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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. It is Sunday, November nine,

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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 today is Covenant First. Covenant First. Will get into

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that in just a moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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

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Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day and for

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the privilege you have given to us. Thank you for

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the covenant that you have kept with us and kept

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for us. Please teach us covenant today in Jesus name

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I pray, Amen and Amen again Covenant. First, I'm going

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to read from the Bible Book of Joshua, chapter five,

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beginning at verse one, and then we will have a

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little bit of discussion here. Okay, Joshua chapter five, and

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that is beginning at verse one from the New King

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James version of the Bible, and the Bible reads. So

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it was when the kings of the Amorites, who were

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on the west side of the Jordan, and all the

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kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard

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that the Lord had dried up the waters of the

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Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had

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crossed over, that their heart melted. There was no spirit

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in them any longer because of the children of Israel.

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And that time the Lord said to Joshua, make flint

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knives for yourselves, and circumcise the sons of Israel again

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the second time, So Joshua made flint knives for himself

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and circumcised the sons of Israel. And the hill of

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the foreskins at the hill of the foreskins. And this

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is the reason why Joshua circumcised them. What is it?

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All the people who came out of Egypt, who were males,

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all the men of war, had died in the wilderness

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on the way after they had come out of Egypt.

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For all the people who came out had been circumcised.

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But all the people born in the wilderness on the

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way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

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For the children of Israel had walked forty years in

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the wilderness. To all the people who were men of

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war who came out of Egypt were consumed because they

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did not obey the voice of the Lord, to whom

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the Lord swore that he would not show them the land,

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which the Lord sworn to their fathers, that he would

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give us a land flowing with milk and honey. Then

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Joshua circumcised their sons, whom he raised up in their place,

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for they were uncircum sized because they had not been

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circumcised on the way. So basically this is saying, this

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is saying that the grown men, the grown men among

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the people of God who originally came out of Egypt,

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had already taken the right or the symbol of their

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covenant called circumcision. Right, they had all done that, but

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the children, the young boys who were of twenty years

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and younger, had not. And the Egyptians who came out

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of Egypt too with the people of God, those had not,

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And so that entire first generation was wiped out except

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for Joshua and Caleb. So that means that the individuals

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who were going into the Promised Land, as they had

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gone through the Jordan and eventually obviously beyond Jericho and

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inhabiting the Land of Promise, they would need to be circumcised.

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That was a symbol. That was a symbol. Moses said,

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We're going to circumcise your heart to love the Lord

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your God. I said. Moses said that Paul borrowed it.

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Moses said that circumcision was the circumcision of the heart.

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So without covenant, the covenant to love the Lord Thy

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God and serve him, then there's no inheritance of the promise.

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And so what is the symbol of your covenant with God?

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In twenty twenty five? What is the symbol of your

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covenant with God? And so let us just learn a

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few lessons here. Let's learn a few lessons here. Lesson

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number one, there is renewal before victory, renewal before victory.

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The insight is that sometimes God asks us to pause

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when progress feels urgent. We are building momentum. God, how

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can you be asking us to pause to do these things? Well,

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it's in these moments that God is not delaying our victory.

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He is deepening our dependent Sometimes we have confidence in

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our momentum when our confidence should be in God. Father,

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I'm finally starting to taste the level of success. Okay,

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I need you to pause right here. Before we can

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conquer anything external, we have to first conquer what is internal.

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Because God knows what's coming ahead. He knows the strength,

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the internal fortitude that we're going to need in order

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to make it to the next level. And so there

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are times that God instills a pause to establish or

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reestablish covenant with us so that we will be prepared

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for whatever comes next. And so, before fighting your next battle,

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make and invest the time to renew your covenant with

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God through prayer and surrender. And you are aligned with him,

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he will secure the victories that you by yourself cannot. Now.

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Let me read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page

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four hundred and eighty five. Before they could hope for

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the Lord to be with them in battle, God's people

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must take a decided stand on the right. They must

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renew their covenant with God. They must renew their covenant

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with God. In that case, that's the end of the quote.

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In that case, we know that they were siding with God.

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We know that they were accepting Jesus as even though

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they wouldn't have called him that, but Jesus as the captain,

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the commander of the Lord's armies, and he would fight

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their battles and they would not have to fight alone.

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And so we're grateful that God, still in twenty twenty five,

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is willing to allie with human beings who are submitting

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our wills to him to overcome all of our maladaptive behaviors,

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to overcome our addictions to drugs and alcohol, to overcome

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our addiction to pride and self focus, to overcome a

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need besetting sin. Some of the things came through our bloodline,

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and then we practice it because you know, we had

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a predisposition to these certain things that our fore parents

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had done. And God is saying through covenant, I'm going

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to cancel all of that. Make a covenant with me

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and I will cancel all of that. And so and so,

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the reflection that I want you to take on this

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point is what might God be calling you to pause

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and renew before you move forward into the battle. What

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might God be asking you to pause and to renew

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before you go into the battle so He can protect you?

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And so the Bible reads in Exodus, chapter fourteen and

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verse fourteen. We talked about this the other week. The

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Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

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God's people. Circumcision before the conquest reminds us that God

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prepares his people for victory through obedience. The covenant must

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always come before the conquest. You see, sometimes we want

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to fast track victory. We want to fast track those

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things that make us feel good about ourselves. When God

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is saying nope. I want you to pause right here,

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renew covenant with me. I will fight your battles, you

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will hold your peace. I will get the glory, you'll

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get the benefit 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,