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10 06 2025 Value in Unexpected Places · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: October six, 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 day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is value in Unexpected Places, Value in
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  Speaker 2: unexpected Places. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: us know 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 and then get underway. Father, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day and for showing us that it
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  Speaker 2: has never been about us, It's always been about You.
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  Speaker 2: Please transform our hearts so that we will not be
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with yesterday's successes. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again unexpected places. Well, let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: jump in with different lessons that I have learned from
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  Speaker 2: today's study. And the first one comes in from the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Joshua, chapter two and verse eleven. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven
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  Speaker 2: above and in the earth beneath. I'm going to read
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  Speaker 2: it one more time, for the Lord your God, he
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  Speaker 2: is God in heaven above and in the earth beneath.
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  Speaker 2: And so the first lesson, based on our passage in
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  Speaker 2: Joshua chapter two, beginning at verse two straight through to twelve,
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  Speaker 2: is that true allegiance belongs to God alone. In twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, it is becoming more and more critical for
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  Speaker 2: us to learn what Rayhab had learned, that God is
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  Speaker 2: the only true and living God. You see Rayhab having
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  Speaker 2: the life. I don't like calling her a Harlot. Her
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  Speaker 2: life was a life of harlotry. She did do things
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  Speaker 2: that harlot's do. But now we see that she is
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  Speaker 2: a child of God. She's a child of God who's
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  Speaker 2: recovering from doing the things that displeased God. She is
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  Speaker 2: not to be called by the name of what she
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  Speaker 2: had been doing. You are not a thief. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: steal God forbid. You are not a criminal. You maybe
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  Speaker 2: have done criminality, And so I want you to separate
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  Speaker 2: from yourself the title of the things that have happened
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  Speaker 2: to you. There's some things that have happened to you
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  Speaker 2: in abuse, like people have abused you in certain ways.
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  Speaker 2: There are some evil things that you have done. Don't
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  Speaker 2: call your name those evil things. I understand the way
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  Speaker 2: that it was translated in the King James version, but
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  Speaker 2: that's because that's the way the people spoke at the time.
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  Speaker 2: But the point is that Rayhab, now, the child of
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  Speaker 2: God who did in the past harlot like activities, now
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  Speaker 2: is recognizing and publicly confessing that Yahweh blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: not the idols of Jericho was the one, true and
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  Speaker 2: living Gods. Now, some of you think I just use
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  Speaker 2: fancy language. I wish I had the time to deal
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  Speaker 2: with what impression. Calling ourselves by a name leaves on
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  Speaker 2: our understanding, leaves on how we come into the world.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand? So call yourself by the reality of
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  Speaker 2: where you're going. Let me just continue these. This shows
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  Speaker 2: that the allegiance to God sometimes requires turning away from
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  Speaker 2: the culture. I say sometimes because sometimes the cultures are
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  Speaker 2: doing what God wants, very few, but still sometimes requires
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  Speaker 2: us to turn away from traditions, has required us to
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  Speaker 2: turn away from all of those things that we have
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  Speaker 2: known and values that we grew up with. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: action step. Identify one area in your life where your culture.
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  Speaker 2: Is it Jericho, is it Brooklyn, New York?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a country in Saudi Arabia? Like I don't
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  Speaker 2: a city in Saudi Arabia, I don't know, But wherever
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  Speaker 2: it is, Identify one area in your life where culture,
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  Speaker 2: or expectations or habits compete with God's authority. Surrender that
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  Speaker 2: area to him in prayer today. The second lesson comes
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  Speaker 2: in from the Book of James, chapter two and verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, and it reads likewise, also was not Rayhab,
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  Speaker 2: the Harlot justified by works when she had received the
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  Speaker 2: messengers and had sent them out. Another way, faith must
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  Speaker 2: be expressed in action. God is interested in our action,
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  Speaker 2: so who we are comes out or is manifest in
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  Speaker 2: how we act what we do. I'm talking about when
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  Speaker 2: the rubber meets the road. And so her confession of
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  Speaker 2: faith was proven by her courage to hide and protect
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  Speaker 2: God's people. Faith that remains private is incomplete. True allegiance
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  Speaker 2: expresses itself through risky obedience. Shout to Lisa a Smith
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  Speaker 2: like she talks about radical obedience. The action step is
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  Speaker 2: look for one solid or concrete way to live out
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  Speaker 2: your faith in action today, whether it's through service or
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  Speaker 2: witness or sacrificial love. And then the final lesson on
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  Speaker 2: this one comes in from Hebrews chapter eleven and verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, and it reads, by faith, the Harlot Rahab
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  Speaker 2: perished not with them that believed, not when she had
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  Speaker 2: received the spies with peace. God's grace values faith. And
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  Speaker 2: when I say that, yes, she lied, I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time to deal with that. Yes, there are
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  Speaker 2: things in her history, her recent past that God does
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  Speaker 2: not approve of. But in this moment, now there is
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  Speaker 2: this twinkle, this measure, there is a mustard seed seed
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  Speaker 2: sized faith that she's now acting upon, and God is
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  Speaker 2: about to move a mountain. Do you have a mustard
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  Speaker 2: seed sized faith where God is needing to move mountains
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  Speaker 2: in your life? Is it in your health? Is it
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  Speaker 2: in relationships with people in your family? Is it something
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  Speaker 2: that's going on at work, or maybe you're unemployed and
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  Speaker 2: you just really are having enough. Now you've had enough,
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  Speaker 2: like you need God to do something well in Reyham's life.
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  Speaker 2: Even though she was deeply flawed, God saw that twinkle,
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  Speaker 2: that mustard seed sized faith, and he preserved her. Her
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  Speaker 2: story proves that God, God seeks allegiance above the perfection.
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  Speaker 2: When we are first coming into faith with God. He's
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  Speaker 2: not looking for us to generate in our own selves
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  Speaker 2: the ability to do everything that God says. He is
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  Speaker 2: saying that I'm going to cover you. Now. There is
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  Speaker 2: no condemnation for those who are covered by God right,
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  Speaker 2: who walk not according to the flesh but according to
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  Speaker 2: the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So God is saying that as we begin to walk
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  Speaker 2: by faith, he covers us and he teaches us along
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  Speaker 2: the way how to actually live the way that he
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  Speaker 2: called us to live. He's calling us holy and he's
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  Speaker 2: teaching us to walk as holy people. Her story proves
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  Speaker 2: that God is seeking this and that his grace can
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  Speaker 2: redeem anyone who turns to him in trust. So what
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  Speaker 2: is the action. Don't disqualify yourself. Stop that. Stop disqualifying
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  Speaker 2: yourself because of your past failures. Thank God for valuing
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  Speaker 2: you through faith above your flaws, and walk in the
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  Speaker 2: confidence of His grace. Am I saying that God doesn't
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  Speaker 2: care when we do the wrong things? Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say it straight from the scriptures. The Bible does teach us,
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  Speaker 2: my little children, these things write ie unto you that
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  Speaker 2: ye sin not. And if anyone sins, now we are covered.
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  Speaker 2: We are covered in the righteousness of Christ. We have
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  Speaker 2: an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous. And
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  Speaker 2: so as we are growing, or as people we know
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  Speaker 2: are growing, we have to thank God for the fact
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  Speaker 2: that He is covering us. Make it a great day, Peace.
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  Speaker 2: 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,