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10 14 2025 Remember · 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 2: 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 Tuesday, October fourteenth,
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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 remember Remember. Remember. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask
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  Speaker 2: you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community, let us know where you
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  Speaker 2: are in the world, and pick up your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Guide. And this is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Now I
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  Speaker 2: talk to you about this a little bit. Yesterday I
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  Speaker 2: said that I am thinking about going through the lesson
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  Speaker 2: musically musically this coming Friday night at seven pm Jamaica time,
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  Speaker 2: seven pm Jamaica time. But I need to see, like,
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  Speaker 2: would you be here worshiping with us if I did that?
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  Speaker 2: So just please please please go ahead and say yes
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  Speaker 2: to music in the chat or in the comments section
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  Speaker 2: after the fact, and let me know if you would
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  Speaker 2: be here Friday evening at seven pm Jamaica time, and
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  Speaker 2: then if so, we will be here with you. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So let's see, let's see, let's see. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you, We thank you for the privilege of prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to remember how
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  Speaker 2: good you have been to your people in the past
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  Speaker 2: and even to us as individuals. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: live according to that divine remembrance. In Jesus' name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray a man and a man again. I remember one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite quotes. Really, it's a great reminder where
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  Speaker 2: Auntie Ellen said that we have no reason to fear
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  Speaker 2: for the future except we forget where God has led
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  Speaker 2: us in the past. We have no fear for the
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  Speaker 2: future except we forget where God has led us in
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  Speaker 2: the past. And so I'm going to give just a
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  Speaker 2: few lessons, just a few lessons about remembering, beginning with
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Book of Joshua, chapter four, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse six. Joshua, Chapter four, beginning at verse six, which
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  Speaker 2: reads that this may be a sign among you. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to give keen attention when God says that
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to remember something by sign, that this may
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  Speaker 2: be a sign among you that when your children ask
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  Speaker 2: their fathers in time to come saying what mean ye
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  Speaker 2: by these stones, that ye shall answer them. That the
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  Speaker 2: waters of Jordan were cut off before the arc of
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  Speaker 2: the Covenant, So that means that God was before his people,
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  Speaker 2: he was taking his people through to victory. He's with
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  Speaker 2: his people today on this Tuesday morning. He is with
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  Speaker 2: his people today guiding you through to victory. Well, it
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  Speaker 2: says that the waters of the Jordan were cut off
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  Speaker 2: before the presence of God or the ark of the
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  Speaker 2: Covenant of the Lord. And so the fact is that
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  Speaker 2: God establishes memorials to keep faith alive. Yeah, one politician
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  Speaker 2: back in the eighties. I remember he used to say
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  Speaker 2: keep hope alive, keep hope alive. In this case, we
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  Speaker 2: want to keep faith alive because faith is the I've
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  Speaker 2: heard all kinds of definitions of faith or or things
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  Speaker 2: to describe faith, but simply besides what the scripture says
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  Speaker 2: very clearly in Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews, chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 2: faith is is that way that we connect to the
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  Speaker 2: power of God. That's it. Faith is the way we
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  Speaker 2: connect to the power of God. So if we have
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  Speaker 2: no faith, we have no mechanism, no way to reach
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  Speaker 2: across and grasp the power of God. But faith is
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  Speaker 2: our ability to reach across and grasp the power of God. God. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so the action step in this case is I
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  Speaker 2: want you to I want you to identify a stone. See,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God were to take up stones as
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  Speaker 2: they were so journeying, and and then you heard what
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  Speaker 2: God said to do with those stones. So what is
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  Speaker 2: a stone? What is a moment of memory that you
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  Speaker 2: will etch in your symbolic mindset so that you can
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  Speaker 2: remember a moment when God showed up unmistakably. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do something, write it down and thank God
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  Speaker 2: for him and all that he is doing daily. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, take it up. It's something. Oh God, you
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  Speaker 2: were good to me on the road when there was
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  Speaker 2: road rage around me and I started feeling it creep
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  Speaker 2: up in me, but I was able to move without engaging.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for that moment. Okay, let me go on
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  Speaker 2: to lesson number two before I go too far. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So we're going into Deuteronomy, chapter eight and verse two,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and thou shalt remember all the
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  Speaker 2: way which the Lord thy God had led thee these
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  Speaker 2: forty years in the wilderness. Remember, remember how God has
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  Speaker 2: led you all of these years in the wilderness. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me just give a little bit of context. These
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  Speaker 2: are the children except for Joshua and Caleb. These are
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  Speaker 2: all the children of the people who were delivered from
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian captivity. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about every one of their parents and grandparents. They're dead,
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  Speaker 2: every single one of them. I don't know if it's grandparents.
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  Speaker 2: I just added that just in case. But the generation
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  Speaker 2: before them, all of them, one hundred percent of them, Moses, Aaron,
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of them except Joshua and Caleb dead
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  Speaker 2: because of their unbelief. They didn't die because they had
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  Speaker 2: heart attacks or whatever they died. They didn't die because
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  Speaker 2: they got eaten by crocodiles. They died because of their unbelief.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's telling this generation as they go through
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  Speaker 2: their part of the journey, as they are crossing over
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  Speaker 2: their Jordan river, Listen, I want you to remember what
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  Speaker 2: I did for your forefathers, even though they were unfaithful.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, this is a forecast because the people hadn't
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  Speaker 2: all died yet, but you get the point. Now, by
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  Speaker 2: the time they're crossing the Jordan, they are to remember
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  Speaker 2: how God led them all of these years, and so
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  Speaker 2: remembering leads to renewed obedience. Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 2: Remembering leads to renewed obedience. The stones at Gilgal were
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  Speaker 2: not meant to be silent. They spoke in air quotes
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  Speaker 2: of God's faithfulness AH and called God's people to obedience.
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  Speaker 2: Every act of remembrance strengthened their confidence in the Lord
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  Speaker 2: who led them through impossible places. Forgetfulness leads to disobedience,
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  Speaker 2: but remembrance revives faith. Thank God, Thank God, thank God.
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  Speaker 2: So the action step is before making a major decision,
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  Speaker 2: pause and recall how God has delivered you in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Let that memory anchor your obedience for today, give you
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  Speaker 2: the courage you need to run forward with God. And
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  Speaker 2: so our third and final lesson is memorials are meant
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  Speaker 2: to be shared. I'll read again from the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Joshua, chapter four, beginning at verse twenty three. For
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, your God dried up the waters of Jordan
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  Speaker 2: from before you until ye passed over. Fast forward, fast forward,
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  Speaker 2: that all the people of the earth might know the
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  Speaker 2: hand of the Lord. That it is Mighty. God designed
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  Speaker 2: the memorial stones so children would ask questions, what is this?
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  Speaker 2: Have you set up something in your home where your
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  Speaker 2: children are going to ask? Is it a photo? Is
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  Speaker 2: it a special Bible? Is it something else from your journey,
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  Speaker 2: your experience, A chord, a ribbon? I don't know. Something
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  Speaker 2: that lets them say, but Daddy, what is that? Mommy?
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  Speaker 2: What is that? What is that? Every testimony is a
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  Speaker 2: bridge to help the next generation trust the same God.
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  Speaker 2: Here is your action step, Share one personal testimony of
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  Speaker 2: God's power with someone. Your stone of remembrance could ignite
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  Speaker 2: their faith in the Living God. Bless it be his name,
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day. 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,