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10 13 2025 The Living God of Wonders · 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, October thirteen,
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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 through our lessons
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  Speaker 2: study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua under the caption
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  Speaker 2: The Living God of Wonders, The Living God of Wonders.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world. At your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot Com This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. And let
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  Speaker 2: me just say that I am entertaining the option of
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  Speaker 2: coming to you on Friday nights. The other day you
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  Speaker 2: heard me share music related to the Lesson study. This
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  Speaker 2: is music that you will not hear anywhere else that's
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  Speaker 2: related to the Lesson study. And I'm thinking about going
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  Speaker 2: through the lesson musically on Friday night at seven pm.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are going to support that. When I
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  Speaker 2: say seven pm, I mean I mean Jamaica time. If
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  Speaker 2: you're willing to support that, if that's something that would
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  Speaker 2: be beneficial to you, I want you to go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and say yes to the music, Yes to the music,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll take a journey through the study musically, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, just let me know and we'll determine by midweek.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray. Father, We thank you, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the privilege of prayer. We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us these studies that will draw us into
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  Speaker 2: your presence. Please fill us with your Holy Spirit in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, Amen, and a man again, the Living God
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  Speaker 2: of wonders. Do you worship the Living God? Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: his name? Do you worship him or do you worship things?
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  Speaker 2: That's something that we all need to be answering. We
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  Speaker 2: ask the question and answer it for ourselves. Am I
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  Speaker 2: a worshiper of God? Or am I a worshiper of stuff?
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson writer really starts with a question,
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  Speaker 2: what does the miraculous crossing of Jordan tell us about
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  Speaker 2: the nature of the God we serve? See, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make sense to worship our things because our things are
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  Speaker 2: not like this God that we serve. And so the
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  Speaker 2: miraculous crossing of the Jordan reveals that the God we
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  Speaker 2: serve is Let's start with this word faithful. Has God
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  Speaker 2: been faithful to you? That's a rhetorical question, because of
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  Speaker 2: course he has. He's been powerful in your life. He's
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  Speaker 2: taking you through trials and tribulations that you had no
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  Speaker 2: idea how you'd get through. Hmm. He is powerful, and
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  Speaker 2: he's personally involved with his people. When you had more
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  Speaker 2: month than money and people betrayed you, huh. When you
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  Speaker 2: were on furlough and you may in fact be on
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  Speaker 2: furlough now, when you were terminated for no good reason,
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  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with your performance at work, God
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  Speaker 2: was faithful and powerful and fully involved in your life,
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  Speaker 2: and you had to deal with a death in the
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  Speaker 2: family like I lost my mother, You lost your mother,
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  Speaker 2: you lost your father, you lost some child or sibling
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  Speaker 2: in your family, and you wanted to know as God
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  Speaker 2: with you, and He proved that He was with you
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  Speaker 2: even through the grief. Yes, So when the priests stepped
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  Speaker 2: into the water, and I want you to get that detail,
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  Speaker 2: they stepped into the water, the river stopped flowing like
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  Speaker 2: a wall when they stepped in. Have you stepped in
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  Speaker 2: to the place where God wants you to go? Or
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  Speaker 2: are you still waiting on the coast or on the
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  Speaker 2: shore where you feel safe and stable? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: stepping into what God has called you to do? And
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  Speaker 2: now you're able to see the wonders of God. And
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  Speaker 2: so in Joshua, chapter three and verse seventeen, we see
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  Speaker 2: in the priests that bear the ark of the Covenant
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  Speaker 2: that represented the presence of God, Yes, and the throne
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  Speaker 2: of God. When they bear the ark of the Covenant
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord, they stood firm on dry ground in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of the Jordan, and all the people of
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  Speaker 2: God passed over on dry ground, until all the people
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  Speaker 2: were passed clean over Jordan. Aren't you glad that the
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  Speaker 2: presence of God is with people who are willing to
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  Speaker 2: serve him. God is with you when you serve him. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And when you are going through your trials, God will
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  Speaker 2: be like a defense, like a shield, a refuge in
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  Speaker 2: this time of storm, and you will not have to
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  Speaker 2: swim over. You won't drown and have to go under
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  Speaker 2: and up and bob up and down and go over.
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  Speaker 2: But God will make a way plain before your feet.
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  Speaker 2: And so this event teaches that God's power is not
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  Speaker 2: limited to natural barriers. The same hand that created the
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  Speaker 2: world commands the forces of nature in service to his
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  Speaker 2: redemption plan. He was saving his people. He was showing
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  Speaker 2: them that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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  Speaker 2: he is the God of Moses, who at that time
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  Speaker 2: was now resting, and he's the god of Yeshiah Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: who was leading them in that moment of time. And
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  Speaker 2: if he was going to be good to them, he
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  Speaker 2: was going to be good to the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: people who also served him. The same hand that created
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  Speaker 2: the world commands the forces of nature in service to
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  Speaker 2: his redemption plan. It also shows that his presence, symbolized
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  Speaker 2: by the arc always goes before his people. He never
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  Speaker 2: sends his people where he has not already gone. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to remember that while you're going through your trials,
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  Speaker 2: he is not sending you where He has not all
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  Speaker 2: ready gone. And from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety, we read the path where God leads.
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  Speaker 2: The way may lie through the desert or through the sea,
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  Speaker 2: but guess what, it is a safe path. It is
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  Speaker 2: a safe path. If God is leading you along this journey,
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  Speaker 2: it's because He's with you, and it's a safe path.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step is when you face overwhelming obstacles.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the ones where you're like, how did
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  Speaker 2: I get here? God? Even the ones that you may
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  Speaker 2: have put yourself in God forbid. But if you're you're repentant,
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  Speaker 2: and you're submit, submitting yourself to God, and you're being
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  Speaker 2: honest with him and you're willing to accept his help
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  Speaker 2: even those kinds of obstacles, move forward in faith, I said,
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  Speaker 2: move forward in faith. Do not stop knowing that the
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  Speaker 2: same God mm hmm, the same God who parted the
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  Speaker 2: Jordan still makes a way for his people. Are you
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  Speaker 2: one of his people? Are you still seeing God do
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  Speaker 2: wonders in your life? And so and so we go
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  Speaker 2: for another lesson. We're gonna go with lesson Number one.
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  Speaker 2: God's power overwhelms nature. It is not subject to nature.
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  Speaker 2: And Psalm chapter seventy two and verse eighteen, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be the God, the God of Israel, who only
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  Speaker 2: doeth wondrous things. When facing what looks impossible, pause and
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  Speaker 2: remind yourself of God's past wonders. Speak his power into
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  Speaker 2: your fear before you move forward. Now we go to
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  Speaker 2: Joshua chapter three, Joshua chapter three and verse eleven. Again
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  Speaker 2: again look, According to New English translation, the ark of
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  Speaker 2: the Covenant, of the Lord of the whole Earth is
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  Speaker 2: ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you. God's presence
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  Speaker 2: brings impossible breakthroughs, and so let God go before you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't rush into decisions or battles without his direction. Wait
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  Speaker 2: for his presence to move first. Henry Blackaby said in
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  Speaker 2: one of his books way back in the day, that
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  Speaker 2: we should observe and see where God is working and
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  Speaker 2: go there. Don't go where God is not working, don't
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  Speaker 2: rush out ahead of him, don't allow him to go.
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  Speaker 2: And then you not go with him, move where God
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  Speaker 2: is already moving. And then, finally, finally, faith connects us
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  Speaker 2: to divine possibility. With God, all things godly are possible. 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,