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12 13 2025 God Is Faithful · 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 3: 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 Sabbath, December thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: 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.
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  Speaker 3: Day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series, coming in
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  Speaker 2: at lesson number twelve of thirteen Lessons of Faith from Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is really it should be
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  Speaker 2: a testimony for all of us. God is faithful. God
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  Speaker 2: is faithful. 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: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us the new day, this new Sabbath. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being faithful to us. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: be faithful to you. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. God is faithful, faithful to us. Now
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  Speaker 2: we are going to begin with quote a quote from
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  Speaker 2: the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page four hundred thirty one.
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  Speaker 3: Four hundred thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: Not one word had failed all of all that he
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  Speaker 2: God had promised. So it will be with every promise
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  Speaker 2: in God's word. So you can look back into history
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  Speaker 2: and see that God, when he made promises to his people,
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  Speaker 2: he kept every single one of his promises. And so
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  Speaker 2: that gives us the drive, the impetus to believe him
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  Speaker 2: when he speaks. So it will be with every promise
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  Speaker 2: of his word. His power is in finite, and he
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  Speaker 2: is faithful. Who promised. God is faithful, who promised. Let
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  Speaker 2: me read quote from October two, eighteen seventy three. That's
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  Speaker 2: way back from the review in Herald, and it reads
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  Speaker 2: through every age the Lord has shown him solf faithful,
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  Speaker 2: His promises stand secure, and none who trust him will
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  Speaker 2: be disappointed. This is from John Nevin's Andrews very very
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  Speaker 2: very very good stuff from way back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: legacy stuff. So our lesson number one is that God
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  Speaker 2: fulfills every promise that he makes. I guess you could
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  Speaker 2: have surmised that. But let's see what God said in
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty one and verse forty five.
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  Speaker 2: There failed not aught of any good thing which the
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  Speaker 2: Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel, and all
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  Speaker 2: came to pass. It's very interesting to come to pass
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  Speaker 2: that phrase. It means to arrive. So God has a
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  Speaker 2: shipment coming right to your house, right where you are seated,
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  Speaker 2: right now, to arrive to be accomplished. Remember when it
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  Speaker 2: used to get some stuff like you would order it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go in the store, even go in the
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  Speaker 2: store and you and there's certain parts of furniture and
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't get the whole furniture piece that you see
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  Speaker 2: in the store. You would get it in boxes and
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  Speaker 2: then you'd have to come home and assemble it. Like
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  Speaker 2: I remember that back in the eighties. It was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I did not like it because I was the only
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  Speaker 2: guy in the house that was gonna do it God
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  Speaker 2: Like God had me as a young boy with my
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  Speaker 2: mom saying okay, assemble is put this together, fix this,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, wow, but see this we no assembly required.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that, no assembly required. When God gives us what
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  Speaker 2: he promised, it arrives and it will be accomplished. Joshua
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  Speaker 2: wanted God's people to see that God's record is spotless,
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  Speaker 2: his credit is good with us, his resume is air tight,
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  Speaker 2: his curriculum vitae air tight and bulletproof. Every promise made
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  Speaker 2: became reality. Every commitment God DIDs declared was fulfilled. His
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  Speaker 2: faithfulness in the past is the anchor for confidence in
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  Speaker 2: the future.
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  Speaker 3: So what I want you to do is write it down.
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  Speaker 3: Jot it down.
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  Speaker 2: Let's three promises that God has fulfilled in your life,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to use those as reminders of
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  Speaker 2: his faithfulness when new challenges arise. It's the same God
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  Speaker 2: who kept his promises in the past, the same God
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  Speaker 2: who is with you today and will continue to keep
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  Speaker 2: his promises until Jesus comes. Lesson number two, even when
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  Speaker 2: we are faithful faith less, God forbid. I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: want to say faithless. I don't want to be faithless.
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  Speaker 2: I don't choose to go down that path. But there
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  Speaker 2: have been times that all of us have been faithless.
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  Speaker 2: Even when that's the case, God is loyal. Now the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and listen, do not mistake that to mean
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  Speaker 2: that God will end any wise clear the guilty. No,
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  Speaker 2: if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to
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  Speaker 2: forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from
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  Speaker 2: all on righteousness. So we're not taking God lightly.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible does read in two Timothy, chapter two and
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  Speaker 2: verse thirteen, if we believe not yet he abideth faithful.
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  Speaker 2: He cannot deny himself. Let me read it in the
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  Speaker 2: New English translation. If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful
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  Speaker 2: since he can't deny himself. And so the word this
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  Speaker 2: word for faithful, pistos, means trustworthy, reliable, and loyal. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine God is trustworthy, reliable, and loyal. Joshua reminded
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  Speaker 2: God's people that their future success depended upon obedience, but
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  Speaker 2: God's character remained steady despite their wavering ways. His faithfulness
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  Speaker 2: was not contingent upon their faithfulness. He remains who he
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  Speaker 2: is regardless of who we are. Some people are shape shifters.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you out there, God forbid, may be shape shifters.
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  Speaker 2: You may know people that change their spots visually their chameleons.
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  Speaker 2: They adapt to all kinds of stuff just to please
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  Speaker 2: people or to give people. Sometimes God forbid the wrong
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  Speaker 2: impression about things. God is not like that. He keeps
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  Speaker 2: his word. So the action step is to meditate on
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  Speaker 2: God's loyalty today. Maybe you could pray something like this, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for being faithful even when I have fallen short.
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  Speaker 2: Help me to reflect your consistency. Lesson number three and final,
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  Speaker 2: wholehearted love is the one reasonable response response to what
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  Speaker 2: God to his faithfulness Deuteronomy, chapter six and verse five.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we made allusion to this a little earlier,
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  Speaker 2: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
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  Speaker 2: thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
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  Speaker 2: thy might. This word again, this word for love, this
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  Speaker 2: time is a ho A have to desire to delight in,
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  Speaker 2: to choose affectionately God's unmatched faithfulness called his people to
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  Speaker 2: reciprocate with whole hearted love and undivided worship. Joshua chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty three urges the people to cling to the Lord
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  Speaker 2: because loyalty to God is the pathway to life, blessing
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  Speaker 2: and victory. So I want you to invest some time
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  Speaker 2: today de liberately, dedicate some time today to express your
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  Speaker 2: love for God through prayer and worship and obedience. Choose
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  Speaker 2: at least one act of wholehearted devotion. So Joshua looked
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  Speaker 2: back to remind his people, God's people that God had
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  Speaker 2: never failed them. Do you do that when your family circle?
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  Speaker 2: Do you tell your children? Do you and your spouse
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  Speaker 2: communicate this very very frequently to say, but God has
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  Speaker 2: been good to us in the past, and he will
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  Speaker 2: be good again. Please, please, please, just continue to embrace
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  Speaker 2: the fact that God is faithful and then live like
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  Speaker 2: He's faithful.
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  Speaker 3: Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 3: 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,