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08 26 2025 God’s Original Plan · 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 Tuesday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty 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 is God's Original Plan. God's Original Plan.
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  Speaker 2: Will get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new day. Thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the privilege to be wherever we are in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And yet at the same time, converge upon the truths
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  Speaker 2: of your word. Teach us all to surrender our will.
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  Speaker 2: In the same moment, here in Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. God's original plan? What is God's
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  Speaker 2: original plan for you? I said for you, not for
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  Speaker 2: the people of Israel, not for the people of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: not for the people way back thousands of years. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying for you, what is God's original plan? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: know that God's intent was for all of us to
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  Speaker 2: live eternally. He wanted Adam and Eve to succeed at
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  Speaker 2: that tree of the knowledge of good and evil test
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  Speaker 2: and then we move into eternity, where they would have
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  Speaker 2: no longer conditional immortality, but they would have been stuck
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  Speaker 2: as holy as they were when they created, when God
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  Speaker 2: created them. That was God's original plan. But of course
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  Speaker 2: humans messed it up, and now we are on the
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  Speaker 2: plan that leads us back to that place, the plan
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  Speaker 2: of salvation. And so the lesson writer wants us to
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  Speaker 2: consider from the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty three, verses
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  Speaker 2: twenty to thirty three, what methods did God desire to
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  Speaker 2: use for conning the promised land? Very interesting, very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And then the question, well, the statement it was not
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  Speaker 2: God's intention for God's people to fight for their new territory.
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice that it was not his intention for
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  Speaker 2: the people of God to fight for their new territory.
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  Speaker 2: It was to be given to them. It had been promised.
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  Speaker 2: God made the promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and
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  Speaker 2: it should have been received as God's gift to his people.
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  Speaker 2: And so later on in the story, of course, we're
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  Speaker 2: fast forwarding when the spies were sent to see what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the land, and most of the spies said,
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  Speaker 2: there are giants over there. We in our own eyes
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  Speaker 2: are like grasshoppers, and they're giants. And there were only
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  Speaker 2: two how many people? Two people who had the perspective
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  Speaker 2: of God based on this covenantal promise that God made
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  Speaker 2: to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that God can give and
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  Speaker 2: will give this land to us because God made the promise.
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  Speaker 2: It had nothing to do with their ability to war
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  Speaker 2: or to fight, to scheme or to connive. It had
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with their skills. It had everything to
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  Speaker 2: do with their submission. So God's plan is to give
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  Speaker 2: us all that he has promised, and we simply surrender
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  Speaker 2: our will in order to receive it. Okay. And so
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  Speaker 2: really let's go with our first historical context. This section
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  Speaker 2: comes after God's law the Covenant is delivered at Mount Sinai.
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  Speaker 2: God's people is still encamped there, and now God lays
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  Speaker 2: out how he will bring them into the promised land,
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  Speaker 2: not by human conquest, but by divine intervention and conditional obedience. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so God's victory was not based on his people's might.
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  Speaker 2: The conquest of Canaan was to be a testimony of
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  Speaker 2: God's divine justice. God's people didn't earn. I think somebody's
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  Speaker 2: getting it the land by merit or by strength. According
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  Speaker 2: to Deuteronomy chapter four versus I mean Deuteronomy chapter nine,
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  Speaker 2: verses four through six. It was a fulfillment of his
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  Speaker 2: covenant with Abraham. How are you saved, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: How are we saved? I'm talking about the plan of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible teaches us that we are saved by grace
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  Speaker 2: through faith, and not of works right, not of our
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  Speaker 2: own works, not of ourselves. It is the gift of God,
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  Speaker 2: lest any one of us should should boast. And so
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  Speaker 2: in the same way, when we yield ourselves to God,
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  Speaker 2: surrender our wills to God, we receive the inheritance. It's
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  Speaker 2: very simple. We receive the inheritance. It's not that we earn,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that we work harder, It's that we yield
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  Speaker 2: to God's will. And having yielded to his will, we
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  Speaker 2: are now empowered to do exactly what he said. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's simple as that. Now, in an everyday application sense,
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  Speaker 2: we see that God still leads his people today into
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  Speaker 2: spiritual territories he has prepared, whether ministries, relationships, or callings.
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  Speaker 2: What was God's original plan as you live on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth and are you fulfilling it today? I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: even in your relationships. I'm talking about in your professional life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about in your personal development. Are you aware
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  Speaker 2: of who you are? And if you are, are you
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  Speaker 2: maturing so that you become the best, the better version
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  Speaker 2: of who God created you to be? Every single day
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  Speaker 2: you're growing good, better, best. Never let it rest until
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  Speaker 2: the good is better and the better better. Every single
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  Speaker 2: day we're climbing. We're climbing, but the victory it comes
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  Speaker 2: by trust and obedience, not by striving in human strength.
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  Speaker 2: Before rushing on to conquer, I know that there are
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  Speaker 2: a subset of people who love to dominate and conquer,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that is good in certain circumstances. But in
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  Speaker 2: this case, before we rush out to conquer, we pause
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  Speaker 2: and ask, is God leading this or is it me?
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  Speaker 2: Am I obeying the instructions that God has given me.
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  Speaker 2: So let God go before you, let him lead you. Behold,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says I send an angel before the number two.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make peace ha with sin. God told his people
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  Speaker 2: not to make covenant with the nations surrounding as they
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  Speaker 2: were on their way through to the promise in verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty two. Spiritually this still applies. We cannot partner with practices, habits,
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  Speaker 2: or alliances that draw us away from God. There are
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  Speaker 2: opportunities that will be presented to us all throughout our
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  Speaker 2: lives where we can make alliances with people who have
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  Speaker 2: no intention of serving God. They have no intention of
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  Speaker 2: serving God. Their goal has nothing to do with God's will.
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  Speaker 2: So we need to cut ties with anything that invites
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  Speaker 2: compromise right now. As I said, creeping compromise is almost
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  Speaker 2: a thing of the past. Now we're just it's emboldened
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  Speaker 2: like quick compromise. Whether it's in our entertainment, it's in
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  Speaker 2: our business decisions, or in our habits. There must not
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  Speaker 2: be any quote peace treaty with sin. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: finally we'll pause right here. Victory comes little by little.
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  Speaker 2: God may not give us an instant breakthrough. You may
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  Speaker 2: have to wander through the wilderness. But if God is
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  Speaker 2: leading you by day, he's leading you by night. We're
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  Speaker 2: still in the right place. So some battles they take
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  Speaker 2: time on purpose. We're still growing into the victories. God
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  Speaker 2: has already seen and prepared for us, and so we
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  Speaker 2: trust the process. We trust the God of the process.
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  Speaker 2: Be faithful in the small steps. Et always says, small
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  Speaker 2: steps great distances. Growth and dominion are progressive. Yeah, walk
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  Speaker 2: in to God's original plan for you. Pet.
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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,