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11 15 2025 Giants of Faith - Joshua and Caleb · 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 fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 with Lesson number eight under the caption Giants
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  Speaker 2: of Faith Joshua and Kleb. I am fascinated by these
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  Speaker 2: men of God, Giants of Faith, Joshua and Caleb. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. I'm asking you to go over on this
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath morning to your Daily portion dot com. Please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community and let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your daily portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for examples of humans who learned how to follow
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  Speaker 2: you in the right way. We have so many examples
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  Speaker 2: of people who fail. And God, we're asking you to
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  Speaker 2: make us stalwarts, make us holy, make us people that
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  Speaker 2: others can look up to you, so they can we
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  Speaker 2: can say, follow me as I follow Christ in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again, giants of faith, Joshua
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  Speaker 2: and Caleb. Now the Bible reads here in Hebrews chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse seven, remember your leaders, those who spoke
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  Speaker 2: to you the word of God, consider the outcome of
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  Speaker 2: their faith there, and then imitate their faith. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: writer says very clearly that God wants us to imitate
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  Speaker 2: the faith of people who were faithful. Yeah, imitate the
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  Speaker 2: faith of the people who came before you, who were
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  Speaker 2: also faithful. And I'm grateful. I remember when it was
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  Speaker 2: many years ago, when I worked in higher education, we
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  Speaker 2: had a theology student who was four point zero at
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  Speaker 2: the time. Man like, this guy was serious with it,
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  Speaker 2: and he's studying obviously for the ministry, not just for
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  Speaker 2: his intellect. I wish I had the time to deal
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  Speaker 2: with that right here and right now. But I remember
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. Wasn't Joshua and Caleb. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it was Elijah or Elijah or somebody. And I guess
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  Speaker 2: the young man was annoyed, if that's the right word,
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  Speaker 2: by the way that I was lauding the faithfulness of
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  Speaker 2: these men of God. And he said, he said, brother Harris, no,
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  Speaker 2: mister Harris, you know we can do that too. I laugh,
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  Speaker 2: I laugh, I laugh, I laugh, And I said, man,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that I didn't know that, But something in
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  Speaker 2: his young mind, his youthful mind, was like, listen, bro,
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about these men as if they are on
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  Speaker 2: a pedestal. But know that, since Christ is the author
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  Speaker 2: and finisher of our faith, we can go back to
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  Speaker 2: the author and say, God, will you give me the faith?
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  Speaker 2: Will you give me the faith that is saving in nature?
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  Speaker 2: Which is why in my case, you know, Elisha, he
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  Speaker 2: prayed for double of the Holy Spirit that Elijah had.
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  Speaker 2: I pray on a daily basis for double the wisdom
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  Speaker 2: that King Solomon had you understand. And so this faithfulness
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  Speaker 2: that we see in Joshua and Caleb is not for
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  Speaker 2: us to stand up in cheer, not for us to
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  Speaker 2: put them on a pedestal, but to say, God, give
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  Speaker 2: me that same kind of faith. I see that you've
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  Speaker 2: done it before, Can you just do it again in
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  Speaker 2: my life? In my life now? Joshua and Caleb represent
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  Speaker 2: a generation of people who one hundred percent of them
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  Speaker 2: all died in the wilderness. Everybody above age twenty or
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  Speaker 2: twenty and above those individuals, I get it mixed up.
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  Speaker 2: Those individuals died in the wilderness because of their faithless ness,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals who came out of captivity, who saw God
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  Speaker 2: part the red Sea, who saw him lead them by
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  Speaker 2: the pillar of cloud by day, the pillar of fire
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  Speaker 2: by night, who protected them through every single one of
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  Speaker 2: the plagues that came upon the people of Egypt and more.
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  Speaker 2: And only two individuals of all of the millions of
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  Speaker 2: that first generation lived to go in to the promise
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  Speaker 2: my God. And so that's why they are a sweet
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  Speaker 2: place in my mind. Because I'm like, against all odds,
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  Speaker 2: against the majority. It does not matter. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who when they see trials, they don't see giants. They
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  Speaker 2: see a giant God, the giant God who created heavens
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  Speaker 2: and the earth, the sea, and all that in them.
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  Speaker 2: Is this giant God who will take care of us.
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  Speaker 2: He said, through his Man of God, like I have
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  Speaker 2: been young, and I have been old, like the Man
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  Speaker 2: of Godlsalnus said, I've been young, I've been old. Never
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  Speaker 2: have I seen the righteous forsaken or his seed break
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  Speaker 2: begging bread. We have seen that we can seek first
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all things
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  Speaker 2: needful will be added unto us, no matter what. If
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  Speaker 2: we are persecuted for righteousness sake, God said, to rejoice
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  Speaker 2: and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: For so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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  Speaker 2: So we see them not as icons, not as people
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  Speaker 2: to worship, not as people to idealize, but as people
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  Speaker 2: that we saw do what God said, and therefore we
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  Speaker 2: know we can too. And so from the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Numbers, I've already started preaching. So I can't say stop.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I'm not gonna preach because it's too
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  Speaker 2: late now. But Numbers, chapter thirteen and verse thirty reads,
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  Speaker 2: and Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, let
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  Speaker 2: us go up at once and possess it, for we
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  Speaker 2: are well able to overcome it. These dudes were worrying
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  Speaker 2: about giants. These dudes were worrying about obstacles. And Caleb
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  Speaker 2: was like, stop, stop, stop all your chatting. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do exactly what God said because he promised we can
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  Speaker 2: do this by God's grace. So faith is not ignoring
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  Speaker 2: the giants as if they're not there. That's not the goal.
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  Speaker 2: But it's reminding us who is walking with us into
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  Speaker 2: the battle, who was there before the battle even began.
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  Speaker 2: And so Joshua and Caleb lived in a generation of unbelief,
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  Speaker 2: as I described, yes that, yet they stood firm when
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  Speaker 2: others wavered. When ten spies gave a discouraging and evil report,
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  Speaker 2: according to the Bible writer about the promised land, Caleb
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  Speaker 2: shut the people up. I said, shut the people up.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you may prefer silence them, or caused them
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  Speaker 2: to stop. He shut the people up, and the people
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  Speaker 2: and said to the people in a firm stance under God,
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  Speaker 2: let us go up at once. Stop all the run
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  Speaker 2: in your mouth. As I said a moment ago, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and possess it, for we are well able. Why because
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  Speaker 2: God is with us, Because God promised, because God is
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  Speaker 2: bigger than any giant, we are well able to overcome it.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God. And so our second lesson, and our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson is enduring faith leads to a proper reward. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads and Joshua fourteen and verse twelve. Now therefore
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  Speaker 2: give me this mountain whereof the Lord spake in that day.
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  Speaker 2: If so be the Lord will be with me, then
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  Speaker 2: I shall be able to drive them out as the
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  Speaker 2: Lord has said. You see, God never forgets those who
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  Speaker 2: walk with him faithfully. He never forgets, even if the
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  Speaker 2: promise takes a lifetime. Forty years, these guys wandered in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness. Joshua and Caleb had to wander with the
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  Speaker 2: faithless people. But God gave him the faith to believe
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  Speaker 2: and to lay hold upon the power and promise of
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  Speaker 2: God that he would be able to take this mountain
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  Speaker 2: as long as God was with them. And so decades later,
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  Speaker 2: decades later, Caleb's courage had not faded, and forty years
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  Speaker 2: later he approached Joshua's saying, now, therefore did I say
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  Speaker 2: it wrong, give me this mountain. I use the wrong words.
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  Speaker 2: My bad. His faith endured because it was anchored in
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  Speaker 2: God's promise, not in the circumstances or age. Joshua and
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  Speaker 2: Caleb remind us today that trust in God is not
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  Speaker 2: an emotion, not because somebody plays an organ, not because
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  Speaker 2: somebody says, three people touch your neighbor and say God
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  Speaker 2: is good. Because God has given us faith. It is
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  Speaker 2: a lifelong posture of obedience. And I'm grateful that God
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  Speaker 2: did in fact do what he had promised, and we
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  Speaker 2: can see that he'll do it again for us if
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  Speaker 2: we have faith in him. Make it a great day, Peace.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,