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09 14 2025 The Tent of Meeting · 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 Sunday at
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  Speaker 2: September 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 Exodus, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Tent of Meeting, the Tent
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  Speaker 2: of Meeting. 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: 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: Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this new week and this opportunity to come together and
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  Speaker 2: commune with you. Please make us holy, teach us to
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  Speaker 2: actually commune with you and not just talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Well,
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  Speaker 2: really quickly type in the chat what is the blessing
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  Speaker 2: or the benefit or the outcome of communing with God.
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  Speaker 2: It's a word that maybe a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 2: use in your everyday discussion. It has become like a
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  Speaker 2: religious terminology. But reality is like, when you are connecting
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  Speaker 2: with God on a regular basis, every single day, what
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  Speaker 2: is the outcome? What is the obvious benefit? How does
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  Speaker 2: your relationship work with your spouse when you commune with
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  Speaker 2: God and do what he says? Like how are your
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  Speaker 2: relationships with your children, your siblings, your coworkers, the people
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  Speaker 2: on the road, the people with whom you exercise in
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  Speaker 2: the gym? How is the relationship with God when you
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  Speaker 2: commune with him? Are you doing what he says? When
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  Speaker 2: you are communing with him? Are you having arguments with him?
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  Speaker 2: Like Jonah or you're going to him like Balem and
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  Speaker 2: trying to get stuff that he's already said that that's
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  Speaker 2: just not how this works. It's a real question. But
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and read now from the Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty three, beginning at verse seven, and get some
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  Speaker 2: more understanding. The Bible reads, Moses took his tent and
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  Speaker 2: pitched it outside the camp. What did he take his tent?
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  Speaker 2: Where did he pitch it? On the outside of the camp,
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  Speaker 2: far from the camp, and called it the tent or
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle of meeting. Ooh, I hope you're listening here. This
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  Speaker 2: is where Okay, let me not get into it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read it. And it came to pass that everyone
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  Speaker 2: who sought the Lord went out to the tent or
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle of meeting, which was outside the camp. So it
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  Speaker 2: was wherever Moses went out, or whenever Moses went out
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  Speaker 2: to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each
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  Speaker 2: man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until
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  Speaker 2: he had gone into the tabernacle. And it came to
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  Speaker 2: pass when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of
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  Speaker 2: cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord talked with Moses. So this is where
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  Speaker 2: we really need to set our motion right here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what is your tabernacle of meeting? Is it your closet
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  Speaker 2: where you pray? Is it the moments throughout the day
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  Speaker 2: that you connect with God? And everybody knows that when
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  Speaker 2: you're in that place, you were going to have such
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  Speaker 2: a connection with God that your life is to be
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  Speaker 2: transformed and they can be assured that whatever you touch
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  Speaker 2: will prosper. What is your tabernacle of meeting in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, on this Sunday morning, what is that tabernacle
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  Speaker 2: of meeting? And the Bible? And the Bible says in
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  Speaker 2: verse ten, all the people saw the pillar of Cloud
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  Speaker 2: standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose
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  Speaker 2: and worshiped each man at his tent door. In your household, brothers,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a family man, you have a spouse,
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  Speaker 2: you have children, You have a wife, you have children,
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  Speaker 2: Do they know that when you are in God's presence
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  Speaker 2: that it is also time to worship? Do they know, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that the power of God is evident and prevalent in
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  Speaker 2: your household because you are in worship with God, connecting
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  Speaker 2: with him communing with him. The Bible continues, So the
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  Speaker 2: Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man
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  Speaker 2: speaks to his friend, and he would return to the camp,
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  Speaker 2: but his servant, Joshua Yeshuah shut the sun of noon.
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  Speaker 2: A young man did not depart from the tabernacle. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time to drill how Joshua was
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  Speaker 2: present at all of the pivotal moments, so that when Moses,
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  Speaker 2: the man of God dropped the ball and was no
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  Speaker 2: longer the one leading, Joshua was already prepared for service.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize that Joshua was with
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  Speaker 2: Moses way up in the mount when those men would
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  Speaker 2: be at the base of the mount not passing that border.
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  Speaker 2: Then the seventy there in the mountain they had to stop,
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  Speaker 2: and then Moses went up. Joshua was there? Need to
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  Speaker 2: look back at that story. Joshua was there, A young
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  Speaker 2: man did not depart from the tabernacle. What is your
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  Speaker 2: temple or tent tabernacle of meeting? And so our first
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in from verse eleven, verse eleven about God
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  Speaker 2: speaking to him as a friend. You know the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry inspiration teaches us that when we pray.
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  Speaker 2: When we pray, it's like speaking to God as to
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  Speaker 2: a friend. And so God invites us into a personal
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  Speaker 2: fellowship with him, and the Bible says we can be
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  Speaker 2: seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly places. And so God
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  Speaker 2: desired a meeting place where Moses could commune with him
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  Speaker 2: directly showing that relationship with him was not distant, it
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  Speaker 2: was intimate, set aside regular meeting time with God. For
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  Speaker 2: God in a meeting place every single day, where you
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  Speaker 2: withdraw from the distractions to commune with God. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that Jesus would go into a solitary place, and
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  Speaker 2: there he prayed when a great while before day. So
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  Speaker 2: at minimum, before you get into the hustle and bustle
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  Speaker 2: of the day, before you even quote minister to people,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to find that place that's space with God,
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  Speaker 2: withdrawn from all things, and just commune with him. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number two comes in from two Corinthians, chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse eighteen, where the Bible reads, be but we all
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  Speaker 2: with open face beholding as in a glass the glory
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord are changed into the same image, from
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  Speaker 2: glory to glory God's presence transforms us. God's presence transforms
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  Speaker 2: us if we continue in his presence. I talked to
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  Speaker 2: you yesterday about the brightness that exuded or emanated from
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  Speaker 2: from Moses because he was in the presence of God,
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  Speaker 2: like Saturn. How Saturn reflects and radiates the brightness of
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  Speaker 2: the Sun like nothing else out there in the heavenly bodies,
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  Speaker 2: at least in our solar system. We get to see
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  Speaker 2: what it's like when we are in His glory, that
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  Speaker 2: we are transformed into the image of His very glory.
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  Speaker 2: There is a way that we will treat people when
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  Speaker 2: we are in his presence. So, like Moses, we grow
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  Speaker 2: in God's character as we consistently invest time in his presence.
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  Speaker 2: Notice I did not say spend time. I said invest
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  Speaker 2: so reflect daily one aspect. I've told you to do
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  Speaker 2: something like this yesterday, one aspect of Christ's character, and
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  Speaker 2: ask the Holy Ghost to shape it within you. I
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  Speaker 2: said God yesterday in that ominous sense. You know his
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  Speaker 2: long suffering, But we see Jesus in this case. There
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  Speaker 2: are ways that Jesus lived on planet Earth that we
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  Speaker 2: too can, will and must live. Number three coming in
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  Speaker 2: from the same passage, I said about Jesus taking the time,
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  Speaker 2: investing the time with God. So God's chosen leaders are
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  Speaker 2: shaped by private encounters before public impact. Invest time in
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  Speaker 2: your tent of meeting with God and let God transform
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  Speaker 2: your life to the degree that you will change the.
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  Speaker 1: Days for joining us peaking 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,