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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 Tuesday, December nine,

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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 Haunted by the Past. Haunted by the past.

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Get into that in just a moment, But first I'd

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like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. Please go over

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

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

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we thank you for giving us the privilege and ability

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to serve you. Please help us to have the right

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perspective of the past and live for you in this moment. God,

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in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There

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are so many human beings that are suffering in our

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present because we are dwelling in the past. I remember

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doing a challenge with my son Josiah, and I said

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that you cannot walk forward while looking backward, and of

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course he wanted to prove me wrong in air quote,

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so I put him on a straight line. I said,

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now do it. He turned his head. I don't know

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how many degrees, but you know how far our heads

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can turn in real life, like you know what I mean? Like,

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So he tried, and even when his head could not

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turn and look all the way backwards, he started to stumble,

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and I said, when you do that, you cannot go

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forward in the strength that God wants you to. And

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of course, we continue to illustrate the point and so

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that's the reality when we are looking backward at the

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pain of our past, looking backward at some of the

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successes of our past as if it were today. Okay,

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let me just read here from the Review in Herald

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September twelveth, eighteen seventy eight. The author is Eurias was

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Euriah Smith. The past must not govern the present. So

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we're not talking about forgetting the past. We're saying it

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can't govern the present if God has forgiven. Oh wait

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a minute, now we're talking about things that we didn't do. Right,

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there are mistakes that we have made. Now we're talking

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about sins, transgressions, and iniquities. If we have yielded our

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will to God, then the record of that is not

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attached to our name. And I know there are some

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technicalities regarding the cleansing work of our lives and the sanctuary,

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but you understand where I'm going with this. So if

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God has forgiven, let us not resurrect what He has buried. Ooh,

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that's a good one. Let's go for one more. From

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the book Gospel Workers, page four hundred and ninety six.

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God's people should not allow the errors or sins of

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the past to harden their hearts against their brethren. Oh,

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now we're talking about how we should see other people.

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Love and sympathy must take the place of suspicion and

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harsh judgment. Love and sympathy must take the place of

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suspicion and harsh judgment. Why am I using these quotes? Well,

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let's go with our lesson number one and make sense

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of it. Now. Past wounds can distort present perception. Coming

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in from again Luke chapter six and verse thirty seven.

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Judge not, and ye shall not be judged condemned not,

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and ye shall not be condemned. Forgive and ye shall

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be forgiven. Yes, we're repeating something we've already taught. Yes

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we are. And so the Greek word for forgive in

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this text actually means to release fully, to release fully,

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like to let somebody out of jail like or prison,

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like they've paid their debt to society, let them go,

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expunge the record. On top of that, to release fully.

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God's people remembered belpr so vividly that fear shape their assumptions.

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Trauma from the past sin made them suspicious, rigid, and

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quick to judge. Fear of repeating history led to miss

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reading the present. Let me say that again. Some of

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you are seeing mental health professionals because you're stuck here

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and they are assisting you in this regard. Fear of

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repeating history led to miss reading the present. God's grace,

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Somebody go ahead and type in the chat the grace

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of God. The grace of God. God's grace, however, releases

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us from past pain so we can see others with

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clarity in place of suspicion. God deliver us from our

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past pain. God deliver us from our traumas. God deliver

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us from those adverse childhood experiences. Ah. Here is the

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action step God. Ask God to release you from any

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past hurt that shapes how you view others. Now, get

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your pen, your pencil, write down one memory that still

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affects you, and pray for freedom. Ask God, how am

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I to be free from this? Is it something He's

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going to do by means of miracle? Is he going

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to use another human being to assist you, someone who

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is godly to guide you back to him? Ask him,

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but write that one memory down that still affects you

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and pray for freedom. I could write an entire book

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on that. I promise you. Lesson number two. Wisdom confronts

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with courage and compassion. From the Bible Book of Proverbs,

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chapter fifteen and verse one, we read a soft answer

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or a gentle response turns away wrath or anger. But

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grievous words those are harsh words. Grievous words stir up

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wrath or anger. The Hebrew word for wrath in this

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case means fierce anger or heat. So Phineas was known

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for forceful action at bail payor. Yet in Joshua chapter

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twenty two, he leads with measured inquiry instead of violence.

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The lesson is clear. In this case. Redeemed experience produces

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redeemed response. You have heard it the flip side. You've

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heard the flip side. Hurt people, hurt people, people who

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are still hurt in their feeling, hurt in their emotions.

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Verb now action they hurt, they inflict hurt upon others. Well,

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let's read this again, because this is better. Redeemed experience

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produces redeemed response. God transforms believers so we can confront

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sin boldly, but speak with restraint, humility, and compassion. Some

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of the ministries that some people are following today ministries

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and air quotes, are not they're not compassionate. They're speaking

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boldly but with no compassion, no restraint, and very little humility.

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I wish I had the time. The action step is

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when conflict appears, choose a gentle tone. First. I didn't

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say always, but first, let your words be guided by

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the Holy Ghost, not by old wounds or old fears. Now,

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for let's number three. Grace prevents the past from becoming

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get ready for it a prison. Faith or grace prevents

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the past from becoming a prison my God. Ephesians, chapter

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four and verse thirty two. As we come to a

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swift close and be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving

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one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven

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you see nine and a half tribes feared repeating Akin's

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sin or bail Por's rebellion, so they reacted from anxiety

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instead of grace. Can I just say it, simply, don't

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do that. Don't do that. 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,