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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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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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, October eighteen,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for today is the conflict behind all conflicts. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then we will get to underway. Father,

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We thank you for this new Sabbath morning. Please help

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us to live like people who know that the Angel

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of the Lord and campeth round about us. Please teach

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us faithfulness this Sabbath morning. In Jesus' name, I pray

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a man and a men again. Let me just say,

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if you were with us last evening and you enjoyed

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the musical teaching style worship, just go ahead and type

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of one in the chat, type of one in the chat.

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If you enjoyed the musical style worship last evening, type

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of one in the Chat. As we jump into Joshua

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Joshua chapter ten and verse fourteen. Joshua chapter ten and

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verse fourteen, let me just say that in music we

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see the controversy between God and Satan a live and

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in living color, as in the story of David and

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King Saul, where Saul was being buffeted by an evil

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spirit and the Man of God with his heart and

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whatever other way that he came in. With the music,

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we know that holiness came into that space and the

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enemy had to move from there. And so the text reads,

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and there was no day like that before it or

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after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of

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a man, for the Lord fought for his people. The

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Lord fought for his people. Has God ever fought for you?

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That's what I want to know. Has God ever fought

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for you when you were feeling depressed in the night

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season and you didn't know how you were going to

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get through. I'm talking about at nighttime you're supposed to

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be sleeping, you cannot sleep, and you're being awakened by

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all kinds of thoughts. Has God fought the battle for you?

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When you're employer was saying and doing things you know,

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I don't know is it because of co workers, because

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of something else, and you didn't agree with it and

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it was troubling your mind. Has God fought for you?

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That's what I want to know. Has God fought for you?

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And of course the answer for me is absolutely, And

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I'm hoping that you can see how God has fought

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for you. And so our first lesson, our first lesson

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comes in from Exodus chapter fourteen, which is an echo

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of the verse we just read, The Lord shall fight

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for you, and you shall hold your peace. God's actions

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in Joshua show that he is not a distant observer.

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See in the beginnings days of our church, there were

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some people creeping in who were deists, and those individuals

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made it seem as if God created the heavens and

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the earth, he furled it out or is that a

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word he flung it out into the universe and then

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said all right, well, yeah, let me know how that goes.

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Of God being the personal God who is knowing all

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that is going on on planet Earth and is interested

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in every detail, collects your tears in a bottle, can

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hear your groanings, and is listening for your praise when

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you come through trials, or when you know that God

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is with you as you are coming through your trials.

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The Bible is teaching us that He is not a

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distant observer. He is the Lord of hosts who fights

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for his people against the enemy. The battle for Canaan

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was not just a military conflict, It was really moral

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and spiritual. The Bible says that we don't wrestle against

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flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and the

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rulers of the darkness of this world, in spiritual wickedness

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in high places. And so God is teaching us that

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our weapons of warfare are not carnal, they are spiritual.

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They are holy to the pulling down of everything that

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would get in the way of God's glory in his

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people's lives. And so God's warfare was a confrontation with

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the devil that opposed his covenant and holiness. And so

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what I want you to do intentionally is, when faced

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with battles that are larger than you. I almost said

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that seem larger than you. When you're faced with battles

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that are larger than you, pause and acknowledge that the

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Lord fights for those who trust him. Mm I can

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hear the him in my mind. Only trust him, Only

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trust him, Only trust him. Now He will save you.

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He will save you. He God will save you. Now

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rest in his strength and not your own. These are

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not your battles, brothers and sisters, they're not. They are

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for the Lord. Our lesson. Number two comes in from

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Revelation chapter twelve. Appropriately so chapter twelve, verses seven through nine.

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Chapter twelve, verses seven through nine, and it reads, and

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there was war in heaven. You see, war didn't begin

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on planet Earth. You thought war started down here. And

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I can think of some places right now, war theaters

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where it's hot. The battle's been hot even since Abraham

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was alive. Those war theaters still hot today in twenty

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twenty five. You think it started down here? Nope, It

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says that the war was in heaven first. And Mike

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Kay yel, Jesus Christ, I wish I had the time,

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and his angels fought against the devil or the dragon,

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and the dragon and his angels fought. The Bible teaches

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us further that God had to kick the devil out

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and his evil angels. Yeah, those angels that would not repent.

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The devil who would not repent had to go. And then,

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of course down here is where he is for the

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time being before God destroys him. Yeah. So the action

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step is that we should view challenges through a spiritual lens.

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You get a flat tire at an inopportune time, Yeah,

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it's a natural occurrence. But you think the devil is

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not at work. Come on, I'm not asking you to

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be paranoid. I'm just saying know that this stuff is

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happening because we live on an evil planet. You have

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an ache, you have a pain, you have an ailment.

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You think it's just because it is No, just a psichgo. No,

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the devil is alive and unfortunately, well he is as

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a roaring lion seeking whom he made devour. But thank God,

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let me just hear you virtually by typing in the chat.

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Thank God that the true lion of the tribe of

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Judah is in position at all times. He is delivering

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and protecting his people. Instead of focusing on visible opposition,

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recognize the unseen forces of God in his holy angels.

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He will give his angels charge over for you, Hah,

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to keep you in all your ways. Less at any

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time thou dasht foot against a stone. Recognize these forces

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and stand firm in God, in prayer, and in faith.

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And the third lesson for this Sabbath morning comes in

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from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred eight and

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one hundred and three Pardon me and verse eight. The

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Bible reads, the Lord is compassionate and merciful. You should

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be thankful because he's compassionate. He is merciful, he is

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patient and demonstrates loyal love. Let me go back to

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the King James version. The Lord is merciful and gracious,

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slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. I'm grateful. I'm

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grateful because I wasted a good number of years of

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my life. I wasted let me see twenty two years

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of my life. I mean you could say, you know,

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when I was between age, you know, months and one

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or two or three that didn't count. But let me

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just say, in my humanity, there was a lot of

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waste all the way until I said yes to Jesus

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when I was twenty three years of age. And it's

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been thirty years since then. No regrets, I thank God,

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no regrets, and so I'm grateful for his mercy. I'm

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grateful for his mercy. So the action for you this

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Sabbath morning is to trust God's timing and wisdom when

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you cannot understand his methods. His justice always flows from

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his love, even when the battle seems severe. If you

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are thankful, yes, I'm gonna ask you to type it

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in a chat. Say thank God with me. I say

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thank God. Make it a great Sabbath, Peace, Thanks for

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joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,