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10 18 2025 The Conflict Behind All Conflicts · 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 2: 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, October eighteen,
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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 lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the conflict behind all conflicts. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get to underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this new Sabbath morning. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to live like people who know that the Angel
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord and campeth round about us. Please teach
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  Speaker 2: us faithfulness this Sabbath morning. In Jesus' name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: a man and a men again. Let me just say,
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  Speaker 2: if you were with us last evening and you enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: the musical teaching style worship, just go ahead and type
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  Speaker 2: of one in the chat, type of one in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: If you enjoyed the musical style worship last evening, type
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  Speaker 2: of one in the Chat. As we jump into Joshua
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  Speaker 2: Joshua chapter ten and verse fourteen. Joshua chapter ten and
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  Speaker 2: verse fourteen, let me just say that in music we
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  Speaker 2: see the controversy between God and Satan a live and
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  Speaker 2: in living color, as in the story of David and
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  Speaker 2: King Saul, where Saul was being buffeted by an evil
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  Speaker 2: spirit and the Man of God with his heart and
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  Speaker 2: whatever other way that he came in. With the music,
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  Speaker 2: we know that holiness came into that space and the
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  Speaker 2: enemy had to move from there. And so the text reads,
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  Speaker 2: and there was no day like that before it or
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  Speaker 2: after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of
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  Speaker 2: a man, for the Lord fought for his people. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord fought for his people. Has God ever fought for you?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to know. Has God ever fought
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  Speaker 2: for you when you were feeling depressed in the night
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  Speaker 2: season and you didn't know how you were going to
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  Speaker 2: get through. I'm talking about at nighttime you're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be sleeping, you cannot sleep, and you're being awakened by
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of thoughts. Has God fought the battle for you?
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  Speaker 2: When you're employer was saying and doing things you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know is it because of co workers, because
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  Speaker 2: of something else, and you didn't agree with it and
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  Speaker 2: it was troubling your mind. Has God fought for you?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to know. Has God fought for you?
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  Speaker 2: And of course the answer for me is absolutely, And
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that you can see how God has fought
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  Speaker 2: for you. And so our first lesson, our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Exodus chapter fourteen, which is an echo
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  Speaker 2: of the verse we just read, The Lord shall fight
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  Speaker 2: for you, and you shall hold your peace. God's actions
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  Speaker 2: in Joshua show that he is not a distant observer.
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  Speaker 2: See in the beginnings days of our church, there were
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  Speaker 2: some people creeping in who were deists, and those individuals
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  Speaker 2: made it seem as if God created the heavens and
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  Speaker 2: the earth, he furled it out or is that a
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  Speaker 2: word he flung it out into the universe and then
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  Speaker 2: said all right, well, yeah, let me know how that goes.
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  Speaker 2: Of God being the personal God who is knowing all
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  Speaker 2: that is going on on planet Earth and is interested
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  Speaker 2: in every detail, collects your tears in a bottle, can
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  Speaker 2: hear your groanings, and is listening for your praise when
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  Speaker 2: you come through trials, or when you know that God
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  Speaker 2: is with you as you are coming through your trials.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible is teaching us that He is not a
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  Speaker 2: distant observer. He is the Lord of hosts who fights
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  Speaker 2: for his people against the enemy. The battle for Canaan
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  Speaker 2: was not just a military conflict, It was really moral
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  Speaker 2: and spiritual. The Bible says that we don't wrestle against
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  Speaker 2: flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and the
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  Speaker 2: rulers of the darkness of this world, in spiritual wickedness
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  Speaker 2: in high places. And so God is teaching us that
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  Speaker 2: our weapons of warfare are not carnal, they are spiritual.
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  Speaker 2: They are holy to the pulling down of everything that
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  Speaker 2: would get in the way of God's glory in his
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  Speaker 2: people's lives. And so God's warfare was a confrontation with
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  Speaker 2: the devil that opposed his covenant and holiness. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I want you to do intentionally is, when faced
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  Speaker 2: with battles that are larger than you. I almost said
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  Speaker 2: that seem larger than you. When you're faced with battles
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  Speaker 2: that are larger than you, pause and acknowledge that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord fights for those who trust him. Mm I can
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  Speaker 2: hear the him in my mind. Only trust him, Only
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  Speaker 2: trust him, Only trust him. Now He will save you.
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  Speaker 2: He will save you. He God will save you. Now
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  Speaker 2: rest in his strength and not your own. These are
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  Speaker 2: not your battles, brothers and sisters, they're not. They are
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  Speaker 2: for the Lord. Our lesson. Number two comes in from
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  Speaker 2: Revelation chapter twelve. Appropriately so chapter twelve, verses seven through nine.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter twelve, verses seven through nine, and it reads, and
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  Speaker 2: there was war in heaven. You see, war didn't begin
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth. You thought war started down here. And
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  Speaker 2: I can think of some places right now, war theaters
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  Speaker 2: where it's hot. The battle's been hot even since Abraham
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  Speaker 2: was alive. Those war theaters still hot today in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. You think it started down here? Nope, It
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  Speaker 2: says that the war was in heaven first. And Mike
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  Speaker 2: Kay yel, Jesus Christ, I wish I had the time,
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  Speaker 2: and his angels fought against the devil or the dragon,
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  Speaker 2: and the dragon and his angels fought. The Bible teaches
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  Speaker 2: us further that God had to kick the devil out
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  Speaker 2: and his evil angels. Yeah, those angels that would not repent.
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  Speaker 2: The devil who would not repent had to go. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course down here is where he is for the
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  Speaker 2: time being before God destroys him. Yeah. So the action
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  Speaker 2: step is that we should view challenges through a spiritual lens.
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  Speaker 2: You get a flat tire at an inopportune time, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a natural occurrence. But you think the devil is
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  Speaker 2: not at work. Come on, I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 2: be paranoid. I'm just saying know that this stuff is
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  Speaker 2: happening because we live on an evil planet. You have
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  Speaker 2: an ache, you have a pain, you have an ailment.
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  Speaker 2: You think it's just because it is No, just a psichgo. No,
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  Speaker 2: the devil is alive and unfortunately, well he is as
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  Speaker 2: a roaring lion seeking whom he made devour. But thank God,
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  Speaker 2: let me just hear you virtually by typing in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God that the true lion of the tribe of
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  Speaker 2: Judah is in position at all times. He is delivering
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  Speaker 2: and protecting his people. Instead of focusing on visible opposition,
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  Speaker 2: recognize the unseen forces of God in his holy angels.
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  Speaker 2: He will give his angels charge over for you, Hah,
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  Speaker 2: to keep you in all your ways. Less at any
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  Speaker 2: time thou dasht foot against a stone. Recognize these forces
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  Speaker 2: and stand firm in God, in prayer, and in faith.
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  Speaker 2: And the third lesson for this Sabbath morning comes in
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred eight and
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and three Pardon me and verse eight. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, the Lord is compassionate and merciful. You should
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  Speaker 2: be thankful because he's compassionate. He is merciful, he is
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  Speaker 2: patient and demonstrates loyal love. Let me go back to
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  Speaker 2: the King James version. The Lord is merciful and gracious,
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  Speaker 2: slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. I'm grateful. I'm
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  Speaker 2: grateful because I wasted a good number of years of
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  Speaker 2: my life. I wasted let me see twenty two years
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  Speaker 2: of my life. I mean you could say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I was between age, you know, months and one
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  Speaker 2: or two or three that didn't count. But let me
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  Speaker 2: just say, in my humanity, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: waste all the way until I said yes to Jesus
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  Speaker 2: when I was twenty three years of age. And it's
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  Speaker 2: been thirty years since then. No regrets, I thank God,
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  Speaker 2: no regrets, and so I'm grateful for his mercy. I'm
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  Speaker 2: grateful for his mercy. So the action for you this
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath morning is to trust God's timing and wisdom when
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  Speaker 2: you cannot understand his methods. His justice always flows from
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  Speaker 2: his love, even when the battle seems severe. If you
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  Speaker 2: are thankful, yes, I'm gonna ask you to type it
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  Speaker 2: in a chat. Say thank God with me. I say
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  Speaker 2: thank God. Make it a great Sabbath, Peace, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining 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,