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 Sabbath. It's
August two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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. This is
lesson number six, where almost halfway through this quarter's lesson.
Our caption for today is through the Red Sea. Through
the Red Sea. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
we thank you for giving us this day our daily bread.
Thank you for giving us the fullness of your spirit.
And I'm asking you to get us through the red
seeds of doubt, the red seeds of broken relationship. Please
get us through the red seas of separation from you.
In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man
again through the red sea. Ah. Okay, So let's go
ahead and jump in to Exodus chapter fourteen, and I'll
read verse twenty one. That's the book of Exodus chapter fourteen,
and I will read verse twenty one, and the Bible
reads and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.
I want you to get the scene there. Moses is
stretching forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord
caused I want you to type in the chat God
cost God caused the Lord caused the sea to go
back by a strong east wind. All that night. The
Lord did that. He caused that sea to go back
by a strong east wind. All night. You see, God's
ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts.
As high as the heavens are or above the earth,
are God's thoughts above our thoughts. I don't understand why
God didn't just transport these guys all, however, many millions
of them, and just skip the whole Red Sea incident,
Like what is the purpose of that? In the same
way that Philip was transported. I don't even know what
the right word for it is. But he was with
this dude that he just got finished baptizing, and then boom,
immediately he was an Azotus, Like why didn't God just
do that? Why didn't he just do that? Why didn't
he lift them up and push them over the Red Sea?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Why did he need to go through all of that?
Now I just imposed a word, I said need. Well,
he didn't need to do anything. He did whatever he
was planning to do because he was planning to do it.
And I like the lessons that we get through it.
So first of all, First of all, the wind ruach
that is in the Hebrew tongue of that term wind
is the same as breath. It is saying spirit. It
is the same word that is used for the Spirit
of God in Genesis, chapter one and verse twelve. Can
I just say that when God is about to move
you from here to where you need to be, when
God is setting your feet along the right pathway for
your life and eternity, the Holy Ghost is going to
be present, and he's going to be present to do
exactly what he needs to do with no residue of
your old life. You see, the Bible teaches us by
using the word dry ground, dry ground, and it's and
it is yabasha. I know what I would think if
I heard somebody say that, just calm down, calm down,
But that's what it is in Hebrew yabasha. That means
complete dryness, not muddy or damp, And that means that
when God, God delivers you, he could he delivers you,
He delivers you completely completely. The Spirit of God did
what was impossible in nature for nature to do. There
is literally no way in the world that the Red
Sea could have parted. There is no way in the
world except the Holy Ghost blew on this water and
it moved from side to the other side, and then
make a pathway that is completely dry, not muddy, not damp,
except that God did it, the same God who separated
the land from the waters, the same one that separated
the waters above from the waters beneath, the same God
that put all of those living creatures in the sea.
He said, okay, it's time to separate. What does God
need to separate you from today this Sabbath morning? What
old paradigm, what old broken thought? Process? What relationship? What habit?
What addiction? Does God need to separate you from to day? Now?
From the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred and
eighty seven, it reads, the mighty hand of God was
stretched out. God's people passed over the sea dry shod,
and the Egyptian host were overwhelmed. You see, the devil
is overwhelmed by the power of God. The devil cannot
have dominion over the people of God who are passing
through on dry ground, because the Holy Ghost is there.
Who I think you're getting it now? And then from
the book Christ's object Lessons, page one hundred and seventy seven.
The path where God leads the way may lie through
the desert or the sea, but it is a safe path.
Whether he takes you through the desert, it's the safe
path if he takes you through the Red Sea, it
is the safe path. And if I were to fast
forward the story some years and it was through the
Jordan River, again it is the safe path. And from
the book Prophets in King's page two hundred and fifty three,
the people of God were unarmed, untrained, and trembling. But
God type in the chat, go ahead one more time.
But God opened the way and their faith grew by deliverance.
Thank God, so many passages we could use here to
enhance what we are studying. But let me just say,
the Red Sea crossing was not only about the deliverance
of God's people, but it was of the judgment of
God's enemies. I wish I had the time the moment.
This moment sealed God's people's liberation and began their identity
as free covenant people. And I know, I know that
they really still had a slave mentality. Everybody that was
above age twenty at the time, those individuals had a
slave mentality, except for Joshua and Caleb. Even dear Moses,
there was a level of a slave mentality even with him.
I wish I had the time aaron, even with him,
But but it was a baptism, a baptism of faith
and separation from those false gods and false systems. I'm
going to talk about another one of those false gods.
If the Lord spaars life tomorrow and slavery. So in
everyday life, what we need to be thinking about is
that God makes a way through impossible barriers. I think
you can say amen to this. He's done it for you.
What looks like a wall of water becomes a path
of freedom when God leads the wind or the spirit
work all night. Don't mistake silence for absence. I think
somebody said something that that that that something endures for
a night, but joy comes in the morning. Weeping may
endure for a night, Silence may endure for a night.
Your troubles may endure for a night, but then then
joy comes in the morning. So victory comes by faith
and not force. God's people didn't fight. They walked forward
in obedience. Shout to e T and the forward squad
at Apok. They walked forward in obedience, and God fought
for them. Because we can stand still and see the salvation.
Speaker 1: 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,