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11 19 2025 Humble Hero · 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 Wednesday, November nineteen,
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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 faith Lessons of Faith from Joshua under the
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  Speaker 2: caption Humble Hero, Humble Hero. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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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. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day and for the privilege to do your will.
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  Speaker 2: Please fill us with your Holy spirit. Give us humility.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we need. We need humility God. Please, in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name I pray. Amen and Amen again, yes, humble hero.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So the lesson writer begins the lesson with
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  Speaker 2: a couple of questions, as usual, one of which is
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  Speaker 2: what are the implications of the fact that the great
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  Speaker 2: leader of Israel, who apportioned the land receives is inheritance? Last,
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  Speaker 2: this is very interesting. What are the implications This guy
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  Speaker 2: is the leader talking about Joshua, but he gets his last.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read from Joshua chapter nineteen and verse forty nine
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  Speaker 2: to really kind of begin and drill that. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, when they had made an end of dividing
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  Speaker 2: the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of
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  Speaker 2: Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua, the son of Nun
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  Speaker 2: among them. Let me read it in another translation. When
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  Speaker 2: they finished dividing the land into its regions, the people
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  Speaker 2: of God gave Joshua, son of nun An inheritance among them.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so let's begin with our first lesson. Our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson is that servant leaderships leaderships. Servant leadership puts
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  Speaker 2: others first. Servant leadership puts others first. Is that not
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  Speaker 2: how Jesus lived his life. Let's go to Matthew twenty
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty six, and it reads, but it shall not
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  Speaker 2: be so among you, But whosoever will be great among you,
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  Speaker 2: let him be your minister. The greatest among us are
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  Speaker 2: our ministers. Oh wait a minute. So Joshua's humility stands
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  Speaker 2: in contrast to the self centered leadership of his time.
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  Speaker 2: And can I just say that's the way many times
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  Speaker 2: that we see leadership in our day two Like, it's
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  Speaker 2: self centered many times. And so what God is teaching
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  Speaker 2: us is that the first shall be last and the
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  Speaker 2: last first, especially where leaders are concerned by waiting until
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  Speaker 2: all were settled. He taught that. God taught God's people
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  Speaker 2: that leadership is stewardship. Leadership is stewardship and not ownership.
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  Speaker 2: I said, leadership is stewardship and not ownership. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and get into lesson number two.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number two is true. Leaders are content with what
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  Speaker 2: God provides. Now. Paul spoke about this in Philippians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: four and verse twelve, where it reads, I know both
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  Speaker 2: how to be abased or humbled, right, and I know
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  Speaker 2: how to abound or be in abundance in any and
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  Speaker 2: every circumstance. I have learned the secret of contentment. Are
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  Speaker 2: you content, brothers and sisters? Now, please don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm not saying or not asking you, is whether
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  Speaker 2: you are satisfied with the status quoi. That's not what
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you. I'm not asking you if you're satisfied
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  Speaker 2: with the status quo. I'm asking if you are content
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  Speaker 2: knowing that God is in control. God knows exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you need, and He provides it according to his riches
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  Speaker 2: in glory. So, like Paul, Joshua understood that satisfaction comes
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  Speaker 2: from knowing God more deeply, not necessarily from possessing more
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  Speaker 2: or amassing more. Okay, So the city Joshua received, I
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  Speaker 2: can't say what it is means the remaining portion? Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine? Can you imagine? I think I can say
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  Speaker 2: a tim knatz siah, it means the remaining portion or
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  Speaker 2: what is left. He didn't choose the richest land or
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  Speaker 2: the strongest city. He took what was left and turned
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  Speaker 2: it into a place of peace, Oh my, and worship
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  Speaker 2: near the tabernacle in Shiloh. I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 2: something in a second. He his contentment reflected deep trust.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua knew that the blessing wasn't in the land. It
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  Speaker 2: was in the Lord who gave it. It wasn't in
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  Speaker 2: the land, it was in the Lord who gave the land. Okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say like this. His trust was in God,
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  Speaker 2: and he received the remnant. Somebody just got it and
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  Speaker 2: so and so. Joshua was an example of the remaining
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  Speaker 2: portion the what is left. He was an example of
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  Speaker 2: how the remnant should live. Have you ever heard of
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  Speaker 2: the remnant in the last days? The remnant being just
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus. The Remnant are being servant leaders who are
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  Speaker 2: covered by God. In twenty twenty five, twenty six, if
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  Speaker 2: God delays right into the future, God's people, the Remnant,
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  Speaker 2: are comfortable when God is in control. The secret to
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  Speaker 2: our success is contentment, which is great gain. All right,
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  Speaker 2: all right, all right, let's go to lesson number three.
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  Speaker 2: Humility brings God's presence near. Humility brings God's presence near.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads in Psalm chapter thirty seven and verse four.
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  Speaker 2: Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give
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  Speaker 2: thee the desires of thine heart. Delight yourself in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you
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  Speaker 2: the desires of your heart. And so Joshua's inheritance was
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  Speaker 2: near to Shiloh, where the tabernacles stood the visible sign
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  Speaker 2: of God's presence. While others chose fertile plains, Joshua chose
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  Speaker 2: proximity to the presence of God. Are you getting this
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  Speaker 2: the one who got what was left the remnant?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: He is the one who was in close proximity to
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  Speaker 2: the presence of God. His priorities were spiritual and not
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  Speaker 2: just material. Not saying we shouldn't care about material needs,
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  Speaker 2: but the Bible is showing us that the people who
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  Speaker 2: are the most successful, the ones who delight in God,
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  Speaker 2: have more in gain than those who delight in stuff.
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  Speaker 2: The people who delight in serving God are more apt
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  Speaker 2: to be successful than those who are about the things
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  Speaker 2: of God. God gives you a peace that no inheritance
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  Speaker 2: can match, and I'm grateful. I'm grateful that God has
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  Speaker 2: given us an example in these different people of how
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  Speaker 2: to be humble and putting God and his people first.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of reflection questions here, what would it look
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  Speaker 2: like for you to lead like Joshua, serving first, receiving last. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: where are you choosing proximity to God over personal gain?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you choosing proximity to God over personal gain?
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  Speaker 2: And that's good, that's good, that's good. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: where we will pause right here. Yeah, Joshua was a
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  Speaker 2: humble hero, so was Caleb, but it was because they
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  Speaker 2: were more servants of God than just looking out for
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  Speaker 2: his hand. 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,