1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,480 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,119 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,079 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, December fourteen, 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,200 twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris. 12 00:00:41,399 --> 00:00:44,039 I am your host den This is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:46,960 where we give you God's word every single day, and 14 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:50,759 today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,119 study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,799 for today is all came to Pass, All Came to Pass. 17 00:01:01,159 --> 00:01:03,679 We'll get into that in just a moment, but before 18 00:01:03,679 --> 00:01:06,239 we do, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, 19 00:01:06,519 --> 00:01:09,480 especially those joining us for the very first time. Please 20 00:01:09,519 --> 00:01:12,879 go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join 21 00:01:13,079 --> 00:01:16,599 our online community. Pick up the Your Daily Portion Life 22 00:01:16,719 --> 00:01:21,599 application guide, and please please, if it is something that 23 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,680 the Holy Ghost is impressing upon you, please donate at 24 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,079 your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the 25 00:01:29,079 --> 00:01:33,719 ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's 26 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:36,359 go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. 27 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,200 Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new 28 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:42,680 day and for the privilege we have to serve you 29 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,680 and to do your will. Father, Please help us to 30 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,239 look forward to the fulfillment of all of the promises 31 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,079 that you have made to us. And if there's something 32 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,159 we are supposed to do, help us to do it 33 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,480 with all our heart. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen 34 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,280 and Amen again. So the lesson writer opens up with 35 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:06,760 a question from Joshua chapter twenty one Versus forty three 36 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:11,280 to forty five. What picture does the book paint of God? 37 00:02:12,479 --> 00:02:16,159 How do these words apply not only to the historical 38 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,120 promised land, but also to the reality of our salvation. 39 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,879 So let's go ahead and read. And the Bible reads 40 00:02:22,879 --> 00:02:25,639 in verse forty three, So the Lord gave to his 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,280 people all the land which he had sworn to give 42 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,719 to their fathers, and they took possession of it and 43 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,680 dwelt in it. Can I just say when God fulfills 44 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:42,800 his promises, he does it all the time. Yeah, he doesn't. 45 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,560 He doesn't fulfill some promises and then welch on the others. 46 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,680 You have to be seasoned like me to remember what 47 00:02:49,759 --> 00:02:52,840 welch means. He doesn't turn his back on his promise. 48 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:56,199 He doesn't reneg on his promises for some and then 49 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:59,960 keep promises for some other people. And so all of 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,560 these prophecies of the Old Testament give us an indication 51 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,599 of God's character, of his track record, of the way 52 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,479 that he treats with all of his promises. So if 53 00:03:11,479 --> 00:03:14,960 he kept his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he 54 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,240 will keep his promise to you. Now, of course, the 55 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,080 people of God are benefiting from that covenant that God 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,280 made with Abraham as Abraham in particular, and so verse 57 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:29,400 forty four. The Lord gave them rest all around. Are 58 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,680 you looking forward to the complete completion of the rest 59 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:37,400 that comes through Christ? M He gave them rest all 60 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:40,960 around according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, 61 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,759 and not a man of all their enemies stood against them. 62 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,680 You realize that the devil himself and all of his 63 00:03:48,759 --> 00:03:53,120 evil angels, and those who unfortunately have chosen to side 64 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:58,639 with the enemy. Ultimately they will be no more. The 65 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,280 Bible writer says that the affliction will not rise a 66 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,240 second time. This is not going to happen again. So 67 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,439 all of those enemies stood against them. The Lord delivered 68 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,240 all their enemies into their hand Verse forty five. Not 69 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:17,000 a word failed of any good thing which the Lord 70 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:23,360 had spoken to his people. All came to pass. So 71 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:25,279 go ahead and type it in the chat. All came 72 00:04:25,319 --> 00:04:28,800 to pass. I'm grateful. So since God did it for 73 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:32,879 his people, then since he did it throughout the centuries 74 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,879 in other cases for his people, he will do it again. 75 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,560 And so our first lesson is God completes every promise 76 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,759 that he makes. The word for fail nefall, meaning to fall, 77 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,319 to drop, or to be undone. When it says that nothing, 78 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:55,199 nothing good that God has spoken shall fall. Nothing like that. 79 00:04:55,319 --> 00:04:58,560 None of that's going to happen. None of God's promises 80 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:04,560 fell to the ground. Every promise landed exactly where he intended. 81 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,439 God's people's victories, the inheritance, the peace, were not their achievements. 82 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,800 This is not something that they accomplish. It's not something 83 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:18,120 they could tick off of of a checklist. No, this 84 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,839 was the gift rooted in God's covenant faithfulness. So what 85 00:05:23,879 --> 00:05:25,680 I want you to do, and we've said something like 86 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,600 this very recently, write down one promise from the scriptures 87 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:39,160 that you are claiming today. Pray daily God for your namesake, 88 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,680 Please don't let any of your words fall to the 89 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,519 ground in my life. My sister and friend Mignon Francois says, 90 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,199 and I call her boss Lady by the way she says, 91 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:55,319 speak what you seek until you see what you say. 92 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:01,120 Speak what you seek until you see what you've said. 93 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,959 And if you are speaking the words of God, seeking 94 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,480 according to the way that God has manifested the scriptures, 95 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:14,759 then you will in fact see what your mouth has said. 96 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,800 We're is confessing. We're confessing, we're agreeing with God. Lessen. 97 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,800 Number two, God saves us by his faithfulness, not because 98 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:30,199 of our strength, our beauty, our own faithfulness. It's because 99 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,920 of His great love, because of his faithfulness, and his 100 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,199 mercies fail not. And this is coming in from Ephesians 101 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,639 chapter two, verses eight and nine. Somebody just heard what 102 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,920 I said, for by faith? Are ye saved by grace? 103 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:48,199 Excuse me? Are ye saved through faith? And that not 104 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,519 of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, 105 00:06:53,399 --> 00:06:57,959 lest any man should boast. And so this word for grace, 106 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:03,720 this word for grace cais meaning unearned favor. Just as 107 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,240 God's people could take zero credit for the land, zero 108 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,720 credit for all of the victories, believers can take zero 109 00:07:12,879 --> 00:07:16,759 credit for our salvation. I used to ask when I 110 00:07:16,959 --> 00:07:19,759 taught publicly all the time, like week after week I 111 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:23,480 would teach publicly, would and I would ask the people 112 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:26,759 of God, like, what part do you play in your salvation? 113 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,959 And people would like, oh, get stumped because they're looking 114 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:33,759 for a way to take ownership. Of course we do 115 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,000 need to respond to God. Of course we cooperate with God. 116 00:07:37,279 --> 00:07:39,759 But of course it was a trick question. I wanted 117 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:43,519 people to understand the very passage that we just spoke, 118 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:49,759 we take zero credit for our salvation. God's faithfulness, not 119 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:54,199 human effort, is the basis of redemption. The Cross is 120 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:59,399 the ultimate all came to pass where every promise of 121 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:05,160 mercy is found, has found its fulfillment in Christ. So 122 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,639 we surrender our will to God. But you realize that 123 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,839 he's the one that gives us both to will and 124 00:08:09,879 --> 00:08:13,519 to do of his good pleasure. Yes, we are, and 125 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,879 it's enjoined upon us to love God with everything we 126 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:19,600 have and everything we are. But the Bible says, we 127 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,199 love him because He first loved us. So he's the 128 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,759 cause of our ability to love him. We're supposed to 129 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:30,279 have faith. Well, he's the author and finisher of our faith, 130 00:08:30,279 --> 00:08:32,600 and I can go down through. We are to be 131 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,080 obedient to the law of God one hundred percent of 132 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:40,039 the time. The Bible says that he became obedient. He 133 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,159 became obedient the righteous requirements of the law needed to 134 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:49,200 could not be fulfilled in us without him in Romans 135 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:52,840 chapter eight, right, and so he condemns it in the flesh, 136 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,519 the Bible says, in order that the righteousness of the 137 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,799 law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according 138 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,519 to the flesh, but cording to the spirit. So literally, 139 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,320 everything God requires of us, he first gives to us. 140 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:11,120 So stop striving to earn God's approval. Rest in his grace, 141 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:15,759 knowing salvation is a gift and not an achievement. Our 142 00:09:15,799 --> 00:09:21,720 final lesson is God's future promises are certain because fast 143 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,039 his past faithfulness is proven. I think we've already made 144 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,720 that case. And so each morning, each morning repeat God 145 00:09:30,799 --> 00:09:33,639 is faithful I do that often. He will carry me 146 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,759 through today. Let this truth shape your outlook. Make it 147 00:09:38,799 --> 00:09:43,080 a great day, and all all of God's promises will 148 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,360 come to pass. Peace. 149 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot 150 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 151 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 152 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.