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11 17 2025 Give Me This Hill Country · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, November seventeen,
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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 it today is give me this hill country, Give
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  Speaker 2: me this hill Country. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and then we will get under way.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, we thank you for this day. Please
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  Speaker 2: give us the kind of faith that we've seen exemplified
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  Speaker 2: in your people in the past, the people who were
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  Speaker 2: faithful like Kleb and Joshua. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again, Amen again, give me this hill country. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there is a question at the top of today's lesson
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  Speaker 2: that I want to tackle very quickly. How would you
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  Speaker 2: describe Caleb and Joshua's attitude? What does it mean to
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  Speaker 2: follow the Lord fully? And of course it's based on
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  Speaker 2: Bible passages that are listed here, So let me read
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  Speaker 2: just a couple. Let me read just a couple. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads in verse twenty four. I said that yesterday
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty four of numbers, chapter fourteen. But my servant Caleb,
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  Speaker 2: because he had another spirit ha with him. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the Holy Ghost, the spirit of faithfulness, the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about in twenty twenty five. That's what it
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  Speaker 2: looks like. Caleb had that spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly.
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  Speaker 2: I will bring him into the land where he has gone,
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  Speaker 2: and his descendants will inherit it. You see, the truth
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  Speaker 2: is that you are in more control over the legacy
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  Speaker 2: than you believe. You see, like the people who came
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  Speaker 2: in that first generation of freed slaves coming out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: most of those left a legacy of doubt, a legacy
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  Speaker 2: of murmuring, a legacy of covetousness, a legacy of following
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  Speaker 2: after idolators and assuming and assimilating their style of living.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them did that. But in this case we
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  Speaker 2: see how Caleb and Joshua, both of them. But how
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  Speaker 2: Caleb having another Holy having another spirit, He didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a spirit of doubt. He didn't have a spirit of
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  Speaker 2: looking at himself to determine whether victory is possible or not.
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  Speaker 2: He had the spirit of focusing on God and letting
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  Speaker 2: God do what God had promised, and therefore he left
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  Speaker 2: a legacy of God keeping his promise and blessing the generations.
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  Speaker 2: Blessing the generations. Let me read from Joshua chapter fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm running along, but there is so much
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  Speaker 2: here Joshua chapter fourteen and verse eight. The Bible reads, Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: my brethren that went up with me made the heart
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  Speaker 2: of the people melt what but I wholly followed the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: my God.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: But the word but b ut is a conjunction. It
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  Speaker 2: negates whatever came before. The people that went in to
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  Speaker 2: look and see what God could do in air quotes
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  Speaker 2: those individual cause. Those individuals caused the people to be
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  Speaker 2: faith less because of their influence. Some of you, because
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  Speaker 2: of your influence, caused the people. During the crazy storms
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  Speaker 2: that we had to deal with, caused people to be
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  Speaker 2: faith less too. You were more interested, God forbid. It's true,
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  Speaker 2: you were more interested in talking about how terrible the
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  Speaker 2: storm could be. You were more interested in talking out
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  Speaker 2: all of the negativity about the storm as it was approaching.
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  Speaker 2: But God is saying that there were people on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth in the person of Joshua, in the person of Caleb,
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  Speaker 2: that would not cause the people have their hearts to
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  Speaker 2: melt or be fearful, but to follow the Lord wholeheartedly
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  Speaker 2: and say, I have been young and i have been old,
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  Speaker 2: but I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor seed begging bread.
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  Speaker 2: He had the kind of faith that said that God
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  Speaker 2: is a shelter in the time of storm, that the
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  Speaker 2: Angel of the Lord in camp is round about those
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  Speaker 2: who love God. That's the kind of person that you
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  Speaker 2: want around in your camp. So Joshua and Caleb stood
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  Speaker 2: apart because of their attitude of faith. When others saw giants,
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  Speaker 2: they were barriers. They saw God's power. When others hesitated,
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  Speaker 2: they moved forward. Their different spirit in air quotes was
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  Speaker 2: one of courage and of trust in God and the
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  Speaker 2: vision that God had given faith that refused to be
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  Speaker 2: silenced by fear. You see, to follow the Lord fully
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  Speaker 2: very simply means to let faith speak louder than circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Faith in God speak louder than circumstances. I do not
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  Speaker 2: want to make it seem as if the faith that
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  Speaker 2: we have standing on its own is where the power is. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: faith is the victory that overcomes the world. But that's
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  Speaker 2: because the faith is laying hold of the power of God,
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  Speaker 2: laying hold of the promises of God. And therefore the
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  Speaker 2: faith is full of the power of God. Because faith
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  Speaker 2: is the conduit. It is the way that the power
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  Speaker 2: of God is transferred from God's heavenly repositories. God's heavenly
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  Speaker 2: vault of power is transferred through faith to the one
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  Speaker 2: who possesses that faith. Do you possess the faith of Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have faith in Jesus? Two very similar things,
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  Speaker 2: but they're different. Do you have the faith of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and have faith in Jesus? Listen number two, we're going quickly. Deuteronomy,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse thirty six. The Bible reads, save Caleb,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Jeffyonah, he shall see it, and to
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  Speaker 2: him will I give the land that he hath trodden
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  Speaker 2: upon and to his children because he hath wholly followed
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  Speaker 2: the Lord God. Will you teach us to follow you completely?
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  Speaker 2: Will you teach us to follow you without wavering, without fear.
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  Speaker 2: Will you teach us to follow you without questioning you,
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  Speaker 2: just going where you say, where Thou leadest die, will
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  Speaker 2: follow help us to be like this God. And so
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  Speaker 2: the phrase that these brothers followed the Lord fully and
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew it means it literally means to be fully behind
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. It conveys complete alignment, no hesitation, no double mindedness.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb and Joshua did not pick and choose when to obey.
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  Speaker 2: They followed God completely every even after forty years of delay.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb's faith never expired. I said. Caleb's faith did not
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  Speaker 2: expire in that forty years of waste and wandering that
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  Speaker 2: the people that he came out of Egypt with created.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't lose his faith because they were faith less.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't lose their faith because they were dragging him
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  Speaker 2: around and around in the wilderness and he couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: a break. Him Neither neither he nor Joshua could get
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  Speaker 2: a break and say, well, we were faithful, why are
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  Speaker 2: we wandering around in the wilderness. No, his faith did
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  Speaker 2: not expire. He could stand before Joshua at age eighty
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  Speaker 2: five and say, as yet, I am as strong this
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  Speaker 2: day as I was the day when Moses sent me.
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  Speaker 2: According to Joshua, chapter fourteen and verse eleven, that kind
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  Speaker 2: of endurance is the fruit of delay or of daily
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  Speaker 2: pardon me. That kind of faith is the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: daily obedience, the kind of faith that is being exercised
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  Speaker 2: on a regular basis. This is what it looks like
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  Speaker 2: faith in God. This is what it looks like. Their loyalty,
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  Speaker 2: those brothers' loyalty was not conditional. They had the kind
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  Speaker 2: of loyalty that was Covenantal I'm thankful. Give me this
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  Speaker 2: hill country. What are you asking God to give you?
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day. 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,