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08 14 2025 The Bread and Water of Life · 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: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, August fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, Madame Iselle David Harris. I am
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  Speaker 2: your host, and this is your Daily Portion where we
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  Speaker 2: give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  Speaker 2: no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series
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  Speaker 2: through the Book of Exodus, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is the Bread and Water of Life, The Bread and
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  Speaker 2: Water of Life. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  Speaker 2: Life application guide, and let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world at 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 then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, Thank you, Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this new day and for the opportunity to experience and
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  Speaker 2: imbibe the water and bread of life. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to be filled until we want no more. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again the bread and
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  Speaker 2: water of life. When you have an opportunity, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to read through and study the Book of John
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  Speaker 2: chapter six. The Book of John chapter six, and that
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  Speaker 2: is life changing in this discussion. But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: read together now first Corinthians, chapter ten and verse eleven,
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  Speaker 2: where it reads, Now, all these things happen done to
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  Speaker 2: them for en samples or examples that you'd don't really
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  Speaker 2: want to do, like this is an example of what
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  Speaker 2: not to do. That's what it means here. And they
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  Speaker 2: are written for our instruction or admonition upon whom the
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  Speaker 2: ends of the world have come. So if you are
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  Speaker 2: living with me, okay, I know I have to say
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  Speaker 2: that for effect, because if you're not living, you can't
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  Speaker 2: hear me. Yeah, But if you're living with me in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five in August. That means this is for
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  Speaker 2: you and it's for me. Because the people of God
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  Speaker 2: did all kinds of crazy, goofy stuff spiritually, things that
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  Speaker 2: are not according to God's will. And therefore and therefore
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  Speaker 2: we need to learn what not to do. And I
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  Speaker 2: know I usually don't like going from the negative, but
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  Speaker 2: there's some stuff like you could really write a whole
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  Speaker 2: dissertation on the mistakes and mishaps and unforced errors and
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  Speaker 2: wilful disobedience and willful ignorance of the people of God
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  Speaker 2: through this time following the exodus from Egypt, and that
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  Speaker 2: will guide us into a place of spiritual success. Because
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  Speaker 2: the Bible doesn't just stop here, talks about pride in
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  Speaker 2: the next verse where if we think we stand, we
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  Speaker 2: need to take heed, Like Ah, I wouldn't do anything
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  Speaker 2: that I saw them do that didn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they do that? Look at what God had
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  Speaker 2: done for them? Why did they behave that way? Well,
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  Speaker 2: if we have that perspective, God says, take heed, take
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  Speaker 2: heed lest you fall, But he doesn't leave us there.
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  Speaker 2: This is the problem I think many times with Christianese
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  Speaker 2: speaking people we see all of the evil, we see
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  Speaker 2: all of the darkness, we see all of the mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: and then we bring it into our time and say
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  Speaker 2: we would do the exact same wrong things. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that, because the Holy Ghost is
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  Speaker 2: still present to transform our lives. There were people like
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  Speaker 2: Joshua and Caleb. Like people don't generally say, look at
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  Speaker 2: these holy people. If I were living in their day,
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  Speaker 2: I would be like Joshua. I would be like Caleb,
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  Speaker 2: you see what I'm saying, Like we always often excuse
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  Speaker 2: me gravitate toward the negative or the failures. And so
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  Speaker 2: in the thirteenth verse, it says that there hath no
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  Speaker 2: temptation taken you, but such as it's common to man,
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  Speaker 2: like we all know what it's like to be tempted.
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  Speaker 2: But God is faithful. That's a conjunction. It negates the
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  Speaker 2: thing that came before. So this idea of temptation, all
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  Speaker 2: of that experience that even the people of God had
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  Speaker 2: on the downside during the exodus and the path toward
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  Speaker 2: the promised Land, yes that was there. But God, you
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  Speaker 2: see where I'm going with this, Go ahead and type
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  Speaker 2: it in the chat. But God, you see my mommy
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  Speaker 2: and my daddy were alcoholics. But God, I should say
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  Speaker 2: they suffered from alcoholism. They were not alcoholics. They suffered
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  Speaker 2: from alcoholism. My mommy and daddy were drug addicts. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: they were addicted to drugs. But God, you see my
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  Speaker 2: parents had some kind of sexual indiscretions, and then the
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  Speaker 2: people before them did too. And therefore now I have
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  Speaker 2: these weaknesses. But God, you see where we're going. But God,
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  Speaker 2: so there hath no temptation you taken you but as
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  Speaker 2: is common to man, But God is what faithful who will,
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  Speaker 2: with the temptation prepare a way of escape, or provide
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  Speaker 2: this way of escape that you will be able to
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  Speaker 2: bury it. So God, as he gives you the water
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  Speaker 2: of life freely, God, as he gives you the bread
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  Speaker 2: of life freely. Now we begin to imbibe Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He becomes our sustenance and then becomes our energy. Having
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  Speaker 2: eaten the word of God, having drunk from the fountain
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  Speaker 2: of his grace, understanding that He is with me through
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  Speaker 2: every trial and tribulation. Now I know in these last
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  Speaker 2: days that He is able to sustain me. And in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter four, Verses thirteen and fourteen, the Bible reads.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered and said, unto her, whosoever drinketh of this
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  Speaker 2: water shall thirst again the woman at the well drinking
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  Speaker 2: natural water from the well. But whosoever drinking of the
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  Speaker 2: water that I shall give him shall never thirst. Are
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  Speaker 2: you drinking from the well of Christ? But the water
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  Speaker 2: that I shall give him shall be a well of
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  Speaker 2: water springing up into ever lasting life. And of course
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  Speaker 2: we see again in John chapter six, as I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: a little bit earlier, and so as we apply it today.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go back to some of the things that they
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  Speaker 2: dealt with, but I'd like to hurry up and apply
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  Speaker 2: it to us today. Jesus is my daily provision. Give
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  Speaker 2: us this day our daily bread, he said, and that
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  Speaker 2: prayer that people use as a model of prayer. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is our daily provision. If he and the word that
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  Speaker 2: we read called the Word of God and Jesus being
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  Speaker 2: the real word of God, if they are the bread
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  Speaker 2: of life, that means we need to eat it. How
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  Speaker 2: do we eat this word? By reading, praying through asking
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  Speaker 2: God for the ability to apply, and then in fact
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  Speaker 2: applying every single day. Jesus said it when he was
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  Speaker 2: being tempted in the wilderness, that humans don't live by
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  Speaker 2: only bread, by bread alone, but by every word of God.
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  Speaker 2: Job said it. He said that I have esteemed the
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  Speaker 2: words of his lips as more than my necessary food.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus is our daily provision, not only in emergencies,
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  Speaker 2: but for every day I awake. I wake up hungry
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  Speaker 2: for purpose. I wake up hungry for clarity. I wake
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  Speaker 2: up hungry for peace and spiritual dehydration is real. Het
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  Speaker 2: me just say that for a moment here, if you
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  Speaker 2: feel dry, it's more than just somebody yelling at you
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  Speaker 2: in the microphone that you need. You don't need another sermon.
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  Speaker 2: When you feel dry, it's the word in the presence
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. You need call out to him. I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you now what to do. I'm imploring you call out
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  Speaker 2: to Him and say, God, I'm feeling dry. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I need showers of blessing. I need I need
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  Speaker 2: the showers, the rain of the Holy Ghost in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling dry. Can you please? You promised that you
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  Speaker 2: would give me these rains, the former and later rain,
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  Speaker 2: that you would convert me and transform me, and then
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  Speaker 2: you would empower me at the next level. If I
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  Speaker 2: just call out to you and learn to surrender. Can
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  Speaker 2: you teach me how to surrender? And so the wilderness
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  Speaker 2: teaches dependence. Don't despise the season where God feeds you.
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  Speaker 2: Slowly drip, he drips, and he gives you your daily
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  Speaker 2: bread and intentionally. This is a way that God is
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  Speaker 2: forming trust within us, forming trust within us. Well, God
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  Speaker 2: has already promised that he would give us our bread
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  Speaker 2: and our water. It will be sure. We need that
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  Speaker 2: practically and we need that spiritually. Trust.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to 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. Yeah,