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12 27 2024 THRIVE from God's Perspective · 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 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Friday,
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  Speaker 2: December twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are in
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  Speaker 2: our final study in themes in the Gospel of John
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  Speaker 2: and I just want you to type in the chat
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  Speaker 2: a number one if you really enjoyed this quarter's lesson
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  Speaker 2: in it has been a blessing to us. This is
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  Speaker 2: the end of lesson number thirteen of thirteen. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: grateful because we had two quarters back to back through
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  Speaker 2: gospel books. First it was Mark, now it's John. And
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  Speaker 2: I know It's going to be an incredible time when
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  Speaker 2: we move to God's Love and Justice. Before we begin,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to join our online community. Click that number seven
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  Speaker 2: to subscribe there. And also please pick up the Companion Book.
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  Speaker 2: I did not say the quarterly. I think some people
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  Speaker 2: are confused. We're not talking about the quarterly you have that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, pick up the Companion book, the life application
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  Speaker 2: guide that we produce here. And of course we want
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  Speaker 2: you to pick up the One for God's Love and Justice,
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  Speaker 2: which we begin tomorrow. But if you even still have
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  Speaker 2: not gotten the one for this quarter here that we're ending,
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  Speaker 2: it can still be very helpful to us even though
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  Speaker 2: we have completed the lesson. Okay, let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this day and giving us the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to serve you today and to not only look
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  Speaker 2: at your perspective, but to thrive from your perspective. Please
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  Speaker 2: teach us to serve you with everything that we are
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again.
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  Speaker 2: I did not announce to you today's caption it is
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  Speaker 2: thrive from God's perspective. Thrive from God's perspective, And so
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer says, God's perspective is vastly different from
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  Speaker 2: that of humans. God shares his perspective with us through
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  Speaker 2: his word, the Bible, under the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: It is our choice whether we wish to walk in
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  Speaker 2: darkness or accept the light coming from Jesus Christ, as
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  Speaker 2: revealed in the Word. And so really that is where
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  Speaker 2: we begin, Like where are you making your decision? Are
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  Speaker 2: you with God or against God? Do you loved God?
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  Speaker 2: Or are you fearful or hateful of God? Do you
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  Speaker 2: prefer to do His will even though sometimes it may
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  Speaker 2: be challenging, it may be difficult. Or are you saying
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  Speaker 2: that you would rather just do things your own way
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  Speaker 2: because maybe you were disappointed by God, or at least
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  Speaker 2: you think you were disappointed by God, but your expectations
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  Speaker 2: were spoiled somehow, and you just don't really want to
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  Speaker 2: serve him. And I don't want to take for granted
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  Speaker 2: that there is just one set of people listening or
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  Speaker 2: watching to your daily portion today, because when Jesus spoke,
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  Speaker 2: there were almost always, not one hundred percent of the time,
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  Speaker 2: but almost always both camps were there, people who served
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  Speaker 2: God and people who said, I just can't bother with it.
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  Speaker 2: And so really, I want to open up an invitation
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  Speaker 2: today for every single one of us, under the sound
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  Speaker 2: of my voice, or maybe you can't hear you're reading
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  Speaker 2: in the captions, the closed captions, whomever you are, to
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  Speaker 2: thrive from God's perspective. Now, from the book The Desire
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  Speaker 2: of Age's page one hundred and forty three, we read
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  Speaker 2: the angels of God are ever passing from Earth to Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: from Heaven to earth. The miracles of Christ for the
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  Speaker 2: afflicted and suffering were wrought by the power of God
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  Speaker 2: through the ministration of angels. And it is through Christ,
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  Speaker 2: by the ministration of his heavenly messengers, that every blessing
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  Speaker 2: comes from God to us. Do you realize that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the bridge. The Bible teaches us about a ladder
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  Speaker 2: that Jacob now called Israel, would have seeing from heaven
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  Speaker 2: and Earth, and the angels ascending and be sending. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said it upon the son of Man and so
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the pathway to spiritual success. He is the
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  Speaker 2: pathway to life everlasting. He is the one who gives
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  Speaker 2: us all that we need to connect with God, our
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  Speaker 2: Father and remain connected with him, the life giver, so
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  Speaker 2: that we can live eternally. And guess what his perspective
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  Speaker 2: is that you can have that today, and you can
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  Speaker 2: also I can also share this blessing with other people.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to keep it to ourselves. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be in a position where we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Sometimes you may go on a vacation that
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  Speaker 2: your friends can't afford, or maybe they can't get off
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  Speaker 2: from work, and you're like, God, I wish I could
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  Speaker 2: share this with someone. Or maybe you're having a meal
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  Speaker 2: that you thoroughly enjoy but you're the only one at
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  Speaker 2: the table and you're like, I wish I had someone
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  Speaker 2: to share this with. Well, you can share God's perspective.
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  Speaker 2: His perspective is that God soul loved the world that
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  Speaker 2: he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in
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  Speaker 2: him should not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't
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  Speaker 2: send his son into the world to condemn the world,
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  Speaker 2: but that the world through him, might be saved, saved
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  Speaker 2: in your finances, yes, I did say that, saved in
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  Speaker 2: your spiritual connection with God, saved in your relationships, saved
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  Speaker 2: in your personal development. God cares about all aspects of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Saved in your health, saved in your mindset.
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  Speaker 2: God cares. His perspective is that we would have life
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  Speaker 2: and to have that life more abundantly. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 2: I want to go into our companion guide again. You
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  Speaker 2: can get that at your Daily portion dot com or
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  Speaker 2: in the description if you're watching me online. Okay, We're
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  Speaker 2: going to look at the the uh relationship perspective or
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  Speaker 2: application of this. Remember, our model is when we want
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  Speaker 2: you to win, do w what is important now? What
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  Speaker 2: is important now? In relationships? Thriving from God's perspectives means
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  Speaker 2: seeing others through the eyes of Jesus. Did you get that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: People with whom you relate, they may be coworkers, they
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  Speaker 2: may be your loved ones like your husband, your wife,
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  Speaker 2: your children, your aunti, your uncle. See these people through
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  Speaker 2: God's eyes, through Jesus's eyes. It requires grace uh oh,
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  Speaker 2: unmerited favor, patience, and a heart open to his leading
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  Speaker 2: allow God's love to flow through you. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to hear that. I'm going to say it again, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say it slowly. Allow God's love to
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  Speaker 2: flow through you to others, especially when they disappoint or
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  Speaker 2: hurt you. Oh my, are you hearing what I'm saying today.
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  Speaker 2: The only way that you can give people grace and patience,
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  Speaker 2: the only way that you can give them the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: really to be open to the leading of God, is
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  Speaker 2: if you allow God's love to flow through you. He's
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  Speaker 2: not asking you to originate love. When he said that
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  Speaker 2: the second great commandment is is to love your neighbor
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  Speaker 2: as yourself. He was not saying love your neighbor in
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  Speaker 2: your own strength. He's saying allow him. Allow his love
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  Speaker 2: to flow through your life and out to your neighbor,
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  Speaker 2: out to your mother, your father, your brothers, your sisters,
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  Speaker 2: out to the challenging relationship you're having with your spouse
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  Speaker 2: right now. There are some people who are having difficulty,
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  Speaker 2: at nine minutes into our lesson study today, having difficulty
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  Speaker 2: relating to their loved spouse. But God's love, we need
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  Speaker 2: you to allow that love to flow through you. Internalize
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  Speaker 2: the insight I think about a recent interaction that didn't
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  Speaker 2: go well. Did you respond from the place of light
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  Speaker 2: or darkness? Acknowledge where you might have missed God's perspective,
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  Speaker 2: and consider how you can respond differently next time, and
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  Speaker 2: then end next best move, it's time for action. Reach
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  Speaker 2: out to someone with whom you have had a conflict
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  Speaker 2: or strained relationship. Approach them with humility, love, and a
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  Speaker 2: desire to reflect God's grace. And then, of course there
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  Speaker 2: is more. So I'm thankful we got through thirteen blessed
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  Speaker 2: weeks in this lesson study, and tomorrow, if the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Spaar's life, we begin God's love.
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  Speaker 1: And days 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day.