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11 25 2025 The Challenge of the Land · 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 Tuesday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, 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, Faith of Joshua. We're learning lessons
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  Speaker 2: from Joshua Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for it today is the Challenge of the Land. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: Your Daily Portion Life Application guide at your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this new day and for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege you have given us to trust you help us
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  Speaker 2: to indeed and in fact trust you in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. And so I added
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  Speaker 2: a subtitle. I added a subtitle Grace received faith applied.
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  Speaker 2: Grace received faith applied. You see, God wants us to
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  Speaker 2: be exceptional stewards of everything that He entrusts to us,
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  Speaker 2: including our faith. Okay, so let me just go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and begin by reading a quote. I'm going to read
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  Speaker 2: a quote from the book Selected Messages, Book one, Selected Messages,
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  Speaker 2: Book one, page three hundred eighty one, and it reads,
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  Speaker 2: Divine grace is needed at the beginning. Go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: type in the chat at the beginning. God is giving
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  Speaker 2: his people grace at the beginning of our experience with him.
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue to quote divine grace at every step
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  Speaker 2: of advance. Okay, I see what's happening, and then divine
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  Speaker 2: grace alone can complete the work. I think the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: he who began a good work in you is able
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  Speaker 2: to complete it. Yes, And so I read another quote
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  Speaker 2: from Reviewing Harold in an article in eighteen fifty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Faith works by love and love works by obedience. Thus
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  Speaker 2: are the promises of God secured. And so we lay
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  Speaker 2: hold upon the power of God. We lay hold upon
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  Speaker 2: the promises of God by faith. Faith is the vehicle
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  Speaker 2: to lay hold upon the power and grace of God. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin with our lesson number one that
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  Speaker 2: comes in from the Book of Joshua, chapter thirteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse one. Joshua, chapter thirteen and verse one. If I
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  Speaker 2: have a scribe, just go ahead and type that in
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  Speaker 2: the chat Joshua thirteen and verse one. It's a good practice.
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  Speaker 2: I used to do this for Pastor Damian Chambers sometimes
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  Speaker 2: when he would do zoom calls of teaching. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, now Joshua was old and stricken in years,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord said unto him, thou wert old and
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  Speaker 2: stricken in years. And there remaineth yet very much land
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  Speaker 2: to be possessed. See. God's gifts require our cooperation. You see,
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  Speaker 2: even though Joshua was aging, I mean he was with
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  Speaker 2: the children of Israel all of those decades, and then
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  Speaker 2: finally he becomes the leader and eventually the next generation
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  Speaker 2: goes into the promise. And so he's not a young man.
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  Speaker 2: But if you want to receive gifts from God, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to receive additional things over which to steward,
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  Speaker 2: it requires our cooperation. Even in our elder years. There
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  Speaker 2: are most of you, seventy four percent of you, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: are elders. The ones who are listening, who are watching me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know on the radio, I don't have that data,
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  Speaker 2: but seventy four percent of you are elders who are
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  Speaker 2: watching me online. And there are some things that God
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  Speaker 2: still wants to open up in your life, and he
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  Speaker 2: is saying, just cooperate with me. Do you need additional strength?
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  Speaker 2: Are there some things that you want for your grandchildren
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  Speaker 2: or great grandchildren? He wants you to cooperate with him.
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  Speaker 2: And so God is showing us in the life of
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  Speaker 2: Joshua as he is moving on in years that he
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  Speaker 2: still has some power, He still has some instructions and
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  Speaker 2: some things that He wants to entrust to Joshua and
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  Speaker 2: to you. And so the lesson is the land of
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  Speaker 2: Canaan was a divine gift, yet the people had to
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  Speaker 2: take possession of it through faith and obedience. Grace never
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  Speaker 2: cancels effort. Grace never cancels effort. In fact, grace is
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  Speaker 2: the power of God to do what He has called
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  Speaker 2: us to do. And so I want to give you
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  Speaker 2: a word. It's in Hebrew. I don't speak Hebrew, but
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  Speaker 2: I can try uhah yah rush and it means to
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  Speaker 2: possess or to inherit, implying active participation in receiving what
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  Speaker 2: God has promised. Joshua and Caleb, even in their older years,
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  Speaker 2: still had some land to possess, and God was giving
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  Speaker 2: them the grace to receive it. And so I want
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  Speaker 2: you to ask God to show you the land, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that means in your life, still unclaimed. In your life,
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  Speaker 2: there are areas where promises await your faithful action. There
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  Speaker 2: are ways that I pray today that I did not
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  Speaker 2: pray ten years ago, and I can't speak it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have enough time to tell you why I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: But I've learned my lesson and I am praying great,
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  Speaker 2: big prayers because the one to whom I am praying
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  Speaker 2: is a great, big God. Can I just say that again.
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  Speaker 2: I pray great, big prayers because the one to whom
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  Speaker 2: I am praying is great and big. And so lesson
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  Speaker 2: Number two comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter nine and verse five. Somebody,
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  Speaker 2: just got your prayers should be equal to the power
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  Speaker 2: of the God to whom you prayed. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, not for thy righteousness dost thou go
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  Speaker 2: possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. So grace saves us,
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  Speaker 2: but obedience is an outgrowth of God's saving us by
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  Speaker 2: grace through faith. And so God's people's victory depended upon
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  Speaker 2: the power of God. We've already established that. But they're
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  Speaker 2: continued dwelling in the land depended upon covenant faithfulness. That means,
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  Speaker 2: don't rest on your loyal laurels, brothers and sisters just
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  Speaker 2: because you were faithful yesterday or six weeks ago or
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  Speaker 2: five minutes ago. Don't say God I was faithful all
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  Speaker 2: this time. Could Moses not have said that when he
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  Speaker 2: decided to strike the rock that second go around? Could
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  Speaker 2: he not have said that? Could not Eli have said that,
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  Speaker 2: as he was a high priest, year after year he
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  Speaker 2: goes into the most holy place, and he comes out
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  Speaker 2: alive and has accomplished what he was doing. And yet
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  Speaker 2: during the time of young Samuel's life, now Eli Eli
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  Speaker 2: is under judgment, and so God is not bringing back
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  Speaker 2: his righteousness to mind because he had turned away and
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  Speaker 2: done things not according to the will of God. So
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  Speaker 2: we don't rest on our laurels. When God blesses us.
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  Speaker 2: We continue to live as blessed as long as we
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  Speaker 2: are still in communion with God. I don't have time
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  Speaker 2: to get into those fancy words like I did the
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  Speaker 2: last time. But let let the grace of God lead
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  Speaker 2: you to consistent obedience. M consistent obedience, use grace as
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  Speaker 2: fuel for holiness. Our lessen number three comes in from
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  Speaker 2: Ephesians chapter and I will, of course truncated a little
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  Speaker 2: bit verses eight and nine, for by grace are ye
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  Speaker 2: saved through faith, not of works, lest any man or
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  Speaker 2: woman should boast, And so our lesson number three is
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  Speaker 2: simply this faith without action leaves promises unclaimed. God promised
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  Speaker 2: Naman that he would heal him if he would just
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  Speaker 2: dip seven times. What if he stopped at number six,
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  Speaker 2: What if he stopped at number five? And so what
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  Speaker 2: God is saying is that faith without action leaves promises unclaimed.
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  Speaker 2: So we thank God for giving us all of the
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  Speaker 2: guidance we need in order to be His children, and
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  Speaker 2: we can continue.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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.