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.
Speaker 3: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath, December thirteen,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Hello, my name is El David Harris.
Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's Word every single.
Speaker 3: Day, and today is no exception.
Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series, coming in
at lesson number twelve of thirteen Lessons of Faith from Joshua,
and our caption for today is really it should be
a testimony for all of us. God is faithful. God
is faithful. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father, We thank you
for giving us the new day, this new Sabbath. Thank
you for being faithful to us. Please help us to
be faithful to you. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. God is faithful, faithful to us. Now
we are going to begin with quote a quote from
the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page four hundred thirty one.
Speaker 3: Four hundred thirty one.
Speaker 2: Not one word had failed all of all that he
God had promised. So it will be with every promise
in God's word. So you can look back into history
and see that God, when he made promises to his people,
he kept every single one of his promises. And so
that gives us the drive, the impetus to believe him
when he speaks. So it will be with every promise
of his word. His power is in finite, and he
is faithful. Who promised. God is faithful, who promised. Let
me read quote from October two, eighteen seventy three. That's
way back from the review in Herald, and it reads
through every age the Lord has shown him solf faithful,
His promises stand secure, and none who trust him will
be disappointed. This is from John Nevin's Andrews very very
very very good stuff from way back in the day,
legacy stuff. So our lesson number one is that God
fulfills every promise that he makes. I guess you could
have surmised that. But let's see what God said in
the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty one and verse forty five.
There failed not aught of any good thing which the
Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel, and all
came to pass. It's very interesting to come to pass
that phrase. It means to arrive. So God has a
shipment coming right to your house, right where you are seated,
right now, to arrive to be accomplished. Remember when it
used to get some stuff like you would order it,
you know, go in the store, even go in the
store and you and there's certain parts of furniture and
you wouldn't get the whole furniture piece that you see
in the store. You would get it in boxes and
then you'd have to come home and assemble it. Like
I remember that back in the eighties. It was crazy.
I did not like it because I was the only
guy in the house that was gonna do it God
Like God had me as a young boy with my
mom saying okay, assemble is put this together, fix this,
and I'm like, wow, but see this we no assembly required.
Remember that, no assembly required. When God gives us what
he promised, it arrives and it will be accomplished. Joshua
wanted God's people to see that God's record is spotless,
his credit is good with us, his resume is air tight,
his curriculum vitae air tight and bulletproof. Every promise made
became reality. Every commitment God DIDs declared was fulfilled. His
faithfulness in the past is the anchor for confidence in
the future.
Speaker 3: So what I want you to do is write it down.
Jot it down.
Speaker 2: Let's three promises that God has fulfilled in your life,
and I want you to use those as reminders of
his faithfulness when new challenges arise. It's the same God
who kept his promises in the past, the same God
who is with you today and will continue to keep
his promises until Jesus comes. Lesson number two, even when
we are faithful faith less, God forbid. I didn't even
want to say faithless. I don't want to be faithless.
I don't choose to go down that path. But there
have been times that all of us have been faithless.
Even when that's the case, God is loyal. Now the
Bible reads, and listen, do not mistake that to mean
that God will end any wise clear the guilty. No,
if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to
forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from
all on righteousness. So we're not taking God lightly.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The Bible does read in two Timothy, chapter two and
verse thirteen, if we believe not yet he abideth faithful.
He cannot deny himself. Let me read it in the
New English translation. If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful
since he can't deny himself. And so the word this
word for faithful, pistos, means trustworthy, reliable, and loyal. Can
you imagine God is trustworthy, reliable, and loyal. Joshua reminded
God's people that their future success depended upon obedience, but
God's character remained steady despite their wavering ways. His faithfulness
was not contingent upon their faithfulness. He remains who he
is regardless of who we are. Some people are shape shifters.
Some of you out there, God forbid, may be shape shifters.
You may know people that change their spots visually their chameleons.
They adapt to all kinds of stuff just to please
people or to give people. Sometimes God forbid the wrong
impression about things. God is not like that. He keeps
his word. So the action step is to meditate on
God's loyalty today. Maybe you could pray something like this, Lord,
thank you for being faithful even when I have fallen short.
Help me to reflect your consistency. Lesson number three and final,
wholehearted love is the one reasonable response response to what
God to his faithfulness Deuteronomy, chapter six and verse five.
Of course, we made allusion to this a little earlier,
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy might. This word again, this word for love, this
time is a ho A have to desire to delight in,
to choose affectionately God's unmatched faithfulness called his people to
reciprocate with whole hearted love and undivided worship. Joshua chapter
twenty three urges the people to cling to the Lord
because loyalty to God is the pathway to life, blessing
and victory. So I want you to invest some time
today de liberately, dedicate some time today to express your
love for God through prayer and worship and obedience. Choose
at least one act of wholehearted devotion. So Joshua looked
back to remind his people, God's people that God had
never failed them. Do you do that when your family circle?
Do you tell your children? Do you and your spouse
communicate this very very frequently to say, but God has
been good to us in the past, and he will
be good again. Please, please, please, just continue to embrace
the fact that God is faithful and then live like
He's faithful.
Speaker 3: Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 3: 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,