Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday, July one,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
study series Exodus the Journey to the Promised Land, and
our caption for today is the Hebrew Midwe Lives the
Hebrew Midwives. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
will get underway. Father, We thank you, thank you for
this day, thank you for holy women, thank you for
people who would rather die than dishonor you please make
us this way in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again, Death before dishonor. Can I just say that
right now? You see when God? Okay, let me say
like this in the New Testament, the people of God
said in the Early Church, the first century Church, should
we should we listen to God or humans if there
is an option where like the devil presented to Eve
at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil,
He offered her an opportunity to do something opposite of
what God's will was, and she decided to do what
was opposite of God's will. When Jesus was in the
wilderness tempted of the devil, yeah, the Bible says that
the devil gave him the opportunity to do the opposite
of what God said. But what did Jesus choose? He
chose what God said, and so death before dishonor like
we need to make a decision every single day that
we awake. Are we going to be on the Lord
side or on the devil side? How we use our
money the Lord's side or the devil side? How we
treat our spouses in children Lord's side or the devil's side.
How we move when we are on the road and
there is road rage, etc. How are we going to move?
Are we on the Lord side or or the devil's side?
Let me just read really quickly from the lesson writer.
Now one cannot understand the Book of Exodus without presupposing
teaches teachings of Genesis. The people of God moved to Egypt,
and after a time of great prosperity and peace, oh,
they were enslaved. God did not abandon his people to
their problems. Many of the people of God despaired of
their plight. We read about that so many places in
the scriptures. Yet in the time of distress, God comes
to help with his mighty hand. Did you hear that
in the time of distress, God came to help with
his mighty hand. The Bible encourages us, encourages us. In
the Book of Psalms, Chapter fifty and verse fifteen. Call
upon me in the day of trouble, and I will
deliver you, and you will glue glorify me. Now this
is very interesting to me. I'm going to share a
couple of lessons in a moment. But God's purpose for
our lives is often for his glory, I shouldn't say
often it is for his glory and for our benefit.
How does whatever it is that God is delivering us
through or from, how is it that through whatever we
are going through in our lives, whether triumph for trial,
how does it magnify Him as the just and loving
God that he is. He's all powerful, blessed be his name,
whether you're in triumph or you're in trial. How does
this show him to others about what he can do
for us and through them. If he can do it
for you, he can do it for your friends. If
he can do it for you or through you, he
can do it for your relatives. He can do it
through and for you. He can do it for the
that you meet on the road. And so here are
a few life lessons that I'd like to share from Exodus,
Chapter one, Verses nine through twelve, etc. The first one
is that true courage is obeying God when we are
pressured to conform. Let me read it now. In verse
seventeen of Exodus chapter one, the Bible reads, but the
midwives feared God even though there was a death decree,
even though they got a clear command from the pharaoh
or the king of that time, that they should destroy
the children, the boys, those people of God's boys, it says,
and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded.
See let me read it from the New English translation.
But the midwives, they feared God and did not do
what the king of Egypt had told them. They let
the boys. And so what does that mean for me?
I need to act in this way? I need to
identify one area where I am pressured to conform. I
think the Bible says, don't be conformed to this world,
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So is there an area that you are feeling tempted
to conform? Is it in your entertainment choices? Is it
in the conversations where people are calling you or texting
you and wanting to take you down a rabbit hole
where you know God would not have you to be
Wherever you are feeling the pressure to conform. You want
to bust back. When you are thinking about whether you
should argue with your spouse yes or no. When you're
tempted to conform, write that down, identify it. And now
I want you to pray deliberately God, I am feeling
pressure to conform in this key area to the way
that the devil would have me do it. Pray for
boldness to honor God above all. Number two comes from Exodus,
chapter one and verse twenty one. And it came to
pass because the midwives feared God that he made them houses.
God honors those who honor him. God honors those who
honor him. He will honor you if you honor him.
If you stand up for Jesus, he will stand up
for you. I think you're getting it. I think you're
getting it because the midwives they actually believed in God.
Like they trusted in God, they respected God. He blessed
them with the families of their own. Obedience to God's
will never goes unnoticed in heaven. And so what must
I do today? Well? Reflect today on a time when
obeying God brought unexpected blessings. You've had blessing upon blessings
in the past. You may be in that season of
blessings right now. Now. I want you to thank him.
Thank you him in prayer for seeing and rewarding the
faithfulness that he put in you. He's rewarding the good
work that he put in your bosom. It wasn't of
your own strength, lest any person should boast, but he
still gave you the reward. Let me put it this way.
He gave you the reward that Jesus is worthy of.
Mm hmmm, just because you cooperated with him. Now, let's
go to verse fifteen of Exodus, chapter one, and the
Bible reads and the King of Egypt spake to the
Hebrew midwives, of which the name of one was Shiffra,
the name of the other poor or in another translation,
the king said to the Hebrew wives, one of whom
was Shiffra, and the other poa. Now it says here
that we don't need a title they He just went
to the midwives and went to They were normal women.
They were average everyday women, but they trusted God. Nothing
to see here. These midwives were not queens or warriors.
Yet the scripture names them and not the pharaoh. See,
we can go through history, ancient history, and figure out
who the pharaoh of that time was. But these women
were named by God because God knows your name. God
knows your name. Even though sometimes we demigrate, subjugate, and
disrespect women, the Bible is showing us that God respects
these women of God, and he didn't even name the pharaoh.
Their quiet defiance changed the course of history. Don't minimize
your roles, serve faithfully where you are. Your obedience will
impact generations. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,