Offering Time
By Patrick Enilama [pastorpatrick@sunnewsonline.com] 07028242700
Sunday, May 4, 2008

“Offering time” has become a cliché in Pentecostal circle. So much so that the event itself has been abused by many.
Many worshippers see offering unto the Lord a business as usual event. They see it as the normal thing to do-to search out old/weather beaten currency notes as offering to the Lord.

Some see it as announcing that the service is gone midway. But to the spiritually discerning brethren offering time is one golden opportunity to prove that you know the God you are serving: Phil 3:10, Psalm 50:12, Psalm 24, 1-2.
It is the set time those who love their God to want to prove that they indeed love their God. The offering they give is not pitiable. The offering they give is well packaged. Their offering unto the Lord is progressive. They know that the offering of each day meets the day’s demand. Yesterday offering cannot meet tomorrow.

The bible records that David gave seven burnt offerings unto the Lord while he was moving the ark to Jerusalem. The Lord God blessed him abundantly. Solomon his son improved on the father’s record. In 2Chronicle 1:6 he gave a 1000 burnt offering. That night God appeared to him and gave him a blank cheque. In 2Chronicle 7:5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep, while he was dedicating the temple. God supernaturally blessed King Solomon in such a way that there is non-living or dead richer than him in wisdom and material riches.

God is not a beggar. He does not need your money. He only wants to bless you because it is written –“give and it shall be given to you” When you give to somebody richer and more powerful than you – he will give you in return something bigger. In Gen. 18:1-5 “The Lord appeared unto Abraham in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the door in the heat of the day; And he lifted up his eyes and looked and three men stood by him and when he saw them he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground. And said, my lord if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servants. Let a little water I pray you, be fetched and wash your feet and rest yourself under the tree. And I will fetch a morsel of bread and ye your hearts, after that ye shall pass on for thereafter are ye come to your servant. And they said so do as thou hast said”

In this story we see Abraham entertaining and offering meal unto the lord. He perceived that the lord needed some rest. And he offered unto the lord worthy meal. In the end Abraham was blessed. The prophecy that the lord made to Abraham 25 years previously that he will be father of many Nations was fulfilled immediately. Sarah his wife became pregnant and gave birth to Isaac.
All your past promises and blessings which you missed can be back rolled through a worthy offering unto the lord to come to pass in one moment. Be excited each time you have opportunity to give unto the Lord.