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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy.

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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, October

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twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and

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our caption for today is the Lord Will Fight for You.

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The Lord will Fight for You. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask

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you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com,

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please join our online community. And also let me just

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say that we are having a good time in the

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evenings only on the YouTube channel YouTube channel where we

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are having evening reflection for seven minutes right before you

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wind down and rest for the evening. So if you

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want me to continue with that, we're still testing it.

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Just go ahead and say yes to evening reflection, the

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same as the case for the Friday evening. The Friday

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Evening musical teaching experience. Yes to music is what you'll

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that is exclusively on YouTube. Okay, so just go to

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the YouTube your daily portion channel and you will see

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all of that. Let's pray, Father, we thank you, thank

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you for your faithfulness. Please make us holy, Please teach

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us to rely on you to fight our battles. In

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Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So

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news flash, news flash. We hear about the commander of

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the heavenly hosts. We hear about the lamb that will

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fight for us. I do know, I said the lamb,

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and that's the irony of the entire situation. The Lamb

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of God will fight for us, and of course the

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mighty lion of the tribe of Judah. Right. But when

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we go back to the possession of the land that

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God had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I want to

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read a quote that gives some insight on God's intentions

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for how they were to get this now. And it

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comes in from the book or from the resource Signs

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of the Times. It's an article. It was an article

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Signs of the Times from September two, eighteen eighty and

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it reads. God did not design that his people should

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gain the Land of Promise by warfare. So it wasn't

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that God was to lay siege on the land. It

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wasn't supposed to be like how he wrought he raised

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up Cyrus back in the day and took overtook Babylon.

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It was that was not his intention. That is not

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what he wanted to do. But through submission and unqualified

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obedience to his commands, that is the way that God

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wanted the people to receive the land, the Land of Promise.

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As in their deliverance from Egypt. God would fight their

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battles for them. All they had to do was stand

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still and witness his mighty intervention. Isn't it wonderful that

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we could see all throughout that experience where God would say,

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blow your trumpet, march, stand still and see and then

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we would see times when God would fight their battles

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as Moses's hands were lifted and those men were supporting

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him in his lifting up hands. Do you lift up

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holy hands unto God right now in your life? You see? So?

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History demonstrates that whenever God's people had sufficient trust in God,

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they didn't need to fight. Lord, Will you teach us

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to have the kind of faith, the kind of trust,

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the great peace that you said that we would have

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when we love your law and nothing will cause us

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to go away from you, nothing shall offend us. Can

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you give us that kind of peace and trust so

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we don't keep trying to fight for ourselves. And I

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know a lot of people say we're sheep, and they

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mean it in a negative way. You hear it all

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the time. Christians are sheep. You just accept anything. Well,

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I'd like to accept God as the one fighting my battles.

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I'd like to accept. Let me just say to you

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like this, many years ago, somebody said to me at work.

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I'm talking about many years ago, so don't try to

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figure it out right. Many years ago somebody said to

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me at work, watch your back, watch your back. They're

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trying to get you. And I looked around in a symbol,

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in a you know, symbol of what, and I said,

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watch my back. I can't see my back. God fights

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my battles. I'm not worried about whatever it is that

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you're talking about. Thank you for your intent. But God

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is watching my back. I can't see my back. And

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this is the blessing of God fighting our battles, like

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the weapons of our warfare, are not carnal, they are spiritual.

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To the pulling down of strongholds, to every single thing

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that lifts itself up and puffs its own chest up

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against God. God will subdue and overcome that when we

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surrender our will to him. And so in God's ideal plan.

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According to the lesson writer, the people of God never

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needed to fight for themselves. It was a consequence, Oh no,

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a consequence of their unbeliefs. So self defense the consequence

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of your unbelief. Oh expressed after the exodus from Egypt

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that God permitted them to have a part in the

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war conducted against the Canaan Knits. In the same way,

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they did not need to raise a single sword against

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the Egyptians during the exodus. It would have never been

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necessary for them to fight in conquering Canaan. And so

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we read in Deuteronomy chapter seven, beginning at verse seventeen.

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If you should say in your heart, these nations are

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greater than I, how can I dispossess them? You shall

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not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well

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that the Lord your God, what he did to Pharaoh

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in all of Egypt. So if all of these years

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later you have forgotten, remember, we have no fear for

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the future, except we forget how God has led us

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in the past. And so now these people are going

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to be fearful, like now we're seeing the forecast. Like

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if your mind goes there and you're worried about the

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quote giants, you're worried about all of those things that

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are happening along the pathway. If you're fearful and you're wondering,

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like how can I dispossess them? And you forget what

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God has done? Oh God, what God wants us to

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do is to remember well what your Lord did back then,

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the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and wonders,

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Remember those sicknesses that you went through, Remember the debt

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you could not overcome, Remember the mindset that was holding

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you back in terms of your success in your marriage,

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in your relationships with others at work, and your professional development. Huh,

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and your spiritual development. Remember what that was? And God

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dug you out of that situation. Huh. The great trials

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which your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand,

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and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God

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brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do

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to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. You see,

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God has given us a promise. He has given us

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a promise, and I'll give it to you. From the

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Bookstory of Redemption, page one hundred and thirty four. If

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the people of God had not murmured against God, he

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would not have allowed their enemies to make war with them.

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Sh If you're listening on the radio, that was a

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deliberate pause. So I need to be asking me the question,

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do I murmur against God when he takes me through

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straight or difficult places? Am I murmuring against God? Am

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my saying God? Why is it that you're doing it

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this way? God? Why are you doing it that way?

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You See? If I murmur against God, then I put

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myself in a position to have to fight for myself,

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and I don't want to do that. I know it's

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difficult for some people to surrender. See God is saying,

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surrender your will today and I will fight your battles.

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We're going to read a meditation about this this evening

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at seven pm to make a time if the Lord

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spars life, We'll see you later only on YouTube. Peace.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,