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08 13 2025 Jethro · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August thirteen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Jethrow. Yeah, that is a whole
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  Speaker 2: principle right there, Jeathrow. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get under way. Father, We thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the principles of balance that you have shown us, the
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  Speaker 2: principles of leadership and management that you have shown us
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. And I'm asking you to please please
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  Speaker 2: give us understanding and then let us apply what we
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  Speaker 2: see in the truth there in the scriptures. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Jethrow, Jethro, Jethrow. So
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us as according to the Lesson writer,
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  Speaker 2: Moses was visited by Jethro, his father in law, who
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  Speaker 2: was also called Ruell. Jethrow brought with him Moses's wife, Zapora,
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  Speaker 2: and two sons, Gersham and Eliezer. When Moses heard that
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  Speaker 2: they were coming, he went out to welcome them. And
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  Speaker 2: let me just say that Moses got a lot more
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  Speaker 2: than he bargained for from Jethrow, his father in law. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so what seems to be just a common thing, like
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  Speaker 2: for those of us who are married and we have
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  Speaker 2: in laws, it seems like just a normal everyday experience,
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  Speaker 2: like we gel together, we learn to eat and drink together, right,
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  Speaker 2: we break bread, we live and grow together when we're healthy.
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  Speaker 2: But there was something even better. Jethrow taught Moses the
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  Speaker 2: model of either shared if you want to say it
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  Speaker 2: this way, or distributed leadership. Shared or distributed leadership. That
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  Speaker 2: came from Jethro. I don't know where you think it
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  Speaker 2: came from, but that's where it came from. And so
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads in Exodus, chapter eighteen and verse twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: and Moses harkened done to the voice. That means he
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  Speaker 2: listened to the voice of his father in law and
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  Speaker 2: did all that he had said, because Jethro was like, listen, brother,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna loop. You're gonna get sick, like you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be overwhelmed. There are way too many people that you
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  Speaker 2: are shepherding. Listen to me, people who are leaders. If
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  Speaker 2: you are shepherding a flock of people where church is concerned,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a leader in a corporate or organizational
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  Speaker 2: setting outside of the worship center, etc. It is still
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  Speaker 2: the reality that if everything comes to you, if all
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  Speaker 2: of the troubles, all of the decisions literally come to
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  Speaker 2: you as they are in their rast form, without somebody
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  Speaker 2: else vetting or doing some of their part before it
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  Speaker 2: gets to your level. You are going to burn out.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna burn You're not going to be as successful
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  Speaker 2: as you possibly could be. I don't care if you're
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  Speaker 2: a billionaire with a bee right now. I'm not a billionaire,
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  Speaker 2: but I can tell you that based on what the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that you will be. You are an out
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  Speaker 2: if you try to handle everything yourself. And so the
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  Speaker 2: man Jethrow ye throw ye trow. That's how you actually
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  Speaker 2: pronounce it means excellence, his excellence or abundance, ye trow
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  Speaker 2: or Jethrow as we say it means his excellence or abundance.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe that Jethrow actually was abundant? Do you
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  Speaker 2: believe that he was excellent when you look at what
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  Speaker 2: he taught? Or ruel? Ruel means friend of God? Say man,
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  Speaker 2: so his excellence or abundance? Who also is the friend
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  Speaker 2: of God? No matter where you say his upbringing was,
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  Speaker 2: he learned to be a friend of God. And then
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  Speaker 2: of course, uh, well I won't go into this other thing,
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  Speaker 2: right So Jethro's advice was seen as divinely timed because
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  Speaker 2: Moses needed this right here. His model represents the principle
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  Speaker 2: of distributed leadership. Israel needed structure before receiving the Law
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  Speaker 2: of God at Mount Sinai. And this is the advice
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  Speaker 2: that came from a Midianite priest. I mean, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 2: I know sometimes we say consider the source and to
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  Speaker 2: be careful of this and careful of that. But in
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  Speaker 2: this case, God chose to use a Midianite priest a
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  Speaker 2: reminder that truth can be recognized outside of what you believe.
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  Speaker 2: Is the people of God that could write you an
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  Speaker 2: entire story about how people who come from different faith fellowships,
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  Speaker 2: who are listening to the voice of God don't be
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  Speaker 2: confused by what I'm saying here, have given great counsel
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  Speaker 2: and advice to the so called people of God. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time, but the Bible says it.
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  Speaker 2: It's very clear. So God used this moment to show
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  Speaker 2: that faithfulness is more important than bloodline. Jethro Yetro did
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  Speaker 2: not come from the same bloodline as the quote people
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  Speaker 2: of God. And so from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
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  Speaker 2: page three hundred and one, the Lord had greatly honored Moses,
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  Speaker 2: and he would not permit even the monarch of Egypt
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  Speaker 2: to trifle with him with impunity. But the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he had been specifically chosen to do a great work
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  Speaker 2: did not lead him to neglect the smaller duties. Jethro
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  Speaker 2: saw the heavy burdens that rested upon Moses. Do you
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  Speaker 2: have a Jethro in your life? A Yetro? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have a Yethro in your life? Somebody who sees that
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  Speaker 2: you are doing too much heavy lifting, who needs to
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  Speaker 2: undergoirge you with the kind of structure, the kind of
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  Speaker 2: guidance you need in order not to burn out and
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  Speaker 2: destroy even the legac see that you are currently building
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  Speaker 2: building with one hand, tearing down with the other. Who
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  Speaker 2: is your ye Throw? Who is your Jethrow? You may
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  Speaker 2: want to type it in the chat? Are you a
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  Speaker 2: jet throw? Are you a jeth throw? Or do you
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  Speaker 2: have somebody who is and you want to just give
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  Speaker 2: honor to God for them putting their name in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm born to be a jet throw, I promise you
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  Speaker 2: that's my birth purpose, just like Joseph. Joseph was the
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  Speaker 2: same way, and so he saw those burdens, and then
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  Speaker 2: he wisely suggested a plan or recommended a plan by
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  Speaker 2: which they might be shared by others. What the responsibilities
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  Speaker 2: the heavy burdens. This council was accepted by Moses, and
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  Speaker 2: the plan was followed. Let me just say here, don't
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  Speaker 2: throw away your jeth rows. When people come who are analytical,
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  Speaker 2: people come who are structural, people who have frameworks, who
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  Speaker 2: are willing to help you set these things up and
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  Speaker 2: for your teams to be able to follow these plans,
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  Speaker 2: do not throw them away. If you're ultra decisive or
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  Speaker 2: your ultra creative. I'm teaching here, y'all just don't know it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, don't tell the death rolls to go away.
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  Speaker 2: Follow what the death rolls will teach you. It will
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  Speaker 2: lengthen your days in anything you're doing so much more
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  Speaker 2: to say, so little time and so. In the context,
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  Speaker 2: Moses had reached leadership fatigue, type of one in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a leader and you're fatigued. The people were
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  Speaker 2: facing daily disputes that could distract from God's larger mission.
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  Speaker 2: This helped prepare for the spiritual infrastructure for the giving
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  Speaker 2: of the law in Exodus chapter twenty and so, God
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  Speaker 2: used a non Israelite priest to provide key wisdom. This
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  Speaker 2: reveals that God's wisdom is not limited to one's ethnicity
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  Speaker 2: or background, and that humility is essential for leadership. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: let's apply it now. Delegation is not weakness. Distributed leadership
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  Speaker 2: model is not weakness, its obedience. Leaders burn out when
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  Speaker 2: they carry everything ourselves, when we carry everything ourselves, and
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  Speaker 2: so witness attracts truth seekers. Jethro was drawn to God
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  Speaker 2: by what he heard and saw through Moses's faithfulness, and
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  Speaker 2: then based on that Moses is already faithful. Now God
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  Speaker 2: sends somebody with the blueprint for continuing that legacy of
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  Speaker 2: faith without having to burn out as a result. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God can really learn from this today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank it a great day, Peace, Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: For joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  Speaker 1: with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,