DCLM Sincere Milk 17 January 2024 — Excellent Sacrifice
DCLM Sincere Milk 17 January 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Excellent Sacrifice
Topic: Excellent Sacrifice
Text — Numbers 18:26-30
27And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
28Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD’S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
29Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
30Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
Key Verse: “Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.” Numbers 18:29
Message
After Abigail got dressed up for Sunday service, her mother gave her a clean currency note to give as offering unto the Lord. She was curious and asked why the money was so clean. The mother responded that we have to give the best to God.
In our Bible passage, the Lord instructed the Levites to offer the best of their farm produce or the best of their offering to God. Today, as God’s children, you must always give an excellent and acceptable offering to God. Do not use your offering to buy biscuits, sweet, bread, juice or other things. If you do so, God will not be pleased with you.
Giving is not only limited to tithes and offering. You can give to God by offering service in the church like – cleaning, ushering, singing in the choir, prayer warriors etc. If you give God your best, He will give you His best in return. So give to the Lord today. Remember, the best gift to give to God is your heart. Ask Jesus to wash you clean and live in your heart from today.
Further Reading: Genesis 4:1-16
Prayer for today: Lord, I give to You all that I have.
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)
