Celebrating God's Goodness; Sacrifice that Honors God - Part 1

Hallelujah, you've been faithful Lord, from the ages past.

That is why our name is forevermore.

You've been faithful, Lord, from the ages past.

That is why on it. The.

The. Yes.

Are you clapping or you are? Praise the Lord, May God richly

bless you. On this note, we want to invite

our resident minister in the person of Pastor Emmanuel Osaya

Cosa to deliver the weather. Shall we welcome him with a clap

of him? Praise the Lord, Hallelujah,

Amen. We thank God that we are

starting this local week and God has begun with us.

Oh, I didn't hear you say Amen. And today being the day one, we

are offering Thanksgiving on to the Lord and we are saying thank

him. Thank God that for all that He

has done for us, we are in our sixth year as an assembly and

God has been good unto us, so we need to be thankful unto Him.

Amen. Our theme for this week is

celebrating God's goodness, offering sacrifices or sacrifice

that honors God. So we are just opposing 2 things

out of our Thanksgiving, thanking God.

We are also expressing our thankfulness through sacrifice.

So the driving force behind what we do as we thank God is to

offer unto Him. During thanking God, we offer

many things. We offer praise as a sacrifice

unto God. We also offer our material

possessions as also sacrifice unto God.

And we also give ourselves, we offer ourselves our body as

living sacrifices unto God. And we also offer to those in

need as way of thanking God and giving back unto God.

So our sacrifice should be motivated by appreciating God

and thanking Him for what He has done for us.

Because through sacrifice we acknowledge that everything that

we have comes from God. If you are giving to God and you

don't give with that understanding that everything I

have is God who gave to me, so giving back to Him, I'm even

thankful to Him that He has counted me worthy to receive a

gift or a sacrifice from me. Because the earth is the loss

and the fullness, including you and I.

So you and I, now we belong to God.

So anything we are giving to God is like yay nary because they

are rightful. He is the owner of our lives, of

our breath, of our everything. So if at any point in time we

are given to Him, we need to even come before Him with

singing, dancing that God has counted as worthy to even give

unto Him. And if you check the texts that

we have attached this theme, you will see that when you read the

Psalm, Psalm 50, you appreciate that God called them together.

And it was telling them that it is not your, your bank offerings

and your booze and other things that I need, but just offer

sacrifice of Thanksgiving. So Thanksgiving, appreciating

God, celebrating God is also a sacrifice.

And it should come from a very thankful and a cheerful heart.

So this week begin to thank God, let us appreciate God, let us

offer from the fruit of our lives unto Him Thanksgiving that

is due him. And by that we'll be doing

things that God, it will honor God.

Hallelujah. Oh, I said Hallelujah.

So I will tackle them because we don't have so much time when you

come for and you sorry and you preach long, you will sleep on

you true of us true. So I guess we're giving you

points, point points and then we will end.

So the first thing I want us to know is that when it comes to

sacrificial giving of Thanksgiving, praise, honor,

material things, giving ourselves, be mindful that our

giving, our sacrifice is a representation before God.

I think I have said it here before.

Let me take some time and then look through them and we will

appreciate it. Our prayers and our giving,

their representation before God as memorials.

Any prayer, any act of sacrifice, whether by giving

physical cash, sacrificing your time, energy in the Kingdom of

God, they go up and they are before God as memorial.

Let's read some texts to buttress this.

When you read Psalm 50 verse 8, the Psalm 50 verse 8, let us try

Psalms 50:8 Psalms 50:8

and then read Psalm 50, verse 8 from the ESV.

Psalms 50:8

Not for your sacrifice. Oh, it's OK, it's OK.

He says that OK. Not for your sacrifices do I

rebuke you. Your bent offerings are

continually before me. They are way continually before

me. The offerings are continually

before me. Continually before me.

Let me try and then read down a little bit for you.

I will not accept Abu from your house or goats from your food,

for every beast of the forest is mine.

The cattle on 1000 hills I know all the birds of the hills, and

all that moves in the field is mine.

If I were hungry, I will not tell you, for the world and its

fullness are mine. Do I eat the flesh of goose or

drink the blood of goats offered to God?

A sacrifice of what? Thanksgiving.

And perform your vows to to the Most High and call upon me in

the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you

shall glorify me. Hallelujah, Oh Hallelujah.

Then let me take you to the last verse.

Let's move on to the verse 23, the verse 23, the one who offers

Thanksgiving as his sacrifice, that's what glorifies me.

To one who orders his way rightly, I will show the

salvation of God. So here what we are seeing is

that our sacrifices are continually before God and even

God, He doesn't eat them. He doesn't drink blood, He

doesn't eat M punchy no, no, as we do.

But he was recounting that a cattle on 1000 hill, they are

always everything, the fullness, everything belongs to him.

So what He needs from us is to offer Thanksgiving as sacrifice,

and that glorifies Him. So if you are thinking of

sacrifices other than thanking God today, I beg you to reorient

yourself and add Thanksgiving to it.

Celebrate God. We should be intentional about

recounting. Let us intentionally sit down

and list the things that God He has been doing for us and thank

Him for them. Thank Him, let us be intentional

and thank Him and praise Him because of what He has done for

us. So thanking God for who He is is

very key. We need to thank God for who He

is. We need to thank God for what He

has done for us. We do to thank God for what He

is doing and by faith for what He will do for us.

Those things, God really appreciate them.

Let us move on to Numbers 31, verse 54.

Numbers 31:54

Numbers 31, verse 54, still from the ESV, Numbers 3154 and Moses

Numbers 31:54

and Eliza. The priests received the gold

from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it

into the tent of meeting as a memorial.

As what? A memorial for the people of

Israel before the Lord. Even on earth they were placing

gold before God as what? A memorial offering them as

times and things they received from from war, things that they

gathered. They give some to God that oh

God want these things to be before God as memorial of the

people of Israel so that whenever God the cloud of glory

settles on the ACT, when it settles on the tent and God

looks down from heaven, He will see that this gold is a

representation. So anything sacrificing, doing

it in the Kingdom of God, giving it apart from thanking God, any

material things that you do, your strength, because these

things were acquired by their strength.

They fought before they got the gold and presented them before

God. So anything you have earned by

sweat, by hard work and you present them before God, God an

honest God. So do things that will bring

honor to God and part of it as we thank God from a very good

art. Let also let our material

possessions also follow because God, he's interested in them.

The third verse that I want us to look at is the story of the

Roman soldier Cornelius. Accident.

Accident from verse one Cornelius At Kaisera there was a

man named Cornelius, a centurion, a centurion of what

was known as the Italian cohort, A devout man who feared God with

all his household, gave alms generously to the people and

prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day

he saw clearly in a vision an Angel of God come in and say to

him, Cornelius. And he stared at him in terror

and said, What is it Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers

and your arms have what ascended as memorial before God.

They want the ascent. So if you want things that can

transcend or be transported from the earthly realm into spiritual

realm, prayer is 1. And then you're giving your

sacrifice. So don't joke with these two

prayer, it goes to God that it could not mean something.

Prayer that is unhindered, prayer that that is devoid of

bitterness, prayer devoid of holding offenses, devoid of

holding grudges against each other.

Aquaderet and Iraq, no cave, no bend directly to God.

And it's a memorial because God, he's tossed the prayer of the

Saints. He has a bank where your prayers

are stored. So I don't know what is the

volume of your prayer in heaven? Is it 1 bottle or barrel or a

big tank? Some of our prayers in heaven is

a drop, just a drop. Cool, NASA, maybe pray more so

that we can accumulate much more prayer in heaven.

And the next point that the Angel told the money is that

you're giving of arms. You're giving.

Anything you do in the name of God, anything that God's name is

attached go to, he comes in. So anything you are given.

I am doing this because of the love I have for Jesus under the

dispensation of grace. Our giving is higher because we

have the excellent example for God so loved the world.

That he gave so God he gave his best.

So the stand up for the New Testament believer forgiving is

bigger than the old for our time.

We don't give because we are compelled.

We give because we love God. That is the the the spirit

behind our time of giving. I'm giving to God because He

first give to me. He first loved me.

So if everything I have comes from Him and He needs it, I can

give all to Him without looking back.

That is the understanding with which we must give.

Hallelujah. So anything short of this will

face a difficulty before God. What motivates you should be

loved to do everything she believed.

Because when you look at the cross and look at God giving his

Son, you cannot withhold yours. You must give, Oh truly.

Because if you look at God giving his one and only Son.

For God so loved the world that he gave us his one and only Son.

So God, if Jesus had not succeeded, he would have lost

big time. He would have lost his one and

only Son. That is why when Jesus was on

earth, He tried to do everything to please his Father.

Otherwise it will be as a So the standard for you and I to give

under the new dispense or under the new covenant is much more

stricter. To whom much is given, much is

what expected. In the end, because of the

grace, much more is expected of us.

May we not feel God and may we give from the depths of our

hearts. So if these two are reps before

God, then we need to be serious in giving, we need to be serious

in praying. We need to be seen.

Because they go to God. They are reps before God and God

will look on it. So anyone who also gives you

move God and when you look at the Hall of Fame Hebrews 11 the

first name is there because of sacrifice by faith.

Abel what was following his sacrifice so sacrificing to God,

God is interested. Abraham did the same thing and

God was moved, he was moved, he was moved and he says that may

come on time we'll measure out. So God had to not disturb by

India. There was no any other one

greater than him. Look at Abel and all of them

sacrifice. So when we are celebrating God

and we are offering Thanksgiving, we need to also

give anything that has God's name attached to it.

So the poor widow, the poor widow who also give Jesus, he

went to church, he didn't get anywhere to focus that on the

bull. So when we come to church and we

look inside, Elmo, Sunni and Konta crying, Jesus not crying,

he looked inside, he looked inside.

So Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts in the

offering box. And he also saw a poor widow put

in two small copper coins. Hey, look, look there because

he's a doctor, he give very vivid the description.

Look, look when you look at how they they put in.

Mark also recalls it. So they all record that 2, the

woman law is 4. We do just say and she came to

church with copper coins, not just that, but 2, not just two,

but out of all the coins, the copper coins she brought, the

two which were the small. So Jesus is explaining to us

that's it was very small. It was very small.

And they say that a copper coin worth about 1 / 128 of a

Denarios, which was a day's wage for a Libra.

So if you pick minimum wage per day divided by 128, that was the

worth of a copper coin, very small, but that was what the

woman gave. And Jesus gives a perspective

that everybody who reads and reads again will be like hey,

what's your home would have would have said same Jesus would

be able Hey Jesus, let's go for they are giving big offerings

saying this woman took one 1 / 128 But Jesus comes with a

heavily perspective and he said truly I tell you this poor widow

has put in more than all of them.

Hey Jesus, the mocking scheme of heaven is different from what we

use on earth. Let us begin to look at how how

Jesus heaven assesses our offering.

So we have looked at thanks giving us a sacrifice that truly

honors God, and now we are looking at physical things as

when you're using the woman as example, the poor we do.

So why would Jesus now turn the whole thing upside down?

Then he says for they all contributed out of their

abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything

she had all she had to live on. Wow.

So God, when you are giving, he looks inside pound.

God cares so much about what we give and he's interested because

look at it, the poor widow, you see that the rich people, the

surplus at home is bigger than what they give.

So we have given the about and to the urban mind because this

woman has given all. So where do you give from?

Is it from your abundance or from your scarcity?

I come in my last affordable humble be that you will not

understand. I can't be lost.

What are you going there already?

I can't be lost if I drop it now, no hope my God is saying

yes, drop it. Have faith in me.

Drop it and the heavens are waiting for you to drop and

you're like hey, ready when I go go back.

I mean Ave. so the distance from your seat to the bow is like

from you to come and say because so long that you are battling

within you that is giving that honest God.

There should be a battle. You should feel uncomfortable.

It should do you. David says that I will not give

to God what will not cost me. That is it when you're going to

give to pay you some of us you give and the moment you sit

down, you're like but the moment he leaves your

hand, heaven acknowledge that your hand is empty.

So he would dispatch, hey, go and give it to him times 10,

give it back to him. Hallelujah.

So until something leaves your hands, nothing moves from heaven

in your account on your account. So the let's go share.

I had a mechanized Eva as a Dicken in Kumasi.

We had gone for inter officers retreat at Asafa.

If you know the in and out of Kumasi and yes Yeti book home

estates of that day. The word enter me and I decided

to give one of my Laura first out because I had to pick two

cars before I get home from Asafo to book home estate.

It's far and Sophia crackling. It's like from here to there

were then I gave it that day when we closed no lifts, so I

had to track and walk and I'm saying ask for this one.

I'll walk because I've given it that time.

I work from Asafo. I am checking some things at

town. Meanwhile was nights we close so

I linked up from Asafo, I went up to Liba, I climbed up to

Rumor Hill. I descended through Alaba, got

down to the doctor Mensa to try and see if I can get another car

to airport and link up home. It was lit.

He made in your car. But one last car came.

It came. That's one idiot.

And I gave God one. I said I got this one here.

I put it in my pocket. Maybe if I had had faith to give

all God would have taken me home directly.

I gave God 1 and I walked one time to we're doing farming,

raising, then we give an amount to say about you.

I don't say that day when you are going home, nobody there

brings you a question that will make you angry.

Especially there's small voice, see that you are very quiet and

thinking about yourself. But through them I've seen how

God has moved mightily. So don't be afraid to give to

God. Don't be afraid, don't be

afraid. I remember that my first year

snit loon at Tech Zealous. Hey, I'll give it out.

I give first you snit loon, I give thanks me to God.

When I finished university, 2 of them paid me guarantees, 2 they

paid it off Okra yechiacho. So the three of them two paid

and it was Levy. Another one, he had moved out of

Ghana then I think he was in Spain.

So they started deducting me. As soon as take your money, I

don't want it. And another thing that God did

by then on campus it was in out, out, out, out.

So it's only the first day you get home room to stay in.

So the first year I was assigned, I remember, I remember

all my room, room 17, Zuzongo Lane in this hall.

That was my first room. After that I never went out.

I I told God I want to sleep on campus.

I don't want off campus. I stayed in Unity Hall three

whole years. Not as someone petrol full bed.

I was even staying at a point in some of the flats.

Some of the flats flats has a bigger room.

That was where I was still enjoying.

Look at what God can do. I need a laptop at the

university. I got it free.

I didn't buy it. So when you give to God, it is

never in vain. You can tell the countless

number of examples and on and on and on and on.

So give to God. I know that you, you have them,

you have lots of examples. If I remember them, I'll try and

then be sharing them with you. So these are some of them.

So the woman gave out of her poverty and Jesus acknowledged

that she has given more than all.

May we give and may our given bring glory to heaven.

God rich to bless you as we appreciate God for the six years

is a very good state to thank God Six years in the life of a

looker. It's not a joke.

Look at the things we have here. Look at our home.

Some lookers have been in existence for 50 years.

They don't even have a space as nice as ours.

When you look here, you may think that you don't have

anything to thank God. Some lookers they don't have

microphones and even speakers, but some a general to me.

Did you know that one the club I don't know to me.

So if God has blessed us with all these things and look at the

the entire congregation the way God has blessed us with

beautiful ladies and handsome young people, we need to thank

God for the leadership. You need to thank God for

presiding order. You thank for God for elders,

the kings sicknesses. Brandon, look at your chair.

Look at it, look at it, escape it neatly woven there.

If you have been to the villages before bench, no crown, they

have a sugar. Before you sit down, we use You

need to be experiencing it, otherwise you fall down.

But they are thanking God when you go there and you see the

joy. So as far as we need to let

Thanksgiving overflow. So thank God.

Yeah, you have this nice face now, Gordo, let's thank God that

for God even to take care of us for six years.

Let us be thankful unto God shall be on our feet today.

One, thank God we don't ask anything, just thanking God when

God says that, yes, I came to thank you for all that you have

done. So begin to gather some reasons

in your mind where you need to be thankful to God.

I've just given you some few points as a local, but as an

individual you can recount the number of times sometimes we

were just one inch away from death, been told that we need to

a weapon. Yummy.

And you see that your heart, your soul left your body and

came back. You're like wow, this is God.

We have gone through all of them.

Sometimes we haven't sick and he thought that he would die, but

God brought you back. All these things.

Have we thank God enough? Do we even thank God for our

spouses? Don't thank God for your spouse.

You don't thank God for the children that God has given to

you. You don't thank God for the job.

For the job. You need to thank God some.

We need to even thank God that we can walk.

We need to thank God that we can even eat and have tastes.

I remember Once Upon a time I got sick and when I put food in

my mouth it was like gravels. Test vanished, no smell.

I couldn't smell food. Test graduate was far away.

It's like I'm more but I'm chewing, struggling to chew.

So tasting social cry, we need to thank God for this smell

everything church, count your blessings and name them one by

one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done this

evening. Quits by looking at what God is

here to do for you. Quit by saying the Lord.

We are fond of looking at what we are expecting God to do.

And we don't look at what God has done for you tonight.

Just be intentional and talk to God.

God, you have done so much for me.

I thank you. I thank you.

Mention them to God, talk to God, Thank God for everything.

Thank God, even if you are not employed, thank God because God

is up to something good. Let U.S.

Open our mouth and you know, thank God, Thank you, Lord,

thank the Lord. Today we are offering

Thanksgiving as a sacrifice that honors the Lord.

Thank you, Lord, thank the Lord. Oh Lord.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you.

We thank you for escaping the English assembly.

We thank you, O Lord, for the presiding order.

We thank you, O Lord, for his life and his family, Lord, We

thank you, O Lord, for the elders of escaping English.

Thank you for the Dickens and dicknesses.

Thank you for this solid team you have blessed your chat with.

Lord, thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the members of this church.

Thank you for the young and the old.

Thank you for the children of this church.

Thank you for the old people. Thank you for the infrastructure

it is. You have blessed us with them.

Lord, thank you. Lord, we thank you for our

spouses, for the children you have given unto us.

Even if you have not given yet our children, we thank you.

We thank you for the children and our influence.

We thank you for the job that we do.

We thank you, O Lord, for the families we have.

Thank you, O Lord, for the gifts of life, to breathe and to walk

and to even eat. Lord, we thank you.

Lord, we thank you. Thank you.

Lord, Lord, we thank you. Lord, Lord, we thank you.

Oh Lord, we thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Lord. Lord, thank you.

The. Oh.

I don't know what you are grateful to God for, but today

we want to just thank the Lord. We have come to thank him, not

to ask him of anything, but to thank him, to thank him.

Count your blessings and name them one by one.

Talk to the Lord, talk to thank him.

Lord, I thank you. Lord, we thank you.

We thank you. Father, we are great, what shall

we wait unto thee, Lord, that to say?

Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, thank.

You. Jesus, Thank you, Jesus.

Thank. You, Jesus, thank you.

Jesus. From the death of our hearts.

Lord, that's unto you. Lord, Father, we say thank you,

glory be unto your. Holy grace be unto.

Your holy day, or shall we be? Unto you, Lord, to.

Give our hearts of grace that we give our hearts of.

Thank you Jesus. Jesus, thank you, thank you,

thank you, thank you. Jesus, thank you.

Jesus, thank. You thank.

You thank you for thank you for your.

Thank you for your thank you for your thank you Lord for your

love. Thank you Lord, for your

sacrifice. Glory be unto your holy name.

Lord, we thank you. Jesus to say.

What shall I say? What shall we say?

All we have to say. Is thank you.

Sing that song with meaning. What shall?

We say, oh, sing that song. With understanding.

Left the house and sing Thank you, thank.

You. Lord and the Lord.

Thank you, Lord. All we have to say, oh, is thank

you. Thank you Jesus.

Thank. You thank you, Jesus.

Thank you all. We have to say please.

Thank you. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Thank you. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you Lord. All we have to say thank.

You thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you. Thank you.

Lord, thank you, Lord. Thank you.

Lord, thank you, Lord. In the atmosphere of praise and

Thanksgiving, it opens door for possibilities and miracles.

So as you have thanked the Lord, we are thanking God.

May doors begin to open. May the Lord perform the

impossible in your life. Every prophetic word concerning

your life, as we thank God and we praise him, may it be

fulfilled, may be fulfilled in the name of Jesus.

In the name of. Jesus, Name of Jesus.

Name of. Jesus, name of Jesus as we

celebrate God. Goodness, Jesus name.

Thank you, Jesus, Thank you. Jesus, Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

All we have to say this even is thank you, Lord, thank you for

your compassion, Thank you for your love.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you.

Lord. Please let us sit down.

Let us visit us. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord all.

We have to say. Is.

Thank you, Lord. Lord, from a grateful heart we

pour our hearts of Thanksgiving unto you, our sacrifice of

Thanksgiving. Lord, thank you.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you.

We thank you for your Son. Jesus, we thank you for the

salvation that you have. Pictures you have given to us

free by grace. Thank you for your mighty hand

that has kept us. Lord, we will not forget what

you have done for us. We thank you.

Lord, we thank you for all that you have done and all that you

are doing and all they are going to do.

We say, Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you.

Lord Jesus, thank you for for your love, for your mess and

your grace, the Holy Spirit thank you for the fellowship and

your abiding presence. Jesus, thank you for your

intercession, interceding on our behalf.

Thank you, our advocates. King Jesus, we love you, Lord,

and we bless your name. We praise your name for all that

you have done for us. Not unto us, O Lord, but unto

your name be all the honor, Thanksgiving, adoration, wisdom,

forever and ever. Amen.