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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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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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September fifteenth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our

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caption for today is that I may know you, that

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I may know you. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but before we do, I'd like to just

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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for the very first time. I'm asking you to go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our

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online community, pick up the your Daily Portion Life Application

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guide and let us know where you are in the

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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thank you for giving us the invitation to know you.

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Please help us to take you up on that. In

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Jesus' name, I pray, amen and Amen again, that I

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may know you. Wow. So Jesus when he lived on

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planet Earth, and he was not too long away from

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about to go back to Heaven, but before that he

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was going to lay down his life like he said

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he would, and take it up again. In those moments,

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Jesus was praying what we would call the high priestly

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or mediatorial prayer, and he said, and this is life eternal,

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that they may know thee the only True and Living God. Yes,

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and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent. And so the

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goal really is for us to know God. Do you

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know God? Do you know God? Do you love God

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more than anything? Do you love God? I can hear

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Sister Eleanor Wright, the late Sister Eleanor right in my

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mind right now. In fact, I can play it a

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little bit here is sitting here in my mind. Do

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you love God more than anything? Listen to this? Do

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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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her final time singing and ministering this song. Do you

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love God more than anything? And the only way to

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love God more than anything is to know him, to

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know him. And this is what Moses's experience was becoming

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was becoming. And so we go now into the Bible

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book of Exodus, chapter thirty three, and we will read

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beginning at verse twelve, and the Bible reads then Moses

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said to the Lord, see you say to me bring

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up this people, But you have not let me know

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whom you will send with me. Yet you have said

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I know you by name, and you have also found

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grace in my sight. Now, therefore I pray, if I

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have found grace in your site, show me your way

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that I may know you. That was the whole point,

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not so that you could Moses. He didn't do that,

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but he was not in the presence so he can

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brag and say that I have a connection with God

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that none of y'all have. Have you ever heard people

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talk about their connection with God in a way to

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spark envy or some kind of way puff their own

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chest up, or somehow engender in your heart the desire

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to give them a donation so they can have jets

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or new cameras, or somehow build an edifice, or even

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feed babies, so that somehow you can have the connection

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that they have. This is not that, This is a

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true holy connection and not that foolishness that people palm

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off as connection with God. And the Bible continues. The

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Bible continues, and consider this that this nation is your people.

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And he said my presence, Oh God, God said, my

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presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.

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Then he said unto him, if your presence does not

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go with us, do not bring us up from here. God,

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we don't want to move from this place. If your

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presence will not be with us, let us stay where

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we are, because it's not safe out there. God Father,

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it's not safe to move without you. By cloud. You

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led us by fire, you led us by your voice,

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You led us by urim and thummum, you led us

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by the shuckin of the glory. You let us. If

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you're not going to lead us, Father, let us stay

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right here until you will lead us four verse sixteen,

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How then will it be known that your people have

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found grace in your sight except you go with us?

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You see, to know that we have favor with God

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is to have the presence. If God is not with me,

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then I don't have favor with him. You understand. I

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don't care how much money you make. If you don't

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have the presence, you do not have favor. I don't

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care how much people applaud and fan out because of you.

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How many followers on your social media? Is it ten million,

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is it twenty million? Is it one hundred million? If

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you have all of these followers but you don't have

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the presence, then you don't have favor. That's all I'm saying.

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That's all I'm saying. I will also do this thing

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that you have spoken for. You have found grace in

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my sight, and I know you by name. I remember

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it was about nineteen ninety nine. I don't know for sure.

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It was around that time. I was at a convention

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where people who minister by foot door to door were

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convening in Tampa, Florida. And I met a sister that

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time who said, pray for me, brother. That's just how

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she said it. Pray for me, brother, call my name

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in your prayer. God knows me. Oh my, does God

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know you? Does he know you by name because He

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has endowed you with his favor. That's my desire, that

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is my goal every single day, to have the presence

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the favor of God upon the life of my family

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and me. Yeah. So from the book The Ministry of Healing,

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page four hundred and nine, I read, to know God

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is man's highest privilege. This knowledge is the secret of

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true power. Ooh, to know God, not the stuff you

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see on the television, on the news cycle, the endless

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news cycle of power graphs or attempted power grams, usurpation

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or attempted usurping of authority, That is not it. It

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is the secret to true power, growth, and of true life.

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What is it to know God? So we have a

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few lessons. We have a few lessons Number one. Number one,

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to know God requires a continual pursuit of his ways,

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not knowing about him, not just appearing where God happens

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to be at a given time. I'm saying, knowing God

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requires a continual pursuit of his ways. Well, what does

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it look like to pursue God? Ask God daily to

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teach you his ways, not just his works, his ways,

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his character. You understand not just the things you see

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him do, but the way he is, and your relationship

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with Him will get deeper and deeper and deeper, and

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you will begin to even look like God's character looks.

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Number two, God's presence is the believer's greatest need, and

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so Moses knew that without God's presence, victory, safety, and

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true identity of as God's people would be impossible. So

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before starting any task or any journey, beg God, invite

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God's presence. Invite God's presence into your life to go

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before you and then guide you. And finally, as we

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come to a swift close, God's favor rests on those

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who walk closely with him. Enoch is fascinating to me

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because Enoch walked with God to the degree that God said,

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you know what, no more planet Earth, for you come

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up a little higher, Come into my presence, Enoch, are

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you walking with God?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,