WHAT IS YOUR OFFER?- Open heavens devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Thess 1 -3




WHAT IS YOUR OFFER?

Sunday, September 12, 2010



MEMORIZE: “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?” (Luke 14:28)









READ: 2 Kings 5:9-13







You can experience a positive or negative change. Change could also take a downward or upward turn. Irrespective of the direction it follows, change can be quite costly. For instance, to move from being a school certificate holder to a university graduate is a change for the better but it comes at some price. To move from being a spinster into a mother requires some price. To move from being a bench- warming church member into a pastor is also at some cost. In the same vein, to move from being an ordinary minister into an outstanding one operating in the miraculous takes some great price.







If you are not prepared to pay the price attached to a desired change, it will keep eluding you. At best, you can only wish you had that desired end. Building castles in the air without a commensurate step in faith, will not bring your dreams into reality. Some people have been having big dreams from their childhood and because they were not ready to pay the price for their actualization, they remained dreamers and died with their dreams unrealized.







Do you have a dream? If no, then you do not even have a destination or future. Your dream gives you reason to live. If you have no dream, you have no future. If you have a dream for your life, do you know the price you are required to pay? Can you pay it?







Sometimes, you may misconstrue the price tag attached to a desired positive change. For instance, while Naaman was stepping out in his quest for a healing, he came with lots of money (2 Kings 5:9-13). He was prepared to pay money worth millions of our today currency. But God required something else - not money. His change cost him his pride. He was reduced to nothing. He was sent to wash in the dirty waters of river Jordan unaccompanied by the prophet.







What are you prepared to pay for your change? Does it agree with what God wants from you? If it does not tally, then your desired change may never come. Some people are ready to give God money, but God is asking for their time. Some offer God only their intellect whereas, God wants them to give everything - time, money, intellect and even their lives. Are you sure your sacrifice is adequate?







ACTION POINT:


If your offer is not commensurate with Heaven’s demands, your desire from Heaven may not be granted.