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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 Monday, December fifteen,

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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 a sign of concern, a sign of concern.

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

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. Please go over to your Daily portionon

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dot com, please join our online community, pick up the

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Your Daily Portion on Life application guide, and also please

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please go there and donate if you are so inclined

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by the spirit, and this is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,

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thank you for giving us your spirit. Please help us

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to always be in lockstep with the Holy Spirit. Help

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us to be faithful to you through the Holy Spirit.

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In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again a

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sign of concern. And so the lesson writer begins. The

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glorious conclusion of the whole section of what we read

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yesterday carries within it the fulfilled condition of obedience. And

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so now we to talk about conditions. Like I said yesterday,

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sometimes I would ask the people of God what part

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do we have to play in our salvation? But they

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would often try to take the part that God has

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to play in some kind of way, kind of make

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it marry. But there is our part where we must

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be obedient. M we must be obedient. But remember the

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impetus and power comes from God so that we can

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be obedient. But we must do it. We're not on

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autopilot because salvation is free. But we have the privilege

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of being obedient because God has empowered us to be.

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So let me continue. Success is never to be taken

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for granted. It is always linked to obedience to God's words.

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So let me ask you a question. Are you And

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this is for you to answer by yourself with God.

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I'm not asking you to type anything in the chat?

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Are you doing what God has already given you? Back

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in the seventies and eighties, it was a big thing

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inside the faith fellowship of God. Are you living up

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to the light that God has given you? Type of

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one in the chat? If you remember that from back

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in the day. Are you living up to the light

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that God has given you? Let me continue the reading. Thus,

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the allotment of the land, besides being a token of

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God's faithfulness to God's people, create space for an open

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ended future development based on God's people's attitude. Will God's

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people be able to secure what has been achieved? Did

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you hear that? Will God's people secure what has been achieved?

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When Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us

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from our sins? That doesn't mean that we just run

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into the Kingdom of Heaven and then the earth made

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new without any anything that we do at all. No,

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it's a manifestation of our faith that we are actually

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laying hold upon the promise of God that we can

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actually do what or the power of God? Pardon me,

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do what lay hold on the promises of God? Okay, okay, okay,

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somebody's getting it. Let me read from the review in Herald,

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July fourth, eighteen seventy two. Uriah Smith was the author

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of this article. The Christian strength lies not in himself

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but in the captain of his salvation. When Christ fights

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for us, no foe can can stand. And then again

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from my favorite book outside of the Bible, Steps to Christ,

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page sixty two, Victory is not won by human might

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or wisdom. The Lord alone is our strength. When we

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surrender our weakness, are you surrendering your weaknesses? When we

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surrender our weakness to him, his grace gives us power

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to overcome. So our first lesson for today is that

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pass victories don't remove the need for present obedience. There

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was a song and some of you you're gonna have

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a problem because I'm making an allusion to it. But

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what have you done for me lately? Remember that what

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have you done for me lately? Like don't rest on

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your laurels. The is the key to that passage. And

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again this is from Joshua, Chapter twenty one, verse forty three.

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We see, we see the promise, and the Lord gave

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unto Israel all the land which he swear to give

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unto their fathers, and they possess it and dwelt therein

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so wonderful like he made the promise, he gave it

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to them. Nay ten, that's the word he gave to

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them to bestow a sign or wait a minute and trust.

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So there's a stewardship element to when God gives you

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something I wish I had the time. So God's gift

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of the land was completed, a completed promise, but an

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on God owing. Oh here's the r word responsibility. Mm hmm.

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So when we are saved by grace through faith and

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we're awaiting the coming of Jesus Christ, we are responsible

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to him to love the Lord our God with everything

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we have in everything we are. We are responsible to

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him to love our neighbor as our healthy selves. Okay,

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let me continue. Joshua reminded God's people that success was

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tied to obedience. Their future security depended on continued faithfulness

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to God's word. Victory is never automatic. It is always

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connected to loyalty to the covenant. So our action step

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is to identify one area that's up to you, that's

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your business, that's in your private time, one area in

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your life where obedience has been inconsistent. Let me say

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it another way. You've been dropping the ball in particular area.

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You and God know exactly where that what that is?

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Ask God? Now I'm talking about like right now, your

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mind is going there. Your mind is going there to

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strengthen your commitment to God, your covenant. Really, it's bigger

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than a commitment strengthen your covenant with God right now

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lesson number two. Victory belongs to God and not human strength. Joshua,

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Chapter twenty three and verse ten. One man of you

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shall chase a thousand for the Lord your God. He

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is he it is that fighteth for you. Let me

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read it from another translation, New English translation. One of

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you makes a thousand runaway for the Lord your God

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fights for you as he promised you he would, as

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he promised you he would. And that word fight to

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fight is leke come. It means to wage war on

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behalf of So God is fighting for you. God's people

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conquered Canaan because God fought for them, not because they

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were strong. The same spiritual reality somebody's already there with

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me applies right now. Believers overcome sin and temptation by

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the victory that Jesus Christ has all ready won. The

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Christian's life is lived through divine strength and not just

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your grit and your human resolve, your ability to grind.

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That is not the pathway to spiritual success. Yes, yes,

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we need to have some grit. Yes we need to

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be able to press, press, press. Paul talked about that

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a lot. But again, but again, it's not in that.

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When you're tempted today, this is the action. Step, pause

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and pray, Lord, please fight for me. Rely. I'm relying

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on your strength and not my own. Lord, please fight

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for me. I'm relying on your strength and not my own.

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I remember when Josiah was young, he younger, he's fifteen,

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he just turned fifteen the other day. He was having

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some struggles with some things he was doing on the internet,

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Like you know what I mean. He wanted to be

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sociable and he was doing things that his mommy and

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I said don't do. And to make a long story short,

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you know, God would show us, we would catch him.

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And then I just told him I gave him a

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few words. I said, Daddy, please help. And I said

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I'm teaching you a spiritual principle. When you need help,

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you're being tempted, call out to me like we call

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out to God. Daddy, please help, and God will help. 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,