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10 15 2025 Forgetfulness · 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, October fifteen,
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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 forgetfulness Now. Yesterday we talked about remembering.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're talking about for getting. Okay, let's just hold
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  Speaker 2: fast for a moment. But before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: seven pm, if it would be helpful to you something
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  Speaker 2: creative that I have worked through with my son Josiah.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it and talked about it. I tried
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  Speaker 2: it out on you the other day, just quickly, not
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  Speaker 2: in reality, just quickly where we would go through the
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  Speaker 2: lesson basically musically. Musically, we go through the lesson with
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  Speaker 2: songs that no one has ever heard unless you live
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  Speaker 2: in the house with me. And so let me know,
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  Speaker 2: let me know if you would come out, and if so,
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  Speaker 2: just put yes to music. Yes to music, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will determine. We got another day to determine if
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  Speaker 2: we're going to actually do it. Okay, so type that
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  Speaker 2: in the chat and then I'll know which way to go. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day, help us to remember
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  Speaker 2: and not forget how good you are in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again forgetfulness forgetfulness. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer asked this question, why was it so
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  Speaker 2: important to remember the mighty deeds of the Lord. Why
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  Speaker 2: was it so important to remember the mighty deeds of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. And of course, of course they have multiple
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  Speaker 2: passages for us to look through, but we'll do what
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  Speaker 2: we can with those. Let's start with one from Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse seven. Joshua chapter three and verse seven.
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  Speaker 2: And the children of Israel did evil in the sight
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  Speaker 2: of God and forgat the Lord their God, and served
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  Speaker 2: balem at the groves. So these folks who were being
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  Speaker 2: led by God, who were called by his name, who
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  Speaker 2: had the covenantal promises of God hm for then and
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  Speaker 2: the future, those people, Oh, be careful when you point
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  Speaker 2: the finger and say those people. But the fact is
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  Speaker 2: those people forgot God. Yeah, the Bible says they forgot
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  Speaker 2: the God who led them through the wilderness, the God
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  Speaker 2: who gave them slippers that did not deteriorate over forty years,
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  Speaker 2: the one who fed the manna from heaven hmm, their
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  Speaker 2: water and bread, Their bread and water were sure God
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  Speaker 2: had not forsaken his people, the one who got them
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  Speaker 2: through the Red Sea on dry ground, the one who
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  Speaker 2: got them through the Jordan River on dry ground, and
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  Speaker 2: they still forgot their God and began to worship like
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  Speaker 2: the people who did not know or love God. H
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  Speaker 2: So the lesson is forgetting God always leads to failure.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say that right there? I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing. I don't care if you're a billionaire
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  Speaker 2: with a bee, real live money. If you're a billionaire
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  Speaker 2: with a B and you are forgetting God, you will
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  Speaker 2: fail and you are a failure. I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 2: give you a complex. I'm just saying it is not
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  Speaker 2: a good thing to bite the hand that feeds us.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a good thing to forget how good
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  Speaker 2: God has been when we went through that trial that
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  Speaker 2: our money could not get us through, so our friendship
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  Speaker 2: core could not get us through our hookups, and the
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  Speaker 2: people we know that we go behind and say, well
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  Speaker 2: you can do for me, those people could not help us.
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  Speaker 2: And God helped us when our health was failing, or
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  Speaker 2: the health of somebody else that we love was failing,
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  Speaker 2: or when their health did fail and they passed away
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  Speaker 2: and we were comfort less, and then God comforted us. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: So forgetting what God has done, forgetting that he gave
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  Speaker 2: us the rain when we were just and when we
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  Speaker 2: were unjust, when he fed us, whether we deserved it
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  Speaker 2: in air quotes or didn't. When we forget him, it
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  Speaker 2: leads to failure. It's very simple, and so and so
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  Speaker 2: and so. The generation after Joshua quickly turned from the
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  Speaker 2: Lord because they forgot his mighty acts. Spiritual amnesia is dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: It opens the door to idolatry and independence from God.
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  Speaker 2: When we fail to remember what God has done, we
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  Speaker 2: begin to rely on ourselves and fall into sin. And
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  Speaker 2: so we need to take a spiritual inventory of God's
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  Speaker 2: past deliverances in our lives. Write down three ways he
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  Speaker 2: has rescued or sustained. You read that list every morning
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  Speaker 2: from now until Sabbath. Just read the list. Yeah, count
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  Speaker 2: your blessings one by one, remember that song. Read that
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  Speaker 2: list until the Sabbath. You can read it every day,
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  Speaker 2: really as a shield against doubt lesson. Number two comes
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  Speaker 2: in from Psalm chapter seventy eight and verse eleven, very similar,
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  Speaker 2: and forgot his works and his wonders that he had
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  Speaker 2: shown them. So this was a big deal. It was
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  Speaker 2: shown up in the scriptures all over the place because
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  Speaker 2: God's people for some reason just don't choose to remember him. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: God help us in twenty twenty five. So the first
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  Speaker 2: lesson is remembering God renews faith and gratitude. Remembering God
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  Speaker 2: renews faith and gratitude. God's miracles were meant to produce
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  Speaker 2: lasting gratitude, not short term amazement. He's not trying to
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  Speaker 2: impress you. Remembering what he has done strengthens trust for
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  Speaker 2: what he will do next. God's failure, God's people's failure
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  Speaker 2: to remember was not forgetfulness of mind. If this was
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  Speaker 2: a mindset problem, a spiritual mindset problem, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: that they really actually had amnesia, No, but a neglect
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  Speaker 2: of the heart. They remembered, not his hand, what he
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  Speaker 2: had done. So the lesson and action step is each evening,
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  Speaker 2: ask God and thank him for one specific moment when
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  Speaker 2: he showed his hand that same day, No matter how
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  Speaker 2: small in air quotes, you think that it is. Gratitude
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  Speaker 2: keeps your memory of His goodness alive. Gratitude. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to be one of the few that go to
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  Speaker 2: God and say thank you for when you crossed over
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  Speaker 2: into someone's lane and you did not get run over
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  Speaker 2: by the truck that was over there already. Say thank
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  Speaker 2: God when your child came home from school because you
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  Speaker 2: prayed for him or her. You prayed for them, and
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  Speaker 2: you said, God, protect them today, and God said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll protect them today. Thank God. When you were able
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  Speaker 2: to eat and drink today because He promised that he
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  Speaker 2: would not forsake you, that he would give you the
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  Speaker 2: food and water that you need. He gave you somewhere
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  Speaker 2: to sleep. He gave you some clothes to wear. Whether
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  Speaker 2: they're the optimal ones, are the ones you think that
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  Speaker 2: you should have or not. But you were sheltered last night,
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  Speaker 2: and you're here this morning listening and saying, yes, that's me,
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  Speaker 2: that's me. So gratitude keeps your memory of God's goodness alive,
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  Speaker 2: and our third and final lesson for it this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Remembering God fuels obedience and for future generations faith. In
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  Speaker 2: Juteronomy eight and verse two, we read it the other day,
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  Speaker 2: and thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord
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  Speaker 2: thy God led thee these four years in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: God commanded his people to set up memorial stones so
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  Speaker 2: future generations would learn to fear and trust him. To
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  Speaker 2: remember God's works is to live under the awareness the
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  Speaker 2: current awareness of His presence and power. Every remembrance of
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  Speaker 2: His grace strengthens obedience and inspires worship. Let me read
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  Speaker 2: very quickly from Life Sketches, page one ninety six. We
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  Speaker 2: have nothing to fear for the future now you know
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  Speaker 2: where it's found, except we shall forget the way the
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  Speaker 2: Lord has led us and his teaching in our past history.
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  Speaker 2: Thou shalt not forget the God who created you. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,