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 Thursday. It's
July three, 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 Exodus from or the Journey to the
Promised Land Exodus the Journey to the Promised Land, and
today our caption is a change of Plans. I got
a story for you in a second, a change of plans.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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This is one of the ways we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
get underway. Father, We thank you for today. Thank you
for changing plans sometimes because listen, we have no idea
what we're doing or where we're going. Please give us
your understanding. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
A change of plans. Okay, so we have a real
life example. Just a few minutes ago, I was begging
God and asking him like, what in the world just happened?
Two days of my note in my Sabbath school lesson
app vanished, just vanished, And I'm like, God, what are
you trying to teach me? And then it clicked, Wait
a minute, A change of plans. You see, there are
times that we trust our preparation. There are times that
we trust our training, there are times that we trust
even technology. And God is saying we have to be
open to a change of plans. You see in Moses's experience.
We see in Exodus chapter two, verses eleven through twenty five,
we see that Moses had really I mean, if you
read that all the way through to Deuteronomy, chapter thirty
four and verse seven, you see that Moses lived one
hundred and twenty years. For the first forty years, the
first forty years he was in Egypt. He was in Egypt.
He was being prepared, he was writing his notes. He
was the grandson of the Pharaoh, the king of the time.
He was being prepared to possibly be the pharaoh at
the appropriate time. He had preparation. But then forty more
years because of something he had done. That's a long story.
We don't need to identify all of those details now.
For the first forty years he's in Egypt, and the
second forty years he is in Jethro's house in Midian.
You see, he was learning in the first forty years
from the world's perspective, how to be the best according
to the world's I don't mean evil, but just the
world's standard. Those were plans. In the next forty years.
God is showing him godly leadership. The next forty years
is godly leadership. This is how it should look when
you're leading my people. And then for the final forty
years of his life. He's actually having to do it.
He's having to do it. He thought he was prepared
in the first forty years, he was being prepared in
the way for eternal purposes during the next forty years,
and now he has to actually live those plans that
God had. So my question to you this morning is
are you willing to change plans when God changes your
plans or when He allows something to happen. Like for me,
it's very disturbing. I'm very organized, I'm analytical. I am
very clear on where I am going and how I'm
going to get there. And when my notes disappeared for
this morning and tomorrow for that matter, when it disappeared
and I was tempted to recreate the notes, I said, no,
God has already given you the message. He's already told
you what he wants you to say, So trust him.
Don't trust your notes. Now, I'm going to go to
what's left of the notes now and give you four
part of me lessons four lessons. And so the first
lesson comes in from Exodus chapter two. Exodus chapter two,
and I will read in let's see verse fifteen. Let's
go to Exodus chapter two in verse fifteen and the
Bible reads, but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh,
that's in that first forty years, and dwelt in the
land of Midian, where he would invest the next forty years.
So Moses acted impulsively. He acted impulsively, and his royal
career ended in an instant. You see, there are decisions
that we make every single day. We have to decide.
Are these decisions going to have eternal consequences? Uh oh,
Wait a minute. So the Bible is teaching us that
God used this disruption to reorient his life to divine calling.
And so the action for today in this moment is,
don't mistake disruption for disqualification. Do not mistake disruption for disqualification.
Use seasons of exile. Use seasons when things don't go
the way that you want them to. Use season when
you seasons when you lose almost all of your notes,
when that goes away, use that as preparation for your
true purpose. Number two. Number two comes from verse twelve
of Exodus chapter two. And he looked this way in
that way, and when he saw that there was no man,
he slew the Egyptian. Wait a minute. The world may
misjudge you, but God knows your intent. Now, I'm not
going to go into a discussion about whether he should
or should not have slayed the Egyptian. You know what
is right. But the fact is, see, Moses decided he
thought that he could he could enact justice in that moment.
He thought he could take the law into his own hands.
That's what he thought, and that backfired on him. How'd
that work out for you? Moses? Fill in your name here?
How does it work when you thought that you were
going to do something that made sense in that moment
and you realize way a minute that didn't work out?
Speaker 1: Right? Uh?
Speaker 2: Oh, so Pharaoh interpreted this as rebellion. Still, God didn't
throw him away. God didn't throw Moses away. He didn't
throw them away. So even when intentions are are and
motives are mixed up and wrong, and now you're wondering
what you should or should not have done, just remember
go to God and choose to be faithful. Choose to
be faithful to God, and then let God vindicate in
his timing. There are times that we have to pay
debt to our debt to society. There are times that
we have to overcome stigma. There are times that we
have to go through trials and tribulations. There are times,
but then there is a time for God to vindicate
himself in our lives, to show the world that He
is able and indeed willing and available to get his
will done through you. Number three comes from Exodus chapter two,
verses twenty three to twenty five. God heard their groaning,
meaning God's people, and remembered his covenant. God works through
time or over time, over time where we're concerned, not
just moments in time, So he's not just looking at
a snapshot in our lives. He knows what he's going
to do. He knows the covenant that he made with Abraham.
He knew exactly how he was going to use Moses, Aaron,
and everybody else, Joshua, Caleb, everybody else. And when he
heard the groaning of his people at the appropriate time,
God took notice of them. He remembered them, He acknowledged
them as his own. So we want you to trust.
I want to trust that God is working in multiple dimensions.
He's not limited to ours. Even when our story feels
disconnected from a larger picture, I said, feels And then,
of course, in Romans chapter eight and verse twenty eight.
All things work together for the good of those who
love God to the called according to the purpose. God
can redeem our poor choices for greater outcomes. Moses's rash
decision wasn't God's plan, but God had went through it
and used it. His exile became his training ground for leadership. Yeah.
God has a way of changing plans. It's not always comfortable.
Speaker 1: But we go with Thanks for joining us listening to 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,