Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, October
twenty five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
our lesson study series lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
our caption for today is God the fights for you.
That's a recurring theme. That is a recurring theme until
we get it into our minds. God fights for you.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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nights per week we have a devotional reading to get
you prepared for bedtime at seven pm. So Sunday to Friday,
no Sunday to Thursday, we are to get Really, let's
go from Sabbath first, from Sabbath right through to Thursday,
so we can make it make sense. Sabbath right through
to Thursday, we are together in the evenings for a
devotional thought, a devotional thought seven minutes in length at
seven pm. And then on Friday evenings we are together
learning the Word of God through music based on the
lesson only original music that you can get here at
your daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
We thank you, Thank you for the privilege of prayer,
the privilege of you fighting for us. Please help us
to allow you to and get out of your way.
In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again God
he fights for you, Oh God, I thank you. So
let's read the memory text memory text from the lesson
from Joshua chapter ten and verse forty two. They have
it here in the English Standard version, and the Bible reads,
and Joshua captured all these kings and their land at
one time because the Lord God of Israel for Israel,
because God fought for his people, Thank God. And so
our first lesson, our first lesson is the God who
enters the battle, He's the one that wins. The God
that enters the battle is the one that wins. Let
me read it again from Exodus chapter fourteen and verse
fourteen to give it another perspective. The Lord shall fight
for you. Did we not just read that with the
Joshua text, and ye shall hold your peace? Did we
not read that in the Joshua passage where God gave
those kings into the hands of Joshua. Yeah, so the
Lord will fight for you. So when life feels like
a battlefield, and it is, it is it is a battlefield,
which is why in Ephesian six, the Bible writer says
that we should put on the entire armor of God
that we may be able to withsit than the wicked one,
and then he gives us seven implements of war, including
prayer at the end of the passage, so that we
will not be overcome by the enemy. Okay, so the
Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.
When life feels like a battlefield and it is, I
interrupted myself. Remember that God doesn't send you to fight alone.
That was never his intention. That was never his intention.
He goes before you and he fights for you. I
remember Moses saying, God, if you will not be with us,
please don't send us. God, if you will not be
with us, please please don't send us. There's just literally
too much going on. Let's go with our lesson number
two before I get too overwhelmed here. And this is
about a war within the larger war from Revelation twelve
and verse seven, until we get it, until we get it.
And there was war in heaven. That's where it started.
We talked about that multiple times last week. Mikay Yell
and his angels fought against the dragon, and of course
the dragon loss. The devil got kicked out with his
evil angels, and so every earthly conflict reflects the great controversy. Yeah,
reflex the Great Controversy. In fact, I want you to
go to Amazon and pick up and pick up that
book one day. If you don't already have it, you
can also read it online for free, The Great Controversy
by Ellen White. That is one of the most incredible books,
especially considering the times in which we live. But every
earthly conflict reflects the cosmic war first ignited in heaven.
What seems like a human struggle often mirrors the spiritual
warfare between God and the enemy. You see when you're
at work and these things get really crazy and people
are acting the fool and people are losing their mind
over whatever is happening and not able to relate to
one another as civil human beings. Yeah, that's because there's
a war much bigger going on over our heads, the
cosmic conflict between good and evil. When your children seem
to have lost their minds, or children your parents seem
to have lost our minds and start to do things
that are not according to the word of God, it's
because there is a war going on in heaven. Or
there was a war going on in heaven and the
devil lost, and now he's bringing it down here because
there is a great controversy happening in these moments. But
guess what. Jesus kicked the devil out. He won the
war in heaven. So that means that in this one
that is now being waged here the final frontier. I
was being melodramatic there. This is the final frontier. And ultimately,
when Jesus continues to win this one down here and
people choose to side with him, and ultimately at the
end of time we go to heaven for a thousand years.
And after the thousand years are finished and God is
creating now the inheritance of the New Earth, He's going
to have to destroy the Devil and all of those
who have decided that they don't want to love love,
they don't want to be on the Lord's side, they
do not want to be at peace with God, and
therefore they will have to be destroyed. Why because that
pulse of love, that single pulse of love which God is,
needs to reverberate throughout the entire universe, and right now
we're the ones holding it up because of our goofy
decisions to serve the enemy, and because of the enemies
hold upon human kind on planet Earth. But when God
finally gets him out of there. The universe will be
as God intended from before there was a beginning. Okay,
And so the Bible teaches us in Isaiah chapter nine
and verse six, thank God for unto us, a child
is born. Hmm. And I'll fast forward, and his name
shall be called Wonderful counselor the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. God never intended for us to
be at war anywhere in the universe. It was never
the reality. He always wanted peace, even as he fought
for God's people. His prophets looked forward to the day
when the Prince of Peace, as we read in Isaiah
one of his prophets, the Prince of Peace would end
all violence because the government would be upon his shoulders,
not on the shoulders of humans that can't get along. Like,
sometimes I really shouldn't go into this, but sometimes I
wonder how this war thing really works on planet Earth
because I'm like, there are some rules of engagement. There
are things, according to the Geneva Convention, that are off limits.
I won't say it because I don't want my channel
to get knocked on this side note, but the point
is there are some things that different countries do to
discipline themselves when engaging in war, And I'm like, well, God,
if the people can during war discipline themselves to avoid this,
avoid that, Avoid these places where people worship, avoid these
places where people are being taken care of, avoid these places,
then why not just have peace? If you can be
that disciplined there to why not just be disciplined and
have peace. But I digress. God fights for you ultimately. Ultimately,
if you yield your will to God, he will win
over the enemy in your life and you will be
saved peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,