About Your Daily Portion
Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris is a Bible-centered teaching ministry committed to helping people engage Scripture daily with clarity and purpose. This program is a service of Your Daily Portion Ministries, Inc., and is made possible through the faithful support of listeners and viewers.
If this teaching blesses you, consider supporting the work so it can continue reaching others around the world through radio, podcasts, and digital platforms.
Support the ministry:
👉 https://www.yourdailyportion.com
Episode Transcript
Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
(00:23):
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, December
twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
final week of our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith
(00:55):
in the Book of Joshua or from Joshua. Yes, and
our caption for today is in sincerity and truth that
is coming right out of the Bible. In sincerity and
in truth. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
especially those joining us for the very first time. Please
(01:18):
go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
our online community, pick up your Daily Portion life application guide,
and let us know where you are in the world
at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
Let's pray, Father, thank you for this Monday morning and
(01:39):
for the privilege of sincerity. Like we can literally do
your will as long as you are with us. Help
us to do it. Please help us to live as
if we are finally in your presence God. In Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and amen again. Yeah I should have
said visible, We're in the presence of God. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
(02:03):
So our first lesson is coming in from from the
Bible Book of Joshua, chapter twenty four, Verses fourteen and fifteen.
Verses fourteen and fifteen. Let me read that. Now, therefore,
fear the Lord. Remember that phrase, fear the Lord, serve
him in sincerity and in truth. That almost sounds like
(02:25):
the New Testament passage to serve him or in spirit
and in truth. Those who worship him will worship him
interesting and put away the gods which your fathers served
on the other side of the river. And in Egypt,
serve the Lord. And if it seems evil to you,
we said this the other day, to serve the Lord.
(02:45):
Choose for yourselves this day today, right now, whom ye
will serve. Whether the gods of your fathers that they served,
that were on the other side of the river, on
the other side of the river. Do you get that?
Did you get that there's a line of demarcation, There
was a line in the sand the other side of
(03:06):
the river, mint idolatry. The other side of the river
meant you were not fully delivered in your own mindset.
On the other side of those tracks, so to speak,
was your impoverished, enslaved mindset. You're gonna serve that time.
You're gonna serve that experience or the gods of the
Amorites and whose land you dwell. But as for me
(03:29):
and my house, we will serve the Lord. And so
our first lesson is Reverence for God shapes genuine obedience.
Reverence for God shapes genuine obedience, and so and so.
The word for fear I told you please to remember
(03:52):
the phrase to the fear the Lord. The word for
fear in this case is yare. It means to stand
in awe and reguard with reverence. We're in awe of God,
and we're are regarding with reverence the God of our salvation.
So Joshua called God's people to live with a conscious
(04:14):
awareness of God's holiness and his awe authority. True obedience
grows out of reverence, not dread, you know what I mean, Like,
we're not running away from God hoping that lightning bolts
won't strike us. Not in a real relationship with God. No, no,
no no. When the heart sees God as King and father.
(04:36):
And I know many of us have father issues. Some
of you don't, thank God, many of us do. And
it's like, ah, but my father wasn't there for me.
My father was there. But when he was there, he
really and then fill in the negative blank. I'm not
going to rehearse those those early childhood experiences that maybe
we're not we're not fruitful or beneficial to you, God,
(05:00):
our Father. That's different. Obedience comes. Let me say it
like this, when the heart sees God as King and
the good Father that we needed ha hah. Obedience becomes
the natural expression of this devotion. And so the action
in this regard is begin today by praying Lord, teach
(05:22):
me to see you as who you really are, so
I can serve you with a reverent heart Lesson number two,
sincerity means wholeness of heart before God. The Bible reads
in Psalm the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
one and verse two, I will behave myself wisely in
(05:46):
a perfect way. In the New English translation it reads,
I will walk in integrity. So the word for sincerity
or perfection same word now, yes, is tanine tanine and
tamim excuse me, and it means whole, complete, undivided. God
(06:11):
wants us to be whole, complete, and undivided. He said
that the people who ask Wavering in the Book of
James should not believe or think that we're going to
receive anything from God because we are unstable in all
of our ways. We are like Ruben. I think it
was Reuben that was unstable as water, but whichever one
(06:34):
of the sons of Jacob he said, yeah, yeah, because
you're unstable, then that means, yeah, you don't believe you're
going to get anything from God. So focus. I want
you to be taen, whole, complete, and undivided. Joshua's instruction
was a call to serve God without duplicity or divided loyalties.
(06:56):
Just as the sacrificial lamb had to be perfect or
tomim huh, Just as the lamb had to be God
invited his people to offer themselves. Oh, I'm thinking about
Paul's writings, to offer myself as a living sacrifice. But
a living what tomim sacrifice? One that is perfect, one
(07:18):
that is with sincerity, one is whole, It's complete, it
is undivided. So God commanded his people to do the same,
offer ourselves with undivided hearts. God still seeks believers who
will live with integrity. So our action step is choose
one area of your life. I want you to write
(07:39):
this down though. Choose an area of your life where
your devotion is divided. That's your business between you and God,
where it's divided, and surrender it to God today, not tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Not.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm still growing. God is still working with me. I'm trying.
Not that you're making a decision now, in this very moment,
in eight minutes after the hour, you are making the
decision to surrender that thing to God and your life
to him right now. Lesson number three is coming in
from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and verse five.
(08:17):
The Bible reads, for the Lord is good, his mercy
is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations. Blessed
be the name of the Lord. And so the Hebrew
word again for truth and faithfulness, this time is emmet,
meaning firmness, dependability, reliability. God's loyalty toward his people was constant, reliable, right,
(08:44):
and steady and unchanging. That resonates with me. One of
my behavior style dominant styles is is that way steady, steady, steady, unchanging, consistent.
Joshua called his people, God's people to respond with that
same unwavering or steady loyalty. Our faithfulness to God is
(09:09):
a reflection of his own faithfulness toward us. If you
are unsteady, unstable, then you're saying that God is unsteady
and unstable. And we know that ain't the truth. And
so our action for this today is make one choice,
one decision that reflects loyalty to God rather than ooh,
ease or commitment my God. Hmm, yeah, I'll leave it
(09:35):
right there. I'll leave it right there. And if the
Lord spars life, we will see you in the morning.
Make it a great day peace. Thanks for joining us
listening with friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
(09:57):
Make it a great day.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah,
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.