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, April
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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
caption for today is given what you asked for, Given
what you asked for. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father, thank you for
this day and for loving us beyond our capacity to believe.
I ask you to give us the fullness of your
holy spirit. Teach us to serve you with everything we
have and everything that we are, and teach us to
require and request only the things that you blame. Y
in Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and a man again. Okay,
given what you asked for. Now I do tell the
truth here and say that I really don't like the
saying be careful what you pray for. I like to say, rather,
be prayerful what you care for. Be prayerful about the
things that you care about. But let me just come
back a little bit. I'm going to dial it back.
I will say it one time. This is the context.
Be careful what you pray for, because you just might
get it rings true when we're praying for stuff that
we should not have. The people of God prayed for
quail when God was giving them manna from heaven. They
got it, and they also got diseases and death. You understand,
God's people asked for a king. When God was their king,
they got what they desired, and their women were pillaged,
their properties were taken and spoiled, and the nation started
its decline very clearly because human kings that are not
full of God's holy spirit come with all kinds of wickedness.
And so sometimes the processes that we use in order
to select the leaders that should be over us. I
hope you're listening very clearly, do have consequences if the
leaders do not love God. I didn't say talk about
loving God. I said, actually love God. Somebody can hear
me this morning. But more than that, I want you
to hear the scriptures. The Bible teaches us that God's
original plan in Isaiah chapter thirty three, verse twenty two.
Of course, in the creation we see this reality God
being the one that should rule over us because he's just,
he's holy, he only thinks of our beds best interest. Okay,
he's perfect, the Bible reads here, the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king.
But then, of course the Bible teaches us that the
people demanded a human king. And in the context of
like the other nations, we want a king like the
other nations. What the other nations were wicked? Bible says
here in First Samuel, chapter eight and verse five, make
us a king to judge us like all the nations.
It almost sounds like when Aaron was down at the
bottom of the mount, when Moses was in the cloud
with God at the top of Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai.
He's receiving the blueprint to teach us about salvation. He's
receiving the ten Commandment law ten Commandment law etched and
emblazoned on sapphire stones, the law of love. He's receiving that.
And the people are saying, we don't know where Moses is.
Give us a God that we can serve it. We
don't know where Moses is, we don't know what happened
to him. Let's have something else, like let's replace God
right here, because Moses is the one that connects us,
and we don't know where he is, So they get antsy,
they lose their minds, and fool full. Aaron, who is
supposed to be the image or the representation of connecting
people to God and speaking to God for the people,
he erects a golden calf, and the people sell their
souls because they want something like the other nations. Uh oh,
we need to be very prayerful what we care for
in this case too. Now the Bible teaches us in
First Samuel, chapter eight, all of these details. I'll read
a few of the passages from verse four, five, six, seven,
and I think I'll just pause right there. Then all
the elders of God's people gathered themselves together and came
to the prophet Samuel unto Rama and said, unto him,
behold thou warn't old, and thy sons walk not in
thy ways. Now make us a king to judge us
like all the nations. Did you hear what you just said?
People of God, you want to be judged like all
the other nations. You want a leader that is not God.
You want a leader who fronts like he is like God.
But ain't come on now, And the Bible says, but
the thing displeased Samuel of course it displeased the prophet
of God. Of course it did, because they were now
rejecting God. They were trying to replace God with a
human ingenuity. The Bible said, the thing displeased Samuel when
they said, give us a king to judge justin. Samuel
prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord said, unto Samuel,
hearken unto the voice, Oh God, hearken unto the voice.
I want you to hear the process. It was a
process that was chosen by the people to replace God,
and God accepted their vote m M. Bible says, and
the Lord said, unto Samuel, hearken unto the voice of
the people. In all that they say, unto THEE. For
they have not rejected THEE, but they have rejected me.
That I should not rule over them. Be careful what
you pray for. In this case, you just might get it.
Somebody just understood what I said. There are times that
people come together and determine what they desire, or at
least what they think they desire, and when we get it.
When they get it, we also get all of the
terrible consequences that come with rejecting God. In this case,
nations are reeling from poor decisions, choosing leaders that don't
love God. I wish I had the time. The Bible
teaches here that there is an appeal of a king,
conformity of desire like the other nations, and so the
peers together the nation pressured each other. There was a
cultural acceptance. There was a fear of being different. There
was a visible leadership that they desired. They desired a
visible leadership. They wanted tangible authority. They wanted human solutions.
They wanted a visible what they considered to be security
and immediate answers. Rather than being in connection with God,
submitting themselves to him, hearing his voice through the power
of the Holy Ghost, and whenever God would choose to
speak to them through holy prophets. Well, there was a
trust to transfer. They decided to trust humans. They decided
to trust their own mindset. They have rejected me, God said.
They trusted human systems. They were relying on what they
thought would be visible help, doubting God's methods and seeking
worldly security. And the Bible does teach us when they
shall say peace and safety in rejection of God, sudden
destruction shall come upon the earth when we do this,
and of course we have this even in our day,
so really the core issue remains choosing human ways over
God's leadership only have negative and terrible consequences.
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,