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06 17 2026 A Wandering Child · 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 Wednesday, June seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 related to like how do we have a
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  Speaker 2: growing and thriving relationship with God? Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask
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  Speaker 2: you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com
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  Speaker 2: join our online community. Will you please please let us
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  Speaker 2: the contribute button. Because your Daily Portion ministries is a
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  Speaker 2: listener and viewer supported ministry. I did not say our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is a wandering child. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and get underwigh. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the ability to hear from you, so we
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  Speaker 2: don't need to wander and get lost. Help us to
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  Speaker 2: serve you with our whole heart today in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again a wandering child and
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer aptly does say that many know first
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  Speaker 2: hand the heartache and pain of having a child who,
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  Speaker 2: despite the strong spiritual home they were raised in, has
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  Speaker 2: chosen to walk away from the relationship with God. Hmm yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah. And so of course God is the one
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  Speaker 2: that feels this the most because he knows all that
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  Speaker 2: must take place in order for a person to come
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  Speaker 2: into right relationship with us with him. And I wonder
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  Speaker 2: what it's like for him when you know he he
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  Speaker 2: knows everything. He knows everything, He knows who is going
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  Speaker 2: to go the right path and who's going to choose
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  Speaker 2: against it. I don't know how he manages that. Before
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  Speaker 2: I get too far afield, I'd like to begin with Hosea,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse seventeen, and this is about Ephrium
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  Speaker 2: Man Ephrium. Ephrium is joined to idols. Don't go near him,
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  Speaker 2: let him alone, let him alone. Well, our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: is that this idol is something that causes sorrow and pain.
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  Speaker 2: It is anything we use to replace our connection with God,
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  Speaker 2: anything we prioritize above God or whatever God has for us.
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  Speaker 2: And Ephrium turned away through divided loyalty. Of course, poor
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  Speaker 2: judgment is an understatement and attachment to false sources of security.
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  Speaker 2: Sin pulled that tribe. If you want to say away
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  Speaker 2: step by step, and yes, I transition to the people
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  Speaker 2: of God in Ephrium tribe. And so what do we
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  Speaker 2: need to do when we think about how this relates
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  Speaker 2: to me as a human being? I need to identify
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  Speaker 2: an area where my loyalty is divided and return fully
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  Speaker 2: to God today. That requires honesty. Brothers and sisters. Think
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  Speaker 2: about how you spend your time all day long? Is
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  Speaker 2: there any point in time that you are wasting? And
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean that you have to give a technical
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  Speaker 2: account as if you're clocking in and clocking out at
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  Speaker 2: a work experience. But what I'm saying is like, let's
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  Speaker 2: go with a doom scrolling. You know, social media is
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  Speaker 2: a thing, and of course you're watching me on YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: which is similar to social media. You may be listening
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  Speaker 2: on the radio. Yes, I understand, but there are times
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  Speaker 2: that when people ask me, did you see so and so?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see us and such? I'm like, no, well
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  Speaker 2: how did you not see that? Well, because I don't
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  Speaker 2: do doom scrolling. I don't sit in front of my
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  Speaker 2: tablet or my phone and just scroll because I don't
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  Speaker 2: like what happens when I scroll. I don't like being
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  Speaker 2: a consumer because when if I choose to be a consumer,
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  Speaker 2: then whatever pops up on the screen as I'm scrolling,
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  Speaker 2: my mind is going to pick up on it. And
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  Speaker 2: that is something that people are worshiping today. You may
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  Speaker 2: not call it worship, but if you're just scrolling haphazardly,
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  Speaker 2: then yeah, it becomes at some point idolatry because you
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  Speaker 2: have no control over what happens on this thing if
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  Speaker 2: you just keep scroll, scroll, scrolling. So identify any area
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  Speaker 2: now I just said that it may not be that
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  Speaker 2: for you. Any area again, where your loyalty is divided
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  Speaker 2: and return fully to God today. Our second lesson comes
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  Speaker 2: in from Jeremiah chapter thirty one, Versus sixteen and seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, refrain thy voice from weeping, for
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  Speaker 2: thy work shall be rewarded, and there is hope in
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  Speaker 2: thine end that thy children shall come again to their
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  Speaker 2: own border. Another passage from Chapter thirty one one, verses
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  Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself.
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  Speaker 2: Turned now me, and I shall be turned. Surely After
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  Speaker 2: that I was turned, I repented. And so this is
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  Speaker 2: what God wants from us, And this is what is
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  Speaker 2: happening here, to turn back to restore. God hears the
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  Speaker 2: cry from our wandering. This is a lesson that I
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  Speaker 2: hope that we're all getting. My mom knew that, which
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  Speaker 2: is why she continued to pray for me when I
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  Speaker 2: was not a believer. This is why we intercede for
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  Speaker 2: individuals who may have been believers and turned back away
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  Speaker 2: from God. There are times that, like the prodigal son
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  Speaker 2: in that story in the New Testament, we come to
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  Speaker 2: our senses because the Holy Spirit is teaching us in
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  Speaker 2: the moment that we need him, that we are far
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  Speaker 2: away from home, and it doesn't make sense to be
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  Speaker 2: away from God in this way. And so God, here's
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  Speaker 2: the cry of the wandering. He calls us back and
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  Speaker 2: promises restoration as he did in this case, hope remains
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  Speaker 2: active when someone has walked away. You must keep up
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  Speaker 2: the hope, keep hope alive. In the words of the
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  Speaker 2: late Jesse Jackson, keep hope alive. Pray specifically for someone
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  Speaker 2: who has drifted. Or it may not even be someone
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  Speaker 2: who's drifted. It could be like me when I was young,
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  Speaker 2: someone who never connected to God in the first place,
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  Speaker 2: just maybe went to church because mommy said so, Daddy
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  Speaker 2: said so. It was a habit of the household and
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  Speaker 2: never really connected with God, and as soon as they
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  Speaker 2: had an opportunity, they just went out and did whatever
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  Speaker 2: in the world they wanted to do that was not godly.
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  Speaker 2: God asked God to draw them into His presence, into relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know someone who was drug addicted, someone who
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  Speaker 2: is an is addicted to alcohol. I'm someone who is
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  Speaker 2: in a relationship, you know, and they also know that
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  Speaker 2: they should not be in. They seem not to have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to pull themselves out. Pray for them. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to write their names down, call their name
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  Speaker 2: every single day until God delivers them less than number
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  Speaker 2: three from verse twenty Jeremiah, chapter thirty one is Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 2: my dear son, my heart yearns for him, or my
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  Speaker 2: bowels are troubled for him, I will surely have compassion
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  Speaker 2: on him. God is compassionate brothers and sisters. And so
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  Speaker 2: God's response to the wandering was not that he was
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  Speaker 2: going to reject him, reject them. That was not God's response.
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  Speaker 2: Rejection was not his response. His heart remained engaged, his
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  Speaker 2: compassion remained active, and he continues to call his people back.
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  Speaker 2: Are you one of the people that God is calling
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  Speaker 2: back to him? And this is not a generic question,
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  Speaker 2: this is not something I'm making up to have everybody
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  Speaker 2: to agree to. I'm saying, could you have been brought
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  Speaker 2: to this broadcast this morning because you like Ephrium the
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  Speaker 2: people of God of that time? Are you wandering? Have
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  Speaker 2: you wandered from home? Have you slid backwards? Have you
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  Speaker 2: said you know that you need to repent, You know
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  Speaker 2: you need to come back to God, And in this
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  Speaker 2: moment you're hearing his voice. Well shift your mindset today.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be frustrated with yourself. Just ask God. You know what, God?
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  Speaker 2: I apologize. I'd like to come into your face for
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  Speaker 2: joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,