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01 19 2026 The Source of Unity · 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, January nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Source of you Unity. Really,
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  Speaker 2: this should only take us about ten seconds, but well
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  Speaker 2: we'll invest the entire time together the Source of Unity.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to do your will, help us to be unified in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a
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  Speaker 2: men again. I did say very quickly in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: that this should only take us ten minutes, Like what's
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  Speaker 2: the source of unity? The Holy Spirit? All right, we
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  Speaker 2: can credits and be done with this program today, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes I think people take the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: for granted and make it seem as if we can manufacture,
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  Speaker 2: manufacture the kind of unity that pleases God. That is
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  Speaker 2: the caveat, Like that is the qualifier, the kind of
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  Speaker 2: unity that pleases God, that is what we're after. Like
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  Speaker 2: we take it for granted sometimes because the people at
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  Speaker 2: the Tower of Babel were unified. They're people who've done
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of heinous acts around the world, and even
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, still continue to do all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of heinous acts that are unified. But so we're not
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  Speaker 2: talking about humility unity in a vacuum. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: the kind of unity that comes through and by the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Ghost. So can we just be
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  Speaker 2: clear there and stop taking these things for granted. What
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to do is go ahead and jump in
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  Speaker 2: with a quote, a quote that is coming in from
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  Speaker 2: way back when a teen fifty one Joseph Bates, true
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  Speaker 2: humility binds believers together. Pride scatters them, Pause for just
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  Speaker 2: a moment. True humility binds believers together. So even Joseph
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  Speaker 2: Bates way back when was giving a caveat two, true humility. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: pride scatters them. Guess what the spirit of Christ alone
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  Speaker 2: brings that unity which Heaven approves. You see what I mean. Like, so,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't taking it for granted when he was writing
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  Speaker 2: back then that we're just talking about unity, and everybody
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  Speaker 2: jumps up and says hip it parae. Somebody says, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: everybody plays the music and rolls credit. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: there's a kind of unity that puts us at odds
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  Speaker 2: with God. There are people who hate God who were
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  Speaker 2: unified in their hatred, so we get again. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: taking it for granted. You can if you choose, but
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  Speaker 2: I would advise against it. We're talking about the kind
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  Speaker 2: of unity that Heaven approves, and therefore our lesson number
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  Speaker 2: one comes in from Philippians, chapter two and verse three.
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  Speaker 2: This is something about what it looks like. This is
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  Speaker 2: somehow it looks In the Bible, it reads, let nothing
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  Speaker 2: be done with strife or motivated by self ambition with okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let nothing be done through strife or vain glory,
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  Speaker 2: But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better
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  Speaker 2: than themselves. Let me read it in the New English translation.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each
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  Speaker 2: of you should, in humility be moved to treat one
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  Speaker 2: another as if more important than yourselves. Oh mind, oh mind,
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  Speaker 2: humility of mind, lowliness of attitude. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the markers of the kind of humility that God approves.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step here is to practice this humility.
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  Speaker 2: Having submitted our will to God over and over every
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  Speaker 2: single day, we continue to submit our will to God.
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  Speaker 2: Practice humility by choosing to listen fully before responding to someone. Today,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that really really burns my candle.
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  Speaker 2: I promise you it burns my candle that when I
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  Speaker 2: am processing, because I am analytical, it takes me time.
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  Speaker 2: I speak quickly to you all because I've planned everything.
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  Speaker 2: I know exactly around about what I'm going to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: I know how long it should take. I've planned it out.
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  Speaker 2: But if we're having an impromptu discussion or an extemporaneous situation,
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  Speaker 2: it takes me time to process because I'm an analytical person,
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  Speaker 2: and it burns my candle when people interrupt, I'm like, bro,
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  Speaker 2: can you give me a second to finish? Like, help
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  Speaker 2: me with allowing me to process my thoughts before I
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  Speaker 2: blurt them out. I'm not so fast at blurting out
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  Speaker 2: out my thoughts, and so I want you to practice
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  Speaker 2: humility even though even though you think the person may
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  Speaker 2: be too slow. Maybe you think you know the answer already.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you think you've heard enough already. I get it, Like,
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  Speaker 2: but practice humility by choosing to listen fully before responding
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  Speaker 2: to someone today. Listen Number two. Unity grows when believers
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  Speaker 2: intentionally look out for the needs of others Verse four Philippians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two. Look not every man on his own things
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  Speaker 2: but every man also on the things of others. Let
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  Speaker 2: me read it another way. Each one of you should
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  Speaker 2: be concerned not only about your own interests, but the
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  Speaker 2: interests of others as well. Look beyond yourself, and I
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  Speaker 2: guess we can just go ahead and jump right in
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  Speaker 2: right there. The action step is identify one person's need
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  Speaker 2: today and take one practical step to support them. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you have to do like on an airplane where it says,
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  Speaker 2: the unlikely event that this cabin should lose pressure, there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a thing to drop out from the top.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be where you get your oxygen from.
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  Speaker 2: Put it over your nose and mouth and breathe freely,
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  Speaker 2: even though it won't inflate. I want you to breathe
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  Speaker 2: freely before you try to help other people. That's the
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  Speaker 2: problem sometimes with Christianize speaking people. Sometimes we will go
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  Speaker 2: without enough oxygen, we will go without enough energy, we
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  Speaker 2: will go without being fully connected with God. And God
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  Speaker 2: is saying, no, I want you to breathe freely of me.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to be inspired by Me to the
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  Speaker 2: degree that you can go out now and be of
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  Speaker 2: service to someone else, to be helpful to them. Then
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  Speaker 2: you can identify that person's need under the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: and then make practical steps towards supporting them, not just
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  Speaker 2: saying I'll pray for you, brother, even though you should pray,
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  Speaker 2: but there are times that I will pray for you, brother,
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  Speaker 2: I will pray for you sister. Means God, what do
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  Speaker 2: I need to do for the brother or sister? What
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  Speaker 2: do I need to do for them that they are
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  Speaker 2: not able in this moment to do for themselves? Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number three and final, unity is maintained through the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost who calms conflict and aligns hearts to Christ. Ephesian
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse three, the Bible reads endeavoring to
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  Speaker 2: keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
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  Speaker 2: what peace, making every effort to keep the unity of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost and the bond of peace. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you are too quick to let go of the bond
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  Speaker 2: of peace. Sometimes people are too quick to remove that unity.
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  Speaker 2: And so I am saying, based on this scripture, that
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  Speaker 2: we need to lay hold of that which ties and
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  Speaker 2: binds and holds us together spiritually. What is it that
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  Speaker 2: you want for us to do? God? That's through prayer,
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  Speaker 2: ah being on the lookout for when God answers yes,
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  Speaker 2: being humble enough to say, Okay, well that wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: according to my will, but I see that it's according
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  Speaker 2: to God's will, and so okay, God, let me do
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  Speaker 2: what you have called us to called me to do
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  Speaker 2: in this reality. And so the action step in this
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  Speaker 2: case is to pray specifically for the Holy Ghost to
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  Speaker 2: bring peace into one strained relationship in your life. And
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  Speaker 2: even if it's not a relationship between you and someone else,
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  Speaker 2: you may be a spiritual crime interrupter. Maybe in your
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  Speaker 2: faith fellowship you are espousing Blessed are the peacemakers, for
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  Speaker 2: they shall be called the children of God. And you
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  Speaker 2: are interrupting spiritual crimes in your church, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: Ask God to show you how to be a peacemaker.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. 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,