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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It's Monday, the twenty

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fourth day of November in twenty twenty five. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I am your host, and

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this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's

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word every single day, and today is no exception. We

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are continuing in our lesson study series Lessons of Faith

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from Joshua, and our caption for today is the Land

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as a Gift, The Land as a Gift. Before we

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get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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I'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Pick up the

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Your Daily Portion Life application guide and let us know

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where you are in the world at your daily portion

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,

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thank you, thank you for giving us land as a gift.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again, okay,

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by show of hands. By hands, I mean like typing

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a one in the chat. Which of you own land?

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Which of you own land? Okay? And when I say own,

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I am not talking about mortgage, I said, meaning the

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only thing that you owe is taxes. When it's time

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to pay land tax or property tax or whatever, your

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taxes and your jurisdiction. How many of you own land?

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You see? That is an amazing thing. Like having land

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to own is amazing. And a lot of people around

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the world will never actually own anything on planet Earth.

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Will mortgage it, we'll lease it, will rent it, will

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will rent to buy, but never really get to the

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part where we buy because we owe it to a bank.

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You feel me. So I'm grateful that God has shown

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us in his word the blessing of ownership. Because God

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gives land as an inheritance. God gives the people land

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as an inheritance. And of course we've been studying this

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at nauseum, so I don't really need to continue to

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explain it in in great detail. But let me read

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from Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and fifty one.

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And for those who are new, you can just scroll back.

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You can see the dates. You can scroll back and

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get caught up as you see fit. And it reads

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God desires that the things which he has entrusted to

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us shall be regarded as sacred trusts that means holy

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or set aside for a holy use, to be used

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for His glory and the blessing of humanity. Okay, so

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let me go back to the first question, how many

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of us own? And it wasn't a trick question, but

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I do want to make a shift in our perspective

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because you know, considering some of you actually have land

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that is completely paid off. You may even have a

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home or some other structure built on it. In the

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case that you do, you're still a steward. We're all stewards.

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The son that came out of my lowings and out

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of my wife's womb. I'm a steward of Josiah. I

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can't even say I own Josiah because Josiah was given

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his life by God. God gave Josiah his life. He's

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answerable ultimately and responsible ultimately to God. And so really

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we can start by reflecting here, right, what blessings in

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your life remind you that you are living on God's property.

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It doesn't matter what it is you tell me. I'm

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not going to give you examples. You type it in

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the chat. How about how does viewing yourself as a

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steward or somebody managing other people's things, God's things in particular,

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instead of an owner change your daily priorities? You see,

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I am actually wired. It's weird the way that I'm

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you know, God created me. I'm actually wired to do

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better for others than I do for myself. That's that's

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the way I was born. That is the way that

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might be behavior style leads. Now it's possible to make

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a shift in my mind, et cetera. But so I

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don't really need anybody to coach me through that. I

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really do understand how this thing works. But I'm saying

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that I naturally do better with other people's things and

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being responsible to and for them then I am with

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my own things. So whatever your style is though, how

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does that change? Like, how does it change your perspective

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when you're managing for other people and this other people

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really is God? And finally, what do you think or

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what do you like? What would it look like part

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of me for you to live with the pilgrim kind

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of faith? Meaning if you do own property on planet

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Earth or you are a steward, you are a steward

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on planet Earth of whatever God has given to you.

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But you know you're passing through. This is not your

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final destination. That God is going to take you to

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Heaven for a thousand years and then back to the

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Earth made new. How does that change? How does that change? Okay,

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trusting God as your true landlord? Is that a good

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word for you? I don't know. But he's your benefactor

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for sure. He's the one that gave you your inheritance. You're

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the He's the one that you're answerable to. So am

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I and so Canaan reminded the place of Canaan reminded

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God's people that ownership belongs to God alone. Now, I

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don't want you to be like, you know, regretful if

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you typed a one in the chat a little bit earlier.

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Now we know where we were going. As heirs of

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His promises. We two live as strangers and pilgrims, grateful

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for every blessing, and yet longing for the ultimate inheritance

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that is built by God himself, where the gift of

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land becomes our eternal inheritance. And so you know, the

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Bible actually says here in First Peter, chapter two and

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verse eleven, dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims,

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abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. Or

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let me say it again, dear friends, I urge you,

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as foreigners and exiles. I've been a foreigner in places

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before and exiles, so I've never been in exile to

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keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul.

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So God is saying, while you are a stranger in

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this planet Earth as it is now, while you are sojourning,

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or you're a pilgrim passing through, do not get distracted

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by the stuff. The trappings that is on planet Earth

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are on planet Earth. Those temptations that those sins that

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so easy to beset us, those things that they flash

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on social media. And now artificial intelligence is glorifying and

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magnifying even more, sensationalizing even more. God is telling us

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to pay attention and don't get caught up with that.

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Don't get caught up with that. Finally, let me read

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from Deuteronomy, chapter six and verse three. Pay attention God's

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people here therefore, oh God's people, and observe to do

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what God has told you to do, that it may

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be well with thee in the land that floweth with

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milk and honey. You see, when Adam and Eve were

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exiled from Eden, it was because they did not they

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were not careful to observe and to do what God

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told them to do. And when they were dispossessed of

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that land, now they were wanderers. They're wanderers. So God

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is saying, I want you to be stable. I want

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you to be settled down and to be able to

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steward the best thing that I intended for you from

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before there was a beginning. And no longer have to

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be a nomad, no longer have to worry about where

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your next meal. Not worry, but be concerned about where

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your next meal is going to come from, whether the

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land is going to really give you what you want,

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or you have to work harder to get it. No

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more worries with childbirth and all of the things that

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come as a result of our sin. So what God

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is saying to us really is God has given us

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everything as a gift. We have the privilege of being

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great stewards of these things until Jesus returns, and when

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he returns, he will give us our ultimate inheritance. Make

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it a great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,