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07 05 2025 The Burning Bush · 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,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, July five,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 new
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Burning Bush, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to let you know that tomorrow it's the Burning Bush
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  Speaker 2: as well, but we'll look at it in a different way.
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  Speaker 2: Before we begin, I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: all of you, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please go ahead and join our online community and let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. 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: Thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: come together on this Sabbath morning to have a divine
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  Speaker 2: encounter with you. Please transform our lives today. In Jesus's name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again the burning bush. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to begin by reading from the Bible book
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  Speaker 2: of Exodus, Exodus chapter three, and I will read verses
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  Speaker 2: seven and eight, and the Bible reads and the Lord said,
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  Speaker 2: I have surely seen the oppression of my people. I
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  Speaker 2: have said to you before when we see this experience
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  Speaker 2: that Moses is having with God, and God saying that
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  Speaker 2: I have seen the oppression of his people, that means
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  Speaker 2: that God is divinely near. He's divinely near to you
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  Speaker 2: this Sabbath morning. I don't want to waste time to
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  Speaker 2: get to this like he is divinely near to you.
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  Speaker 2: But the question is do you want him here? Are
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  Speaker 2: you welcoming him? Whether two or three are gathered together
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  Speaker 2: in name he is in the midst of us. And
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  Speaker 2: we know that there are hundreds. And depending on the
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  Speaker 2: time of the day, you may watch the replay. It
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  Speaker 2: may be thousands together or hundreds of thousands if you're
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  Speaker 2: on the radio together for His glory. And even still,
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  Speaker 2: if it's just you and it's you and God and
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  Speaker 2: you're there. He inhabits the praises of his people. He
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  Speaker 2: has orchestrated in arrange a divine encounter for you. What
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  Speaker 2: is God saying to you? What is God's saying to you?
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  Speaker 2: And are you listening? Are you listening? And the Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: and I have heard their cry because of their task masters. See,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God were bound. Are you bound? I
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  Speaker 2: know their sorrows. I have come down now to deliver
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  Speaker 2: them out of the hand of their oppressors and to
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  Speaker 2: bring them up from the land to a good and
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  Speaker 2: large land flowing with milk and honey. So there is
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  Speaker 2: a point where God says, enough is enough, It is
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  Speaker 2: time to deliver. So the question is are you patient enough?
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  Speaker 2: Are you patient enough to trust God, cooperate with him
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  Speaker 2: and wait for him to deliver you. Let me ask
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  Speaker 2: you the questions again. Really it's a battery of questions.
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  Speaker 2: Are you patient enough to trust God, cooperate with God
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  Speaker 2: and wait for him to deliver you? That's the question.
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  Speaker 2: Let's content continue, and so the lesson writer says that
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  Speaker 2: God calls us. God's call to us will often change
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  Speaker 2: the direction of our lives. I talked about that. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was Thursday when all my notes vanished and
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to read piece this stuff together, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, God, what in the world is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: And he gave me the resounding message that He changes
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  Speaker 2: our plans at times, so we can rely on him,
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  Speaker 2: if you remember. However, if we follow that call, then
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  Speaker 2: we discover that God's path is always the best route
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  Speaker 2: for us. It's always been the best route for us.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes we chuck out, we chuck off ahead of him,
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  Speaker 2: we run ahead of him. But God is saying, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to be with you. I'm here here to
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  Speaker 2: give you the understanding that you need. But more than that,
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  Speaker 2: I am here to transform you, it says, continuing. However,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes at first it isn't really easy to accept God's call.
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  Speaker 2: So if the reality for you right now I need
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  Speaker 2: you to tell yourself the truth between you and God.
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  Speaker 2: Are you really open to his redirection or his direction?
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  Speaker 2: Are you really open to God changing the pathway that
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  Speaker 2: you thought you should be on in order to answer
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  Speaker 2: his call. If the answer is yes, then we just God,
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  Speaker 2: We just by God, pray your strength. And if the
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  Speaker 2: answer is ah, I don't know or no, then now
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  Speaker 2: is the time. Like mark this date on your calendar,
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  Speaker 2: July five, and say, God, this is the day that
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  Speaker 2: I will surrender my will to you, even though I
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  Speaker 2: don't fully understand what that means. Wherever you say, whether
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  Speaker 2: thou goest, I will go, where thou leadest, I will follow. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: and by his grace, please just follow him. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's easy for me to say because I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where exactly he's leading you. But can I just say that,
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  Speaker 2: like I've been led by God, I am being led
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  Speaker 2: by God. And there are times part of me, there
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  Speaker 2: are times that He changes my pathway, my direction to
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  Speaker 2: and so we just thank God for that privilege, and
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  Speaker 2: so we go into learn another lesson. The first lesson
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  Speaker 2: is a mindset shift. It's a mindset shift that I
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  Speaker 2: need for all of us to embrace. Are you ready
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  Speaker 2: for it. It's the shift that says no excuses, no excuses.
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  Speaker 2: That's the shift we Where we think God's command is
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  Speaker 2: easy or difficult is irrelevant. It's so difficult it's easy
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  Speaker 2: for you to say, oh, okay, well I'll just go
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  Speaker 2: and do it, No big deal. Either way, it's irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: What our view of this call, this command is is irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: And I know maybe I'm speaking in extreme language, but literally,
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  Speaker 2: the only pathway to eternal success is doing what God says,
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  Speaker 2: when he says, and how he says it. I said,
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  Speaker 2: when he says, how he says, and when he says it,
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  Speaker 2: You can say it whichever direction you want to say it.
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  Speaker 2: What he says, when God says, how he says it.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, submitting to God and his plan is the
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  Speaker 2: only pathway to success. And so the action though for
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  Speaker 2: our lives comes few fold. Let's see how much time
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  Speaker 2: we have here. Number one, trust that your cries are
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  Speaker 2: not ignored. We said earlier that God heard the moanings,
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  Speaker 2: the groanings of his people, and he said, is now
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  Speaker 2: time for me to come down and to deliver them.
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  Speaker 2: So trust that your cries are not being ignored by God,
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  Speaker 2: and continue to pray even when the deliverance of God seems,
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  Speaker 2: I said, seems delayed. The second lesson comes from this
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  Speaker 2: part of the text. I've read it already in Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse eight. I am now come down
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  Speaker 2: to deliver them and to bring them up onto a
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  Speaker 2: land flowing with milk and honey. I've said this to
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  Speaker 2: you before that God doesn't always just bring us out
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  Speaker 2: of something. He takes us into something much greater, much greater. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we are not the ones to determine what is greater,
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  Speaker 2: what is better, but we know that if God is
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  Speaker 2: taking us from somewhere and he's taking us to somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: it's because it's for his glory and for our benefit.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be greater. It has to be greater.
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  Speaker 2: When Joseph was taken to Potiphar and he was the
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  Speaker 2: head whatever, he was a butler in Potiphar's house, it
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  Speaker 2: was a place that was better. And when he was enslaved,
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  Speaker 2: it was a place that was better. It was a
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  Speaker 2: place that was for God's glory and his benefit. When
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  Speaker 2: he was when he was taken to prison, it was
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  Speaker 2: for the glory of God and for the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: Joseph and others throughout the generations, and so we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to ask God simply for survival. We want to thrive.
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  Speaker 2: As I have said this before, ask God what he's
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  Speaker 2: leading you toward, not only what he's taking you away from.
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  Speaker 2: See the burning Bush experience is a way for us
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  Speaker 2: to connect with God and for him to transform us.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk some more about it tomorrow. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 2: us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,