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01 03 2025 Tell the TRUTH · 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 Friday, January three,
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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: Lessons study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is tell the Truth. Tell the Truth. I
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  Speaker 2: need you to tell the truth. I need to tell
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  Speaker 2: the truth, and we'll talk about that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: you and ask you to please go over to your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. I'm asking you to please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community. Click that number seven I still need
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  Speaker 2: for an enhanced spiritual development, and definitely pick up the
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  Speaker 2: Your Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter's lesson. Pick
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  Speaker 2: up the Companion Guide because we make reference to it,
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  Speaker 2: we use it in the community, and it is for
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  Speaker 2: you to apply apply what we're learning in spiritual development,
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  Speaker 2: personal development, in your relationships, and of course also in
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  Speaker 2: your professional lives. Okay, your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this preparation day,
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  Speaker 2: and I ask you to please draw us into a
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  Speaker 2: right relationship with you so we can live the truth.
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  Speaker 2: We can tell the truth, and we can embrace the
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  Speaker 2: truth all the time, abide in the truth in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: many times I'm going to use the term truth today,
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  Speaker 2: but I hope that you will embrace the truth. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to focus on I want you who
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  Speaker 2: have the Companion Guide to focus on pages nineteen and twenty.
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  Speaker 2: My mind is on relationship application, Okay, So you can
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  Speaker 2: put it into the community chat once you've joined, which
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  Speaker 2: of the four that you're focused on? But that's where
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  Speaker 2: my mind is, because the question that comes to mind
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  Speaker 2: for me is does my style of relating to people
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  Speaker 2: reflect the truth? Here it is again, does my style
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  Speaker 2: of relating to people reflect the truth? I remember the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says Jesus speaking that there were two great commandments,
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  Speaker 2: right to love the Lord our God with everything that
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  Speaker 2: we have and everything that we are right. And the
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  Speaker 2: second is like unto it, namely this to love thy
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  Speaker 2: neighbor as thyself. So the second and great commandment, the
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  Speaker 2: final six commandments in the ten Commandments, is about relating
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  Speaker 2: to people, relating to God and people. Okay. And so
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  Speaker 2: does my style of relating to people? How I speak
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  Speaker 2: to and about them? Ah, how I may physically handle
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  Speaker 2: if somebody needs help. Am I relating in the way
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  Speaker 2: that is reflective of the truth in my relationship with
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  Speaker 2: my wife, with my son? Am my abusive toward them
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  Speaker 2: physically emotionally in the way that I speak to them?
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  Speaker 2: Or am I reflecting the truth in my relationship? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so this is how we need to become more
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  Speaker 2: and more practical in these studies and so the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer has quoted from the book Christ's object Lessons, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at page four hundred and fifteen, and it reads, it
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  Speaker 2: is the darkness of misapprehension or misunderstanding of God that
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  Speaker 2: is enshrouding the world. Men are losing or humans people
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  Speaker 2: are losing the knowledge of His character. It has been misunderstood,
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  Speaker 2: It has been misinterpreted. Let me ask you a question,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm asking myself the question, like, when people see you,
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  Speaker 2: are they getting the right view of God? Or is
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  Speaker 2: the darkness and the misunderstanding of God getting bigger? Because
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  Speaker 2: people are like, wait a minute, you said you're a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: Like you say that you love God. Why do you
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  Speaker 2: speak to me that way? Why is it that when
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  Speaker 2: we're if something goes bad on the road, like a
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  Speaker 2: in a while you're driving, is it road rage from
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  Speaker 2: the person of God? Like the brother the sister? How
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  Speaker 2: the people of God do you engage in road rage?
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  Speaker 2: Do you say bad words to people when something doesn't
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  Speaker 2: go quite right? In an interaction in the gym, somebody
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  Speaker 2: wants to use this bench for these weights or this
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  Speaker 2: space over here? How do you respond when things don't
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  Speaker 2: go quite in the way that you desire. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: we need to really be thinking about this and asking
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  Speaker 2: God to make us holy at this time. Continuing the quote,
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  Speaker 2: a message from God is to be proclaimed, a message illuminating.
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  Speaker 2: That's light, illuminating in its influence and saving in its power.
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  Speaker 2: So people need to get connected to God, our Father
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  Speaker 2: through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes you're the one. Many times you're the one
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  Speaker 2: to give them that invitation. Your life will either enhance
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  Speaker 2: their desire or repel them. Enhance their desire to know God,
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  Speaker 2: solidify the relationship with God, or it'll cause confusion. And
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  Speaker 2: so we need to be answering and asking and answering
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  Speaker 2: that question. Are we living the way that we relate
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  Speaker 2: to people? Is it a testament of the truth of
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  Speaker 2: God or something else? Or something else? Let me continue
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  Speaker 2: his character and I actually underscored this. His character is
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  Speaker 2: to be made known. Well, how how is his character
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  Speaker 2: to be made known? Continuing the quote, Into the darkness
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  Speaker 2: of the world is to be shed the light of
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  Speaker 2: his glory, the light of His goodness and mercy and truth. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how look in a mirror when you have an opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: look in the mirror, And if you don't have a mirror.
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  Speaker 2: Turn on your phone with one of those cameras, the
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  Speaker 2: forward facing cameras. Switch on the camera, look in there
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  Speaker 2: and what you see that is the answer, like, how
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  Speaker 2: will his character be made known in this world? How
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  Speaker 2: into the darkness of the world is the life light
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  Speaker 2: to be shed of his glory, the light of His
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  Speaker 2: goodness and mercy and truth. People are to see this
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  Speaker 2: through you, how God has been good to you, and
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  Speaker 2: how you reflect his glory. Let me continue the quote
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  Speaker 2: straight out of the Bible. This is the work is coming.
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  Speaker 2: This is the work outlined by the prophet Isaiah in
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  Speaker 2: the words, Oh Jerusalem. That's you, brothers and sisters, the
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  Speaker 2: people of God, anywhere you are in the world. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: Oh Jerusalem, that bring us good tidings. Lift up thy voice,
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  Speaker 2: thy voice. Did you get that? It's your voices that
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  Speaker 2: need to be heard, my voice that needs to be heard.
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  Speaker 2: Lift up thy voice with strength, lift it up. Do
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  Speaker 2: not be afraid, say unto the cities of Judah. Behold
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  Speaker 2: your God. Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand,
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  Speaker 2: his arms shall rule for him. And behold, his reward
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  Speaker 2: is with him and his work before him. And that's
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  Speaker 2: out of Isaiah chapter fourty verses nine and ten. And
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  Speaker 2: so the people of God again, the question is how
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  Speaker 2: am I lifting up my voice?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: How are you lifting up your voices? How are you
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  Speaker 2: lifting up your lives to say, behold, behold our God,
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  Speaker 2: Behold your God. So we want to elevate who God
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  Speaker 2: is through our lives and how we interact with people,
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  Speaker 2: so that they will say, you know what, I realize
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  Speaker 2: that something's just not right with my life. I have
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  Speaker 2: been living according to my own terms. I have been
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  Speaker 2: relating to others in a way that is not pleasing
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  Speaker 2: to God. I don't have to be mean, that's not
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  Speaker 2: really what it is. That like, there are people who
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  Speaker 2: are very kind and gentle, but maybe maybe they have
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  Speaker 2: kind of ungodly relationships, like they're sometimes romantic relationships that
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  Speaker 2: are ungodly, Like God wants us to relate in a
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  Speaker 2: certain way only if we're married. And maybe that's not
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  Speaker 2: the way that it's been, you see. And I could
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  Speaker 2: give more examples, but I think you understand. And so,
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  Speaker 2: continuing in the lesson, those who wait for the bridegrooms
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  Speaker 2: coming are to say to the people, behold your God.
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  Speaker 2: The last rays of merciful light. The last message of
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  Speaker 2: mercy to be given to the world is a revelation
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  Speaker 2: of his character of love. So let me just pause
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  Speaker 2: right here, pause right here, to speak directly to those
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  Speaker 2: who have not yet said yes to God, like now
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  Speaker 2: is your opportunity. Now is your opportunity to say, God,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I have not been connecting with you
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  Speaker 2: in a way that is pleasing to you. Would it?
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  Speaker 2: Please accept me? And I know that He will say yes.
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  Speaker 2: Just submit your will to him today 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,