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11 06 2025 A Witness to God’s Power · 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, November six,
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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 lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is a witness to God's power. A witness
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  Speaker 2: to God's power. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. Please please, if you
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  Speaker 2: and join our online community at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Father, We thank you for today, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for getting us closer to the Sabbath time. And I
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  Speaker 2: pray that you will you will make us witnesses to
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  Speaker 2: your power and help us to be transformed by the
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  Speaker 2: saying in Jesus' name, I pray amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever witnessed the power of God in your life,
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  Speaker 2: in real life? In real life, I'm saying, the power
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  Speaker 2: of God unto salvation. Have you seen that in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen the power of God to hear? The
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  Speaker 2: power of God to bring peace and comfort in comfort
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  Speaker 2: less times? Have you seen the power of God with
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  Speaker 2: your own eyes? Are you currently experiencing the power of God?
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  Speaker 2: So that if you were on a witness stand to say,
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  Speaker 2: who can testify of the goodness of God? Are you
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  Speaker 2: one of the people who could testify with modern day
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  Speaker 2: right now testimonies of God's goodness. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: the people of God of a certain generation overcame him
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  Speaker 2: the devil by the blood of the lamb and by
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  Speaker 2: the word of their testimony. They loved, not their lives
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  Speaker 2: even to the point of death. They were witnesses to
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  Speaker 2: God's power. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful. If you are,
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  Speaker 2: then go ahead and type that in the chat as
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  Speaker 2: we as we continue. So our first lesson comes in
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  Speaker 2: under this caption from Deuteronomy, chapter four and verse and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says keep therefor and do them, meaning all
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  Speaker 2: of God's commandments and judgments is statutes, etc. Do them
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  Speaker 2: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the
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  Speaker 2: sight of the nations. Mm hm Yeah, blessed is the
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  Speaker 2: nation whose God is the Lord, A nation of your people, God.
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  Speaker 2: Who are your people on planet Earth? God, except those
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  Speaker 2: who do the will of God. Yes, So keep be
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  Speaker 2: sure to do them, because they will testify of your
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  Speaker 2: wisdom and understanding to the people who will hear about
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  Speaker 2: these statutes and so. Joshua's deepest concern was God's reputation
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  Speaker 2: when you pray. When you pray, do you pray for
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  Speaker 2: God's sake? God, for your name's sake, which you heal
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  Speaker 2: me today? Father, for your names. I know that my
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  Speaker 2: month is shorter, it's longer than my money. For your
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  Speaker 2: name's sake. Can you get me through the trial that
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  Speaker 2: comes as a result of my month being longer than
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  Speaker 2: my money. God, I need to be healed. God. My
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  Speaker 2: relationships are in shambles, the one that's most important with
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  Speaker 2: my child, with my spouse. God, will you, for your
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  Speaker 2: name's sake get glory so I can testify of your
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  Speaker 2: goodness God. So Joshua was concerned about God's reputation. When
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  Speaker 2: God's people fail to live in obedience, his name is
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  Speaker 2: dishonored among believers. In fact, Paul said, it's because of
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  Speaker 2: God's people's disobedience that the wicked actually have reason or
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  Speaker 2: cause in their own minds to do what blaspheming, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: help us, and so God's God's people's victory or defeat
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  Speaker 2: reflected God's power to the watching name. Likewise, when believers,
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  Speaker 2: that's me, that's you. When believers live faithfully today, the
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  Speaker 2: world sees that our God is mighty, that our God
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  Speaker 2: is merciful, that our God is true. Our conduct is
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  Speaker 2: a canvas upon which the world reads God's character. What
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  Speaker 2: picture are you painting of God? So our action step forward.
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  Speaker 2: This lesson is to guard your witness carefully. Every word, choice,
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  Speaker 2: every decision that you make and action should magnify God's
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  Speaker 2: name before those who don't yet know him. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: let your light so shine before men, that when they
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  Speaker 2: see your good works, they will glorify your Father, which
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  Speaker 2: is in heaven. They will see light in God because
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  Speaker 2: of the light in your life, and hopefully surrender their
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  Speaker 2: will to God as a result. Our second lesson, failure
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  Speaker 2: can tarnish God's name, but never his character comes in
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy nine and verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: where it reads, help us, oh God of our salvation,
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  Speaker 2: for the glory of thy name, and deliver us and
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  Speaker 2: purge away our sins for thy name's sake. Remember I
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  Speaker 2: said that just a little while ago, okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: in failure, even in failure, God's people, when they were
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  Speaker 2: fighting against Ai Joshua, turned to God in humility and intercession.
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  Speaker 2: He pled not so that he could be validated or
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  Speaker 2: vindicated personally, but for the preservation of God's name. When
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  Speaker 2: we stumble, God forbid. His reputation may be questioned by
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  Speaker 2: the world, but his character continues to be unchanging. Through
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  Speaker 2: repentance and restoration, he can still turn our shame into
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  Speaker 2: a testimony. You see the devil wants to back you
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  Speaker 2: up into a corner because you have made the same
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  Speaker 2: mistake twenty five times, or twenty five hundred times, or
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  Speaker 2: twenty five thousand times or a million times, and the
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  Speaker 2: devil is like, well, see you run a roll. Just
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  Speaker 2: continue to make that mistake, because how can you recover
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  Speaker 2: from this? When God brings his light of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost to you and he begins to bear witness in
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  Speaker 2: your spirit that you need to change your ways. It
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  Speaker 2: is in the moment that God is offering the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: It's an invitation into righteousness, so that when you go
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  Speaker 2: back out into the world, you can say, I once
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  Speaker 2: was blind, but now I see. I was lost, but
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  Speaker 2: now I'm found. I was dead, but now I'm alive.
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  Speaker 2: I was a child of darkness, but I'm a child
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  Speaker 2: of light right now. Thank God. I was leading people
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  Speaker 2: away from God, but now I am calling people into
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  Speaker 2: relationship with God. You see, so our experience in failure
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  Speaker 2: can bring disrepute upon the name of God, like people
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  Speaker 2: will question it. However, his character remains the same forever
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  Speaker 2: because He is the immutable, one hundred percent holy, all knowing,
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  Speaker 2: all powerful, God. Blessed be his name. Regardless of what
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  Speaker 2: we do. But we want to lead people through our
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  Speaker 2: actions and character to God and not away from Him.
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  Speaker 2: Our third and final lesson is that our witness is
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  Speaker 2: God's strategy for salvation. I'll read it even though I
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  Speaker 2: just quoted it from Matthew chapter five and verse sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Let your light so shine before men that when they
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  Speaker 2: see your good works, they will glorify your Father, which
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  Speaker 2: is in heaven. So even though that text is actually
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  Speaker 2: an action step, let's say it another way. Let your
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  Speaker 2: faith be visible in love, in mercy, in justice through
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  Speaker 2: your life. Let others see that the God you serve
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  Speaker 2: is both powerful and good. Blessed be his name. Blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name. And so really a question for reflection
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  Speaker 2: is how can your daily obedience become a form of
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  Speaker 2: evangelism to the world around you. Surrender your will to
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  Speaker 2: God fully and become a witness to his power. 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,