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 Friday, October
twenty four, 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 Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention.
The Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention. Before we get into this,
I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask
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you to come in at seven pm Jamaica time every
single night for a special evening meditation from God's Word
so that we can get ourselves ready to go down
and rest for the night. Okay. So that's a new
feature that we are trying out to see if it
sticks with you. Okay, So if you want to experience
God in a new and fresh way, come in on
evenings every single evening at seven pm Jamaica time and
we can worship together there. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,
we thank you for today and for the privilege you've
given us to trust you to do your will. Please
help us to actually do that. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. And so now we are continuing
with Joshua chapter ten and verse and ten and verse fourteen,
and I'll read one more passage before we give you
the first lesson for today. And it reads and there
was no day like that day before it or after it.
So we're reviewing that the Lord hearkened uneto the voice
of a man for the Lord fought for his people.
Now I'm reading from Revelation chapter twenty, verses nine, nine
and ten, and the Bible reads, and they went up
on the breadth of the earth. Yes, I'm going way
deep into the last days and come past the camp
of the saints about and what happened? And fire came
down from God out of heaven and devoured them, and finally,
finally the devil was cast into the lake of fire.
And so every time that God fought the battles and
the wars for his people, he was just really warming
us up. He was warming us up for the time
that he would ultimately fight our battle at the last
of the last days, when the people of God will
finally be able to inherit the new Earth. But there
was just one last thing he needed to do, and
that is defeat the devil finally and destroy him, and
then we can live in the promise that God has
given us. And so the war on earth reflects the
war in heaven. The war on earth reflects the war
in heaven that started in heaven. So when God's people
faced Jericho, they were really not interested in the land.
It wasn't that God was just giving them land. It
wasn't like a conquest the traditional way. You will hear
me read about that in the evening.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: They were caught in a much larger, invisible battle between
good and evil. We call that the Great Controversy. That's
the time that God is showing that the weapons of
our warfare on planet Earth are not carnal but spiritual.
In the same way that God fought the Devil and
his evil angels and he removed them. Back when there
was war in heaven in twenty twenty five, or way
back when Joshua and the people of God were entering
into Canaan, or at any other time in history. When
God fought their battle, it was that God was defeating
the ultimate enemy, which is the devil. But when God's
people chose unbelief, we said it yesterday, then God needed
to do things a different way. And so again the
war on Earth reflects the war in Heaven. Let me
read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred
and ninety two. God had made it their privilege and
their duty to enter the land at the time of
his appointment, but through their willful neglect, that permission had
been withdrawn. It was not his purpose that they should
gain the land by warfare, but by strict obedience to
His commands and so allow God. Really, the lesson is
to allow God to do what He ultimately wants to
do in our lives. And there are some wars that
we will never need to fight. There are battles that
we will never need to engage in. Here as some
of us that are having wars against addictions to illicit
drugs and alcohol, well, we didn't need to deal with that.
We didn't need to do that. I don't want to
be flippant about it. I understand where it comes from.
But if we trust God in the beginning, then we
don't go to those or resort to those for comfort
and then have to fight the battle to overcome them.
There are some who are in relationships, illicit relationships because
they were searching for love in all the wrong places.
When God is love, searching for love in all the
wrong places. Now you have a battle, You have a
war on your hands. To overcome the lust, Overcome the
feelings that you're not able to reconcile on your own,
overcome all of the entanglements that come as a response
to that kind of a relationship. And so God wants
to fight our battles. Fight the battle in the beginning
against loneliness, fight the battle in the beginning against hopelessness
with God, and then we don't have to be drug
Is that the right word? Drug? Through the battles that
come after we have been disobedient. I wish I had
the time. Let me continue with one more lesson the
commander who is Jesus still leads the battle now Joshua's
encounter with the commander of the Lord's army, as we
have read and Joshua chapter five, verses thirteen to fifteen,
reminds us that the true question is not whether God
is on our side, but whether we are on his side.
We talked about that last night, Whether we are on
his side? In every age, God's people must align ourselves
under his leadership and not claim him as a supporter
of our own agendas. How many times have you heard
people say, well, I prayed about it. That's an answer
to wise counsel. When people say, ah, you might want
to choose a different path, and like I prayed about it,
I know that I'm supposed to do this, and then
only to find out that they prayed about it. But
they used the only answer that they desired, not the
answer God had given. And so God is saying, let
him be the commander in chief of your life. Let
him be the commander over the heavenly armies, so that
he will fight your battle. He will fight your battle now.
The lesson actually says, when rebellion against God's authority arose
in the universe, either God was going to cease being
what he essentially, immutably and eternally is and give away
the leadership of the whole universe to one of his
rebellious creatures. Or he was going to be the holy, righteous, loving,
and merciful father of all that exists. The Bible presents
the second picture, and in this case, the clash between
the forces of evil and his power is inevitable. Why
is it inevitable? Because God so loved the world that
he does not want you, He does not want me
to be lost. He doesn't want either of us to
be separated from him eternally. And therefore, through Christ, when
that war arises, God has to get the enemy out.
And so the question is am I going to trust
the one who created me and is wanting to recreate
me to make me Holy Or am I going to
God forbid side with the enemy and be destroyed with him. Yeah,
it comes down to those decisions. Make the right one.
We'll see you tonight at seven if the Lord spars
life 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,