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
August twenty nine, 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 Coping with a Fallen World.
Coping with a fallen World. Before we get into that,
I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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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 in Heaven, I thank you,
Thank you for giving us this day, giving us this
bread that you have entrusted to us. Help us to
eat from your word and then share with as many
people as possible, especially during these last days. In Jesus name,
I pray Amen and a man again coping with a
fallen world. And so the lesson writer takes us to
the book The Great Controversy, page six hundred and thirty three,
and it reads, the precious Savior will send help just
when you need it. Okay, when we need it. But
I said when you need it, Yes, remember the song
just when I need him most, just when I need
a most. Jesus is near to comfort and cheer just
when I need him most. I remember when Josiah, our son,
who is almost fifteen years of age now, was much younger.
He had some challenges with temptation. There were some things
that were tempting him and had to keep going back
to him and back to him because he would yield
to these particular temptations. And I said, this is what
I need you to do. I need you to remember
that I'm here with you, your daddy, I'm here with you.
You're not alone. I need need you to remember I'm
here with you. Right now, you're getting caught on the
backside of this situation because you didn't come to me
for the assistance that you needed, because you're a young boy. See,
I didn't have anybody to help me to get through
those valleys of temptation. I'm just telling you the truth.
Like I didn't have anybody who either understood how to
get through or how to help me as a young
boy when I was a young boy. And so I said, okay, so,
and I walked him through some things, and I said,
when we're in the house together, because we're together, I
just need you to call for help, call for help.
And so I want you to just call my name
and say help, Daddy help. When you're being tempted, I
want you to say Daddy help. It doesn't matter where
I am in the house, it doesn't matter where you are.
I want you to say, Daddy Help. And I wanted
to get to him at that young age that when
you are being tempted, you're not alone, and that I
would be a representation of who God is to all
of us. And I explained all of that to him,
that I can come to him right before he's about
to do that thing and stop him in his tracks
because he has made the decision to say, Daddy help.
Somebody type that in the chat Father Help, and the
quote continues, the way to heaven is consecrated by his footprints,
Who the Savior, who will help us when we need it.
Every thorn that wounds our feet has wounded his. Every
cross that we are called to bear, he has borne
before us. The Lord permits conflicts to prepare the soul
for peace. The time of trouble is a fearful ordeal
for God's people. But it is the time of It
is the time for every true believer to look up
and by faith, he may see the bow of promise
encircling him. Daddy, that's not in it. End of quote,
Daddy help. When we're living in the last days, brothers
and sisters, and the Bible reads in one Peter, chapter
five and verse eight, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary,
the devil as a roaring lion, as as it's a metaphor,
as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
Let me just say this, Jesus is not a metaphor.
He's not as a lion. He is, in fact, and indeed,
the genuine article, the mighty lion of the tribe of Judah.
So the devil, as a roaring lion, is seeking whom
he may devour. And Jesus is standing up when you
call for his help. He's there. When you're not calling
for his help, he's there, but he's not going to
be able to do all that he would desire to
do for you. And Missus White said that it is
the will of God to grant an answer to the
prayer of faith that which He would not bestow. Did
we not thus ask you? See the people of God,
as they were being removed from that bondage to their
old lifestyles, their old mindset, their idolatrous ways. While they
were in Egypt, those individuals were learning how to see
that God had done so much for them in the past,
and that they could rely on Him to continue to
deliver them, to call out on his call out to
his name and know that he would direct them. So
we live in a war zone and the enemy is active.
Pain is not all because of a personal sin, but
because of the broken world in which we live. So
it's not always because you're guilty of something. It is
because this world is not our home as it is
one day when Jesus returns, he's going to take us
to heaven. And if you're running ahead of me, I
need you to slow down. Don't run ahead, come with me.
I want you to be next to me. Now walk
with me. Heaven is not our home, but it will
be a one thousand year vacation. I'm looking forward to
the day that God is going to give us a
one thousand year vacation. And after the thousand years are finished,
the Bible says that the meek will in fact inherit
the new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. So the action for
me and for you is to identify one area of
your life where you feel the enemy's pressure, pray intentionally
over it every day this week, Lord help, this is
what we're talking about. And now we go to Hebrews
chapter four and verse fifteen. For we have not an
high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of
our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as
we are, and yet without sin. You see, the Bible
teaches us that there's the lust of the flesh, the
lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Those are
the deeds of the flesh. Yes, in fact, Jesus overcame them.
If you look into the story of Matthew chapter four,
the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness, and then in
Luke chapter four, you'll see in Luke chapter four's account
the actual sequence lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes,
pride of life. Those were the temptations in order, according
to the account of Luke. Now, the Bible teaches us
that Jesus overcame all of those, not just in the wilderness,
but all of those through those thirty three and one
half years of him living on planet Earth. Because no pain,
no sorrow, no burden we carry is foreign to him.
Every thorn that pierces us pierced him first in a
moment of struggle, Pause and speak aloud, Jesus, you've been here.
Walk with me, please, God, please, right now. Conflict lesson
number three. Conflict is not the end, God uses it
to prepare us for peace. I'm looking forward to the
day that God gives us ultimate peace, where there will
be no more sin, no more temptation. 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,