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10 01 2025 Be Strong! · 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. It's
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  Speaker 2: October one, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series Lessons of Fate from Joshua under
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  Speaker 2: the caption be strong, be strong, exclamation point. Yeah. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: that website 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. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, Father, thank you for this new day,
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  Speaker 2: and please help us to be strong. There's so many
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  Speaker 2: things vying for our attention, and it's easy for us
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  Speaker 2: to become weak. But God, you have made us strong.
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  Speaker 2: Please in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again,
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  Speaker 2: be strong, Be strong. I'm coming in from the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Joshua Joshua chapter one and will read verses
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  Speaker 2: seven and nine. The Bible reads, only be thou strong
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  Speaker 2: and very courageous. This is what God is saying to Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: that thou mayest observe to do according to all the
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  Speaker 2: law which Moses, my servant commanded thee So God is
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  Speaker 2: giving Joshua a baseline. I've already established a relationship with
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  Speaker 2: my people. You've seen how it works in the life
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  Speaker 2: of Moses, as he leads in this context, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to be strong, but I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 2: the law you were around Joshua, you saw an experienced
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  Speaker 2: You were faithful Joshua. Now I want you to just
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  Speaker 2: be very clear so you don't make the same mistakes
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  Speaker 2: that Moses made. Don't make the mistake that Aaron made.
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  Speaker 2: Be strong and courageous, and do what I tell you
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  Speaker 2: to do. No more this stuff about. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: threw stuff into the fire and out popped a golden
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  Speaker 2: calf like no more getting angry and taking glory from
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  Speaker 2: me and striking what I said to speak to. None
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  Speaker 2: of that. Be strong, be courageous, don't turn to the
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  Speaker 2: right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper
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  Speaker 2: whithersoever thou goest. We're going to talk about that prospering
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  Speaker 2: a little more on another day. And in verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: have I not commanded thee be strong? It's a command
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  Speaker 2: and of good courage. Don't be afraid. Neither be thou dismayed.
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  Speaker 2: For the Lord Thy God is with THEE, whethersoever thou goest.
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  Speaker 2: And so the reason why you should not be afraid,
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  Speaker 2: the reason you should not be dismayed, the reason why
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  Speaker 2: you should be of good courage, is because God is
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  Speaker 2: with you, not because you were faithful yesterday, not because
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  Speaker 2: you were faithful weeks or months ago or years ago
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  Speaker 2: when you looked over and saw that there were giants
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  Speaker 2: in the land, and you said, but God said that
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  Speaker 2: he will give us the city when you were faithful yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the reason why you're going to prosper. It's
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  Speaker 2: because in that moment you knew to rely on me.
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  Speaker 2: God speaking, and I want you to do it again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcoming you, okay, and I think I have given
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  Speaker 2: you the words from the text and what they mean,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll just fast forward. Joshua is stepping into Moses's shoes,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't mean it in the sense that God
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  Speaker 2: is leading him as sort of a vice version of Moses.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that Moses had walked this path for years
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  Speaker 2: and decades before, so Moses was the only leader God's
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  Speaker 2: people had known. In this context, Joshua was now responsible
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  Speaker 2: for guiding millions into hostile territory. Repetition stressed the weight
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  Speaker 2: of the call. The task ahead could have been seen
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  Speaker 2: as overwhelming, which is why God encouraged him to beged courageous,
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  Speaker 2: to be faithful, to be holy, So the task ahead
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  Speaker 2: could have been seen as overwhelming, conquering Canaan meant focusing
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  Speaker 2: on fortified cities, experiencing armies that were experienced, and giants.
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  Speaker 2: Fear was natural. But God wanted Joshua to step into
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  Speaker 2: the supernatural with him. Ah, God wanted him to forget
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  Speaker 2: about the natural. He did not want him, as we
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  Speaker 2: would have seen in the future, to be like Peter
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  Speaker 2: who who said, God, if it's you, Jesus, if it
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  Speaker 2: is you, Master, if it's you, bid me come out
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  Speaker 2: onto the water. And then he walks miraculously on water.
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  Speaker 2: But in the moment his natural mind kicked in. See
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  Speaker 2: his mind full of faith that was laying hold upon God,
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  Speaker 2: and his supernatural power was active, almost without thinking. It
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  Speaker 2: became spiritual second nature for him to just simply follow Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: keeping his eyes transfixed upon Jesus. And when he started
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  Speaker 2: to look at his natural reality, wait there are winds, yep, Wait,
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  Speaker 2: there are waves, yep. There is the fact that like
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  Speaker 2: what goes up must come down, and this water is
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  Speaker 2: not My feet aren't buoyant. In the moment that he
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  Speaker 2: observed the natural, he lost focus of God in the supernatural.
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  Speaker 2: And so Joshua is being commanded not to look at
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  Speaker 2: the natural, but to reality to have a reality check,
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  Speaker 2: a godly reality check that God is the one who
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  Speaker 2: is giving him supernatural ability to just do what God said.
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  Speaker 2: And so the people had a history of rebellion. Joshua
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  Speaker 2: had seen their disobedience firsthand. We see that in Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen. To lead them required more than just normal
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  Speaker 2: strength and courage. We've already covered it needed to be
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  Speaker 2: supernatural and spiritual. Leadership requires the resilience, strength and courage
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  Speaker 2: are tied directly to doing what God says, that is,
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  Speaker 2: to be in cooperation with him. From the book Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Prophets, we read page four hundred and eighty two.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua was now the acknowledged leader of God's people. Courage
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  Speaker 2: and strength were especially necessary in one who was to
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  Speaker 2: succeed Moses. Only by faith in God could he fulfill
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  Speaker 2: the great responsibility laid a him, laid upon him. How
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  Speaker 2: many times has God given you responsibilities? Can we just
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  Speaker 2: bring it a little bit closer? Is there a position
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  Speaker 2: at work that you have now assumed that your predecessor
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  Speaker 2: is you know, who was well decorated, may be very
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  Speaker 2: good at what he or she did prior to your arrival,
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  Speaker 2: And now you're stepping in, and you're wondering, God, what
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  Speaker 2: am I supposed to do? Be courageous? Huh, be faithful.
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  Speaker 2: Focus your attention on God and not on any of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe your predecessor like me. When I was twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: I was promoted to management in the psych field and
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  Speaker 2: my predecessor, my predecessor, after I had done the vocational
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  Speaker 2: counseling role for three and a half years, my predecessor,
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  Speaker 2: who was my boss, set me up to take her position,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, what, ah, be of good courage, Dave.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think that you're only twenty three years of age.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think that maybe there are other people who would
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  Speaker 2: love to be in that position and it looks like
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  Speaker 2: you leapfrogged them. Forget about that. Focus your attention on God.
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  Speaker 2: Don't focus your attention on the natural. Don't focus your
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  Speaker 2: attention on the stress that will likely come and I
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  Speaker 2: know that it actually did. Don't focus on any of
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  Speaker 2: those things, but focus squarely upon the fact that God
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  Speaker 2: led you in the past and he will lead you now.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep his word. The Lord, thy God is with thee.
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  Speaker 2: Whithersoever thou goest, do you believe it? Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day, Yeah,