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08 01 2025 When Faith Falters · 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August one, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is when faith falters, when faith falls.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to pray yet. I just need to say one thing.
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  Speaker 2: There are a few of you, which I understand why
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  Speaker 2: you're requesting. You're wanting the Friday time that we have
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  Speaker 2: together to be a recap of the days from before.
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  Speaker 2: But the way that I have seen this lesson for
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  Speaker 2: years I'm talking about a couple decades now, is that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times people just kind of blow by Friday. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Friday has its own lessons, Friday has its own blessings
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  Speaker 2: for us, and people just kind of run by it.
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  Speaker 2: So I am deliberate by not just making it a
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  Speaker 2: quick review of what we have already done. We can
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  Speaker 2: go back and listen to those or watch those, right,
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  Speaker 2: but we need to really milk the lesson from Friday
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  Speaker 2: as its own teaching, which is why I also give it.
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  Speaker 2: I give it a title. Okay, And so that's the rationale.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we'll get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for Fridays, thank you for this time
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  Speaker 2: of preparation. Please help us to serve you with everything
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  Speaker 2: we are. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when faith falters? What do you do if your faith
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  Speaker 2: is tested? Now, I'm not going to say that your
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  Speaker 2: faith falters. I don't know you like that, And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to say that everybody's faith falters. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know you like that. What I am going to say
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  Speaker 2: is that when faith falters in your case, what do
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  Speaker 2: you do about it? That's a real live question, what
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  Speaker 2: do you do about it? And so what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do is is read some of the quell. We'll
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  Speaker 2: read from Friday's Lesson from Patriarchs and Prophet's page two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy seven, and it reads, the Passover was
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  Speaker 2: to be both commemorative and typical, meaning that we look
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  Speaker 2: back and see what God did for his people during
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  Speaker 2: what we would now call the First Passover. But we
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  Speaker 2: also say, oh, wait a minute, we have to look forward.
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  Speaker 2: We have to look forward and see, well, what was
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  Speaker 2: God doing there in preparation for something in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue the quote, not pointing only back to
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  Speaker 2: the deliverance of Egypt from Egypt, but forward to the
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  Speaker 2: greater deliverance which Christ was to accomplish in freeing his
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  Speaker 2: people from the bondage of sin. The sacrificial lamb represents
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  Speaker 2: the lamb of God, in whom is our only hope
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  Speaker 2: of salvation. So when your faith, if God forbid, your
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  Speaker 2: faith is faltering, if God forbid, you find yourself diverting
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  Speaker 2: or diverging from the path that God has marked out
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  Speaker 2: for you, I want you to remember that God delivered
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  Speaker 2: his people back in the time that they were being
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  Speaker 2: oppressed by the Egyptians, and He has made provision for
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  Speaker 2: your salvation, not only to be delivered from your earthly woes,
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  Speaker 2: not only to be delivered from depression, which we need,
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  Speaker 2: not only to be delivered from your financial woes where
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  Speaker 2: your month is longer than your money, not only to
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  Speaker 2: be delivering us from those bad relationships that we probably
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have gotten into anyway, not only that, but also
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  Speaker 2: also delivering us from sin full stop. Like there are
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  Speaker 2: things that we have done in our lives or we
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  Speaker 2: have neglected to do, where we should have surrendered our
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  Speaker 2: will to God, and we said no to God. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: So when our faith falters, God forbid. In that way,
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  Speaker 2: we can go to first John chapter two, verses one
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  Speaker 2: and two, that says, my little children, these things rite
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  Speaker 2: eye unto you, that ye sin not. And if any
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  Speaker 2: person sins. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the righteous one who has become the propitiation, the mercy see,
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  Speaker 2: the one who takes our place, the one who says,
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  Speaker 2: Justice demands your eternal death. Justice demands that because you've sinned,
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  Speaker 2: all who sin and comes short of the glory of
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  Speaker 2: God must die. The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
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  Speaker 2: And we're talking about the second death. However, Jesus being
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  Speaker 2: the mercy see, Jesus, being the one who stood in
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  Speaker 2: for us, stepped in and took our place. He took
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  Speaker 2: the death that we deserve, so we can have the
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  Speaker 2: life that he deserves. Since that is the case, we
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  Speaker 2: have a reason if our faith falters, to look back
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, we see what you've do in the past,
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  Speaker 2: and then say God, thank you, thank you. Through Christ,
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  Speaker 2: now I have the power to be victorious over every
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  Speaker 2: single besetting sin. Let me continue the quote. The sacrificial
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  Speaker 2: lamb represents the lamb of God, in whom is our
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  Speaker 2: only hope of salvation, says the apostle Christ. Our passover
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  Speaker 2: is sacrificed for us. Thank God, thank God, thank God.
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  Speaker 2: It was not enough that the Pascal lamb be slain.
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  Speaker 2: Its blood must be sprinkled upon the door posts, so
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  Speaker 2: that the merits of Christ's blood must be applied to
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  Speaker 2: the soul. So it's not enough for me to shout
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  Speaker 2: into this microphone and tell you all of the right
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  Speaker 2: answers from the Bible, as if it's a quiz or
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  Speaker 2: a test or an examination of some point of some sort,
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  Speaker 2: where everybody says, yep, that's the right answer. Move on
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  Speaker 2: to the next lesson, Elder. No, no, no, no. This is
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  Speaker 2: about God putting this so deep into our soul that
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  Speaker 2: it shows in our relationships, how we treat people, It
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  Speaker 2: shows in our bank registers, how we use and steward
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  Speaker 2: the money that God has entrusted to us. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter the amount it shows in every single facet of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Yes, we must believe, not only that He
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  Speaker 2: died for the whole world. I used to talk to
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  Speaker 2: my mom about this. She struggled, Lord bless her. She struggled.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't know how to apply his love for her
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  Speaker 2: because she did not receive the love when she was
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  Speaker 2: young that she deserved being a woman born into this world.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody born into this world should experience love, But sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't come. But we taught her over time to
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  Speaker 2: start to believe that God loved her as an individual.
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  Speaker 2: And there's some people out there just like her. You
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  Speaker 2: may be one of those people. Can easily apply the
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  Speaker 2: love of God, the mercy of God to other people,
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  Speaker 2: but when it comes to you, it starts to you
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  Speaker 2: start to hitch a little bit. Well, this is for you.
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  Speaker 2: We must believe not only that he died for the world,
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  Speaker 2: but that he died for us individually. We must appropriate
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  Speaker 2: to ourselves the virtue of the atoning sacrifice. I thank
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  Speaker 2: God for the virtue I think Jesus said when the
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  Speaker 2: woman who was hemorrhaging from her lady parts for twelve long, excruciating, embarrassing,
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming years, when he experienced the touch from her, I
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  Speaker 2: know what I just said. He experienced the touch from her,
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  Speaker 2: He said, virtue has left me who touched me, And
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  Speaker 2: of course shivering and grateful and amaze the woman and thankful.
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  Speaker 2: The woman is the one there who called upon the
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  Speaker 2: power of God by faith, and she was healed of
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  Speaker 2: her disease. And so three quick lessons. Three quick lessons
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  Speaker 2: pass over as both historic and prophetic. We've already said
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  Speaker 2: that so as you reflect on the past deliverance of
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  Speaker 2: God in your life, also ask him to reveal what
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  Speaker 2: he wants to deliver you from today. And then number two,
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  Speaker 2: the action is do not just acknowledge Jesus as savior,
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  Speaker 2: accept his sacrifice as your own. Say it aloud today,
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  Speaker 2: say it proud today, Jesus, I receive your blood over
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  Speaker 2: my life. And then finally, worship and remembrance are ongoing
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  Speaker 2: acts of identity. Act like you're connected to God, if
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  Speaker 2: in fact you are. Make it a great day.
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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,