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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font size="3"><b>Jim
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>FEB
22 - LEVITICUS 8-10 - THE PRIESTHOOD: FOR INTERCESSION</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
8:7-8 (8:1-13) PRIESTHOOD: WASHED, CLOTHED AND ANOINTED. “And
Moses put the coat on Aaron and tied the sash around his waist and
clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the
skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with
the band. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">8</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put
the Urim and the Thummim” (ESV). </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">These
are Your commandments, and this is Your Pattern, Father; Moses
submitted to Your Kingdom principles. </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Hallowed
be your :name.</i></font></b></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>2. 8:23 (8:14-36)
PRIESTHOOD: OFFERINGS AND CONSECRATION. “And he killed it, and
Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right
ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his
right foot.” </b><span style="">Our hearing;
our works; our walk: may they all be sanctified unto You Father, by
Jesus' blood! </span><u><span style="">We</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
are a Kingdom of Priests, and need to submit to the </span></span><u><span style="">blood</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
and </span></span><u><span style="">oil</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">3.
9:7 (9:1-21) PRIESTHOOD: OFFERINGS FOR PEOPLE. Then Moses said to
Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your
burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people,
and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as
the LORD has commanded.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father,
through Your priests You bless Your people through ministering the
Atonement.</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
</span></span></i><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">4.
9:24 (9:22-24) PRIESTHOOD: OFFERINGS ACCEPTED. “And the fire
came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the
pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they
shouted and fell on their faces.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">This
is awesome Father, and causes us also to fall on our faces before
You. O forgive us that we have lost Your fear, even the fear of You,
O LORD; and have forgotten that Your Name is </span></span><u><span style="">Jealous</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our :daily
:bread, Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
10:1 (10:1-7) PRIESTHOOD: JUDGMENT! “Now Nadab and Abihu, the
sons Aaron, each took his censor and put fire in it and laid incense
on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not
commanded them.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">You
look to those Father, who </span></span><u><span style="">tremble</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
at Your Word. O cause Your fear to enter into us because of this
incident. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
10:8-9 (10:8-11) PRIESTHOOD: STRONG DRINK. And the LORD spoke to
Aaron, saying, “Drink</span></b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
</span></span></i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">no wine or
strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of
meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Wine
and strong drink </span></span><u><span style="">do
not mix</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
with worship and ministry! You established this under the Old
Covenant Father, and it is true for us under the New! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
10:19 (10:12-20) PRIESTHOOD: THEIR PORTION. And Aaron said to
Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and
their burnt offering before the LORD, and yet such things as these
have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the
LORD have approved?” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father,
Your fear is coming upon Aaron; may it come upon us also, so that we
may know Your exceeding great Holiness! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">one!</span></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
9:23 (9:22-24) PRIESTHOOD PROPERLY PERFORMED: BRINGS GOD'S
CONFIRMATION. “And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting,
and when they came out they blessed the people, </b></span><b><u>and
the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">.”
</span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">When
we do all things according to Your pattern Father, then You confirm
Your Word, and Your Glory is seen!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Meaningful
prayer in the light of the example of our Lord Jesus, His apostles
after His resurrection; and various OT prophets and leaders - this is
a safety net for </span></span><u><span style="">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
NT ministries. Oswald Chambers sets this forth in a most adequate
manner in his following daily devotional reading for August 28</span></span><sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">th</span></span></sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">THE
PURPOSE OF PRAYER</span></b></font></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“ <font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>.
. . one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray . . .
(Luke 11:1).</b></font></span><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Prayer
is </span><u>not</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> a normal
part of the life of the natural man. We hear it said that a person's
life will suffer if he doesn't pray, but I question that. What will
suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not
by food, </span><u>but by prayer</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
When a person is born again from above, the life of the Son of God is
born in him, and he can either starve or nourish that life. Prayer is
the way that the life of God in us is nourished. Our common ideas
regarding prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon
prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the
biblical purpose of prayer is that </span><u>we may get to know God
Himself</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">!</span></font></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Ask,
and you will receive ...” (John 16:24). We complain before God, and
sometimes we are apologetic or indifferent to Him, but we actually
</font></span><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">ask</span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Him for very few things. Yet a child exhibits a magnificent boldness
to ask! Our Lord said, “... </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>unless
you ... become as little children ...” </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(Matthew
18:3). Ask and God will do. Give Jesus Christ the opportunity and the
room to work. The problem is that no one will ever do this until he
is at his wits' end. When a person is at his wits' end, it no longer
seems to be a cowardly thing to pray; in fact, it is the only way he
can get in touch with the truth and the reality of God Himself. Be
yourself before God and present Him with your problems - the very
things that have brought you to your wits' end. But as long as you
think you are self-sufficient, you do not need to ask God for
anything.</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">To
say that “prayer changes things” is not as close to the truth as
saying, “Prayer changes </span><u><i>me</i></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
and then I change things.” God has established things so that
prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a persona looks
at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing this externally, but
one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
now - our Psalm for the day - 52:6-7 (52:1-9) TWO AREAS OF TRUST.
“The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
</span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
“See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the
abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”
</span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Your
wheels O Father, grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small! So
it is with the wicked; but the righteous shall be justified!</span></span></font></p>
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