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06 14 2025 Precursors · 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.
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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 Sabbath. It's
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  Speaker 2: June fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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: lesson study series. This is less than number twelve in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series How to study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for to day is Precursors. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd
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  Speaker 2: just like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: those joining us for the very first time. Let me
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  Speaker 2: also say that Simone and I, of course Josiah too
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  Speaker 2: will be at Watermount today. If the Lord Spaar's life,
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  Speaker 2: will be there with the women. So I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to that. I know that you share your daily Portion often,
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  Speaker 2: and my sister has fly flew away, has flown away,
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  Speaker 2: my friend has flown away. But I see Watermount still shares,
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  Speaker 2: still shares your daily portion, So we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: being with you today. Also, I'd like for you to
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com, join our
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  Speaker 2: online community, and also let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this sabbath. Thank you for giving us a
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  Speaker 2: window into the last of the last days, so we
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  Speaker 2: can know what you want from us, how you will prepare,
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  Speaker 2: continue to prepare us, and what to expect as you
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  Speaker 2: do something you've never done before, perfected a people during
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  Speaker 2: the last days, at the height of the greatest crisis
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  Speaker 2: we've ever seen. Please make us holy in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again, precursors, precursors. Here it
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  Speaker 2: is if God is with you, then don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: I just want you to let that settle in. Don't
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  Speaker 2: run by this one. If God is with you, then
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  Speaker 2: do not be afraid. That's a command. It's an invitation,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a command to faithfulness. It's a command to
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  Speaker 2: trust God. And let me just say this. The precursors
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  Speaker 2: have to do with prophecy in this case, Well, prophecy
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  Speaker 2: is Christ centered and not crisis centered. That's me clapping yes, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah. Prophecy is Christ centered and not crisis centered.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to let that settle all the way
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  Speaker 2: into who you are, especially in these last days, because
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of people teaching and preaching about
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  Speaker 2: Bible prophecy and their focus when they're teaching it is
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  Speaker 2: the crisis. And God is like, well, the revelation is
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, not crisis. It's not the revelation of crises. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. Let's go ahehead. You
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  Speaker 2: can tell my French since my frustration here it is
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  Speaker 2: here it is let's use the Bible as our guide.
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  Speaker 2: In tewod Timothy chapter one and verse seven, it says
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  Speaker 2: very clearly, for God has not given us a spirit
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  Speaker 2: of fear, He's not giving us that spirit of fear,
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  Speaker 2: but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.
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  Speaker 2: Let me repeat it one more time. For God has
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  Speaker 2: not given us the spirit of fear, but of power,
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  Speaker 2: love and a sound mind. So let me just say
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  Speaker 2: very simply, fear is not from God. Not this kind
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  Speaker 2: of fear, the fear of things burning down, the fear
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  Speaker 2: of earthquakes and pestilences, and all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: are the beginnings of sorrows, the persecutions that God's people can,
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  Speaker 2: will and must endure. But we will come through as
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  Speaker 2: a refiner would have refined pure gold. No problem. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to get through it by God's grace, and we
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  Speaker 2: will be victorious. So the kind of fear that people
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  Speaker 2: have concerning the last days, that doesn't come from God.
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  Speaker 2: He gives courage rooted in divine power. And so what
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do is think about sharing your
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  Speaker 2: testimony or praying with other pear people and claim God's
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  Speaker 2: spirit of power and not fear. So that is in
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  Speaker 2: a spiritual sense. Okay, in a spiritual sense. Right when
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  Speaker 2: you feel spiritually intimidated. If that's the case, it may
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  Speaker 2: not be your your reality. Some of us don't have
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  Speaker 2: that experience. I don't know. But when you feel if
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  Speaker 2: that is your experience spiritually intimidated or weak, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to pray boldly and declare and decree. You've heard
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  Speaker 2: this on the television before. Declare and decree that there
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  Speaker 2: is a promise in the scriptures that you are going
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  Speaker 2: to apply in your life. God has not given you
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of fear, but He's given you power. Take
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  Speaker 2: that as the promise. God is giving me power and
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  Speaker 2: of a sound mind. But we're focusing on the power
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  Speaker 2: in this case. So let's go personal now, Personal now,
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says again power love and a sound mind.
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  Speaker 2: Power love and a sound mind. Speak true to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I talk to my wife Simon about this. Often speak
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  Speaker 2: the truth to yourself when anxiety creeps in, and use
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  Speaker 2: the Bible, the Scriptures, the Word of God to renew
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  Speaker 2: your mind. And so what this will look like is
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  Speaker 2: to actually journal write down daily biblical affirmations. I said biblical.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say make it up yourself, biblical, say what
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  Speaker 2: God has said. Simone did that in the back of
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  Speaker 2: her in her new book, she walks by face. She
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  Speaker 2: did that, and so do that based on God's word
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  Speaker 2: and train your mind toward peace and clarity. That is,
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  Speaker 2: when these things pop up, the anxiety pops up, especially
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  Speaker 2: concerning the last days. Okay, and so and then there's
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  Speaker 2: the love part. Right, we talked about power, we talked
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  Speaker 2: about also the mind, and now let's talk about the
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  Speaker 2: love that is relational. Okay. And so God's spirit leads
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  Speaker 2: you to love. Remember, there is no fear in love.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect love casts out fear for fear hath torment. Right, okay, Well,
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  Speaker 2: God's spirit leads you to love, not fear based control
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  Speaker 2: or withdrawal. So I want you to apply it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Love people from a place of strength, not insecurity. We're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about a leech like love. What can I
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  Speaker 2: get out of you? Not a parasitical love. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the kind that comes from strength, not in security. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if I don't demonstrate this, then maybe they'll leave me. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no, not that set healthy boundaries without guilt. Here
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  Speaker 2: is something that we can do. Right, address tension with
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  Speaker 2: a loved one, if there is any with a loved one,
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  Speaker 2: from a posture of love and confidence, not a posture
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  Speaker 2: of fear or rejection. Okay. And then of course when
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  Speaker 2: we are doing our work, we are in power to lead,
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  Speaker 2: to speak up, and to make wise decisions under pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Make tough calls with confidence, knowing God's Spirit guides your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and your actions. Step up into your meetings if
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  Speaker 2: you have them, your huddles, or whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: you have when you're with more than one of your
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  Speaker 2: co workers or leadership opportunities, believing that you are equipped
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  Speaker 2: with divine clarity. There is so much else to say,
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  Speaker 2: but Pastor Boonstra says that this week we will look
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  Speaker 2: into two more Bible stories that foreshadow last day's events
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  Speaker 2: in remarkable detail. The first one will be about the
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  Speaker 2: three Hebrew young men shot Hanna and Ayah, Miche Ellen Azariah,
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  Speaker 2: and also issues in Revelation chapter thirteen. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 2: these young men demonstrated what it looked like to be
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  Speaker 2: courageous and not fearful, courageous and not fearful. There is
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  Speaker 2: so much more I can say, but let me just
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  Speaker 2: talk about one point that I made a little bit earlier,
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  Speaker 2: that prophecy is Christ centered and not chrisis centered. In
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter one, beginning at verse one,
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  Speaker 2: it just starts out with the truth. That's the revelation
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. The main character in all prophecy is
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. The powerful one who transforms us in all
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  Speaker 2: of prophecy is Jesus Christ. We are not alone in
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  Speaker 2: the fire. Shift your focus from the beasts and the
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  Speaker 2: judgments to the lamb and the one who leads us
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  Speaker 2: through those judgments. Make it a great Sabbath, peace. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us listening. 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,