Herald of maranatha:Daily devotional
Topic: Sacrificial giving (Apostolic revival)
Acts 2:44-45 KJV
And all that
believed were together, and had all things common; [45] And sold their
possessions and goods, and parted them to all men , as every man had need.
When
teaching a group of people on the topic "love",
I told them
all kinds of love involves giving but not all kinds of giving involves love.
"You don't give because you have, you give because you know what it means
to be in need".
Love makes
you feel what everyone else is feeling and it's not concerned about self alone.
There are
lots of arguments on tithe and offering in this present days, it's a sign of
the absence of spiritual revival. Spiritual revival does not birth carnal
protest.
From our
text, the early church did not complain on tithing, rather they gave their
everything. The leaders also did not fly
on people's offering they made proper distribution to meet other Christian's
needs.
They did not
all give because they had enough,
"2
Corinthians 8:1-5 KJV
Moreover,
brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of
Macedonia; [2] How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their
joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. [3]
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were
willing of themselves; [4] Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive
the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. [5]
And this they did , not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the
Lord, and unto us by the will of God."
This church
gave in their penury, they didn't complain on the fact that the Apostles has
their own needs met, that can only be by the Spirit of God.
When the
spirit of rebellion and protest is rising let's watch out, we are in deep need
of spiritual revival.
Prayers: Oh Lord, I
receive the grace to live in the spirit and overcome carnality, for this mighty revival.
let's go
back to the days of the Apostles when people sold their possessions and tithing was
not their protest. Omoloye A A
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