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09 19 2025 Shine as Lights · 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: September nineteen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is shine as Lights. Now we're getting
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  Speaker 2: into that imperative stylele shine as Lights. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into this, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: join our online community and also let us know where
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  Speaker 2: you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Father, thank you for giving us the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of reflecting you, and now it becomes a command that
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  Speaker 2: we should shine as lights in this wicked and perverse generation. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: please give us that privilege and power and the desire
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  Speaker 2: and the drive. In Jesus' name, I pray a men
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  Speaker 2: and a men again shine as lights. So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to just begin because we've really, we've really been pressing
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  Speaker 2: the issue for several days. Now we're going to go
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  Speaker 2: into our Life Application Guide and let's go into the
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  Speaker 2: relationship application Relationship application for this concept. And for those
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  Speaker 2: who are not familiar with the Life Application Guide that
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  Speaker 2: you can find at your Daily Portion dot com. We
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  Speaker 2: use the WYN acronym in four key areas of our development,
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  Speaker 2: personal development, spiritual development, professional and relationship development. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go to application for relationships w What is important now,
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  Speaker 2: considering we have the privilege and now the call and
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  Speaker 2: command to shine as lights, your actions shape others' view
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. Focus on that reality. How are you going
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  Speaker 2: to relate to people when somebody cuts you off on
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  Speaker 2: the road. You may not see that as a relationship,
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  Speaker 2: but you have to relate to the other driver. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: if God forbid, you get pulled over by the by
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement. And maybe it's just in Jamaica. There are
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  Speaker 2: what's called like safety stops that well, I'll just leave
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  Speaker 2: that right there. So there are times that you get stopped,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily because they say you did anything. Well, how
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  Speaker 2: are you going to relate to them? How about your family?
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  Speaker 2: Are you very kind to the people on the outside,
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  Speaker 2: the people on the road, the people in the taxi,
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  Speaker 2: the people in the food spot that you get sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you get a meal when you didn't get it at home.
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  Speaker 2: Are you more kind to the people in your church
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  Speaker 2: community than you are to your spouse, to your children,
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  Speaker 2: to the people who know you best? Are you? Are
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  Speaker 2: you kinder and better with them outside of your house
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  Speaker 2: than the ones on the inside. So your actions in
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  Speaker 2: reality shape others view of Christ. I know that my
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  Speaker 2: daddy's his actions when I was young. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to depress y'all, but yeah, that shaped my view of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: But God, I'm glad that God gives us new view.
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  Speaker 2: But it would be wonderful if people could get an
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  Speaker 2: accurate view through our lives, and then I internalize the
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  Speaker 2: insight the way believers, that's you, that's me treat others
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  Speaker 2: draw either draws people closer to God or pushes them away.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're getting closer. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Are you
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  Speaker 2: drawing people to Christ? He said? If I be lifted up,
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  Speaker 2: like if you lift me up, then I will draw
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  Speaker 2: people to myself. Are people being drawn to God based
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  Speaker 2: on their experience with you?
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  Speaker 1: Or not?
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  Speaker 2: Kind? Gracious, humble, and forgiving people embody Christ's love and
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  Speaker 2: inspire faith. But then there is the flip side. Conversely,
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  Speaker 2: arrogance and unforgiveness cause pain and can damage testimony. Next
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  Speaker 2: best move, Now, what do we do? What do we do?
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  Speaker 2: Reflect on a relationship where you're attitude could better reflect
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  Speaker 2: Christ's love. You have to be honest with yourself. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be honest with mine. Commit to pray for that person
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  Speaker 2: and seek to show grace in your next interaction. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a situation where you need to forgive
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  Speaker 2: that person? Or maybe you're in a position where you
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  Speaker 2: need to be forgiven because of something that you have
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  Speaker 2: done or neglected to do. In that situation, how would
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  Speaker 2: Jesus guide you to live, commit to talking to God
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  Speaker 2: about that, and then become the reflection of God's character
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  Speaker 2: and will. So we're going to do now is open
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  Speaker 2: up the Bible and glean some more lessons directly from scripture,
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  Speaker 2: beginning with Matthew chapter five and verse sixteen. You were
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  Speaker 2: expecting this, let your light so shine before men, that
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  Speaker 2: when they see your good works, they will glorify your Father,
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. Mm. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So
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  Speaker 2: begin to ask God to help you reflect his character today.
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  Speaker 2: That's very simple. We've already said that. The Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: in tewod Corinthians, chapter four and verse sixteen. For God,
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  Speaker 2: who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
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  Speaker 2: shined in our hearts. I think there's an echo in here.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't we read this the other day? To give the
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  Speaker 2: light of the knowledge of the glory of God in
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  Speaker 2: the face of Jesus. So, when God's light fills your heart,
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  Speaker 2: how do you get the light of God to fill
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  Speaker 2: your heart? Well? First going into prayer, speaking to God
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  Speaker 2: as to a friend. Yeah, telling him all that is
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  Speaker 2: going on in your mind where relating to him and
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  Speaker 2: to people is concerned. Yielding in ways, in areas where
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  Speaker 2: maybe you have not yielded your will to him. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: there is a way that you have to amend your actions,
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  Speaker 2: how you read to people, how you've maybe neglected your
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Him. And you're like, God, I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you more. I want to listen to what
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  Speaker 2: you say. More. I want to live according to the
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  Speaker 2: principles you've shown me, even in my professional life. More.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be a better steward of the things
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  Speaker 2: that You've entrusted to me, so I can be of
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  Speaker 2: more help and of more value to people more, you see.
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  Speaker 2: So in that case, In that case, go into the
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  Speaker 2: scriptures and prayer so that God's presence continually is renewed
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  Speaker 2: and brightens your life, so that you become more of
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  Speaker 2: a witness. Yeah. And then finally, in Philippians, chapter two
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  Speaker 2: and verse fifteen, the Bible says that ye may be
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  Speaker 2: blameless and harmless, the sons of God. Of course, this
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  Speaker 2: means the children of God without rebuke, in the midst
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  Speaker 2: of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine
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  Speaker 2: as lights in the world. Some of you have positions
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  Speaker 2: of influence. Some of you are working in situations where
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  Speaker 2: the tide has changed. Where things seem to be equitable
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  Speaker 2: in the past, now it's not. Where things used to
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  Speaker 2: be guided by rules that make sense and protocols that
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  Speaker 2: made sense, that were objective and fair, but now they
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  Speaker 2: are not. And now you have to make a decision
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  Speaker 2: in that crooked and perverse reality. Will you be as
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  Speaker 2: a light shining or will you be as someone who
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  Speaker 2: is complaining? Will you be around the water cooler like
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  Speaker 2: everybody else that's talking about how bad and how wrong
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  Speaker 2: and how terrible things are? Or will you become the
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  Speaker 2: change that you seek? Will you become a person that
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  Speaker 2: at least adds principle to the conversation. Whether the leaders
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  Speaker 2: accept or not, that's up to them. But as far
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  Speaker 2: as your concern, will you shine for Christ? That means
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  Speaker 2: living so that people are drawn to him, not to you,
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  Speaker 2: yeah to him so intentionally redirect hahaha, praise or attention
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  Speaker 2: you receive to God, acknowledging him as the source of
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  Speaker 2: any good that people see. Let's see if we can
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  Speaker 2: get this quote from Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty. The light that shines from a pure, unselfish
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  Speaker 2: life will be a blessing to all within the sphere
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  Speaker 2: of its influence, Christ will be revealed in the character
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  Speaker 2: and humans will be drawn to him. Shine as lights
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  Speaker 2: wherever you are, and God will get the glory. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,