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12 15 2025 A Sign of Concern · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, 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 Monday, December 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 a sign of concern, a sign of concern.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. Please go over to your Daily portionon
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  Speaker 2: Your Daily Portion on Life application guide, and also please
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  Speaker 2: by the spirit, and this is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us your spirit. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to always be in lockstep with the Holy Spirit. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to be faithful to you through the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again a
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  Speaker 2: sign of concern. And so the lesson writer begins. The
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  Speaker 2: glorious conclusion of the whole section of what we read
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  Speaker 2: yesterday carries within it the fulfilled condition of obedience. And
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  Speaker 2: so now we to talk about conditions. Like I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I would ask the people of God what part
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  Speaker 2: do we have to play in our salvation? But they
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  Speaker 2: would often try to take the part that God has
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  Speaker 2: to play in some kind of way, kind of make
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  Speaker 2: it marry. But there is our part where we must
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  Speaker 2: be obedient. M we must be obedient. But remember the
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  Speaker 2: impetus and power comes from God so that we can
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  Speaker 2: be obedient. But we must do it. We're not on
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  Speaker 2: autopilot because salvation is free. But we have the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of being obedient because God has empowered us to be.
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  Speaker 2: So let me continue. Success is never to be taken
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  Speaker 2: for granted. It is always linked to obedience to God's words.
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  Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question. Are you And
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  Speaker 2: this is for you to answer by yourself with God.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to type anything in the chat?
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing what God has already given you? Back
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  Speaker 2: in the seventies and eighties, it was a big thing
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  Speaker 2: inside the faith fellowship of God. Are you living up
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  Speaker 2: to the light that God has given you? Type of
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  Speaker 2: one in the chat? If you remember that from back
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  Speaker 2: in the day. Are you living up to the light
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  Speaker 2: that God has given you? Let me continue the reading. Thus,
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  Speaker 2: the allotment of the land, besides being a token of
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  Speaker 2: God's faithfulness to God's people, create space for an open
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  Speaker 2: ended future development based on God's people's attitude. Will God's
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  Speaker 2: people be able to secure what has been achieved? Did
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  Speaker 2: you hear that? Will God's people secure what has been achieved?
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us
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  Speaker 2: from our sins? That doesn't mean that we just run
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  Speaker 2: into the Kingdom of Heaven and then the earth made
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  Speaker 2: new without any anything that we do at all. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's a manifestation of our faith that we are actually
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  Speaker 2: laying hold upon the promise of God that we can
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  Speaker 2: actually do what or the power of God? Pardon me,
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  Speaker 2: do what lay hold on the promises of God? Okay, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: somebody's getting it. Let me read from the review in Herald,
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  Speaker 2: July fourth, eighteen seventy two. Uriah Smith was the author
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  Speaker 2: of this article. The Christian strength lies not in himself
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  Speaker 2: but in the captain of his salvation. When Christ fights
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  Speaker 2: for us, no foe can can stand. And then again
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  Speaker 2: from my favorite book outside of the Bible, Steps to Christ,
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  Speaker 2: page sixty two, Victory is not won by human might
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  Speaker 2: or wisdom. The Lord alone is our strength. When we
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  Speaker 2: surrender our weakness, are you surrendering your weaknesses? When we
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  Speaker 2: surrender our weakness to him, his grace gives us power
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  Speaker 2: to overcome. So our first lesson for today is that
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  Speaker 2: pass victories don't remove the need for present obedience. There
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  Speaker 2: was a song and some of you you're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: a problem because I'm making an allusion to it. But
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  Speaker 2: what have you done for me lately? Remember that what
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  Speaker 2: have you done for me lately? Like don't rest on
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  Speaker 2: your laurels. The is the key to that passage. And
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  Speaker 2: again this is from Joshua, Chapter twenty one, verse forty three.
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  Speaker 2: We see, we see the promise, and the Lord gave
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  Speaker 2: unto Israel all the land which he swear to give
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  Speaker 2: unto their fathers, and they possess it and dwelt therein
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  Speaker 2: so wonderful like he made the promise, he gave it
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  Speaker 2: to them. Nay ten, that's the word he gave to
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  Speaker 2: them to bestow a sign or wait a minute and trust.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a stewardship element to when God gives you
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  Speaker 2: something I wish I had the time. So God's gift
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  Speaker 2: of the land was completed, a completed promise, but an
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  Speaker 2: on God owing. Oh here's the r word responsibility. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So when we are saved by grace through faith and
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  Speaker 2: we're awaiting the coming of Jesus Christ, we are responsible
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  Speaker 2: to him to love the Lord our God with everything
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  Speaker 2: we have in everything we are. We are responsible to
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  Speaker 2: him to love our neighbor as our healthy selves. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me continue. Joshua reminded God's people that success was
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  Speaker 2: tied to obedience. Their future security depended on continued faithfulness
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  Speaker 2: to God's word. Victory is never automatic. It is always
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  Speaker 2: connected to loyalty to the covenant. So our action step
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  Speaker 2: is to identify one area that's up to you, that's
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  Speaker 2: your business, that's in your private time, one area in
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  Speaker 2: your life where obedience has been inconsistent. Let me say
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  Speaker 2: it another way. You've been dropping the ball in particular area.
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  Speaker 2: You and God know exactly where that what that is?
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  Speaker 2: Ask God? Now I'm talking about like right now, your
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  Speaker 2: mind is going there. Your mind is going there to
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  Speaker 2: strengthen your commitment to God, your covenant. Really, it's bigger
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  Speaker 2: than a commitment strengthen your covenant with God right now
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two. Victory belongs to God and not human strength. Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter twenty three and verse ten. One man of you
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  Speaker 2: shall chase a thousand for the Lord your God. He
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  Speaker 2: is he it is that fighteth for you. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read it from another translation, New English translation. One of
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  Speaker 2: you makes a thousand runaway for the Lord your God
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  Speaker 2: fights for you as he promised you he would, as
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  Speaker 2: he promised you he would. And that word fight to
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  Speaker 2: fight is leke come. It means to wage war on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of So God is fighting for you. God's people
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  Speaker 2: conquered Canaan because God fought for them, not because they
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  Speaker 2: were strong. The same spiritual reality somebody's already there with
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  Speaker 2: me applies right now. Believers overcome sin and temptation by
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  Speaker 2: the victory that Jesus Christ has all ready won. The
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  Speaker 2: Christian's life is lived through divine strength and not just
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  Speaker 2: your grit and your human resolve, your ability to grind.
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  Speaker 2: That is not the pathway to spiritual success. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we need to have some grit. Yes we need to
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  Speaker 2: be able to press, press, press. Paul talked about that
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  Speaker 2: a lot. But again, but again, it's not in that.
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  Speaker 2: When you're tempted today, this is the action. Step, pause
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  Speaker 2: and pray, Lord, please fight for me. Rely. I'm relying
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  Speaker 2: on your strength and not my own. Lord, please fight
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  Speaker 2: for me. I'm relying on your strength and not my own.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when Josiah was young, he younger, he's fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: he just turned fifteen the other day. He was having
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  Speaker 2: some struggles with some things he was doing on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know what I mean. He wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: sociable and he was doing things that his mommy and
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  Speaker 2: I said don't do. And to make a long story short,
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  Speaker 2: you know, God would show us, we would catch him.
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  Speaker 2: And then I just told him I gave him a
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  Speaker 2: few words. I said, Daddy, please help. And I said
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  Speaker 2: I'm teaching you a spiritual principle. When you need help,
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  Speaker 2: you're being tempted, call out to me like we call
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  Speaker 2: out to God. Daddy, please help, and God will help. 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,