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VERSES FOR OFFERINGS
Think about giving – it's truly beautiful in God's eyes. When you're preparing your offering, remember it should be your best, given with a sincere heart. It should be a joyful act, knowing how much God has already blessed us with, even when we don't deserve it. He's been incredibly generous, hasn't He?
If you only give what's leftover, well, life might just mirror that back to you. Think about it – give as if you're giving to yourself. Don't do it out of obligation or because you expect something in return. True giving comes from the heart.
Don't make a big show of it either. It's not about getting praised or patted on the back. Let your giving be a quiet act between you and God. He sees what's in your heart, and He loves a cheerful giver. Remember what it says in 2 Corinthians 9:7: "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
Giving is an act of worship, a way to give back a portion of what God has already given us. And when God gives, He gives abundantly. When you offer from the heart, you're opening the door for even more blessings. The more you give, the more you receive. It's a beautiful cycle.
My blood I thus pour forth, he cries, To cleanse the soul in sin that lies; In this the covenant is seal’d, And Heav’n’s eternal grace reveal’d.
With love to man this cup is fraught, Let all partake the sacred draught; Through latest ages let it pour, In mem’ry of my dying hour.
Let Christian faith and hope dispel the fears of guilt and woe; The Lord Almighty is our friend, and who can prove a foe? 2 He who his Son, most dear and lov’d, gave up for us to die, Shall he not all things freely give that goodness can supply? 3 Behold the best, the greatest gift, of everlasting love! Behold the pledge of peace below, and perfect bliss above! 4 Where is the judge who can condemn, since God hath justify’d? Who shall charge those with guilt or crime for whom the Saviour dy’d? 5 The Saviour dy’d, but rose again triumphant from the grave; And pleads our cause at God’s right hand, omnipotent to save. 6 Who then can e’er divide us more from Jesus and his love, Or break the sacred chain that binds the earth to heav’n above? 7 Let troubles rise, and terrors frown, and days of darkness fall; Through him all dangers we’ll defy, and more than conquer all. 8 Nor death nor life, nor earth nor hell, nor time’s destroying sway, Can e’er efface us from his heart, or make his love decay. 9 Each future period that will bless, as it has bless’d the past; He lov’d us from the first of time, he loves us to the last.
Thus speaks the high and lofty One; ye tribes of earth, give ear; The words of your Almighty King with sacred rev’rence hear: 2 Amidst the majesty of heav’n my throne is fix’d on high; And through eternity I hear the praises of the sky: 3 Yet, looking down, I visit oft the humble hallow’d cell; And with the penitent who mourn ’tis my delight to dwell; 4 The downcast spirit to revive, the sad in soul to cheer; And from the bed of dust the man of heart contrite to rear.
Father of peace, and God of love! we own thy pow’r to save, That pow’r by which our Shepherd rose victorious o’er the grave. 2 Him from the dead thou brought’st again, when, by his sacred blood, Confirm’d and seal’d for evermore, th’ eternal cov’nant stood.O may thy Spirit seal our souls, and mould them to thy will, That our weak hearts no more may stray, but keep thy precepts still; 4 That to perfection’s sacred height we nearer still may rise, And all we think, and all we do, be pleasing in thine eyes.