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08 11 2024 Seeing Clearly · 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 Sunday, August eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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: Studies series through the Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is seeing Clearly, Seeing Clearly. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com and let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  Speaker 2: the new work week. Father, please give us your eyesight
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  Speaker 2: so we can see in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Okay, So I don't know. It was
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  Speaker 2: almost twenty years ago, just about twenty years ago that
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  Speaker 2: we were hearing in the United States. That's where I
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  Speaker 2: lived at the time of this evolutionary surgery. It was
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  Speaker 2: called Lasik laser eye correction, Like you could go and
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  Speaker 2: get your vision corrected. Can't see today, and then by
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  Speaker 2: later on today you can see. I'm exaggerating just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but depending on how poor your vision was,
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  Speaker 2: then it was possible. And for the majority of persons
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  Speaker 2: who were wearing glasses or corrective lenses, those individuals could
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  Speaker 2: go in and for thousands of dollars and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: about thirty forty seconds per I then come back out
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  Speaker 2: seeing And I did that. Like I did that. I
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  Speaker 2: did it. It was one of the best decisions I
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  Speaker 2: had ever made because I was blind, but now I
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  Speaker 2: can see. I said, I was blind. Of course, I'm exaggerating,
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  Speaker 2: but I felt like it I was blind, and now
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  Speaker 2: I could see, and I'm like, okay, there must be
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  Speaker 2: a message in this. Let's go look for the message.
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  Speaker 2: In Mark chapter eight, beginning at verse twenty two, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and he cometh to BETHSAIDA, and they bring
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  Speaker 2: a blind man unto him, and he besought him to
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  Speaker 2: touch him. A blind man wanted to touch, and he
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  Speaker 2: besought him to touch him. And he took the blind
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  Speaker 2: man by the hand and led him out of the town.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder why he led him out of the town.
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  Speaker 2: And when he had spit on his eyes and put
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  Speaker 2: his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw anything,
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  Speaker 2: and he looked up, and he said, I see men
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  Speaker 2: as trees walking. And after that he put his hands
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  Speaker 2: again upon his eyes and made him look up, and
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  Speaker 2: he was restored and saw every man clearly. And he
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  Speaker 2: sent him away to his house, saying, neither go into
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  Speaker 2: the town, nor tell any in the town. And Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went out and his disciples into the towns of Cesarea Philippi.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way he asked his disciples, saying, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: whom do men say that I am? And they answered
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  Speaker 2: John the Baptist. But some say Elias and others, one
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  Speaker 2: of the prophets, and he saith unto them by but home,
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  Speaker 2: say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, thou art the Christ. And he charged them
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  Speaker 2: that they should tell no man. Now you can see
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  Speaker 2: that the man was able to see as Jesus led
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  Speaker 2: him by the hand, he took him aside, he took
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  Speaker 2: him out into the place where he was going to
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  Speaker 2: do his healing. Of course, this is early in Jesus's ministry.
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  Speaker 2: There were a lot of detractors and people who were
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  Speaker 2: diminishing Jesus's early ministry. And so he takes the man
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  Speaker 2: one side and he begins the healing process. Are you
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  Speaker 2: listening to how I'm saying it. He's beginning the healing process.
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  Speaker 2: What if the man got discouraged and said, well, why
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  Speaker 2: are you moving me from here? What if the man
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  Speaker 2: got discouraged as Jesus is beginning the healing process. What
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  Speaker 2: if the man, as Jesus said, what do you see?
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  Speaker 2: He says, I see like something moved around, like trees,
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  Speaker 2: like men, like trees. I'm not able to see so clearly. Now.
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  Speaker 2: What if he got discouraged and said, but I thought
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  Speaker 2: that you were gonna heal me. Jesus, I asked you
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  Speaker 2: to heal me. I asked you to fix my children. Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I asked you to give me a new job. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: I asked you to fix my marriage. Jesus, my addiction
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  Speaker 2: to filling the blank thing here, unmentionable thing here. But Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing some movement, but not all that I want.
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  Speaker 2: Like what if the man decided to take that position,
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  Speaker 2: what would have happened next. That's something for us to
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  Speaker 2: think about, But really we don't need to just be
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  Speaker 2: thinking about that. What we need to be doing is
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  Speaker 2: considering when we are in the process of receiving the
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  Speaker 2: healing from God. Do we give up, do we become discouraged?
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  Speaker 2: Do we allow ourselves to negatively speak? Do we say
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  Speaker 2: and try to write God a prescription and say no, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: keep me right here and do it. No, Jesus, don't
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  Speaker 2: use spit. No, Jesus, don't put your fingers in my eyes, like,
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  Speaker 2: do it another way, Jesus, And I'm not seeing clearly.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were supposed to do it this way, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Or we can choose to do what the man did
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  Speaker 2: the man did exactly what Jesus told him as he
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  Speaker 2: was healing him, and he trusted God fully, and in
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  Speaker 2: the end he could see clearly. So what can we
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  Speaker 2: do in twenty twenty four, on this day in August,
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  Speaker 2: What can we do to hack this process? Learn from
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  Speaker 2: this man's experience. What we can do is say, God,
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  Speaker 2: since you were able to heal that man fully and
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  Speaker 2: that man could see clearly, I know that you can
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  Speaker 2: do it for me. Can I say it again? Since
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  Speaker 2: you were able to do it for that man and
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  Speaker 2: he can see clearly, I know that you can do
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  Speaker 2: it for me. And I will follow you. If you
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  Speaker 2: say walk, I will walk. If you say bow, I
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  Speaker 2: will bow. If you ask me a question, I will
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  Speaker 2: answer the question. I will not try to make sense
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  Speaker 2: of anything. I will just follow where thou leadest, I
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  Speaker 2: will follow. And that brother followed. That brother followed what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus taught him, and he was ultimately healed. Now the
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  Speaker 2: question that we need to be answering for ourselves comes
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  Speaker 2: in the remaining portion of that passage. Who do you
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  Speaker 2: say that God is? Who is Jesus to you? To you?
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to worry about who other people are
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  Speaker 2: saying he is to you today at eight minutes after
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  Speaker 2: the hour? Like, who is Jesus to you? Is he
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  Speaker 2: the bright and morning star? He is? Is he your provider?
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  Speaker 2: Is he your best friend?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Is he the one who heals you? Is he your deliverer,
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  Speaker 2: your sanctuary, your refuge in time of trouble?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is he the author and finisher of your faith? He's
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  Speaker 2: he the one that created you unto good works. Who
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  Speaker 2: is Jesus to you? Is he the one that is
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  Speaker 2: able to keep you from falling and to present you
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  Speaker 2: before the presence with exceeding joy? Who is Jesus to you?
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  Speaker 2: And so we thank God for the experience, the experience
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  Speaker 2: of these men of God that learned who Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: and then began to live according to the principle of
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  Speaker 2: who Jesus is in reality. If Jesus is your refuge,
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  Speaker 2: then that means you flee into his presence. If Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is your God, then that means you allow him to
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  Speaker 2: guide you. If Jesus is your provider, then you stop
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  Speaker 2: trying to take the reins of your own life and
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  Speaker 2: stop trying to make your own provisions, but rather to
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  Speaker 2: maximize and move according to what God is providing all
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  Speaker 2: of your The Bible says, according to his riches in Glory,
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  Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus, and in the closing moments here I
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  Speaker 2: want to share just a couple of things and let
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  Speaker 2: you go first. Jesus gave this man personal attention, even
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  Speaker 2: though the entire world needs Jesus simultaneously. Right now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about today, this Sunday. Yes, he still gives you
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  Speaker 2: the personal attention that you need. Yes. And then the
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  Speaker 2: timing is always right with Jesus. His timing and our timing.
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  Speaker 2: His thoughts and our thoughts are not the same, but
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  Speaker 2: at just the right time. The Bible says that He
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  Speaker 2: gave this man spiritual and practical eyesight, and so the
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  Speaker 2: man could see clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Are you seeing clearly? Thanks for joining us listening to 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,