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. It's
September twenty nine, 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 about Joshua, the Lessons of
Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is Cross, Take,
Divide and Serve. Cross, Take, Divide and Serve. Before we
get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
we thank you for this day and for another day.
We can do your work and other servile labor. Lord,
we can work and eat and serve other people. Please, now, God,
help us to cross and to take, and to divide
and serve according to your will. In twenty twenty five
in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. What
is it that God is commanding you to do? What
is God commanding you to do? And I know that
most Christianese speaking people I made that language up, I
invented it. But I think you understand what I'm saying.
People who are attached to the people of God are
often thinking when you say command, they're thinking of maybe
the commandments, or thinking of one of the ways that
God has said go from this point in your life
and go into this other point of your life. And
so what I'm saying to you is God has another
way of commanding. There are times that He gives us
success principles, cross, divide, take and serve, and so we
look at the Book of Joshua chapter one and see
that God is giving commands that have to do with
trusting him and reaping the reward. Trusting him and reaping
the reward, like wherever your feet shall be, that will
be your land. God has made a promise. He made
it to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and now the people
of God are able to live in aspects of the promise.
And so there are some highlights I'd like to underscore
from the Book of Joshua chapter one. You can read
in the lesson study the ones that the lesson writer highlighted.
But I'll give you some more, okay, Verses one and two.
The Bible teaches a transition of leadership from Moses to Joshua. Duh.
Like you already knew that, But it's important because God
is showing us the blueprint of continuity. I told you
that yesterday, a continuity, a continual reality of leadership where
God does not slumber. He does not sleep. He is
the one who sets up leaders and he's the one
that brings them down. He will not leave his people
leader less as long as they are his people Verses
three to six. The Bible teaches us that God promises
the land and presence and success of God. So the
land the Bible says that the cattle on a thousand
hills are his, all of the lands of this earth.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and
even the people that dwell therein. So God has given us.
God has given us the privilege of coming together in
a way where he promises us some of the land
that he has created. He's promised us all of his presence,
and he has given us godly success as a promise. Okay,
And then verses seven through nine, are you listening for
the blueprint for your own life? Are you listening for
how God is commanding you and that he will make
promises to you well. Versus seven through nine teach us
that there is a call to courage and obedience to Terah,
the law right call to courage and obedience to the law.
This is the reality for the people of God. If
you are looking for the land, you are looking for
God's presence, you are looking for godly success and leadership
under God. Then He's saying submit your will to him, surrender,
surrender yourself minimally to the law, but more than that
the law of God is a microquasm of real relationship
with him. Verses ten to fifteen, Joshua commands the officers
preparing the people. So God has his people on the march.
Are you marching? Are you marching into the promised land? Now?
Are you on your way marching to Zion? Beautiful, beautiful Zion.
Are you marching to Zion? Then? If you are, then
God has set up the blueprint and the way marks,
the milestones that let you know that you are marching
in the right direction under his leadership. And then, of
course verses sixteen to eighteen, the people confirm their loyalty
to Joshua. Because remember this is a continuity plan. God
is putting Moses obviously out of the picture, and he's
bringing Joshua to the forefront of the picture so that
they can, under God and his leadership, learn how to
serve God. Because they're going to the Promise. They're not
going to the promise to continue with their enslaved mentality,
going into the promise to murmur. They are going into
the promise so that they can continue to be God's people.
And so they're affirming their loyalty to God's continuity plan
under Joshua pledging obedience. Now, what I want you to
do is give keen attention to Joshua's name. Look at
what Joshua's name, the way we say it in English means,
it's not a coincidence that God would use that person
with that name to quote save the people. And Joshua's
name is Yahost Shuah. May I just say yah Showah
blessed be his name, because the term actually means in Hebrew,
Yahweh saves. Yahost Shia blessed be. His name is a
central figure in our plan of salvation. May I say
it another way, Yahoshua blessed be. His name is the
name that we should be using to identify who Jesus is.
In the Hebrew culture, Yahos Shoah and Jesus synonymous, and
so Joshua the one whom God chose to replace Moses.
In this case, the central figure is a prefigurement of
Jesus Christ himself, the one who promised and pledged that
he would lay down his life that we may take it.
He may take it again so that we can actually
march in to heavenly Zion. And then the earth made
new and So God showed us through human instrumentality, what
it is like to serve God and have His presence
with us. So much more we could say, But let
me just read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page
four hundred eighty two, and it reads, Joshua was now
the acknowledged leader of God's people. He was full of
faith in the promises of God. His courage and perseverance
and leadership were not the result of natural ability. There
are times that God calls his people and the first
thing we do is give our resume that says, this
is what qualifies us for the calling. But in fact
and indeed, yes, God will use those things. But it
is in fact and indeed God using them. God equips
the called. He does not necessarily call the equipped. I know,
I know, I know. If you are a medical doctor
and you went through the training necessary to perfect your
craft in that field to practice medicine, God is not
nullifying that. But that is not what qualifies you to
be His servant. You understand, Okay, let me just keep going.
But his connection with God. Connection with God is the
key to us being able to cross over the Jordan River,
take the land that God has given us divided among
the people of God, and to serve God throughout the
ceaseless ages of eternity. Follow God and you cannot lose peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us 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. Yeah,