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01 16 2025 A Worthy Goal · 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, January sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. No really, it's twenty twenty five. I
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  Speaker 2: keep getting mixed up. Hello, my name is Elle 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is a worthy goal. A worthy goal. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community 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 of getting tongue tied today. 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: and Heaven. Thank you for this day and for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the privilege to consider you, consider your word, and
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  Speaker 2: not just consider, but to be transformed by you. Transformed
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  Speaker 2: by your word, Father, I pray that you will open
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  Speaker 2: up our understanding and give us the fullness of your
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a
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  Speaker 2: man again a worthy goal. I want to know what
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  Speaker 2: your goals are. You can come into the community at
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com and share what some of
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  Speaker 2: your goals are, and they are, you know, things that
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  Speaker 2: you can actually measure and attain unto. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time. I'm a coach, so I'm tempted to
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  Speaker 2: go in that area, but I'm gonna just push pause
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  Speaker 2: right here. So go into the community and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. But the goal that we are are looking
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  Speaker 2: for based on today's lesson, is found in Mark chapter nine,
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  Speaker 2: Mark chapter nine, beginning at verse seventeen. I hope you
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  Speaker 2: have your Bibles, Mark chapter nine beginning at verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I
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  Speaker 2: have brought unto thee my son, which cannot speak. He
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  Speaker 2: has a dumb spirit, and whersoever he taketh him, he tearrieth,
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  Speaker 2: teareth him, and he foameth and gnasheth with his teeth
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  Speaker 2: and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples, and
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  Speaker 2: they that they should cast him out, but they could not.
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  Speaker 2: And so this, this parent, this person is distraught because
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  Speaker 2: their child has the devil who's keeping the child from speaking,
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  Speaker 2: And the people who were closest to Jesus can't do
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  Speaker 2: anything about it. What are your goals, brothers and sisters? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what are your goals? Let's keep reading? He answered, and
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  Speaker 2: said unto him, and said, oh, faithless generation, how long
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  Speaker 2: shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer?
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  Speaker 2: You bring him unto me? And they brought him unto him,
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  Speaker 2: And when he saw him straightway, the spirit tear him.
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  Speaker 2: So those evil spirits, those fallen angels, know exactly who
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is, and they know that this is the it's up,
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  Speaker 2: Like your jig is up. The jig is up, It's
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  Speaker 2: time to go. Because they know the presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: And he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming. And
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  Speaker 2: he asks his father, how long is it a goal?
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  Speaker 2: Since this came unto him? And he said, of a child,
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  Speaker 2: and oftentimes it casteth him into the fire and into
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  Speaker 2: the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do anything,
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  Speaker 2: have compassion on us and help us. And Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, if thou canst believe, hallelujah, all things are possible.
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  Speaker 2: What are your goals today, brothers and sister sisters? Unto
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  Speaker 2: him that believeth and straightway. The father of the child
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  Speaker 2: cried out and said, with tears, Lord, I believe. What
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  Speaker 2: are your goals today, brothers and sisters? Lord, I believe?
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  Speaker 2: Help thou mine unbelief? And so now we know that
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  Speaker 2: one of them the primary, I should say, primary goal
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  Speaker 2: is for us to have true faith in God, true
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  Speaker 2: faith in God, the kind that lays hold on the
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  Speaker 2: power of God. Okay, it says here, Lord, I do believe,
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  Speaker 2: But help thou mine unbelief. What do you see there?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see his vulnerability? Do you see his desperation?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see that he is in the presence of
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  Speaker 2: God and he knows that there is a requirement, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to say in air quotes, for us to
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  Speaker 2: believe in order for this thing, this scourge, this difficulty
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  Speaker 2: that his child is having. He knows that there is
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  Speaker 2: just one prerequisite, and that is to believe. But in
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  Speaker 2: the moment that he is exercising the tiny faith that
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  Speaker 2: he has, he realizes, you know what, if I leave
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  Speaker 2: it up to me, if I believe that faith, that
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  Speaker 2: my faith is where the power is, then I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to lose out here. My son is going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to be this way. He's going to continue to be
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  Speaker 2: under the control of the devil. So if I trust
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  Speaker 2: my belief, if I trust my faith and say that
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  Speaker 2: is what it is, then I know I'm gonna come
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  Speaker 2: up short. So God, I do believe. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what that means. God, But whatever it is that I have,
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  Speaker 2: I need more. I need more of it so that
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  Speaker 2: I can have the power that you that you're telling
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  Speaker 2: me you're welcoming and welcoming me into your presence and power,
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  Speaker 2: and I need more. I need more, And so help
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  Speaker 2: thou mine unbelief. What are your goals today, brothers and sisters?
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty five. When Jesus saw that the people came
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  Speaker 2: running together. He rebuked the foul spirit, saying, unto him,
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  Speaker 2: thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out
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  Speaker 2: of him and enter no more into him. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think that the foul spirit did? Hm hm mm
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  Speaker 2: hm Verse twenty six. And the spirit cried and rent
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  Speaker 2: him sore and came out of him, and he was
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  Speaker 2: as one dead. Takes a lot of energy when the
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  Speaker 2: devil is buffeting people, when the devil is occupying people's lives,
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  Speaker 2: it takes a lot of energy out of them. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible continues insomuch that many actually said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's dead. But Jesus, I need you to type that
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. But Jesus, but Jesus did something special.
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  Speaker 2: He took him by the hand, He lifted him up,
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  Speaker 2: and he arose. See the same one who created this
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  Speaker 2: young man, huh, The same one who breathed into his
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  Speaker 2: nostrils the breath of life, and that young man became
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  Speaker 2: a living soul, The same one that created those angels
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  Speaker 2: who are now fallen, the same one who told them
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  Speaker 2: that they had to leave, and that they were no
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  Speaker 2: longer welcomed. That every debt that would have caused spiritual
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  Speaker 2: debt that would have caused them to be able to
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  Speaker 2: occupy This boy is now canceled. Jesus is in control.
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  Speaker 2: The same one took him up by the hand. Well,
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  Speaker 2: people thought he was dead, like they thought he was dead,
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  Speaker 2: But how could he be dead in the presence of God?
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  Speaker 2: How could he be dead in the presence of God?
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible says that he took him by
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  Speaker 2: the hand. He took him by the hand, he lifted
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  Speaker 2: him up, and then he arose, And when he was
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  Speaker 2: come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, well,
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  Speaker 2: why couldn't we do that? And he said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: this kind may come forth by nothing but by prayer
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  Speaker 2: and fasting. What is your goal, brothers and sister, your
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  Speaker 2: chief goal for yourself? Could it be that we should
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  Speaker 2: have the goal of being so connected to God that
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  Speaker 2: in any moment we can be instant in season and
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  Speaker 2: out of season, that somehow He can use us in
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  Speaker 2: situations like these and others where humans have no strength.
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  Speaker 2: But if we are connect to God, then His power
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  Speaker 2: is omnipotent in our lives. Could it be that when
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  Speaker 2: we are called upon to serve God, it takes everything
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  Speaker 2: to serve the Lord, it be that sometimes we hold
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  Speaker 2: some back for ourselves. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: What I need you to do while you're contemplating this
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  Speaker 2: is to go to page fifty in our Your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion companion book and apply whichever of the four that
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  Speaker 2: most resonate with you. If I had the time, I
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  Speaker 2: would be looking at the relationship application. But you know
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  Speaker 2: how this goes a worthy goal to be connected to
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  Speaker 2: God unreservedly and be saved 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,