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 Tuesday, November eighteen,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 the Power of Example, The power of Example.
Before we get to that, I'd like to say welcome
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's pray and get underway. Father,
We thank you, Thank you for giving us the perfect
example in Christ that we should follow in his footsteps.
Help us to follow in his footsteps in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again the power of example. Okay,
So the lesson writer immediately asks a very very very
good couple of questions in the beginning, What does this story,
based on the passages there, tell you about the power
of example. How is Caleb's attitude being reproduced in the
younger generation. So we're going to talk about legacy, a
legacy of faith today, and let me go ahead and
begin by reading by reading in Joshua, chapter fifteen and
verse nineteen, and then we'll jump into our first lesson
for today and the Bible read who answered, She replied,
that's what it means. Please give me a blessing since
you have given me land in the Nijev give me
springs of water also, so he gave her both the
upper and lower springs. Listen, listen, listen. There are some
things that are not accessible to the people of God
because we don't simply we simply don't ask. We simply
don't ask. I'm trying to remember. I didn't plan to
say this today. I think it's in the book Steps
to Christ, page forty nine, that it is the will
of God to grant an answer to the prayer of
faith that which He would not bestow. Did we not
thus ask? Somebody fact check me on that one. That
is the exact quote for sure. I just can't recall
if that's exactly where it is found. Let me repeat
it one more time. It is the will of God
to grant an answer to the prayer of faith that
which He would not be stow. Did we not thus ask?
And so what we need to see in the example
of some of these people in the Bible here is
that we should we cannot be denied like we must
not be denied. We will ask God, we will seek
after God, we will knock on the door of heaven.
And the Bible teaches us that we will have what
we need when we ask continually, we seek consistently, and
we knock faithfully. God will give us what we need.
So take that as the first example. But lesson number
one for today is faith leaves footprints that others can follow. Now,
let's read from the Book of Judges Judges chapter one,
verse thirteen, Judges chapter one and verse thirteen, and the
Bible reads an Athnaiel, the son of Kennas, Caleb's younger brother,
took it and he gave him a. I don't know
how to pronounce that Axa his daughter to wife. Okay,
And so when faith is lived consistently, I can't say
I'm gonn pronounce all these all these names. I promise
you it becomes a pattern for others to imitate. Caleb's
courage became ath Nail's courage. His endurance became access persistence,
his legacy became their lifestyle. Well, how do we know this?
Caleb's courage and obedience didn't end with him. It overflowed
into the next generation. His nephew Othniel, inspired by Caleb's
fearless spirit, conquered the beer and became one of Israel's
first judges. Did you realize that the younger generation saw
in Caleb a testimony, a living testimony of what it
meant to trust God without hesitation. What legacy are you
leaving behind? What example are you living in front of
the people who watch you, especially the next generation. My son,
by God's grace, is only going to see faithfulness to
his mummy in me. He's only going to see He's
only going to see me speaking well of God, not
doubting God, not second guessing God. He saw me go
through the greatest trial of my lifetime during the pandemic.
It was the pandemic, wasn't it. It was some things
I was going through through the pandemic. And he would
sit on my bed during one of the trials, and
he would just watch over me. That he was a
young boy watching over his daddy because his daddy was
under extreme trial. When I lost my mom, when I
was doing certain work during the pandemic, all of those
things happening at the same time, and that boy stayed
near to me. He saw an example of watch care.
He saw an example of faithfulness. He saw an example
of oh my, there must be something wrong. That means
I draw near, I don't go away, and I just
say thank God, I say thank God. And so the
lesson that comes number two is faith inspires bold requests
and greater blessings. We read now very quickly from James
chapter four and verse two, which is an illustration of
what I said in the beginning that quote. I was
trying to recall, you have not because you ask not,
And of course the rest of the text says, yes,
some of y'all ask and receive not because because you're
asking amiss, you're trying to exhaust whatever you're getting on
your own lusts. But mainly we have not because we
ask not. We need to be bold in our faith
and ask God for what we want, but we ask
him also to examine our hearts, our motives, to examine
what we will do as we receive the things that
we are requesting, and he if it's something that will
glorify Him, benefit us, and benefit legacy, then he will
grant the answer of yes. But there are times that
he will say no. I just really literally don't have
the time to get into that I actually published a book.
I should really I've never told you about it. I
should have told you about it. Yeah, God said no,
exclamation point Look that up on Amazon. God said no.
And of course you know my name right. So Axa,
Caleb's daughter followed her father's example by asking boldly and
believing fully. She did not settle for what she had
been given. She saw an opportunity for more and asks
her father for springs of water, symbolic of life in Jamaica.
We say water is you want to fill in the blank.
Here A lot of Jamaicans are watching with me. We're
here in Jamaica land. We love the land of wood
and what water water is life? Yes, abundance and provision.
Her confidence was not arrogance. She just knew. She knew
it was faith based expectation. She believed as Caleb did,
that when God gives inheritance, he also supplies everything needful
to make it fruitful. Fruitful, almost said truthful, fruitful. So
faith filled people teach their children to approach God fully, boldly,
to ask, believe and expect his goodness. May I just
say very quickly that once God is on the line, God,
for your name's sake, will you please do ex Lord
if it pleases you, well you do why? And when
God says yes. In the case that he says yes,
I want you to rush and quickly go to him
and thank him because he's worthy of gratefulness. Yes, yes,
If he says no, then thank him too. Don't make
it like one sided. Don't make it one sided. But
actss story shows that faith multiplies not just through victories
in battle, but through bold prayers of trust. Our third
and final lesson, I'll say very quickly. Faith reproduces leadership
in times of decline. Yeah. Ath Nail's leadership proves that
faith of one generation can spark revival in another.
Speaker 1: Peace 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,