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05 14 2025 God Among His People · 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 Marning, Good morning, Good morning, it is Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: May 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is God among His People, God among
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  Speaker 2: His People. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: there at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to pray. Father, Please help us to live,
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  Speaker 2: Help us to live like we are your people in reality.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again God
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  Speaker 2: among his people. Can I just say that God wants
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  Speaker 2: to be with you where you are, or maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: I should say it this way. God wants to be
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  Speaker 2: with you. He wants you where he is. Yeah, wherever
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  Speaker 2: you are, God wants to be with you. This is
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  Speaker 2: why the Bible says, and we'll probably say it again
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  Speaker 2: at the end Moses, God said to Moses, have them
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  Speaker 2: make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
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  Speaker 2: So God wants to be with you. In fact, Jesus's
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  Speaker 2: name as he became took on the adopted human form
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  Speaker 2: when he lived on planet Earth for thirty three and
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  Speaker 2: a half years. The Bible teaches us that his name
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  Speaker 2: is Emmanuel. That being interpreted God with us so God
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  Speaker 2: demonstrated through the life of Christ and so many other
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  Speaker 2: ways that he just literally wants to be with us.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to be with God too? Is that
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  Speaker 2: your desire? Is that your reality? Is that your story
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  Speaker 2: as well? And so with that in mind, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to the Bible Book of Numbers, the Bible Book of Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two and verse three, and we see we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see God's presence, how it's central in our journey.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible reads the lesson writer wanted us
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  Speaker 2: to look at these and see what we can get
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  Speaker 2: out of it. And on the east side, toward the
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  Speaker 2: rising sun, shall they of the standard of the camp
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  Speaker 2: of Judah pitch throughout their armies? That is numbers chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse three. So we see that the tribe
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  Speaker 2: of Judah was pitched there. So what lesson can I
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  Speaker 2: learn there? Because you have to break your brain almost
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  Speaker 2: but really it's better to be prayerful. God positioned his
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  Speaker 2: presence at the center, showing that everything in life must
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  Speaker 2: revolve around him. As you enter into the sanctuary, I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time the tribe of Judah. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: came from the tribe of Judah. He's the lion, the
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  Speaker 2: mighty lion of the tribe of jud. As you enter
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  Speaker 2: in from the east to the west, you're going through. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Judah is stationed there. So God positioned his presence at
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  Speaker 2: the center, showing that everything in life must revolve around him.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, of course he's the sanctuaries in the center,
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  Speaker 2: and the different tribes are all around. He is in
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  Speaker 2: the center. Is he in the center of your life?
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  Speaker 2: Is he in the center of my life? So I
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  Speaker 2: want you to reorganize your schedule today and for this week,
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  Speaker 2: so that prayer time with God are your starting point
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  Speaker 2: and not an afterthought. I said, rearrange your schedule so
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  Speaker 2: prayer time with God is the reality of your life,
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  Speaker 2: not an afterthought. Oh no, wait, I haven't prayed yet.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, this difficult thing is happening. Let us pray
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  Speaker 2: not just like that, but that is the center of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Let's go to numbers chapter two and verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: For Ruben in the south on the south side shall
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  Speaker 2: be the standard of the camp of Ruben, according to
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  Speaker 2: his armies. Let's see if we can get anything out
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  Speaker 2: of that. No matter which way life turns, I'm stretching here, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: no matter which way life turns, whether it is to
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  Speaker 2: the north, the south, the east, or the west, God
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  Speaker 2: is present and he is steady there. He's study there.
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  Speaker 2: He is present. So we see him in the south,
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  Speaker 2: God's people representing him in the south. He stands with
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  Speaker 2: us in every direction of our lives. And now we
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  Speaker 2: go to verse eighteen. In the west, in the west
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  Speaker 2: on the west side shall be the standard of the
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  Speaker 2: camp of Ephrium, according to their armies, the west side.
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  Speaker 2: You realize that the arc of the covenant is stationed
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  Speaker 2: in the west side, or the westerly direction of the sanctuary,
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  Speaker 2: the most holy place. Yes, in the west. So God's
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  Speaker 2: people turn their backs to the sun and their faces
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  Speaker 2: to the shakina or the glory of God. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time. They turned their backs to the
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  Speaker 2: sun and point their faces toward the presence of God. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. If you are facing
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  Speaker 2: the sun, maybe you're facing okay, I said, Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: reality is God's people were chided for turning their faces
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  Speaker 2: to the sun and turning their backs to the sanctuary.
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  Speaker 2: So the people camped together, reminding us that God calls
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  Speaker 2: us into a faith community, not into like being a hermit,
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  Speaker 2: not into isolation. He called us to be together now
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  Speaker 2: for the north the tribe of Dan Verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: The standard of the camp of Dan shall be in
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  Speaker 2: the north side by their armies. Instructions on order were
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  Speaker 2: not random. Shout to the people who know what behavior
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  Speaker 2: style atc is. We love order. We love order. I
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  Speaker 2: mean order is even biblical. So God did not want
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  Speaker 2: it to be random. His design brings peace and strength
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  Speaker 2: even in chaos. So I want you to look at
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  Speaker 2: one area of your life. I'm a coach. One area
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  Speaker 2: of your life that feels messy, I said, feels messy?
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  Speaker 2: Is it your time management? Is it your money? Is
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  Speaker 2: it how your relationships function. There's so much stuff in
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  Speaker 2: the news about different public figures, including sports figures, etc.
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  Speaker 2: When they get into these really ridiculous relationship situations, if
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  Speaker 2: you can call it that. But if those things are
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  Speaker 2: messy in your life, ask God for wisdom to bring
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  Speaker 2: them into order. Bring them in to order and Revelation
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two The Bible reads beginning at verse twelve, and
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  Speaker 2: had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates,
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  Speaker 2: and at the gates twelve angels, and the names written
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  Speaker 2: thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of
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  Speaker 2: the children of Israel. And so we see there that
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  Speaker 2: God's glory is reflected in his people. Even in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: we see his people as a manifestation of his glory.
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  Speaker 2: The names of the tribes of the People of God
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  Speaker 2: are written there, are you serious? Yes, yes, indeed? And
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  Speaker 2: then true worship is centered on God's presence. In Revelation
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  Speaker 2: twenty one and verse twenty two, and I saw no
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  Speaker 2: temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
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  Speaker 2: are the temple of it. Even the Old Testament Bible
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  Speaker 2: writers said that God is a little sanctuary like so,
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  Speaker 2: people who think that the space or the place is
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  Speaker 2: what makes something hold, you're sadly mistaken. The original sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: or the welcome into relationship with God is God himself.
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  Speaker 2: He wants us, too, tabernacle with him, to abide in
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  Speaker 2: him and he in you. And you can ask what
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  Speaker 2: you will and it will be done unto you. So Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: the original sanctuary wants you to become as a sanctuary,
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  Speaker 2: full and holy like the song said. Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: we are the temple of the Holy Ghost, and we
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  Speaker 2: were bought with a price God wants to dwell with
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  Speaker 2: us permanently. Have them make a sanctuary that I may
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  Speaker 2: dwell among them. This transcends the time now far into eternity.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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,