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 Friday, November
twenty one, 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 Kleb's Unwavering Faith. Klebs Unwavering Faith.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father, Thank you, thank you
for this time of worship. It is time of being
called by your name, and now we can answer the call.
So we can come into your pavilion, learn from you,
be transformed by you, and then go out back into
the world by it. Because you have sent us. Please
give us the faith of Jesus. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and amen again Caleb's unwavering faith. Now, let me
just say that before the Old Testament was written, the
Old Testament of the Bible was written, Jesus was the
author and finisher of our faith, before the people knew
to call him Jesus, before the Messiah actually was born
of a woman. In fulfillment of the many, many, many
many prophecies that said that we would have Messiah come
and the government would be upon his shoulders. Before any
of that, Jesus Christ was the author and finisher of
our faith, and so Caleb received his faith from God.
Let me just say that, because sometimes when we use
humans as examples we go too far. What we're really
saying is that Caleb was a recipient of the faith
of Jesus Christ, and when he lived that faith and
connected to God to receive God power, we see something
to emulate. We can model the kind of faith that
Caleb had. Okay, So but let's not get Caleb out
of perspective here. He's a human being, just like you,
who had the privilege of what receiving the faith of
God and living in a way that was pleasing to God.
And so we begin with that from the Book of Numbers,
chapter fourteen, the Bible, Book of Numbers, chapter fourteen, and
I will read verse twenty four, and the Bible reads,
but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit we
read about him the other day in this same passage,
had another spirit with him, meaning he was different than
the people other than Joshua, he was different than the
other people who were in the first generation of people
delivered from Egyptian captivity. This dude had the Holy Ghost
on a whole nother level, just like Joshua did and
hath followed me fully. See that's the manifestation of the
power of the Holy Ghost in Caleb's life. He followed
God fully him, will I bring into the land where
unto he went, and his seed shall possess it. So
God gave Caleb an inheritance, and not for only Caleb,
but also for his what we would call posterity, meaning
the people in his legacy. Yeah, even his legacy benefited
because he was faithful to God. Are you faithful to God?
What is the legacy that you're leaving behind. Is it
that people are blessed because God made promises to you
and they are receiving much of the benefit, or or
is it something else that God is visiting the iniquities
upon the of the fathers, upon the children, unto the
third and fourth generation of those who hate him. Yeah.
I like to claim the promise that God made in
the Commandments. I did that when Josiah was conceived. I said, God,
you said that you would show mercy to thousands who
love you and keep your commandments. Give me the fortitude
God to keep and do according to the Covenant, so
that my son will not suffer because of his DNA,
but that he will be blessed because he receives the
connection to you that his father, meaning me David, has
also received. And so forth, with that backdrop we go
with our lesson number one from Hebrews, Chapter eleven and
verse one. Hebrews eleven and verse one, the Bible reads, now,
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen. Let me say it from the
New English translation. Now, faith is being sure of what
we hope for. What are you hoping for? Today? From God?
I'm saying, what are you hoping for? Are you hoping
for a transformed heart and mind? Are you hoping that
you will learn how to live like Caleb did where
he did exactly what God said the way God said
at the time that God said, what are you hoping for?
Are you hoping for a promotion on your job? There's
no problem to hope for that. There's no problem if
you're trusting God for this. Huh. What are you hoping for?
You hoping for your son your daughter to be saved
because they are wayward at this moment. Hoping for your
marriage to be phenomenal on planet Earth as we await
the coming of Jesus Christ. What are you for? What
are you hoping? Well? The Bible continues being convinced of
what you do not see. So based on the evidence
that God has given you, that he is powerful to save,
that he has your best interest at heart, he is
giving you the kind of belief that, even though you
don't see the outcome yet, you know that He will
do what pleases him and you will be the recipient.
And so faith that stands when others fall is the
kind of lesson that we're getting from Caleb's faith, which
did not bend or bend to fear or circumstances. When
the tense spies saw impossibility. Let me just say, if
I apply it to me, like when the people saw
impossibility here on Jamaica Land we love when we were
staring down the barrel of the loaded pistol called Hurricane Melissa.
The kind of faith that God's people had were not
the kind of faith that this or faith lessness that
the spies had. It was the kind of faith that said,
God will take care of us. Yes, be not dismayed,
where to hera be tied, God will take care of us.
Caleb saw opportunity for those who overcame the devil by
the blood of the land. They also came overcame by
the word of their testimony. They believed God. It was
accounted to them as for righteousness, and they are a
testimony whether they are living or resting in the tomb
until Jesus comes back. Their legacy is a testimony that
God is able to do exactly what he promised. Caleb
believed what God said even though it contradicted what his
eyes could see. There were, in fact giants. Yes, there
are times when God's people saw very real winds and
very real waves, very real boundaries and mountains and other
things that get in the people's way. But he did
not believe his eyes. He believed his God. He believed
as God. That kind of faith does not emerge in
the moment of christis it is built over years of
walking closely with God. And so we all have a
decision to make. Are we going to walk closely with
God and build our faith muscle so that our faith
now can find its resting place in Christ. And we
will now do what God has called us to do.
As a result, my God teach us how not to
have blind optimism, but have the kind of faith that
says you are the God who is able to keep
us from falling. You are the God whose power is
anchored in our past and in the past of people
that we know, and that if we are obedient to You,
then we will get the blessings, we will receive the outcomes,
we will see, receive all that you have promised, just
like they did. We don't deny the giants and Canaan.
We just magnify the giant God that we serve. Yeah,
I've learned a lot from the faith that Caleb had.
Did you peace? Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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,