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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, October
twenty two, 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 the Lord Will Fight for You.
The Lord will Fight for You. Before we get into that,
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all of that. Let's pray, Father, we thank you, thank
you for your faithfulness. Please make us holy, Please teach
us to rely on you to fight our battles. In
Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So
news flash, news flash. We hear about the commander of
the heavenly hosts. We hear about the lamb that will
fight for us. I do know, I said the lamb,
and that's the irony of the entire situation. The Lamb
of God will fight for us, and of course the
mighty lion of the tribe of Judah. Right. But when
we go back to the possession of the land that
God had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I want to
read a quote that gives some insight on God's intentions
for how they were to get this now. And it
comes in from the book or from the resource Signs
of the Times. It's an article. It was an article
Signs of the Times from September two, eighteen eighty and
it reads. God did not design that his people should
gain the Land of Promise by warfare. So it wasn't
that God was to lay siege on the land. It
wasn't supposed to be like how he wrought he raised
up Cyrus back in the day and took overtook Babylon.
It was that was not his intention. That is not
what he wanted to do. But through submission and unqualified
obedience to his commands, that is the way that God
wanted the people to receive the land, the Land of Promise.
As in their deliverance from Egypt. God would fight their
battles for them. All they had to do was stand
still and witness his mighty intervention. Isn't it wonderful that
we could see all throughout that experience where God would say,
blow your trumpet, march, stand still and see and then
we would see times when God would fight their battles
as Moses's hands were lifted and those men were supporting
him in his lifting up hands. Do you lift up
holy hands unto God right now in your life? You see? So?
History demonstrates that whenever God's people had sufficient trust in God,
they didn't need to fight. Lord, Will you teach us
to have the kind of faith, the kind of trust,
the great peace that you said that we would have
when we love your law and nothing will cause us
to go away from you, nothing shall offend us. Can
you give us that kind of peace and trust so
we don't keep trying to fight for ourselves. And I
know a lot of people say we're sheep, and they
mean it in a negative way. You hear it all
the time. Christians are sheep. You just accept anything. Well,
I'd like to accept God as the one fighting my battles.
I'd like to accept. Let me just say to you
like this, many years ago, somebody said to me at work.
I'm talking about many years ago, so don't try to
figure it out right. Many years ago somebody said to
me at work, watch your back, watch your back. They're
trying to get you. And I looked around in a symbol,
in a you know, symbol of what, and I said,
watch my back. I can't see my back. God fights
my battles. I'm not worried about whatever it is that
you're talking about. Thank you for your intent. But God
is watching my back. I can't see my back. And
this is the blessing of God fighting our battles, like
the weapons of our warfare, are not carnal, they are spiritual.
To the pulling down of strongholds, to every single thing
that lifts itself up and puffs its own chest up
against God. God will subdue and overcome that when we
surrender our will to him. And so in God's ideal plan.
According to the lesson writer, the people of God never
needed to fight for themselves. It was a consequence, Oh no,
a consequence of their unbeliefs. So self defense the consequence
of your unbelief. Oh expressed after the exodus from Egypt
that God permitted them to have a part in the
war conducted against the Canaan Knits. In the same way,
they did not need to raise a single sword against
the Egyptians during the exodus. It would have never been
necessary for them to fight in conquering Canaan. And so
we read in Deuteronomy chapter seven, beginning at verse seventeen.
If you should say in your heart, these nations are
greater than I, how can I dispossess them? You shall
not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well
that the Lord your God, what he did to Pharaoh
in all of Egypt. So if all of these years
later you have forgotten, remember, we have no fear for
the future, except we forget how God has led us
in the past. And so now these people are going
to be fearful, like now we're seeing the forecast. Like
if your mind goes there and you're worried about the
quote giants, you're worried about all of those things that
are happening along the pathway. If you're fearful and you're wondering,
like how can I dispossess them? And you forget what
God has done? Oh God, what God wants us to
do is to remember well what your Lord did back then,
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and wonders,
Remember those sicknesses that you went through, Remember the debt
you could not overcome, Remember the mindset that was holding
you back in terms of your success in your marriage,
in your relationships with others at work, and your professional development. Huh,
and your spiritual development. Remember what that was? And God
dug you out of that situation. Huh. The great trials
which your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand,
and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God
brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do
to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. You see,
God has given us a promise. He has given us
a promise, and I'll give it to you. From the
Bookstory of Redemption, page one hundred and thirty four. If
the people of God had not murmured against God, he
would not have allowed their enemies to make war with them.
Sh If you're listening on the radio, that was a
deliberate pause. So I need to be asking me the question,
do I murmur against God when he takes me through
straight or difficult places? Am I murmuring against God? Am
my saying God? Why is it that you're doing it
this way? God? Why are you doing it that way?
You See? If I murmur against God, then I put
myself in a position to have to fight for myself,
and I don't want to do that. I know it's
difficult for some people to surrender. See God is saying,
surrender your will today and I will fight your battles.
We're going to read a meditation about this this evening
at seven pm to make a time if the Lord
spars life, We'll see you later only on YouTube. Peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,