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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord that your promise has always come with

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Speaker 1: In Jesus name, Amen, thank you for praying with me today.

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Speaker 1: Continue listening for an incredible Bible story brought to you

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Speaker 2: The Lord gives water and victories. In our last story,

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Speaker 2: we learned about the protecting power of God. Pharaoh had

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Speaker 3: Hello, I'm Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible

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Speaker 3: in a Year In our last episode, we saw God

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Speaker 3: also witness the Israelites complaining and grumbling, like impatient children

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Speaker 3: God continued to provide and promised that as long as

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Speaker 3: Today we will see how God provides once again, even

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Speaker 3: as complaints continue. Listen to Moses' exasperated response to the

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Speaker 2: The sweet joys of freedom from slavery lasted only a moment.

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Speaker 2: a book and recited to Joshua continually. God said, and

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Speaker 2: Moses built an altar to the Lord. There. God had

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Speaker 3: God has faithfully provided passage and provision for his people,

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Speaker 3: complain again. The grumbling spreads like a virus toxic through

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Speaker 3: why isn't God coming through? Why is God not taking

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Speaker 3: people sternly, why do you act like God is not faithful?

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Speaker 3: and the people needed to see this with their own

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Speaker 3: a different man. He is no longer that fugitive living

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Speaker 3: But Moses, being an older man, begins to tire and

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Speaker 3: Joshua and his army are given the victory. So untrained,

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Speaker 3: and Moses built an altar to acknowledge the victory that

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Speaker 3: In spiritual warfare. We have victory in Christ. Though we

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Speaker 3: Next time we'll hear God reaffirm his covenant and give

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Speaker 3: thank you for today's scripture, that you miraculously delivered your

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Speaker 3: upon the people's lives. We thank you that in our

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Speaker 3: for one another and hold each other's arms high in

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Speaker 3: victory in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast.

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