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10 22 2025 The Lord Will Fight for You · 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 2: Vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, 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 Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the Lord Will Fight for You.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord will Fight for You. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask
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  Speaker 2: all of that. Let's pray, Father, we thank you, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for your faithfulness. Please make us holy, Please teach
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  Speaker 2: us to rely on you to fight our battles. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: news flash, news flash. We hear about the commander of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly hosts. We hear about the lamb that will
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  Speaker 2: fight for us. I do know, I said the lamb,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the irony of the entire situation. The Lamb
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  Speaker 2: of God will fight for us, and of course the
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  Speaker 2: mighty lion of the tribe of Judah. Right. But when
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  Speaker 2: we go back to the possession of the land that
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  Speaker 2: God had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I want to
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  Speaker 2: read a quote that gives some insight on God's intentions
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  Speaker 2: for how they were to get this now. And it
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  Speaker 2: comes in from the book or from the resource Signs
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  Speaker 2: of the Times. It's an article. It was an article
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  Speaker 2: Signs of the Times from September two, eighteen eighty and
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  Speaker 2: it reads. God did not design that his people should
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  Speaker 2: gain the Land of Promise by warfare. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: that God was to lay siege on the land. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to be like how he wrought he raised
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  Speaker 2: up Cyrus back in the day and took overtook Babylon.
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  Speaker 2: It was that was not his intention. That is not
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  Speaker 2: what he wanted to do. But through submission and unqualified
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  Speaker 2: obedience to his commands, that is the way that God
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  Speaker 2: wanted the people to receive the land, the Land of Promise.
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  Speaker 2: As in their deliverance from Egypt. God would fight their
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  Speaker 2: battles for them. All they had to do was stand
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  Speaker 2: still and witness his mighty intervention. Isn't it wonderful that
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  Speaker 2: we could see all throughout that experience where God would say,
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  Speaker 2: blow your trumpet, march, stand still and see and then
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  Speaker 2: we would see times when God would fight their battles
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  Speaker 2: as Moses's hands were lifted and those men were supporting
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  Speaker 2: him in his lifting up hands. Do you lift up
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  Speaker 2: holy hands unto God right now in your life? You see? So?
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  Speaker 2: History demonstrates that whenever God's people had sufficient trust in God,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't need to fight. Lord, Will you teach us
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  Speaker 2: to have the kind of faith, the kind of trust,
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  Speaker 2: the great peace that you said that we would have
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  Speaker 2: when we love your law and nothing will cause us
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  Speaker 2: to go away from you, nothing shall offend us. Can
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  Speaker 2: you give us that kind of peace and trust so
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  Speaker 2: we don't keep trying to fight for ourselves. And I
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people say we're sheep, and they
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  Speaker 2: mean it in a negative way. You hear it all
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  Speaker 2: the time. Christians are sheep. You just accept anything. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to accept God as the one fighting my battles.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to accept. Let me just say to you
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  Speaker 2: like this, many years ago, somebody said to me at work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about many years ago, so don't try to
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  Speaker 2: figure it out right. Many years ago somebody said to
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  Speaker 2: me at work, watch your back, watch your back. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get you. And I looked around in a symbol,
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  Speaker 2: in a you know, symbol of what, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: watch my back. I can't see my back. God fights
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  Speaker 2: my battles. I'm not worried about whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about. Thank you for your intent. But God
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  Speaker 2: is watching my back. I can't see my back. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the blessing of God fighting our battles, like
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  Speaker 2: the weapons of our warfare, are not carnal, they are spiritual.
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  Speaker 2: To the pulling down of strongholds, to every single thing
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  Speaker 2: that lifts itself up and puffs its own chest up
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  Speaker 2: against God. God will subdue and overcome that when we
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  Speaker 2: surrender our will to him. And so in God's ideal plan.
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  Speaker 2: According to the lesson writer, the people of God never
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  Speaker 2: needed to fight for themselves. It was a consequence, Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: a consequence of their unbeliefs. So self defense the consequence
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  Speaker 2: of your unbelief. Oh expressed after the exodus from Egypt
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  Speaker 2: that God permitted them to have a part in the
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  Speaker 2: war conducted against the Canaan Knits. In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: they did not need to raise a single sword against
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  Speaker 2: the Egyptians during the exodus. It would have never been
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  Speaker 2: necessary for them to fight in conquering Canaan. And so
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  Speaker 2: we read in Deuteronomy chapter seven, beginning at verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: If you should say in your heart, these nations are
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  Speaker 2: greater than I, how can I dispossess them? You shall
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  Speaker 2: not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well
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  Speaker 2: that the Lord your God, what he did to Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: in all of Egypt. So if all of these years
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  Speaker 2: later you have forgotten, remember, we have no fear for
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  Speaker 2: the future, except we forget how God has led us
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  Speaker 2: in the past. And so now these people are going
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  Speaker 2: to be fearful, like now we're seeing the forecast. Like
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  Speaker 2: if your mind goes there and you're worried about the
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  Speaker 2: quote giants, you're worried about all of those things that
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  Speaker 2: are happening along the pathway. If you're fearful and you're wondering,
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  Speaker 2: like how can I dispossess them? And you forget what
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  Speaker 2: God has done? Oh God, what God wants us to
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  Speaker 2: do is to remember well what your Lord did back then,
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  Speaker 2: the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and wonders,
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  Speaker 2: Remember those sicknesses that you went through, Remember the debt
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  Speaker 2: you could not overcome, Remember the mindset that was holding
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  Speaker 2: you back in terms of your success in your marriage,
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  Speaker 2: in your relationships with others at work, and your professional development. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: and your spiritual development. Remember what that was? And God
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  Speaker 2: dug you out of that situation. Huh. The great trials
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  Speaker 2: which your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand,
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  Speaker 2: and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God
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  Speaker 2: brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do
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  Speaker 2: to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. You see,
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  Speaker 2: God has given us a promise. He has given us
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  Speaker 2: a promise, and I'll give it to you. From the
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  Speaker 2: Bookstory of Redemption, page one hundred and thirty four. If
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  Speaker 2: the people of God had not murmured against God, he
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  Speaker 2: would not have allowed their enemies to make war with them.
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  Speaker 2: Sh If you're listening on the radio, that was a
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  Speaker 2: deliberate pause. So I need to be asking me the question,
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  Speaker 2: do I murmur against God when he takes me through
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  Speaker 2: straight or difficult places? Am I murmuring against God? Am
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  Speaker 2: my saying God? Why is it that you're doing it
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  Speaker 2: this way? God? Why are you doing it that way?
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  Speaker 2: You See? If I murmur against God, then I put
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  Speaker 2: myself in a position to have to fight for myself,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to do that. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: difficult for some people to surrender. See God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: surrender your will today and I will fight your battles.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to read a meditation about this this evening
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  Speaker 2: at seven pm to make a time if the Lord
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  Speaker 2: spars life, We'll see you later only on YouTube. Peace.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,