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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 Tuesday, October fourteenth,

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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 remember Remember. Remember. Before we get into that,

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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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Please join our online community, let us know where you

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are in the world, and pick up your Daily Portion

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Life Application Guide. And this is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Now I

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talk to you about this a little bit. Yesterday I

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said that I am thinking about going through the lesson

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musically musically this coming Friday night at seven pm Jamaica time,

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seven pm Jamaica time. But I need to see, like,

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would you be here worshiping with us if I did that?

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So just please please please go ahead and say yes

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to music in the chat or in the comments section

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after the fact, and let me know if you would

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be here Friday evening at seven pm Jamaica time, and

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then if so, we will be here with you. Okay,

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So let's see, let's see, let's see. Let's go ahead

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

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thank you, We thank you for the privilege of prayer.

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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to remember how

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good you have been to your people in the past

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and even to us as individuals. Please help us to

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live according to that divine remembrance. In Jesus' name, I

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pray a man and a man again. I remember one

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of my favorite quotes. Really, it's a great reminder where

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Auntie Ellen said that we have no reason to fear

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for the future except we forget where God has led

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us in the past. We have no fear for the

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future except we forget where God has led us in

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the past. And so I'm going to give just a

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few lessons, just a few lessons about remembering, beginning with

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from the Bible Book of Joshua, chapter four, beginning at

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verse six. Joshua, Chapter four, beginning at verse six, which

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reads that this may be a sign among you. I

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want you to give keen attention when God says that

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we're supposed to remember something by sign, that this may

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be a sign among you that when your children ask

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their fathers in time to come saying what mean ye

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by these stones, that ye shall answer them. That the

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waters of Jordan were cut off before the arc of

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the Covenant, So that means that God was before his people,

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he was taking his people through to victory. He's with

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his people today on this Tuesday morning. He is with

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his people today guiding you through to victory. Well, it

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says that the waters of the Jordan were cut off

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before the presence of God or the ark of the

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Covenant of the Lord. And so the fact is that

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God establishes memorials to keep faith alive. Yeah, one politician

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back in the eighties. I remember he used to say

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keep hope alive, keep hope alive. In this case, we

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want to keep faith alive because faith is the I've

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heard all kinds of definitions of faith or or things

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to describe faith, but simply besides what the scripture says

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very clearly in Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews, chapter eleven,

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faith is is that way that we connect to the

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power of God. That's it. Faith is the way we

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connect to the power of God. So if we have

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no faith, we have no mechanism, no way to reach

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across and grasp the power of God. But faith is

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our ability to reach across and grasp the power of God. God. Okay,

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and so the action step in this case is I

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want you to I want you to identify a stone. See,

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the people of God were to take up stones as

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they were so journeying, and and then you heard what

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God said to do with those stones. So what is

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a stone? What is a moment of memory that you

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will etch in your symbolic mindset so that you can

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remember a moment when God showed up unmistakably. I want

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you to do something, write it down and thank God

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for him and all that he is doing daily. Whatever

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it is, take it up. It's something. Oh God, you

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were good to me on the road when there was

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road rage around me and I started feeling it creep

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up in me, but I was able to move without engaging.

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Thank you for that moment. Okay, let me go on

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to lesson number two before I go too far. Okay,

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So we're going into Deuteronomy, chapter eight and verse two,

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and the Bible reads and thou shalt remember all the

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way which the Lord thy God had led thee these

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forty years in the wilderness. Remember, remember how God has

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led you all of these years in the wilderness. Now,

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let me just give a little bit of context. These

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are the children except for Joshua and Caleb. These are

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all the children of the people who were delivered from

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Egyptian captivity. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. We're talking

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about every one of their parents and grandparents. They're dead,

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every single one of them. I don't know if it's grandparents.

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I just added that just in case. But the generation

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before them, all of them, one hundred percent of them, Moses, Aaron,

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and the rest of them except Joshua and Caleb dead

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because of their unbelief. They didn't die because they had

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heart attacks or whatever they died. They didn't die because

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they got eaten by crocodiles. They died because of their unbelief.

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And so he's telling this generation as they go through

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their part of the journey, as they are crossing over

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their Jordan river, Listen, I want you to remember what

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I did for your forefathers, even though they were unfaithful.

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Of course, this is a forecast because the people hadn't

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all died yet, but you get the point. Now, by

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the time they're crossing the Jordan, they are to remember

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how God led them all of these years, and so

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remembering leads to renewed obedience. Let me say that again.

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Remembering leads to renewed obedience. The stones at Gilgal were

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not meant to be silent. They spoke in air quotes

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of God's faithfulness AH and called God's people to obedience.

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Every act of remembrance strengthened their confidence in the Lord

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who led them through impossible places. Forgetfulness leads to disobedience,

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but remembrance revives faith. Thank God, Thank God, thank God.

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So the action step is before making a major decision,

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pause and recall how God has delivered you in the past.

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Let that memory anchor your obedience for today, give you

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the courage you need to run forward with God. And

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so our third and final lesson is memorials are meant

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to be shared. I'll read again from the Bible Book

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of Joshua, chapter four, beginning at verse twenty three. For

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the Lord, your God dried up the waters of Jordan

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from before you until ye passed over. Fast forward, fast forward,

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that all the people of the earth might know the

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hand of the Lord. That it is Mighty. God designed

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the memorial stones so children would ask questions, what is this?

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Have you set up something in your home where your

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children are going to ask? Is it a photo? Is

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it a special Bible? Is it something else from your journey,

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your experience, A chord, a ribbon? I don't know. Something

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that lets them say, but Daddy, what is that? Mommy?

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What is that? What is that? Every testimony is a

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bridge to help the next generation trust the same God.

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Here is your action step, Share one personal testimony of

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God's power with someone. Your stone of remembrance could ignite

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their faith in the Living God. Bless it be his name,

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Make it a great day. 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,