exodus, chapter three and verse six. I am
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  Speaker 2: the God of thy Father, the God of Abraham and
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  Speaker 2: of Isaac and of Jacob. See God identifies himself to
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  Speaker 2: Moses through the lens of of covenant. That's it. God
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  Speaker 2: identifies himself or reveals himself to Moses through the lens
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  Speaker 2: of covenant. This reminds Moses and us that God does
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  Speaker 2: not forget what he started. I believe there is a
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  Speaker 2: song that came from the Bible that says, he who
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  Speaker 2: began a good work in you is able to complete it.
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  Speaker 2: And so God reveals himself or identifies himself through covenant.
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  Speaker 2: God has a good memory, and so today I want
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  Speaker 2: you to anchor your trust in God's character by remembering
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  Speaker 2: what he promised to those who came before you. Remember
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  Speaker 2: what God promised that is for your good, for your
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  Speaker 2: benefit to those who came before you. Number two from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse five, the Bible reads, put off
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  Speaker 2: thy shoes. This is what Moses experienced as he saw
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  Speaker 2: the burning bush and could not really quite understand whoa
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  Speaker 2: what is going on? But he knew he was in
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  Speaker 2: the presence. He said God, through the Angel of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Prism, we'll talk about that tomorrow. Put off thy
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  Speaker 2: shoes from off thy feet, for the place where on
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  Speaker 2: thou standest is holy ground. God's presence transforms any place.
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  Speaker 2: Ordinary spaces become sacred. When God shows up. Is God
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  Speaker 2: showing up in your life right now, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: So the action is to treat your everyday moments with reverence.
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  Speaker 2: God is present right here, right now. I know that
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  Speaker 2: there are some of our brothers and sisters around the
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  Speaker 2: world that say, like Daniel, they pray three times per day,
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  Speaker 2: or like some of our other brothers and sisters who
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  Speaker 2: who pray at certain times per day, varying in you know,
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  Speaker 2: on the time, just a little variation on each of
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  Speaker 2: those five times per day. And you know, Lord bless
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  Speaker 2: people who think of it in that way, because you're
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  Speaker 2: connecting with God. But what God wants us to do
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  Speaker 2: is to rehearse the visible presence of God at all times,
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  Speaker 2: so that our lives become a prayer. When we are
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  Speaker 2: speaking to Him, it's a prayer. When we are speaking
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  Speaker 2: to others and knowing that God is listening and God
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  Speaker 2: is guiding, we are an open channel for whatever God
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  Speaker 2: has for us and for others. Then our lifestyle becomes prayer.
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  Speaker 2: So treat every day moments with reverence. You might be
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  Speaker 2: standing on holy ground and don't even know it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is good, this is good. Let's continue peace. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,