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09 28 2026 Hiding From God · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God, to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges? On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: 28th day of September in 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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 very,
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  Speaker 2: very new lesson study series, The Gift of Prophecy, under
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  Speaker 2: the caption, Hiding from God.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: How do we get here? Hiding from God. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us this day and for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the ability to come out of the bushes
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  Speaker 2: so we're no longer hiding from you, that we are
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  Speaker 2: confessing and agreeing with what you have said about our lives.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen and amen again. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: hiding from God. That is not a place that anybody
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  Speaker 2: wants to be. We should not be there. Maybe I
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  Speaker 2: should put it like that. Like, we should not be there.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be hiding from God. I know what I just said.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that. God is interested in eternal relationship with you.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you want to play hide and seek with God? Like,
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  Speaker 2: why would you want to play peekaboo, cover your eyes
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  Speaker 2: and think, poof, that you disappeared? Don't be hiding in
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  Speaker 2: the bushes. because God made you free to love. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and love always embraces the power of choice. We know this.
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  Speaker 2: We know this. And yet, sin left Adam and Eve
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  Speaker 2: stripped of the glory that God intended for them from
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  Speaker 2: before there was a beginning and hiding, running from his presence.
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  Speaker 2: The great news, though, And this is where we begin
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  Speaker 2: to praise God. The great news is that God gave
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  Speaker 2: them exactly what they need when they were hiding. It
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  Speaker 2: is that the God they hid from is the God
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  Speaker 2: who still comes seeking. He said that we should be asking, seeking,
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  Speaker 2: and knocking, but the Bible teaches us also that God
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  Speaker 2: came seeking. He came asking, and Jesus standing at the
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  Speaker 2: door and knocking, as we see in Revelation chapter 3,
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  Speaker 2: but practically we see in the Bible book of Genesis. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so he is seeking, ready to cover the guilt, not
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  Speaker 2: just excuse it, but to cover the guilt for those
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  Speaker 2: who who are willing to surrender and, in fact, do
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  Speaker 2: surrender our will to God that drives us into hiding.
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, come out of hiding. Come out of
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  Speaker 2: the bushes. Bring to me all that is who you
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  Speaker 2: are so I can deal with it, so I can
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  Speaker 2: fix it. Those who hide their sins will not prosper.
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  Speaker 2: You understand? But those who confess and forsake will have
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  Speaker 2: eternity with God. And so our first lesson comes in
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  Speaker 2: from Genesis chapter 2 and verse 17. I'm already getting passionate,
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  Speaker 2: but let's read from the scriptures. Jesus told them, The tree,
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  Speaker 2: like you can eat from every tree of the garden,
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  Speaker 2: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day
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  Speaker 2: that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. God gave
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  Speaker 2: them the command, the charge, and gave them binding instruction.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not negotiating this thing. Of course, he gave
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  Speaker 2: them the power of choice. And of course, they made
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  Speaker 2: the wrong choice. But God gave the command about that
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  Speaker 2: one tree because he made you free to obey or
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  Speaker 2: to refuse him. He could have made it impossible. Like
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  Speaker 2: he could have put locks around the tree and said,
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  Speaker 2: don't eat that. But God was testing them, not for
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  Speaker 2: his sake. He already knew which direction they would go.
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  Speaker 2: But he was giving them the opportunity to make the
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  Speaker 2: right choice. Well, they chose the wrong choice. Love. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us that God is love, but love
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  Speaker 2: that cannot choose is no love at all. So if
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  Speaker 2: God made it impossible for them to make the wrong decision,
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  Speaker 2: if God said something that he desired for them and
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  Speaker 2: then forced them, that is not love. That is not godly.
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  Speaker 2: God wanted their hearts. He wants your heart, your commitment,
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  Speaker 2: your love. But he doesn't want it at the expense
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  Speaker 2: of the power of choice. He wants you to give
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  Speaker 2: that freely. That is an opportunity for his love to really,
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  Speaker 2: really live. You understand? And so he wants us to
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  Speaker 2: freely decide today. Choose today the obedience in one area
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  Speaker 2: where you have been drifting. If there's anywhere that you
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  Speaker 2: have been drifting, where you've been making the wrong decision,
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  Speaker 2: you've been looking at, you've been touching, you've been tasting,
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  Speaker 2: you've been thinking, you've been experiencing something that God has
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  Speaker 2: already made himself clear, that that is not the direction
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  Speaker 2: that he wants from you, offer it to God as
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  Speaker 2: an act of love. Not just because I'm speaking loudly
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  Speaker 2: to you. I'm saying the Holy Spirit is now drawing
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  Speaker 2: you in that right direction, and your mind already is
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  Speaker 2: It's thinking, oh, yeah, there's a thing I need to
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  Speaker 2: talk to God about. There's a direction he has required
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  Speaker 2: of me. He has even maybe asked, depending on what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about. And I've gone the wrong direction. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to agree with God. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: to him now and talk to him about it. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then yield. So use your freedom for the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God. Like, choose obedience in one area where you've
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  Speaker 2: been drifting. And then, of course, offer that to God
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  Speaker 2: as an act of love. Let me give you one
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  Speaker 2: more lesson from Genesis chapter 3 and verse 8. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, I've said it a couple of days in
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  Speaker 2: a row, but let's read it. And they heard the
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  Speaker 2: man and his wife, Adam and Eve, heard the voice
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
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  Speaker 2: cool of the day. This was after they chose sin.
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  Speaker 2: And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord God. amongst the trees of the Garden
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  Speaker 2: of Eden. Do you realize that similar language in contrast
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  Speaker 2: in the book of Jude, where it talks about the
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  Speaker 2: presence of the Lord? They were hiding from the presence
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord because of their faults. And Jude, the
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  Speaker 2: half-brother of Jesus, said, now unto him in a benediction,
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  Speaker 2: now unto him who was able to keep you from
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  Speaker 2: falling and to present you faultless before the presence with
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  Speaker 2: exceeding joy. And then, of course, he said some more.
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  Speaker 2: So God is fixing— I know I'm fast-forwarding, but I need
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  Speaker 2: you to get this for yourself, where you can see yourself.
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  Speaker 2: God is fixing in the scenario of them hiding from
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  Speaker 2: the presence. He's fixing it and giving them the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to expose themselves into the presence of God, to be
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  Speaker 2: presented faultless with exceeding joy, with no false coverings as
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  Speaker 2: a barrier. but to be covered in the righteousness of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so they hid, they withdrew, they concealed themselves. That
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  Speaker 2: word kabal, that word in Hebrew is what that means.
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  Speaker 2: And so sin had Adam and Eve feel their nakedness
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  Speaker 2: and flee from the one God who loved them. Guilt
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  Speaker 2: still whispers that we should run and hide. There are
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  Speaker 2: people still hiding from God, hiding from the presence of
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  Speaker 2: those we should have fellowship with in the faith community.
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  Speaker 2: when the covering we need is found in his presence.
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  Speaker 2: So invest some time right now when shame tempts you
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  Speaker 2: to pull away from God. Come to him instead and
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  Speaker 2: confess what you're hiding. And it is in that moment
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  Speaker 2: that your connection is restored. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day.