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
August 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 through the Book of Exodus, and
our caption for today is when faith falters, when faith falls.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of the ways
that we continue to build faith and fellowship. I'm not
going to pray yet. I just need to say one thing.
There are a few of you, which I understand why
you're requesting. You're wanting the Friday time that we have
together to be a recap of the days from before.
But the way that I have seen this lesson for
years I'm talking about a couple decades now, is that
a lot of times people just kind of blow by Friday. Well,
Friday has its own lessons, Friday has its own blessings
for us, and people just kind of run by it.
So I am deliberate by not just making it a
quick review of what we have already done. We can
go back and listen to those or watch those, right,
but we need to really milk the lesson from Friday
as its own teaching, which is why I also give it.
I give it a title. Okay, And so that's the rationale.
Let's go ahead and pray and then we'll get underway. Father,
We thank you for Fridays, thank you for this time
of preparation. Please help us to serve you with everything
we are. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah,
when faith falters? What do you do if your faith
is tested? Now, I'm not going to say that your
faith falters. I don't know you like that, And I'm
not going to say that everybody's faith falters. I don't
know you like that. What I am going to say
is that when faith falters in your case, what do
you do about it? That's a real live question, what
do you do about it? And so what we're going
to do is is read some of the quell. We'll
read from Friday's Lesson from Patriarchs and Prophet's page two
hundred and seventy seven, and it reads, the Passover was
to be both commemorative and typical, meaning that we look
back and see what God did for his people during
what we would now call the First Passover. But we
also say, oh, wait a minute, we have to look forward.
We have to look forward and see, well, what was
God doing there in preparation for something in the future.
Let me continue the quote, not pointing only back to
the deliverance of Egypt from Egypt, but forward to the
greater deliverance which Christ was to accomplish in freeing his
people from the bondage of sin. The sacrificial lamb represents
the lamb of God, in whom is our only hope
of salvation. So when your faith, if God forbid, your
faith is faltering, if God forbid, you find yourself diverting
or diverging from the path that God has marked out
for you, I want you to remember that God delivered
his people back in the time that they were being
oppressed by the Egyptians, and He has made provision for
your salvation, not only to be delivered from your earthly woes,
not only to be delivered from depression, which we need,
not only to be delivered from your financial woes where
your month is longer than your money, not only to
be delivering us from those bad relationships that we probably
shouldn't have gotten into anyway, not only that, but also
also delivering us from sin full stop. Like there are
things that we have done in our lives or we
have neglected to do, where we should have surrendered our
will to God, and we said no to God. Yes,
So when our faith falters, God forbid. In that way,
we can go to first John chapter two, verses one
and two, that says, my little children, these things rite
eye unto you, that ye sin not. And if any
person sins. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ,
the righteous one who has become the propitiation, the mercy see,
the one who takes our place, the one who says,
Justice demands your eternal death. Justice demands that because you've sinned,
all who sin and comes short of the glory of
God must die. The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
And we're talking about the second death. However, Jesus being
the mercy see, Jesus, being the one who stood in
for us, stepped in and took our place. He took
the death that we deserve, so we can have the
life that he deserves. Since that is the case, we
have a reason if our faith falters, to look back
and say, God, we see what you've do in the past,
and then say God, thank you, thank you. Through Christ,
now I have the power to be victorious over every
single besetting sin. Let me continue the quote. The sacrificial
lamb represents the lamb of God, in whom is our
only hope of salvation, says the apostle Christ. Our passover
is sacrificed for us. Thank God, thank God, thank God.
It was not enough that the Pascal lamb be slain.
Its blood must be sprinkled upon the door posts, so
that the merits of Christ's blood must be applied to
the soul. So it's not enough for me to shout
into this microphone and tell you all of the right
answers from the Bible, as if it's a quiz or
a test or an examination of some point of some sort,
where everybody says, yep, that's the right answer. Move on
to the next lesson, Elder. No, no, no, no. This is
about God putting this so deep into our soul that
it shows in our relationships, how we treat people, It
shows in our bank registers, how we use and steward
the money that God has entrusted to us. It doesn't
matter the amount it shows in every single facet of
our lives. Yes, we must believe, not only that He
died for the whole world. I used to talk to
my mom about this. She struggled, Lord bless her. She struggled.
She didn't know how to apply his love for her
because she did not receive the love when she was
young that she deserved being a woman born into this world.
Everybody born into this world should experience love, But sometimes
it doesn't come. But we taught her over time to
start to believe that God loved her as an individual.
And there's some people out there just like her. You
may be one of those people. Can easily apply the
love of God, the mercy of God to other people,
but when it comes to you, it starts to you
start to hitch a little bit. Well, this is for you.
We must believe not only that he died for the world,
but that he died for us individually. We must appropriate
to ourselves the virtue of the atoning sacrifice. I thank
God for the virtue I think Jesus said when the
woman who was hemorrhaging from her lady parts for twelve long, excruciating, embarrassing,
overwhelming years, when he experienced the touch from her, I
know what I just said. He experienced the touch from her,
He said, virtue has left me who touched me, And
of course shivering and grateful and amaze the woman and thankful.
The woman is the one there who called upon the
power of God by faith, and she was healed of
her disease. And so three quick lessons. Three quick lessons
pass over as both historic and prophetic. We've already said
that so as you reflect on the past deliverance of
God in your life, also ask him to reveal what
he wants to deliver you from today. And then number two,
the action is do not just acknowledge Jesus as savior,
accept his sacrifice as your own. Say it aloud today,
say it proud today, Jesus, I receive your blood over
my life. And then finally, worship and remembrance are ongoing
acts of identity. Act like you're connected to God, if
in fact you are. Make it a great day.
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,