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07 14 2025 Rough Start · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July fourteen, 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 Moses. We're journeying
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  Speaker 2: from Egypt. I most said, exodus from Egypt all the
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  Speaker 2: way into the Promised Land. Our caption for today again
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  Speaker 2: is a rough start. I know we had that caption already,
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  Speaker 2: but here it is again a rough start. Are you
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  Speaker 2: having a rough start this morning? I hope not, But
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  Speaker 2: if you are, God is available to you.
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  Speaker 1: So Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into all of that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: dot Com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day. Thank you for not
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  Speaker 2: leaving us in the roughness of the starts, the beginnings
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, the different different times that if we
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  Speaker 2: were allowing ourselves, we could excuse ourselves. We can blame
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  Speaker 2: whatever's wrong with us on someone else. Father, Please help
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  Speaker 2: not to be bound to the rough starts of life.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again a
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  Speaker 2: rough start? Have you had a rough start? When God
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  Speaker 2: is ready to give you rest? God is ready to
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  Speaker 2: give you rest. See the devil can still see in
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  Speaker 2: the supernatural. He can still see the angels of God
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  Speaker 2: who excel in strength that are being commissioned and commanded
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  Speaker 2: to go here and to go there to do very
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  Speaker 2: special things for people on planet Earth. And when God
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  Speaker 2: is ready to give you rest. The enemy is ready
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  Speaker 2: to oppress you. He's ready to give you more work.
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  Speaker 2: I said, when God is ready to give you more rest,
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  Speaker 2: or give you rest full stop. The devil is waiting.
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  Speaker 2: He's ready to oppress you and give you more work.
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  Speaker 2: And so we thank God. We thank God that he
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  Speaker 2: is more than able to deliver those that take his yoke.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, upon upon you, and learn of him. His
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  Speaker 2: yoke is easy, his burden is light, and you will
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  Speaker 2: find rest unto your souls. But again the enemy is there.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, ah, You're not going to get no rest today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to burden you. I'm here to burden you.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, when Moses went into Pharaoh and the
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  Speaker 2: people finally believe that he is being commissioned by God,
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  Speaker 2: he and Aaron expectations were surely high. The Lord was
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  Speaker 2: going to deliver the people of God from bondage, finally,
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  Speaker 2: like great, big, collective sigh of relief. But Moses then
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  Speaker 2: he went into the king of Egypt with God's demands.
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  Speaker 2: In that word we use it advisedly, and things became
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  Speaker 2: even worse for the people of God Yep. In the
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  Speaker 2: moment that they were to receive rest, and God laid
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  Speaker 2: down the gauntlet. He said, let my people go, so
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  Speaker 2: they may worship me or give sacrifice or hold feast
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness and not here. That's when the devil
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh no, no, no, no, no no, and
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  Speaker 2: he put the clamps on. He put the clamps on
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  Speaker 2: God's people. But guess what, God knew exactly what he
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  Speaker 2: was doing. God knew exactly got what he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're gonna get some lessons here, some lessons
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  Speaker 2: here that we can all apply. Okay, so let's begin
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible book. Let's go with Exodus, chapter five
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  Speaker 2: and verse twenty one. The Lord look upon you and
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  Speaker 2: judge because ye have made our savor to be abhorred
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  Speaker 2: in the eyes of Pharaoh. Let me read it in another translation.
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  Speaker 2: May the Lord look on you and judge because you
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  Speaker 2: made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh. So God
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  Speaker 2: has sent a deliverer. He's about to let them go
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  Speaker 2: and take the into the promise that he made to
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  Speaker 2: Abraham way back in the day. And the people of
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  Speaker 2: God are saying, they're actually calling upon the name of
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  Speaker 2: God and saying to Moses, you're messing things up, bro.
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  Speaker 2: We need to stay here with Pharaoh because he about
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  Speaker 2: to start squeezing us. How many times has God been
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  Speaker 2: about to deliver you. He's literally in the process of
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  Speaker 2: delivering you from that relationship you should never have had.
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  Speaker 2: And then when something goes wrong, it's just like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: if I hadn't said this, then this negative thing wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have happened. And then you're bound by the relationship, saying
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  Speaker 2: with your workplace, ah, same with different aspects of your mindset,
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  Speaker 2: like anything that is worth having is going to take work.
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  Speaker 2: And in the words of my brother Demia's Purdue of
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  Speaker 2: Purdue Leadership Institute, he said, elevation requires change, That's what
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  Speaker 2: he said. And so when we're about to elevate, God
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  Speaker 2: is changing us. He's trying transforming us. And then he's
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  Speaker 2: transforming our situation. So pain will come, difficulties will come.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're going to elevate, you must change. And
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  Speaker 2: so again, may the Lord look upon look on you
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  Speaker 2: and judge because you have made us stink in the opinion,
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  Speaker 2: what that was God who put you in this position
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  Speaker 2: because He's about to set you free. So remain obedient
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  Speaker 2: even when others misunderstand you. So think of your of
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  Speaker 2: yourself as Moses in this situation, even though those people
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  Speaker 2: that you're working, who's upon whom's who's behalf you're working,
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  Speaker 2: are looking at you sideways because you did exactly what
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  Speaker 2: God said to do, and you are working on their
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  Speaker 2: behalf even when they misunderstand you. Uh, stay obedient to God.
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  Speaker 2: Don't measure God's faithfulness by the first outcome. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a rough start. This is gonna be a bumpy
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  Speaker 2: ride job. Put on your seatbelts, put on your seat
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to get to our destination by God's grace.
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  Speaker 2: And now we go into the Bible Book of First Peter,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse twelve. The Bible reads, think it
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  Speaker 2: not strange concerning fiery trials, which is to try you.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, don't blame God for those trials.
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  Speaker 2: That's not really what it is. God is working out
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  Speaker 2: as good in your life because he's intentional. He's never changing.
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  Speaker 2: And so don't think it's strange. Moses obeyed God. But
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  Speaker 2: the very what very next thing happened. Pharaoh made the
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  Speaker 2: work harder, resistance increased. That's what happens when we're about
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  Speaker 2: to elevate, when pressure rises after you say yes to God,
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  Speaker 2: do not retreat. Forward, march forward, move forward in all
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  Speaker 2: of the things that God has called you to do,
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  Speaker 2: do not retreat. I think the people of God invest
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  Speaker 2: too much time in retreating. Listen, I'm not taking potshots
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  Speaker 2: at retreat. So do not text me, not email me,
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  Speaker 2: don't put it in the chat, don't put it in
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  Speaker 2: the comments section. I'm not saying we should not retreat.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did say come aside and rest a while. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: But I'm saying too many times God's people are retreating
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  Speaker 2: when we need to be running and marching forward in
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  Speaker 2: lockstep with God and the people of God that live
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  Speaker 2: like Joshua and Caleb that said, God has said that
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  Speaker 2: this is our land, so we're gonna take it full stop.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares about those giants? Who cares that? In our
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  Speaker 2: own eyes? Really your eyes, because we not thinking like that.
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  Speaker 2: Your eyes. You see yourselves as grasshoppers forward and not backward, forward,
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  Speaker 2: ever backward. Never so recognize it as confirmation that you
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  Speaker 2: are threatening the enemy's system. Now to Exodus chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: verses twenty two and twenty three. Lord, wherefore hast thou
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  Speaker 2: so evil entreated this people? You see Moses is starting
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  Speaker 2: to sort of assume the mindset of the people because
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  Speaker 2: they complain so much, and Moses was yielding to that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: after the backlash, Moses took his frustration strength straight to God.
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  Speaker 2: At least he went to God. At least he went
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  Speaker 2: to God. Is like God, this don't look like what
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  Speaker 2: we planned. I thought that it was supposed to get easier. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: But even he was honest, and God was not offended.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord understands when your faith feels heavy, but don't
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  Speaker 2: bury your discouragement. Bring it to God in prayer. He
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  Speaker 2: knows how to restore your courage.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: So much to say, so little time. It's a rough start.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a bumpy ride, but we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: there by God's grace. 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,