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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 Sunday, November sixteen,

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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 faithful Ness Faithfulness. We'll get into that

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in just a moment. For I like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. I'm asking you to go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and

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let us know where you are in the world at

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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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 this day, the beginning of a

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new week. And Father, I pray that you will give

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us faithfulness from now until the end of the week,

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and then if you spare our lives beyond that, then

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give us faithfulness. Then in Jesus' name, I pray Amen

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and a men. Again. Really, I'm not asking you to

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type in the chat, because that's not something I necessarily

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need you to do. But are you faithful or faith less?

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That's a real question for all of us to answer

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on our own. Behalf Am I faith full or faith less? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

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yeah yeah yeah. So let's go ahead and begin. Let's

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begin by reading about this brother Caleb, I like it

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from the Book of Numbers, chapter thirteen and verse thirty,

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and then we'll jump into our first lesson and the

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Bible reads and Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said,

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let us go up at once and possess it, for

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we are well able to overcome it. I hope we

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get to read this text over and over again. You

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see many times the people of God have a habit

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of murmuring, second guessing, over strategizing, over preparing when God

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has given us already clear instructions on a particular thing,

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over strategizing, over preparing, overthinking, being fearful, when God has

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given us already what we are to do arching orders.

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And this is one such case. Now, the second generation

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of freed slaves are just about to enter into the

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promise and God is leading his people. It is very

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clear that God is leading his people, and they seem

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to just forget what happened in the generation before. And

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God's people needed to hear Caleb's voice, where he's just like, listen, listen, listen, listen.

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Let's go do what God already promised us that we

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could do, and let's go take what God has already

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given to us, because we are well able to overcome

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all of the challenges that y'all are worrying about. I

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like it. I like Caleb man, I like Caleb. I

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liked Joshua too. Our lesson number one. Let me go

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down to verse twenty four of chapter fourteen. First, but

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because my servant Caleb had a different spirit and has

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followed me wholeheartedly. I will bring him in to the land. See,

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Caleb's faith made him stand out in a generation defined

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by doubt. Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So

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what kind of faith do you have? What is the

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brand of faith that you have? Is it a fair

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weather type of faith? Is it a get through the

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trials and tribulations no matter what happens kind of faith.

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Is it we just go through all of these storms

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and conflagrations and weird things in war and go with

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God kind of faith? Or is it the kind of

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faith that is only working when things are going well?

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Is that really even faith at all? And so Caleb's

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name means dog in Hebrew keleb term that in the

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ancient world symbolized fierce loyalty, courage, and steadfast service. I

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can hear, I can hear Eric, I can hear Eric

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Thomas right now in my head. I got that doll.

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I got that dog. Yes, after however, many decades of

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doing this, I still got that dog. I love it.

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So even in the Hebrew, the Bible bears out the

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concept of fierce loyalty, courage, and steadfast service. So it's

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not a pejorative. It's not a negative. It is it is.

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We are getting our teeth bit down in that thing,

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and we're gonna go forward in faith. True to his name,

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Caleb embodied faithfulness when others faltered. He stood unwavering before

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a fearful nation, entire nation of people, not because he

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was fearless in himself, but because he was faithful to

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the God who promised victory. Victory is mine. I can hear,

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I can hear the song victory is mine, victory today

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is mine. Yeah, I like it. I like it. When

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the ten Spies magnified the giants, they were focusing on

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the giants, Caleb magnified his God. He said, Please, I

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don't want you to see the giants. God, Please don't

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let them see the giants. Let them see the giant God.

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Let them see that their God is well able to

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keep them in any situation. His courage was not the

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absence of fear, but the presence of faith. You understand

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what I'm saying. No matter what fear he encountered. I

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don't know what he went through, but clearly he surrendered it.

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He gave it to God, and he said, we want

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to stand on business. God, is going to get exactly

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what he has desired out of this situation. If at

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least where I stand, he just wants faithful people so

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he can show up in a way that unfaithful people

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will never experience. Let me go into lesson number two

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before I get to preaching from Joshua chapter fourteen, verses

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ten through twelve. That's why you have notes, brothers and sisters,

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so you don't go off on a tangent and Bible reads. Now,

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therefore give me this mountain. And I said it wrong.

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I misspoke in the beginning of the lesson the other day. Uh,

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if so be, the Lord will be with me, then

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I shall be able to drive them out, just like

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God says. See, faith outlives fear because it stands on

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the business of the eternal word of God. Yes, the

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ten other spies Shima, safat Ilgal Palit, Palti, Gadiel, Gadi, Amiel, Sether,

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Nadi Goo. I don't know how to say. His name

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starts with a G had forgotten by history. Their fear

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silenced their legacy. But Caleb Caleb's name, however, endoors because

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faith leaves footprints that time cannot erase. Faith leaves footprints

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that time cannot erase. His courage teaches a powerful truth

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that fear makes excuses, but faith makes moves in God's direction.

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Caleb did not deny the existence of the giants. Can

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I just say that again? Caleb did not deny the

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presence of the giants. He simply refused to tell them

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or let them part of me define what God could do.

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That's why decades later, when he stood before Joshua, he

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could say, with confidence, give me this mountain. We were

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the two dudes, Joshua, you remember it. We were the

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two dudes that said God is well able to do

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what he promised to do, So please just do do

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this for me? Please? Could you do me this one

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solid Joshua? And so lesson number three and finalist. Faithfulness

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requires speaking truth amid pressure. Speaking truth amid pressure, Caleb

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stood for truth even when it cost him and popularity,

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when the crowd wanted to stone him. As recorded in Numbers,

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chapter fourteen and verse ten, these people are in a sense,

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he chose conviction over comfort. His example calls believers today

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to do the same. When culture, or friends or fear

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tempt you to compromise. Remember Caleb's spirit a different spirit

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as the Bible would have said, that stands on business

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with God. I know I keep saying it, keep standing

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on business with God, even when you feel like you're

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standing alone. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? God, He

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that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth

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in his heart? I love it, be faithful peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks 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,