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's
July eleven, 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're
going on a journey from Egypt to the Promised Land,
and our caption for today is the transform Life, the
Transformed Life. Before we get into that, I'd like to
just say welcome to you and ask you to go
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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
And before I pray, I just want to say that
I know that there are a good number of people
who skip literally except now that you are with us
with your Daily Portion, but a lot of people skip
Friday's lesson. In all the churches I've been in in
all over all of these years, people just kind of
use Friday many times as kind of an afterthought, like Okay, yeah, yeah,
let's get to the next lesson. But thankfully, when we're
together in this manner, I even give the Friday a title.
It's not further thought. There's a title each week. I
don't know, type A one in the chat. If you've
noticed that we actually give a title to Friday, and
it's not an afterthought here at your Daily Portion. A
lot of good work has been put into these lessons,
so I want to make sure that we get as
much as we possibly can. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you
for this day and for the privilege to come together
in this fashion on preparation Day. Please prepare our hearts
to connect with you and then help us to actually
connect with you today. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen
and Amen again. Do you remember the most transformative moment
or day of your life? The most transformative or transformational
day or moment of your life? Do you remember that day?
What did God do for you or through you? I
don't know.
Speaker 1: Was it for you?
Speaker 2: Was it through you? How did you change? Yeah? And
as a result, how did people around you change? I
remember when in nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety five, Herbert
Nelson reached out to me in Solona, I was working
at the time, and he said, your friend is preaching
at whatever church. I mean, he didn't say whatever church,
but at a certain church in Alexandria, Virginia. I think
he said next week. I don't remember that detail. But
to make a long story short, I was not a believer.
I did not go to church, despite how I was
brought up. That's a whole different discussion. But it was
in the moment that I actually said yes to my
brother Herb and I went to church on that particular
Sabbath in twenty nineteen ninety five. And then when Pastor
Melvin Hayden, the third Melvin Hayden. Third, we called him Trey.
Most people call him Trey Hayden when he preached a sermon, friends,
how many of us have them? And it was that day.
It was that day that I decided that God was
all I needed in my life, like I needed to
be transformed by God. And I heard the call that
God gave me through the preacher that day. That was
the most transformative moment of my life. And listen, Herb
Nelson is now you know, if you want to say
responsible for millions of people hearing the gospel, just in
the case of him witnessing to me, you understand that
was a transformative moment. There would have been know your
daily portion without Herb Nelson. And then we can go
down the chain of the people who impacted my life,
you see, and of course the prayers of my dear
late mother. So how did the transformation that God made
in your life impact you and impact the world around you.
So we're going into the Bible for some lessons as
we close off this week. In Exodus chapter three, Versus
one and two, the Bible reads, now Moses kept the
flock of jethrow. See this is in that second set
of forty years of his life. We talked about three.
This is the second set. He's no longer there as
the grandson of Pharaoh in Egypt. Now he is in Midian,
and he's with Jethro, of course, among other things, for
fourteen more years. And it says he kept his flock,
and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in
a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush.
And so now we see that he's having the closest
encounter with God that he can possibly have. It was
a bush that was a flame ablaze, and the voice
of God comes from that experience, that spectacle, and says, Moses,
take off your shoes from off your feet, because I
have transformed this moment. I have transformed this space. I
am about to transform you in a way that you
could not have imagined. Take off your shoes from off
your feet, because now this experience the ground on which
thou standest is holy. Now now it's holy. It was
ordinary until I came here. The bush was ordinary before
I came here. You were ordinary before I came here.
This moment was ordinary until I came here. And now
everything is extraordinary because God is here and he's about
to speak and transform. Can you imagine what was the
moment when God transformed you? How did it change you?
How did it change the world around you? You remember
the time, okay? And so Moses was off the grid.
Of course, if there was a grid, he was hidden.
He was forgotten and likely content. But God doesn't lose
track of his people. The people that he invested in.
He knew from before he created Moses, before he formed
him in am Ram and jacobed in his mommy's womb,
before he formed him in his mommy's womb. He knew
him well, and he knew that he would be among
the people of God at the time that they needed
to be delivered. So God doesn't lose track of his people.
The call came when Moses wasn't even thinking about it.
He was doing his thing. And so the action for
us really is to stop. Assuming you're off of God's radar,
where can I go from your presence? The Bible writer said,
if I go into heaven, you're there. If I go
into the pit of the grave, you are there. No
matter where I am in the world, you are there.
In the deepest parts of the sea and of the ocean. Ah,
you are there. If you are locked up in a prison,
then God is there with you. It doesn't matter where
you are. God is there. When John was on the
Aisle of Patmas, Yes, and he was exiled, God was
there with him, and we can continue. So God is there.
So stay faithful in the wilderness and that place that
it may be an intermediate space somewhere, that a transitional space,
somewhere that God is about to continue to train you
so that He can activate you for higher service. God
calls when it is time. Number two comes from Exodus,
chapter three and verse ten. We're running. We're running. The
Bible reads, Come now therefore, and I will send thee
unto Pharaoh. So God often calls us back to the
place that we ran from. Sometimes it's the reset button.
Sometimes people run prematurely from trials rather than asking God
for his guidance. Some of us run away from things
and then God has to set us back. It's a
reset button. I wish I had the time to deal
with that, but it's a reset button, and we have
to go back so that we can move forward. And
so the action really for us is that we need
to revisit our Egypt with God's strength not our trauma.
Don't write off off a place He plans to redeem
through you. When he sends you back, he's sending you
back for higher service, greater mission, for transformation, for you
and for others. Number three comes from Exodus, chapter four
and verse twenty. The Bible reads, and Moses took his
wife and sons and set them upon the donkey, and
he returned. So obedience to the call unlocks our purpose.
Start moving in the moment that God calls you. Purpose
gets clear in motion. Not why we're sitting and spinning
our wheels, hah, not while sitting still and waiting for guarantees.
And of course a yes to God can transform history
and the future. Make it a great day, 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,