Speaker 1: 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 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: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, November
twenty seven, 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
lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
caption for today is the Land Restored, The Land Restored.
Before we get into this, i'd like to say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
We thank you for this day and for the privilege
you have entrusted to us to embrace your word. Father,
restore all that the devil has stolen from us. Please
give us our dignity, give us eternal life. Father, today,
please give us the fullness of your holy spirit and wisdom.
Today in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amn again
the land restored. Of course, there are people on planet
Earth who had been subjected to the woes of the
Transatlantic slave trade who for decades have been decrying the
injustice of slavery back in the day and have been
wanting forty acres and a mule. And that represents a
lot of the struggle that peoples around the world have
gone through when they had been taken by force and
enslaved or oppressed in some way. The plight of many
people groups around the world, including the people of God
when they were bound in Egyptian captivity, has said, once
God's people are set free, there must be something that
is given in return. And of course God had given
as people, the people of God, the land of Promise.
And we are looking forward to thea that we receive
our land of promise. We'll live in heaven for a
thousand years, and then after the thousand years are finished,
we will inherit the new Earth. And so I'm looking
forward to that day, are you. Let's learn some lessons
along the way, though. First from the Book of Jeremiah,
chapter twenty six, twenty four and verse six. Jeremiah chapter
twenty four and verse six, the Bible reads, for I
will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I
will bring them again to this land. And I will
build them and not pull them down. I will plant
them and not pluck them up. And so our first
lesson for today is that God restores those who return
to Him. There are some things that you're going through
in twenty twenty five. I'm talking about today, like you're
going through some things right now because of mistakes you
have made and maybe even perhaps some sins you have committed,
and you are paying either your debt to society or
you are suffering through some other reality based on your actions.
And you're like God, I'm repentant, like, what next for me? Well,
I promise you, at the appropriate hour, God is going
to restore you in a way that you could not
have imagined. I'm not going to PROFI lie right now.
I know what I said. I'm not going to PROFI
lie and say to all of the hundreds of thousands
of you who will watch me today that this exact
thing is going to happen. But I will say that
God's promise of restoration always follows repentance and renewed trust.
Let me say that one more again. God's promise of restoration,
one hundred percent of the time always follows repentance and
and renewed trust. Even in exile, his covenant remained unbroken.
For those who turned back to Him with all of
their hearts. They were looking forward to the day that
they would be released. They were looking forward to the
day that they would have all things restored and even more.
But the repentance had to come first. And so the
word the word to return or to restore, it describes
both a physical homecoming and a spiritual repentance. So the
physical and the spiritual went together. When God gave his
people renewal, it was also physical I wish I had
the time. So the action step for you today and
for me too, is when you feel distant from God,
I want you to practice that restoration that returned, that
repentance that you can see physically and spiritually return intentionally
through prayer and obedience. Restoration begins with repentance, I said.
Restoration begins with repentance. That means a turning of the shoulder.
Once you can see that you are in the wrong place,
you simply yield yourself to God. Don't say that you
have gone too far, so go back to God. Just
turn the shoulder, look the opposite direction of your sin,
and say, God, I'm turning my eyes toward you. Will
you please lead me on the paths of righteousness. Yes,
let's go on to our lesson number two. And it
comes in from Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and verse fourteen,
and the Bible reads, and shall put my spirit in you?
Do you ask God every day for the fullness of
His Holy Spirit. Sometimes before I even can see clearly,
I stumble out of the bed because I have to Well.
I won't say what, but I need. It's early morning
and I had water the night before. Can I just
say it like that, and so it's time to get up.
It's time to get up. And I'm stumbling, i can
barely see, and I'm hoping not to fall down, and
I'm maybe feeling my way through the darkness. But my
mind always goes to God and says, will you please
give me the fullness of your holy spirit today? God,
will you give me double the wisdom that you gave
to Solomon. And so God promised through the prophet here
and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live,
and I shall place you in your own land. The
people of God had been exiled, The people of God
had been been kicked about like a football, and whatever
culture you're in, kicked about because of their sometimes because
of their own misgivings, their own sins, their own mistakes,
the times that they turned their backs on God, many
of the times, I should say, and God is saying,
no matter what had happened, I'm going to give you
what you don't deserve, because Messiah is coming and he
has purchased your pardon. So restoration begins with the roch
of God. That is the breath of God, that is
the spirit of God, the divine breath that fills dry
places and God's people return. Their return prefigures the personal
renewal that God offers to every believer. David acts for
this and recorded in Psalm chapter fifty one in verses
ten and eleven. Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me. So invite the Spirit,
the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost into your heart
every morning, like I just said, speak life into what
feels lifeless by surrendering, surrendering to the Holy Spirit's power.
I surrender all is a prayer that we can proclaim
every morning, and our final lesson for it today is
God's final restoration is eternal. God's final restoration is eternal.
So let me just say this very quickly. Practice that
final restoration. That is, if you confess your sins, he
will restore you. Ha. If you turn your shoulder away
from the things that displease God, he'll restore you. If
you turn your face toward Him and ask for His
Holy Spirit, he will restore you. God's final restoration is eternal. Practice. Now,
thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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.
Make it a great day. Yeah,