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10 17 2025 Remembering God's Lessons · 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, October seventeen,
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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 lessons from Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is remembering God's lessons, bring God's lessons.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to open up your word. Thank you for bringing us
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  Speaker 2: into this place of worship. Please give us your guidance
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  Speaker 2: now in Jesus's name, I pray Amen and a man again.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much to say and so little time.
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  Speaker 2: I have given you this quote over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just say it one more time that
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  Speaker 2: we have nothing to fear for the future except we
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  Speaker 2: forget how God has led us in the past. And
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  Speaker 2: let me just read now from the book Testimonies for
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  Speaker 2: the Church, Volume one, page six hundred and nine, which reads,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God in modern day are in danger
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  Speaker 2: of forgetting God and being led into idolatry. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: then we're the ancient people, so we're more in danger
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five than the people of God thousands
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  Speaker 2: of years ago. Many idols are worshiped, even by professed
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  Speaker 2: sabbath keepers. If you're a sabbath keeper type in the
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  Speaker 2: Chat Sabbath Sabbath, go ahead and type in the Chat
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath if you are a sabbath keeper type in the
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  Speaker 2: Chat Sabbath. And so even among us, even among us,
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  Speaker 2: there are things that we worship in place of God,
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  Speaker 2: Lord help us. God especially charged his ancient people to
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  Speaker 2: guard against idolatry, for if they should be led away
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  Speaker 2: from serving the Living God, Blessed be his name, his
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  Speaker 2: curse would rest upon them. At this moment, we need
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  Speaker 2: to be praying. We need to be saying, God, will
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  Speaker 2: you please deliver us from ourselves? If you, God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: are worshiping anything. Is it a relationship that you love
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  Speaker 2: so much and you're holding on to and God is
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  Speaker 2: saying to let go of? Is it a thought process
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  Speaker 2: that you have a poverty mindset? You are God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: You're proud, you think of yourself more highly than you
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  Speaker 2: ought to think. It could be anything. You could have
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  Speaker 2: fatalistic thoughts thinking at every moment, around every corner, you're
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  Speaker 2: spooked by every sound, rather than knowing that the Angel
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord in campeth round about those who serve
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  Speaker 2: and love God. Yes, God says something about you and
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  Speaker 2: you say the opposite. That can be an idol. You
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  Speaker 2: may be looking at your social media posts and your
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  Speaker 2: ability to share on WhatsApp, and all you can think
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  Speaker 2: about is clicking that share button, when in the moment
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  Speaker 2: maybe you should be praying, is that an idol? Well?
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  Speaker 2: If they should be led away from serving God, his
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  Speaker 2: curse would rest upon them. While if they would love
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  Speaker 2: Him with all their heart, with all their soul, and
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  Speaker 2: with all their might he would abundantly bless them in
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  Speaker 2: basket and in store, and would remove sickness, oh my,
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  Speaker 2: from the midst of them. Oh Lord, help us to
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  Speaker 2: remember you. Please help us to remember you. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're going for a few lessons this morning before we
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  Speaker 2: come to a swift close on this preparation day. From
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy seven and verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, Thou art the God that doest wonders.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God for this. Thou hast declared Thy strength among
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  Speaker 2: the people. So what I want you to do is
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  Speaker 2: record those quote Jordan Crossings. Yeah, those Red Sea crossings.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to go to the Jordan crossings because
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  Speaker 2: that's right before we get into the promise. Write down
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  Speaker 2: how God has opened the way for you when it
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  Speaker 2: seemed impossible, and share a testimony to encourage others. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in real life, there are people with whom you exercise,
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  Speaker 2: There are people with whom you work. You are traveling
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  Speaker 2: in a taxi today, you are on public transport in
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  Speaker 2: a bus, you are standing at a bus stop, you
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  Speaker 2: are doing a ride share, as in some countries where
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  Speaker 2: there are three or four people that you really kind
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  Speaker 2: of don't know. But because you can get into that
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  Speaker 2: high what is it hov lane, that high occupancy vehicle lane,
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  Speaker 2: so you can go faster. Now you have people in
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  Speaker 2: the car with you, and if the Lord shows you
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  Speaker 2: how it is in that moment that you can share
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  Speaker 2: like man, I was going through this certain thing, but
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  Speaker 2: God delivered me and I passed through, and I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: because God is the one encouraging us to share our
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  Speaker 2: testimony and our lesson. Number two comes in from Deuteronomy,
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  Speaker 2: chapter eight and verse two. It reads, and thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: remember all the way which the Lord thy God led
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  Speaker 2: thee these forty years in the wilderness. I've been alive
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  Speaker 2: much longer than forty years, but forty years is more
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  Speaker 2: than half of my life time. And I'm thinking, but
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  Speaker 2: God's people traveling that long, and this generation who were
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  Speaker 2: twenty years and younger when they came out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: they have forty years of record of how good God
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  Speaker 2: has been. How many years of record do you have?
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  Speaker 2: Is it ten years? Is it fifteen? Is it twenty?
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  Speaker 2: Is it fifty something? Is it one year? Is it
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  Speaker 2: since yesterday when you gave your life to God? Like
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  Speaker 2: whatever period of time you notice that God had been
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  Speaker 2: leading you. I want you to remember this and create
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  Speaker 2: a personal and family memorial somehow. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: remember these moments by reflection on answered prayers, deliverance, protection.
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  Speaker 2: Did He protect you this morning in a way that
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  Speaker 2: you noticed? Yeah, we pray sometimes protect us from dangers
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  Speaker 2: seen and unseen. Yes, And to keep gratitude and dependence
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  Speaker 2: upon God alive in your mindset. In your mindset, it
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  Speaker 2: all begins in your mind. The Bible says, as a
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  Speaker 2: man or a woman, as the case may be, as
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  Speaker 2: a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. I remember,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Ronnie Vanderhorst in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: I remember him saying, Yes, I do remember nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: I remember him saying, we are not what we think
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  Speaker 2: we are, our perception of how we are, but what
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  Speaker 2: we think. Pause for a moment. What is in our mindset?
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  Speaker 2: What are the things upon which we dwell? We are?
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  Speaker 2: We are not what we think we are, but what
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  Speaker 2: we think we are. So we are a composite of
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  Speaker 2: our mindset things upon which we dwell. Yeah. Our lesson
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  Speaker 2: number three comes in from Exodus, chapter thirty one and
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  Speaker 2: verse thirty three. Verily my Sabbaths, ye shall keep, for
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  Speaker 2: it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations. Hmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The Sabbath stands as a weekly reminder like we're coming up. Well,
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  Speaker 2: some of you are already there, but here in Jamaica,
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  Speaker 2: we're coming up on the Sabbath in just over twelve hours,
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  Speaker 2: probably about thirteen hours from now. And it is a sign,
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  Speaker 2: It is a memorial. It is a reminder of both
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  Speaker 2: creation and redemption. The same one who created you is
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  Speaker 2: the one who is recreating you, who's making you. Why
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  Speaker 2: every single day it calls us to rest in God's
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  Speaker 2: finished work in our lives, like we see those things
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  Speaker 2: that are not as though they were, Like He gave
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  Speaker 2: us eternal life. Whatever we commit to him, he is
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  Speaker 2: able to complete it in us as long as we
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  Speaker 2: continue to surrender and look forward to his eternal rest.
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  Speaker 2: Meaning when we get to heaven that is the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the clock toward eternity. We'll be there for a
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  Speaker 2: thousand years. And after the thousand years are finish, God
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  Speaker 2: will keep that promise that he made many places, but
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  Speaker 2: in Matthew chapter five, in particular, that the meek will
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  Speaker 2: inherit the new Earth and so we thank God for that.
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  Speaker 2: Every Sabbath connects memory with hope, past miracles with future glory. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: thank God. And if you're going to be with us
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  Speaker 2: this evening at seven for our musical teaching through this
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  Speaker 2: lesson study type A, yes in the chat, We'll see
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  Speaker 2: you there if the Lord space.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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,