[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

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DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

WORD OF WISDOM

Don't be afraid to leave your mark in the world, even though you're sure
someone will use an eraser on it.

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DAILY DEVOTION

Your Water into Wine

When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine.he called
the bridegroom over. "A host always serves the best wine first," he said..
"But you have kept the best until now!"
(John 2:9-10, NLT)

	 Making wine normally is a very lengthy process, but to make the
best quality wine, a wine that is aged, takes years. My point is that the
first miracle Jesus ever performed, the making of wine from water at the
wedding at Cana, was a miracle of acceleration. What in the natural took
many years, He did in a moment of time.
You may think it's going to take years to get well, years to get out of
debt, years to accomplish a dream, but don't rule out the God of
acceleration. He has favor, healing, and breakthroughs that can propel you
forward. God can take what should take you twenty years and get you there in
an instant. Right now, He's working behind the scenes gathering the water
jars and filling them with water. The process has already started. Suddenly,
things are going to change. Suddenly, you're going to find yourself where
you could not go on your own. God knows how to turn your water into wine.

A Prayer for Today

"Father, thank You that You have the power to take a natural process like
making wine and accelerate it in an instant. Thank You that You can take
what seems like it could take years to happen and suddenly turn it around
for me. I believe that You're filling the jars with water even now. In
Jesus' Name, Amen."

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DAILY BIBLE READING

Leviticus 7-9 New King James Version
The Law of the Trespass Offering
7 'Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering (it is most holy): 2 In
the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the trespass
offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar. 3 And he
shall offer from it all its fat. The fat tail and the fat that covers the
entrails, 4 the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and
the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove; 5
and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to
the Lord. It is a trespass offering. 6 Every male among the priests may eat
it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 7 The trespass
offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them both: the
priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8 And the priest who
offers anyone's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin
of the burnt offering which he has offered. 9 Also every grain offering that
is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the covered pan, or [a]in a
pan, shall be the priest's who offers it. 10 Every grain offering, whether
mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much
as the other.

The Law of Peace Offerings
11 'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer
to the Lord: 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer,
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with
oil. 13 Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. 14 And from it he
shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the Lord. It
shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

15 'The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall
be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until
morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary
offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but
on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; 17 the remainder of
the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire. 18 And
if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all
on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be imputed to him;
it shall be an abomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of
it shall bear [b]guilt.

19 'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be
burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are [c]clean may eat
of it. 20 But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace
offering that belongs to the Lord, while he is unclean, that person shall be
cut off from his people. 21 Moreover the person who touches any unclean
thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable[d]
unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering
that belongs to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.' "

Fat and Blood May Not Be Eaten
22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23 "Speak to the children of Israel,
saying: 'You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. 24 And the fat
of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild
beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it. 25
For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made
by fire to the Lord, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his
people. 26 Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings,
whether of bird or beast. 27 Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be
cut off from his people.' "

The Portion of Aaron and His Sons
28 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 29 "Speak to the children of
Israel, saying: 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the
Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace
offering. 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the
Lord. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved
as a wave offering before the Lord. 31 And the priest shall burn the fat on
the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 Also the right
thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices
of your peace offerings. 33 He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood
of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part.
34 For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I
have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from
the children of Israel by a statute forever.' "

35 This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the
offerings made by fire to the Lord, on the day when Moses presented them to
[e]minister to the Lord as priests. 36 The Lord commanded this to be given
to them by the children of Israel, on the day that He anointed them, by a
statute forever throughout their generations.

37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin
offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the
peace offering, 38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day
when He commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the
Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Aaron and His Sons Consecrated
8 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him,
and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams,
and a basket of unleavened bread; 3 and gather all the congregation together
at the door of the tabernacle of meeting."

4 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. And the congregation was gathered
together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 5 And Moses said to the
congregation, "This is what the Lord commanded to be done."

6 Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. 7 And he
put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe,
and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band
of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him. 8 Then he put the
breastplate on him, and he put the [f]Urim and the Thummim in the
breastplate. 9 And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its
front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded
Moses.

10 Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all
that was in it, and consecrated them. 11 He sprinkled some of it on the
altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver
and its base, to [g]consecrate them. 12 And he poured some of the anointing
oil on Aaron's head and anointed him, to consecrate him.

13 Then Moses brought Aaron's sons and put tunics on them, girded them with
sashes, and put [h]hats on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

14 And he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then Aaron and his sons
laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering, 15 and Moses
killed it. Then he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar
all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood
at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make [i]atonement for it.
16 Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe
attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned
them on the altar. 17 But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he
burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

18 Then he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons
laid their hands on the head of the ram, 19 and Moses killed it. Then he
sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. 20 And he cut the ram into
pieces; and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. 21 Then he
washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on
the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a [j]sweet aroma, an offering made
by fire to the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22 And he brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. Then Aaron and
his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, 23 and Moses killed it.
Also he took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear,
on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 24
Then he brought Aaron's sons. And Moses put some of the blood on the tips of
their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of
their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. 25
Then he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails,
the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the
right thigh; 26 and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the
Lord he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one
wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh; 27 and he put all
these in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them as a wave
offering before the Lord. 28 Then Moses took them from their hands and
burned them on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were consecration
offerings for a sweet aroma. That was an offering made by fire to the Lord.
29 And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the
Lord. It was Moses' part of the ram of consecration, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.

30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was
on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and
on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his
garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the
tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket
of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall
eat it.' 32 What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with
fire. 33 And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting
for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven
days he shall consecrate you. 34 As he has done this day, so the Lord has
commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 35 Therefore you shall stay at
the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep
the [k]charge of the Lord, so that you may not die; for so I have been
commanded." 36 So Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord had
commanded by the hand of Moses.

The Priestly Ministry Begins
9 It came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and
the elders of Israel. 2 And he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a young
bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and
offer them before the Lord. 3 And to the children of Israel you shall speak,
saying, 'Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb,
both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering, 4 also a bull
and a ram as peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain
offering mixed with oil; for today the Lord will appear to you.' "

5 So they brought what Moses commanded before the tabernacle of meeting. And
all the congregation drew near and stood [l]before the Lord. 6 Then Moses
said, "This is the thing which the Lord commanded you to do, and the glory
of the Lord will appear to you." 7 And Moses said to Aaron, "Go to the
altar, offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement
for yourself and for the people. Offer the offering of the people, and make
atonement for them, as the Lord commanded."

8 Aaron therefore went to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering,
which was for himself. 9 Then the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him.
And he dipped his finger in the blood, put it on the horns of the altar, and
poured the blood at the base of the altar. 10 But the fat, the kidneys, and
the fatty lobe from the liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar, as
the Lord had commanded Moses. 11 The flesh and the hide he burned with fire
outside the camp.

12 And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented to him the
blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar. 13 Then they presented
the burnt offering to him, with its pieces and head, and he burned them on
the altar. 14 And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with
the burnt offering on the altar.

15 Then he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the
sin offering for the people, and killed it and offered it for sin, like the
first one. 16 And he brought the burnt offering and offered it according to
the [m]prescribed manner. 17 Then he brought the grain offering, took a
handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt sacrifice of
the morning.

18 He also killed the bull and the ram as sacrifices of peace offerings,
which were for the people. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood,
which he sprinkled all around on the altar, 19 and the fat from the bull and
the ram-the fatty tail, what covers the entrails and the kidneys, and the
fatty lobe attached to the liver; 20 and they put the fat on the breasts.
Then he burned the fat on the altar; 21 but the breasts and the right thigh
Aaron waved as a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

22 Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, blessed them, and came down
from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and peace offerings. 23
And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and
blessed the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people,
24 and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering
and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell
on their faces.

Footnotes
Leviticus 7:9 on a griddle
Leviticus 7:18 his iniquity
Leviticus 7:19 pure
Leviticus 7:21 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; Sam., Syr., Tg. swarming thing (cf.
5:2)
Leviticus 7:35 serve
Leviticus 8:8 Lit. Lights and the Perfections, Ex. 28:30
Leviticus 8:11 set them apart for the Lord
Leviticus 8:13 headpieces
Leviticus 8:15 Lit. covering
Leviticus 8:21 pleasing
Leviticus 8:35 office
Leviticus 9:5 in the presence of
Leviticus 9:16 ordinance