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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 Thursday, October sixteen,

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

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I am your host den 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 from the Book of Joshua, and really

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it's his life, his life experience with God. So Lessons

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of Faith from josh was more accurate. And our caption

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for today is Beyond the Jordan. Beyond the Jordan. Before

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we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to

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to know how to get there, because maybe you don't

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asking somebody to type that in the chat. Two or

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to your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we can continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,

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Thank you, Thank you for this day and for the

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opportunity to see ourselves beyond the Jordan, to see ourselves

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in victory, see ourselves in a position of power because

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you are all powerful. Blessed be your name. Now, please

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help us to live that way in Jesus name, I

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pray a men and a man again. And so we begin.

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We begin by simply reading from the book of Psalms,

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chapter sixty six, and we will read verse six Psalm

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chapter sixty six, and we will read verse six, and

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the Bible reads he turned the sea into dry land.

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Aren't you glad that God, the same one who created

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the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that

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in them is has the ability And really that's understating

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the power of God, but he has the ability to

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turn what he created into anything else that he decides

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for his glory and for your benefit. He turned the

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sea into dry land because it was a barrier to

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the success of the people of God. When I say success,

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I'm talking about spiritual success, separation from the bondage that

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they had lived in and the mindset of bondage that

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they had become so accustomed to that they were lackadaisical

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in every possible way. And God is saying, if I

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can deliver you from Egypt, I can also get you

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into the Promised Land. All you need to do is march,

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surrender your will to me, march, turn away from your sins,

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turn toward my judgments, my statutes, my judgments, and you

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will arrive safely. And the Bible continues. Then when they

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went through the river on foot, there we will rejoice

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in Him. And so we see that there is rejoicing

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on the other end of victory. There's rejoicing on the

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other end of doing what God says. The way of

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the wicked is hard. But when we surrender our will

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to God, even though we will go through trials, even

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though God forbid. But sometimes we make errors in judgment.

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God forbid. Sometimes people jump into sin or fall into sin.

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But if we will just go through with God, then

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we will come through to rejoicing. So going beyond the Jordan,

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and so our first lesson for today, our first lesson

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is that God transforms our transition into testimonies. And so

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the crossing of the Red Sea and the Jordan River

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in that next generation were more than a physical movement.

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Of course, you can go over now. It was miraculous

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how they went over, but it was it wasn't only

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that they were divine transitions marking the freedom and the promise.

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God had made a promise to Abraham that he would

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take God's people into the land of promise, and he

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is also accomplishing it. Yes, the first generation of freed slaves,

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they did die, apart from Joshua and Caleb, who were faithful. Yes,

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they went through trials and tribulations. Yes, it could have

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I know a lot of people say forty days, but really,

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at my count, it could have taken them eleven days.

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Quite frankly, by a certain route, they could have gotten

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into the promise in eleven days, and it took them

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forty long years and a loss of an entire generation

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simply because they did not believe, simply because they did

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not do God's will from the heart. And so God

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is saying that if you will just turn from your sin,

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turn toward Me by the power of the Holy ghosts,

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and march according to the path that I have shown you,

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then you will be free. You will receive the promise.

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Each step across dry land was a declaration that God

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not only delivers from bondage, but also delivers into purpose.

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So if you can hear the tread of the people

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of God, can you imagine millions of people, more than

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one million, likely more than two million in the three

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million range of people, men, women and children marching on

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dry ground. Oh my goodness, keeping in lockstep because God

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is orderly, Because behind the arc of the cove must

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be order. That ark of the covenant represents the presence

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of God. And all of these people are moving. And

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there is a declaration which with each tread of the

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steps of the people of God, that He's delivering them

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not only from something, but into what he had promised.

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And that is God's divine purpose. When we walk through

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life's Jordan's new beginnings, uncertain seasons, he transforms them into

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memorials of His power. What meaneth these stones? Well, we

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know that God has delivered his people. Don't forget children,

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don't forget. And so our actions step for today is

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to reflect on a major transition in your life where

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God is leading you, and write one sentence that begins,

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God brought me. See, we are focusing on God, not

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on ourselves. God and not ourselves. God brought me across.

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And now I want you to fill in the blank.

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It's almost like that counting of your blessings. Count them

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one by one, named them one by one, meaning what

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has God done for you? God brought me across, and

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then keep it as your own memorial of his faithfulness.

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You can write them down as those stones that remind

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you that God has been good. We have no fear

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for the future, except we forget how God has led

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us in the past. Our second lesson comes in really

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quickly from Matthew Chapter three, Verses sixteen and seventeen, where

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the Bible says, in Jesus when he was baptized, went

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up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens

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were open done to him fast forward, and the voice

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from heaven saying, this is my beloved son, in whom

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I am well pleased. And so at another point in

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the Jordan experience, at Jordan, Jesus began his public ministry.

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In what we call the New Testament, it is recorded

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that Jesus began his public ministry through baptism, marking a

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turning point from hidden preparation to visible mission. His baptism

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obviously was not for repentance, because Jesus never sinned, but

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it was an identification of the purpose that God had

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set in this life so that we could be saved

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from our sin. And so the Jordan represents spiritual renewal.

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And it's cool to look back, but really today is

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your day to renew your commitment and walk in obedience

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and if you agree to walk with God type of

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yes in the chat right now.

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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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,