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10 23 2025 The Second-Best Option · 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, and it's Tuesday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty twenty five. Hello. My name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the second best option, the second
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  Speaker 2: best option. I would just like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. Please join us this evening at seven pm
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  Speaker 2: Jamaica time, Jamaica time, and we will have our evening reflection. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course tomorrow evening we'll have our musical
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  Speaker 2: teaching through worship or teaching musically and worship, whichever way
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  Speaker 2: you want to show it. It is coming in tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: evening at seven pm on the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're going to be here tomorrow night, if
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Spear's life, just go ahead and say yes,
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  Speaker 2: I will be here. Type that in the chat or
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  Speaker 2: in the comments section. And those listening on the radio,
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  Speaker 2: please please go over to the Your Daily Portion YouTube
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  Speaker 2: channel and we will worship together there. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for the privilege of worship. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us the opportunity to connect with you.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to not choose Plan B, but rather
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  Speaker 2: choose Plan A. When we have the privilege of doing
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  Speaker 2: what you say the first way, the first time in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. So listen.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to the things of God, we are
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  Speaker 2: not interested, at least I'm not. I hope you're not either.
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  Speaker 2: We shouldn't be interested in Plan B, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Like we should be interested in Plan A.
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  Speaker 2: Like God gave us a health message, a message of
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  Speaker 2: holiness and health. But Plan B says okay, well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: allowing you to do these certain things within these parameters.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going to bring sickness. It's going to bring
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  Speaker 2: some disease, it's going to bring some weakness. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you must, maybe somebody doesn't like how I super
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  Speaker 2: summarize that same thing with marriage. God intended that we
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  Speaker 2: would be married until death. Do us part right well
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  Speaker 2: because of some indiscretions or because of some things that
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  Speaker 2: people do to one another in their marriages, then the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, because of the hardness of your hearts, I
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  Speaker 2: have allowed this. And so the same concept is happening
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  Speaker 2: right here when it comes to war and God fighting
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  Speaker 2: for us versus us fighting for ourselves with a little
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  Speaker 2: with help part of me, I take out little help
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  Speaker 2: from God, etc. And so the Bible reads here and Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten and verse fourteen. And there was no day
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  Speaker 2: like that before it or after it, that the Lord
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  Speaker 2: hearkened unto the voice of a man, for the Lord
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  Speaker 2: fought for his people. So our first lesson comes from
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  Speaker 2: Let me just read one more passage from Exodus, chapter
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and verse eleven, where it reads and it came
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  Speaker 2: to pass when Moses held up his hand, and that
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  Speaker 2: God's people prevailed, and when he let his hand down,
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  Speaker 2: Amelek prevailed. And of course we see where where the
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  Speaker 2: brothers had to hold up Moses's hands so the people
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  Speaker 2: of God would prevail. Right. And so in both Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventeen and Joshua chapter six, God fought for his people,
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  Speaker 2: but he met them at different levels of faith. When
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  Speaker 2: God's people faced the Amelakites, they doubted God's presence and
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  Speaker 2: complained bitterly. And yet in their spiritual weakness, God did
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  Speaker 2: not abandon them. He allowed Amelek attack to awaken their
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  Speaker 2: dependence upon him, but Moses, with Moses's hands, lifted toward God.
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  Speaker 2: God's people, in their victory came not by sword alone,
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  Speaker 2: but by intercession and faith. Like Wise, if we fast
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  Speaker 2: forward to Jericho, God again intervened through miraculous power, toppling
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  Speaker 2: the walls that human strength could never move. Both battles
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  Speaker 2: revealed the same truth that victory belongs and depends upon
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  Speaker 2: God and not human force. And so if your faith,
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  Speaker 2: if your faith is wavering, I need you to tell
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  Speaker 2: you the truth. It's not my business. You don't tell
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  Speaker 2: me the truth. You don't type that in the chat
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  Speaker 2: like if your faith is wavering in God, I need
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  Speaker 2: you to remember that God is still the one that
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  Speaker 2: fights for you. Lift your heart toward Heaven, your mind,
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  Speaker 2: meditate upon the things of God. Lift your heart toward
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  Speaker 2: God in Heaven. And then the victory depends upon the
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  Speaker 2: connection that you have with God, the connection that you
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  Speaker 2: have with God. Lift up your heart, lift up your
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  Speaker 2: faith toward God. As if God forbid, your faith waivers.
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  Speaker 2: Our second lesson comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter twenty, verses
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  Speaker 2: sixteen through eighteen. I'll read some of it. But of
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  Speaker 2: the cities of these people, which the Lord God both
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  Speaker 2: God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save
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  Speaker 2: nothing alive in the breadth of it. Okay. And so
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  Speaker 2: the original purpose of God's people was peace through divine power,
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  Speaker 2: not conquest, and not violence. We're going to read that
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  Speaker 2: in a story format. A little bit later, he promised
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  Speaker 2: to drive out his enemies. But because of unbelief, see
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  Speaker 2: here comes that plan be again. Because of unbelief, because
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  Speaker 2: of fear, because of murmuring, God's people often failed to
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  Speaker 2: trust in his word. War then became the second best option.
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  Speaker 2: I will call it Plan B, a concession to their
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  Speaker 2: lack of faith. And that's not what really God wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do. God didn't want his people to take up armaments.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want their weapons of warfare to be something
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  Speaker 2: they could physically see. He wanted them to connect with
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  Speaker 2: God and allow God to fight their battles. Same thing
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  Speaker 2: with us in twenty twenty five. And so even when
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  Speaker 2: the circumstances seemed to force you into battles, God never intended,
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  Speaker 2: keep your eyes on his higher plan. Like his plan
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  Speaker 2: A completely trust in His ways and don't trust in
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  Speaker 2: your human ways. If you have to lock your doors
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  Speaker 2: at home, lock your doors, but don't trust the locks.
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  Speaker 2: If you have to roll up your windows and lock
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  Speaker 2: your car doors, then trust God. Don't trust your windows
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  Speaker 2: being rolled up and your doors locked. If you God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: have to do some things that you never really wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do. If somebody breaks into your home, don't trust
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  Speaker 2: those measures that you really didn't want to do, but
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  Speaker 2: find yourself needing to do when somebody comes in on you,
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  Speaker 2: trust God instead. So God's people learned that faithful participation
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  Speaker 2: or cooperation, and complete dependence must go hand in hand.
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  Speaker 2: They were to act, but never assume the power was theirs,
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  Speaker 2: never assume that the power was theirs. And so let
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  Speaker 2: me say our lessons very simply, when God, when faith falters,
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  Speaker 2: I apologize, God still meets us there. When our faith falters,
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  Speaker 2: God still meets us there. We can be like the
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  Speaker 2: man who said, Lord, I believe, but help thou mine unbelief.
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  Speaker 2: Our second lesson, very simply is war was never God's
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  Speaker 2: original plan. I need to say that again because there
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  Speaker 2: are so many people out here loving war, loving violence,
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  Speaker 2: loving conflict. But war was never God's plan. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: the battle is the lord's, but the choice is mine yours.
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  Speaker 2: The battle is the lord's, but the choice is mine.
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  Speaker 2: That lesson is coming in from Joshua, chapter six and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty. So the people shouted when the priests blew
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  Speaker 2: the trumpets, and it came to pass when the people
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  Speaker 2: heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted
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  Speaker 2: with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat.
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  Speaker 2: God's people trusted him, They did not war, and Jericho's
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  Speaker 2: walls came down flat. I like plan E B A,
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  Speaker 2: not B 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,