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Numbers chapter 2 verses 1 and 2.

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, the people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard

with the banners of their father's houses.

They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side.

I love this picture.

Just imagine it.

You're traveling as the people of God together and you set up camp at certain points and whenever you set up camp the command from God is to set up your camp with your clan, with your family.

Everybody though is facing the tent of meetings.

So this is the place at this point where Moses would go in to meet with God and

intercede on behalf of the people so it was basically symbolic of the

presence of God in the middle of his people and everything

in the camp was designed to center on the tent of meeting, to center on the presence of God in the middle of his people.

So I read this picture in the Old Testament and I just think, I want that to be true in my life today.

Like, thankfully, there's not a attentive meeting, there's not even a temple where the glory of God's

presence dwells in the middle of his people.

The New Testament tells us very clearly that Jesus has

died on the cross. He has made the way possible for us to all experience the

presence of God, that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

And so, knowing that, I'm just compelled to pray that God would center everything in my life and my family in the church and your life your family your church around his presence that everything would revolve around his presence and his glory in the middle of our lives.

So we pray that today.

God, center us around you. May you never be just like a part of our life on the

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