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11 27 2025 The Land Restored · 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 Thursday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Land Restored, The Land Restored.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into this, i'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: you have entrusted to us to embrace your word. Father,
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  Speaker 2: restore all that the devil has stolen from us. Please
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  Speaker 2: give us our dignity, give us eternal life. Father, today,
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  Speaker 2: please give us the fullness of your holy spirit and wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Today in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amn again
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  Speaker 2: the land restored. Of course, there are people on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth who had been subjected to the woes of the
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  Speaker 2: Transatlantic slave trade who for decades have been decrying the
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  Speaker 2: injustice of slavery back in the day and have been
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  Speaker 2: wanting forty acres and a mule. And that represents a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the struggle that peoples around the world have
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  Speaker 2: gone through when they had been taken by force and
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  Speaker 2: enslaved or oppressed in some way. The plight of many
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  Speaker 2: people groups around the world, including the people of God
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  Speaker 2: when they were bound in Egyptian captivity, has said, once
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  Speaker 2: God's people are set free, there must be something that
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  Speaker 2: is given in return. And of course God had given
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  Speaker 2: as people, the people of God, the land of Promise.
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  Speaker 2: And we are looking forward to thea that we receive
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  Speaker 2: our land of promise. We'll live in heaven for a
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  Speaker 2: thousand years, and then after the thousand years are finished,
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  Speaker 2: we will inherit the new Earth. And so I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to that day, are you. Let's learn some lessons
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  Speaker 2: along the way, though. First from the Book of Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty six, twenty four and verse six. Jeremiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty four and verse six, the Bible reads, for I
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  Speaker 2: will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I
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  Speaker 2: will bring them again to this land. And I will
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  Speaker 2: build them and not pull them down. I will plant
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  Speaker 2: them and not pluck them up. And so our first
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  Speaker 2: lesson for today is that God restores those who return
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  Speaker 2: to Him. There are some things that you're going through
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. I'm talking about today, like you're
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  Speaker 2: going through some things right now because of mistakes you
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  Speaker 2: have made and maybe even perhaps some sins you have committed,
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  Speaker 2: and you are paying either your debt to society or
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  Speaker 2: you are suffering through some other reality based on your actions.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like God, I'm repentant, like, what next for me? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I promise you, at the appropriate hour, God is going
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  Speaker 2: to restore you in a way that you could not
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  Speaker 2: have imagined. I'm not going to PROFI lie right now.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I said. I'm not going to PROFI
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  Speaker 2: lie and say to all of the hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of you who will watch me today that this exact
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  Speaker 2: thing is going to happen. But I will say that
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  Speaker 2: God's promise of restoration always follows repentance and renewed trust.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that one more again. God's promise of restoration,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the time always follows repentance and
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  Speaker 2: and renewed trust. Even in exile, his covenant remained unbroken.
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  Speaker 2: For those who turned back to Him with all of
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  Speaker 2: their hearts. They were looking forward to the day that
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  Speaker 2: they would be released. They were looking forward to the
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  Speaker 2: day that they would have all things restored and even more.
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  Speaker 2: But the repentance had to come first. And so the
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  Speaker 2: word the word to return or to restore, it describes
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  Speaker 2: both a physical homecoming and a spiritual repentance. So the
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  Speaker 2: physical and the spiritual went together. When God gave his
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  Speaker 2: people renewal, it was also physical I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. So the action step for you today and
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  Speaker 2: for me too, is when you feel distant from God,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to practice that restoration that returned, that
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  Speaker 2: repentance that you can see physically and spiritually return intentionally
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  Speaker 2: through prayer and obedience. Restoration begins with repentance, I said.
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  Speaker 2: Restoration begins with repentance. That means a turning of the shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: Once you can see that you are in the wrong place,
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  Speaker 2: you simply yield yourself to God. Don't say that you
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  Speaker 2: have gone too far, so go back to God. Just
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  Speaker 2: turn the shoulder, look the opposite direction of your sin,
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, I'm turning my eyes toward you. Will
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  Speaker 2: you please lead me on the paths of righteousness. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: let's go on to our lesson number two. And it
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, and shall put my spirit in you?
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  Speaker 2: Do you ask God every day for the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: His Holy Spirit. Sometimes before I even can see clearly,
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  Speaker 2: I stumble out of the bed because I have to Well.
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  Speaker 2: I won't say what, but I need. It's early morning
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  Speaker 2: and I had water the night before. Can I just
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  Speaker 2: say it like that, and so it's time to get up.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to get up. And I'm stumbling, i can
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  Speaker 2: barely see, and I'm hoping not to fall down, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm maybe feeling my way through the darkness. But my
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  Speaker 2: mind always goes to God and says, will you please
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  Speaker 2: give me the fullness of your holy spirit today? God,
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  Speaker 2: will you give me double the wisdom that you gave
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  Speaker 2: to Solomon. And so God promised through the prophet here
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  Speaker 2: and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live,
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  Speaker 2: and I shall place you in your own land. The
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  Speaker 2: people of God had been exiled, The people of God
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  Speaker 2: had been been kicked about like a football, and whatever
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  Speaker 2: culture you're in, kicked about because of their sometimes because
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  Speaker 2: of their own misgivings, their own sins, their own mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: the times that they turned their backs on God, many
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  Speaker 2: of the times, I should say, and God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what had happened, I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 2: what you don't deserve, because Messiah is coming and he
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  Speaker 2: has purchased your pardon. So restoration begins with the roch
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  Speaker 2: of God. That is the breath of God, that is
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of God, the divine breath that fills dry
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  Speaker 2: places and God's people return. Their return prefigures the personal
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  Speaker 2: renewal that God offers to every believer. David acts for
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  Speaker 2: this and recorded in Psalm chapter fifty one in verses
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  Speaker 2: ten and eleven. Create in me a clean heart, O God,
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  Speaker 2: and renew a right spirit within me. So invite the Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost into your heart
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  Speaker 2: every morning, like I just said, speak life into what
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  Speaker 2: feels lifeless by surrendering, surrendering to the Holy Spirit's power.
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  Speaker 2: I surrender all is a prayer that we can proclaim
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  Speaker 2: every morning, and our final lesson for it today is
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  Speaker 2: God's final restoration is eternal. God's final restoration is eternal.
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  Speaker 2: So let me just say this very quickly. Practice that
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  Speaker 2: final restoration. That is, if you confess your sins, he
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  Speaker 2: will restore you. Ha. If you turn your shoulder away
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  Speaker 2: from the things that displease God, he'll restore you. If
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  Speaker 2: you turn your face toward Him and ask for His
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, he will restore you. God's final restoration is eternal. Practice. Now,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for 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,