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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 is Thursday, November

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twenty seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our

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caption for today is the Land Restored, The Land Restored.

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Before we get into this, i'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community, pick up your

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Daily Portion Life application guide, and if you are so inclined,

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please go ahead and click that donate link at your

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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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We thank you for this day and for the privilege

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you have entrusted to us to embrace your word. Father,

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restore all that the devil has stolen from us. Please

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give us our dignity, give us eternal life. Father, today,

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please give us the fullness of your holy spirit and wisdom.

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Today in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amn again

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the land restored. Of course, there are people on planet

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Earth who had been subjected to the woes of the

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Transatlantic slave trade who for decades have been decrying the

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injustice of slavery back in the day and have been

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wanting forty acres and a mule. And that represents a

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lot of the struggle that peoples around the world have

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gone through when they had been taken by force and

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enslaved or oppressed in some way. The plight of many

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people groups around the world, including the people of God

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when they were bound in Egyptian captivity, has said, once

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God's people are set free, there must be something that

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is given in return. And of course God had given

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as people, the people of God, the land of Promise.

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And we are looking forward to thea that we receive

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our land of promise. We'll live in heaven for a

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thousand years, and then after the thousand years are finished,

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we will inherit the new Earth. And so I'm looking

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forward to that day, are you. Let's learn some lessons

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along the way, though. First from the Book of Jeremiah,

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chapter twenty six, twenty four and verse six. Jeremiah chapter

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twenty four and verse six, the Bible reads, for I

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will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I

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will bring them again to this land. And I will

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build them and not pull them down. I will plant

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them and not pluck them up. And so our first

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lesson for today is that God restores those who return

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to Him. There are some things that you're going through

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in twenty twenty five. I'm talking about today, like you're

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going through some things right now because of mistakes you

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have made and maybe even perhaps some sins you have committed,

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and you are paying either your debt to society or

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you are suffering through some other reality based on your actions.

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And you're like God, I'm repentant, like, what next for me? Well,

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I promise you, at the appropriate hour, God is going

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to restore you in a way that you could not

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have imagined. I'm not going to PROFI lie right now.

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I know what I said. I'm not going to PROFI

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lie and say to all of the hundreds of thousands

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of you who will watch me today that this exact

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thing is going to happen. But I will say that

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God's promise of restoration always follows repentance and renewed trust.

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Let me say that one more again. God's promise of restoration,

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one hundred percent of the time always follows repentance and

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and renewed trust. Even in exile, his covenant remained unbroken.

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For those who turned back to Him with all of

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their hearts. They were looking forward to the day that

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they would be released. They were looking forward to the

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day that they would have all things restored and even more.

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But the repentance had to come first. And so the

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word the word to return or to restore, it describes

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both a physical homecoming and a spiritual repentance. So the

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physical and the spiritual went together. When God gave his

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people renewal, it was also physical I wish I had

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the time. So the action step for you today and

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for me too, is when you feel distant from God,

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I want you to practice that restoration that returned, that

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repentance that you can see physically and spiritually return intentionally

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through prayer and obedience. Restoration begins with repentance, I said.

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Restoration begins with repentance. That means a turning of the shoulder.

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Once you can see that you are in the wrong place,

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you simply yield yourself to God. Don't say that you

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have gone too far, so go back to God. Just

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turn the shoulder, look the opposite direction of your sin,

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and say, God, I'm turning my eyes toward you. Will

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you please lead me on the paths of righteousness. Yes,

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let's go on to our lesson number two. And it

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comes in from Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and verse fourteen,

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and the Bible reads, and shall put my spirit in you?

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Do you ask God every day for the fullness of

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His Holy Spirit. Sometimes before I even can see clearly,

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I stumble out of the bed because I have to Well.

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I won't say what, but I need. It's early morning

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and I had water the night before. Can I just

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say it like that, and so it's time to get up.

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It's time to get up. And I'm stumbling, i can

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barely see, and I'm hoping not to fall down, and

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I'm maybe feeling my way through the darkness. But my

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mind always goes to God and says, will you please

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give me the fullness of your holy spirit today? God,

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will you give me double the wisdom that you gave

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to Solomon. And so God promised through the prophet here

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and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live,

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and I shall place you in your own land. The

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people of God had been exiled, The people of God

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had been been kicked about like a football, and whatever

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culture you're in, kicked about because of their sometimes because

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of their own misgivings, their own sins, their own mistakes,

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the times that they turned their backs on God, many

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of the times, I should say, and God is saying,

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no matter what had happened, I'm going to give you

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what you don't deserve, because Messiah is coming and he

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has purchased your pardon. So restoration begins with the roch

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of God. That is the breath of God, that is

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the spirit of God, the divine breath that fills dry

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places and God's people return. Their return prefigures the personal

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renewal that God offers to every believer. David acts for

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this and recorded in Psalm chapter fifty one in verses

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ten and eleven. Create in me a clean heart, O God,

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and renew a right spirit within me. So invite the Spirit,

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the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost into your heart

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every morning, like I just said, speak life into what

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feels lifeless by surrendering, surrendering to the Holy Spirit's power.

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I surrender all is a prayer that we can proclaim

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every morning, and our final lesson for it today is

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God's final restoration is eternal. God's final restoration is eternal.

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So let me just say this very quickly. Practice that

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final restoration. That is, if you confess your sins, he

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will restore you. Ha. If you turn your shoulder away

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from the things that displease God, he'll restore you. If

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you turn your face toward Him and ask for His

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Holy Spirit, he will restore you. God's final restoration is eternal. Practice. Now,

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thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,