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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good Marning, Good morning. It is Friday. It's
July twenty five, 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 a hardened Heart, a
hardened Heart. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you for this
time of preparation, this day of preparation. Somebody once said,
the way that we prepare for the Sabbath is likely
the way we prepare to meet you when Jesus comes. Father,
Please please teach us connection with you, help us to
love you with everything we are, in everything we have.
In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and Amen again. A
hardened heart, a hardened heart. So what I'm going to
do is read a quote from the book Patriarchs and Profits,
page two hundred and sixty eight. It's right there in
the less and right after that, we're going to apply
this lesson to us professionally in the professional space for
those who haven't already picked up the Life Application Guide.
We are segmenting these applications in four different ways, and
we'll tackle the professional way because we need to apply
this stuff like we don't just read it and say
this is what happened in history and overly spiritualize it.
There are things that we need to be doing today
based on these lessons, and so I read it reads
thus his or God's people were permitted to experience the
grinding cruelty of the Egyptians, that they might not be
deceived concerning the debasing influence of idolatry. So really they're
able to see now, like, if you're planning on going
the direction of idolatry, not just the way those folks
were doing it. But in any way, this is not
the pathway for you. We're going to show you how
this thing really works. Let me continue, Let me continue.
In his dealing with the Pharaoh, the Lord manifested his
hatred of idolatry and his determination to punish cruelty and oppression. Remember,
even when God spoke to his people and he was like, oh,
you're out there fasting. You're fasting, but you're not delivering
people from oppression. In captivity, you're still overreaching, like you're
underpaying people that are giving you there all when you
have the capacity to pay more. You're oppressing them and
enslaving in some cases. That is not the kind of
fast that I have taught you. I've taught you to
set the captives free. I've taught you to remove the
hand of oppression. I've taught you fairness and impartiality. And
then he continues, but this is the reality here. There
is no exercise of supernatural power to harden the heart
of the king. Let me just say that again. Some
people are mixed up about what we've studied multiple days. Now.
I won't go back over it. But God did not
impose some supernatural thing on the king so that he
would be stubborn. That's not what happened. God gave to
Pharaoh the most striking evidence of actual divine power in
the same way that he did way in the future
when Nebekadnezzar had a little problem with God. Let me
just say, okay, and so and so, but the monarch
stubbornly refused to heed the light. Let me just say,
if you are a world leader, you are a leader
of a country. If you're a president, you are a
prime minister, you are a queen, you are a king,
or some other designation that I'm not familiar with. I apologize.
Just know this that God is ready, willing and available.
Having set you up in your position, He's ready. He's
willing and available for you to rule or to be
a leader under a democratic system, whatever your system is
in a way that is pleasing to him. We are
not bound to make the mistakes of our ancestors. We
are not bound to make the mistakes of people who
are from other cultures in those ancestries. We are bound
if we surrender our will to God to be successful,
and God can show us how to be successful. So
every display of infinite power was rejected by him and
rendered him the more determined in his rebellion. That's what
he chose. By the way, the seeds of rebellion, that
sol that he sold when he rejected the first miracle
produced their harvest. Yeah, God is not mocked. And it's
not only for the leaders of countries. It's for the
leaders of God's people in church or religious communities. It's
the leaders in our families. Huh. It's the leaders in
any thing. When you're at work, in your workplace, you're
in an organization where it's a nonprofit, whatever the case.
And not just leaders but people who also support and follow.
All we need to do is say yes to God
when he comes knocking, Yes to God when he starts
to show us the right pathway, and we will be safe.
But let's go back to our professional application in this reality.
Here for today's lesson, we're using when as a framework,
an acronym in this case W. What is important now?
In leadership, temporary remorse without lasting correction damages trust and
invites future disaster. I want you to see this in
your workplace. In leadership temporary remorse. There are people who
have got gotten caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
There are people who have overreached. There are people who've
done insider trading. There are people who've gotten caught in
some compromising positions. You understand, there are people who have
been reprimanded in their leadership role for filling the blank
and for a moment, for a moment, they had remorse.
Or you if you're listening, If it's you, then just listen.
God is giving you the blueprint here, please okay. And
so temporary remorse without lasting correction damages trust and invites
future disaster. I could go into the news cycle and
give some really interesting commentary on some of the things
we have seen, but I won't. Let's go to I
internalize the insight. Pharaoh's public confessions never turned into lasting reform.
Let me say that again. Pharaoh's public confessions never turned
into lasting reform, sort of like Lucifer. As he began
began to go down that slippery pathway to destruction, he
becomes Satan, the accuser of the brethren. Lord, help us
to see in our lives where we God forbid are
going down that pathway. He could have he could have
surrendered his will like he didn't have to continue down
the pathway because he rebelled in heaven. He didn't have
to get kicked out with his angel his evil angels.
He could have, he could have repented, but he chose
not to. Good leadership responds to correction with lasting, a
lasting course adjustment. Shout to the HR professionals around the
world that have put put individuals on remediate remediated remediation
plans and given people the pathway to regain success. Now,
what is the next best move? This is our action
step review one leadership mistake that you have made. You
may have if you've addressed it with words but not
consistent change. This is for us to look in the mirror.
I'm a leader too, I'm the backbone of leadership. I'm
a number two style of leader, but I'm a leader. Nonetheless,
some of you are primary leaders. Look in the mirror,
Look in the mirror. If you've addressed it with only
words but not consistent change, take one concrete action this week,
I would say, beginning today. Oh well it's Friday, but
still to demonstrate true correction. Yeah, so much to say,
so little time. But God has a way of getting through,
even in our professional space. Make it a great day, peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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 E. L. David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,