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11 16 2025 Faithfulness · 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 Sunday, November sixteen,
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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 faithful Ness Faithfulness. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment. For I like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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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 underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day, the beginning of a
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  Speaker 2: new week. And Father, I pray that you will give
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  Speaker 2: us faithfulness from now until the end of the week,
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  Speaker 2: and then if you spare our lives beyond that, then
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  Speaker 2: give us faithfulness. Then in Jesus' name, I pray Amen
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  Speaker 2: and a men. Again. Really, I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 2: type in the chat, because that's not something I necessarily
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  Speaker 2: need you to do. But are you faithful or faith less?
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  Speaker 2: That's a real question for all of us to answer
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  Speaker 2: on our own. Behalf Am I faith full or faith less? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah. So let's go ahead and begin. Let's
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  Speaker 2: begin by reading about this brother Caleb, I like it
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Numbers, chapter thirteen and verse thirty,
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll jump into our first lesson and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads and Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said,
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  Speaker 2: let us go up at once and possess it, for
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  Speaker 2: we are well able to overcome it. I hope we
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  Speaker 2: get to read this text over and over again. You
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  Speaker 2: see many times the people of God have a habit
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  Speaker 2: of murmuring, second guessing, over strategizing, over preparing when God
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  Speaker 2: has given us already clear instructions on a particular thing,
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  Speaker 2: over strategizing, over preparing, overthinking, being fearful, when God has
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  Speaker 2: given us already what we are to do arching orders.
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  Speaker 2: And this is one such case. Now, the second generation
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  Speaker 2: of freed slaves are just about to enter into the
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  Speaker 2: promise and God is leading his people. It is very
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  Speaker 2: clear that God is leading his people, and they seem
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  Speaker 2: to just forget what happened in the generation before. And
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  Speaker 2: God's people needed to hear Caleb's voice, where he's just like, listen, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go do what God already promised us that we
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  Speaker 2: could do, and let's go take what God has already
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  Speaker 2: given to us, because we are well able to overcome
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  Speaker 2: all of the challenges that y'all are worrying about. I
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  Speaker 2: like it. I like Caleb man, I like Caleb. I
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  Speaker 2: liked Joshua too. Our lesson number one. Let me go
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  Speaker 2: down to verse twenty four of chapter fourteen. First, but
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  Speaker 2: because my servant Caleb had a different spirit and has
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  Speaker 2: followed me wholeheartedly. I will bring him in to the land. See,
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  Speaker 2: Caleb's faith made him stand out in a generation defined
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  Speaker 2: by doubt. Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So
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  Speaker 2: what kind of faith do you have? What is the
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  Speaker 2: brand of faith that you have? Is it a fair
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  Speaker 2: weather type of faith? Is it a get through the
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  Speaker 2: trials and tribulations no matter what happens kind of faith.
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  Speaker 2: Is it we just go through all of these storms
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  Speaker 2: and conflagrations and weird things in war and go with
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  Speaker 2: God kind of faith? Or is it the kind of
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  Speaker 2: faith that is only working when things are going well?
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  Speaker 2: Is that really even faith at all? And so Caleb's
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  Speaker 2: name means dog in Hebrew keleb term that in the
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  Speaker 2: ancient world symbolized fierce loyalty, courage, and steadfast service. I
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  Speaker 2: can hear, I can hear Eric, I can hear Eric
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  Speaker 2: Thomas right now in my head. I got that doll.
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  Speaker 2: I got that dog. Yes, after however, many decades of
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  Speaker 2: doing this, I still got that dog. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: So even in the Hebrew, the Bible bears out the
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  Speaker 2: concept of fierce loyalty, courage, and steadfast service. So it's
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  Speaker 2: not a pejorative. It's not a negative. It is it is.
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  Speaker 2: We are getting our teeth bit down in that thing,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna go forward in faith. True to his name,
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  Speaker 2: Caleb embodied faithfulness when others faltered. He stood unwavering before
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  Speaker 2: a fearful nation, entire nation of people, not because he
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  Speaker 2: was fearless in himself, but because he was faithful to
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  Speaker 2: the God who promised victory. Victory is mine. I can hear,
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  Speaker 2: I can hear the song victory is mine, victory today
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  Speaker 2: is mine. Yeah, I like it. I like it. When
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  Speaker 2: the ten Spies magnified the giants, they were focusing on
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  Speaker 2: the giants, Caleb magnified his God. He said, Please, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to see the giants. God, Please don't
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  Speaker 2: let them see the giants. Let them see the giant God.
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  Speaker 2: Let them see that their God is well able to
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  Speaker 2: keep them in any situation. His courage was not the
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  Speaker 2: absence of fear, but the presence of faith. You understand
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. No matter what fear he encountered. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what he went through, but clearly he surrendered it.
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  Speaker 2: He gave it to God, and he said, we want
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  Speaker 2: to stand on business. God, is going to get exactly
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  Speaker 2: what he has desired out of this situation. If at
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  Speaker 2: least where I stand, he just wants faithful people so
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  Speaker 2: he can show up in a way that unfaithful people
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  Speaker 2: will never experience. Let me go into lesson number two
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  Speaker 2: before I get to preaching from Joshua chapter fourteen, verses
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  Speaker 2: ten through twelve. That's why you have notes, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't go off on a tangent and Bible reads. Now,
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  Speaker 2: therefore give me this mountain. And I said it wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I misspoke in the beginning of the lesson the other day. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: if so be, the Lord will be with me, then
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  Speaker 2: I shall be able to drive them out, just like
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  Speaker 2: God says. See, faith outlives fear because it stands on
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  Speaker 2: the business of the eternal word of God. Yes, the
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  Speaker 2: ten other spies Shima, safat Ilgal Palit, Palti, Gadiel, Gadi, Amiel, Sether,
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  Speaker 2: Nadi Goo. I don't know how to say. His name
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  Speaker 2: starts with a G had forgotten by history. Their fear
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  Speaker 2: silenced their legacy. But Caleb Caleb's name, however, endoors because
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  Speaker 2: faith leaves footprints that time cannot erase. Faith leaves footprints
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  Speaker 2: that time cannot erase. His courage teaches a powerful truth
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  Speaker 2: that fear makes excuses, but faith makes moves in God's direction.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb did not deny the existence of the giants. Can
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  Speaker 2: I just say that again? Caleb did not deny the
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  Speaker 2: presence of the giants. He simply refused to tell them
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  Speaker 2: or let them part of me define what God could do.
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  Speaker 2: That's why decades later, when he stood before Joshua, he
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  Speaker 2: could say, with confidence, give me this mountain. We were
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  Speaker 2: the two dudes, Joshua, you remember it. We were the
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  Speaker 2: two dudes that said God is well able to do
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  Speaker 2: what he promised to do, So please just do do
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  Speaker 2: this for me? Please? Could you do me this one
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  Speaker 2: solid Joshua? And so lesson number three and finalist. Faithfulness
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  Speaker 2: requires speaking truth amid pressure. Speaking truth amid pressure, Caleb
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  Speaker 2: stood for truth even when it cost him and popularity,
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  Speaker 2: when the crowd wanted to stone him. As recorded in Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen and verse ten, these people are in a sense,
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  Speaker 2: he chose conviction over comfort. His example calls believers today
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  Speaker 2: to do the same. When culture, or friends or fear
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  Speaker 2: tempt you to compromise. Remember Caleb's spirit a different spirit
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  Speaker 2: as the Bible would have said, that stands on business
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  Speaker 2: with God. I know I keep saying it, keep standing
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  Speaker 2: on business with God, even when you feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: standing alone. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? God, He
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  Speaker 2: that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth
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  Speaker 2: in his heart? I love it, be faithful 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,