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09 15 2025 That I May Know You · 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 at
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  Speaker 2: September fifteenth, 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 that I may know you, that
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  Speaker 2: I may know you. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but before we do, I'd like to just
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us the invitation to know you.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to take you up on that. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, amen and Amen again, that I
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  Speaker 2: may know you. Wow. So Jesus when he lived on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, and he was not too long away from
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  Speaker 2: about to go back to Heaven, but before that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to lay down his life like he said
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  Speaker 2: he would, and take it up again. In those moments,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was praying what we would call the high priestly
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  Speaker 2: or mediatorial prayer, and he said, and this is life eternal,
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  Speaker 2: that they may know thee the only True and Living God. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent. And so the
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  Speaker 2: goal really is for us to know God. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know God? Do you know God? Do you love God
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  Speaker 2: more than anything? Do you love God? I can hear
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  Speaker 2: Sister Eleanor Wright, the late Sister Eleanor right in my
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  Speaker 2: mind right now. In fact, I can play it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit here is sitting here in my mind. Do
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  Speaker 2: you love God more than anything? Listen to this? Do
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  Speaker 2: you love God?
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  Speaker 1: Ooh?
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  Speaker 2: And I think that this time in the church was
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  Speaker 2: her final time singing and ministering this song. Do you
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  Speaker 2: love God more than anything? And the only way to
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  Speaker 2: love God more than anything is to know him, to
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  Speaker 2: know him. And this is what Moses's experience was becoming
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  Speaker 2: was becoming. And so we go now into the Bible
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  Speaker 2: book of Exodus, chapter thirty three, and we will read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse twelve, and the Bible reads then Moses
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  Speaker 2: said to the Lord, see you say to me bring
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  Speaker 2: up this people, But you have not let me know
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  Speaker 2: whom you will send with me. Yet you have said
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  Speaker 2: I know you by name, and you have also found
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  Speaker 2: grace in my sight. Now, therefore I pray, if I
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  Speaker 2: have found grace in your site, show me your way
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  Speaker 2: that I may know you. That was the whole point,
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  Speaker 2: not so that you could Moses. He didn't do that,
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  Speaker 2: but he was not in the presence so he can
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  Speaker 2: brag and say that I have a connection with God
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  Speaker 2: that none of y'all have. Have you ever heard people
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  Speaker 2: talk about their connection with God in a way to
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  Speaker 2: spark envy or some kind of way puff their own
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  Speaker 2: chest up, or somehow engender in your heart the desire
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  Speaker 2: to give them a donation so they can have jets
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  Speaker 2: or new cameras, or somehow build an edifice, or even
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  Speaker 2: feed babies, so that somehow you can have the connection
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  Speaker 2: that they have. This is not that, This is a
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  Speaker 2: true holy connection and not that foolishness that people palm
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  Speaker 2: off as connection with God. And the Bible continues. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible continues, and consider this that this nation is your people.
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  Speaker 2: And he said my presence, Oh God, God said, my
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  Speaker 2: presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 2: Then he said unto him, if your presence does not
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  Speaker 2: go with us, do not bring us up from here. God,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to move from this place. If your
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  Speaker 2: presence will not be with us, let us stay where
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  Speaker 2: we are, because it's not safe out there. God Father,
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  Speaker 2: it's not safe to move without you. By cloud. You
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  Speaker 2: led us by fire, you led us by your voice,
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  Speaker 2: You led us by urim and thummum, you led us
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  Speaker 2: by the shuckin of the glory. You let us. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to lead us, Father, let us stay
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  Speaker 2: right here until you will lead us four verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: How then will it be known that your people have
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  Speaker 2: found grace in your sight except you go with us?
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  Speaker 2: You see, to know that we have favor with God
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  Speaker 2: is to have the presence. If God is not with me,
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  Speaker 2: then I don't have favor with him. You understand. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care how much money you make. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: have the presence, you do not have favor. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care how much people applaud and fan out because of you.
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  Speaker 2: How many followers on your social media? Is it ten million,
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  Speaker 2: is it twenty million? Is it one hundred million? If
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  Speaker 2: you have all of these followers but you don't have
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  Speaker 2: the presence, then you don't have favor. That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. I will also do this thing
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  Speaker 2: that you have spoken for. You have found grace in
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  Speaker 2: my sight, and I know you by name. I remember
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  Speaker 2: it was about nineteen ninety nine. I don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It was around that time. I was at a convention
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  Speaker 2: where people who minister by foot door to door were
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  Speaker 2: convening in Tampa, Florida. And I met a sister that
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  Speaker 2: time who said, pray for me, brother. That's just how
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  Speaker 2: she said it. Pray for me, brother, call my name
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  Speaker 2: in your prayer. God knows me. Oh my, does God
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  Speaker 2: know you? Does he know you by name because He
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  Speaker 2: has endowed you with his favor. That's my desire, that
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  Speaker 2: is my goal every single day, to have the presence
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  Speaker 2: the favor of God upon the life of my family
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  Speaker 2: and me. Yeah. So from the book The Ministry of Healing,
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  Speaker 2: page four hundred and nine, I read, to know God
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  Speaker 2: is man's highest privilege. This knowledge is the secret of
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  Speaker 2: true power. Ooh, to know God, not the stuff you
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  Speaker 2: see on the television, on the news cycle, the endless
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  Speaker 2: news cycle of power graphs or attempted power grams, usurpation
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  Speaker 2: or attempted usurping of authority, That is not it. It
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  Speaker 2: is the secret to true power, growth, and of true life.
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  Speaker 2: What is it to know God? So we have a
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  Speaker 2: few lessons. We have a few lessons Number one. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: to know God requires a continual pursuit of his ways,
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  Speaker 2: not knowing about him, not just appearing where God happens
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  Speaker 2: to be at a given time. I'm saying, knowing God
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  Speaker 2: requires a continual pursuit of his ways. Well, what does
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  Speaker 2: it look like to pursue God? Ask God daily to
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  Speaker 2: teach you his ways, not just his works, his ways,
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  Speaker 2: his character. You understand not just the things you see
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  Speaker 2: him do, but the way he is, and your relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Him will get deeper and deeper and deeper, and
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  Speaker 2: you will begin to even look like God's character looks.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, God's presence is the believer's greatest need, and
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  Speaker 2: so Moses knew that without God's presence, victory, safety, and
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  Speaker 2: true identity of as God's people would be impossible. So
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  Speaker 2: before starting any task or any journey, beg God, invite
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  Speaker 2: God's presence. Invite God's presence into your life to go
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  Speaker 2: before you and then guide you. And finally, as we
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  Speaker 2: come to a swift close, God's favor rests on those
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  Speaker 2: who walk closely with him. Enoch is fascinating to me
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  Speaker 2: because Enoch walked with God to the degree that God said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, no more planet Earth, for you come
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  Speaker 2: up a little higher, Come into my presence, Enoch, are
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  Speaker 2: you walking with God?
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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,