DCLM Higher Everyday 8 February 2024 — Serving With Your Substance
DCLM Higher Everyday 8 February 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Serving With Your Substance
Topic: Serving With Your Substance
Text: Exodus 25:1-9
1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
3And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
4And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
5And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
6Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Key Verse:“Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering” (Exodus 25:2).
Message
Have you read the story of the young boy whose lunch of five loaves and two fishes fed the multitudes at Jesus’ meeting? However, not many realize the sacrifice and faith behind the act. He never knew beforehand that his small meal would feed the five thousand hungry people gathered at the meeting. Nor could he have imagined the possibility of twelve baskets of leftover food. But that was the miracle that attended his sacrificial surrender of his substance.
Also Read: DCLM Higher Everyday 7 February 2024 – Godliness With Contentment
In our text, God asked for offering for the building of His sanctuary for His dwelling among His people. However, we are now the temple of God. So the first demand Christ makes of anyone is the surrendering of his/her heart to Him. He indwells the heart. Only true Disciples of Christ can understand the place of willing offerings. They are called to sacrifice all – heart, money, material and talents, for the salvation of souls. The widow gave her two mites, the young boy gave his lunch, and what are you willing to give to the Lord?
Quote: Called to sacrifice all.
Challenge: Only what is done for Christ will last.
Prayer for today: Take myself and I will be ever, only, all for Thee.
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)
