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07 09 2025 Four Excuses · 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 Wednesday, July nine,
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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 for Excuses four Excuses. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this Wednesday morning. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: getting us thus far into our work week. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to never give you excuses. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. There is so much that I
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  Speaker 2: could say right here about excuses, but let me just
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  Speaker 2: ask you a simple question. Is God no inabilities? Are
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  Speaker 2: your trials, your temptations bigger than your God? Are your trials, temptations, inabilities, inadequacies,
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  Speaker 2: the things that you've done, your mistakes, your ability to
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  Speaker 2: sin bigger than your God. That's a real life question.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why this matters is because sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: make the things that are our earthly reality bigger than
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  Speaker 2: the God who created us. We do not accept that mindset,
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  Speaker 2: not as real believers, we don't accept that mindset. And
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  Speaker 2: so this is something with which our brother Moses would
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  Speaker 2: have had to contend vital question for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Did God call you or not? Did He call you
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  Speaker 2: or not to do whatever it is that he has. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now we're saying, yes, that he called you to do,
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  Speaker 2: and if he did call you, then trust him and
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  Speaker 2: get about the work. Yeah. I put that in all
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  Speaker 2: caps in my notes so we can remember that, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we're going to do is, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: talk about the signs that God gave Moses to perform
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  Speaker 2: in order to strengthen his faith. Okay. So we go
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  Speaker 2: into first the Bible book of Exodus, Exodus, chapter four
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  Speaker 2: and verse three, and the Bible reads and he said
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  Speaker 2: cast it, meaning the staff, on the ground. And he
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  Speaker 2: cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent,
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  Speaker 2: and Moses fled from before it. So Moses was amazed
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  Speaker 2: by what God had done. He was like, WHOA, that
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  Speaker 2: was not expected. But this sign was to demonstrate God's
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  Speaker 2: power even over nature. The same one who said let
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  Speaker 2: there be light, and there was light was able to
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  Speaker 2: cause a staff to become a real live snake or serpent,
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  Speaker 2: unlike the sleight of hand that the Egyptian would have
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  Speaker 2: done later. So this sign demonstrated God's power over nature
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  Speaker 2: and to show that what Moses held in his hand
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  Speaker 2: became a divine instrument. Are you in God's hands? Are
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  Speaker 2: you in God's hands? Are you an instrument in his
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  Speaker 2: hands for his glory? Verse six of Exodus chapter four.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord said furthermore to him, put now thine
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  Speaker 2: hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into
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  Speaker 2: his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his
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  Speaker 2: hand was leprous as snow. Wait a minute verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, put thine hand into thine bosom again.
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  Speaker 2: And he put his hand into his bosom, and he
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  Speaker 2: turned again as his other flesh. This shot sign showed
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  Speaker 2: God's power to afflict and to heal. He has mastery
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  Speaker 2: over disease and restoration. So there's literally nothing that the
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  Speaker 2: Egyptians could have thrown at them. There is literally no
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  Speaker 2: trial or temptation. There is literally nothing that could stand
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  Speaker 2: in the way of Moses and the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: as long as they trusted him. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: in verse nine we see, and it shall come to
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  Speaker 2: pass if they will not believe, thou shalt take of
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  Speaker 2: the water of the river and pour it upon the
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  Speaker 2: dry land, and the water shall become blood. And this
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  Speaker 2: sign symbolized God's authority over Egypt's life source, the Nile
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  Speaker 2: and foreshadowed the first plague. But let me just say
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  Speaker 2: as well, when you look at the plagues that would
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  Speaker 2: have come later, they attacked all of the false gods
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  Speaker 2: of the day, the false gods that the people worship,
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  Speaker 2: the God of fertility, the God of part of me.
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  Speaker 2: We go and continue. So God showing in these miracles
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  Speaker 2: that He's the one, true and living God. Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: his name. And so in verse thirteen the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my Lord, I pray, Oh Lord, send I pray
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  Speaker 2: thee by the hand of Him whom thou shalt send
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  Speaker 2: somebody else? What and the Lord verse fourteen was kindled.
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  Speaker 2: His anger was kindled against Moses. And so when God
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  Speaker 2: had shown him signs, when God had called him very clearly,
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  Speaker 2: given him clear instructions, and Moses decided that there were
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  Speaker 2: reasons why he couldn't do what God had said to him,
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  Speaker 2: and then gave the ultimate excuse at the end, like
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  Speaker 2: please just get somebody else to do this. God was angry.
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  Speaker 2: I was he angry? Because God created, God created the
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  Speaker 2: heavens and the earth. God created Moses. When Moses said that,
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  Speaker 2: you know he was slow of speech, God God said,
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  Speaker 2: I made your mouth. How could you say you're slow
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  Speaker 2: of speech when I made your mouth. Never mind the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we read now in Acts chapter seven that
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  Speaker 2: he was mighty in speech. God gave him erran just
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  Speaker 2: in case to take away all of his excuses. If
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  Speaker 2: God being the creator of his mouth, if God being
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  Speaker 2: the one who sent him, if God being the one
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  Speaker 2: who created the heavens and the earth and has complete
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  Speaker 2: control over every single thing in the universe, was not enough,
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  Speaker 2: he said, Okay, here's Aaron. So Aaron will be like
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  Speaker 2: a prophet to you. You'll be as God to him.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be your mouth. Peace. Now go, And Moses is like,
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  Speaker 2: please just send somebody else. So really we need to
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  Speaker 2: evaluate and tell ourselves the truth and tell God the truth,
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, I just really make an excuses I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to go. I'm afraid. Rather than making up
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  Speaker 2: all of these different reasons why and please and having
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  Speaker 2: all of these long discussions, just say God, I'm fearful.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if I do this, then this will happen.
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  Speaker 2: Will you give me the strength to do exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you have asked me to do? And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: teaches us that Moses made this discussion about him rather
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  Speaker 2: than about God. When we start to focus on ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: then we risk rebelling against God. Let me go to
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter four, verses eleven and twelve, where the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord said, unto him who hath made man's mouth,
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  Speaker 2: or who maketh him unable to speak, or death, or
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  Speaker 2: seeing or blind, have not I the Lord? Now therefore go,
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  Speaker 2: and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee
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  Speaker 2: what to say. So the lesson that we need to
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  Speaker 2: know is God does not call the qualified, but qualifies
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  Speaker 2: the called. I didn't want to get tongue twisted. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, for it is God that worketh in you,
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  Speaker 2: both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, God makes provision for our weaknesses, but not
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  Speaker 2: our excuses. See Moses ultimately humbled himself. But at some point,
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  Speaker 2: if Moses had not humbled himself, then God would have
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  Speaker 2: just moved on and used someone else. Yeah, he would
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  Speaker 2: have just used someone else. We have other situations in
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  Speaker 2: history where where God said, my grace is sufficient for you,
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  Speaker 2: but where people decided you know it, no it's not,
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  Speaker 2: And God just moved on sadly so and still got
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  Speaker 2: his will done. And then, of course, delayed obedience can
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  Speaker 2: cost us eternally. Delayed obedience is disobedience. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day, 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,