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, December fifteen,
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 today is a sign of concern, a sign of concern.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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by the spirit, and this is one of the ways
that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
thank you for giving us your spirit. Please help us
to always be in lockstep with the Holy Spirit. Help
us to be faithful to you through the Holy Spirit.
In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again a
sign of concern. And so the lesson writer begins. The
glorious conclusion of the whole section of what we read
yesterday carries within it the fulfilled condition of obedience. And
so now we to talk about conditions. Like I said yesterday,
sometimes I would ask the people of God what part
do we have to play in our salvation? But they
would often try to take the part that God has
to play in some kind of way, kind of make
it marry. But there is our part where we must
be obedient. M we must be obedient. But remember the
impetus and power comes from God so that we can
be obedient. But we must do it. We're not on
autopilot because salvation is free. But we have the privilege
of being obedient because God has empowered us to be.
So let me continue. Success is never to be taken
for granted. It is always linked to obedience to God's words.
So let me ask you a question. Are you And
this is for you to answer by yourself with God.
I'm not asking you to type anything in the chat?
Are you doing what God has already given you? Back
in the seventies and eighties, it was a big thing
inside the faith fellowship of God. Are you living up
to the light that God has given you? Type of
one in the chat? If you remember that from back
in the day. Are you living up to the light
that God has given you? Let me continue the reading. Thus,
the allotment of the land, besides being a token of
God's faithfulness to God's people, create space for an open
ended future development based on God's people's attitude. Will God's
people be able to secure what has been achieved? Did
you hear that? Will God's people secure what has been achieved?
When Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us
from our sins? That doesn't mean that we just run
into the Kingdom of Heaven and then the earth made
new without any anything that we do at all. No,
it's a manifestation of our faith that we are actually
laying hold upon the promise of God that we can
actually do what or the power of God? Pardon me,
do what lay hold on the promises of God? Okay, okay, okay,
somebody's getting it. Let me read from the review in Herald,
July fourth, eighteen seventy two. Uriah Smith was the author
of this article. The Christian strength lies not in himself
but in the captain of his salvation. When Christ fights
for us, no foe can can stand. And then again
from my favorite book outside of the Bible, Steps to Christ,
page sixty two, Victory is not won by human might
or wisdom. The Lord alone is our strength. When we
surrender our weakness, are you surrendering your weaknesses? When we
surrender our weakness to him, his grace gives us power
to overcome. So our first lesson for today is that
pass victories don't remove the need for present obedience. There
was a song and some of you you're gonna have
a problem because I'm making an allusion to it. But
what have you done for me lately? Remember that what
have you done for me lately? Like don't rest on
your laurels. The is the key to that passage. And
again this is from Joshua, Chapter twenty one, verse forty three.
We see, we see the promise, and the Lord gave
unto Israel all the land which he swear to give
unto their fathers, and they possess it and dwelt therein
so wonderful like he made the promise, he gave it
to them. Nay ten, that's the word he gave to
them to bestow a sign or wait a minute and trust.
So there's a stewardship element to when God gives you
something I wish I had the time. So God's gift
of the land was completed, a completed promise, but an
on God owing. Oh here's the r word responsibility. Mm hmm.
So when we are saved by grace through faith and
we're awaiting the coming of Jesus Christ, we are responsible
to him to love the Lord our God with everything
we have in everything we are. We are responsible to
him to love our neighbor as our healthy selves. Okay,
let me continue. Joshua reminded God's people that success was
tied to obedience. Their future security depended on continued faithfulness
to God's word. Victory is never automatic. It is always
connected to loyalty to the covenant. So our action step
is to identify one area that's up to you, that's
your business, that's in your private time, one area in
your life where obedience has been inconsistent. Let me say
it another way. You've been dropping the ball in particular area.
You and God know exactly where that what that is?
Ask God? Now I'm talking about like right now, your
mind is going there. Your mind is going there to
strengthen your commitment to God, your covenant. Really, it's bigger
than a commitment strengthen your covenant with God right now
lesson number two. Victory belongs to God and not human strength. Joshua,
Chapter twenty three and verse ten. One man of you
shall chase a thousand for the Lord your God. He
is he it is that fighteth for you. Let me
read it from another translation, New English translation. One of
you makes a thousand runaway for the Lord your God
fights for you as he promised you he would, as
he promised you he would. And that word fight to
fight is leke come. It means to wage war on
behalf of So God is fighting for you. God's people
conquered Canaan because God fought for them, not because they
were strong. The same spiritual reality somebody's already there with
me applies right now. Believers overcome sin and temptation by
the victory that Jesus Christ has all ready won. The
Christian's life is lived through divine strength and not just
your grit and your human resolve, your ability to grind.
That is not the pathway to spiritual success. Yes, yes,
we need to have some grit. Yes we need to
be able to press, press, press. Paul talked about that
a lot. But again, but again, it's not in that.
When you're tempted today, this is the action. Step, pause
and pray, Lord, please fight for me. Rely. I'm relying
on your strength and not my own. Lord, please fight
for me. I'm relying on your strength and not my own.
I remember when Josiah was young, he younger, he's fifteen,
he just turned fifteen the other day. He was having
some struggles with some things he was doing on the internet,
Like you know what I mean. He wanted to be
sociable and he was doing things that his mommy and
I said don't do. And to make a long story short,
you know, God would show us, we would catch him.
And then I just told him I gave him a
few words. I said, Daddy, please help. And I said
I'm teaching you a spiritual principle. When you need help,
you're being tempted, call out to me like we call
out to God. Daddy, please help, and God will help. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 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,