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. It's
July thirty, 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. Of course,
we're going from Egypt straight through to the Land of Promise.
Our caption for today is passing the Torch. Passing the Torch.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for
this new day and for giving us the ability to
see where we are and then where we need to
be if only we believe. Thank you for giving us
the privilege of being called by your name, but help
us to see our part, not just see it, but
own the responsibility and do your will in Jesus' name.
I pray, Amen and Amen again. I just want to
give a great big shout out to my sister Mignon
and Sooi because that seeing where we are and where
we need to be to be if only we believe,
is something that she has etched in my spirit, and
I'm grateful because some people don't have vision. The Bible
says without vision, the people perish, and that is not
our testimony. That must not be our testimony. We must
not see our cells in the past. We must not
see ourselves through the lens of other people whose minds
are limited. We must see ourselves through the lens of
the one who created us and has a particular calling
on our lives. Okay, and so with that we begin.
We begin by reading from the Bible Book of Exodus,
Exodus chapter twelve, verses twenty four through twenty eight, Exodus
chapter twelve, verses twenty four to twenty eight, and the
Bible reads, and you shall observe this thing as an
ordinance for you and your sons, I would say for
your children forever. It will come to pass when you
come to the land in which the Lord gave you,
just as he promised, that you shall keep this service.
Why are we keeping this pissock service? Why are we
still observing the passover? That is that would be the
question for those folks at the time. Why are we
doing this? Because people forget what great things God has
done for us. Sometimes humans forget, We make it a
forg a bygone era. Wow, look at what God did
for them, And then our lives start to reflect that
in our minds it's not that important today. We minimize
and then and then yeah, the power is minimized in
our lives because we didn't do exactly what God said.
Right here He said now and it shall be when
your children shall say unto you. What do you mean
by this service that you will say, so now we're
passing on the legacy to our children and their children,
on and on and on throughout the generations. It is
the Lord's passover. It is the Lord's passover who passed
over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt
when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households. May
I just say this, there are some people who are
still looking out for lightning bolts to come down from heaven.
They are still thinking that they are at the mercy
of an angry God, God forbid. There are some people
who still have that judgmental mindset for themselves. Every one
of us is born with it. I wish I had
the time to deal with positive intelligence. But the reality
is we need to shut that judge up in our
brains because the judge is not God. In our brains,
that judgmental self that sees only that evil, only the
things that are wrong, only the way that you have failed,
and no way out without hope, without the blood of
the Lamb. That needs to be shut up. How do
we do it? We look back. We look back at
the time that God delivered his people, despite the fact
that they had been so these guys were annoying. I
don't understand the patience of God. They were so annoying.
They murmured about everything. If it was sunny, it was
a murmur. If it was cloudy, it was a murmur.
If they were eating and they murmured. If they were hungry,
they murmured. If they were walking or standing still, they
murmured it. You literally could not please these people, but
God passed over them by virtue of their faith in
God through the blood of the Lamb. You should be
seeing yourself here now. So the people bowed their heads,
and what did they do? They worshiped. Then the children
of Israel went away and did so, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. So they did they worshiped. Really,
if we could just stop right here, we would be
at the right place. If anything we say or talk
about on these broadcasts cause you to worship God, then
we will have accomplished the task. Because a worshipful person
is fully connected to God. A worshipful person is always
looking for an opportunity to help those who have needs
and to bring other people into a right relationship with
God and So I'm grateful that we have the privilege
of passing the torch. One generation shall command your works
to another, and shall declare your mighty acts, the Bible
says in the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
forty five and verse four. So we want to pass
the torch to the next. So let's get three lessons
out of this first beginning in Exodus chapter twelve, Versus
twenty six and twenty seven, and the Bible reads, and
it shall come to pass when your children shall say
unto you. I know I'm repeating it, but we have
to knock it in to a place in our brains.
Now what mean ye by this service? Then ye shall
say the sacrifice is the passover of the Lord. So
what we need to do is schedule intentional moments. Intentional
moments meals. Our family eats meals together every day. It's
either Simone and I eating together or Simone, Josiah and
I eating together. But we're together. Devotions car rides we
actually worship on the way too. If it's during the
school season, then the three of us are in the
vehicle worshiping on the way to school and to the gym.
Car rides to share personal testimonies of God's faithfulness with
your children or loved ones. So faith must be remembered
through intentional storytelling. That's right Number two, coming in from
again the same passage Psalm chapter one, forty five and
verse four. One generation shall praise Thy works to another
and shall declare Thy mighty acts. So what we want
to do is write a short faith story from our
own lives this week. I'm not saying to put it
in a book. I'm saying for your own purposes and
to share with your posterity. Write it in a like
I have a little tablet right here, boom. You can
write it like that. You can write it on a
sheet of paper, type it in your phone, or whatever
you need to do to cause your brain to pick
up on the details of what God has done for you,
and then tell it to a younger person as a
part of your legacy. And then we go in for
number three at Exodus chapter twelve and verse twenty seven.
And the people bowed the head and worshiped. And of course,
worship is the response of both promise and instruction. Don't
wait for the miracle to be completed. Worship in faith
as soon as God gives the direction, and let me
see if I can get anything from this child guidance
quote really quickly, page five twenty. In every family there
should be a fixed time for morning and evening worship.
How appropriate is it for the parents to gather their
children about them before the fast is broken, to thank
the heavenly Father for his protection during the night, and
ask him for his help and guidance.
Speaker 1: And watch case for joining us today. Friends, peace 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah,