DCLM Higher Everyday 6 November 2024 — Give Your Best To God
DCLM Higher Everyday 6 November 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Give Your Best To God
Topic: Give Your Best To God
Text: 2 Samuel 24:22-25
22And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
24And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Key Verse: “And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver” (2 Samuel 24:24).
Message
Giving is an act of being generous. God demands that His children give unreservedly. God was angered by the action of king David for numbering Israel and Judah against His will. They suffered His wrath as a result. Prophet Gad instructed king David to build an altar unto the Lord in the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite, to stay the plague. Araunah was willing to give his threshing floor without a reward in return. He willingly offered his threshing floor for the benefit of the land. However, It will definitely cost us something if we must give our best to God. Therefore, David told Araunah that he would not offer burnt offering to the Lord based on anything that would cost him nothing.
Also Read: Higher Everyday 5 November 2024 – Character Before Charisma
The gift of your time, talents, and treasures, will mean nothing to the Lord if you have not genuinely given Him your heart. Your heart is the best gift you can offer to God. The offerings of sinners and backsliders are unacceptable to Him, except they repent. Give yourself wholly to God!
Quote: Give yourself wholly to God!
Challenge: The gift of the heart precedes every other gift.
Prayer for today: Help me to give my best to You, dear Lord.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
