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12 06 2025 Living in the Land · 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 is Sabbath, December six,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host Dan. 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 Lesson number eleven,
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is living in the Land and
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  Speaker 2: living in the Land. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  Speaker 2: joining us for the very first time. If you came
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  Speaker 2: in last evening and enjoyed the worship that we had
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  Speaker 2: the teaching through music, go ahead and type of one
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  Speaker 2: in the chat.
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  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 2: If you are on the radio, you're listening, you're like,
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  Speaker 2: what are they talking about? That's because it only happens
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  Speaker 2: on the YouTube channel. So Friday evenings, we have the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of going through the lesson study the whole week
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  Speaker 2: in song and Bible teaching. We invest just about an hour.
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  Speaker 2: So if you enjoyed that and you were uplifted, and
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  Speaker 2: more than that, if you are being transformed, then type
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  Speaker 2: A two in the chat. God is transforming you and
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  Speaker 2: you're learning even through music. Go ahead and type of
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  Speaker 2: two in the chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, we do thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of being called by your name. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to live like we are your children. Right now in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and jump in with our first lesson,
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson for today. It's coming in from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Proverbs, chapter eighteen. Proverbs chapter eighteen, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read verse let's see verse thirteen. Proverbs chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verse thirteen, and the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: he that answereth the matter before he hereth it, it
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  Speaker 2: is folly and shame to him. Let me read it
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  Speaker 2: in another version. The one who gives an answer before
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  Speaker 2: he listens, that is his folly and his shame. Now
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  Speaker 2: I want to use a word, a Hebrew word, which
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  Speaker 2: is really a paradigm. It's a principle of the ancient
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  Speaker 2: people of God. It's shama shama, and it means to
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  Speaker 2: listen intelligently to heed, listen intelligently to heed. And so
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  Speaker 2: how in the world are we going to begin to
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  Speaker 2: move or to action a thing when we've not heard
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  Speaker 2: the entire matter. This is the problem with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people. Some people run out ahead of God thinking
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  Speaker 2: that they understood everything because they did not have the
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  Speaker 2: patience to listen, wait and then act, or wait, listen
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  Speaker 2: and act, as the case may be. Some of you
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  Speaker 2: have children that are like that. Some of you are
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  Speaker 2: like that yourselves. You rent out ahead and wait, wait,
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  Speaker 2: come back, come back. You missed the point. And so
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  Speaker 2: shama again means to listen intelligently or to heed. And
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  Speaker 2: also it has built into it action, and so we
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  Speaker 2: want to action only having heard, not based on assumption. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: unity requires understanding and not assumption, and so and so.
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  Speaker 2: The action step is before forming opinions of opinions about others,
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  Speaker 2: before running and doing what you believe you are called
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  Speaker 2: to do. Seek to understand the intent. If you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about with others, seek to understand their intent. If you
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  Speaker 2: are someone who is running the vision, running the mission
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  Speaker 2: of a ministry or an area of ministry, then find
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  Speaker 2: out everything you need to know before you start running.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, when it comes to God, we want
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  Speaker 2: to be keenly listening, understanding God's intent, and then and
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  Speaker 2: then we can run. We practice listening first, speaking second,
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  Speaker 2: and in the case of having our relationships with people,
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  Speaker 2: judging last. Now we come in from lesson number two,
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  Speaker 2: coming in from Proverbs chapter fifteen and verse one. That's
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  Speaker 2: right in the lesson, A soft answer turneth away wrath,
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  Speaker 2: but grievous words stir up anger. Oh wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: so this word for soft actually means tender or gentle.
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  Speaker 2: True strength shows itself through calm, restraint and gracious words.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the power of life and death is in
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  Speaker 2: the tongue. I know a lot of people use this
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  Speaker 2: to talk about manifestation. Like you, you speak a thing,
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  Speaker 2: speak what you seek until you see what you say.
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  Speaker 2: Shout to my baby sis Mignon Francois. I call her
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  Speaker 2: the boss Lady, and that is true. I perfectly agree
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  Speaker 2: with her. But some people will take that to to
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  Speaker 2: to to too far. Like some people are just speaking
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  Speaker 2: what they seek and that's it. But what God wants
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  Speaker 2: us to do is to speak the kinds of words
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  Speaker 2: that are gracious. There are times that are speaking needs
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  Speaker 2: to be pulled down or pulled back as we await
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  Speaker 2: the message, so that when we do speak what we
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  Speaker 2: seek and we see what we have said, it's the
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  Speaker 2: right thing. Sometimes people speak anger, people speak inciting. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people speak things that are antagonistic, right instigatory things, and
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  Speaker 2: then we see on the other end the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: those things. So God wants us to speak with restraint.
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  Speaker 2: We should be speaking gracious words. And of course I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying in the context of people who are having interpersonal
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  Speaker 2: experiences when misunderstandings arise. Gentleness restores peace faster than confrontation does.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua Chapter twenty two shows that humility and dialogue can
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  Speaker 2: save relationships that assumptions would have destroyed and so what
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do, and I'm doing it often myself.
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  Speaker 2: Respond to tension as the Lord gives you strength with
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  Speaker 2: grace even when you feel provoked. Let your tone become
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  Speaker 2: an instrument of healing and unity. Notice I said tone,
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  Speaker 2: not the words only, but the tone. Let those tones
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  Speaker 2: that come from your voice, your facial expression, your body
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  Speaker 2: language become an instrument of healing and unity. Lesson number three,
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  Speaker 2: God calls his people to collective purpose. We've been talking
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  Speaker 2: about mission clarity and mission aries, right. So the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in Ephesians chapter six and verse seven, with good will,
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  Speaker 2: doing service as the law, as to the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: not to men. There are times that we are in ministry.
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  Speaker 2: We are doing our work in our mundane tasks every day,
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  Speaker 2: even in our business where we are doing service to people. Please,
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we're just doing service in order to collect a check.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we may use a soft answer in order to
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  Speaker 2: manipulate somebody politically somehow, or that's the intent, and we
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  Speaker 2: may smile nicely, but really have we have sneers and
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  Speaker 2: canines showing in our character. So what God wants us
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  Speaker 2: to do is to do everything that God wants us
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  Speaker 2: to do with enthusiasm, as though we are serving the
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  Speaker 2: Lord and not the people I have. Should I say this? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have served individuals that were complete, depletely like off there,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. They were not on the mission. They
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  Speaker 2: were not on the mission. And God said, you serve
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  Speaker 2: me when you're serving him, you serve me when you
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  Speaker 2: are serving her. Don't focus on them, see them as
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to service. And so the word for service
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  Speaker 2: is du lea I think I pronounced it right, meaning
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  Speaker 2: ministry or bond service. God calls his people to focus
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  Speaker 2: on our shared mission rather than our minor differences. So
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  Speaker 2: serve with sincerity, serve with joy, and in every task,
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  Speaker 2: whether seen or unseen, do it as an offering to God.
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  Speaker 2: Make 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,