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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 Monday, November seventeen,

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

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for it today is give me this hill country, Give

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me this hill Country. We'll get into that in just

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a moment. Prefers, I like to say welcome to you

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and then we will get under way.

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Father in Heaven, we thank you for this day. Please

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give us the kind of faith that we've seen exemplified

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in your people in the past, the people who were

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faithful like Kleb and Joshua. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again, Amen again, give me this hill country. Now,

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there is a question at the top of today's lesson

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that I want to tackle very quickly. How would you

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describe Caleb and Joshua's attitude? What does it mean to

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follow the Lord fully? And of course it's based on

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Bible passages that are listed here, So let me read

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just a couple. Let me read just a couple. The

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Bible reads in verse twenty four. I said that yesterday

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verse twenty four of numbers, chapter fourteen. But my servant Caleb,

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because he had another spirit ha with him. We're talking

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about the Holy Ghost, the spirit of faithfulness, the spirit

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of I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.

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We're talking about in twenty twenty five. That's what it

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looks like. Caleb had that spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly.

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I will bring him into the land where he has gone,

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and his descendants will inherit it. You see, the truth

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is that you are in more control over the legacy

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than you believe. You see, like the people who came

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in that first generation of freed slaves coming out of Egypt,

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most of those left a legacy of doubt, a legacy

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of murmuring, a legacy of covetousness, a legacy of following

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after idolators and assuming and assimilating their style of living.

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Most of them did that. But in this case we

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see how Caleb and Joshua, both of them. But how

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Caleb having another Holy having another spirit, He didn't have

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a spirit of doubt. He didn't have a spirit of

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looking at himself to determine whether victory is possible or not.

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He had the spirit of focusing on God and letting

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God do what God had promised, and therefore he left

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a legacy of God keeping his promise and blessing the generations.

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Blessing the generations. Let me read from Joshua chapter fourteen.

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I know I'm running along, but there is so much

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here Joshua chapter fourteen and verse eight. The Bible reads, Nevertheless,

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my brethren that went up with me made the heart

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of the people melt what but I wholly followed the Lord,

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my God.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: But the word but b ut is a conjunction. It

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negates whatever came before. The people that went in to

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look and see what God could do in air quotes

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those individual cause. Those individuals caused the people to be

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faith less because of their influence. Some of you, because

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of your influence, caused the people. During the crazy storms

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that we had to deal with, caused people to be

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faith less too. You were more interested, God forbid. It's true,

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you were more interested in talking about how terrible the

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storm could be. You were more interested in talking out

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all of the negativity about the storm as it was approaching.

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But God is saying that there were people on planet

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Earth in the person of Joshua, in the person of Caleb,

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that would not cause the people have their hearts to

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melt or be fearful, but to follow the Lord wholeheartedly

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and say, I have been young and i have been old,

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but I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor seed begging bread.

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He had the kind of faith that said that God

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is a shelter in the time of storm, that the

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Angel of the Lord in camp is round about those

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who love God. That's the kind of person that you

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want around in your camp. So Joshua and Caleb stood

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apart because of their attitude of faith. When others saw giants,

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they were barriers. They saw God's power. When others hesitated,

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they moved forward. Their different spirit in air quotes was

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one of courage and of trust in God and the

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vision that God had given faith that refused to be

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silenced by fear. You see, to follow the Lord fully

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very simply means to let faith speak louder than circumstances.

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Faith in God speak louder than circumstances. I do not

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want to make it seem as if the faith that

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we have standing on its own is where the power is. Yes,

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faith is the victory that overcomes the world. But that's

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because the faith is laying hold of the power of God,

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laying hold of the promises of God. And therefore the

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faith is full of the power of God. Because faith

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is the conduit. It is the way that the power

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of God is transferred from God's heavenly repositories. God's heavenly

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vault of power is transferred through faith to the one

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who possesses that faith. Do you possess the faith of Jesus?

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Do you have faith in Jesus? Two very similar things,

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but they're different. Do you have the faith of Jesus

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and have faith in Jesus? Listen number two, we're going quickly. Deuteronomy,

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chapter one and verse thirty six. The Bible reads, save Caleb,

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the son of Jeffyonah, he shall see it, and to

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him will I give the land that he hath trodden

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upon and to his children because he hath wholly followed

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the Lord God. Will you teach us to follow you completely?

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Will you teach us to follow you without wavering, without fear.

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Will you teach us to follow you without questioning you,

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just going where you say, where Thou leadest die, will

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follow help us to be like this God. And so

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the phrase that these brothers followed the Lord fully and

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Hebrew it means it literally means to be fully behind

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the Lord. It conveys complete alignment, no hesitation, no double mindedness.

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Caleb and Joshua did not pick and choose when to obey.

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They followed God completely every even after forty years of delay.

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Caleb's faith never expired. I said. Caleb's faith did not

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expire in that forty years of waste and wandering that

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the people that he came out of Egypt with created.

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But he didn't lose his faith because they were faith less.

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He didn't lose their faith because they were dragging him

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around and around in the wilderness and he couldn't get

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a break. Him Neither neither he nor Joshua could get

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a break and say, well, we were faithful, why are

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we wandering around in the wilderness. No, his faith did

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not expire. He could stand before Joshua at age eighty

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five and say, as yet, I am as strong this

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day as I was the day when Moses sent me.

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According to Joshua, chapter fourteen and verse eleven, that kind

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of endurance is the fruit of delay or of daily

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pardon me. That kind of faith is the fruit of

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daily obedience, the kind of faith that is being exercised

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on a regular basis. This is what it looks like

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faith in God. This is what it looks like. Their loyalty,

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those brothers' loyalty was not conditional. They had the kind

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of loyalty that was Covenantal I'm thankful. Give me this

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hill country. What are you asking God to give you?

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Make it a great day. Thanks for joining us listening.

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

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,