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. It is Monday, November seventeen,
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 it today is give me this hill country, Give
me this hill Country. We'll get into that in just
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go ahead and pray and then we will get under way.
Father in Heaven, we thank you for this day. Please
give us the kind of faith that we've seen exemplified
in your people in the past, the people who were
faithful like Kleb and Joshua. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again, Amen again, give me this hill country. Now,
there is a question at the top of today's lesson
that I want to tackle very quickly. How would you
describe Caleb and Joshua's attitude? What does it mean to
follow the Lord fully? And of course it's based on
Bible passages that are listed here, So let me read
just a couple. Let me read just a couple. The
Bible reads in verse twenty four. I said that yesterday
verse twenty four of numbers, chapter fourteen. But my servant Caleb,
because he had another spirit ha with him. We're talking
about the Holy Ghost, the spirit of faithfulness, the spirit
of I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.
We're talking about in twenty twenty five. That's what it
looks like. Caleb had that spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly.
I will bring him into the land where he has gone,
and his descendants will inherit it. You see, the truth
is that you are in more control over the legacy
than you believe. You see, like the people who came
in that first generation of freed slaves coming out of Egypt,
most of those left a legacy of doubt, a legacy
of murmuring, a legacy of covetousness, a legacy of following
after idolators and assuming and assimilating their style of living.
Most of them did that. But in this case we
see how Caleb and Joshua, both of them. But how
Caleb having another Holy having another spirit, He didn't have
a spirit of doubt. He didn't have a spirit of
looking at himself to determine whether victory is possible or not.
He had the spirit of focusing on God and letting
God do what God had promised, and therefore he left
a legacy of God keeping his promise and blessing the generations.
Blessing the generations. Let me read from Joshua chapter fourteen.
I know I'm running along, but there is so much
here Joshua chapter fourteen and verse eight. The Bible reads, Nevertheless,
my brethren that went up with me made the heart
of the people melt what but I wholly followed the Lord,
my God.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: But the word but b ut is a conjunction. It
negates whatever came before. The people that went in to
look and see what God could do in air quotes
those individual cause. Those individuals caused the people to be
faith less because of their influence. Some of you, because
of your influence, caused the people. During the crazy storms
that we had to deal with, caused people to be
faith less too. You were more interested, God forbid. It's true,
you were more interested in talking about how terrible the
storm could be. You were more interested in talking out
all of the negativity about the storm as it was approaching.
But God is saying that there were people on planet
Earth in the person of Joshua, in the person of Caleb,
that would not cause the people have their hearts to
melt or be fearful, but to follow the Lord wholeheartedly
and say, I have been young and i have been old,
but I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor seed begging bread.
He had the kind of faith that said that God
is a shelter in the time of storm, that the
Angel of the Lord in camp is round about those
who love God. That's the kind of person that you
want around in your camp. So Joshua and Caleb stood
apart because of their attitude of faith. When others saw giants,
they were barriers. They saw God's power. When others hesitated,
they moved forward. Their different spirit in air quotes was
one of courage and of trust in God and the
vision that God had given faith that refused to be
silenced by fear. You see, to follow the Lord fully
very simply means to let faith speak louder than circumstances.
Faith in God speak louder than circumstances. I do not
want to make it seem as if the faith that
we have standing on its own is where the power is. Yes,
faith is the victory that overcomes the world. But that's
because the faith is laying hold of the power of God,
laying hold of the promises of God. And therefore the
faith is full of the power of God. Because faith
is the conduit. It is the way that the power
of God is transferred from God's heavenly repositories. God's heavenly
vault of power is transferred through faith to the one
who possesses that faith. Do you possess the faith of Jesus?
Do you have faith in Jesus? Two very similar things,
but they're different. Do you have the faith of Jesus
and have faith in Jesus? Listen number two, we're going quickly. Deuteronomy,
chapter one and verse thirty six. The Bible reads, save Caleb,
the son of Jeffyonah, he shall see it, and to
him will I give the land that he hath trodden
upon and to his children because he hath wholly followed
the Lord God. Will you teach us to follow you completely?
Will you teach us to follow you without wavering, without fear.
Will you teach us to follow you without questioning you,
just going where you say, where Thou leadest die, will
follow help us to be like this God. And so
the phrase that these brothers followed the Lord fully and
Hebrew it means it literally means to be fully behind
the Lord. It conveys complete alignment, no hesitation, no double mindedness.
Caleb and Joshua did not pick and choose when to obey.
They followed God completely every even after forty years of delay.
Caleb's faith never expired. I said. Caleb's faith did not
expire in that forty years of waste and wandering that
the people that he came out of Egypt with created.
But he didn't lose his faith because they were faith less.
He didn't lose their faith because they were dragging him
around and around in the wilderness and he couldn't get
a break. Him Neither neither he nor Joshua could get
a break and say, well, we were faithful, why are
we wandering around in the wilderness. No, his faith did
not expire. He could stand before Joshua at age eighty
five and say, as yet, I am as strong this
day as I was the day when Moses sent me.
According to Joshua, chapter fourteen and verse eleven, that kind
of endurance is the fruit of delay or of daily
pardon me. That kind of faith is the fruit of
daily obedience, the kind of faith that is being exercised
on a regular basis. This is what it looks like
faith in God. This is what it looks like. Their loyalty,
those brothers' loyalty was not conditional. They had the kind
of loyalty that was Covenantal I'm thankful. Give me this
hill country. What are you asking God to give you?
Make it a great day. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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 el David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,