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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 Friday, October 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 from Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and

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our caption for today is remembering God's lessons, bring God's lessons.

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

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We thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity

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to open up your word. Thank you for bringing us

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into this place of worship. Please give us your guidance

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now in Jesus's name, I pray Amen and a man again.

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There is so much to say and so little time.

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I have given you this quote over and over again,

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but let me just say it one more time that

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we have nothing to fear for the future except we

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forget how God has led us in the past. And

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let me just read now from the book Testimonies for

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the Church, Volume one, page six hundred and nine, which reads,

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the people of God in modern day are in danger

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of forgetting God and being led into idolatry. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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then we're the ancient people, so we're more in danger

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in twenty twenty five than the people of God thousands

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of years ago. Many idols are worshiped, even by professed

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sabbath keepers. If you're a sabbath keeper type in the

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Chat Sabbath Sabbath, go ahead and type in the Chat

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Sabbath if you are a sabbath keeper type in the

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Chat Sabbath. And so even among us, even among us,

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there are things that we worship in place of God,

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Lord help us. God especially charged his ancient people to

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guard against idolatry, for if they should be led away

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from serving the Living God, Blessed be his name, his

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curse would rest upon them. At this moment, we need

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to be praying. We need to be saying, God, will

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you please deliver us from ourselves? If you, God forbid,

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are worshiping anything. Is it a relationship that you love

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so much and you're holding on to and God is

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saying to let go of? Is it a thought process

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that you have a poverty mindset? You are God forbid,

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You're proud, you think of yourself more highly than you

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ought to think. It could be anything. You could have

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fatalistic thoughts thinking at every moment, around every corner, you're

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spooked by every sound, rather than knowing that the Angel

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of the Lord in campeth round about those who serve

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and love God. Yes, God says something about you and

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you say the opposite. That can be an idol. You

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may be looking at your social media posts and your

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ability to share on WhatsApp, and all you can think

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about is clicking that share button, when in the moment

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maybe you should be praying, is that an idol? Well?

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If they should be led away from serving God, his

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curse would rest upon them. While if they would love

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Him with all their heart, with all their soul, and

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with all their might he would abundantly bless them in

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basket and in store, and would remove sickness, oh my,

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from the midst of them. Oh Lord, help us to

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remember you. Please help us to remember you. And so

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we're going for a few lessons this morning before we

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come to a swift close on this preparation day. From

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the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy seven and verse fourteen,

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the Bible reads, Thou art the God that doest wonders.

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Thank God for this. Thou hast declared Thy strength among

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the people. So what I want you to do is

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record those quote Jordan Crossings. Yeah, those Red Sea crossings.

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But I want to go to the Jordan crossings because

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that's right before we get into the promise. Write down

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how God has opened the way for you when it

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seemed impossible, and share a testimony to encourage others. I mean,

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in real life, there are people with whom you exercise,

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There are people with whom you work. You are traveling

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in a taxi today, you are on public transport in

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a bus, you are standing at a bus stop, you

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are doing a ride share, as in some countries where

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there are three or four people that you really kind

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of don't know. But because you can get into that

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high what is it hov lane, that high occupancy vehicle lane,

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so you can go faster. Now you have people in

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the car with you, and if the Lord shows you

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how it is in that moment that you can share

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like man, I was going through this certain thing, but

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God delivered me and I passed through, and I'm thankful

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because God is the one encouraging us to share our

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testimony and our lesson. Number two comes in from Deuteronomy,

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chapter eight and verse two. It reads, and thou shalt

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remember all the way which the Lord thy God led

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thee these forty years in the wilderness. I've been alive

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much longer than forty years, but forty years is more

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than half of my life time. And I'm thinking, but

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God's people traveling that long, and this generation who were

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twenty years and younger when they came out of Egypt,

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they have forty years of record of how good God

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has been. How many years of record do you have?

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Is it ten years? Is it fifteen? Is it twenty?

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Is it fifty something? Is it one year? Is it

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since yesterday when you gave your life to God? Like

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whatever period of time you notice that God had been

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leading you. I want you to remember this and create

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a personal and family memorial somehow. I want you to

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remember these moments by reflection on answered prayers, deliverance, protection.

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Did He protect you this morning in a way that

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you noticed? Yeah, we pray sometimes protect us from dangers

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seen and unseen. Yes, And to keep gratitude and dependence

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upon God alive in your mindset. In your mindset, it

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all begins in your mind. The Bible says, as a

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man or a woman, as the case may be, as

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a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. I remember,

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I think it was Ronnie Vanderhorst in nineteen ninety four.

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I remember him saying, Yes, I do remember nineteen ninety four.

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I remember him saying, we are not what we think

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we are, our perception of how we are, but what

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we think. Pause for a moment. What is in our mindset?

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What are the things upon which we dwell? We are?

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We are not what we think we are, but what

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we think we are. So we are a composite of

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our mindset things upon which we dwell. Yeah. Our lesson

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number three comes in from Exodus, chapter thirty one and

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verse thirty three. Verily my Sabbaths, ye shall keep, for

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it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations. Hmm. Yeah.

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The Sabbath stands as a weekly reminder like we're coming up. Well,

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some of you are already there, but here in Jamaica,

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we're coming up on the Sabbath in just over twelve hours,

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probably about thirteen hours from now. And it is a sign,

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It is a memorial. It is a reminder of both

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creation and redemption. The same one who created you is

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the one who is recreating you, who's making you. Why

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every single day it calls us to rest in God's

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finished work in our lives, like we see those things

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that are not as though they were, Like He gave

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us eternal life. Whatever we commit to him, he is

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able to complete it in us as long as we

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continue to surrender and look forward to his eternal rest.

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Meaning when we get to heaven that is the beginning

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of the clock toward eternity. We'll be there for a

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thousand years. And after the thousand years are finish, God

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will keep that promise that he made many places, but

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in Matthew chapter five, in particular, that the meek will

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inherit the new Earth and so we thank God for that.

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Every Sabbath connects memory with hope, past miracles with future glory. Yes,

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thank God. And if you're going to be with us

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this evening at seven for our musical teaching through this

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lesson study type A, yes in the chat, We'll see

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you there if the Lord space.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,