Sacrifices, Second Part

If that describes you, you are missing a golden moment. As I discussed yesterday, you can turn this time from ho-hum to hallelujah. If I may take the phrase in Ephesians 5:16, making the best of your time, to incorporate the silent moments in the offering, let me offer some practical proposals. Take a pencil together with the circular stub and write down a listing of the things for which you are most thankful.

And thank your heavenly Pop for them one at a time. Tape that list in an obvious place at home and have a look at it daily for a week. Turn to the Scripture that’ll be used in the sermon. Think only about that passage across the offering time. Ask the Almighty to talk to you like you were all alone in the worship service. Pick out 2 or three people whom you know ( perhaps some sitting with or near you ) and pray particularly for them.

Ask the Lord God to prompt them and lift their spirits that day. You may even follow that up by greeting them after the service and expressing interest in their lives. Tell them that God inspired you to hope for them. Locate in the hymnal the hymn the musician is playing if it is familiar to you.

permit yourself to picture the scene in the hymn and become excited with the message it communicates. Refuse each outside thought that knocks for entrance.

Fess up to Him the mud you have swept under your life’s rug. Thank Him for your role in life, your job, your family, your church, your non secular gifts, your deliverance, your trials, your destiny, your healthiness the Scriptures. May I dare add another? Pray for the person that will bring the message. Ask The Lord God to give him freedom, lucidity, arrogance, sensitiveness, understanding on his feet, freedom from distractions and petty concerns. It’s fantastic how much more the message means to you when you have had a part in its delivery. Hebrews 13:15 gives timely endorse along these lines : “let us repeatedly offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that offer gratitude to His name.”.

That is a switch, isn’t it? The standard offering time becomes a “sacrifice of praise” time. A point in time when God, personally, receives your offering of gratitude. A point when He picks the “fruit of your lips.” what’s most outstanding is the way in which the juice from that fruit heals the ache in your left hip pocket.