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
twenty five, 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, Faith of Joshua. We're learning lessons
from Joshua Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for it today is the Challenge of the Land. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first I
like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
we thank you for this new day and for the
privilege you have given us to trust you help us
to indeed and in fact trust you in Jesus name,
I pray Amen and Amen again. And so I added
a subtitle. I added a subtitle Grace received faith applied.
Grace received faith applied. You see, God wants us to
be exceptional stewards of everything that He entrusts to us,
including our faith. Okay, so let me just go ahead
and begin by reading a quote. I'm going to read
a quote from the book Selected Messages, Book one, Selected Messages,
Book one, page three hundred eighty one, and it reads,
Divine grace is needed at the beginning. Go ahead and
type in the chat at the beginning. God is giving
his people grace at the beginning of our experience with him.
Let me continue to quote divine grace at every step
of advance. Okay, I see what's happening, and then divine
grace alone can complete the work. I think the Bible says,
he who began a good work in you is able
to complete it. Yes, And so I read another quote
from Reviewing Harold in an article in eighteen fifty seven.
Faith works by love and love works by obedience. Thus
are the promises of God secured. And so we lay
hold upon the power of God. We lay hold upon
the promises of God by faith. Faith is the vehicle
to lay hold upon the power and grace of God. Okay,
And so we begin with our lesson number one that
comes in from the Book of Joshua, chapter thirteen and
verse one. Joshua, chapter thirteen and verse one. If I
have a scribe, just go ahead and type that in
the chat Joshua thirteen and verse one. It's a good practice.
I used to do this for Pastor Damian Chambers sometimes
when he would do zoom calls of teaching. And the
Bible reads, now Joshua was old and stricken in years,
and the Lord said unto him, thou wert old and
stricken in years. And there remaineth yet very much land
to be possessed. See. God's gifts require our cooperation. You see,
even though Joshua was aging, I mean he was with
the children of Israel all of those decades, and then
finally he becomes the leader and eventually the next generation
goes into the promise. And so he's not a young man.
But if you want to receive gifts from God, if
you want to receive additional things over which to steward,
it requires our cooperation. Even in our elder years. There
are most of you, seventy four percent of you, in fact,
are elders. The ones who are listening, who are watching me.
I don't know on the radio, I don't have that data,
but seventy four percent of you are elders who are
watching me online. And there are some things that God
still wants to open up in your life, and he
is saying, just cooperate with me. Do you need additional strength?
Are there some things that you want for your grandchildren
or great grandchildren? He wants you to cooperate with him.
And so God is showing us in the life of
Joshua as he is moving on in years that he
still has some power, He still has some instructions and
some things that He wants to entrust to Joshua and
to you. And so the lesson is the land of
Canaan was a divine gift, yet the people had to
take possession of it through faith and obedience. Grace never
cancels effort. Grace never cancels effort. In fact, grace is
the power of God to do what He has called
us to do. And so I want to give you
a word. It's in Hebrew. I don't speak Hebrew, but
I can try uhah yah rush and it means to
possess or to inherit, implying active participation in receiving what
God has promised. Joshua and Caleb, even in their older years,
still had some land to possess, and God was giving
them the grace to receive it. And so I want
you to ask God to show you the land, whatever
that means in your life, still unclaimed. In your life,
there are areas where promises await your faithful action. There
are ways that I pray today that I did not
pray ten years ago, and I can't speak it. I
don't have enough time to tell you why I didn't.
But I've learned my lesson and I am praying great,
big prayers because the one to whom I am praying
is a great, big God. Can I just say that again.
I pray great, big prayers because the one to whom
I am praying is great and big. And so lesson
Number two comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter nine and verse five. Somebody,
just got your prayers should be equal to the power
of the God to whom you prayed. Okay, And so
the Bible reads, not for thy righteousness dost thou go
possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. So grace saves us,
but obedience is an outgrowth of God's saving us by
grace through faith. And so God's people's victory depended upon
the power of God. We've already established that. But they're
continued dwelling in the land depended upon covenant faithfulness. That means,
don't rest on your loyal laurels, brothers and sisters just
because you were faithful yesterday or six weeks ago or
five minutes ago. Don't say God I was faithful all
this time. Could Moses not have said that when he
decided to strike the rock that second go around? Could
he not have said that? Could not Eli have said that,
as he was a high priest, year after year he
goes into the most holy place, and he comes out
alive and has accomplished what he was doing. And yet
during the time of young Samuel's life, now Eli Eli
is under judgment, and so God is not bringing back
his righteousness to mind because he had turned away and
done things not according to the will of God. So
we don't rest on our laurels. When God blesses us.
We continue to live as blessed as long as we
are still in communion with God. I don't have time
to get into those fancy words like I did the
last time. But let let the grace of God lead
you to consistent obedience. M consistent obedience, use grace as
fuel for holiness. Our lessen number three comes in from
Ephesians chapter and I will, of course truncated a little
bit verses eight and nine, for by grace are ye
saved through faith, not of works, lest any man or
woman should boast, And so our lesson number three is
simply this faith without action leaves promises unclaimed. God promised
Naman that he would heal him if he would just
dip seven times. What if he stopped at number six,
What if he stopped at number five? And so what
God is saying is that faith without action leaves promises unclaimed.
So we thank God for giving us all of the
guidance we need in order to be His children, and
we can continue.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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.