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11 22 2025 Heirs of Promises, Prisoners of Hope · 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, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series with lesson number nine, Lessons of Faith
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  Speaker 2: from Joshua under the caption Heirs of Promises, Prisoners of Hope.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting, Heirs of Promises, Prisoners of Hope. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Happy Sabbath, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray, Father, we thank you. Thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day that you have made. Help us to rejoice and
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  Speaker 2: be glad in it. Help us to receive in reality.
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  Speaker 2: The promise is that you made even to Abraham, who
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  Speaker 2: has been resting for millennia. Help us to be heirs
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  Speaker 2: according to this promise. Father, in Jesus's name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Let me just say, I am
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  Speaker 2: not born. I am not born to be in prison.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I was born to be free. I was
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  Speaker 2: not born to be a slave. I was born to
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  Speaker 2: be free. Now, you can say what you want to
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  Speaker 2: say about you, but I am just not built for prison.
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  Speaker 2: I am not built for slavery. I'm putting that right
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  Speaker 2: out there right now. And I'm so grateful because because
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  Speaker 2: God has given us freedom in Christ, yes, in real life,
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, God has given us freedom in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's interesting that when we go to Zechariah chapter
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  Speaker 2: nine and verse twelve, we read something yeah, like I said, interesting,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads, return to your stronghold all prisoners of hope. Today,
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  Speaker 2: I declare that I will restore you double. You see,
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  Speaker 2: there are times, there are times that we have things
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  Speaker 2: that God has promised to us, and we feel like
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  Speaker 2: we are just right there and can't quite grasp the
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  Speaker 2: thing that God has prepared for us. He has made promises,
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  Speaker 2: so many promises, and we're just right there. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible actually teaches us long lists of as the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer said of geographical boundary markers that delineate portions of
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  Speaker 2: land allocated to the people of God. For the modern reader,
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  Speaker 2: these lists might seem irrelevant, like the begats, like Wow,
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  Speaker 2: why don't we have to go through all of that?
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  Speaker 2: But they are based on a theological understanding of the
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  Speaker 2: promised land that is significant for us even today. Through
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  Speaker 2: these concrete lists, God wanted to teach the people of
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  Speaker 2: God that the land was not a dream. It was
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  Speaker 2: not something they just conceptualized or just hoped for. It
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  Speaker 2: was promised to them in a very tangible, measurable way.
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  Speaker 2: But they had to make that promise reality by acting
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  Speaker 2: upon it. Have you been imprisoned to hope because you
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  Speaker 2: don't act upon what God has given you in order
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  Speaker 2: to claim the promise of God. Bible says, great peace
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  Speaker 2: have they which love Thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: are you not peaceful? Are you peace free? Is peace
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  Speaker 2: running away from you because you're not acting upon the
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  Speaker 2: promise that loving God's law through his covenantal experience is
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  Speaker 2: what gives us the peace. You understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So there are many ways that God has identified that
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  Speaker 2: he will bless his people, and we can be hopeful.
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  Speaker 2: But we just need to simply surrender our will and
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  Speaker 2: do our part. Now. The Bible reads in Deuteronomy, chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse eight, Behold, I have set land before you.
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  Speaker 2: Go in and possessed that land. See, you can be
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  Speaker 2: a prisoner of hope to say, wow, he gave me
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  Speaker 2: that land. But wait, wait, don't stop right there. He said,
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  Speaker 2: Now go in and possess the land which the Lord
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  Speaker 2: swear unto your fathers. You see, every single day, even
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, his promises, God's promises, many of
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  Speaker 2: them come with our participation. Not that we're qualifying for something,
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  Speaker 2: not that we are adding to the equation somehow. But
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  Speaker 2: there are times that God tells us to go and
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  Speaker 2: seize aspect of his promise, and we're standing still, frozen
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  Speaker 2: in place, hoping that by some miracle, it'll drop into
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  Speaker 2: our laps, drop into our bank accounts, drop into our
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  Speaker 2: relationship pool, drop into our professional development. When God has said,
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  Speaker 2: if we delight ourselves in the Lord, then he will
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  Speaker 2: give us new desires. He will give us the desires
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  Speaker 2: of our heart. Meaning there are things that we desire today. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I won't say we, but there are things that people
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  Speaker 2: desire at different points in their lifetime, and it's when
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  Speaker 2: they are not delighting in God. And therefore those desires
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  Speaker 2: are not godly. You see, when we surrender our will
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  Speaker 2: to God and we assume that delightful, submissive mindset to God,
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  Speaker 2: then what He does is superimposes upon our minds the
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  Speaker 2: ability to desire things that already please him. Do you
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  Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? Maybe let's just say I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to illustrate this thing. I'm not trying to make desires
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  Speaker 2: wrong or right. They're neutral at this moment as I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to describe them. Let's just say, in my natural
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  Speaker 2: mind or my partially submitted mind, my desires look like
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  Speaker 2: X y Z. It doesn't matter what they are x y,
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  Speaker 2: Z is the what describes my desires. What God is
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  Speaker 2: saying is that when I surrend under my will, he
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  Speaker 2: will remove from my mindset X, Y and Z, and
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  Speaker 2: he will place into my mindset A, B, C. And
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  Speaker 2: that means that when He gives me these desires, that
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  Speaker 2: means that He gives me both to will and to
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  Speaker 2: do of his good pleasure. And so whatever A, B
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  Speaker 2: and C R that is the kind of thing that
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  Speaker 2: pleases God. It's on the approved list. It's on the
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  Speaker 2: approved list already because He has given us. He stripped
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  Speaker 2: out X, Y and Z from our from our mindset,
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  Speaker 2: from our desire pool, and has replaced it with things
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  Speaker 2: that are already approved. You want you want great peace? Definitely,
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  Speaker 2: Yes is the answer to that.
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  Speaker 1: Hah.
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  Speaker 2: You want to love God? Yes, the answer to that
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  Speaker 2: request is yes. You will love the Lord, your God
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  Speaker 2: with all your heart, soul, mind, strength, and everything that
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  Speaker 2: you own.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: You want to have the kind of relationship that pleases
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  Speaker 2: God God when you are relating to other humans, you
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  Speaker 2: want to have a remote, remote romantic relationship. That's a
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  Speaker 2: part of the A and A, B and C list.
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  Speaker 2: Yes is the answer to that. So God gives us
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  Speaker 2: holy desires that He has already approved from before there
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  Speaker 2: was a beginning, so that when we request those things,
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  Speaker 2: we're requesting from the desire list that God has approved.
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  Speaker 2: I've had difficulty over the years communicating this, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: praying that the Holy Spirit will drive this point home
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  Speaker 2: to you. Now, let me go to Hebrews, chapter twelve
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  Speaker 2: and verse twenty eight, where the Bible reads, wherefore we
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  Speaker 2: receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace.
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  Speaker 2: You see, hope is not a feeling, not when we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about it biblically. Zechariah calls God's people prisoners of hope,
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  Speaker 2: those who remain bound not by despair but by divine expectation.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, plot twist. So now we're saying that
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  Speaker 2: we are connected, we are bound to God, and what
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  Speaker 2: we desire is only what God has placed in us.
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  Speaker 2: So God's people were waiting for their inheritance, they weren't
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  Speaker 2: bound because they were well disobedient. Just give me a second.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not at all times, but what we see now
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  Speaker 2: is that we live between promise and possession. We have
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  Speaker 2: heard God's word of restoration, and we're still on the
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  Speaker 2: journey toward its full realization. If you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: in prison to hope, be on the Lord's side because
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  Speaker 2: he will fulfill his promise.
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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,