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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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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, October

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twenty four, 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 Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention.

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The Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention. Before we get into this,

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

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you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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You can actually get that music that I am playing

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on its original music. It's original music that I'm using

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on on Friday evenings. You can get that there at

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your Daily Portion dot com. And also I am welcoming

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you to come in at seven pm Jamaica time every

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single night for a special evening meditation from God's Word

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so that we can get ourselves ready to go down

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and rest for the night. Okay. So that's a new

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feature that we are trying out to see if it

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sticks with you. Okay, So if you want to experience

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God in a new and fresh way, come in on

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evenings every single evening at seven pm Jamaica time and

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we can worship together there. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,

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we thank you for today and for the privilege you've

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given us to trust you to do your will. Please

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help us to actually do that. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. And so now we are continuing

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with Joshua chapter ten and verse and ten and verse fourteen,

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and I'll read one more passage before we give you

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the first lesson for today. And it reads and there

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was no day like that day before it or after it.

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So we're reviewing that the Lord hearkened uneto the voice

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of a man for the Lord fought for his people.

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Now I'm reading from Revelation chapter twenty, verses nine, nine

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and ten, and the Bible reads, and they went up

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on the breadth of the earth. Yes, I'm going way

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deep into the last days and come past the camp

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of the saints about and what happened? And fire came

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down from God out of heaven and devoured them, and finally,

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finally the devil was cast into the lake of fire.

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And so every time that God fought the battles and

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the wars for his people, he was just really warming

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us up. He was warming us up for the time

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that he would ultimately fight our battle at the last

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of the last days, when the people of God will

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finally be able to inherit the new Earth. But there

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was just one last thing he needed to do, and

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that is defeat the devil finally and destroy him, and

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then we can live in the promise that God has

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given us. And so the war on earth reflects the

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war in heaven. The war on earth reflects the war

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in heaven that started in heaven. So when God's people

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faced Jericho, they were really not interested in the land.

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It wasn't that God was just giving them land. It

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wasn't like a conquest the traditional way. You will hear

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me read about that in the evening.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: They were caught in a much larger, invisible battle between

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good and evil. We call that the Great Controversy. That's

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the time that God is showing that the weapons of

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our warfare on planet Earth are not carnal but spiritual.

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In the same way that God fought the Devil and

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his evil angels and he removed them. Back when there

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was war in heaven in twenty twenty five, or way

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back when Joshua and the people of God were entering

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into Canaan, or at any other time in history. When

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God fought their battle, it was that God was defeating

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the ultimate enemy, which is the devil. But when God's

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people chose unbelief, we said it yesterday, then God needed

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to do things a different way. And so again the

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war on Earth reflects the war in Heaven. Let me

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read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred

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and ninety two. God had made it their privilege and

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their duty to enter the land at the time of

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his appointment, but through their willful neglect, that permission had

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been withdrawn. It was not his purpose that they should

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gain the land by warfare, but by strict obedience to

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His commands and so allow God. Really, the lesson is

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to allow God to do what He ultimately wants to

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do in our lives. And there are some wars that

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we will never need to fight. There are battles that

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we will never need to engage in. Here as some

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of us that are having wars against addictions to illicit

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drugs and alcohol, well, we didn't need to deal with that.

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We didn't need to do that. I don't want to

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be flippant about it. I understand where it comes from.

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But if we trust God in the beginning, then we

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don't go to those or resort to those for comfort

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and then have to fight the battle to overcome them.

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There are some who are in relationships, illicit relationships because

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they were searching for love in all the wrong places.

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When God is love, searching for love in all the

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wrong places. Now you have a battle, You have a

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war on your hands. To overcome the lust, Overcome the

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feelings that you're not able to reconcile on your own,

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overcome all of the entanglements that come as a response

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to that kind of a relationship. And so God wants

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to fight our battles. Fight the battle in the beginning

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against loneliness, fight the battle in the beginning against hopelessness

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with God, and then we don't have to be drug

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Is that the right word? Drug? Through the battles that

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come after we have been disobedient. I wish I had

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the time. Let me continue with one more lesson the

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commander who is Jesus still leads the battle now Joshua's

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encounter with the commander of the Lord's army, as we

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have read and Joshua chapter five, verses thirteen to fifteen,

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reminds us that the true question is not whether God

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is on our side, but whether we are on his side.

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We talked about that last night, Whether we are on

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his side? In every age, God's people must align ourselves

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under his leadership and not claim him as a supporter

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of our own agendas. How many times have you heard

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people say, well, I prayed about it. That's an answer

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to wise counsel. When people say, ah, you might want

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to choose a different path, and like I prayed about it,

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I know that I'm supposed to do this, and then

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only to find out that they prayed about it. But

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they used the only answer that they desired, not the

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answer God had given. And so God is saying, let

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him be the commander in chief of your life. Let

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him be the commander over the heavenly armies, so that

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he will fight your battle. He will fight your battle now.

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The lesson actually says, when rebellion against God's authority arose

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in the universe, either God was going to cease being

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what he essentially, immutably and eternally is and give away

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the leadership of the whole universe to one of his

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rebellious creatures. Or he was going to be the holy, righteous, loving,

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and merciful father of all that exists. The Bible presents

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the second picture, and in this case, the clash between

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the forces of evil and his power is inevitable. Why

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is it inevitable? Because God so loved the world that

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he does not want you, He does not want me

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to be lost. He doesn't want either of us to

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be separated from him eternally. And therefore, through Christ, when

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that war arises, God has to get the enemy out.

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And so the question is am I going to trust

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the one who created me and is wanting to recreate

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me to make me Holy Or am I going to

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God forbid side with the enemy and be destroyed with him. Yeah,

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it comes down to those decisions. Make the right one.

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We'll see you tonight at seven if the Lord spars

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life peace. 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,