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11 05 2025 The Door of Hope · 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 Wednesday, November five,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Door of Hope, The Door of Hope.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get get into this, I'd like to just
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: for the very first time. Please go over to your
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us a pathway to success, giving
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  Speaker 2: us the door of hope, the way to be in
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  Speaker 2: spirit with you and to be and to be children
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  Speaker 2: of the heavenly King. Thank you for not leaving us alone.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's begin with where the lesson writer is writing here.
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  Speaker 2: The strategy of God converts God God's people initial defeat
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  Speaker 2: into a tactical advantage. We've spoken a lot about God
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  Speaker 2: not intending for us people ever to go to war,
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  Speaker 2: and then well, because of the way they live their lives,
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  Speaker 2: God allowed it, and then he fought with them kind
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  Speaker 2: of style and so. But this shows when they started
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  Speaker 2: to be defeated, there was a tactical advantage, thus transforming
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  Speaker 2: the valley of acre. That's the word for trouble. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine you're fighting in the in the valley called
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  Speaker 2: trouble into a door of hope. M Are you in
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  Speaker 2: trouble right now? And God is transforming that situation into hope.
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  Speaker 2: Think about Joseph. Think about Joseph. He said, what you
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  Speaker 2: intended for evil, God meant it for good. And so
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  Speaker 2: in this case, this is what God is doing. Having
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  Speaker 2: gained too much self confidence by their first victory over
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  Speaker 2: the people of God, the citizens of Ai repeat their
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  Speaker 2: strategy in attacking the people of God, who feign retreat
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  Speaker 2: and defeat. Oh, once the inhabitants of Ai are lured
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  Speaker 2: into out of their stronghold, the thirty thousand people of
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  Speaker 2: God positioned not too far behind the city, and this
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  Speaker 2: will capture the empty city by setting it on fire.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible continues how the Lord himself will
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  Speaker 2: grant the victory and the hand of the city of
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  Speaker 2: Ai over to the people of God. God is still
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  Speaker 2: transforming our apparent defeats into victories. God is still transforming
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  Speaker 2: our apparent defeat into victory. So let's go ahead and begin.
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  Speaker 2: Let's begin with lesson number one. God turns trouble into triumph.
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  Speaker 2: In the New Testament, the Bible says in Romans, chapter
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  Speaker 2: eight and verse twenty eight, and we know that all things,
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  Speaker 2: how many, how many things, all things work together for
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  Speaker 2: good to them that love God? Do you love God?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question. I would love to play the Eleanor
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  Speaker 2: Wright song, the late Eleanor right. Do you love God
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  Speaker 2: more than anything? And as she sang it in one church,
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  Speaker 2: that was her last time singing. She went to sleep
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  Speaker 2: not long after that. Do you love God? Do you
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  Speaker 2: love God? So we know that all things work together
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  Speaker 2: for good to them that love God, to them who
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  Speaker 2: are the called according to His purpose? Are you fulfilling
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  Speaker 2: the purpose that God has placed in your bosom?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Are you the called according to His purpose? So the
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  Speaker 2: action step here is to bring your greatest failure to God.
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  Speaker 2: Do not allow people to frighten you. Do not allow
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  Speaker 2: people to gaslight you. Don't worry about that. When people
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  Speaker 2: say all manner of evil against you falsely for Christ's sake, rejoice,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, and be exceeding glad. So, whether you
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  Speaker 2: are guilty as charged, or if they are charging you
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  Speaker 2: with crimes you never committed. The Bible is teaching us
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  Speaker 2: that we can take our greatest, even failures, to God.
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  Speaker 2: What once caused regret can become a reminder of His
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  Speaker 2: redeeming power. I think Paul is a great example of this.
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  Speaker 2: But let me just say that God's people's failure at
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  Speaker 2: Ai could have ended their mission. But God, I need
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  Speaker 2: you to type that in the chat. But God turned
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  Speaker 2: their defeat into an advantage. What once brought shame became
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  Speaker 2: the stage for redemption. The same valley, which is called
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  Speaker 2: trouble became a symbol of hope. God doesn't erase our
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  Speaker 2: past failures, not in that sense. He redeems us through them,
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  Speaker 2: transforming our defeats into testimonies of grace. What a mighty
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  Speaker 2: God we serve. Our second lesson comes in from Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: chapter eight and verse seven, where the Bible reads, then
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  Speaker 2: they shall rise up from ambush and seize upon the city.
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  Speaker 2: For the Lord, your God will deliver you into their hand.
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  Speaker 2: Obedience turn strategy into success. I said, obedience turns strategy
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  Speaker 2: into success. Sometimes we worship God forbid, but sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: worship our tactics, worship our preparation, worship our strategies as
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  Speaker 2: if they are the ones that make us successful, when
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  Speaker 2: in fact God will use those. He'll use the strategy,
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  Speaker 2: he'll use the tactics, he'll use the preparation and turn
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  Speaker 2: them into success. But we need to keep that priority
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  Speaker 2: straight in our minds. It is really God doing the work.
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  Speaker 2: And so though Joshua led with a sound military plan,
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  Speaker 2: he did the right thing. The victory at Ai did
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  Speaker 2: not come from human strategy, but from God. God gave
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  Speaker 2: both the plan and the outcome and the promise the
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  Speaker 2: people of God's obedience opened the way for success. Even
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  Speaker 2: when miracles are unseen, Divine power moves through human faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what we need to do. Trust God
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  Speaker 2: more than we trust our plans. Yeah, we plan, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not trusting our plans. We lock our doors, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not trusting the locks for our safety. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you have cameras on your stuff. You may turn them
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  Speaker 2: on and they may be they are recording for evidence,
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  Speaker 2: for evidence if God forbids something goes wrong, but you're
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  Speaker 2: not trusting. You're recording for the best possible outcome whatever
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  Speaker 2: we do. As we had to plan for this hurricane
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  Speaker 2: that just blew through here, and all kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: went terribly wrong in a lot of places. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: trust our plans. We had to trust God for our safety.
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  Speaker 2: So success comes from our strength that God gives us,
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  Speaker 2: but not from brilliance, not from dependence upon ourselves, but
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  Speaker 2: rather obedience to God's instructions. And our third and final
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  Speaker 2: lesson me is leadership mirrors the faith that God gives
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  Speaker 2: us in Exodus, chapter seventeen and verse eleven. It reads,
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  Speaker 2: and it came to pass when Moses held up his hand,
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  Speaker 2: then the people prevailed. We've talked about this over and
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  Speaker 2: over again over the last couple of weeks. Joshua raised
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  Speaker 2: the sword, symbolizing more than just the battle. It represented
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  Speaker 2: faith in action. Just like Moses, who had led the
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  Speaker 2: people of God before him, Joshua's positions signified dependence upon
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  Speaker 2: God until victory was complete. Do you trust God for
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  Speaker 2: the victory? True leadership doesn't rely on our human might,
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  Speaker 2: but reflects our unwavering faith in God's authority and timing.
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  Speaker 2: So the action step for this moment is to lead
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  Speaker 2: through faith. Lead through faith, keep your hands raised in
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  Speaker 2: submission to God, in prayer, perseverance until God finishes the
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  Speaker 2: victory he began. I'm very grateful that we have a
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  Speaker 2: door of hope peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris make it a great day. Yeah.