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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 Wednesday. It's

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October one, 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 Fate from Joshua under

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the caption be strong, be strong, exclamation point. Yeah. Before

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we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, Father, thank you for this new day,

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and please help us to be strong. There's so many

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things vying for our attention, and it's easy for us

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to become weak. But God, you have made us strong.

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Please in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again,

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be strong, Be strong. I'm coming in from the Bible

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Book of Joshua Joshua chapter one and will read verses

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seven and nine. The Bible reads, only be thou strong

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and very courageous. This is what God is saying to Joshua,

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that thou mayest observe to do according to all the

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law which Moses, my servant commanded thee So God is

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giving Joshua a baseline. I've already established a relationship with

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my people. You've seen how it works in the life

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of Moses, as he leads in this context, I want

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you to be strong, but I'm going to give you

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the law you were around Joshua, you saw an experienced

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You were faithful Joshua. Now I want you to just

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be very clear so you don't make the same mistakes

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that Moses made. Don't make the mistake that Aaron made.

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Be strong and courageous, and do what I tell you

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to do. No more this stuff about. You know, I

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threw stuff into the fire and out popped a golden

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calf like no more getting angry and taking glory from

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me and striking what I said to speak to. None

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of that. Be strong, be courageous, don't turn to the

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right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper

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whithersoever thou goest. We're going to talk about that prospering

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a little more on another day. And in verse nine,

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have I not commanded thee be strong? It's a command

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and of good courage. Don't be afraid. Neither be thou dismayed.

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For the Lord Thy God is with THEE, whethersoever thou goest.

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And so the reason why you should not be afraid,

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the reason you should not be dismayed, the reason why

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you should be of good courage, is because God is

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with you, not because you were faithful yesterday, not because

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you were faithful weeks or months ago or years ago

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when you looked over and saw that there were giants

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in the land, and you said, but God said that

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he will give us the city when you were faithful yesterday.

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That's not the reason why you're going to prosper. It's

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because in that moment you knew to rely on me.

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God speaking, and I want you to do it again.

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I'm welcoming you, okay, and I think I have given

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you the words from the text and what they mean,

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so we'll just fast forward. Joshua is stepping into Moses's shoes,

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and I don't mean it in the sense that God

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is leading him as sort of a vice version of Moses.

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It's just that Moses had walked this path for years

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and decades before, so Moses was the only leader God's

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people had known. In this context, Joshua was now responsible

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for guiding millions into hostile territory. Repetition stressed the weight

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of the call. The task ahead could have been seen

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as overwhelming, which is why God encouraged him to beged courageous,

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to be faithful, to be holy, So the task ahead

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could have been seen as overwhelming, conquering Canaan meant focusing

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on fortified cities, experiencing armies that were experienced, and giants.

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Fear was natural. But God wanted Joshua to step into

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the supernatural with him. Ah, God wanted him to forget

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about the natural. He did not want him, as we

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would have seen in the future, to be like Peter

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who who said, God, if it's you, Jesus, if it

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is you, Master, if it's you, bid me come out

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onto the water. And then he walks miraculously on water.

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But in the moment his natural mind kicked in. See

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his mind full of faith that was laying hold upon God,

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and his supernatural power was active, almost without thinking. It

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became spiritual second nature for him to just simply follow Jesus,

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keeping his eyes transfixed upon Jesus. And when he started

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to look at his natural reality, wait there are winds, yep, Wait,

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there are waves, yep. There is the fact that like

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what goes up must come down, and this water is

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not My feet aren't buoyant. In the moment that he

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observed the natural, he lost focus of God in the supernatural.

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And so Joshua is being commanded not to look at

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the natural, but to reality to have a reality check,

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a godly reality check that God is the one who

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is giving him supernatural ability to just do what God said.

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And so the people had a history of rebellion. Joshua

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had seen their disobedience firsthand. We see that in Numbers,

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chapter fourteen. To lead them required more than just normal

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strength and courage. We've already covered it needed to be

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supernatural and spiritual. Leadership requires the resilience, strength and courage

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are tied directly to doing what God says, that is,

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to be in cooperation with him. From the book Patriarchs

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and Prophets, we read page four hundred and eighty two.

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Joshua was now the acknowledged leader of God's people. Courage

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and strength were especially necessary in one who was to

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succeed Moses. Only by faith in God could he fulfill

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the great responsibility laid a him, laid upon him. How

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many times has God given you responsibilities? Can we just

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bring it a little bit closer? Is there a position

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at work that you have now assumed that your predecessor

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is you know, who was well decorated, may be very

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good at what he or she did prior to your arrival,

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And now you're stepping in, and you're wondering, God, what

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am I supposed to do? Be courageous? Huh, be faithful.

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Focus your attention on God and not on any of

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that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Maybe your predecessor like me. When I was twenty three,

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I was promoted to management in the psych field and

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my predecessor, my predecessor, after I had done the vocational

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counseling role for three and a half years, my predecessor,

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who was my boss, set me up to take her position,

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and I was like, what, ah, be of good courage, Dave.

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Don't think that you're only twenty three years of age.

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Don't think that maybe there are other people who would

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love to be in that position and it looks like

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you leapfrogged them. Forget about that. Focus your attention on God.

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Don't focus your attention on the natural. Don't focus your

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attention on the stress that will likely come and I

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know that it actually did. Don't focus on any of

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those things, but focus squarely upon the fact that God

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led you in the past and he will lead you now.

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Just keep his word. The Lord, thy God is with thee.

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Whithersoever thou goest, do you believe it? Make it a

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great day 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,