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

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

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

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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

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

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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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 Sabbath, August four,

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two thousand, not August October four, twenty twenty five. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where we give you

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God's word every single day, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our lesson study series Lessons of

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Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is prized

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by grace, Surprised by Grace. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please

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please let us know where you are in the world

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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we thank you for this day and for giving us

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the opportunity to experience your grace, your power to do

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your will. Please help us to be amazed by You,

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but not surprised. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. I just have to tell you the truth.

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I don't believe in surprises. And when I say that,

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I'm saying when it comes to God's people, we must

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get to a point where we are so oh accustomed.

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I don't mean where we rest on our laurels, but

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we become so accustomed to God being great that we're

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not like, oh, my goodness, he's great again. Now we

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should be amazed by God. We should be blown away

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because we have not even begun to get to the

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depths of His riches and his grace. But we shouldn't

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be surprised when God is good. Okay, I know what

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the caption is for today, but I just needed to

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say that. And so from the Book of Hebrews Hebrews,

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Chapter eleven and verse thirty one reads by faith, the

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harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe.

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So can we just start right here, like, one of

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the lessons that we must learn is that the power

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to live eternally is faith, or maybe I should say

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it this way. In order for us to receive the power,

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we need to live with God eternally. We need faith,

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faith from God. Jesus is the author and finisher of

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our faith. And so this woman that the Bible describes

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by what she had done until she received faith from

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God or the faith of God, harlot Rahab. Now she's

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transformed by faith and she lays hold upon the power

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of God and she's saved. So it says by faith,

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the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did

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not believe when she had received the spies with peace.

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We're going to drill that some more in the coming days,

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if the Lord spears life. But let me just begin here.

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God's people stood again at the border of Canaan the

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first time at Kadesh Barnia. Fear and rebellion closed the

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door to the Promised Land. And we can read that

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story in Numbers chapter fourteen. May I just say very

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quickly this is in a sense. But yeah, the people

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of God wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and

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the entire first generation of freed slaves, with the exception

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of Joshua and Caleb, were destroyed. They died in the

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wilderness because of their lack of faith, full stop. Everybody

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from age twenty and above plus Joshua and Caleb eventually

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goes into the promised land. That God, that God, you know,

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he forecasted, he promised to Abraham, and then of course

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Isaac and Jacob. Okay, but that should have taken eleven days.

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So the distance going I forgot the direction, but from

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Horeb or Sinai all the way to Kadash Barnea, that's

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eleven days journey. If they had gone a certain route.

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I need to go back and remember what the root is.

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And I think in Deuteronomy chapter one, verse two, you

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see that in real words. And so now they are

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forty years later at Kadash Barnia. How in the world

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did it take so long? I'm still blown away by this,

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But anyway, they're there under Joshua's leadership. They had another chance.

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Aren't you glad that God gives not just second chances,

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but he gives chances. We don't take his grace for granted,

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we don't take it lightly and continue to jump into

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sin because he gives all of these chances. But they

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have another chance. And Joshua sent out two spies, not

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because God's promise was uncertain. That first one didn't go right.

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They saw giants and they had the wrong perspective of

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themselves and all not not that style again, but because

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faith never cancels responsibility. We have to be responsible. God

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would give the land, but as people would still need

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to move forward in obedience. There is so much more

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I could say, but let me just say very quickly

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lesson number one. That first one was a bonus. The

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real lesson number one is grace reaches the unlikely. The

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Bible reads in Joshua chapter two and verse nine, I

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know that the Lord hath given you the land. I

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know that the Lord hath given you the land. Yes

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it's forty years later. Yes there are only two that

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are alive from that first generation. Yes, the people had

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been stiff necked and hard hearted, and so many things

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that we could say about them. And it's true. And

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God does not take that lightly, which is why he

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judged the people. He doesn't take it lightly. But he

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had a promise to keep. Man, just say that again,

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like he had a promise to keep. He told Abraham

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that this is what would happen with God's people. And

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so the action step in this reality about God's grace

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reaching the unlikely, just like rayhab just like you like

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fill in the name here, my name, ld like that

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is the reality. So stop disqualifying yourselves or others. Stop

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disqualifying yourselves or others. God's grace is not hindered or

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shackled somehow, fettered, ti strapped, zip tied, handcuffed behind his

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back somehow because of your past. It is magnified. Because

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of your past, the grace of God is magnified. Listen,

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if we had not made all of those blunders and errors, mistakes,

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unforced errors, if we had not done all of those things,

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then there would be no need for grace. You see,

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grace's unmerited favor. That is the mercy of God. And

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there's nothing we can do to earn the mercy of God.

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But then grace also is the power of God to

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do his will. Stop disqualifying yourselves and others. Number two

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comes in from Exodus chapter twelve and verse thirteen. The

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Bible says, when I see the blood, of course, this

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takes us way back many years before I will pass

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over you. I think Rayhab had the same experience. She

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had a tie of red ribbon. That would also cause

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God's people to say, you know what, there's faith in

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that place, and so we are not going to destroy it.

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There is faith in that place, so we're not going

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to destroy it. So when God sees your home, is

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there faith in that place? When God sees your cell

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phone history when you are calling, texting, dming using certain apps,

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the history within those certain apps, When God sees that,

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is he seeing your faith? Like is he seeing connection

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with him so that he passes over? Yeah. And this

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action step like Rayhab tying the scarlet cord put your

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faith into visible action today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You

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don't have to go back to those things that you

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did in the past that were blunders where your spirituality

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is concerned. And number three in final comes in from

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Namiya chapter nine and verse thirty one. Nevertheless, for thy

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great mercies sake, thou didst not utterly consume them, nor

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forsake them. The action today with this one is to

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thank God for another chance. Thank God for another chance.

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Live as though you have been rescued. Because you have.

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I want you to be amazed by God and his grace,

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but come on, not surprised. Make it a great Sabbath peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,