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08 08 2025 When Faith Falters · 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August eighth, two thy twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.
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  Speaker 2: I almost said through the Book of Moses, through the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is when
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  Speaker 2: faith falters, When your faith falters. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first i'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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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. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day of preparation, preparation day.
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  Speaker 2: We know that Sabbath is coming on, but in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: we're preparing our hearts for you. Not just our bathrooms
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  Speaker 2: and our cupboards, not just our kitchens and our bedrooms,
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  Speaker 2: not just our clothing. We are preparing our minds God,
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  Speaker 2: because we have an appointment with you. Please, Father, give
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  Speaker 2: us faith, the kind of faith that pleases you. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There are
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  Speaker 2: times in people's lives where their faith falters, Yeah, type
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  Speaker 2: of one in the chat. If your faith has ever faltered,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean that you lost faith completely. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: had I don't know, but that's not what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, has it ever faltered where it started to
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  Speaker 2: get a little rocky? You needed help? Lord, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: but help thou might unbelieve. Yeah, when that kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing happens. God already knows who we are, but we
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  Speaker 2: know that he's our compassionate God, Blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: who will will will bolster our faith if we are
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  Speaker 2: willing to receive this, so that we can lay hold
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  Speaker 2: on the power of God. Okay, and so I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to begin by reading from Patriarchs and prophet It's a
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  Speaker 2: really good book, page two hundred and eighty two, and
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  Speaker 2: it reads, for God was for no, no, no. Let
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  Speaker 2: me start right here. The people of God had little
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of God and a little faith in him, and
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  Speaker 2: they would have become terrified and disheartened. If well, that's
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  Speaker 2: not they. It just says disheartened. I was about to
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  Speaker 2: give context. Let me just keep reading. They were unarmed,
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  Speaker 2: unaccustomed to war, their spirits were depressed by long bondage
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  Speaker 2: initially needs you to see this like generations of people
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  Speaker 2: bound in captivity by a fearful, despotic leader, a tyrannical
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  Speaker 2: leader who thinks he's God because the culture he actually
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  Speaker 2: teaches it. So this false view of who he is
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  Speaker 2: is tied to the culture of the people. The historical
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  Speaker 2: mindset of the people had him as the God of
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  Speaker 2: all the gods. They were unarmed, unaccustomed to war, their
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  Speaker 2: spirits were depressed by long bondage, and they were encumbered
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  Speaker 2: with women's and children, flocks and herds. In leading them
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  Speaker 2: by the way of the Red Sea, the Lord revealed
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  Speaker 2: himself as a god of compassion as well as of judgment.
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  Speaker 2: You're like the Red Sea? Why is that? Why is
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  Speaker 2: that like compassionate? That seemed impossible, Like why would God? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Because if they went another way, they would have encountered
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  Speaker 2: some some real warriors. So imagine you have the Egyptians
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  Speaker 2: on your heels, and then you got some real warriors
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  Speaker 2: in another in another region, just waiting for some bait
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  Speaker 2: to come into the water, you feel me. So God
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  Speaker 2: is saying, no, I'm gonna take you away, because they
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  Speaker 2: would have become so discouraged they would have just given up,
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  Speaker 2: because even as they were taken through the Red Sea,
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  Speaker 2: that journey wore them out in many ways. But God said, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take them this way because I know that
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  Speaker 2: they're not gonna make it if I take them the
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  Speaker 2: other way. Okay. And so God is compassionate, and he's
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  Speaker 2: also judge. And we see the judgments. We've already read
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  Speaker 2: about the judgment that came upon upon the Egyptians who
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  Speaker 2: were chasing them. And so our first lesson comes in
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  Speaker 2: from Exodus, chapter thirteen, Verses seventeen and eighteen. God led
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  Speaker 2: them not through the way of the land of the Philistines,
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  Speaker 2: although it was near. So let me just pause right
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  Speaker 2: here and say that there are times that you wonder,
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  Speaker 2: why is God taking me way around them? Alberry Bush?
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  Speaker 2: Why is God taking me the long way to my success?
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  Speaker 2: Like why do I have to go this way? Not
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  Speaker 2: only because God is all wise blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: and compassionate, blessed be his name, beneficent and merciful. We
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  Speaker 2: thank God for God, but because he knows that if
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  Speaker 2: He takes you the way that you desire, that fast way,
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  Speaker 2: that highway, that quick way, that is the way that
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  Speaker 2: you will lose your faith. That is the way that
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  Speaker 2: you will lose focus. That is the way that you
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  Speaker 2: did not anticipate. The things that were along, that were
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  Speaker 2: littered on that pathway, the growth that you would not
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  Speaker 2: have experienced if you went that way, and all of
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  Speaker 2: these things that you just can't know. Because God's thoughts
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  Speaker 2: are high above your thoughts, just like the heavens are
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  Speaker 2: above the earth. That is the reality. And so what
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  Speaker 2: God is saying is that he led us people just
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  Speaker 2: like it says in the text, he led us people
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  Speaker 2: about through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God could pastor his people in the wilderness. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: he could shuttle them through the Red Sea. And so
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  Speaker 2: even when we don't understand the path that God has
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  Speaker 2: laid before our feet, God chooses what will grow us
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  Speaker 2: and not crush us. So think of a time that
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  Speaker 2: God redirected you. You just knew the pathway to your success,
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  Speaker 2: whatever kind of success was your promotion. You just knew
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  Speaker 2: that your success was moving to this particular city or
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  Speaker 2: this neighborhood. And God said, no, that's not the way
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  Speaker 2: we're going. You just knew that your path to success
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  Speaker 2: was healing on this date in this year. And God said, no,
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  Speaker 2: where we're going to do is something else right now?
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  Speaker 2: Write out how that detour showed his mercy, even if
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  Speaker 2: it was uncomfortable. Our next lesson comes in from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen and verse thirty one, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and Israel saw that great work which the Lord did
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  Speaker 2: upon the Egyptians. So the people of God saw what
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  Speaker 2: God did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lords,
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  Speaker 2: they worshiped him, they believed the Lord and his servant Moses.
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  Speaker 2: So finally, finally, the people of God are starting to
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  Speaker 2: click it in, like, Wow, this God that we've been
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  Speaker 2: moaning and groaning, unto this one who is close enough
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  Speaker 2: to hear our groanings and to deliver us. Yahweh blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name, this God. We believe in him. So
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  Speaker 2: God patiently builds our trust. Over time, he shows up
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  Speaker 2: to teach us not to shame us. And our step
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  Speaker 2: is if your faith is low right now, I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about right now, I'm talking about eight minutes and some
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  Speaker 2: seconds into our broadcast this morning, invest five minutes to
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  Speaker 2: recount or remember three ways that God has done some
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  Speaker 2: things for you in the past, where He's come through
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  Speaker 2: for you. And finally, in Exodus, chapter fifteen and verse two,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord is my strength and song. He is become
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  Speaker 2: my salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare
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  Speaker 2: him and habitation. Prayer is a weapon of remembrance and strength.
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  Speaker 2: Worship seals our memory. Hm Worship seals our memory about
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  Speaker 2: what God has done. It prepares us to face what
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  Speaker 2: is ahead with courage. Because if God has done no,
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  Speaker 2: not if since God has done these things, and he
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  Speaker 2: has triumphed gloriously in my life, in the past and
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  Speaker 2: in other people's lives, then he can do it again
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  Speaker 2: and indeed will, and so we can sing. This is
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  Speaker 2: our action step sing or speak a personal prayer of
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  Speaker 2: praise to God today, Write it out or find one
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  Speaker 2: in the Psalms. Not for what you're hoping he will do,
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  Speaker 2: but for what he has allready done. When your faith falters,
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  Speaker 2: give that faltering faith to God, and he will strength.
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  Speaker 1: When you're joining us people, 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,