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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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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, and it's Tuesday, October

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twenty three, 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 day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our

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caption for today is the second best option, the second

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best option. I would just like to say welcome to

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. Please join us this evening at seven pm

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Jamaica time, Jamaica time, and we will have our evening reflection. Okay,

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and then of course tomorrow evening we'll have our musical

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teaching through worship or teaching musically and worship, whichever way

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you want to show it. It is coming in tomorrow

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evening at seven pm on the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel.

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And if you're going to be here tomorrow night, if

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the Lord Spear's life, just go ahead and say yes,

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I will be here. Type that in the chat or

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in the comments section. And those listening on the radio,

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please please go over to the Your Daily Portion YouTube

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channel and we will worship together there. Let's pray, Father,

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Thank you, Thank you for the privilege of worship. Thank

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you for giving us the opportunity to connect with you.

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Please help us to not choose Plan B, but rather

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choose Plan A. When we have the privilege of doing

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what you say the first way, the first time in

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. So listen.

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When it comes to the things of God, we are

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not interested, at least I'm not. I hope you're not either.

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We shouldn't be interested in Plan B, you know what

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I mean, Like we should be interested in Plan A.

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Like God gave us a health message, a message of

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holiness and health. But Plan B says okay, well, I'm

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allowing you to do these certain things within these parameters.

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But it's going to bring sickness. It's going to bring

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some disease, it's going to bring some weakness. But you know,

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if you must, maybe somebody doesn't like how I super

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summarize that same thing with marriage. God intended that we

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would be married until death. Do us part right well

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because of some indiscretions or because of some things that

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people do to one another in their marriages, then the

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Bible says, because of the hardness of your hearts, I

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have allowed this. And so the same concept is happening

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right here when it comes to war and God fighting

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for us versus us fighting for ourselves with a little

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with help part of me, I take out little help

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from God, etc. And so the Bible reads here and Joshua,

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chapter ten and verse fourteen. And there was no day

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like that before it or after it, that the Lord

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hearkened unto the voice of a man, for the Lord

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fought for his people. So our first lesson comes from

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Let me just read one more passage from Exodus, chapter

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seventeen and verse eleven, where it reads and it came

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to pass when Moses held up his hand, and that

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God's people prevailed, and when he let his hand down,

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Amelek prevailed. And of course we see where where the

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brothers had to hold up Moses's hands so the people

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of God would prevail. Right. And so in both Exodus

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chapter seventeen and Joshua chapter six, God fought for his people,

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but he met them at different levels of faith. When

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God's people faced the Amelakites, they doubted God's presence and

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complained bitterly. And yet in their spiritual weakness, God did

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not abandon them. He allowed Amelek attack to awaken their

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dependence upon him, but Moses, with Moses's hands, lifted toward God.

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God's people, in their victory came not by sword alone,

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but by intercession and faith. Like Wise, if we fast

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forward to Jericho, God again intervened through miraculous power, toppling

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the walls that human strength could never move. Both battles

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revealed the same truth that victory belongs and depends upon

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God and not human force. And so if your faith,

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if your faith is wavering, I need you to tell

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you the truth. It's not my business. You don't tell

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me the truth. You don't type that in the chat

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like if your faith is wavering in God, I need

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you to remember that God is still the one that

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fights for you. Lift your heart toward Heaven, your mind,

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meditate upon the things of God. Lift your heart toward

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God in Heaven. And then the victory depends upon the

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connection that you have with God, the connection that you

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have with God. Lift up your heart, lift up your

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faith toward God. As if God forbid, your faith waivers.

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Our second lesson comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter twenty, verses

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sixteen through eighteen. I'll read some of it. But of

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the cities of these people, which the Lord God both

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God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save

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nothing alive in the breadth of it. Okay. And so

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the original purpose of God's people was peace through divine power,

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not conquest, and not violence. We're going to read that

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in a story format. A little bit later, he promised

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to drive out his enemies. But because of unbelief, see

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here comes that plan be again. Because of unbelief, because

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of fear, because of murmuring, God's people often failed to

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trust in his word. War then became the second best option.

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I will call it Plan B, a concession to their

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lack of faith. And that's not what really God wanted

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to do. God didn't want his people to take up armaments.

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He didn't want their weapons of warfare to be something

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they could physically see. He wanted them to connect with

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God and allow God to fight their battles. Same thing

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with us in twenty twenty five. And so even when

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the circumstances seemed to force you into battles, God never intended,

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keep your eyes on his higher plan. Like his plan

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A completely trust in His ways and don't trust in

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your human ways. If you have to lock your doors

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at home, lock your doors, but don't trust the locks.

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If you have to roll up your windows and lock

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your car doors, then trust God. Don't trust your windows

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being rolled up and your doors locked. If you God forbid,

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have to do some things that you never really wanted

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to do. If somebody breaks into your home, don't trust

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those measures that you really didn't want to do, but

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find yourself needing to do when somebody comes in on you,

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trust God instead. So God's people learned that faithful participation

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or cooperation, and complete dependence must go hand in hand.

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They were to act, but never assume the power was theirs,

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never assume that the power was theirs. And so let

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me say our lessons very simply, when God, when faith falters,

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I apologize, God still meets us there. When our faith falters,

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God still meets us there. We can be like the

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man who said, Lord, I believe, but help thou mine unbelief.

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Our second lesson, very simply is war was never God's

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original plan. I need to say that again because there

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are so many people out here loving war, loving violence,

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loving conflict. But war was never God's plan. And finally,

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the battle is the lord's, but the choice is mine yours.

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The battle is the lord's, but the choice is mine.

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That lesson is coming in from Joshua, chapter six and

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verse twenty. So the people shouted when the priests blew

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the trumpets, and it came to pass when the people

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heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted

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with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat.

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God's people trusted him, They did not war, and Jericho's

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walls came down flat. I like plan E B A,

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not B peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,