Twenty – Three Things
Offerings Do For You
Did you know
As you
present your offerings and tithes before the Lord, they orchestrate events in
the spiritual world, on your behalf?
Offerings
have a voice both in the spiritual and the physical realm.
Tithes
and offerings speak before Father’s throne on your behalf.
Offerings
testify for you in the heavenly courtroom.
Offerings
have been catalysts of events on earth from the time of Adam and Eve down to
the present generation.
A.
How to
give an offering
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The
widow’s offering (Mark 12:41-44)
41 Jesus sat
down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd
putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large
amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very
small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
43 Calling his
disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put
more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all
gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all
she had to live on.”
Lesson 1
Give
your offering as you have determined in your heart and not for show.
Ø
Anger
and Reconciliation (Mark 12:41-44)
…23"Therefore if you
are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother
has something against you,24leave
your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your
brother, and then come and present your offering. 25"Make friends
quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your
opponent may not hand you over to the judge and the judge to the officer, and
you be thrown into prison.
Lesson 2
This
scriptural reference tells us that we cannot give offering when we have
harbored feelings of bitterness, hatred and have unresolved issues with others. This
is because the offering has a voice and a sound; it is a representation of our
status of heart, mind and soul at the time of giving. Our Father is able to
discern our status as we give and search out the things that concealed by the hearts
of men. An offering given with bitterness, hatred,
coercion, and other unpleasant feelings will bear the same exact sound as it is
presented before Our Father. More so, every
time it is called upon to give witness for you in the heavenly court, the sound
that it will produce will be the sound of the state of your heart at the time
of giving. Therefore, We must strive as a child of God to give an offering with
a clean and pure heart so that it bears a good sound/testimony for you.
B.
What
offerings do for you in the spiritual realm
1.
According to Acts 10:20; the prayers and the giving
of Cornelius came before the Lord as a memorial; that was the testimony of the
Angel that appeared before Cornelius bore.
Father let my giving and prayer appear
before you as a memorial in Jesus name.
2.
The
giving coupled by prayer caused an Angel of the Lord to be
dispatched from the presence of God to the earth, in answer to the prayer.
a)
Father
let my giving and prayer cause an angel to come to my help in Jesus name.
b)
I
decree and declare that my offering and prayer will release an angel from
heaven to me.
3.
In Acts
10:20; we are told that the offering caused records to be kept in heaven
for Cornelius. Memorial in the Greek version means - a record. May
records be kept in the heavenly for you and testify for you in the day the
books are called for at the general assembly in heaven as seen in Daniel 7:9-13.
4.
In Philippians
4:17: Paul when admonishing the church of Thessalonica says; not that I
desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account.
Father let this offering today be recorded
in my heavenly books of account in the name of Jesus.
5.
The offerings of King Solomon caused fire to
come from heaven. Fire in this case and
in many cases in the Old Testament was an indication that the offering was
acceptable to the Lord and much favor was gained by the offering (2 Chronicles 7.1).
a)
Let my
offering this day cause fire to come down from heaven as answer to my prayer in
the name of Jesus.
b)
Lord
who answers by fire answer me by fire today by reason of this offering in the
name of Jesus.
6.
Offerings cause the favor of the Lord to visit
you.
When
King Solomon gave an offering dedicating the temple of the Lord, that night the
Lord visited him. This is an indication
of the favor that King Solomon received as a result of the offering he had given. Prior to the offering there is no indication
of a divine visitation to King Solomon
Father let my offering receive favor
before you this day in the name of Jesus.
7.
The offerings of King Solomon caused the glory
of the Lord to come and fill the temple. May your offering cause the
glory of God to come and fill your life; You are the temple of the Lord (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
8.
The offerings of King Solomon caused a divine
visitation by the Lord, (2 chronicles 7:1)
Solomon offered in excess of what was required, and the bible records that
night the Lord visited him.
Jehovah let my offering cause You to
divinely visit me in Jesus name
9.
The offerings of King Solomon caused the
storehouse of heaven to open for him. (Chronicles
7:1) the testimony of the Lord was that because he did not ask for riches
and wealth, he would receive this unconditionally and as an additive. The
offerings caused the doors to open for King Solomon and to an extent that he
was able to have a conversation with the Lord.
10.
According to Genesis 9, the offering caused the Lord to covenant with Noah
concerning mankind. When Noah gave an offering to the Lord after the
flood. The Lord spoke and the Lord smelled a sweet savor;
and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any
more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have
done.
May your
offering cause the Lord to covenant with you, your bloodline, and humankind. The
offering that Noah gave to the Lord was a sweet scent to the nostrils of the Father
and it caused the Lord to turn away from future action of destruction upon humankind.
He swore an oath by himself because of the offering. Noah's
offering caused a change in the tidings of humankind.
Your
offering can cause:
·
a change in the tidings of humankind;
·
nations can be saved because of your offering,
·
national disasters can be averted because of
your offering.
a)
Father
in the name of Jesus, let my offering today be a sweet scent in your nostrils.
b)
Father,
may this offering cause you to covenant with my family, my bloodline, my
generation, my nation in the name of Jesus.
11.
Offerings cause the Lord to quickly be a
witness for you for you against the following, (Malachi 3:4-6):
a)
Sorcerers: those that practice magic, those
that whisper a spell
b)
Adulterers: those that commit adultery
c)
Perjurers: those that accuse falsely
d)
Those that oppress the fatherless
e)
Those that oppress the widows
f)
Those that oppress laborers
g)
Those that deprive the aliens of justice
h)
Those that do not fear God
Glory
be to God! This thought is too high to be contained by any human mind. Your
offering- when giving a pleasant sound before the Lord- causes the one sitting
at the Judge’s seat, to move from it and become a witness for you in the court
room.
a)
Father,
as I give my offering today rise up and become a witness for me against all the
sorcerers (Choose one at a time of the 8 Items) in my life.
Brethren,
may your offering cause the Lord to stand as witness against all those that are
accusing you falsely.
For
those in foreign lands as aliens, oppressed with no one to fight for them, may
the Lord take up your case and begin witnessing for you by virtue of your
offering.
For
those heavily burdened with disease, infirmity, sickness, poverty amongst
others, may your offerings receive the backing of the blood of Jesus and rise
up to be a voice that will silence the accuser who has been accusing you before
the Father day and night.
Praise
to be to our God for graciously giving us this weapon to us to use against the
enemy.
b)
Father
thank you that by reason of this offering you are a witness for me in the
courtroom of heaven against;
a)
those doing sorcery against me,
b)
those strangers committing adultery in my marital
bed,
c)
those accusing me falsely,
d)
those oppressing the fatherless,
e)
those oppressing me at the work place(s),
f)
those depriving me of justice in a foreign
land.
c)
Thank
you father that this offering is releasing judgments against the witches,
strangers in my marriage, false accusers, oppressors, those depriving me of
justice in a foreign land in the name of Jesus.
12.
Offerings cause the windows of heaven to open
for you. (Malachi 3:10)
Bring
all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open
for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing, that there
will not be room enough to receive it.
Father may my offering this day cause the
windows of heaven to open for me in the name of Jesus
13.
Offerings cause the caterpillar, wormwood, cankerworm
to be rebuked in your life. (Malachi 3:10-11).
The devourer refers to all kinds of destroyers such the locusts,
the canker - worm, and the caterpillar amongst others. The devourers that
are visible and the invisible. In
NIV God says he will prevent the pests
from devouring your crops. Pests are
defined as a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns";
alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease
associated with high mortality.
·
Thank
you father that every devourer in my life is being rebuked by reason of my
offering this day in the name of Jesus.
14.
All nations will call you blessed because of your
tithe and offering. (Malachi 3: 11).
As a result of your offering individuals and groups of people will call you
blessed. Those in charge of nations will call you blessed because of
giving of your tithe. These include
those in the physical and the spiritual realm.
Your tithes and offerings cause you to have standing before the throne room
of the father and the courtrooms of heaven.
The tithe qualifies you and gives you protection by our heavenly father
to address the courtroom over nations or the court of nations.
15.
Offerings speak before the throne room of the
father for you.Malachi 3:16 a book of remembrance is written in the presence of the Lord concerning those that fear the Lord and speak and honor his name
16.
Offerings
testify before the courtrooms of heaven on your behalf. Malachi 3:4-6 when Jerusalem offered her offerings in righteousness, God became a swift witness for her(Jerusalem). Witnesses are found in courtrooms as they testify for or against the plaintiff.
17.
Offerings speak into the life of your
generations; way past your lifetime.
A
case in point was Abraham who gave a tithe that spoke for Levi even when he was
his loins. According to Hebrews 9:7
Levi did not give the tithe, because he was considered a tithe to the Lord; a
tribe dedicated to the service of the Lord. May your tithe and offerings
station themselves at the gates of your generations and speak for your generations.
Thank you Jesus!!
a)
Father
let this offering speak into the lives of my children and their generations to
the coming of Christ in the name of Jesus
b)
Let this offering speak;
a)
Long
life to my offspring’s in Jesus name,
b)
Salvation
to my generation ,
c)
a
Godly generation,
d)
Godly
spouses to my bloodline,
e)
Establishment
into my bloodline,
f)
Mighty
men and women,
g)
Favor
upon my bloodline,
h)
Financial
breakthrough to my bloodline,
i)
Blessing’s
of a thousand generation in each generation.
18.
Offerings silence voices speaking against you.
19.
Offerings cause the judgment of the lord
to be stayed; 1 chronicles 21:15-27
15And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
destroying, the Lord beheld,
and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is
enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw
the angel of the Lord stand
between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched
out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who
were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And
David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people
to be numbered? Even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as
for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my
father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued......26 And
David built there an altar unto the Lord,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by
fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 27 And
the Lord commanded the
angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof
Father let this offering stay every
judgment being executed against
my life
my family
my business
my nation
my generation
20.
Offerings influence national events.
In 1 chronicles 21:16-26. Death had visited the nation of Israel under
the ruler ship of King David (who was the king, and the appointed man of the
hour). Satan influenced him to take a
census of the people. The Lord found to this to be repulsive and a reproach to
the nation. As a result the Angel of
Death visited the nation and killed thousands of people.
When David
presented burnt offerings and peace offerings, the Lord commanded the angel and
he put away his sword. The judgment was suspended.
The
king’s offerings suspended and caused a revision of the judgment of the Lord
from the nation of Israel. Those in positions of authority have a mighty
influence over the events of a nation.
Their offerings too influence national events.
Revelation 5:10: says
that we have been made kings and priests to reign on the earth through the
blood of Jesus.
As the
church, the Lord is calling upon us to take our position as a priests and as a
kings and deliberately present an offering to the Lord that our nation may be
saved.
21.
Offerings cause the priests to have sufficient
food to eat and plenty for left over; 2
chronicles 31: 11; And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok
answered him, and said, since the people began to bring the offerings
into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left
plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is
left is this great store. 11 Then Hezekiah
commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they
prepared them, Priests in the house of the Lord will have sufficient
to eat and plenty for left over.
·
Father my offering will cause the priests to have
sufficient food to eat and plenty for left over in the name of Jesus
22.
Offerings meet needs of a ministry/ church
supernaturally. The ministry of Jesus had a need. The crowd had been listening
to Jesus speak in the wilderness and they were hungry in need of food. The
little boy had only 5 loaves and 2 fish which he gave. These 5 loaves and 2 fish multiplied
supernaturally and feed Five thousand men excluding the women and children. The
need was met supernaturally. Glory be to God! Right there was an anointing of
multiplication. This was because of the
offering that was presented.
Father let the anointing of multiplication rest upon my offering
that it may meet every need in the ministry and church that I give to
supernaturally to the Glory and Honour of Your Name.
23.
Offerings cause an open heaven.
In
Malachi 3:10 the offerings and tithe cause the windows of heaven to open
Whenever
offerings were given answers to prayer was received, there was an open heaven.
Father thank you that my offering will
cause an open heaven for me in the name of Jesus
C.
Additional
prayer points when giving the tithe and the offering.
1. Father
I thank you that the offering is silencing every voice of ( put the below) in my
life in the name of Jesus
a)
Task
masters
b)
Mammon
spirit
c)
The Spirit
of poverty
d)
The Spirit
of near success
e)
The Spirit
of hard labor with little result
2. Father I thank you that my
offering is as sweet incense before you.
3. Master
I give you glory that my offering produces a good sound before you every time
it testifies for me in the heavenly courts in Jesus name.
4. Blood
of Jesus back up the voice of my offering in every heavenly courtroom in Jesus
name.
5. Father
I thank you that my offering is standing as a witness for me in the name of
Jesus
6. Let
my offering answer every wicked voice speaking over my finances and businesses
in the name of Jesus.
