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07 18 2025 When Things Go Wrong · 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's
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  Speaker 2: July eighteenth, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we're going from Egypt. We're on our journey
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  Speaker 2: to the Promised Land. And our cap for today is yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when things go wrong or maybe seem to go wrong,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when things go wrong. 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 and ask you to go over
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  Speaker 2: world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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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 for giving us the opportunity to come
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  Speaker 2: into your presence. Please teach us to be holy. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. God has
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  Speaker 2: given us the privilege of being holy. God said that
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  Speaker 2: we we should be perfect for the Lord. Our God
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  Speaker 2: is perfect, or you could say, because so, God is
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  Speaker 2: the cause of our ability to do exactly what he said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into a detailed argument or
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  Speaker 2: discussion like they did back in eighteen eighty eight and
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  Speaker 2: get confused or sidetracked. I know what God said, and
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  Speaker 2: that means that we need to be covered in the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of Christ and simply surrender our will to Him,
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  Speaker 2: full stop, full stop. So when things do go quote wrong,
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  Speaker 2: we know we're still covered. You understand, when we are
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  Speaker 2: submitted to the will of God and we are yielding
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  Speaker 2: our will to God, it's a nevertheless not my will,
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  Speaker 2: not as I will, but as thou wilt. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of those gets so many experiences if in fact we
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  Speaker 2: are simply surrendering our will to God. And so I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you a paraphrase from Exodus chapter five, verses six
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  Speaker 2: through nine. As we begin, ye shall no more give
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  Speaker 2: the people straw to make brick. This was the Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: the king's response when God pardon me through Moses now
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  Speaker 2: goes into Pharaoh and says, let my people go so
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  Speaker 2: that they can sacrifice in the wilderness, so that they
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  Speaker 2: can serve me. Let my people go. This is not
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  Speaker 2: a request, It is not a negotiation. It is a
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  Speaker 2: command from God himself, Blessed be his name. You gonna
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  Speaker 2: let God's people go, Pharaoh and Pharaoh's like, now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not doing that. In fact, since y'all want rest, you
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  Speaker 2: want a sabbath, what I'm gonna do is make it
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  Speaker 2: more difficult for you, just like every slave master in
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  Speaker 2: history has done. So, you shall no more give the
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  Speaker 2: people what they need in order to do their work.
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  Speaker 2: You won't give them that anymore. I'm gonna take that
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  Speaker 2: straw away from you that you need to make brick
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  Speaker 2: and hithertofore, let them go and gather the straw for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And the tail of the bricks which they did make
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  Speaker 2: hithertofo ye shall lay upon them, and ye shall not
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  Speaker 2: diminish aught thereof. Let me say it in another way,
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  Speaker 2: you will no longer give the people straw to make
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  Speaker 2: brick as before. Let them go and gather it for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: But the number of bricks which they made before, you
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  Speaker 2: shall still require it of them. So I'm gonna make
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  Speaker 2: it more and more difficult, three four five times more difficult.
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  Speaker 2: It was essential for binding the clay to the bricks,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, no, I'm not going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And even though without the straw that was essential to
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  Speaker 2: bind the clay to make the bricks, and the bricks
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  Speaker 2: would crack and crumble if that was not there, and
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  Speaker 2: it would slow them down immensely. The Pharaoh, that broken,
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  Speaker 2: wicked king, that dude, wrote an executive order and set
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  Speaker 2: you will continue to do everything I just said without
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  Speaker 2: the resources that you need. You're going to figure it
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  Speaker 2: out all on your own. And so Pharaoh's command meant
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  Speaker 2: that they still had to produce those durable bricks without
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  Speaker 2: being supplied the necessary material. Have you ever been in
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  Speaker 2: a situation where the resources you need to do your
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  Speaker 2: job have been withdrawn? I said, have you ever been
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  Speaker 2: in a situation where the resources that you needed to
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  Speaker 2: do your job were withdrawn? You had six people in
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  Speaker 2: your office, Now you got two, huh, you and your
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  Speaker 2: admin assistant, and now you still have to come up
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  Speaker 2: with the exact same or maybe increased productivity. That's some
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  Speaker 2: slave stuff, just like Pharaoh did back then. And so
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  Speaker 2: we see that he didn't care anything about that. The
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  Speaker 2: quota or the tale was still required of them. So
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh deliberately and the people of God's labor to break
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  Speaker 2: their spirit. Oh, there's a command from your God. I
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  Speaker 2: hear all of what you're saying. Yeah, let's see how
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  Speaker 2: this goes. So the goal was to discredit Moses and Aaron,
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  Speaker 2: making it seem like obedience to God would just bring suffering.
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  Speaker 2: You want rest, You say you want to be a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: You say you want to follow God in air quotes, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you what happens when people defy me. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the Pharaoh is saying. This is what Nebuchadnezzar
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  Speaker 2: tried until God got to him. Ah, the Pharaoh, this Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he tried until God got to him too.
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  Speaker 2: And so this represents Satan's strategy like he's not creative,
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  Speaker 2: it's the same strategy. It's been so effective that he's
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  Speaker 2: been rinsing and repeating it from the day of Cain.
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  Speaker 2: Increase burdens to distract from spiritual responsibility, spiritual awareness, spiritual awakening. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the moment that you commit yourself to God to get sick. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the moment you commit to doing God's will, you say
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go into work early so that you
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  Speaker 2: can be sure to be prepared. You're gonna worship, You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna bring the levels down so that you can deal
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  Speaker 2: with all of the stressors of the day. And then
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  Speaker 2: you got people who also decide they're gonna come into
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  Speaker 2: work early, and they're gonna start playing music that you
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  Speaker 2: don't agree with, or they're going to come into your
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  Speaker 2: office bump bump bump. Can I talk to you about something?
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, ah, God, what in the world. And
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  Speaker 2: so the added burden was intended to crush the rising
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  Speaker 2: hope and that the people of God were to be
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  Speaker 2: enlightened by God's promise of deliverance. And so in the
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  Speaker 2: In the Book of Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty eight, it reads, the people of God had
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  Speaker 2: expected to be freed from bondage. Right you got this great,
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  Speaker 2: big deliverer. Whom shall we say part of me? I
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  Speaker 2: paused a quote right there, whom shall I say to
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  Speaker 2: the children of Israel sent me I Am. Thus shalt
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  Speaker 2: thou say to the children of Israel, I Am have
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  Speaker 2: sent me unto you. And then when they go into
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh and they say, let my people go, and Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: does this, it's like, hold on. We were supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be free, continuing the quote now, but instead of this,
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  Speaker 2: their burdens were greatly increased. These discouraged, discouraging results were
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  Speaker 2: due not to a failure of the divine plan, but
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  Speaker 2: to the unbelief of the people and the cruelty of
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  Speaker 2: the oppressors. Page two hundred and fifty nine. It is
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  Speaker 2: the law of human mind that by beholding we become changed.
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  Speaker 2: If the mind dwells upon the difficulties, Come on, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: those of you who are bound to negative thinking, those
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  Speaker 2: of you who are bound to complaining, those of you
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  Speaker 2: who are bound to looking at your cup that has
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  Speaker 2: some fresh clean water as all ways half full, half empty,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call it, it's almost empty.
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  Speaker 2: Them people like, if that is you here it is,
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  Speaker 2: let me start it again. It is the law of
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  Speaker 2: human mind that by beholding we become changed. If the
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  Speaker 2: mind dwells upon the difficulties and in justice, it will
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  Speaker 2: produce discouragement. So whatever you're focusing on, that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to become. If it's always negative, if it's always
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  Speaker 2: the bottom, if it's always something that's just not right,
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  Speaker 2: then that's what it'll do, and it'll produce discouragement. But
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  Speaker 2: God desired his people to look to him and not
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  Speaker 2: to Pharaoh. Interesting, so when things go wrong, yield to guys.
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  Speaker 1: For joining us listening. Friends, always remember we cannot live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  Speaker 1: with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,