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09 08 2026 Planning · 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
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  Speaker 2: 8th in 2026. Hello, my name is L. 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 through the books of 1st and 2nd Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is, Planning. You have to plan.
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  Speaker 2: Life is all about planning. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. But first, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over, please, to yourdailyportion.com.
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  Speaker 2: Will you please, please go ahead and click this for
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  Speaker 2: your benefit? Stop guessing. Those of you who are watching
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  Speaker 2: on the Internet, you can see it. I know on
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  Speaker 2: the radio and podcast, you're like, why does he keep
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  Speaker 2: saying I can see stuff? Yeah, stop guessing what to
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  Speaker 2: do with your life. Discover God's design for your life,
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  Speaker 2: and then click that button right below it that says begin, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And that way you can get closer to God, closer
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  Speaker 2: to His calling for your life, and it'll bring clarity
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  Speaker 2: to you and benefit to the people that you serve. Also, please,
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  Speaker 2: will you click the contribute button? Because your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Ministries is a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you. Thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to consider the act that plans. You created them in
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  Speaker 2: a way that we can observe them. Teach us to plan,
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  Speaker 2: because those who fail to plan, plan to fail. But God,
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  Speaker 2: help us not to just trust our plans. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to trust you. In Jesus' name I pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And amen again. Planning. Today, the most important thing from
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  Speaker 2: my perspective on this lesson is that God planned His
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  Speaker 2: giving before the foundation of the world. Can you just
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  Speaker 2: let that settle in for a moment? Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it. Before there ever were human beings, before
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve existed, before Jesus went down into that
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  Speaker 2: ground that He had just created, He just created that
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  Speaker 2: dry ground, and before He scooped up or gathered that
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  Speaker 2: dry dust of the earth and molded he a man
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  Speaker 2: and breathed into him his life and then also formed
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  Speaker 2: that woman out of the rib that God took from Adam.
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  Speaker 2: And he also brought her to life. Before any of that,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us that he had a plan for
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  Speaker 2: when they would fail. And I want you to hear
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  Speaker 2: my language pattern very keenly. I'm not saying they had
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  Speaker 2: to fail. I'm not saying they were doomed to fail.
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  Speaker 2: They were created perfect and they were in the image
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  Speaker 2: of God. They had nothing in their DNA that would
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  Speaker 2: drive them down that pathway. It's just that they chose
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  Speaker 2: to sin. They chose to sin. Eve was deceived. Adam,
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  Speaker 2: he jumped into sin.
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  Speaker 1: She fell.
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  Speaker 2: He jumped. But both of them now sinners, and because
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  Speaker 2: of Adam's sin, specifically Adam's sin, now it comes down
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  Speaker 2: in our DNA until the Lord, of course, gives us
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  Speaker 2: new birth. If we had the time, we would drill that.
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  Speaker 2: But before any of the falling happened or jumping, as
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  Speaker 2: the case may be, God had a plan. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give my only son... so that they
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  Speaker 2: will not immediately be destroyed throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.
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  Speaker 2: When I say destroyed, I mean that the effect of
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  Speaker 2: it is eternal, like dead and that's it. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do something now to prepare for the
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  Speaker 2: time that I've already seen because I'm eternal. I wish
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't have made that choice. I wish they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: make that choice. But I'm going to put something in
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  Speaker 2: place so that we can redeem them when they do
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  Speaker 2: make that choice. Isn't it wonderful that God still, he
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  Speaker 2: still created human beings knowing the decisions we would make?
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  Speaker 2: Because some of them not so great. And then the others, well,
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  Speaker 2: of course, I'm blessed because now I know that there
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  Speaker 2: are human beings that make the right choice. Make the
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  Speaker 2: right choice and ultimately we'll be saved. And so he
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  Speaker 2: was intentional. He pre-decided this generosity of how the believer
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  Speaker 2: would participate in the same deliberate love that sent Christ
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  Speaker 2: to earth to save us from our sins. So since
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  Speaker 2: God planned, why not plan like God under God? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so our lesson is coming in. This first lesson
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  Speaker 2: is coming in from 2 Corinthians chapter 8. And I
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  Speaker 2: will read verse 12, 2 Corinthians chapter 8, and I
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  Speaker 2: will read verse 12. Sounds like the blender's going upstairs,
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  Speaker 2: but don't be distracted by that. The Bible reads, for
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  Speaker 2: if the willingness is present, right? If the willingness is present,
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  Speaker 2: the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has,
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  Speaker 2: not according to what one does not have. So God
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  Speaker 2: is not holding you responsible for what you could not
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  Speaker 2: have access to. He's not saying that you need to
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  Speaker 2: give 70 million U.S. dollars to this great cause when
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  Speaker 2: you don't have that. You don't have access to that.
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  Speaker 2: God is not saying that he needs you to give
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  Speaker 2: 27 hours of your time because 27 hours do not exist.
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  Speaker 2: He's not saying that you should forget your family in
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  Speaker 2: order to do ministry to people who are not your
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  Speaker 2: family because that is not what he teaches. So, so,
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  Speaker 2: so please. You can be eager, thank God, and willing
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  Speaker 2: and ready. Your mind should be ready. Our minds should
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  Speaker 2: be ready. And that precedes the act. Whatever it is
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  Speaker 2: that God has placed into your care, that you can do,
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  Speaker 2: you can give. God is saying that he is giving
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  Speaker 2: you a readiness of mind before the act. God does
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  Speaker 2: not measure the gift by its size. He measures it
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  Speaker 2: by the willingness behind it. The widow's two mites that
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned to you yesterday were acceptable because her willing
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  Speaker 2: mind was present in full. Eric Thomas, Dr. Eric Thomas
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  Speaker 2: says equal giving means Not equal giving, pardon me, not
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  Speaker 2: equal giving, but equal sacrifice. Not equal giving, but equal sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: And I love that the brother says that. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And so God never asks, this is the lesson, to
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  Speaker 2: give what you don't have. I've made this point already.
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  Speaker 2: He asks you to give proportionally and willingly from what
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  Speaker 2: you do have. The principle of proportionality frees the poor
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  Speaker 2: from shame and frees the wealthy from congratulating themselves. It
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  Speaker 2: levels the ground at the cross. And so today I
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  Speaker 2: want you to give. Please give according to what you
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  Speaker 2: really do have. That's between you and God, not what
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  Speaker 2: you wish you had, not with what someone else has,
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  Speaker 2: and give it with a willing mind that makes the
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  Speaker 2: gift acceptable before God, regardless of the size or your
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  Speaker 2: perception of the size. Well, what did God give? What
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  Speaker 2: did God give? I've already said it. You already know it,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just read it from the book of
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  Speaker 2: Revelation chapter 13 and verse 8. All of heaven in
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  Speaker 2: one gift. Revelation chapter 13 and verse 8. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: we know God gave the lamb slain from the foundation
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  Speaker 2: of the world. So that means pro, that pro term
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  Speaker 2: that we used all the time. We use all the time.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Greek term before, in advance, prior to. The
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice was a planned gift. Sometimes you hear organized ministries
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  Speaker 2: talk about planned giving. Yes, decided in the eternal counsels
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  Speaker 2: of God before a single human being ever drew breath.
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  Speaker 2: Before he even created us, God's generosity was not reactive
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  Speaker 2: to the fall. He knew what would happen. He was proactive,
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  Speaker 2: like he knew exactly what would happen, and therefore he
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  Speaker 2: made provision. I think somebody just got it. He knew
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  Speaker 2: what would happen, therefore he made provision. It was prepared.
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  Speaker 2: before Adam and Eve ever, ever sinned. And so the
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  Speaker 2: greatest gift in history was also the most carefully planned.
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  Speaker 2: God did not improvise. He executed the great plan of
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  Speaker 2: giving that was settled in eternity. When the believer plans
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  Speaker 2: our giving carefully and deliberately, we are reflecting the intentionality
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  Speaker 2: of God who planned to give his son before the
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  Speaker 2: world began. plan, brothers and sisters, under the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with L.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day.