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 Friday. It
is July fourth, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
is El David Harris. I am your host. Den 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 Exodus Journey to the
Promised Land. I'm still remembering it because of course we
had thirteen weeks of another topic, right, So our caption
for today is God over rules Satans plans. God over
rules Satan's plans. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first i'd like to say welcome to you and
ask you to go over to your Daily portion dot com.
Please join our online community. Please pick up the Your
Daily Portion Life application guide and let us know where
you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com.
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 day of preparation. Help us to prepare our hearts
and our minds to serve you and to see Jesus
when you come, when he comes. In Jesus' name, I
pray Amen and Amen again. Okay. So God has a
way of disrupting and dismantling the plans of our enemy,
of our enemy when we were born, God had plans
for us. I know we talked about change of plans yesterday,
and I told you that my notes vanished out of
my app and I'm not even I did not reconstruct them.
Let me just say that I wanted to, but I
said no, I'm going to just trust God's plan. I'm
going to trust God's purposes and we're going to just
move forward. We're not going backwards. So I can create
a crutch. And so God overrules the devil's plans. The
devil had plans for you. The devil has plans for
me in my case, disrupt my thought process, disrupt my mind,
get me off kilter because I like things to be
just so, but they're gone. But if we look at
what God has for us, then we know that that
has always been the true plan, and whatever the enemy
is introduced is a counterfeit. Now go here. The beginning
of the Lesson for Today says the Biblical text states
that the midwives feared God and did not do as
the king had commanded them, but they saved the male
children alive. I just want to say thank God for
the women of God. I said, thank God for the
women of God around the world in all ages. Can
you imagine what if these women did not fear God
and they destroyed all the babies, including Moses. What would
the story be today? What if? What if Abigail did
not do what God called her to do? What if Mary,
the mother of Jesus, did not do what God told
her to do? What if she did not fear God?
What if Mary Magdalene did not fear God, especially after
Jesus was resurrected, after Jesus took up his life again,
that's the better way of saying it, What would have
happened to her evangelistic efforts at that moment the first
evangelist post the resurrection of Jesus Christ. What if that
woman of God, who loved God must much had not
done what God called her to do? What if esther?
What if Ruth? What if all of these women of
God throughout history would have turned their backs on God?
Where would we be today, Rahab? What if she after
she had learned how to connect with God and trust him?
What if she had turned her back on God? Do
I need to continue? And so I just want to
say a great, big God bless you to the women
of God in this world. That people sometimes subjugate, Sometimes
people disrespect and malign. Sometimes misogynistic mindsets want to keep
you in your place. But God is saying that there
were godly women during Moses's day who feared God and
did not do what the king said. They did what
the King of kings said. Oh, I think somebody just
got it. They did not do what the worldly king said,
but they did with the King of Kings said and commanded.
And so orders were issued to the women whose employment
gave them the opportunity for executing the command to destroy
the children that were of the women of God. Right
Satin was the mover in this matter. He knew that
a deliverer was to be raised up among the people
of God, and by leading the king to destroy their children,
he hoped to defeat the divine purpose. But the women
feared God and dared not execute the cruel mandate. There
are times you have to stand up against cruel mandates. Oh,
I just don't have the time. The Lord approved their
course and he prospered them. There were some important women
that I left out of my discourse a moment ago.
It was in my notes that are now gone. Yes,
I'm going to keep talking about that because God has
a way of changing our plans. But I did not
neglected to talk about Pharaoh's daughter. What if she hadn't
done what God led her to do. I don't know
if she knew it was God or not. What if
Moses's mommy, What if Moses's sister had not done what
God said that they must do? And I want to
say thank God for godly women again. Now let's get
some lessons, some more lessons out of this. And so
I'm going first to let's go with Exodus chapter three
and verse seven, and the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people, and I have heard
their cry. This is now as Moses has been led
to do his work, right, has led to do his work,
and it says here, I've heard their cry and heard
their or know their sorrows. God is not distant. He's
intimately aware of every pain and injustice. He's not distant.
This is why the midwives were led to do what
they did. He's not distant. This is why as he
was preparing Moses first forty years, second forty years. Now
it's time to really work. As God is hearing the
sorrows and remembering his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
He says, now is the time, and it's time to
deliver my people. So the action for it this moment
is to trust that your cries. God has not ignored them.
He hears you. Keep praying even when deliverance seems delayed.
Keep on praying, even when your deliverance seems I said,
seems delayed. Our second lesson comes from Exodus chapter three
and verse eight. The Bible reads, I am come down
now to deliver them and to bring them up out
onto a land flowing with milk and honey. Jesus is
coming down. I think when he was born on planet Earth.
They said that the Angel said his name will be
called Emmanuel, that meaning God with us. He came down.
He's coming down. God is coming down back in Exodus
to deliver the people of God and bring them out
out of the land of Egypt into the Promised Land.
So God initiates deliverance with purpose and a destination in mind.
He's not like, I don't know what we're gonna do. Now,
let me think about this. He is he has already
I wouldn't say strategized, but he has already decided and
determined because he's he doesn't need to strategize. He just says,
and it is done. And he said, this is the
way we're gonna go. This is the pathway that it
will take to get there. And so God doesn't just
bring us out of something, but he brings us in
to something greater. So don't settle for just survival. As
Et says, he says that he wants that God wants
to bring us into thrival. Shout to the to the
hip hop preacher Eric Thomas he brings us into thrival,
not just what he's leading you away from, but what
he's leading you into. Now, let me just say in
Moses's case, as we close here, Yeah, delayed obedience is disobedience.
But in this case God was kind and merciful to Moses.
And even though Moses hesitated, he gave excuses. God used
him for his glory. No excuses, use for his glory.
Speaker 1: 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,