Day 22.

Wow! GOD is so coool!!!
Leviticus was an awesome book! and Numbers is amazing as well!
There's so much fun stuff in here! You should read them too!

In Numbers 6 the leaders of Israel made a dedication offering to The LORD. Each leader represented a tribe of Israel, and for 12 consecutive days, 1 leader would make an offering. Each day grain, burnt, sin, and peace offerings were made. Here's what it looked like,

"12 And the one who offered his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah. 13 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; 14 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense; 15 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt offering; 16 one kid of the goats as a sin offering; 17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab."

So, these exact same actions, with the exact same measurements happened for 12 consecutive days, by 12 different leaders representing Israel. If you read through, the only thing different, is the names. Okay, so now to the point, what if we, in our own lives show a consistency in EVERYTHING! What if we consistently be in prayer, what if we consistently be reading HIS WORD, what if we are a people continuously in worship!? It seems like it was repetitive to them, maybe it was, but each man brought his offerings to GOD on the day he was to bring them. And everything was in order. (that's another thing, all throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers...things had to be in order if GOD was going to come and be with them, in HIS GLORY "GLORY follows order") -and i'll get back to that here in a moment. Notice the description when talking about the platter, bowl, and pan...each item was FULL. Every day, the appointed leader came and offered these items FULL of the items that was in them!!! How intense is that!!!!? What if, not only do we consistently bring to GOD our lives, but we bring our lives to HIM in the fullest! We bring HIM ALL of our worship! We pour ALL of ourselves out in prayer! We STUDY HIS WORD to the fullest! (We INVITE HIM in with us, or as a more accurate perspective...we GO TO HIM when we read The WORD! (We should never leave HIM) HE said that HE came to give us Life, and Life moe abundantly...what if we offer to HIM, E-V-E-R-Y DAY the fullness of our lives!!?

Okay, so i said i would get back to the get things in order, here's what The WORD says happened after all of this...

"84 This was the dedication offering for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold pans. 85 Each silver platter weighed one hundred and thirty shekels and each bowl seventy shekels. All the silver of the vessels weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 86 The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the pans weighed one hundred and twenty shekels. 87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve young bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs in their first year twelve, with their grain offering, and the kids of the goats as a sin offering twelve. 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings were twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, and the lambs in their first year sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
89 Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him."

Pay close attention to the last verse (89)...he heard GOD!!!!!!!! Everything was set, and everything was done specifically like it was commanded by GOD, and GOD showed up!!!!!!!!!!

We N-E-E-D to get our lives in order to what GOD says, and HE WILL show up! Obey the commands of Love!!! Love GOD with A-L-L of your heart!!! and Love everybody else unconditionally as well! If you say, "it's hard" GOD says, "I do it all the time, and i will surely give you grace (help) to do this." So just trust in HIM and you will know a Love that you will be able to share that will literally rock your world!