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02 06 2026 Daily Self-Surrender and Christian Excellence · 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, February six,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. 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 uniting Heaven and Earth christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is is daily self surrender
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  Speaker 2: and Christian excellence. Let me just say, I know sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I sound like AI. I'm not like I'm really me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really me. I'm a real life human, I'm actual intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: God fearfully and wonderfully made me just like He fearfully
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  Speaker 2: and wonderfully made you. But sometimes I'm trying to pronounce stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I've lived so many different places in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: countries and my accent mixing me up. So yeah, when
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like I'm AI, it's really because I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to pronounce stuff because some of you are on the
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  Speaker 2: radio and all you can do is hear me. You
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  Speaker 2: can't see me shaking my head, like what did I
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  Speaker 2: just say? I digress. I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. I'm asking you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion Life application Guide. Please click
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  Speaker 2: the contribute button because we are now listener and viewer supported.
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  Speaker 2: No longer can it be David Harris supported. The load
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  Speaker 2: is just entirely too heavy to do on my own
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  Speaker 2: and soul. Thank God, Thank God that many of you
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  Speaker 2: are responding and also listen. I need you to let
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  Speaker 2: me know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let me say
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  Speaker 2: something I've not said. I should have said it a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago. Before we begin, there you know, Facebook
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  Speaker 2: is a place that we've grown tremendously over the years,
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  Speaker 2: but they have this new thing, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: like a year ago, where they delete. Basically, they delete
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  Speaker 2: the videos, the live videos. They delete those after thirty days.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand why they're doing it, but listen, I'm
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  Speaker 2: focusing more attention these days in YouTube land because after
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  Speaker 2: you have done what you are to do to share
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  Speaker 2: with so many people, to have the videos just disappear
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  Speaker 2: and those thousands of shares that go out just vanish
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  Speaker 2: after thirty days, that is something that I just that's
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  Speaker 2: untenable to me. So please please join the Facebook, I
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  Speaker 2: mean part of me. Join the YouTube channel as well,
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  Speaker 2: and do your sharing the majority of your sharing. Use
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  Speaker 2: the share button on YouTube direct people there, and we
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  Speaker 2: know that the video, by God's grace will survive after
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  Speaker 2: the thirty days. I said a lot, But let's pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you, thank you for this day that you've
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  Speaker 2: made a preparation day. Please Father protect us today and
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  Speaker 2: give us understanding and help us to be self sacrificing
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, AMN and a man again. So, as
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  Speaker 2: per usual, I'm going into our actual life application guide
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  Speaker 2: we're going to actually read from it today, and let's
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  Speaker 2: go with a professional application for those who don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: We go with four different applications of the lesson, and
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  Speaker 2: this one is professional and we use a framework WIN,
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  Speaker 2: an acronym WIN. What is important now in light of
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  Speaker 2: the lesson for today, letting the light of the sun Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the sun of righteousness, shine forth in your work through
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  Speaker 2: good works. There are things that you do to be
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  Speaker 2: helpful to your co workers. Ah, there are things that
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  Speaker 2: you do to be helpful to the people you serve
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  Speaker 2: that's beyond the call of duty, and even the people
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  Speaker 2: who for whom you work. Yes, okay, So let that
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  Speaker 2: shine forth from your work, your good works, words of
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  Speaker 2: truth and deeds of holiness. I remember when I was
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  Speaker 2: in the psych field. I was I was twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: I was in management at the time, and I remember,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I shouldn't say it, but it was a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago, right, yeah, twenty some years ago. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was required in air quotes to tell a lie
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  Speaker 2: on a particular thing. I'll just call it a thing.
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  Speaker 2: And as a new believer, I was like, hold up,
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  Speaker 2: m hmm, I don't care what y'all do to me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. I'm not going to do that
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  Speaker 2: because that wouldn't have been words of truth, that would
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  Speaker 2: not have been a deed of holiness. Thank God, it
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  Speaker 2: worked out and I did not lie. Ah, but it
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  Speaker 2: was only by the grace of God. And so these
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  Speaker 2: are the things that we bring into our workplace. We
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  Speaker 2: have to be determined to live according to the light
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  Speaker 2: of the sun of righteousness. Come what may internalize the
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  Speaker 2: insight I the light of the sun of righteousness is
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  Speaker 2: to shine forth in good works, words of truth and
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  Speaker 2: deeds and holiness. In your work. You are called to
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  Speaker 2: manifest God's glory by revealing what the grace of God
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  Speaker 2: has done for you, what God has done by his
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  Speaker 2: grace for you. Your work is an opportunity. Uh oh, your
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  Speaker 2: actual work is an opportunity to show what the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: can do for fallen human beings. I mean, I just
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  Speaker 2: say it again, like when people see your work. You
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  Speaker 2: can be a business owner. You can be a part
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  Speaker 2: owner of a business. You can be an employee whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is. You can be someone who has a business
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  Speaker 2: of selling on the street. You may sell clothing, you
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  Speaker 2: may sell things, you may sell food, you may sell water,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're selling, produce, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: When people see your work, they need to see the
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  Speaker 2: excellence of God in your work. Do I need to
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  Speaker 2: say it again, but I'll try one more time. Like,
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  Speaker 2: when they see your work, they need this. They need
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  Speaker 2: to see the excellence of God in your work. You
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  Speaker 2: must give all and do all for Christ in your
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  Speaker 2: professional life, refusing divided service. Let's go ahead with our
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  Speaker 2: final on this point. The next best move wi N
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  Speaker 2: We're going to win together. Identify one way you can
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  Speaker 2: let the light of the sun of righteousness shine forth
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  Speaker 2: in your work today or on the next day. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that you go back to work on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: is it Monday? Huh? Words of truth or deeds of
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  Speaker 2: holiness and commit to manifesting God's glory in that area.
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  Speaker 2: I remember back in the day when I was in
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  Speaker 2: higher ed. It was a simple thing. But we had
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  Speaker 2: a copy machine. I don't know if they still have
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  Speaker 2: those in offices, but you know, copy machine, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's like, okay, do you put your own stuff in
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  Speaker 2: that copy machine and runoff copies? That has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the company, the business or wherever you're working. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you're doing that then that is not what we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about. That's not a deed of holiness. You have
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  Speaker 2: to be committed. Don't steal the pens, those are not yours.
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  Speaker 2: Don't run off copies if they still have copy machines,
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  Speaker 2: those are not yours. Don't use the time when you're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be working. You're on the clock. They're paying
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  Speaker 2: you for the time for you to do your own business,
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  Speaker 2: or take extended lunch periods three in four hours to
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  Speaker 2: schmooz with people, hang out, collect a check anyway, like,
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  Speaker 2: don't do that. Yeah, look for the opportunity, Look for
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to let the light of Christ shine through you.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you just one biblical lesson straight out
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  Speaker 2: of the Bible today, and I will call it lesson
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  Speaker 2: number three of the three that I have in my notes.
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  Speaker 2: And as God works in us, we demonstrate to the
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  Speaker 2: world what His grace can accomplish in transformed lives. Where
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  Speaker 2: do we get this from Philippians two and verse thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: For it is God. You see this, You see the
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  Speaker 2: perspective the priority. For it is God which worketh in you,
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  Speaker 2: both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: for the one bringing forth in you both the desire
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  Speaker 2: and the effort is God. We cooperate with God, but
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  Speaker 2: you know he's the impetus. He's the one that drives it. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and that word, that word actually that that working means
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  Speaker 2: to energize, to be at work from within God as
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  Speaker 2: the active power shaping you, shaping me as believers. The
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  Speaker 2: action step is to identify one area where God is
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  Speaker 2: currently nudging you to grow. He may be pushing you.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's not nudging you, may be dragging you like
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  Speaker 2: the Angel dragged lot inous peoples out of Sodom I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, to grow and take a concrete step today
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate with His work. All right, y'all, if the
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  Speaker 2: Lord spare's life, we will see you this evening for
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  Speaker 2: our musical Bible class and uh yeah, peace. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day.
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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. Yeah,