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09 27 2026 Communication in Eden · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God, to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges? On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: 27th day of September in 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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: new lesson study series titled The Gift of Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Communication Today. in Eden. Communication in,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about the Garden of Eden, the Garden of God,
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  Speaker 2: as in another place in the Scriptures. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to please go over to yourdailyportion.com. Will you please,
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  Speaker 2: Stop guessing, that's what it says, right on your screen
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  Speaker 2: under the Designed to Serve header. Stop guessing what to
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  Speaker 2: do with your life. Discover God's design for your life.
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  Speaker 2: After you invest a few minutes of time, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: show you on the screen how much time you are investing,
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  Speaker 2: you will come away with a personal blueprint, a clear
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  Speaker 2: picture of how God gifted you, like the way that
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  Speaker 2: he created you to come into this world and be
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  Speaker 2: of service to others and, of course, to glorify him.
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  Speaker 2: And then the word that is behind each gift and
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  Speaker 2: the first step toward using that gift or those gifts.
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  Speaker 2: So please go ahead and do that. That is for
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  Speaker 2: your benefit and God's glory, of course. And if you
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  Speaker 2: button because your Daily Portion Ministries is a listener and
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  Speaker 2: viewer supported ministry. Let me just say a great big
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Thank you. Let me switch the screen. There
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  Speaker 2: I go. Thank you to those of you who have
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  Speaker 2: been contributing. And of course, for those who are listening
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  Speaker 2: and sharing, you're watching, you're sharing. Thank you for that
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  Speaker 2: because this gospel of the kingdom is must be preached
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  Speaker 2: into all the world for a witness, because then and
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  Speaker 2: only then shall the end come. So thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your support in whatever way you choose
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  Speaker 2: to support. Let's pray. God, we thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: new day, this new work week, for the Sabbath that
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  Speaker 2: we had yesterday. Will you teach us how to communicate
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  Speaker 2: with you now? Thank you. In Jesus' name I pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And amen again. Communication in Eden. To communicate. That's a
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  Speaker 2: big word, you know. It's not a one-way street. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that people talk and they'll talk you to
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  Speaker 2: death and think that that is communication because they said
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  Speaker 2: what they said. You know what I'm saying? Like some
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  Speaker 2: people say, I said what I said and don't care,
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  Speaker 2: have no interest, don't business whether the people on the
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  Speaker 2: other side are able to receive or have received the message. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so what God is saying is that in Eden,
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  Speaker 2: the message or the pathway, that highway, that information highway
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  Speaker 2: was wide open because, as we said yesterday, God used
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  Speaker 2: to come and commune with those that he created in
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  Speaker 2: the cool of the day. They would have specific interaction.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine what that must have been like. We
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  Speaker 2: know what it's like to have interaction with other human beings.
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  Speaker 2: So that means we can see, we can hear. If
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  Speaker 2: they have on perfume or cologne or there's something about
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  Speaker 2: how they normally smell, then you can experience that. You
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  Speaker 2: can hear their voice. You can tell when something is
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  Speaker 2: different about what they're communicating that day. And you can
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  Speaker 2: see the majority of that movement, that movement is actually...
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  Speaker 2: a high percentage, like 80-some percent of that reality they
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  Speaker 2: could experience from God. And so, I am grateful. I
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  Speaker 2: am grateful. I am asking you now to just think,
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  Speaker 2: what is your communication like with God? Remember, we were
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  Speaker 2: created in the image of God. We talked about that yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: in the image of God. Created he him, male and female,
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  Speaker 2: created he them. And so I am asking you, like,
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  Speaker 2: what is your resemblance in 2026? I'm talking about this
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  Speaker 2: day in September to God. What is the pattern now
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  Speaker 2: or shape of your life now? Is that after the
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  Speaker 2: image of God? That is between you and God. That's
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  Speaker 2: something to think about. You bear the likeness, though, to God.
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  Speaker 2: And that sets you apart from every other creature that
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  Speaker 2: he made, even though Adam gave you a bill of good,
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  Speaker 2: like he messed your DNA up. I'm not even going
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  Speaker 2: to lie about that. Bible says in Genesis chapter 5
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  Speaker 2: that he and his wife got together, right? Adam knew
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  Speaker 2: his wife Eve, and they bear a son. And that
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  Speaker 2: son and all of the rest of the babies after
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  Speaker 2: that son through Noah's line and now all of the
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  Speaker 2: children all the way until now and beyond. were in
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  Speaker 2: Adam's image, and that means that there were things about
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  Speaker 2: his character that conveyed, too. the weaknesses, the propensity towards sin,
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  Speaker 2: that conveyed too. And so that's what makes the need
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  Speaker 2: to communicate to God even better now, like a bigger,
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  Speaker 2: more important reality, because we are living and dwelling in
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  Speaker 2: sad and awful times, difficult and awful times, but God
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  Speaker 2: is restoring His image in the sons and daughters of men.
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  Speaker 2: And so what God wants us to do is to
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  Speaker 2: relish that time, to treat one person today the way
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  Speaker 2: God sees them, as an image bearer worthy of your
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  Speaker 2: care and full attention as he restores all of us
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  Speaker 2: into the perfect image of God. We're going now to
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  Speaker 2: Genesis chapter 2. And verse 18, where we read, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord God said, I wish I had time to
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  Speaker 2: deal with the Lord God truth right here, but the
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  Speaker 2: personal God, the one who knows exactly where you are,
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  Speaker 2: the one who wants to be with you, who, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he is self-existent. Yes, he is eternal. Yes, he is
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  Speaker 2: all powerful. Blessed be his name. But he is so
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  Speaker 2: close to you that he can form you from the
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  Speaker 2: dust of the earth and blow into your nostrils the
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  Speaker 2: breath of life and you become a living soul. So
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  Speaker 2: close to you that if you ever have any trials
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  Speaker 2: or tribulations, I think we all do, in those moments
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  Speaker 2: he hears your groanings. He's so close that he can
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  Speaker 2: hear your groanings and now he can deliver you from
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  Speaker 2: whatever or through whatever it is that you're going through.
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  Speaker 2: But that same God says it is not good. That
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  Speaker 2: the man, and we're not talking about a generic term now, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about the male in this equation, should be alone.
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  Speaker 2: It's not good that Adam should be alone. The male
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  Speaker 2: should be alone. So I will make him and help
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  Speaker 2: meet for him or a helper that corresponds to him,
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  Speaker 2: someone who will complete him. Yes, Adam is perfect. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he has no sin. But the fact is the animals
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  Speaker 2: had companionship. In fact, as I said yesterday in the
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  Speaker 2: Shema in Deuteronomy chapter 6, I didn't say all of this,
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  Speaker 2: but verse 4, we see that there is companionship even
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. You understand, like God our Father and the
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  Speaker 2: Son and the Holy Spirit, they are one. So that
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  Speaker 2: means that they have innate companionship. And so God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to have something very similar. So it
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  Speaker 2: was bad to be all one, to be apart, to
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  Speaker 2: be isolated from others who would be like you. And
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  Speaker 2: so God said that your aloneness was the one thing
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  Speaker 2: in Eden that was not good. After he said, good, good,
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  Speaker 2: very good for everything that he had created and made,
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  Speaker 2: even though there was no sin in the garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 2: he said, this is not good. And he answered it
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  Speaker 2: with companionship. He built you as a social being. Even
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  Speaker 2: those of us who are introverts, he built us all
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  Speaker 2: to be social beings who thrive in loving relationship and communion.
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  Speaker 2: So reach out to someone, brothers and sisters, today. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure who that would be. That's between you and God,
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  Speaker 2: someone in your family, your faith fellowship, someone in your
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  Speaker 2: work community, your professional clients with a call, a visit,
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  Speaker 2: or a shared meal that draws you closer to them
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  Speaker 2: and to God. Let me just try to read quickly
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  Speaker 2: Fundamentals of Education, page 38. We'll get what we can get.
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  Speaker 2: It was... the privilege of the first pair, that's Adam
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  Speaker 2: and Eve, in the beginning, to see God in the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of Eden. Not only did they come from the
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  Speaker 2: hand of God perfect in every faculty, but the surroundings
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  Speaker 2: chosen for them were suited for the perfection of all
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  Speaker 2: that was noble.
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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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day.