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06 18 2026 Bring Them Back · 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 Thursday, June eighteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. 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 about having a thriving relationship, a growing relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God, and our caption for today is bring them back,
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  Speaker 2: Bringing them Back. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: I told you all that I am building a map,
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  Speaker 2: and I got an interactive map built that's really, really,
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  Speaker 2: really encouraging to see where you all are in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And also, will you please please hit that contribute button
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  Speaker 2: because your daily portion ministries is a listener and viewer
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father. We thank you for this day
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  Speaker 2: and the privilege that we have to come together on
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  Speaker 2: a platform because we're all over the world. Father, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just asking you to please open up our understanding
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  Speaker 2: and help us not to wander. And for those we
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  Speaker 2: know who are wandering away from you, please please will
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  Speaker 2: you find them and bring them home? In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Let me begin from
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  Speaker 2: the book The Ministry of Healing, page four hundred and seventy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's an interesting quote. The strongest argument in favor
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  Speaker 2: of the Gospel is a loving and lovable Christian. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 2: the strongest argument in favor of the Gospel is a
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  Speaker 2: loving and lovable Christian. There are so many people on television,
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  Speaker 2: the internet, in our communities of faith who are trumpeting
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  Speaker 2: that we are Christians, and it's almost like a badge
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  Speaker 2: or like a past. I remember growing up we had
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  Speaker 2: bus passes. We would get on the bus and then
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  Speaker 2: flash our our bus pass like this, put up the
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  Speaker 2: bus pass, and then that would give us access to
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  Speaker 2: travel on that transport, on that bus for the time
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  Speaker 2: that it said, whatever month it was, it would say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is June twenty twenty six. So when I flash
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  Speaker 2: this bus pass, and that means I can I can
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  Speaker 2: get on this bus and go wherever I need to go.
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  Speaker 2: You understand. And sometimes people use the word Christianity in
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  Speaker 2: that very way, and then behave like people who don't
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  Speaker 2: have the pass, behave like the people who are not believers,
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  Speaker 2: and relate to other human beings as if they are
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  Speaker 2: not human. One of the chief sins of this generation
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  Speaker 2: is in humanity. Toward humanity, all kinds of wickedness is
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  Speaker 2: done under the banner called quote Christianity. But we are
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  Speaker 2: encouraged that if you were to be a manifestation of
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel actually working and the Gospel being effective as
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  Speaker 2: the power of God unto salvation is when people see
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  Speaker 2: your life, they see that you're loving and lovable. Oh
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. Let me go get
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  Speaker 2: to those lessons before we run out of time. Our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson comes in from Zechariah chapter ten and verse six,
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  Speaker 2: where we read, and I will strengthen the house of Judah,
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  Speaker 2: and I will save the house of Joseph. And they
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  Speaker 2: shall be as though I had not cast them off,
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  Speaker 2: for I am the Lord their God. And we'll hear
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  Speaker 2: them one more Zechariah chapter ten and verse nine. And
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  Speaker 2: I will sow them among the people and shall and
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  Speaker 2: they shall remember me in far countries. And so God
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  Speaker 2: wants us to remember, even if we've gone astray, just
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  Speaker 2: like the prodigal son, just like these people in the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament. He wants us to remember, to recall, to
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  Speaker 2: bring back to mind. God wants to reseat himself on
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  Speaker 2: the throne in our minds so we can remember whose
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  Speaker 2: children we are. We're King's kids. If God forbid we
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  Speaker 2: should go astray, or people that are close to us
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  Speaker 2: go astray, So God actively works to restore his people.
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  Speaker 2: Distance does not erase his connection. Hmmm. He continues to
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  Speaker 2: call them back. Remember the boy in the prodigal Son's
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  Speaker 2: story that squandered all of his father's living. He went
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  Speaker 2: to a far country. God is saying, no matter where
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  Speaker 2: you go, I am seeing you, no matter what you
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  Speaker 2: get yourself into the mess that you've made of your life.
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  Speaker 2: I can see you if you're incarcerated because of something
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  Speaker 2: that you that's contrary to my will. I can see
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  Speaker 2: you if you are bound to drug addiction. And I
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  Speaker 2: know I keep bringing that up, but this is what
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  Speaker 2: people are resorting to in our days and times to
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  Speaker 2: get away from the troubles that continue to haunt us.
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  Speaker 2: God can still see you. God can still see you.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we want to do is trust God's
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  Speaker 2: ability to bring you home. If it's you, trust God's
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  Speaker 2: ability to bring your loved one into his relationship again,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how far they seem no, release the control
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  Speaker 2: and place them in God's hands. I will say that
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  Speaker 2: even though I speak fondly of what my mom used
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  Speaker 2: to do in terms of praying for me constantly. My
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  Speaker 2: late mother, when I was not a believer, there were
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  Speaker 2: times that she was overbearing. But that's because she was desperate,
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  Speaker 2: not she wasn't trying to annoy me. But but but
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  Speaker 2: Goda saying, remove the anxiety part, remove the pressure part,
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  Speaker 2: because I am the one that is leading these children
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  Speaker 2: of mine back into relationship with me. So release control
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  Speaker 2: and place these brothers and sisters into God's hands. Our
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  Speaker 2: second one comes in from Luke chapter twenty two, verses
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  Speaker 2: thirty one and thirty two, And this, of course is
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  Speaker 2: about Peter Simon, Simon, I have prayed for thee that
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  Speaker 2: thy faith fail not, and when your heart or when
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  Speaker 2: thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. And then of course
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  Speaker 2: we see where Jesus actually does get the blessing that
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  Speaker 2: he desired, that Peter did get converted. But we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: a part of that transition here where Jesus is redeeming him.
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  Speaker 2: After Peter sold Jesus down the river, after he professed
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  Speaker 2: and declared that he would never turn his back on Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and he denied Jesus three times, well, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus said, unto him again, lovest thou me feed
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  Speaker 2: my sheep. He asks him three times, in very close
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  Speaker 2: to a specific way, if he loved him, and Peter
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  Speaker 2: was frustrated because he's like, God, how many times are
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  Speaker 2: you going to ask me this? Of course I love you.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course he gets his marching orders and
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  Speaker 2: in that moment. Now he's seeing that he can turn
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  Speaker 2: back to God, he can be restored to God, he
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  Speaker 2: can return to God. And so Jesus restores people through prayer,
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  Speaker 2: through patience, patience and purpose. He prepares the future even
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  Speaker 2: after a failure. Remember Jesus said when you're converted, So
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  Speaker 2: he's saying, like in this moment, Peter, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work that needs to be done in your character.
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  Speaker 2: But I know that you are going to be transformed,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what I want you to do once
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  Speaker 2: you are transformed. And so what do we do in
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  Speaker 2: this regard? Pray consistently for someone who has wandered and
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  Speaker 2: believe that restoration is possible. Praise God, Praise God.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we'll just go ahead and put our
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  Speaker 2: wheels down here and land this plane. Bring them back,
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  Speaker 2: Bring them back. Just know that God loves your loved
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  Speaker 2: ones more than you do, and he will stop at
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  Speaker 2: nothing to bring them into right relationship. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day, yeah,