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 Monday, October
twenty 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is War in Heaven, War in Heaven. Go
ahead and pray and then get underway. Father, We thank you,
thank you for this day. Thank you for giving us
the privilege of being called by your name and to
have the Captain of the heavenly Hosts on our side.
I pray that we will no longer have battles in
wars against you. In Jesus' name, I pray amen, and
a man again war in heaven. Now, let me start
here before we get into the lesson and ask you
was our Friday night session fruitful for you? Like? Would
you join us again Friday night at seven pm on
the YouTube channel for your daily portion? Just say yes
to music again, Yes to music in the chat or
in the comment section after the fact. If if this
was something that was beneficial to you, then we will
consider having this worship session again. And that comes to
my mind because the one who was in charge of
many things, but the covering Cherub, Lucifer, one of his
gifts and responsibilities had to do with ushering the heavenly
agencies into worship his pipes. The Bible talks about his
ability to emit music. I don't know. Did he sing
music in harmony? Did his vocal chords sound like organs?
I don't know. All I know is that that was
part of his responsibility. And this is why many of
your music ministries, in different churches and in different types
of ministries are under attack because Lucifer, the former Lucifer,
who is now the devil no longer has the privilege
of ushering people into true worship, and so he ushers
in the counterfeit instead. And there was war in heaven.
Joshua understood that the battle was part of a larger conflict.
And of course, some of you are awaiting this passage
from the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, And I'll
begin reading at verse seven Revelation chapter twelve, And I
will begin at verse seven, And the Bible reads, and
war broke out in heaven. Mike Al and his angels
fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought.
So now we have Jesus and the heavenly bodies who
are holy, and then Lucifer, who has now fallen and
become the Dragon, and his angels. They are having a
war in heaven. But of course, of course, the Bible
continues in verse eight. But they, meaning the Devil and
his evil angels, did not prevail, nor was a place
found for them in heaven any longer. So the great
Dragon was cast out. He was cast out of old,
called the devil and Satan, who deceives the entire world.
He was cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him. And Joshua understood that what
he was up against was not human. Only he knew
that there were principalities and powers and rulers of the
darkness of this world, in spiritual wickedness and high places
that he had to contend with. And in Isaiah chapter fourteen,
the Bible continues to describe the devil as he is fallen,
beginning at verse twelve, How art thou fallen from Heaven?
Oh Lucifer, Son of the Morning. You could look at
the passage as a text, as a statement to just
identifies that Lucifer had fallen, or you could also look
at it as how in the world did you put
yourself in that situation? There are human beings right now
under the influence of the enemy of our souls, and
you wonder they are so gifted, they are are so talented.
They seem to be great contributors to their community associations,
your homeowners association, or your school what do you call
it pta, or the team that your children are playing
in American football or football in Jamaica and other parts
of the world, or in other events, like you wonder,
how can this guy, how can this woman? How can
they be whoa they did that. How art thou falling?
This is what God is saying, like, after all that
I entrusted to you all of the great things that
you had done in my presence, and you're fallen. How
aren't you are? How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations for you said in your heart,
I will ascend. Oh, he had an eye problem unto heaven.
I will exalt my throne above the stars. What thrown?
What thrown is he talking about? So he's usurping or
attempting to usurp the authority of God. I will exalt
my throne above the stars. I will also sit on
the mount of the congregation, on the farthest sides of
the north. I will ascend, excuse me, ascend above the
heights of the clouds. And then he does it. Then
he does it. He says, I will be like the
most high. And in many ways, the enemy of our
souls has people on planet Earth who think and behave
in the same way. There were people during the time
of Joshua, whole nations who felt like they were big
and strong enough to contend with the people of God,
whose commander in chief is God like they thought that
they had a chance. They thought that all that they
had heard about the exploits of the people of God
under his authority, all of that stuff that had happened
in the past, they thought that they would be immune
to it. And they tried to war against God's people.
And in the same way that the devil, that the
devil tried it in heaven, he tries it on planet Earth.
And there's sometimes that we pray, according to Daniel Danielle
chapter ten, Well, just read the entire chapter. There are
times that we pray, and we're praying, and sometimes we think,
as we are fasting, we are crying, we are begging,
we are awaiting the voice of God, the answer to
prayer that we had been anticipating, and it seems like
it'll never happen. And in Daniel's case, it was twenty
one long days that he was hoping for an answer
to prayer, seeking God's face, and nothing, or at least
apparently nothing. But we read in Daniel chapter ten that
basically the angel Gabriel, in the four minutes that it
took for Daniel to pray his prayer, had already been
given the command to go down and to give Daniel
everything he needed that the Bible says that he was
hung up in traffic for twenty one days. The angel
of God, Gabriel was hung up in traffic, and therefore
God sent the commander of the heavenly armies, Jesus Christ himself.
Jesus now goes down and says, Gabriel, I got it
from here. I'll deal with the enemy. Here you go
and deal with my beloved son Daniel, and give him
the skill, give him the encouragement, give him the message
that he needs to get through. So sometimes your prayers
are answered in the moment that you prayed them, and
God has already dispatched heavenly angels to give you what
you need. And yet the enemy sometimes withstands them and
it takes a second. But just know that God always
comes through. And so Daniel was a good example of
the situation where where Josiah Joshua was going through whatever
his battles were, right before the people of God went
into the Promised Land. And so what I want to
do here is focus your attention in our life application
guide that you can get at your Daily portion dot Com.
Go ahead and type of one in the chat. If
you already have it type of one in the chat,
and I want you to focus on the relationship application,
the relationship application. And let me just say one thing,
one thing, that God is the one who is overcoming
the principalities and powers because people are not our enemy.
The devil is Thanks for to.
Speaker 1: Days 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah,