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06 13 2025 Good News Amidst Prophetic Hardships · 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 Friday. It
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  Speaker 2: is June thirteenth, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our Lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: Our caption for today on this preparation morning is good
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  Speaker 2: news amid prophetic hardships. I know it's a tongue twister,
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  Speaker 2: let me say it one more time. Good news. Do
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  Speaker 2: you have good news amidst prophetic hardships. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you in happy preparation day. To everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to please go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: dot Com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day that you have made. Teach us to
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  Speaker 2: rejoice and be glad in it. Help us Lord to
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  Speaker 2: see the hope, the hope that comes in Christ. Even
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  Speaker 2: when when crises come, we know that they will not
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  Speaker 2: continue forever. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  Speaker 2: again there is good news amidst the prophetic hardships. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so let me just go ahead and jump right in
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  Speaker 2: to the Bible Book of Isaiah, the Bible Book of Isaiah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to set it up. We're just going
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  Speaker 2: right in there. Isaiah, chapter fifty nine and verse fifteen. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the concept that the truth is unpopular
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  Speaker 2: at times, but the truth stands right now with artificial intelligence,
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  Speaker 2: right now, with a lot of the things that come
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  Speaker 2: out in the news that or I should say, would
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  Speaker 2: appear to be in the news that come out in
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  Speaker 2: social media, with all of the confusion that we don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it's a machine, and we don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's a human, We don't know if it's a bad
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  Speaker 2: actor from some country that is not happy with the
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  Speaker 2: country you're domiciled in. We don't know what'stuff is these days.
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  Speaker 2: It's just so weird in a way that I've not
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  Speaker 2: seen before. Ah. But even though even though there is
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  Speaker 2: so much, so many lies, there are so many things
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  Speaker 2: we're not sure of, so many things that are even
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  Speaker 2: coming from the highest echelons of society financially, politically, religious
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  Speaker 2: in nature. Even though that is the case, the falsehood
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  Speaker 2: seemed to prevail for a little while. But truth, truth
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  Speaker 2: will stand, And so the Bible reads in Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: fifty nine and verse fifteen. Yea truth faileth, and he
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  Speaker 2: that departeth from evil, making himself a prey. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say it another way, honesty has disappeared. That is that
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  Speaker 2: there are so many people who reject the truth and
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  Speaker 2: have turned their backs on God, especially in the last days,
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  Speaker 2: as it was in the days of Noah. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that the imaginations of their heart were evil, always evil, continually. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we're in a time like that today, But the Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: honesty has disappeared. The one who rejects evil is robbed.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what, that's weird? So what we need to
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  Speaker 2: do understanding that that is the reality of the days
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  Speaker 2: in which we live. It's not the first time, but
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  Speaker 2: it is our time. We need to resolve today to
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  Speaker 2: stand for truth, no matter what people say, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what is popular or not. Resolve today to stand for
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  Speaker 2: the truth, even if it's unpopular. And I want you
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  Speaker 2: to focus your attention on one biblical truth. You will
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  Speaker 2: not compromise on one biblical truth. Will it be thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt not commit adultery? Will it be that, since Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the author and finisher of my faith, then I
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  Speaker 2: will be faithful bias grace. Will it be because when
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  Speaker 2: there is no fear in love, but perfect love cast
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  Speaker 2: out fear. Is that the principle I won't compromise on that.
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  Speaker 2: When I am sensing that I'm about to feel fearful,
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  Speaker 2: then I'm like, but God loves me and I love God,
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  Speaker 2: so I reject the feeling of fear, the sense of
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  Speaker 2: fear and foreboding. What is that one principle that you
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  Speaker 2: are choosing today not to compromise on? Okay, And in
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter ten and verse twenty two, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall be hated of all men for my sake.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Jesus said. He said this about for
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  Speaker 2: his people, that that will happen. And so prepare spiritually
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  Speaker 2: today this morning, right now, it's an afternoon where you
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  Speaker 2: are is at evening? Is it late in the night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: prepare at this moment that you are now experiencing this
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  Speaker 2: worship session that we have. Prepare now start a regular
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  Speaker 2: prayer situation where you are writing down your own prayer request,
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  Speaker 2: the things that you're committing to God God that you
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  Speaker 2: will be faithful if He will just give you the grace.
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  Speaker 2: You may be the kind of person that likes group
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  Speaker 2: activities where you would organize a prayer group or be
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  Speaker 2: in a small prayer group. But whatever the case is,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to create this habit that will fortify
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  Speaker 2: your heart right now. And it's not a test it's
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  Speaker 2: not something that we can put ourselves in some kind
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  Speaker 2: of a boot camp. But I think sometimes we understate
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  Speaker 2: the reality that practice is a thing. Like if we
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  Speaker 2: practice being faithful, then we will be faithful. If we
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  Speaker 2: are faithful when somebody is rude to us, and we
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  Speaker 2: just choose to be kind, then God will give us
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  Speaker 2: the grace to do things that are even more challenging
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  Speaker 2: and more challenging as the case may be. We can
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  Speaker 2: have the Holy Ghost and he will teach us how
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  Speaker 2: to live according to his will. Okay, and so we
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  Speaker 2: can get another story. We can get another story from
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  Speaker 2: Esther chapter six and thirteen. If Mordecai is of God's people,
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  Speaker 2: comes from God's people, you will not prevail, but will
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  Speaker 2: surely fall before him. Now, this is part of the
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  Speaker 2: story that we have been talking about for a part
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  Speaker 2: of the week. But I want you to just do
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  Speaker 2: this based on that text, because you've read through Esther
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times. Well, by now, write out a
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  Speaker 2: list of past times that God has defended you. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that He has done great things in your life,
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  Speaker 2: in the lives of people that are close to you.
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  Speaker 2: Write that list down and keep it for encouragement. When
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  Speaker 2: trials come. See, there were people who were saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: if you mess around with this dude, maybe like you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have some problems. So listen, don't mess with
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  Speaker 2: God's people. Just don't mess with God's people. That was
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  Speaker 2: part of the moral of the story to the people
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  Speaker 2: in that text. Now we also have in Revelation thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse fifteen that there are some people who refuse
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  Speaker 2: to worship the image of the Beast, and those individuals
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  Speaker 2: will be destroyed. Right obedience to God will bring earthly consequences.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of discussion about the Seventh day Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: There is a lot of discussion about the man made
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  Speaker 2: sense of worship that comes by erecting a false Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: There is a lot of discussion about, well, what does
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  Speaker 2: that do to our relationship with God? And so we
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  Speaker 2: know that when we are in right relationship with God, obedience,
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  Speaker 2: radical obedience, shout to Lisa A. Smith, Radical obedience brings
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  Speaker 2: about earthly consequences many times. Yeah, Jesus said it. He
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  Speaker 2: said that there will be people who will persecute you
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  Speaker 2: and say all manner of evil things against you falsely
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  Speaker 2: for his sake. But we should rejoice and be exceeding
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  Speaker 2: glad for great at our reward in heaven for so
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  Speaker 2: persecuted day, the prophets which were before you. And so
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  Speaker 2: you need to ask yourself. I need to ask myself,
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  Speaker 2: is there any area where I compromise truth for comfort
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  Speaker 2: or I just choose to fit in rather than to
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  Speaker 2: do what God says? And if that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: then we need to repent. We can just literally say, God,
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  Speaker 2: I apologize. Can you give me the strength to turn away,
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  Speaker 2: repent and make a shift, do what God has said,
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  Speaker 2: be who whom God has called you to be, and
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  Speaker 2: in that case we become what God has called us
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  Speaker 2: to be. There's good news amidst the prophetic hardships that
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  Speaker 2: God is with his people. God is with his people,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're one of God's people, He's with you. 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,