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10 16 2025 Beyond the Jordan · 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 Thursday, October sixteen,
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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 den 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 from the Book of Joshua, and really
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  Speaker 2: it's his life, his life experience with God. So Lessons
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  Speaker 2: of Faith from josh was more accurate. And our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Beyond the Jordan. Beyond the Jordan. Before
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we can continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for this day and for the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to see ourselves beyond the Jordan, to see ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in victory, see ourselves in a position of power because
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  Speaker 2: you are all powerful. Blessed be your name. Now, please
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  Speaker 2: help us to live that way in Jesus name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray a men and a man again. And so we begin.
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  Speaker 2: We begin by simply reading from the book of Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: chapter sixty six, and we will read verse six Psalm
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  Speaker 2: chapter sixty six, and we will read verse six, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads he turned the sea into dry land.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that God, the same one who created
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  Speaker 2: the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that
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  Speaker 2: in them is has the ability And really that's understating
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  Speaker 2: the power of God, but he has the ability to
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  Speaker 2: turn what he created into anything else that he decides
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  Speaker 2: for his glory and for your benefit. He turned the
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  Speaker 2: sea into dry land because it was a barrier to
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  Speaker 2: the success of the people of God. When I say success,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about spiritual success, separation from the bondage that
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  Speaker 2: they had lived in and the mindset of bondage that
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  Speaker 2: they had become so accustomed to that they were lackadaisical
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  Speaker 2: in every possible way. And God is saying, if I
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  Speaker 2: can deliver you from Egypt, I can also get you
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  Speaker 2: into the Promised Land. All you need to do is march,
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  Speaker 2: surrender your will to me, march, turn away from your sins,
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  Speaker 2: turn toward my judgments, my statutes, my judgments, and you
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  Speaker 2: will arrive safely. And the Bible continues. Then when they
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  Speaker 2: went through the river on foot, there we will rejoice
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  Speaker 2: in Him. And so we see that there is rejoicing
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  Speaker 2: on the other end of victory. There's rejoicing on the
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  Speaker 2: other end of doing what God says. The way of
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  Speaker 2: the wicked is hard. But when we surrender our will
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  Speaker 2: to God, even though we will go through trials, even
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  Speaker 2: though God forbid. But sometimes we make errors in judgment.
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  Speaker 2: God forbid. Sometimes people jump into sin or fall into sin.
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  Speaker 2: But if we will just go through with God, then
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  Speaker 2: we will come through to rejoicing. So going beyond the Jordan,
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  Speaker 2: and so our first lesson for today, our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: is that God transforms our transition into testimonies. And so
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  Speaker 2: the crossing of the Red Sea and the Jordan River
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  Speaker 2: in that next generation were more than a physical movement.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you can go over now. It was miraculous
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  Speaker 2: how they went over, but it was it wasn't only
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  Speaker 2: that they were divine transitions marking the freedom and the promise.
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  Speaker 2: God had made a promise to Abraham that he would
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  Speaker 2: take God's people into the land of promise, and he
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  Speaker 2: is also accomplishing it. Yes, the first generation of freed slaves,
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  Speaker 2: they did die, apart from Joshua and Caleb, who were faithful. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they went through trials and tribulations. Yes, it could have
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people say forty days, but really,
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  Speaker 2: at my count, it could have taken them eleven days.
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  Speaker 2: Quite frankly, by a certain route, they could have gotten
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  Speaker 2: into the promise in eleven days, and it took them
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  Speaker 2: forty long years and a loss of an entire generation
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  Speaker 2: simply because they did not believe, simply because they did
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  Speaker 2: not do God's will from the heart. And so God
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  Speaker 2: is saying that if you will just turn from your sin,
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  Speaker 2: turn toward Me by the power of the Holy ghosts,
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  Speaker 2: and march according to the path that I have shown you,
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  Speaker 2: then you will be free. You will receive the promise.
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  Speaker 2: Each step across dry land was a declaration that God
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  Speaker 2: not only delivers from bondage, but also delivers into purpose.
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  Speaker 2: So if you can hear the tread of the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, can you imagine millions of people, more than
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  Speaker 2: one million, likely more than two million in the three
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  Speaker 2: million range of people, men, women and children marching on
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  Speaker 2: dry ground. Oh my goodness, keeping in lockstep because God
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  Speaker 2: is orderly, Because behind the arc of the cove must
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  Speaker 2: be order. That ark of the covenant represents the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God. And all of these people are moving. And
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  Speaker 2: there is a declaration which with each tread of the
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  Speaker 2: steps of the people of God, that He's delivering them
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  Speaker 2: not only from something, but into what he had promised.
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  Speaker 2: And that is God's divine purpose. When we walk through
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  Speaker 2: life's Jordan's new beginnings, uncertain seasons, he transforms them into
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  Speaker 2: memorials of His power. What meaneth these stones? Well, we
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  Speaker 2: know that God has delivered his people. Don't forget children,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget. And so our actions step for today is
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  Speaker 2: to reflect on a major transition in your life where
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  Speaker 2: God is leading you, and write one sentence that begins,
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  Speaker 2: God brought me. See, we are focusing on God, not
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  Speaker 2: on ourselves. God and not ourselves. God brought me across.
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  Speaker 2: And now I want you to fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like that counting of your blessings. Count them
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  Speaker 2: one by one, named them one by one, meaning what
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  Speaker 2: has God done for you? God brought me across, and
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  Speaker 2: then keep it as your own memorial of his faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: You can write them down as those stones that remind
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  Speaker 2: you that God has been good. We have no fear
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  Speaker 2: for the future, except we forget how God has led
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  Speaker 2: us in the past. Our second lesson comes in really
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  Speaker 2: quickly from Matthew Chapter three, Verses sixteen and seventeen, where
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, in Jesus when he was baptized, went
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  Speaker 2: up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens
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  Speaker 2: were open done to him fast forward, and the voice
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  Speaker 2: from heaven saying, this is my beloved son, in whom
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  Speaker 2: I am well pleased. And so at another point in
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  Speaker 2: the Jordan experience, at Jordan, Jesus began his public ministry.
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  Speaker 2: In what we call the New Testament, it is recorded
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus began his public ministry through baptism, marking a
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  Speaker 2: turning point from hidden preparation to visible mission. His baptism
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  Speaker 2: obviously was not for repentance, because Jesus never sinned, but
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  Speaker 2: it was an identification of the purpose that God had
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  Speaker 2: set in this life so that we could be saved
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  Speaker 2: from our sin. And so the Jordan represents spiritual renewal.
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  Speaker 2: And it's cool to look back, but really today is
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  Speaker 2: your day to renew your commitment and walk in obedience
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  Speaker 2: and if you agree to walk with God type of
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  Speaker 2: yes in the chat right now.
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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,