How God Turns Our Offering Into A Supernatural Blessing- Part 3 Series

Welcome to Part 3 of the message entitled 'How God turns our offering into a supernatural blessing.'

God can very well take anything He wants anytime. Isn’t that true? But, He comes to us as either directly, explicitly as He did with Abraham, or through the Holy Spirit working in us, as we pursue God. That, “I need to give something more to God. There is something that I am withholding. God, there is something You want to give me but You are holding off on it, because I don’t understand Your plan. I am not sure of where You want to take this? I am thinking in the natural realm, You are thinking in the supernatural realm.” In order for me to think like God, I need to ask God. We need to ask God tonight, “Lord, what is there in my life?” We are not talking about sinful things, that is already a given. We don’t want to be unrighteous people bringing offerings to God. God does not want that. God wants us to walk righteously, and then say to God, “Father, I have eliminated sinful practices from my lifestyle. I am a vessel dedicated to You. Now, Lord, is there anything in my life that I should offer up to You as an offering to the Most High God? Is there a vow that I need to make, so that You can call me up higher to walk with God, to walk with God and to be a blessing to the whole world? How can I be a blessing to the whole world, how can my generation be a blessing? How can I be a blessing to the whole world, how can my generation be a blessing?”

When I realize that, first of all, everything belongs to God anyway. Whatever I have today, even my breath belongs to God. Secondly, it takes faith to say, “Lord, even though I am going to give You something that cost me, my very heart, I know beyond a shadow of doubt that You are One who will reward those who diligently seek You. Those who give unto You Lord, You will not short change. Father, if I give anything to You at all, You will always give back, multiplied, manifold. Hallelujah! God will never take something from us, from sincere hand and a sincere heart and never give it back to us the same. Isaac was given back to Abraham as the decided inheritor of all of the blessings. At that point, the promise was in development. We need to understand that. When God makes a promise, it’s good because it’s His word, but it is developing materially in our lives as we yield to Him. In other words, promise is there, it’s solid. But the formation of the promise in our life, when it crystallizes, it comes directly in proportion to our obedience in our offering to God.

Abraham offered up Isaac. Hannah offered up Samuel. What will you offer to God, so that God can take you to the next level? When I thank God with a thankful heart, “Lord, thank You for everything You have given me. When I have faith that God, when He moves me by the Holy Spirit to give up something that He is going to multiply, I am going to act on it. That’s the third thing.

First, I realize it belongs to God anyway. Anyone who comes to God and finds it difficult to give up something to God, not because it’s an emotional thing, such as giving up a child on the altar like Abraham; but because they think it belongs to them and they can do better with it than God can, then they don’t have the thankful heart of the faith. When we understand that it belongs to God, and God will not short change me, then I can move forward and put feet to my faith as it’s said. I can act on it. Because if you read in 1 Samuel 1, it says here in verse 27 [King James Version], For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

Now, did she take that and forget her vow. No. She remembered her vow that she vowed in her distress, the offering she made unto the Lord, that You can have my son. I am going to leave him in the temple. Lord, I have given him back to You.

Verse 28 Hannah says, Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there. [King James Version]

What happened to Samuel? He ruled Israel like no other prophet, to the point where the Lord did not let his words fall to the ground. God was so confident of Samuel, He was behind him. That He made sure when Samuel spoke, God supernaturally made it to happen. That’s what God does.