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09 14 2025 Life Application at Lunchtime Edition · 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: Hello, Hello, Hello, it is Sunday, September fourteen, 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. This is the Lunchtime
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Edition. Say that three times, and this is
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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 through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Tent of Meeting, The Tent of Meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into this, I'd like to welcome everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Please pick up the your Daily Portion Life
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  Speaker 2: Application Guide, because really all we're doing here is reading
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  Speaker 2: that because some people are still having difficulties applying the lesson,
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  Speaker 2: and in the morning time we drill the lesson itself. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So pick up the your Daily Portion Life Application Guide
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  Speaker 2: so you can read along with me and jot your
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  Speaker 2: notes as we reread when God gives you new insights. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this afternoon and the time that
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  Speaker 2: we are investing on this Sunday. Father, while we get
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  Speaker 2: ready for the rest of the week. Father, please please
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  Speaker 2: give us wisdom and instruction as we apply. As we apply,
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  Speaker 2: Please in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again
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  Speaker 2: the tent of meeting. We are applying in four key areas,
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  Speaker 2: type of one in the chat if you have your
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Guide. And by the way, the new one
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  Speaker 2: is already out for the quarter four because on the
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth we begin our new quarter. But I digress.
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  Speaker 2: If you have this Life Application Guide, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: type of one in the chat. Please, type of one
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  Speaker 2: in the chat, and if not, just go ahead to
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com and pick it up because
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  Speaker 2: you'll need it. Okay, spiritual application w what is important now.
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  Speaker 2: God invites us into personal friendship, not only formal worship.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite writer, spiritually Speaking, said that when we pray,
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  Speaker 2: it iss us lifting up our hearts and having a
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  Speaker 2: conversation with God as to a friend. Okay, so that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing. Internalize the insight, the tent of meeting
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  Speaker 2: or the tabernacle, the tent of meeting of the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament shows that God desires intimate. This is what God
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  Speaker 2: wants from you. I want you to apply this to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking about anybody else. He desires intimate, face
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  Speaker 2: to face communication with us. I should probably start changing
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  Speaker 2: the language so that it's really reflecting me. When you're
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  Speaker 2: reading it, it's reflecting you. His goal is not simply
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  Speaker 2: to give you instructions or me instructions, but to draw
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  Speaker 2: us as close as friends. This closeness shapes who we become.
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  Speaker 2: So if you see God as the one that's way
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  Speaker 2: out in space and the one who's distant from you,
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  Speaker 2: like some of the people in the eighteen hundreds did,
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  Speaker 2: then that's going to reflect in your relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: The next best move spiritually set aside personal time, I
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  Speaker 2: would say, invest personal time today to meet with God intentionally.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to pray five times today? Three times today?
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to keep the channel open with God
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  Speaker 2: like Enoch the Bible says, walked with God. Is that
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  Speaker 2: the way that you're going to do it. Treat it
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  Speaker 2: as a tent of meeting moment, no distractions, only you
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  Speaker 2: and Him. And I'll just tell you when Simon and
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  Speaker 2: I used to drive to work together many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: we had a long trip. I decided, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: at some point, we got to shut this radio off,
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  Speaker 2: like we can't continue to listen to the news for
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  Speaker 2: like hours, and and I would you know, we would
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  Speaker 2: have we would have some interaction with God in that
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  Speaker 2: time rather than just with media that's coming in through
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  Speaker 2: the radio. Personal application. What is important now, Transformation comes
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  Speaker 2: from regular personal encounters with God. Internalize the insight. Moses
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  Speaker 2: changed because he kept meeting with God. Bible says he
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  Speaker 2: was the meekest man to up until that time. You
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  Speaker 2: don't need a mountain or a tent. You need consistency.
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  Speaker 2: How consistent are you with God? He's consistent with you.
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  Speaker 2: He wakes you up every morning, doesn't he He gives
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  Speaker 2: you what you need for the day, doesn't he? When
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  Speaker 2: you go through trials, he's with you and sometimes even
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  Speaker 2: gives you relief, doesn't he? Definitely? So be consistent with him.
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  Speaker 2: Regular time with God shapes your thinking, reactions, and decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Because remember they used to have all of the WWJD paraphernalia.
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  Speaker 2: What would Jesus do? That's the kind of way that
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  Speaker 2: we need to think. Like if Jesus were still living
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth in twenty twenty five, what would he do?
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about here. So regular time with
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  Speaker 2: God shapes your thinking, your reactions, and decisions. And next
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  Speaker 2: best move establish a dedicated time in your daily routine
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  Speaker 2: for undistracted personal worship and reflection. So no matter how
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  Speaker 2: we this, we're coming back to this point even in
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  Speaker 2: our personal application. Now let's go to relationships. What is
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  Speaker 2: important now? Your private relationship with God will affect how
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  Speaker 2: you treat others. I talked about that, Yeah, I spoke
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  Speaker 2: about that yesterday at Diamond Acres here in Saint Catherine
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  Speaker 2: and Jamaica and Adam and Eve had that challenge like
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  Speaker 2: those those folks when they were created individually that had
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  Speaker 2: a connection with God and then God put them together,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's the threefold core that's hard to be broken. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But when they broke their relationship with God, then their
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  Speaker 2: relationship broke. They started blaming each other. Not Moses, Adam
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  Speaker 2: blamed his wife and God, the woman that you gave
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  Speaker 2: to me, she gave it to me, the sinful thing,
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  Speaker 2: and I did eat. And then she, of course she
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  Speaker 2: blames the devil and said, the devil made me do it.
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  Speaker 2: And so the relation relationship breaks down with our people
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  Speaker 2: when we break down in our relationship with God. Internalize
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  Speaker 2: the insight. Moses's friendship with God equipped him to lead
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  Speaker 2: and serve the people with patience and courage. Intimacy with
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  Speaker 2: God empowers us to love and serve others even when
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  Speaker 2: leadership is hard. We do see that one time that
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  Speaker 2: Moses failed, and you see what happened there, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: And then next best move, before any difficult conversation or
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  Speaker 2: leadership decision this week, meet with God first. I remember
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  Speaker 2: I was speaking to Mishka about this particular lunchtime program,
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  Speaker 2: and it's funny, I'm usually the one to ask this question,
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  Speaker 2: but that's why she's so special and dear to me,
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  Speaker 2: as my baby says, She said, did you pray about
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  Speaker 2: did you ask God?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Did you pray? Did you ask God about it? And
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  Speaker 2: I told her yes, I talked about it with him
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  Speaker 2: and I said some things to him, but I did
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  Speaker 2: not speak in such a way that I'm asking and
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the response. You see. So before any difficult
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  Speaker 2: conversation or leadership decision this week, meet with God first
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  Speaker 2: and seek his presence. Don't forget that part and his perspective. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 2: professional application, as we come to a swift close, what
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  Speaker 2: is important now? Leadership requires private preparation before public responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: Don't We see public failings many times in leadership. We
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  Speaker 2: see it on the news, depending on how large the
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  Speaker 2: company is, or wherever on the internet, when people start
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  Speaker 2: talking about what went wrong, the failings of whoever. Think
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  Speaker 2: about the guy at well, I won't call the company name,
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  Speaker 2: but he got caught on the kiss cam with somebody
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  Speaker 2: who was not his wife, and it was like whoa,
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  Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden, it is a fiasco
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  Speaker 2: not only in his own relationship, but it's also professionally
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  Speaker 2: a fiasco for he and his company, you see. And
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  Speaker 2: so leadership requires private preparation before public responsibility internalized the insight.
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  Speaker 2: The tent of meeting was Moses's leadership headquarters. Private communion
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  Speaker 2: with God gave him wisdom to lead well. Leadership clarity
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  Speaker 2: flows from spiritual clarity. The next best move before your
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  Speaker 2: next leadership task or major decision, invest intentional time, asking
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  Speaker 2: God for wisdom, not only for answers, but for understanding
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  Speaker 2: and his presence peace.
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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,