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 Monday. It's
September twenty two, 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 for this final week through
the Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is
Offerings and the Spirit, who the This is gonna be
good offerings and the Spirit. Before we get into that,
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
Thank you, thank you for giving us the Spirit of
Christ as our model. Please help us to receive the
Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, so that we can live
that model in real time. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Oh my, I remember many years ago,
many many many years ago, when somebody wanted something from
me that I wasn't willing to give because there are
some things that must not leave my possession, you understand.
So it doesn't matter what it is. It's just the
principle I want to share today. And someone came and said, hey,
I'd like to have that thing that's in your possession.
And I'm like, nah, I don't give that out because
I needed to stay with me at all times, okay,
And the person said, look how I did X for you?
First of all, I didn't request whatever X was. Look
how I did X for you, And you're not going
to give me that to borrow to use whatever. And
I went and got X and put that thing into
the person's hand and said I don't need your X. Okay, okay.
Point in this case it sounds almost retributive. But what
I'm saying to you is the reason why I did
not want the thing from the person was because now
it seems transactional. I didn't even request the thing from
the person and they gave it, saying now you owe me. Now,
if we had a contract or something like that, then
that would be perfectly fine. But I never made such
an agreement. You see where I'm coming from. And so
there are times that people have transactional relationships with God,
even if the example I gave you was a poor one.
I think you get the point. Yeah, sometimes people live
transactionally with God. If I do this, God owes me that.
And it's like no, no, no, no, no, it has
never been that way. It has never been that way.
And so we begin with that thought from Exodus, chapter
thirty five, in verse five, it reads, take ye from
among you offering. This is what God is telling to Moses.
Unto the Lord who's soever is of a willing heart,
let him bring it an offering of the Lord gold
and silver and brass. Yeah. So compelling people to give.
That is not biblical. Inviting people to give and showing
them how God has blessed them, and this is what
he says about it. That's a different thing. But God
is saying in this instance that he values offerings given
only voluntarily and not under compulsion, not under coercion, not
under duress. The people of God gave freely out of
gratitude for his deliverance. And then it got to the
point that the people of God had given so much,
they had sown so much into the ministry of building
the Tabernacle, that God went back to Moses and said, Okay,
tell him to stop. Tell him to stop. It's too much.
We got enough. Just tell him to stop. Wouldn't it
be wonderful if, in twenty twenty five and beyond, if
the Lord delays his coming, that God's people would be
so freely giving and generous in their relationships with people
into the ministry and call of God, that he said,
it's enough, you can just stop here, we have enough.
Wouldn't it be wonderful that the poor that we have
among us, that they would no longer be a test
for us, but it will be a testimony that now
We've resolved this issue among God's people, wouldn't it be wonderful?
But God has given us the privilege of giving freely,
not coerce, not under compulsion, not under due rest, not
from some guilty plea or guilt writing plea. Give from
a thankful heart, brothers and sisters, and not out of obligation,
knowing that generosity reflects trust in God's provision. Yeah, my
son said the other day. I don't remember if I
told you this, but my son said the other day
when we were discussing money. I've been teaching him about
money in a way that maybe is different than other people.
But I remember him saying when we were we were
we were talking about what he owed me based on
an experience, based on something that we shared about school, whatever.
And now he gets some money, and he said, and
I asked him, like, how do you want to how
do you want to settle this score with me? Like
how you want to deal with that? And he was like,
take it all, deal with it this way? And I
said all of it right now. He was like, yeah,
take it all. And I said okay. He said, yeah,
you can get more. We can always get more. We
can always get more. You see, the young man already
understands that God is the God of abundance. So how
can we be stingy? How can we hold on to
how can we have our our grasp closed? When it
comes to returning to God? What is his He's the
one that gives us the power to get well, That's
what the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter eighteen. So if
that is the case, then generosity should be the only
outcome from the people of God, full stop. And so
from genis from Exodus chapter thirty five and verse thirty one,
the Bible reads, and he filled him with the Spirit
of God in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge,
and in all manner of workmanship. Now we see that
God used some human beings to build the sanctuary, and
he's speaking of a certain set of people. And he
did this more than once, by the way, and in
this case the brother that he gave power and wisdom to.
It was to give that work to the work of God.
You see. So when he filled those people with the
Holy Ghost and with skill, and with understanding and knowledge
of all kinds of work, it was for the work
of God. It was for the glory of God, I
think you know where we're going here. So the Holy
Ghost empowers God's people with skills and creativity. What are
you doing with yours? What are you doing with your
skills and creativity? Are you using it for the glory
of God hmm and excellence for the building of His kingdom?
No matter what else you do out there in the workforce,
no matter what you do as a professional, whatever you
do as a business owner, whether it's s corpse corporate
in your countries, whatever it means. Are you a big
corporate structure, are your small business? Are you just a freelancer?
Whatever it is, I said, just a freelancer, like not
a fortune five hundred company. That's what I mean by that.
If that is your reality, whichever of those categories that
devolve upon you, it is for the Kingdom of God.
If you are unemployed, under employed, overemployed, whatever the reality is,
the power that God has given you through His spirit
and skill and understanding and workmanship craftsmanship is for the
glory of God and the Kingdom of God. And then, finally,
in verse seven of Exodus, chapter thirty six, for the
stuff they had was sufficient, I said that to you
earlier they had given to the point that it was
sufficient and for all the work to make it and
too much. I love to see this over abundance. I
love to see where God's people give so much into
his work that there is an overflow. So we ask
God today that he will give us the kind of
heart that is the spirit of giving, and we will
have even generosity wars among ourselves, so that we know
that God can't be outgiven, no.
Speaker 3: Matter how were joining us in true friends peace 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah,