1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,359 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, April 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,119 twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 12 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,799 David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,560 Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, 14 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:49,759 and today is no exception. We are continuing in our 15 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,880 lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our 16 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,280 caption for today is given what you asked for, Given 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,359 what you asked for. We'll get into that in just 18 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:04,359 a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,480 everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very 20 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:10,120 first time. I'm asking you to go over to your 21 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,480 Daily Portion dot com. I want you to look for 22 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,280 that red button click the red button at your Daily 23 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,680 Portion dot com and subscribe there ind to that community, 24 00:01:20,719 --> 00:01:23,879 and also join our your Daily Portion community and let 25 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,599 us know where you are in the world at your 26 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:30,840 Daily Portion dot com. Also make sure I forgot to say, 27 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,120 to pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion guide. We 28 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:39,079 continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, 29 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,040 and then we will get underway. Father, thank you for 30 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,159 this day and for loving us beyond our capacity to believe. 31 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:49,799 I ask you to give us the fullness of your 32 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:53,159 holy spirit. Teach us to serve you with everything we 33 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:56,359 have and everything that we are, and teach us to 34 00:01:56,519 --> 00:02:00,079 require and request only the things that you blame. Y 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:07,120 in Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and a man again. Okay, 36 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,280 given what you asked for. Now I do tell the 37 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,120 truth here and say that I really don't like the 38 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:20,639 saying be careful what you pray for. I like to say, rather, 39 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,599 be prayerful what you care for. Be prayerful about the 40 00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:30,039 things that you care about. But let me just come 41 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:31,800 back a little bit. I'm going to dial it back. 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,000 I will say it one time. This is the context. 43 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,159 Be careful what you pray for, because you just might 44 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,800 get it rings true when we're praying for stuff that 45 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,919 we should not have. The people of God prayed for 46 00:02:46,039 --> 00:02:50,080 quail when God was giving them manna from heaven. They 47 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,360 got it, and they also got diseases and death. You understand, 48 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,919 God's people asked for a king. When God was their king, 49 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:02,840 they got what they desired, and their women were pillaged, 50 00:03:03,199 --> 00:03:08,400 their properties were taken and spoiled, and the nation started 51 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:14,439 its decline very clearly because human kings that are not 52 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,199 full of God's holy spirit come with all kinds of wickedness. 53 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,479 And so sometimes the processes that we use in order 54 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,759 to select the leaders that should be over us. I 55 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:35,120 hope you're listening very clearly, do have consequences if the 56 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:41,280 leaders do not love God. I didn't say talk about 57 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,800 loving God. I said, actually love God. Somebody can hear 58 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,039 me this morning. But more than that, I want you 59 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,680 to hear the scriptures. The Bible teaches us that God's 60 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:54,800 original plan in Isaiah chapter thirty three, verse twenty two. 61 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:57,960 Of course, in the creation we see this reality God 62 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:03,400 being the one that should rule over us because he's just, 63 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,360 he's holy, he only thinks of our beds best interest. Okay, 64 00:04:07,479 --> 00:04:11,879 he's perfect, the Bible reads here, the Lord is our judge, 65 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,879 the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king. 66 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,319 But then, of course the Bible teaches us that the 67 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,920 people demanded a human king. And in the context of 68 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:27,720 like the other nations, we want a king like the 69 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:32,680 other nations. What the other nations were wicked? Bible says 70 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,120 here in First Samuel, chapter eight and verse five, make 71 00:04:35,319 --> 00:04:39,600 us a king to judge us like all the nations. 72 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,759 It almost sounds like when Aaron was down at the 73 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,120 bottom of the mount, when Moses was in the cloud 74 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,759 with God at the top of Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai. 75 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 He's receiving the blueprint to teach us about salvation. He's 76 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:02,399 receiving the ten Commandment law ten Commandment law etched and 77 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:07,480 emblazoned on sapphire stones, the law of love. He's receiving that. 78 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,079 And the people are saying, we don't know where Moses is. 79 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,439 Give us a God that we can serve it. We 80 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,480 don't know where Moses is, we don't know what happened 81 00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:20,759 to him. Let's have something else, like let's replace God 82 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,240 right here, because Moses is the one that connects us, 83 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,519 and we don't know where he is, So they get antsy, 84 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:30,240 they lose their minds, and fool full. Aaron, who is 85 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:36,639 supposed to be the image or the representation of connecting 86 00:05:37,079 --> 00:05:41,079 people to God and speaking to God for the people, 87 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:45,360 he erects a golden calf, and the people sell their 88 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:49,839 souls because they want something like the other nations. Uh oh, 89 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,199 we need to be very prayerful what we care for 90 00:05:53,319 --> 00:05:57,000 in this case too. Now the Bible teaches us in 91 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:00,560 First Samuel, chapter eight, all of these details. I'll read 92 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,439 a few of the passages from verse four, five, six, seven, 93 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:07,639 and I think I'll just pause right there. Then all 94 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,959 the elders of God's people gathered themselves together and came 95 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,240 to the prophet Samuel unto Rama and said, unto him, 96 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,240 behold thou warn't old, and thy sons walk not in 97 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:23,600 thy ways. Now make us a king to judge us 98 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:26,480 like all the nations. Did you hear what you just said? 99 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,240 People of God, you want to be judged like all 100 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,720 the other nations. You want a leader that is not God. 101 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,480 You want a leader who fronts like he is like God. 102 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:41,839 But ain't come on now, And the Bible says, but 103 00:06:42,079 --> 00:06:46,199 the thing displeased Samuel of course it displeased the prophet 104 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,959 of God. Of course it did, because they were now 105 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,199 rejecting God. They were trying to replace God with a 106 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:58,240 human ingenuity. The Bible said, the thing displeased Samuel when 107 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:00,920 they said, give us a king to judge justin. Samuel 108 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:03,519 prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord said, unto Samuel, 109 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,800 hearken unto the voice, Oh God, hearken unto the voice. 110 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,199 I want you to hear the process. It was a 111 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,800 process that was chosen by the people to replace God, 112 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:22,839 and God accepted their vote m M. Bible says, and 113 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,439 the Lord said, unto Samuel, hearken unto the voice of 114 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,959 the people. In all that they say, unto THEE. For 115 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,839 they have not rejected THEE, but they have rejected me. 116 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,560 That I should not rule over them. Be careful what 117 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:43,319 you pray for. In this case, you just might get it. 118 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:47,040 Somebody just understood what I said. There are times that 119 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,000 people come together and determine what they desire, or at 120 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:54,079 least what they think they desire, and when we get it. 121 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:56,959 When they get it, we also get all of the 122 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:02,120 terrible consequences that come with rejecting God. In this case, 123 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,600 nations are reeling from poor decisions, choosing leaders that don't 124 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,360 love God. I wish I had the time. The Bible 125 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:14,079 teaches here that there is an appeal of a king, 126 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,600 conformity of desire like the other nations, and so the 127 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,920 peers together the nation pressured each other. There was a 128 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,160 cultural acceptance. There was a fear of being different. There 129 00:08:27,279 --> 00:08:32,240 was a visible leadership that they desired. They desired a 130 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:37,120 visible leadership. They wanted tangible authority. They wanted human solutions. 131 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:41,279 They wanted a visible what they considered to be security 132 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,559 and immediate answers. Rather than being in connection with God, 133 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:49,720 submitting themselves to him, hearing his voice through the power 134 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,039 of the Holy Ghost, and whenever God would choose to 135 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,360 speak to them through holy prophets. Well, there was a 136 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:01,000 trust to transfer. They decided to trust humans. They decided 137 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:05,960 to trust their own mindset. They have rejected me, God said. 138 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,080 They trusted human systems. They were relying on what they 139 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:14,799 thought would be visible help, doubting God's methods and seeking 140 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:18,840 worldly security. And the Bible does teach us when they 141 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:24,600 shall say peace and safety in rejection of God, sudden 142 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,320 destruction shall come upon the earth when we do this, 143 00:09:29,159 --> 00:09:31,279 and of course we have this even in our day, 144 00:09:31,799 --> 00:09:36,440 so really the core issue remains choosing human ways over 145 00:09:36,639 --> 00:09:43,639 God's leadership only have negative and terrible consequences. 146 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot 147 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 148 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 149 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,