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 Wednesday, July nine,
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 for Excuses four Excuses. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
We thank you for this Wednesday morning. Thank you for
getting us thus far into our work week. Please help
us to never give you excuses. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. There is so much that I
could say right here about excuses, but let me just
ask you a simple question. Is God no inabilities? Are
your trials, your temptations bigger than your God? Are your trials, temptations, inabilities, inadequacies,
the things that you've done, your mistakes, your ability to
sin bigger than your God. That's a real life question.
And the reason why this matters is because sometimes people
make the things that are our earthly reality bigger than
the God who created us. We do not accept that mindset,
not as real believers, we don't accept that mindset. And
so this is something with which our brother Moses would
have had to contend vital question for all of us.
Did God call you or not? Did He call you
or not to do whatever it is that he has. Well,
now we're saying, yes, that he called you to do,
and if he did call you, then trust him and
get about the work. Yeah. I put that in all
caps in my notes so we can remember that, okay.
And so what we're going to do is, first of all,
talk about the signs that God gave Moses to perform
in order to strengthen his faith. Okay. So we go
into first the Bible book of Exodus, Exodus, chapter four
and verse three, and the Bible reads and he said
cast it, meaning the staff, on the ground. And he
cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent,
and Moses fled from before it. So Moses was amazed
by what God had done. He was like, WHOA, that
was not expected. But this sign was to demonstrate God's
power even over nature. The same one who said let
there be light, and there was light was able to
cause a staff to become a real live snake or serpent,
unlike the sleight of hand that the Egyptian would have
done later. So this sign demonstrated God's power over nature
and to show that what Moses held in his hand
became a divine instrument. Are you in God's hands? Are
you in God's hands? Are you an instrument in his
hands for his glory? Verse six of Exodus chapter four.
And the Lord said furthermore to him, put now thine
hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into
his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his
hand was leprous as snow. Wait a minute verse seven,
and he said, put thine hand into thine bosom again.
And he put his hand into his bosom, and he
turned again as his other flesh. This shot sign showed
God's power to afflict and to heal. He has mastery
over disease and restoration. So there's literally nothing that the
Egyptians could have thrown at them. There is literally no
trial or temptation. There is literally nothing that could stand
in the way of Moses and the people of God,
as long as they trusted him. And then, of course,
in verse nine we see, and it shall come to
pass if they will not believe, thou shalt take of
the water of the river and pour it upon the
dry land, and the water shall become blood. And this
sign symbolized God's authority over Egypt's life source, the Nile
and foreshadowed the first plague. But let me just say
as well, when you look at the plagues that would
have come later, they attacked all of the false gods
of the day, the false gods that the people worship,
the God of fertility, the God of part of me.
We go and continue. So God showing in these miracles
that He's the one, true and living God. Blessed be
his name. And so in verse thirteen the Bible reads,
Oh my Lord, I pray, Oh Lord, send I pray
thee by the hand of Him whom thou shalt send
somebody else? What and the Lord verse fourteen was kindled.
His anger was kindled against Moses. And so when God
had shown him signs, when God had called him very clearly,
given him clear instructions, and Moses decided that there were
reasons why he couldn't do what God had said to him,
and then gave the ultimate excuse at the end, like
please just get somebody else to do this. God was angry.
I was he angry? Because God created, God created the
heavens and the earth. God created Moses. When Moses said that,
you know he was slow of speech, God God said,
I made your mouth. How could you say you're slow
of speech when I made your mouth. Never mind the
fact that we read now in Acts chapter seven that
he was mighty in speech. God gave him erran just
in case to take away all of his excuses. If
God being the creator of his mouth, if God being
the one who sent him, if God being the one
who created the heavens and the earth and has complete
control over every single thing in the universe, was not enough,
he said, Okay, here's Aaron. So Aaron will be like
a prophet to you. You'll be as God to him.
He'll be your mouth. Peace. Now go, And Moses is like,
please just send somebody else. So really we need to
evaluate and tell ourselves the truth and tell God the truth,
and say, God, I just really make an excuses I
don't want to go. I'm afraid. Rather than making up
all of these different reasons why and please and having
all of these long discussions, just say God, I'm fearful.
I feel like if I do this, then this will happen.
Will you give me the strength to do exactly what
you have asked me to do? And so the Bible
teaches us that Moses made this discussion about him rather
than about God. When we start to focus on ourselves,
then we risk rebelling against God. Let me go to
Exodus chapter four, verses eleven and twelve, where the Bible reads,
and the Lord said, unto him who hath made man's mouth,
or who maketh him unable to speak, or death, or
seeing or blind, have not I the Lord? Now therefore go,
and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee
what to say. So the lesson that we need to
know is God does not call the qualified, but qualifies
the called. I didn't want to get tongue twisted. And
the Bible says, for it is God that worketh in you,
both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Number two, God makes provision for our weaknesses, but not
our excuses. See Moses ultimately humbled himself. But at some point,
if Moses had not humbled himself, then God would have
just moved on and used someone else. Yeah, he would
have just used someone else. We have other situations in
history where where God said, my grace is sufficient for you,
but where people decided you know it, no it's not,
And God just moved on sadly so and still got
his will done. And then, of course, delayed obedience can
cost us eternally. Delayed obedience is disobedience. Make it a
great day, peace.
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,