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, and it's Tuesday, October
twenty three, 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
caption for today is the second best option, the second
best option. I would just like to say welcome to
everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
first time. Please join us this evening at seven pm
Jamaica time, Jamaica time, and we will have our evening reflection. Okay,
and then of course tomorrow evening we'll have our musical
teaching through worship or teaching musically and worship, whichever way
you want to show it. It is coming in tomorrow
evening at seven pm on the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel.
And if you're going to be here tomorrow night, if
the Lord Spear's life, just go ahead and say yes,
I will be here. Type that in the chat or
in the comments section. And those listening on the radio,
please please go over to the Your Daily Portion YouTube
channel and we will worship together there. Let's pray, Father,
Thank you, Thank you for the privilege of worship. Thank
you for giving us the opportunity to connect with you.
Please help us to not choose Plan B, but rather
choose Plan A. When we have the privilege of doing
what you say the first way, the first time in
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. So listen.
When it comes to the things of God, we are
not interested, at least I'm not. I hope you're not either.
We shouldn't be interested in Plan B, you know what
I mean, Like we should be interested in Plan A.
Like God gave us a health message, a message of
holiness and health. But Plan B says okay, well, I'm
allowing you to do these certain things within these parameters.
But it's going to bring sickness. It's going to bring
some disease, it's going to bring some weakness. But you know,
if you must, maybe somebody doesn't like how I super
summarize that same thing with marriage. God intended that we
would be married until death. Do us part right well
because of some indiscretions or because of some things that
people do to one another in their marriages, then the
Bible says, because of the hardness of your hearts, I
have allowed this. And so the same concept is happening
right here when it comes to war and God fighting
for us versus us fighting for ourselves with a little
with help part of me, I take out little help
from God, etc. And so the Bible reads here and Joshua,
chapter ten and verse fourteen. And there was no day
like that before it or after it, that the Lord
hearkened unto the voice of a man, for the Lord
fought for his people. So our first lesson comes from
Let me just read one more passage from Exodus, chapter
seventeen and verse eleven, where it reads and it came
to pass when Moses held up his hand, and that
God's people prevailed, and when he let his hand down,
Amelek prevailed. And of course we see where where the
brothers had to hold up Moses's hands so the people
of God would prevail. Right. And so in both Exodus
chapter seventeen and Joshua chapter six, God fought for his people,
but he met them at different levels of faith. When
God's people faced the Amelakites, they doubted God's presence and
complained bitterly. And yet in their spiritual weakness, God did
not abandon them. He allowed Amelek attack to awaken their
dependence upon him, but Moses, with Moses's hands, lifted toward God.
God's people, in their victory came not by sword alone,
but by intercession and faith. Like Wise, if we fast
forward to Jericho, God again intervened through miraculous power, toppling
the walls that human strength could never move. Both battles
revealed the same truth that victory belongs and depends upon
God and not human force. And so if your faith,
if your faith is wavering, I need you to tell
you the truth. It's not my business. You don't tell
me the truth. You don't type that in the chat
like if your faith is wavering in God, I need
you to remember that God is still the one that
fights for you. Lift your heart toward Heaven, your mind,
meditate upon the things of God. Lift your heart toward
God in Heaven. And then the victory depends upon the
connection that you have with God, the connection that you
have with God. Lift up your heart, lift up your
faith toward God. As if God forbid, your faith waivers.
Our second lesson comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter twenty, verses
sixteen through eighteen. I'll read some of it. But of
the cities of these people, which the Lord God both
God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save
nothing alive in the breadth of it. Okay. And so
the original purpose of God's people was peace through divine power,
not conquest, and not violence. We're going to read that
in a story format. A little bit later, he promised
to drive out his enemies. But because of unbelief, see
here comes that plan be again. Because of unbelief, because
of fear, because of murmuring, God's people often failed to
trust in his word. War then became the second best option.
I will call it Plan B, a concession to their
lack of faith. And that's not what really God wanted
to do. God didn't want his people to take up armaments.
He didn't want their weapons of warfare to be something
they could physically see. He wanted them to connect with
God and allow God to fight their battles. Same thing
with us in twenty twenty five. And so even when
the circumstances seemed to force you into battles, God never intended,
keep your eyes on his higher plan. Like his plan
A completely trust in His ways and don't trust in
your human ways. If you have to lock your doors
at home, lock your doors, but don't trust the locks.
If you have to roll up your windows and lock
your car doors, then trust God. Don't trust your windows
being rolled up and your doors locked. If you God forbid,
have to do some things that you never really wanted
to do. If somebody breaks into your home, don't trust
those measures that you really didn't want to do, but
find yourself needing to do when somebody comes in on you,
trust God instead. So God's people learned that faithful participation
or cooperation, and complete dependence must go hand in hand.
They were to act, but never assume the power was theirs,
never assume that the power was theirs. And so let
me say our lessons very simply, when God, when faith falters,
I apologize, God still meets us there. When our faith falters,
God still meets us there. We can be like the
man who said, Lord, I believe, but help thou mine unbelief.
Our second lesson, very simply is war was never God's
original plan. I need to say that again because there
are so many people out here loving war, loving violence,
loving conflict. But war was never God's plan. And finally,
the battle is the lord's, but the choice is mine yours.
The battle is the lord's, but the choice is mine.
That lesson is coming in from Joshua, chapter six and
verse twenty. So the people shouted when the priests blew
the trumpets, and it came to pass when the people
heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted
with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat.
God's people trusted him, They did not war, and Jericho's
walls came down flat. I like plan E B A,
not B peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,