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 Sunday. It's
July six, 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 again, I did tell you yesterday we'd
hear it again, the burning bush, the burning Bush. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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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 Sunday morning and for the
opportunity to embark upon a new work week. Please help
us to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth
that you have entrusted to our care to have dominion
over this. Please please help us to do your will
though as we as we experience you today in Jesus name,
I pray Amen and a man again the burning bush,
the burning bush. Before we get to our lessons for today,
I'd like to read from the lesson writer after Moses
fled to Midian. Remember now, this is the second forty
year period. We talked about his life broken up into
three forty years periods. This is the second one. After
Moses fled to Midian. He had a relatively easy life.
He got married, he had two sons, Gersham and Eliezer.
And so what we're gonna do now is read from
the passage Exodus, chapter eighteen, Verses three and four, and
look out for a clue of something we can apply
to our own lives. The Bible reads beginning at verse three,
with her two sons, of whom the name of one
was Gersham, for he said, I have been a stranger
in a foreign land land. So that was what Gersham meant. Okay.
And verse four, and the name of the other Eliezer,
for he said, the God of my father was my
help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. So
these two children of the Man of God had names.
Those names were intentional. So this question that I want
you to consider first is well, what's in a name?
What is in a name? What we call something often
determines or reveals our mindset about that same something. Let
me give you an example. No, let me say it again. First,
what we call something, how we name something often determines
or reveals our mindset about the same thing. Let's say
the experience that you're having right now. What if you
call this difficult? This is difficult. I'm not saying that
life is easy. I'm not saying that we shouldn't say
what really is the reality? I'm just saying, like, what
if that's the full stop? Like this is difficult? All
caps and that's the end of the story. Or this
is annoying, full stop like all caps exclamation point, and
some of you are like, come on, Dave, are you
saying we shouldn't be real with our feelings? Listen, hold on,
hold on. This is terrible exclamation point, which is also
a full stop exclamation point. That's the end of the discussion.
What if the perspective, though, changes from this is difficult,
this is annoying, this is terrible to this is going
to make me stronger? God, with you, I can do
all things. What if this is God's way of helping
me to pray more. Some of you think this is
hocus pocus, but I assure you that is why so
many millions of people who say we are the people
of God are limited in our mindset. We accept the
Babylonian names for the things that God is allowing us
to go through. Somebody just got that is their names Shadrack, Mishak,
and Abednego were not the names that they should have
been named. They were Hannah, Andaiah, Mishael, Azararah. They were
named after God. But the ones who were subjecting them,
subjugating them, attempting to bury them, gave them new names
because the Babylonian name meant that they were giving the perspective.
But never accept the name that the devil gives for
your situation. This is annoying, this is terrible, this is difficult.
Let's go again. This is going to make me stronger,
Thank God. This is God's way of helping me to
pray more. This is a blessing in disguise. So what
do you call your current situation? Let me just pause
right there and ask you, whatever you call it, what
does that say about God? Let's continue in the lesson study.
The lesson study actually says this time was not simply
for Moses as he was in Midian to smell the
flowers or whatever else is in the areas or the cacti.
I don't know. These years walking with God or the
Lord God blessed be his name, changed him and prepared
him for the leadership role that God had in mind. Yeah.
God is always up to something. Now let's learn. Let's
learn some lessons, and then if we have time, we'll
read another quote. Okay, and so the first lesson again
comes from Exodus, chapter three and verse six. I am
the God of thy Father, the God of Abraham and
of Isaac and of Jacob. See God identifies himself to
Moses through the lens of of covenant. That's it. God
identifies himself or reveals himself to Moses through the lens
of covenant. This reminds Moses and us that God does
not forget what he started. I believe there is a
song that came from the Bible that says, he who
began a good work in you is able to complete it.
And so God reveals himself or identifies himself through covenant.
God has a good memory, and so today I want
you to anchor your trust in God's character by remembering
what he promised to those who came before you. Remember
what God promised that is for your good, for your
benefit to those who came before you. Number two from Exodus,
chapter three and verse five, the Bible reads, put off
thy shoes. This is what Moses experienced as he saw
the burning bush and could not really quite understand whoa
what is going on? But he knew he was in
the presence. He said God, through the Angel of the
Lord Prism, we'll talk about that tomorrow. Put off thy
shoes from off thy feet, for the place where on
thou standest is holy ground. God's presence transforms any place.
Ordinary spaces become sacred. When God shows up. Is God
showing up in your life right now, brothers and sisters.
So the action is to treat your everyday moments with reverence.
God is present right here, right now. I know that
there are some of our brothers and sisters around the
world that say, like Daniel, they pray three times per day,
or like some of our other brothers and sisters who
who pray at certain times per day, varying in you know,
on the time, just a little variation on each of
those five times per day. And you know, Lord bless
people who think of it in that way, because you're
connecting with God. But what God wants us to do
is to rehearse the visible presence of God at all times,
so that our lives become a prayer. When we are
speaking to Him, it's a prayer. When we are speaking
to others and knowing that God is listening and God
is guiding, we are an open channel for whatever God
has for us and for others. Then our lifestyle becomes prayer.
So treat every day moments with reverence. You might be
standing on holy ground and don't even know it. Oh,
this is good, this is good. Let's continue peace. Thanks
for joining us listening.
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,