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11 18 2025 The Power of Example · 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 Tuesday, November eighteen,
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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 Power of Example, The power of Example.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get to that, I'd like to say welcome
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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 pray and get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you, Thank you for giving us the perfect
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  Speaker 2: example in Christ that we should follow in his footsteps.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to follow in his footsteps in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again the power of example. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So the lesson writer immediately asks a very very very
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  Speaker 2: good couple of questions in the beginning, What does this story,
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  Speaker 2: based on the passages there, tell you about the power
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  Speaker 2: of example. How is Caleb's attitude being reproduced in the
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  Speaker 2: younger generation. So we're going to talk about legacy, a
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  Speaker 2: legacy of faith today, and let me go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: begin by reading by reading in Joshua, chapter fifteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse nineteen, and then we'll jump into our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: for today and the Bible read who answered, She replied,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it means. Please give me a blessing since
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  Speaker 2: you have given me land in the Nijev give me
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  Speaker 2: springs of water also, so he gave her both the
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  Speaker 2: upper and lower springs. Listen, listen, listen. There are some
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  Speaker 2: things that are not accessible to the people of God
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  Speaker 2: because we don't simply we simply don't ask. We simply
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  Speaker 2: don't ask. I'm trying to remember. I didn't plan to
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  Speaker 2: say this today. I think it's in the book Steps
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  Speaker 2: to Christ, page forty nine, that it is the will
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  Speaker 2: of God to grant an answer to the prayer of
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  Speaker 2: faith that which He would not bestow. Did we not
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  Speaker 2: thus ask? Somebody fact check me on that one. That
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  Speaker 2: is the exact quote for sure. I just can't recall
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  Speaker 2: if that's exactly where it is found. Let me repeat
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  Speaker 2: it one more time. It is the will of God
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  Speaker 2: to grant an answer to the prayer of faith that
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  Speaker 2: which He would not be stow. Did we not thus ask?
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  Speaker 2: And so what we need to see in the example
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  Speaker 2: of some of these people in the Bible here is
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  Speaker 2: that we should we cannot be denied like we must
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  Speaker 2: not be denied. We will ask God, we will seek
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  Speaker 2: after God, we will knock on the door of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible teaches us that we will have what
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  Speaker 2: we need when we ask continually, we seek consistently, and
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  Speaker 2: we knock faithfully. God will give us what we need.
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  Speaker 2: So take that as the first example. But lesson number
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  Speaker 2: one for today is faith leaves footprints that others can follow. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's read from the Book of Judges Judges chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: verse thirteen, Judges chapter one and verse thirteen, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads an Athnaiel, the son of Kennas, Caleb's younger brother,
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  Speaker 2: took it and he gave him a. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to pronounce that Axa his daughter to wife. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so when faith is lived consistently, I can't say
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonn pronounce all these all these names. I promise
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  Speaker 2: you it becomes a pattern for others to imitate. Caleb's
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  Speaker 2: courage became ath Nail's courage. His endurance became access persistence,
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  Speaker 2: his legacy became their lifestyle. Well, how do we know this?
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  Speaker 2: Caleb's courage and obedience didn't end with him. It overflowed
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  Speaker 2: into the next generation. His nephew Othniel, inspired by Caleb's
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  Speaker 2: fearless spirit, conquered the beer and became one of Israel's
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  Speaker 2: first judges. Did you realize that the younger generation saw
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  Speaker 2: in Caleb a testimony, a living testimony of what it
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  Speaker 2: meant to trust God without hesitation. What legacy are you
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  Speaker 2: leaving behind? What example are you living in front of
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  Speaker 2: the people who watch you, especially the next generation. My son,
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  Speaker 2: by God's grace, is only going to see faithfulness to
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  Speaker 2: his mummy in me. He's only going to see He's
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  Speaker 2: only going to see me speaking well of God, not
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  Speaker 2: doubting God, not second guessing God. He saw me go
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  Speaker 2: through the greatest trial of my lifetime during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: It was the pandemic, wasn't it. It was some things
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  Speaker 2: I was going through through the pandemic. And he would
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  Speaker 2: sit on my bed during one of the trials, and
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  Speaker 2: he would just watch over me. That he was a
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  Speaker 2: young boy watching over his daddy because his daddy was
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  Speaker 2: under extreme trial. When I lost my mom, when I
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  Speaker 2: was doing certain work during the pandemic, all of those
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  Speaker 2: things happening at the same time, and that boy stayed
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  Speaker 2: near to me. He saw an example of watch care.
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  Speaker 2: He saw an example of faithfulness. He saw an example
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  Speaker 2: of oh my, there must be something wrong. That means
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  Speaker 2: I draw near, I don't go away, and I just
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  Speaker 2: say thank God, I say thank God. And so the
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  Speaker 2: lesson that comes number two is faith inspires bold requests
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  Speaker 2: and greater blessings. We read now very quickly from James
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse two, which is an illustration of
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  Speaker 2: what I said in the beginning that quote. I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to recall, you have not because you ask not,
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  Speaker 2: And of course the rest of the text says, yes,
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  Speaker 2: some of y'all ask and receive not because because you're
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  Speaker 2: asking amiss, you're trying to exhaust whatever you're getting on
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  Speaker 2: your own lusts. But mainly we have not because we
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  Speaker 2: ask not. We need to be bold in our faith
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  Speaker 2: and ask God for what we want, but we ask
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  Speaker 2: him also to examine our hearts, our motives, to examine
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  Speaker 2: what we will do as we receive the things that
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  Speaker 2: we are requesting, and he if it's something that will
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  Speaker 2: glorify Him, benefit us, and benefit legacy, then he will
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  Speaker 2: grant the answer of yes. But there are times that
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  Speaker 2: he will say no. I just really literally don't have
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  Speaker 2: the time to get into that I actually published a book.
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  Speaker 2: I should really I've never told you about it. I
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  Speaker 2: should have told you about it. Yeah, God said no,
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  Speaker 2: exclamation point Look that up on Amazon. God said no.
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  Speaker 2: And of course you know my name right. So Axa,
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  Speaker 2: Caleb's daughter followed her father's example by asking boldly and
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  Speaker 2: believing fully. She did not settle for what she had
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  Speaker 2: been given. She saw an opportunity for more and asks
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  Speaker 2: her father for springs of water, symbolic of life in Jamaica.
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  Speaker 2: We say water is you want to fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: Here A lot of Jamaicans are watching with me. We're
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  Speaker 2: here in Jamaica land. We love the land of wood
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  Speaker 2: and what water water is life? Yes, abundance and provision.
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  Speaker 2: Her confidence was not arrogance. She just knew. She knew
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  Speaker 2: it was faith based expectation. She believed as Caleb did,
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  Speaker 2: that when God gives inheritance, he also supplies everything needful
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  Speaker 2: to make it fruitful. Fruitful, almost said truthful, fruitful. So
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  Speaker 2: faith filled people teach their children to approach God fully, boldly,
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  Speaker 2: to ask, believe and expect his goodness. May I just
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  Speaker 2: say very quickly that once God is on the line, God,
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  Speaker 2: for your name's sake, will you please do ex Lord
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  Speaker 2: if it pleases you, well you do why? And when
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  Speaker 2: God says yes. In the case that he says yes,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to rush and quickly go to him
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  Speaker 2: and thank him because he's worthy of gratefulness. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: If he says no, then thank him too. Don't make
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  Speaker 2: it like one sided. Don't make it one sided. But
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  Speaker 2: actss story shows that faith multiplies not just through victories
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  Speaker 2: in battle, but through bold prayers of trust. Our third
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  Speaker 2: and final lesson, I'll say very quickly. Faith reproduces leadership
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  Speaker 2: in times of decline. Yeah. Ath Nail's leadership proves that
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  Speaker 2: faith of one generation can spark revival in another.
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  Speaker 1: Peace 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,