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11 21 2025 Caleb’s Unwavering Faith · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Kleb's Unwavering Faith. Klebs Unwavering Faith.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, Thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this time of worship. It is time of being
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  Speaker 2: called by your name, and now we can answer the call.
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  Speaker 2: So we can come into your pavilion, learn from you,
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  Speaker 2: be transformed by you, and then go out back into
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  Speaker 2: the world by it. Because you have sent us. Please
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  Speaker 2: give us the faith of Jesus. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen again Caleb's unwavering faith. Now, let me
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  Speaker 2: just say that before the Old Testament was written, the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament of the Bible was written, Jesus was the
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  Speaker 2: author and finisher of our faith, before the people knew
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  Speaker 2: to call him Jesus, before the Messiah actually was born
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  Speaker 2: of a woman. In fulfillment of the many, many, many
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  Speaker 2: many prophecies that said that we would have Messiah come
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  Speaker 2: and the government would be upon his shoulders. Before any
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  Speaker 2: of that, Jesus Christ was the author and finisher of
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  Speaker 2: our faith, and so Caleb received his faith from God.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say that, because sometimes when we use
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  Speaker 2: humans as examples we go too far. What we're really
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  Speaker 2: saying is that Caleb was a recipient of the faith
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, and when he lived that faith and
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  Speaker 2: connected to God to receive God power, we see something
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  Speaker 2: to emulate. We can model the kind of faith that
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  Speaker 2: Caleb had. Okay, So but let's not get Caleb out
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  Speaker 2: of perspective here. He's a human being, just like you,
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  Speaker 2: who had the privilege of what receiving the faith of
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  Speaker 2: God and living in a way that was pleasing to God.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin with that from the Book of Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen, the Bible, Book of Numbers, chapter fourteen, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read verse twenty four, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit we
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  Speaker 2: read about him the other day in this same passage,
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  Speaker 2: had another spirit with him, meaning he was different than
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  Speaker 2: the people other than Joshua, he was different than the
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  Speaker 2: other people who were in the first generation of people
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  Speaker 2: delivered from Egyptian captivity. This dude had the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 2: on a whole nother level, just like Joshua did and
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  Speaker 2: hath followed me fully. See that's the manifestation of the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Ghost in Caleb's life. He followed
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  Speaker 2: God fully him, will I bring into the land where
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  Speaker 2: unto he went, and his seed shall possess it. So
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  Speaker 2: God gave Caleb an inheritance, and not for only Caleb,
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  Speaker 2: but also for his what we would call posterity, meaning
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  Speaker 2: the people in his legacy. Yeah, even his legacy benefited
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  Speaker 2: because he was faithful to God. Are you faithful to God?
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  Speaker 2: What is the legacy that you're leaving behind. Is it
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  Speaker 2: that people are blessed because God made promises to you
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  Speaker 2: and they are receiving much of the benefit, or or
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  Speaker 2: is it something else that God is visiting the iniquities
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  Speaker 2: upon the of the fathers, upon the children, unto the
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  Speaker 2: third and fourth generation of those who hate him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like to claim the promise that God made in
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  Speaker 2: the Commandments. I did that when Josiah was conceived. I said, God,
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  Speaker 2: you said that you would show mercy to thousands who
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  Speaker 2: love you and keep your commandments. Give me the fortitude
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  Speaker 2: God to keep and do according to the Covenant, so
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  Speaker 2: that my son will not suffer because of his DNA,
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  Speaker 2: but that he will be blessed because he receives the
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  Speaker 2: connection to you that his father, meaning me David, has
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  Speaker 2: also received. And so forth, with that backdrop we go
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  Speaker 2: with our lesson number one from Hebrews, Chapter eleven and
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  Speaker 2: verse one. Hebrews eleven and verse one, the Bible reads, now,
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  Speaker 2: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
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  Speaker 2: of things not seen. Let me say it from the
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  Speaker 2: New English translation. Now, faith is being sure of what
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  Speaker 2: we hope for. What are you hoping for? Today? From God?
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, what are you hoping for? Are you hoping
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  Speaker 2: for a transformed heart and mind? Are you hoping that
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  Speaker 2: you will learn how to live like Caleb did where
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  Speaker 2: he did exactly what God said the way God said
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  Speaker 2: at the time that God said, what are you hoping for?
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  Speaker 2: Are you hoping for a promotion on your job? There's
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  Speaker 2: no problem to hope for that. There's no problem if
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  Speaker 2: you're trusting God for this. Huh. What are you hoping for?
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  Speaker 2: You hoping for your son your daughter to be saved
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  Speaker 2: because they are wayward at this moment. Hoping for your
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  Speaker 2: marriage to be phenomenal on planet Earth as we await
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  Speaker 2: the coming of Jesus Christ. What are you for? What
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  Speaker 2: are you hoping? Well? The Bible continues being convinced of
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  Speaker 2: what you do not see. So based on the evidence
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  Speaker 2: that God has given you, that he is powerful to save,
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  Speaker 2: that he has your best interest at heart, he is
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  Speaker 2: giving you the kind of belief that, even though you
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  Speaker 2: don't see the outcome yet, you know that He will
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  Speaker 2: do what pleases him and you will be the recipient.
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  Speaker 2: And so faith that stands when others fall is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of lesson that we're getting from Caleb's faith, which
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  Speaker 2: did not bend or bend to fear or circumstances. When
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  Speaker 2: the tense spies saw impossibility. Let me just say, if
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  Speaker 2: I apply it to me, like when the people saw
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  Speaker 2: impossibility here on Jamaica Land we love when we were
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  Speaker 2: staring down the barrel of the loaded pistol called Hurricane Melissa.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of faith that God's people had were not
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  Speaker 2: the kind of faith that this or faith lessness that
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  Speaker 2: the spies had. It was the kind of faith that said,
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  Speaker 2: God will take care of us. Yes, be not dismayed,
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  Speaker 2: where to hera be tied, God will take care of us.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb saw opportunity for those who overcame the devil by
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  Speaker 2: the blood of the land. They also came overcame by
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  Speaker 2: the word of their testimony. They believed God. It was
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  Speaker 2: accounted to them as for righteousness, and they are a
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  Speaker 2: testimony whether they are living or resting in the tomb
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  Speaker 2: until Jesus comes back. Their legacy is a testimony that
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  Speaker 2: God is able to do exactly what he promised. Caleb
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  Speaker 2: believed what God said even though it contradicted what his
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  Speaker 2: eyes could see. There were, in fact giants. Yes, there
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  Speaker 2: are times when God's people saw very real winds and
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  Speaker 2: very real waves, very real boundaries and mountains and other
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  Speaker 2: things that get in the people's way. But he did
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  Speaker 2: not believe his eyes. He believed his God. He believed
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  Speaker 2: as God. That kind of faith does not emerge in
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  Speaker 2: the moment of christis it is built over years of
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  Speaker 2: walking closely with God. And so we all have a
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  Speaker 2: decision to make. Are we going to walk closely with
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  Speaker 2: God and build our faith muscle so that our faith
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  Speaker 2: now can find its resting place in Christ. And we
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  Speaker 2: will now do what God has called us to do.
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  Speaker 2: As a result, my God teach us how not to
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  Speaker 2: have blind optimism, but have the kind of faith that
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  Speaker 2: says you are the God who is able to keep
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  Speaker 2: us from falling. You are the God whose power is
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  Speaker 2: anchored in our past and in the past of people
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  Speaker 2: that we know, and that if we are obedient to You,
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  Speaker 2: then we will get the blessings, we will receive the outcomes,
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  Speaker 2: we will see, receive all that you have promised, just
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  Speaker 2: like they did. We don't deny the giants and Canaan.
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  Speaker 2: We just magnify the giant God that we serve. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've learned a lot from the faith that Caleb had.
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  Speaker 2: Did you peace? Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris,
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  Speaker 1: make it a great day. Yeah,