Best Offering
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Phil 4:6
When it became known among the friends of a certain gentleman that he was going to go abroad, they came in great numbers to see him, each one with a commission for him to execute. A lady wanted him to buy her a real Paris bonnet; a scientific friend wanted a microscope, and so on with all who came to see him. When they had gone away, he looked over the list and found, to his dismay, that if he made all these purchases he would have no money with which to meet the expense of the trip. Of all the number, only one had brought the money with which to purchase what he wanted. When the man returned, his friends gathered around him eager to see what he had brought back. To their surprise, they found that he had made but one of the purchases he had been asked to make.
“One day, as I sat upon the deck, looking over your lists, a breeze came and blew them all away except this one,” he explained.
“But how could that be?” someone questioned.
“Ah!” was the reply, “his order was weighted down. It had coins wrapped up in it.”
Do you see the point? Real, prevailing prayer must have your very best offering of self and substance wrapped up in it. When you pray for the relief of the poor, is your prayer anything more than words? When you somewhat emphatically instruct the Lord to convert the heathen, are there any coins wrapped up in your prayer?
Father, help me to believe, help me to ask, help me to have faith, help me to REALLY believe what I ask and to ask often. In Jesus name, Amen.
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