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
September thirteen, 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. We are
actually in lesson number twelve of thirteen under the caption
please show me your gloe glory, Oh God, please show
me your glory. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank
you for this day and the blessing of the Sabbath hours.
Thank you for the time that You've entrusted to us
to get closer to you and live like you would
have us to live in these last days. Father, please
please make us holy in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Show me, please your glory. Norman, are
you That's what I want to know. Jonathan, are you listening?
Show me your glory? Yeah, So there's so much here.
I'll just begin with the Bible Book of Exodus, chapter
thirty four. That's the Book of Exodus, chapter thirty four,
verses six and seven, and the Bible reads, and the
Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord, God,
merciful and gracious. Now you want to know why am
I clapping. I'm clapping because God is announcing himself. I
understand that some people have a problem with applause, and
I think if you're talking about applauding people because you
think they're so wonderful, and then there's a discussion about
whether or not the individuals will become proud or whatever.
I'm not talking about people now, I'm talking about God. Now.
God is honoring Moses's request when he said, if I
have found favor with you, God, will you just show
me your glory? And then God begins to announce himself.
I'm hearing the song in my mind, all rise, And
if you're rising in the presence of God and he's
announcing his own arrival, the only thing I can think
about doing besides worshiping is praising Him. And so I
clap my hands in this moment, and I say, I
hear you, the Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and gracious?
Has God been merciful to you? Like that's a silly question,
but I need you to be honest with the answer.
Has He been gracious to you? Meaning, has He given
you what you don't deserve in order to empower you
to do his will so that you can receive the
reward that Jesus deserves. Has He been long suffering to
you patient? I'm talking about patience. Has he abounded in
goodness and truth, truth keeping mercy for thousands. Are you
among the thousands forgiving iniquity? That's the kind of thing
that we do wrong, that is a transgression of God's law,
And we know God is watching and literally don't care.
Has God ever forgiven that emboldened type sin in your life?
And transgression and sin by no means clearing the guilty.
We know that God doesn't change his standard, He does
not change his law in order to accommodate us. Visiting
the iniquity. Oh God, I'm so sorry, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children and the children's children
to the third and fourth generation. This is who is
appearing before or this is whom Moses is appearing before,
and God is announcing his own arrival. Now the beauty
of this is God said yes. God said yes, yes,
And it was so beautiful because really, like Moses should
have been destroyed if you think about it from a
human perspective, appearing before God. Are you serious? Yeah, Moses
should have been destroyed. But God is so good, and
you want to say, well, how good is he? He's
so good that when he said yes to Moses and
then brought Moses into his presence. He said, there shall
no one see me and live. So here's what I'm
gonna do. I Am going to put you into the
cleft of the rock. So we're gonna cover you with
the rock. Oh, have you been ever ever covered by
the rock which is Christ? And then what I'm gonna
do is, I'm going to cover your own eyes. I'm
gonna cover your eyes with my own hand. Has God
ever covered you with his hands? Have you ever been
under his wings? Have you ever been under the wings
of God and protected by him? And then the Bible
says that God turns his own back, and then this
experience happens, and so Moses experienced God at such a
high level, and God protected him as he condescended in
order to give Moses another experience with him. I guess
the burning bush experience expired in Moses's mind, huh. I
guess the time that Moses experienced with the with the
pillar of fire by night and the pillar of cloud
by day got him addicted to the presence of God.
And in that moment it was so astounding that Moses's face,
his countenance, really, that's the space behind his face like
the essence of who Moses was became so bright that
the people said, cover that up. Moses, You've been in
the presence. You have been in the presence of God,
to the degree that you have now taken on the
brightness that exudes from God himself. Blessed be his name.
Because of their unbelief, they wanted him to shield them
from it. But the lesson number one here is God's
character is the foundation of our growth. God's character is
the foundation of our growth. And so I want you
to meditate on one of the attributes that we just
announced from the scriptures. One of the attributes. Is it
God's justice? Is it his holiness? Is it his long suffering?
Is it ness? Or the fact that he is gracious
or merciful? Meditate on that daily. I'm talking about it
every single day, no matter what else we say. Beginning tomorrow,
I want you to do this and then ask Him
to form that same character trait in your life. Now
I'm clapping for you because I am excited that you
are in a position to be transformed by the character
of God. Number two we come in from two Peter,
chapter three and verse eighteen, where the Bible says, but
grow in grace. Don't get stuck in grace. Don't get
caught up in the grace from yesterday. Thank God for that.
But I want you to grow in grace and in
the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. To
him be Glory, Oh God, both now and forever. Amen, Norman,
are you listening. I said your word more than once today, Brother,
I said glory, hallelujah. And so we never graduate from
God's school of grace. I'm saying, we never graduate from
God's school of grace. Every stage of our walk is
an opportunity for deeper transformation. And so we want to
identify just one area of our spiritual lives where we
have plateaued. Look the word up. If we've gotten to
a point now and we're stuck, set a daily habit
to nurture growth in that area. You feel like you've prayed,
and you've prayed, and you prayed and you hit a wall,
you hit a glass ceiling that, get in your closet,
on your face and pray. You understand. That's it for
basic understanding. Let me hurry up right here first, and
our third lesson comes in from Philippians, chapter one and
verse six. Being confident of this very thing, that He
which began a good work in you, will perform it
until the day of Jesus. He's the one that started
with you. All you need to do is continue to surrender,
and he will finish his work 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.