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11 09 2025 Covenant First · 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. It is Sunday, November nine,
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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 Covenant First. Covenant First. Will get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day and for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege you have given to us. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the covenant that you have kept with us and kept
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  Speaker 2: for us. Please teach us covenant today in Jesus name
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again Covenant. First, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to read from the Bible Book of Joshua, chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one, and then we will have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of discussion here. Okay, Joshua chapter five, and
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  Speaker 2: that is beginning at verse one from the New King
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  Speaker 2: James version of the Bible, and the Bible reads. So
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  Speaker 2: it was when the kings of the Amorites, who were
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  Speaker 2: on the west side of the Jordan, and all the
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  Speaker 2: kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard
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  Speaker 2: that the Lord had dried up the waters of the
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  Speaker 2: Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had
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  Speaker 2: crossed over, that their heart melted. There was no spirit
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  Speaker 2: in them any longer because of the children of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And that time the Lord said to Joshua, make flint
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  Speaker 2: knives for yourselves, and circumcise the sons of Israel again
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  Speaker 2: the second time, So Joshua made flint knives for himself
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  Speaker 2: and circumcised the sons of Israel. And the hill of
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  Speaker 2: the foreskins at the hill of the foreskins. And this
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  Speaker 2: is the reason why Joshua circumcised them. What is it?
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  Speaker 2: All the people who came out of Egypt, who were males,
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  Speaker 2: all the men of war, had died in the wilderness
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  Speaker 2: on the way after they had come out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: For all the people who came out had been circumcised.
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  Speaker 2: But all the people born in the wilderness on the
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  Speaker 2: way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
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  Speaker 2: For the children of Israel had walked forty years in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness. To all the people who were men of
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  Speaker 2: war who came out of Egypt were consumed because they
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  Speaker 2: did not obey the voice of the Lord, to whom
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  Speaker 2: the Lord swore that he would not show them the land,
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  Speaker 2: which the Lord sworn to their fathers, that he would
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  Speaker 2: give us a land flowing with milk and honey. Then
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  Speaker 2: Joshua circumcised their sons, whom he raised up in their place,
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  Speaker 2: for they were uncircum sized because they had not been
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  Speaker 2: circumcised on the way. So basically this is saying, this
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  Speaker 2: is saying that the grown men, the grown men among
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  Speaker 2: the people of God who originally came out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: had already taken the right or the symbol of their
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  Speaker 2: covenant called circumcision. Right, they had all done that, but
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  Speaker 2: the children, the young boys who were of twenty years
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  Speaker 2: and younger, had not. And the Egyptians who came out
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  Speaker 2: of Egypt too with the people of God, those had not,
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  Speaker 2: And so that entire first generation was wiped out except
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  Speaker 2: for Joshua and Caleb. So that means that the individuals
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  Speaker 2: who were going into the Promised Land, as they had
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  Speaker 2: gone through the Jordan and eventually obviously beyond Jericho and
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  Speaker 2: inhabiting the Land of Promise, they would need to be circumcised.
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  Speaker 2: That was a symbol. That was a symbol. Moses said,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to circumcise your heart to love the Lord
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  Speaker 2: your God. I said. Moses said that Paul borrowed it.
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  Speaker 2: Moses said that circumcision was the circumcision of the heart.
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  Speaker 2: So without covenant, the covenant to love the Lord Thy
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  Speaker 2: God and serve him, then there's no inheritance of the promise.
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  Speaker 2: And so what is the symbol of your covenant with God?
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five? What is the symbol of your
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  Speaker 2: covenant with God? And so let us just learn a
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  Speaker 2: few lessons here. Let's learn a few lessons here. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number one, there is renewal before victory, renewal before victory.
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  Speaker 2: The insight is that sometimes God asks us to pause
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  Speaker 2: when progress feels urgent. We are building momentum. God, how
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  Speaker 2: can you be asking us to pause to do these things? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's in these moments that God is not delaying our victory.
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  Speaker 2: He is deepening our dependent Sometimes we have confidence in
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  Speaker 2: our momentum when our confidence should be in God. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm finally starting to taste the level of success. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to pause right here. Before we can
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  Speaker 2: conquer anything external, we have to first conquer what is internal.
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  Speaker 2: Because God knows what's coming ahead. He knows the strength,
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  Speaker 2: the internal fortitude that we're going to need in order
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  Speaker 2: to make it to the next level. And so there
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  Speaker 2: are times that God instills a pause to establish or
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  Speaker 2: reestablish covenant with us so that we will be prepared
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  Speaker 2: for whatever comes next. And so, before fighting your next battle,
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  Speaker 2: make and invest the time to renew your covenant with
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  Speaker 2: God through prayer and surrender. And you are aligned with him,
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  Speaker 2: he will secure the victories that you by yourself cannot. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty five. Before they could hope for
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  Speaker 2: the Lord to be with them in battle, God's people
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  Speaker 2: must take a decided stand on the right. They must
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  Speaker 2: renew their covenant with God. They must renew their covenant
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  Speaker 2: with God. In that case, that's the end of the quote.
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  Speaker 2: In that case, we know that they were siding with God.
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  Speaker 2: We know that they were accepting Jesus as even though
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't have called him that, but Jesus as the captain,
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  Speaker 2: the commander of the Lord's armies, and he would fight
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  Speaker 2: their battles and they would not have to fight alone.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're grateful that God, still in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: is willing to allie with human beings who are submitting
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  Speaker 2: our wills to him to overcome all of our maladaptive behaviors,
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  Speaker 2: to overcome our addictions to drugs and alcohol, to overcome
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  Speaker 2: our addiction to pride and self focus, to overcome a
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  Speaker 2: need besetting sin. Some of the things came through our bloodline,
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  Speaker 2: and then we practice it because you know, we had
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  Speaker 2: a predisposition to these certain things that our fore parents
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  Speaker 2: had done. And God is saying through covenant, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to cancel all of that. Make a covenant with me
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  Speaker 2: and I will cancel all of that. And so and so,
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  Speaker 2: the reflection that I want you to take on this
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  Speaker 2: point is what might God be calling you to pause
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  Speaker 2: and renew before you move forward into the battle. What
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  Speaker 2: might God be asking you to pause and to renew
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  Speaker 2: before you go into the battle so He can protect you?
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible reads in Exodus, chapter fourteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse fourteen. We talked about this the other week. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
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  Speaker 2: God's people. Circumcision before the conquest reminds us that God
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  Speaker 2: prepares his people for victory through obedience. The covenant must
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  Speaker 2: always come before the conquest. You see, sometimes we want
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  Speaker 2: to fast track victory. We want to fast track those
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  Speaker 2: things that make us feel good about ourselves. When God
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  Speaker 2: is saying nope. I want you to pause right here,
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  Speaker 2: renew covenant with me. I will fight your battles, you
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  Speaker 2: will hold your peace. I will get the glory, you'll
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  Speaker 2: get the benefit 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,