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11 24 2025 The Land as a Gift · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: 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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  Speaker 2: fourth day of November in twenty twenty five. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our lesson study series Lessons of Faith
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  Speaker 2: from Joshua, and our caption for today is the Land
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  Speaker 2: as a Gift, The Land as a Gift. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Your Daily Portion Life application guide and let us know
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world at your daily portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for giving us land as a gift.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again, okay,
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  Speaker 2: by show of hands. By hands, I mean like typing
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  Speaker 2: a one in the chat. Which of you own land?
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  Speaker 2: Which of you own land? Okay? And when I say own,
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  Speaker 2: I am not talking about mortgage, I said, meaning the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that you owe is taxes. When it's time
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  Speaker 2: to pay land tax or property tax or whatever, your
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  Speaker 2: taxes and your jurisdiction. How many of you own land?
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  Speaker 2: You see? That is an amazing thing. Like having land
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  Speaker 2: to own is amazing. And a lot of people around
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  Speaker 2: the world will never actually own anything on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Will mortgage it, we'll lease it, will rent it, will
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  Speaker 2: will rent to buy, but never really get to the
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  Speaker 2: part where we buy because we owe it to a bank.
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  Speaker 2: You feel me. So I'm grateful that God has shown
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  Speaker 2: us in his word the blessing of ownership. Because God
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  Speaker 2: gives land as an inheritance. God gives the people land
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  Speaker 2: as an inheritance. And of course we've been studying this
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  Speaker 2: at nauseum, so I don't really need to continue to
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  Speaker 2: explain it in in great detail. But let me read
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  Speaker 2: from Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and fifty one.
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  Speaker 2: And for those who are new, you can just scroll back.
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  Speaker 2: You can see the dates. You can scroll back and
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  Speaker 2: get caught up as you see fit. And it reads
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  Speaker 2: God desires that the things which he has entrusted to
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  Speaker 2: us shall be regarded as sacred trusts that means holy
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  Speaker 2: or set aside for a holy use, to be used
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  Speaker 2: for His glory and the blessing of humanity. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: let me go back to the first question, how many
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  Speaker 2: of us own? And it wasn't a trick question, but
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  Speaker 2: I do want to make a shift in our perspective
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  Speaker 2: because you know, considering some of you actually have land
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  Speaker 2: that is completely paid off. You may even have a
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  Speaker 2: home or some other structure built on it. In the
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  Speaker 2: case that you do, you're still a steward. We're all stewards.
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  Speaker 2: The son that came out of my lowings and out
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  Speaker 2: of my wife's womb. I'm a steward of Josiah. I
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  Speaker 2: can't even say I own Josiah because Josiah was given
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  Speaker 2: his life by God. God gave Josiah his life. He's
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  Speaker 2: answerable ultimately and responsible ultimately to God. And so really
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  Speaker 2: we can start by reflecting here, right, what blessings in
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  Speaker 2: your life remind you that you are living on God's property.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what it is you tell me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to give you examples. You type it in
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  Speaker 2: the chat. How about how does viewing yourself as a
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  Speaker 2: steward or somebody managing other people's things, God's things in particular,
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  Speaker 2: instead of an owner change your daily priorities? You see,
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  Speaker 2: I am actually wired. It's weird the way that I'm
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  Speaker 2: you know, God created me. I'm actually wired to do
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  Speaker 2: better for others than I do for myself. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: the way I was born. That is the way that
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  Speaker 2: might be behavior style leads. Now it's possible to make
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  Speaker 2: a shift in my mind, et cetera. But so I
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  Speaker 2: don't really need anybody to coach me through that. I
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  Speaker 2: really do understand how this thing works. But I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: that I naturally do better with other people's things and
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  Speaker 2: being responsible to and for them then I am with
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  Speaker 2: my own things. So whatever your style is though, how
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  Speaker 2: does that change? Like, how does it change your perspective
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  Speaker 2: when you're managing for other people and this other people
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  Speaker 2: really is God? And finally, what do you think or
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  Speaker 2: what do you like? What would it look like part
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  Speaker 2: of me for you to live with the pilgrim kind
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  Speaker 2: of faith? Meaning if you do own property on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth or you are a steward, you are a steward
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth of whatever God has given to you.
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  Speaker 2: But you know you're passing through. This is not your
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  Speaker 2: final destination. That God is going to take you to
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  Speaker 2: Heaven for a thousand years and then back to the
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  Speaker 2: Earth made new. How does that change? How does that change? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: trusting God as your true landlord? Is that a good
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  Speaker 2: word for you? I don't know. But he's your benefactor
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  Speaker 2: for sure. He's the one that gave you your inheritance. You're
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  Speaker 2: the He's the one that you're answerable to. So am
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  Speaker 2: I and so Canaan reminded the place of Canaan reminded
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  Speaker 2: God's people that ownership belongs to God alone. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to be like, you know, regretful if
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  Speaker 2: you typed a one in the chat a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know where we were going. As heirs of
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  Speaker 2: His promises. We two live as strangers and pilgrims, grateful
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  Speaker 2: for every blessing, and yet longing for the ultimate inheritance
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  Speaker 2: that is built by God himself, where the gift of
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  Speaker 2: land becomes our eternal inheritance. And so you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible actually says here in First Peter, chapter two and
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven, dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims,
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  Speaker 2: abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. Or
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  Speaker 2: let me say it again, dear friends, I urge you,
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  Speaker 2: as foreigners and exiles. I've been a foreigner in places
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  Speaker 2: before and exiles, so I've never been in exile to
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  Speaker 2: keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul.
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  Speaker 2: So God is saying, while you are a stranger in
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  Speaker 2: this planet Earth as it is now, while you are sojourning,
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  Speaker 2: or you're a pilgrim passing through, do not get distracted
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  Speaker 2: by the stuff. The trappings that is on planet Earth
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  Speaker 2: are on planet Earth. Those temptations that those sins that
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  Speaker 2: so easy to beset us, those things that they flash
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  Speaker 2: on social media. And now artificial intelligence is glorifying and
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  Speaker 2: magnifying even more, sensationalizing even more. God is telling us
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  Speaker 2: to pay attention and don't get caught up with that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get caught up with that. Finally, let me read
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  Speaker 2: from Deuteronomy, chapter six and verse three. Pay attention God's
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  Speaker 2: people here therefore, oh God's people, and observe to do
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  Speaker 2: what God has told you to do, that it may
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  Speaker 2: be well with thee in the land that floweth with
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  Speaker 2: milk and honey. You see, when Adam and Eve were
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  Speaker 2: exiled from Eden, it was because they did not they
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  Speaker 2: were not careful to observe and to do what God
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  Speaker 2: told them to do. And when they were dispossessed of
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  Speaker 2: that land, now they were wanderers. They're wanderers. So God
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  Speaker 2: is saying, I want you to be stable. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to be settled down and to be able to
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  Speaker 2: steward the best thing that I intended for you from
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  Speaker 2: before there was a beginning. And no longer have to
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  Speaker 2: be a nomad, no longer have to worry about where
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  Speaker 2: your next meal. Not worry, but be concerned about where
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  Speaker 2: your next meal is going to come from, whether the
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  Speaker 2: land is going to really give you what you want,
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  Speaker 2: or you have to work harder to get it. No
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  Speaker 2: more worries with childbirth and all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: come as a result of our sin. So what God
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  Speaker 2: is saying to us really is God has given us
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  Speaker 2: everything as a gift. We have the privilege of being
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  Speaker 2: great stewards of these things until Jesus returns, and when
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  Speaker 2: he returns, he will give us our ultimate inheritance. Make
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,