TWENTY THREE THINGS THAT OFFERINGS DO FOR YOU

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

Ø      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.