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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, October fifteen,

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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 forgetfulness Now. Yesterday we talked about remembering.

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Now we're talking about for getting. Okay, let's just hold

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fast for a moment. But before we get into that,

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

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. Please pick up your Daily Portion

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Life application guide and let us know where you are

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in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. And in these moments here I just want

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to see if you would come out to the of

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course your Daily Portion YouTube platform on Friday evening at

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seven pm, if it would be helpful to you something

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creative that I have worked through with my son Josiah.

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We talked about it and talked about it. I tried

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it out on you the other day, just quickly, not

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in reality, just quickly where we would go through the

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lesson basically musically. Musically, we go through the lesson with

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songs that no one has ever heard unless you live

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in the house with me. And so let me know,

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let me know if you would come out, and if so,

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just put yes to music. Yes to music, and then

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we will determine. We got another day to determine if

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we're going to actually do it. Okay, so type that

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in the chat and then I'll know which way to go. Father,

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we thank you for this day, help us to remember

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and not forget how good you are in Jesus name.

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I pray Amen and Amen again forgetfulness forgetfulness. Okay, So

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the lesson writer asked this question, why was it so

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important to remember the mighty deeds of the Lord. Why

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was it so important to remember the mighty deeds of

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the Lord. And of course, of course they have multiple

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passages for us to look through, but we'll do what

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we can with those. Let's start with one from Joshua,

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chapter three and verse seven. Joshua chapter three and verse seven.

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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight

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of God and forgat the Lord their God, and served

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balem at the groves. So these folks who were being

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led by God, who were called by his name, who

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had the covenantal promises of God hm for then and

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the future, those people, Oh, be careful when you point

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the finger and say those people. But the fact is

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those people forgot God. Yeah, the Bible says they forgot

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the God who led them through the wilderness, the God

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who gave them slippers that did not deteriorate over forty years,

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the one who fed the manna from heaven hmm, their

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water and bread, Their bread and water were sure God

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had not forsaken his people, the one who got them

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through the Red Sea on dry ground, the one who

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got them through the Jordan River on dry ground, and

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they still forgot their God and began to worship like

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the people who did not know or love God. H

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So the lesson is forgetting God always leads to failure.

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Can I just say that right there? I don't care

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what you're doing. I don't care if you're a billionaire

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with a bee, real live money. If you're a billionaire

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with a B and you are forgetting God, you will

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fail and you are a failure. I'm not trying to

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give you a complex. I'm just saying it is not

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a good thing to bite the hand that feeds us.

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It is not a good thing to forget how good

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God has been when we went through that trial that

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our money could not get us through, so our friendship

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core could not get us through our hookups, and the

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people we know that we go behind and say, well

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you can do for me, those people could not help us.

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And God helped us when our health was failing, or

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the health of somebody else that we love was failing,

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or when their health did fail and they passed away

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and we were comfort less, and then God comforted us. Yes,

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So forgetting what God has done, forgetting that he gave

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us the rain when we were just and when we

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were unjust, when he fed us, whether we deserved it

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in air quotes or didn't. When we forget him, it

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leads to failure. It's very simple, and so and so

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and so. The generation after Joshua quickly turned from the

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Lord because they forgot his mighty acts. Spiritual amnesia is dangerous.

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It opens the door to idolatry and independence from God.

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When we fail to remember what God has done, we

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begin to rely on ourselves and fall into sin. And

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so we need to take a spiritual inventory of God's

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past deliverances in our lives. Write down three ways he

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has rescued or sustained. You read that list every morning

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from now until Sabbath. Just read the list. Yeah, count

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your blessings one by one, remember that song. Read that

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list until the Sabbath. You can read it every day,

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really as a shield against doubt lesson. Number two comes

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in from Psalm chapter seventy eight and verse eleven, very similar,

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and forgot his works and his wonders that he had

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shown them. So this was a big deal. It was

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shown up in the scriptures all over the place because

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God's people for some reason just don't choose to remember him. Sometimes,

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God help us in twenty twenty five. So the first

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lesson is remembering God renews faith and gratitude. Remembering God

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renews faith and gratitude. God's miracles were meant to produce

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lasting gratitude, not short term amazement. He's not trying to

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impress you. Remembering what he has done strengthens trust for

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what he will do next. God's failure, God's people's failure

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to remember was not forgetfulness of mind. If this was

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a mindset problem, a spiritual mindset problem, but it wasn't

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that they really actually had amnesia, No, but a neglect

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of the heart. They remembered, not his hand, what he

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had done. So the lesson and action step is each evening,

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ask God and thank him for one specific moment when

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he showed his hand that same day, No matter how

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small in air quotes, you think that it is. Gratitude

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keeps your memory of His goodness alive. Gratitude. I want

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you to be one of the few that go to

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God and say thank you for when you crossed over

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into someone's lane and you did not get run over

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by the truck that was over there already. Say thank

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God when your child came home from school because you

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prayed for him or her. You prayed for them, and

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you said, God, protect them today, and God said, yes,

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I'll protect them today. Thank God. When you were able

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to eat and drink today because He promised that he

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would not forsake you, that he would give you the

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food and water that you need. He gave you somewhere

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to sleep. He gave you some clothes to wear. Whether

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they're the optimal ones, are the ones you think that

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you should have or not. But you were sheltered last night,

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and you're here this morning listening and saying, yes, that's me,

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that's me. So gratitude keeps your memory of God's goodness alive,

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and our third and final lesson for it this morning.

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Remembering God fuels obedience and for future generations faith. In

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Juteronomy eight and verse two, we read it the other day,

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and thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord

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thy God led thee these four years in the wilderness.

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God commanded his people to set up memorial stones so

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future generations would learn to fear and trust him. To

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remember God's works is to live under the awareness the

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current awareness of His presence and power. Every remembrance of

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His grace strengthens obedience and inspires worship. Let me read

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very quickly from Life Sketches, page one ninety six. We

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have nothing to fear for the future now you know

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where it's found, except we shall forget the way the

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Lord has led us and his teaching in our past history.

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Thou shalt not forget the God who created you. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: 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,