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09 29 2026 God Seeks Humanity · 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, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. 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 new lesson study series, The
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  Speaker 2: Gift of Prophecy, and our caption for today is God
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  Speaker 2: Seeks Prophecy. God is seeking humanity. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please go over to yourdailyportion.com. Will you please go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and click that button that says begin the assessment?
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  Speaker 2: Stop guessing what to do with your life. Discover God's
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  Speaker 2: design for your life. And once you have invested just
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes of time, you will come away with
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  Speaker 2: a personal blueprint, a clear picture of how you have
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  Speaker 2: been gifted by God, His design for your life, the
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  Speaker 2: word behind each gift, and the first step to begin
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  Speaker 2: functioning in those gifts. And if you would, please go
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  Speaker 2: and click one of those contribute buttons because your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us this new day and
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  Speaker 2: for the privilege that you have given us to be
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  Speaker 2: sought by you. Thank you for running after us. Please,
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  Speaker 2: will you teach us to run after you, to follow
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  Speaker 2: also the Lamb wherever he goes, Jesus Christ. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And amen again. So I am honored by the fact
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  Speaker 2: that God loves us so much that he would chase us.
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  Speaker 2: He would run us down. He would follow hard after
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  Speaker 2: us to overtake us with blessings. Because really, when Adam
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  Speaker 2: and Eve sinned, they should have died immediately. And it
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  Speaker 2: should have been that destructive time. heat of hellfire style
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  Speaker 2: of death, that dying eternally kind of death, and you
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  Speaker 2: don't come back. Root and branch completely annihilated and destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: and that's it. That's the way it should have been.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what the Bible says. The soul that sinneth,
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  Speaker 2: it shall die. The wages of sin is death, and
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  Speaker 2: it's eternal death because the contrast is the Gift of
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  Speaker 2: God is eternal life. So eternal death penalty, that is
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  Speaker 2: what should have happened. But because God loves us so much,
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  Speaker 2: he enacted the plan that was in place from before
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  Speaker 2: there was a beginning. Jesus crucified from the foundations of
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  Speaker 2: the earth. He begins to enact the plan. And when
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve fell, he, God, took the first step
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  Speaker 2: and came seeking death. with a tender question, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: It's that same seeking love that pursues you still through
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, the only one who can deliver you from
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  Speaker 2: sin and remake you in his image. So if you
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  Speaker 2: are frustrated with your spouse, you are frustrated with your children,
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  Speaker 2: you're frustrated with somebody at your job or in some
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  Speaker 2: other environment where you are. I want you to think
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  Speaker 2: about what God invested. What did he go through in
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  Speaker 2: order to seek you out, in order to save you?
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  Speaker 2: Freely you have received God seeking after you. Freely give.
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  Speaker 2: You might need to go seek somebody out to get
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  Speaker 2: them closer to God, to reconcile them to God. And
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  Speaker 2: so we begin with the first lesson from Genesis chapter 3.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis chapter 3, and I will read verse 9. It's
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  Speaker 2: a simple text, but it has so much power, and
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  Speaker 2: I've already started teaching on this. And the Lord God
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  Speaker 2: called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou?
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  Speaker 2: When you think about it, Adam and Eve had become
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  Speaker 2: accustomed to God coming and they having communion with God
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  Speaker 2: in the cool of the day. God would visit with them.
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  Speaker 2: They would have communion. And now God is showing up
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  Speaker 2: to the appointed spot at the appointed hour, and Adam
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  Speaker 2: and Eve are missing. They are missing in action. Why
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  Speaker 2: are they not where we agreed that we would be?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you, Adam? Now, Adam, of course, is hiding.
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  Speaker 2: God knew that Adam was hiding, and yet he called
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  Speaker 2: to open the door back to fellowship. Adam, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: His question was never an accusation. It was never that
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  Speaker 2: God didn't know where he was. It was never that
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  Speaker 2: God was saying, I'm going to get you now. Come
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  Speaker 2: out of those bushes. It was never that, but an
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  Speaker 2: invitation to come back home. Adam, where are you? Where
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  Speaker 2: are you? Come on, Adam. Look around yourself. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: look at you. You're a mess, Adam. Look at you.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you out here shivering and hiding? Why are
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  Speaker 2: you out here with that accusatory blame game mentality? Why
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  Speaker 2: are you trying to hide yourself from me? I'm the
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  Speaker 2: one that molded you. from the dust of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: I am the one that lifted up that new head
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  Speaker 2: that I had molded in my image. And I'm the
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  Speaker 2: one that blew into your lungs, my breath. I inspired
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  Speaker 2: you and you're hiding from me. All of those parts
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  Speaker 2: that you're hiding from me, I created them. Why would
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  Speaker 2: you hide from me, Adam? Come on back into fellowship
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  Speaker 2: and get your wife too. Y'all need to stop hiding
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  Speaker 2: in those bushes. Get away from that devil. come home.
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  Speaker 2: And so answer God's call today when he is calling
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  Speaker 2: out to your name. He's calling you. Come home. Come
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  Speaker 2: out of hiding. Tell him plainly where you are. That
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  Speaker 2: is confession. May I just say to confess is to
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  Speaker 2: agree with God. If Adam said, I'm over by one
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  Speaker 2: of those three rivers. I'm And then he starts saying
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  Speaker 2: stuff other than that he was naked, he was ashamed,
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  Speaker 2: he was hiding himself and afraid. If he said anything else,
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  Speaker 2: that would not have been confession. That would have been
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  Speaker 2: hiding his sins from God. And the Bible says those
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  Speaker 2: that do that shall not prosper. But whoso confesseth and
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  Speaker 2: forsaketh shall have mercy. God is now in a position
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  Speaker 2: to give that brother, that sister, mercy. And so the
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  Speaker 2: action really for us is to answer God's call today.
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  Speaker 2: Come out of the bushes. Come out of hiding. Stop
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  Speaker 2: clearing out your, what do they call the thing, the
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  Speaker 2: thing on your phones when you've been doing dumb and
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  Speaker 2: evil stuff. Did I just say dumb on the radio?
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  Speaker 2: I think I just did. When you've been doing dumb
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  Speaker 2: and evil stuff and things that separate us from God,
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  Speaker 2: stop hiding the tracks of that. Like, stop. Stop hiding
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're doing that you shouldn't be doing,
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  Speaker 2: trying to hide it from God and say, God, this
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  Speaker 2: is me. You know me. Can you please forgive me? Frankly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm going to stop drinking that liquor, God.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm going to stop lying. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm going to stop betraying my spouse,
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  Speaker 2: my husband, my wife. I don't know how, God, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to stop abusing my children. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to stop defrauding the insurance companies, telling them
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  Speaker 2: lies so I can get money that I don't deserve.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to stop hiding and taking away
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  Speaker 2: the pens and papers and photocopying stuff on the company's
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  Speaker 2: dying without telling him, using the company card. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how, God. I don't know how to stop saying
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  Speaker 2: that I've done things and getting paid for things when
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do them and I don't deserve the pay, God.
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  Speaker 2: Can you show me how? Answer him plainly where you
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  Speaker 2: are and let God transform you. And I will read
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  Speaker 2: now a quote. I got to preaching, so let me
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  Speaker 2: just hurry up and get to this quote. The Faith
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  Speaker 2: I Live By, page 75. I think you're getting the point, though.
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  Speaker 2: Page 75. No sooner was there sin than there was
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  Speaker 2: a Savior. You see, you can't rock God back on
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  Speaker 2: his heels. He's not reactive like he's not being caught
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  Speaker 2: off guard. He's not. Oh, my goodness. What are we
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  Speaker 2: going to do? Let me continue the quote. Christ knew
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  Speaker 2: that he would have to suffer. And yet he became
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  Speaker 2: man's substitute. As soon as Adam sinned, the son of
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  Speaker 2: God presented himself as surety. That's the down payment. That
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  Speaker 2: is all that humanity needed. Surety. for the human race.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful that God has positioned us as the
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  Speaker 2: ones being sought. All we need to do is slow down,
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth, and yield ourselves to God. God is
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  Speaker 2: seeking you. Now respond. 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.