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07 11 2025 The Transformed 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July eleven, 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. We're
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  Speaker 2: going on a journey from Egypt to the Promised Land,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the transform Life, the
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  Speaker 2: Transformed Life. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: online community. Please pick up the Your Daily Portion book
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  Speaker 2: and let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: And before I pray, I just want to say that
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  Speaker 2: I know that there are a good number of people
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  Speaker 2: who skip literally except now that you are with us
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  Speaker 2: with your Daily Portion, but a lot of people skip
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  Speaker 2: Friday's lesson. In all the churches I've been in in
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  Speaker 2: all over all of these years, people just kind of
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  Speaker 2: use Friday many times as kind of an afterthought, like Okay, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's get to the next lesson. But thankfully, when we're
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  Speaker 2: together in this manner, I even give the Friday a title.
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  Speaker 2: It's not further thought. There's a title each week. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, type A one in the chat. If you've
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  Speaker 2: noticed that we actually give a title to Friday, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not an afterthought here at your Daily Portion. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of good work has been put into these lessons,
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  Speaker 2: so I want to make sure that we get as
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  Speaker 2: much as we possibly can. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day and for the privilege to come together
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  Speaker 2: in this fashion on preparation Day. Please prepare our hearts
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  Speaker 2: to connect with you and then help us to actually
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  Speaker 2: connect with you today. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Do you remember the most transformative moment
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  Speaker 2: or day of your life? The most transformative or transformational
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  Speaker 2: day or moment of your life? Do you remember that day?
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  Speaker 2: What did God do for you or through you? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Was it for you?
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  Speaker 2: Was it through you? How did you change? Yeah? And
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  Speaker 2: as a result, how did people around you change? I
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  Speaker 2: remember when in nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety five, Herbert
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  Speaker 2: Nelson reached out to me in Solona, I was working
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  Speaker 2: at the time, and he said, your friend is preaching
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  Speaker 2: at whatever church. I mean, he didn't say whatever church,
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  Speaker 2: but at a certain church in Alexandria, Virginia. I think
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  Speaker 2: he said next week. I don't remember that detail. But
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  Speaker 2: to make a long story short, I was not a believer.
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  Speaker 2: I did not go to church, despite how I was
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  Speaker 2: brought up. That's a whole different discussion. But it was
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  Speaker 2: in the moment that I actually said yes to my
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  Speaker 2: brother Herb and I went to church on that particular
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath in twenty nineteen ninety five. And then when Pastor
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  Speaker 2: Melvin Hayden, the third Melvin Hayden. Third, we called him Trey.
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  Speaker 2: Most people call him Trey Hayden when he preached a sermon, friends,
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  Speaker 2: how many of us have them? And it was that day.
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  Speaker 2: It was that day that I decided that God was
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  Speaker 2: all I needed in my life, like I needed to
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  Speaker 2: be transformed by God. And I heard the call that
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  Speaker 2: God gave me through the preacher that day. That was
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  Speaker 2: the most transformative moment of my life. And listen, Herb
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  Speaker 2: Nelson is now you know, if you want to say
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  Speaker 2: responsible for millions of people hearing the gospel, just in
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  Speaker 2: the case of him witnessing to me, you understand that
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  Speaker 2: was a transformative moment. There would have been know your
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  Speaker 2: daily portion without Herb Nelson. And then we can go
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  Speaker 2: down the chain of the people who impacted my life,
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  Speaker 2: you see, and of course the prayers of my dear
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  Speaker 2: late mother. So how did the transformation that God made
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  Speaker 2: in your life impact you and impact the world around you.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going into the Bible for some lessons as
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  Speaker 2: we close off this week. In Exodus chapter three, Versus
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  Speaker 2: one and two, the Bible reads, now Moses kept the
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  Speaker 2: flock of jethrow. See this is in that second set
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  Speaker 2: of forty years of his life. We talked about three.
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  Speaker 2: This is the second set. He's no longer there as
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  Speaker 2: the grandson of Pharaoh in Egypt. Now he is in Midian,
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  Speaker 2: and he's with Jethro, of course, among other things, for
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  Speaker 2: fourteen more years. And it says he kept his flock,
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  Speaker 2: and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in
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  Speaker 2: a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we see that he's having the closest
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  Speaker 2: encounter with God that he can possibly have. It was
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  Speaker 2: a bush that was a flame ablaze, and the voice
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  Speaker 2: of God comes from that experience, that spectacle, and says, Moses,
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  Speaker 2: take off your shoes from off your feet, because I
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  Speaker 2: have transformed this moment. I have transformed this space. I
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  Speaker 2: am about to transform you in a way that you
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  Speaker 2: could not have imagined. Take off your shoes from off
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  Speaker 2: your feet, because now this experience the ground on which
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  Speaker 2: thou standest is holy. Now now it's holy. It was
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  Speaker 2: ordinary until I came here. The bush was ordinary before
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  Speaker 2: I came here. You were ordinary before I came here.
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  Speaker 2: This moment was ordinary until I came here. And now
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  Speaker 2: everything is extraordinary because God is here and he's about
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  Speaker 2: to speak and transform. Can you imagine what was the
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  Speaker 2: moment when God transformed you? How did it change you?
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  Speaker 2: How did it change the world around you? You remember
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  Speaker 2: the time, okay? And so Moses was off the grid.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, if there was a grid, he was hidden.
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  Speaker 2: He was forgotten and likely content. But God doesn't lose
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  Speaker 2: track of his people. The people that he invested in.
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  Speaker 2: He knew from before he created Moses, before he formed
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  Speaker 2: him in am Ram and jacobed in his mommy's womb,
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  Speaker 2: before he formed him in his mommy's womb. He knew
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  Speaker 2: him well, and he knew that he would be among
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  Speaker 2: the people of God at the time that they needed
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  Speaker 2: to be delivered. So God doesn't lose track of his people.
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  Speaker 2: The call came when Moses wasn't even thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: He was doing his thing. And so the action for
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  Speaker 2: us really is to stop. Assuming you're off of God's radar,
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  Speaker 2: where can I go from your presence? The Bible writer said,
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  Speaker 2: if I go into heaven, you're there. If I go
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  Speaker 2: into the pit of the grave, you are there. No
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  Speaker 2: matter where I am in the world, you are there.
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  Speaker 2: In the deepest parts of the sea and of the ocean. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: you are there. If you are locked up in a prison,
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  Speaker 2: then God is there with you. It doesn't matter where
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  Speaker 2: you are. God is there. When John was on the
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  Speaker 2: Aisle of Patmas, Yes, and he was exiled, God was
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  Speaker 2: there with him, and we can continue. So God is there.
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  Speaker 2: So stay faithful in the wilderness and that place that
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  Speaker 2: it may be an intermediate space somewhere, that a transitional space,
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  Speaker 2: somewhere that God is about to continue to train you
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  Speaker 2: so that He can activate you for higher service. God
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  Speaker 2: calls when it is time. Number two comes from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse ten. We're running. We're running. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, Come now therefore, and I will send thee
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  Speaker 2: unto Pharaoh. So God often calls us back to the
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  Speaker 2: place that we ran from. Sometimes it's the reset button.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes people run prematurely from trials rather than asking God
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  Speaker 2: for his guidance. Some of us run away from things
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  Speaker 2: and then God has to set us back. It's a
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  Speaker 2: reset button. I wish I had the time to deal
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  Speaker 2: with that, but it's a reset button, and we have
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  Speaker 2: to go back so that we can move forward. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action really for us is that we need
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  Speaker 2: to revisit our Egypt with God's strength not our trauma.
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  Speaker 2: Don't write off off a place He plans to redeem
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  Speaker 2: through you. When he sends you back, he's sending you
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  Speaker 2: back for higher service, greater mission, for transformation, for you
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  Speaker 2: and for others. Number three comes from Exodus, chapter four
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  Speaker 2: and verse twenty. The Bible reads, and Moses took his
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  Speaker 2: wife and sons and set them upon the donkey, and
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  Speaker 2: he returned. So obedience to the call unlocks our purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Start moving in the moment that God calls you. Purpose
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  Speaker 2: gets clear in motion. Not why we're sitting and spinning
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  Speaker 2: our wheels, hah, not while sitting still and waiting for guarantees.
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  Speaker 2: And of course a yes to God can transform history
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  Speaker 2: and the future. Make it a great day, 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,