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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

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twenty five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our lesson study series, Faith of Joshua. We're learning lessons

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from Joshua Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for it today is the Challenge of the Land. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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our online community. Please go ahead and click that donate

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link if you are so inclined, and pick up the

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Your Daily Portion Life Application guide at your Daily Portion

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,

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we thank you for this new day and for the

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privilege you have given us to trust you help us

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to indeed and in fact trust you in Jesus name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again. And so I added

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a subtitle. I added a subtitle Grace received faith applied.

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Grace received faith applied. You see, God wants us to

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be exceptional stewards of everything that He entrusts to us,

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including our faith. Okay, so let me just go ahead

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and begin by reading a quote. I'm going to read

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a quote from the book Selected Messages, Book one, Selected Messages,

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Book one, page three hundred eighty one, and it reads,

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Divine grace is needed at the beginning. Go ahead and

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type in the chat at the beginning. God is giving

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his people grace at the beginning of our experience with him.

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Let me continue to quote divine grace at every step

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of advance. Okay, I see what's happening, and then divine

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grace alone can complete the work. I think the Bible says,

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he who began a good work in you is able

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to complete it. Yes, And so I read another quote

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from Reviewing Harold in an article in eighteen fifty seven.

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Faith works by love and love works by obedience. Thus

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are the promises of God secured. And so we lay

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hold upon the power of God. We lay hold upon

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the promises of God by faith. Faith is the vehicle

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to lay hold upon the power and grace of God. Okay,

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And so we begin with our lesson number one that

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comes in from the Book of Joshua, chapter thirteen and

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verse one. Joshua, chapter thirteen and verse one. If I

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have a scribe, just go ahead and type that in

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the chat Joshua thirteen and verse one. It's a good practice.

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I used to do this for Pastor Damian Chambers sometimes

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when he would do zoom calls of teaching. And the

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Bible reads, now Joshua was old and stricken in years,

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and the Lord said unto him, thou wert old and

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stricken in years. And there remaineth yet very much land

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to be possessed. See. God's gifts require our cooperation. You see,

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even though Joshua was aging, I mean he was with

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the children of Israel all of those decades, and then

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finally he becomes the leader and eventually the next generation

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goes into the promise. And so he's not a young man.

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But if you want to receive gifts from God, if

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you want to receive additional things over which to steward,

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it requires our cooperation. Even in our elder years. There

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are most of you, seventy four percent of you, in fact,

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are elders. The ones who are listening, who are watching me.

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I don't know on the radio, I don't have that data,

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but seventy four percent of you are elders who are

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watching me online. And there are some things that God

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still wants to open up in your life, and he

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is saying, just cooperate with me. Do you need additional strength?

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Are there some things that you want for your grandchildren

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or great grandchildren? He wants you to cooperate with him.

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And so God is showing us in the life of

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Joshua as he is moving on in years that he

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still has some power, He still has some instructions and

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some things that He wants to entrust to Joshua and

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to you. And so the lesson is the land of

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Canaan was a divine gift, yet the people had to

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take possession of it through faith and obedience. Grace never

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cancels effort. Grace never cancels effort. In fact, grace is

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the power of God to do what He has called

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us to do. And so I want to give you

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a word. It's in Hebrew. I don't speak Hebrew, but

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I can try uhah yah rush and it means to

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possess or to inherit, implying active participation in receiving what

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God has promised. Joshua and Caleb, even in their older years,

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still had some land to possess, and God was giving

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them the grace to receive it. And so I want

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you to ask God to show you the land, whatever

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that means in your life, still unclaimed. In your life,

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there are areas where promises await your faithful action. There

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are ways that I pray today that I did not

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pray ten years ago, and I can't speak it. I

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don't have enough time to tell you why I didn't.

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But I've learned my lesson and I am praying great,

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big prayers because the one to whom I am praying

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is a great, big God. Can I just say that again.

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I pray great, big prayers because the one to whom

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I am praying is great and big. And so lesson

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Number two comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter nine and verse five. Somebody,

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just got your prayers should be equal to the power

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of the God to whom you prayed. Okay, And so

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the Bible reads, not for thy righteousness dost thou go

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possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations.

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Wait a minute, Wait a minute. So grace saves us,

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but obedience is an outgrowth of God's saving us by

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grace through faith. And so God's people's victory depended upon

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the power of God. We've already established that. But they're

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continued dwelling in the land depended upon covenant faithfulness. That means,

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don't rest on your loyal laurels, brothers and sisters just

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because you were faithful yesterday or six weeks ago or

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five minutes ago. Don't say God I was faithful all

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this time. Could Moses not have said that when he

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decided to strike the rock that second go around? Could

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he not have said that? Could not Eli have said that,

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as he was a high priest, year after year he

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goes into the most holy place, and he comes out

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alive and has accomplished what he was doing. And yet

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during the time of young Samuel's life, now Eli Eli

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is under judgment, and so God is not bringing back

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his righteousness to mind because he had turned away and

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done things not according to the will of God. So

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we don't rest on our laurels. When God blesses us.

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We continue to live as blessed as long as we

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are still in communion with God. I don't have time

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to get into those fancy words like I did the

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last time. But let let the grace of God lead

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you to consistent obedience. M consistent obedience, use grace as

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fuel for holiness. Our lessen number three comes in from

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Ephesians chapter and I will, of course truncated a little

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bit verses eight and nine, for by grace are ye

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saved through faith, not of works, lest any man or

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woman should boast, And so our lesson number three is

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simply this faith without action leaves promises unclaimed. God promised

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Naman that he would heal him if he would just

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dip seven times. What if he stopped at number six,

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What if he stopped at number five? And so what

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God is saying is that faith without action leaves promises unclaimed.

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So we thank God for giving us all of the

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guidance we need in order to be His children, and

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we can continue.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah.