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 Friday. It's
July eighteenth, in 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 through the Book of Exodus.
Of course, we're going from Egypt. We're on our journey
to the Promised Land. And our cap for today is yeah,
when things go wrong or maybe seem to go wrong,
I don't know when things go wrong. We'll get into
that in just a moment. But first I'd like to
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
we thank you for giving us the opportunity to come
into your presence. Please teach us to be holy. In
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. God has
given us the privilege of being holy. God said that
we we should be perfect for the Lord. Our God
is perfect, or you could say, because so, God is
the cause of our ability to do exactly what he said.
I'm not going to go into a detailed argument or
discussion like they did back in eighteen eighty eight and
get confused or sidetracked. I know what God said, and
that means that we need to be covered in the
righteousness of Christ and simply surrender our will to Him,
full stop, full stop. So when things do go quote wrong,
we know we're still covered. You understand, when we are
submitted to the will of God and we are yielding
our will to God, it's a nevertheless not my will,
not as I will, but as thou wilt. It's one
of those gets so many experiences if in fact we
are simply surrendering our will to God. And so I'll
give you a paraphrase from Exodus chapter five, verses six
through nine. As we begin, ye shall no more give
the people straw to make brick. This was the Pharaoh,
the king's response when God pardon me through Moses now
goes into Pharaoh and says, let my people go so
that they can sacrifice in the wilderness, so that they
can serve me. Let my people go. This is not
a request, It is not a negotiation. It is a
command from God himself, Blessed be his name. You gonna
let God's people go, Pharaoh and Pharaoh's like, now, I'm
not doing that. In fact, since y'all want rest, you
want a sabbath, what I'm gonna do is make it
more difficult for you, just like every slave master in
history has done. So, you shall no more give the
people what they need in order to do their work.
You won't give them that anymore. I'm gonna take that
straw away from you that you need to make brick
and hithertofore, let them go and gather the straw for themselves.
And the tail of the bricks which they did make
hithertofo ye shall lay upon them, and ye shall not
diminish aught thereof. Let me say it in another way,
you will no longer give the people straw to make
brick as before. Let them go and gather it for themselves.
But the number of bricks which they made before, you
shall still require it of them. So I'm gonna make
it more and more difficult, three four five times more difficult.
It was essential for binding the clay to the bricks,
and he said, no, I'm not going to do that.
And even though without the straw that was essential to
bind the clay to make the bricks, and the bricks
would crack and crumble if that was not there, and
it would slow them down immensely. The Pharaoh, that broken,
wicked king, that dude, wrote an executive order and set
you will continue to do everything I just said without
the resources that you need. You're going to figure it
out all on your own. And so Pharaoh's command meant
that they still had to produce those durable bricks without
being supplied the necessary material. Have you ever been in
a situation where the resources you need to do your
job have been withdrawn? I said, have you ever been
in a situation where the resources that you needed to
do your job were withdrawn? You had six people in
your office, Now you got two, huh, you and your
admin assistant, and now you still have to come up
with the exact same or maybe increased productivity. That's some
slave stuff, just like Pharaoh did back then. And so
we see that he didn't care anything about that. The
quota or the tale was still required of them. So
Pharaoh deliberately and the people of God's labor to break
their spirit. Oh, there's a command from your God. I
hear all of what you're saying. Yeah, let's see how
this goes. So the goal was to discredit Moses and Aaron,
making it seem like obedience to God would just bring suffering.
You want rest, You say you want to be a Christian,
You say you want to follow God in air quotes, Well,
I'll show you what happens when people defy me. This
is what the Pharaoh is saying. This is what Nebuchadnezzar
tried until God got to him. Ah, the Pharaoh, this Pharaoh.
That's what he tried until God got to him too.
And so this represents Satan's strategy like he's not creative,
it's the same strategy. It's been so effective that he's
been rinsing and repeating it from the day of Cain.
Increase burdens to distract from spiritual responsibility, spiritual awareness, spiritual awakening. Yes,
the moment that you commit yourself to God to get sick. Uh,
the moment you commit to doing God's will, you say
you're going to go into work early so that you
can be sure to be prepared. You're gonna worship, You're
gonna bring the levels down so that you can deal
with all of the stressors of the day. And then
you got people who also decide they're gonna come into
work early, and they're gonna start playing music that you
don't agree with, or they're going to come into your
office bump bump bump. Can I talk to you about something?
And it's like, ah, God, what in the world. And
so the added burden was intended to crush the rising
hope and that the people of God were to be
enlightened by God's promise of deliverance. And so in the
In the Book of Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred
and fifty eight, it reads, the people of God had
expected to be freed from bondage. Right you got this great,
big deliverer. Whom shall we say part of me? I
paused a quote right there, whom shall I say to
the children of Israel sent me I Am. Thus shalt
thou say to the children of Israel, I Am have
sent me unto you. And then when they go into
Pharaoh and they say, let my people go, and Pharaoh
does this, it's like, hold on. We were supposed to
be free, continuing the quote now, but instead of this,
their burdens were greatly increased. These discouraged, discouraging results were
due not to a failure of the divine plan, but
to the unbelief of the people and the cruelty of
the oppressors. Page two hundred and fifty nine. It is
the law of human mind that by beholding we become changed.
If the mind dwells upon the difficulties, Come on, y'all,
those of you who are bound to negative thinking, those
of you who are bound to complaining, those of you
who are bound to looking at your cup that has
some fresh clean water as all ways half full, half empty,
or whatever you want to call it, it's almost empty.
Them people like, if that is you here it is,
let me start it again. It is the law of
human mind that by beholding we become changed. If the
mind dwells upon the difficulties and in justice, it will
produce discouragement. So whatever you're focusing on, that's what you're
going to become. If it's always negative, if it's always
the bottom, if it's always something that's just not right,
then that's what it'll do, and it'll produce discouragement. But
God desired his people to look to him and not
to Pharaoh. Interesting, so when things go wrong, yield to guys.
Speaker 1: 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,