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07 03 2025 A Change of Plans · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July three, 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 Exodus from or the Journey to the
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  Speaker 2: Promised Land Exodus the Journey to the Promised Land, and
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  Speaker 2: today our caption is a change of Plans. I got
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  Speaker 2: a story for you in a second, a change of plans.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways 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: get underway. Father, We thank you for today. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for changing plans sometimes because listen, we have no idea
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing or where we're going. Please give us
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  Speaker 2: your understanding. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: A change of plans. Okay, so we have a real
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  Speaker 2: life example. Just a few minutes ago, I was begging
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  Speaker 2: God and asking him like, what in the world just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Two days of my note in my Sabbath school lesson
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  Speaker 2: app vanished, just vanished, And I'm like, God, what are
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  Speaker 2: you trying to teach me? And then it clicked, Wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, A change of plans. You see, there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we trust our preparation. There are times that
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  Speaker 2: we trust our training, there are times that we trust
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  Speaker 2: even technology. And God is saying we have to be
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  Speaker 2: open to a change of plans. You see in Moses's experience.
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  Speaker 2: We see in Exodus chapter two, verses eleven through twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: we see that Moses had really I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: read that all the way through to Deuteronomy, chapter thirty
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  Speaker 2: four and verse seven, you see that Moses lived one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty years. For the first forty years, the
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  Speaker 2: first forty years he was in Egypt. He was in Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: He was being prepared, he was writing his notes. He
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  Speaker 2: was the grandson of the Pharaoh, the king of the time.
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  Speaker 2: He was being prepared to possibly be the pharaoh at
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  Speaker 2: the appropriate time. He had preparation. But then forty more
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  Speaker 2: years because of something he had done. That's a long story.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to identify all of those details now.
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  Speaker 2: For the first forty years he's in Egypt, and the
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  Speaker 2: second forty years he is in Jethro's house in Midian.
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  Speaker 2: You see, he was learning in the first forty years
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  Speaker 2: from the world's perspective, how to be the best according
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  Speaker 2: to the world's I don't mean evil, but just the
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  Speaker 2: world's standard. Those were plans. In the next forty years.
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  Speaker 2: God is showing him godly leadership. The next forty years
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  Speaker 2: is godly leadership. This is how it should look when
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  Speaker 2: you're leading my people. And then for the final forty
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  Speaker 2: years of his life. He's actually having to do it.
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  Speaker 2: He's having to do it. He thought he was prepared
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  Speaker 2: in the first forty years, he was being prepared in
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  Speaker 2: the way for eternal purposes during the next forty years,
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  Speaker 2: and now he has to actually live those plans that
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  Speaker 2: God had. So my question to you this morning is
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  Speaker 2: are you willing to change plans when God changes your
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  Speaker 2: plans or when He allows something to happen. Like for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's very disturbing. I'm very organized, I'm analytical. I am
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  Speaker 2: very clear on where I am going and how I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get there. And when my notes disappeared for
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  Speaker 2: this morning and tomorrow for that matter, when it disappeared
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  Speaker 2: and I was tempted to recreate the notes, I said, no,
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  Speaker 2: God has already given you the message. He's already told
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  Speaker 2: you what he wants you to say, So trust him.
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  Speaker 2: Don't trust your notes. Now, I'm going to go to
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  Speaker 2: what's left of the notes now and give you four
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  Speaker 2: part of me lessons four lessons. And so the first
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in from Exodus chapter two. Exodus chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read in let's see verse fifteen. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to Exodus chapter two in verse fifteen and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: that's in that first forty years, and dwelt in the
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  Speaker 2: land of Midian, where he would invest the next forty years.
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  Speaker 2: So Moses acted impulsively. He acted impulsively, and his royal
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  Speaker 2: career ended in an instant. You see, there are decisions
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  Speaker 2: that we make every single day. We have to decide.
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  Speaker 2: Are these decisions going to have eternal consequences? Uh oh,
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. So the Bible is teaching us that
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  Speaker 2: God used this disruption to reorient his life to divine calling.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action for today in this moment is,
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  Speaker 2: don't mistake disruption for disqualification. Do not mistake disruption for disqualification.
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  Speaker 2: Use seasons of exile. Use seasons when things don't go
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  Speaker 2: the way that you want them to. Use season when
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  Speaker 2: you seasons when you lose almost all of your notes,
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  Speaker 2: when that goes away, use that as preparation for your
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  Speaker 2: true purpose. Number two. Number two comes from verse twelve
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  Speaker 2: of Exodus chapter two. And he looked this way in
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  Speaker 2: that way, and when he saw that there was no man,
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  Speaker 2: he slew the Egyptian. Wait a minute. The world may
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  Speaker 2: misjudge you, but God knows your intent. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to go into a discussion about whether he should
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  Speaker 2: or should not have slayed the Egyptian. You know what
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  Speaker 2: is right. But the fact is, see, Moses decided he
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  Speaker 2: thought that he could he could enact justice in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: He thought he could take the law into his own hands.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he thought, and that backfired on him. How'd
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  Speaker 2: that work out for you? Moses? Fill in your name here?
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  Speaker 2: How does it work when you thought that you were
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  Speaker 2: going to do something that made sense in that moment
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  Speaker 2: and you realize way a minute that didn't work out?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so Pharaoh interpreted this as rebellion. Still, God didn't
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  Speaker 2: throw him away. God didn't throw Moses away. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: throw them away. So even when intentions are are and
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  Speaker 2: motives are mixed up and wrong, and now you're wondering
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  Speaker 2: what you should or should not have done, just remember
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  Speaker 2: go to God and choose to be faithful. Choose to
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  Speaker 2: be faithful to God, and then let God vindicate in
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  Speaker 2: his timing. There are times that we have to pay
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  Speaker 2: debt to our debt to society. There are times that
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  Speaker 2: we have to overcome stigma. There are times that we
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  Speaker 2: have to go through trials and tribulations. There are times,
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  Speaker 2: but then there is a time for God to vindicate
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  Speaker 2: himself in our lives, to show the world that He
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  Speaker 2: is able and indeed willing and available to get his
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  Speaker 2: will done through you. Number three comes from Exodus chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: verses twenty three to twenty five. God heard their groaning,
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  Speaker 2: meaning God's people, and remembered his covenant. God works through
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  Speaker 2: time or over time, over time where we're concerned, not
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  Speaker 2: just moments in time, So he's not just looking at
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  Speaker 2: a snapshot in our lives. He knows what he's going
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  Speaker 2: to do. He knows the covenant that he made with Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: He knew exactly how he was going to use Moses, Aaron,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody else, Joshua, Caleb, everybody else. And when he
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  Speaker 2: heard the groaning of his people at the appropriate time,
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  Speaker 2: God took notice of them. He remembered them, He acknowledged
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  Speaker 2: them as his own. So we want you to trust.
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  Speaker 2: I want to trust that God is working in multiple dimensions.
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  Speaker 2: He's not limited to ours. Even when our story feels
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  Speaker 2: disconnected from a larger picture, I said, feels And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, in Romans chapter eight and verse twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: All things work together for the good of those who
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  Speaker 2: love God to the called according to the purpose. God
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  Speaker 2: can redeem our poor choices for greater outcomes. Moses's rash
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  Speaker 2: decision wasn't God's plan, but God had went through it
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  Speaker 2: and used it. His exile became his training ground for leadership. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: God has a way of changing plans. It's not always comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: But we go with Thanks for joining us listening to 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,