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06 22 2025 The Reluctant Prophet · 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 2: Vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: the twenty second day of June in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series how to
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  Speaker 2: Study Bible Prophecy. This is our final week of thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Reluctant Profit, The
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  Speaker 2: Reluctant Profit. Before we get into this, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  Speaker 2: the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day, thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of our work week and the strength that you
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  Speaker 2: have already provided us so we can do your will.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to do it willingly. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. It's the willingness to serve God
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  Speaker 2: that matters, and then we do it. Of course, it's
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  Speaker 2: the willingness that matters, but then we actually do God's will.
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  Speaker 2: So this again the caption the reluctant Prophet. Listen. When
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  Speaker 2: Jonah was on planet Earth as a prophet of the
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  Speaker 2: Most I God, Blessed be his name, God came to
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  Speaker 2: him and said, Jonah, I need you to go to
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  Speaker 2: Nineveh and I need you to preach this message, this
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  Speaker 2: specific message. Remember I said that Jonah was a prophet
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  Speaker 2: of God. That means that he had already signed up
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  Speaker 2: for and been anointed to be the mouthpiece of God.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says that instead of going exactly where
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  Speaker 2: God said, go and speak the message exactly as God said,
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  Speaker 2: speak it. Jonah decided that he knew more than God.
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  Speaker 2: I know, maybe you've not heard it contextualized in that way,
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  Speaker 2: but Jonah said, nope, I'm not going there. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: the opposite direction. I'm getting on a boat and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to Tarshish. I'm not going nowhere near Ninevah. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, they need to die. They deserve whatever judgment
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  Speaker 2: you have planned God. But by the way, I know
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  Speaker 2: that you're not about to destroy them. So what will
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  Speaker 2: be the purpose of me going to Nineveh to say,
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  Speaker 2: turn around, live the life that God is giving you
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to live, and then know that God, you
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  Speaker 2: are merciful God, and you will not destroy them. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to see me as a false prophet. This is
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  Speaker 2: what Jonah was dealing with. But really, if I were
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  Speaker 2: to say it in just a few words, Jonah was
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a lack of holiness, a lack of submission.
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  Speaker 2: See all of that goofy discussion that he was having
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  Speaker 2: in his mind. I know what I just said, All
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  Speaker 2: of that discussion that he was having in his mind
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  Speaker 2: and going round and round the bush about what if
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  Speaker 2: I do this, and what if I do that and
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  Speaker 2: God says, go left, I'm going right because I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be seen as a Okay, all of that
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  Speaker 2: is resolved by simply admitting to God. And so my
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  Speaker 2: question to you is, what has God called you to do?
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  Speaker 2: What has he directly commanded you to do on this day,
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  Speaker 2: this Sunday morning in twenty twenty five. What has He
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  Speaker 2: said that you need to be doing? And I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about even some of those things that you don't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: desire to do, you may be afraid to do. You
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  Speaker 2: may have some sort of reservations, or you have seventy
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  Speaker 2: five questions to decide if you're going to sign the
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  Speaker 2: contract with God to do exactly what he said. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's resolve that for you too. Simply submit. I've been
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  Speaker 2: in the situation where God says do this, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: just ah, my mind is spinning, spinning, spinning, But I
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  Speaker 2: have to make the same decision that you do. And Joana,
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  Speaker 2: of course, we know his story. He decided to do
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  Speaker 2: the opposite. Ultimately, he went but I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: fast forward the story. It was a mess the love
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  Speaker 2: of God and how God did what he did in
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  Speaker 2: order to get Jonah to do what he needed to
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  Speaker 2: do in order to get the message message to the Ninovites. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: what a mess. The Bible says here in Matthew, chapter
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  Speaker 2: twelve and verse forty, retelling of this experience. For as
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  Speaker 2: Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly,
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  Speaker 2: so shall the son of Man be three days and
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  Speaker 2: three nights in the heart of the earth. And so
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  Speaker 2: the lesson for us in this case is Jonah's experience
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  Speaker 2: was a prophetic symbol of Jesus's death. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah. So he was in the belly of the
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  Speaker 2: of the beast. Let's call it. Okay, maybe that's melodramatic.
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  Speaker 2: In one Testament, in the Old Testament it says a fish.
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  Speaker 2: In the New Testament it says a whale. It was
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  Speaker 2: a sea creature, full stop. Translators don't always get that
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  Speaker 2: thing just right, okay, But a sea creature, and this
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  Speaker 2: was a this was it was as good. He felt
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  Speaker 2: like he was as good as dead in the belly
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  Speaker 2: of this sea creature. But this was a symbol of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's death burial. And then Jonah, when it was just
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  Speaker 2: the right time, was thrown up or regurgitated upon the
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  Speaker 2: earth again, and he went to do what he was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do in the first place. So the action
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  Speaker 2: for me is every single time that I think about Jonah,
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  Speaker 2: I need to remember, and you do too, the ultimate cost,
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  Speaker 2: or I should say, value of your salvation. Jesus came willingly.
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  Speaker 2: Jonah did not. He ran. Don't run from God? Does
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  Speaker 2: it make sense to run from God when he has
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  Speaker 2: given you your calling? And in Jonah chapter one and
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  Speaker 2: verse three we see but Jonah rose up to flee
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  Speaker 2: unto Tarshish. I said that already from the presence of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. I did not mention that when I said it. So,
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  Speaker 2: going the opposite direction of where God has called you
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  Speaker 2: to go is really like turning your back on God
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  Speaker 2: and fleeing from his quote presence. Remember, Adam, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: God is going into the garden of Eden. After Adam
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  Speaker 2: jumped into sin, Eve was deceived and fell into sin.
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  Speaker 2: Adam he jumped into sin, the very first man, the
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  Speaker 2: one that was created in the image of God, in
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  Speaker 2: a way that we had never will We have not
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  Speaker 2: seen since that man jumped into sin. And when he
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  Speaker 2: had jumped into sin, and God came to get an
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  Speaker 2: account from him. He said, Adam, where are you? I
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  Speaker 2: need you to know where you are. Adam, he said,
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  Speaker 2: I was naked and ashamed, and I hid myself. I
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  Speaker 2: was naked, ashamed and afraid. I hid myself. Who told you, Jonah? Whoops?
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  Speaker 2: Who told you? Fill in your name here? If you
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  Speaker 2: have a tendency to run? Who told you, Adam that
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  Speaker 2: you were naked? Did you eat from the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: the tree that I commanded that thou shouldest not eat?
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  Speaker 2: Then of course he plays the blame game. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time to deal with men blaming their
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  Speaker 2: wives for sinning. But I just don't have the time. Men,
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  Speaker 2: stand up and own your responsibility. Own your responsibility. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking to me, I'm a man, say so in
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  Speaker 2: this case. In this case, we're not looking to flee
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  Speaker 2: from God. Like Jonah. Some people hesitate to deliver the
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  Speaker 2: hard truths to go on the assignment that God has
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  Speaker 2: given us, especially in these last days. But let me
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  Speaker 2: just say to you, when God gives you a spiritual assignment.
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  Speaker 2: In every assignment that God gives you is spiritual because
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  Speaker 2: it's God that's giving it to you, move in obedience immediately.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know I don't know. I don't know, sister Patrese,
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  Speaker 2: if you're watching, But Lisa a Smith, she often says,
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  Speaker 2: it's about radical obedience, and I agree. So move radically
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  Speaker 2: in obedience and immediately pray daily for the courage to
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  Speaker 2: do God's will. And of course in the last days
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  Speaker 2: there was a call. There was a call for us
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  Speaker 2: to preach. We see in eighteen, chapter eighteen of Revelation
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  Speaker 2: and verse four, a call that God has given to
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  Speaker 2: his people to speak to those who are not his
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  Speaker 2: that are not really walking in the path that God
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  Speaker 2: would want them. He's giving them a warning. And just
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  Speaker 2: like Jonah's message to Nineveh, our call to people who
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  Speaker 2: are in Babylon spiritual Babylon demands repentance, which many resist.
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  Speaker 2: Expect rejection, but don't let that deter you. Do exactly
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  Speaker 2: what God says when he says, and He will be
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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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,