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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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Speaker 3: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath, December thirteen,

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twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single.

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Speaker 3: Day, and today is no exception.

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Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series, coming in

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at lesson number twelve of thirteen Lessons of Faith from Joshua,

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and our caption for today is really it should be

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a testimony for all of us. God is faithful. God

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is faithful. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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for the very first time. Please please go over to

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Pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide sometime

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father, We thank you

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for giving us the new day, this new Sabbath. Thank

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you for being faithful to us. Please help us to

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be faithful to you. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. God is faithful, faithful to us. Now

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we are going to begin with quote a quote from

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the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page four hundred thirty one.

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Speaker 3: Four hundred thirty one.

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Speaker 2: Not one word had failed all of all that he

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God had promised. So it will be with every promise

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in God's word. So you can look back into history

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and see that God, when he made promises to his people,

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he kept every single one of his promises. And so

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that gives us the drive, the impetus to believe him

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when he speaks. So it will be with every promise

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of his word. His power is in finite, and he

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is faithful. Who promised. God is faithful, who promised. Let

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me read quote from October two, eighteen seventy three. That's

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way back from the review in Herald, and it reads

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through every age the Lord has shown him solf faithful,

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His promises stand secure, and none who trust him will

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be disappointed. This is from John Nevin's Andrews very very

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very very good stuff from way back in the day,

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legacy stuff. So our lesson number one is that God

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fulfills every promise that he makes. I guess you could

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have surmised that. But let's see what God said in

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the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty one and verse forty five.

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There failed not aught of any good thing which the

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Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel, and all

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came to pass. It's very interesting to come to pass

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that phrase. It means to arrive. So God has a

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shipment coming right to your house, right where you are seated,

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right now, to arrive to be accomplished. Remember when it

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used to get some stuff like you would order it,

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you know, go in the store, even go in the

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store and you and there's certain parts of furniture and

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you wouldn't get the whole furniture piece that you see

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in the store. You would get it in boxes and

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then you'd have to come home and assemble it. Like

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I remember that back in the eighties. It was crazy.

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I did not like it because I was the only

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guy in the house that was gonna do it God

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Like God had me as a young boy with my

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mom saying okay, assemble is put this together, fix this,

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and I'm like, wow, but see this we no assembly required.

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Remember that, no assembly required. When God gives us what

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he promised, it arrives and it will be accomplished. Joshua

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wanted God's people to see that God's record is spotless,

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his credit is good with us, his resume is air tight,

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his curriculum vitae air tight and bulletproof. Every promise made

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became reality. Every commitment God DIDs declared was fulfilled. His

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faithfulness in the past is the anchor for confidence in

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the future.

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Speaker 3: So what I want you to do is write it down.

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Jot it down.

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Speaker 2: Let's three promises that God has fulfilled in your life,

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and I want you to use those as reminders of

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his faithfulness when new challenges arise. It's the same God

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who kept his promises in the past, the same God

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who is with you today and will continue to keep

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his promises until Jesus comes. Lesson number two, even when

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we are faithful faith less, God forbid. I didn't even

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want to say faithless. I don't want to be faithless.

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I don't choose to go down that path. But there

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have been times that all of us have been faithless.

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Even when that's the case, God is loyal. Now the

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Bible reads, and listen, do not mistake that to mean

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that God will end any wise clear the guilty. No,

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if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to

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forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from

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all on righteousness. So we're not taking God lightly.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: The Bible does read in two Timothy, chapter two and

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verse thirteen, if we believe not yet he abideth faithful.

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He cannot deny himself. Let me read it in the

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New English translation. If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful

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since he can't deny himself. And so the word this

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word for faithful, pistos, means trustworthy, reliable, and loyal. Can

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you imagine God is trustworthy, reliable, and loyal. Joshua reminded

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God's people that their future success depended upon obedience, but

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God's character remained steady despite their wavering ways. His faithfulness

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was not contingent upon their faithfulness. He remains who he

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is regardless of who we are. Some people are shape shifters.

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Some of you out there, God forbid, may be shape shifters.

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You may know people that change their spots visually their chameleons.

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They adapt to all kinds of stuff just to please

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people or to give people. Sometimes God forbid the wrong

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impression about things. God is not like that. He keeps

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his word. So the action step is to meditate on

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God's loyalty today. Maybe you could pray something like this, Lord,

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thank you for being faithful even when I have fallen short.

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Help me to reflect your consistency. Lesson number three and final,

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wholehearted love is the one reasonable response response to what

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God to his faithfulness Deuteronomy, chapter six and verse five.

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Of course, we made allusion to this a little earlier,

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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all

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thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all

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thy might. This word again, this word for love, this

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time is a ho A have to desire to delight in,

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to choose affectionately God's unmatched faithfulness called his people to

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reciprocate with whole hearted love and undivided worship. Joshua chapter

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twenty three urges the people to cling to the Lord

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because loyalty to God is the pathway to life, blessing

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and victory. So I want you to invest some time

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today de liberately, dedicate some time today to express your

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love for God through prayer and worship and obedience. Choose

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at least one act of wholehearted devotion. So Joshua looked

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back to remind his people, God's people that God had

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never failed them. Do you do that when your family circle?

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Do you tell your children? Do you and your spouse

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communicate this very very frequently to say, but God has

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been good to us in the past, and he will

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be good again. Please, please, please, just continue to embrace

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the fact that God is faithful and then live like

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He's faithful.

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Speaker 3: Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 3: 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,