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11 13 2025 Longing for His Presence · 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 Thursday, November thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is longing for His Presence? Longing for His presence?
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  Speaker 2: Do you desire to be in the presence of God?
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  Speaker 2: Right now? I wish I had the time. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just go ahead and say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. Please
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  Speaker 2: the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day, and please, will you just bring
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  Speaker 2: us into your presence, usher us into your presence today
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray Amen and amen again, longing
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  Speaker 2: for the presence of God. So we're going to begin.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to begin by simply reading from Joshua chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verse one to get us kickstarted
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  Speaker 2: before we get into our three less sins for today.
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  Speaker 2: And it reads, and the whole congregation of the children
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  Speaker 2: of God assembled together at Shiloh and set up the
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle of the congregation there, and the land was subdued
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  Speaker 2: before them. Listen, when we have God with us, the
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  Speaker 2: presence of God with us, then everything, every trial, every tribulation,
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  Speaker 2: every difficulty, every enemy has to get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say that again? When God is with
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  Speaker 2: his people, we are in the presence of God, then
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  Speaker 2: we become the tabernacle of God. He said, what know
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  Speaker 2: ye not that you are the Temple of the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: who is with you. You were bought with a price.
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  Speaker 2: It was in you. You were bought with a price. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: glorify God with your bodies and of course everything that
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  Speaker 2: you are, because they are gods. He has purchased us
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  Speaker 2: through the blood of Jesus Christ. And so when we
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  Speaker 2: long for the presence of God and have the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God, there is nothing that can stand in our way,
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  Speaker 2: even though we will have trials and tribulations while we
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  Speaker 2: are on planet Earth. Jesus had those, the apostles had those,
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  Speaker 2: the patriarchs and prophets of old had those. But ultimately
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  Speaker 2: Jesus wins. And so our first lesson comes in from
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter twenty five to bolster the point that we
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  Speaker 2: just made from verse eight. This is what happened even
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  Speaker 2: before this incident with Joshua in Shiloh. It says, and
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  Speaker 2: let them, God, speaking to Moses, let them make me
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  Speaker 2: a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Everything God's
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  Speaker 2: people's victories, their prosperity, their peace flowed from the reality
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  Speaker 2: that God was dwelling among them. Aren't you glad that
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  Speaker 2: worship comes before we work? Worship comes before we work.
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  Speaker 2: There is no pressure. We're not under pressure trying to
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  Speaker 2: perform for God, trying to show God that we are
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  Speaker 2: worthy of anything. We worship God because He's worthy, and
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  Speaker 2: then in the power of His might, the strength that
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  Speaker 2: He has given us, then we work. And so before
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  Speaker 2: the remaining tribes received their land, the Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: that Joshua paused the conquest to do something sacred. He
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  Speaker 2: set up the Tabernacle of the Lord at Shiloh. It
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  Speaker 2: was a deliberate reminder of God's presence. We can always
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  Speaker 2: see that God is among us, just like Jesus's name
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  Speaker 2: being interpreted Emmanuel being interpreted. God with us. It was
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  Speaker 2: a constant visual reminder, like the Ark of the Covenant
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  Speaker 2: as they traversed through through the wilderness. It was a
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  Speaker 2: constant reminder of God's presence. God's people receive their inheritance
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  Speaker 2: because of the presence of God, the power of God,
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  Speaker 2: not because of their own anything fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what you put after their own. It
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  Speaker 2: was all about the fact that God was with them,
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  Speaker 2: and he kept his promise that he made to Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: Isaac and Jacob Lessen number two. Lessen number two, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the tabernacle pointed forward to Christ. At every point in
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament, we see that this tabernacle is really
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  Speaker 2: a reflection of what Christ was trying to teach us
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  Speaker 2: about himself. Ultimately. Even the Old Testament Bible writers said
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  Speaker 2: that the Lord is the Lord is our sanctuary. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord is our sanctuary. And so I'm grateful. I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads in Hebrews Chapter nine, verses eleven and twelve.
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  Speaker 2: But Christ, being come and high priest of good things
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  Speaker 2: to come, by his own blood, he entered in once
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  Speaker 2: into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read it again in the New English translation.
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  Speaker 2: But now Christ has come, as the high priest of
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  Speaker 2: the good things to come. He entered once for all
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  Speaker 2: into the most holy Place, not by the blood of
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  Speaker 2: goats and calves, but by his own blood. See, this
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  Speaker 2: is the durable sacrifice. Those things pointed forward to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: They taught us some of what Jesus would represent for us.
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  Speaker 2: That without the shedding of blood there can be no
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  Speaker 2: remission of sins. And so we see that in the
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  Speaker 2: earthly sanctuary. But Jesus is the one ultimately that it represented.
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  Speaker 2: And so oh he himself, the Bible says, secured eternal redemption.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there is no amount of humans, There is
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  Speaker 2: no amount of sacrificing animals on human behalf. Like I
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  Speaker 2: almost said it wrong, almost really made a booble there
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  Speaker 2: that can secure our salvation. It's always been about Christ.
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  Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, we looked forward to Christ. In
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  Speaker 2: this time we are experiencing Christ and looking back at
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  Speaker 2: the Cross and knowing that in the most holy placed
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  Speaker 2: ministry that Jesus is now involved, that he is taking
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  Speaker 2: care of the cleansing of the people who are placing
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  Speaker 2: ourselves into his care. And so through Christ we have
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  Speaker 2: a continual access to the presence of God, not through
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  Speaker 2: a tent, not through a temple, not through an arc,
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  Speaker 2: but through his atoning work. We thank God. The earthly
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle at Shiloh pointed to the heavenly reality that was
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  Speaker 2: yet to come. Jesus now ministers on our behalf. Our
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  Speaker 2: third and final lesson is that hope is anchored in
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  Speaker 2: His presence. In Hebrews, in Hebrews Chapter six, verses nineteen
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  Speaker 2: and twenty, we read which hope we have as an
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  Speaker 2: anchor of the soul, both both sure and steadfast, and
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  Speaker 2: which entereth into that within the veil, whither the forerunner
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  Speaker 2: is for us entered. Even Christ, Jesus has entered in
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  Speaker 2: to the place that we want to be. He is
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  Speaker 2: ministering before the Father, so that since he died the
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  Speaker 2: death that we deserve now through his ministry in the Sanctuary,
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  Speaker 2: both Holy and Most Holy Placed ministries. Now in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, we have the full experience. Jesus did what
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  Speaker 2: he needed to do on planet Earth. He is already
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  Speaker 2: finished with what he was doing. In the Holy Place
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  Speaker 2: ministry about forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, and in the Most Placed ministry,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about cleansing those individuals and sealing the individuals
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  Speaker 2: who are submitting our will to God. So we can
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  Speaker 2: be seen as if we have never sinned, and we
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  Speaker 2: thank God. He is there, and he is there listen,
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  Speaker 2: representing us. He took on human flesh that has not
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  Speaker 2: gone away. Yes, now it's glorified, but Jesus is in
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  Speaker 2: there as a representative of those who have faith in him.
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  Speaker 2: The presence of the Sanctuary in god People's midst reminded
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  Speaker 2: them of God's faithfulness. Are you longing for the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God. Well, in this moment you can praise him,
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  Speaker 2: he said. He inhabits the praises of his people. 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,