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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, November eighteen,

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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 the Power of Example, The power of Example.

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Before we get to that, I'd like to say welcome

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if you desire, pick up the music that we share

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on Friday evening, worship experience, like we're teaching the Bible

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through of music, and of course it's based on the

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lesson study. It's not random, and this is the only

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place you can get it at your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's pray and get underway. Father,

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We thank you, Thank you for giving us the perfect

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example in Christ that we should follow in his footsteps.

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Help us to follow in his footsteps in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again the power of example. Okay,

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So the lesson writer immediately asks a very very very

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good couple of questions in the beginning, What does this story,

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based on the passages there, tell you about the power

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of example. How is Caleb's attitude being reproduced in the

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younger generation. So we're going to talk about legacy, a

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legacy of faith today, and let me go ahead and

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begin by reading by reading in Joshua, chapter fifteen and

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verse nineteen, and then we'll jump into our first lesson

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for today and the Bible read who answered, She replied,

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that's what it means. Please give me a blessing since

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you have given me land in the Nijev give me

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springs of water also, so he gave her both the

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upper and lower springs. Listen, listen, listen. There are some

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things that are not accessible to the people of God

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because we don't simply we simply don't ask. We simply

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don't ask. I'm trying to remember. I didn't plan to

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say this today. I think it's in the book Steps

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to Christ, page forty nine, that it is the will

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of God to grant an answer to the prayer of

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faith that which He would not bestow. Did we not

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thus ask? Somebody fact check me on that one. That

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is the exact quote for sure. I just can't recall

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if that's exactly where it is found. Let me repeat

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it one more time. It is the will of God

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to grant an answer to the prayer of faith that

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which He would not be stow. Did we not thus ask?

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And so what we need to see in the example

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of some of these people in the Bible here is

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that we should we cannot be denied like we must

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not be denied. We will ask God, we will seek

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after God, we will knock on the door of heaven.

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And the Bible teaches us that we will have what

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we need when we ask continually, we seek consistently, and

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we knock faithfully. God will give us what we need.

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So take that as the first example. But lesson number

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one for today is faith leaves footprints that others can follow. Now,

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let's read from the Book of Judges Judges chapter one,

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verse thirteen, Judges chapter one and verse thirteen, and the

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Bible reads an Athnaiel, the son of Kennas, Caleb's younger brother,

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took it and he gave him a. I don't know

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how to pronounce that Axa his daughter to wife. Okay,

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And so when faith is lived consistently, I can't say

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I'm gonn pronounce all these all these names. I promise

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you it becomes a pattern for others to imitate. Caleb's

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courage became ath Nail's courage. His endurance became access persistence,

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his legacy became their lifestyle. Well, how do we know this?

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Caleb's courage and obedience didn't end with him. It overflowed

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into the next generation. His nephew Othniel, inspired by Caleb's

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fearless spirit, conquered the beer and became one of Israel's

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first judges. Did you realize that the younger generation saw

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in Caleb a testimony, a living testimony of what it

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meant to trust God without hesitation. What legacy are you

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leaving behind? What example are you living in front of

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the people who watch you, especially the next generation. My son,

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by God's grace, is only going to see faithfulness to

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his mummy in me. He's only going to see He's

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only going to see me speaking well of God, not

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doubting God, not second guessing God. He saw me go

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through the greatest trial of my lifetime during the pandemic.

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It was the pandemic, wasn't it. It was some things

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I was going through through the pandemic. And he would

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sit on my bed during one of the trials, and

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he would just watch over me. That he was a

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young boy watching over his daddy because his daddy was

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under extreme trial. When I lost my mom, when I

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was doing certain work during the pandemic, all of those

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things happening at the same time, and that boy stayed

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near to me. He saw an example of watch care.

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He saw an example of faithfulness. He saw an example

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of oh my, there must be something wrong. That means

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I draw near, I don't go away, and I just

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say thank God, I say thank God. And so the

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lesson that comes number two is faith inspires bold requests

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and greater blessings. We read now very quickly from James

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chapter four and verse two, which is an illustration of

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what I said in the beginning that quote. I was

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trying to recall, you have not because you ask not,

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And of course the rest of the text says, yes,

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some of y'all ask and receive not because because you're

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asking amiss, you're trying to exhaust whatever you're getting on

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your own lusts. But mainly we have not because we

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ask not. We need to be bold in our faith

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and ask God for what we want, but we ask

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him also to examine our hearts, our motives, to examine

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what we will do as we receive the things that

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we are requesting, and he if it's something that will

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glorify Him, benefit us, and benefit legacy, then he will

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grant the answer of yes. But there are times that

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he will say no. I just really literally don't have

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the time to get into that I actually published a book.

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I should really I've never told you about it. I

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should have told you about it. Yeah, God said no,

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exclamation point Look that up on Amazon. God said no.

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And of course you know my name right. So Axa,

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Caleb's daughter followed her father's example by asking boldly and

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believing fully. She did not settle for what she had

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been given. She saw an opportunity for more and asks

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her father for springs of water, symbolic of life in Jamaica.

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We say water is you want to fill in the blank.

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Here A lot of Jamaicans are watching with me. We're

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here in Jamaica land. We love the land of wood

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and what water water is life? Yes, abundance and provision.

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Her confidence was not arrogance. She just knew. She knew

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it was faith based expectation. She believed as Caleb did,

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that when God gives inheritance, he also supplies everything needful

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to make it fruitful. Fruitful, almost said truthful, fruitful. So

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faith filled people teach their children to approach God fully, boldly,

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to ask, believe and expect his goodness. May I just

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say very quickly that once God is on the line, God,

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for your name's sake, will you please do ex Lord

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if it pleases you, well you do why? And when

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God says yes. In the case that he says yes,

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I want you to rush and quickly go to him

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and thank him because he's worthy of gratefulness. Yes, yes,

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If he says no, then thank him too. Don't make

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it like one sided. Don't make it one sided. But

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actss story shows that faith multiplies not just through victories

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in battle, but through bold prayers of trust. Our third

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and final lesson, I'll say very quickly. Faith reproduces leadership

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in times of decline. Yeah. Ath Nail's leadership proves that

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faith of one generation can spark revival in another.

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Speaker 1: Peace 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,