How God Turns Our Offering Into A Supernatural Blessing- Part 1 Series

All glory be to the Almighty God! The message is entitled, ‘How God turns our offering into a supernatural blessing.’ How God turns our offering into a supernatural blessing? Now, we are going to look at two Bible characters. Abraham is one of them, and Hannah is the other. And we are going to see how the Lord put them in a situation, where it was impossible for something to occur that they wanted in their lives. They wanted the blessing from the Lord. But it was an impossible situation; they were squeezed into an area where no human wisdom or ingenuity could ever help them attain that blessing.

We find ourselves; you may find yourself in such a situation, something you are praying for, something that the Lord has promised to you, something that you expect in your life to make a huge difference in your spiritual walk. And, it’s actually an opportunity from the Lord, if we understand it correctly from these two characters in the Bible. These are opportunities from Heaven specifically designed and engineered so that we can jump into the supernatural from the natural. We are living on a natural plane physically, materially on this earth; but the Lord is always trying to raise us up out of the natural, even while we live on this earth into a supernatural realm. God wants us to grow in His grace. He wants us to understand, that there is another dimension that he wants to take us to. Let’s look right now and read the story of how Abraham was called to give up Isaac, the promised child.

Reading from Chapter 22 of Genesis, verse 1[King James Version]

1. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

3. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Now, this is the promised child. The very child, that Abraham and Sarah were waiting for, for more than two decades. Finally, the child is given and yet the Lord is not pleased with their spiritual walk. Now, it’s not to say they were disobedient. But, God had something more in mind. God wanted to increase their faith, their inheritance. In every stage of our life, just like in Abraham’s life, God will come to us with a certain requirement. And, as we are keen on understanding, what exactly the Lord is looking for in my life, at this stage of my life? And we fulfill that requirement, we offer up that which He requires freely; then God takes us to an entirely different dimension and plane. But until we come to that point, we can never experience more of the supernatural. Now, this is the promised child. The very child through whom, the entire world was to be blessed. Abraham knew that, and yet, he is coming to God who is an awesome God, He is a wonderful God and He is a God that has no limits. He will take us to heights spiritually where we can never dream of.

Now Abraham had been walking with God for so many years up to this point. But, just like with Job, and as we see Hannah, He is going to stretch that faith. He is going to call for something that is difficult for the carnal mind to understand. But, perfectly reasonable for the spiritual person. In Abraham’s case on the third day, verse 4.

4. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. [King James Version]

Now, we see right here Abraham’s faith. He believed that what God has promised through Isaac, even though God had called him to offer the child on the mountain of Moriah, God was going to raise him from the dead, do something to finish his program or purpose with Abraham and indeed to the whole world.

6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.