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WHAT SACRIFICE WILL DO FOR YOU
Mark 14:3-4, 6, 8-9 KJV
“And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
If there is any principle you must learn and come to terms with as a Christian, it will be the sacrifice principle. It seems to me like your life is not in its fullest until you have learnt and begun to practice this Principle. The sacrifice principle is what brought us our salvation. God had to sacrifice Jesus on the cross that day to seal our salvation and deliverance. If we were made in the image of God, and we are supposed to live like God, then we must know how to sacrifice. Whenever we sacrifice God is reminded of Himself; as such sacrifice gets His attention very easily.
That was why Solomon could offer sacrifice of a thousand burnt offerings without a prayer, yet God came to him in the same night and in the same place. God gave Solomon and open cheque, to ask whatever he wanted. So, you may not even need to say too many things when you sacrifice to God. He just takes over from there. The woman with the alabaster box gave the worth of a whole year's earnings of an average labouring man. Secondly, Jesus saw her sacrifice as a ministration from God, telling Him that He would not decay in the grave. A body begins to decay on the fourth day, and then it would need to be anointed with ointments so it wouldn't smell. But God made this woman anoint Jesus ahead of time to let Him know that there would be not need to anoint Him thereafter.
I have identified four things that happened to that woman that day upon her sacrifice, and could happen to anyone today who does the same:
i. Lives are changed on the platform of sacrifice: Her life never remained the same again. There was no way she could have remained the same after impacting Jesus with her sacrifice like that.
ii. Levels change on the platform of sacrifice: There was an immediate switch in her level of life that day. Such that we still talk of her till this day, we preach about her and are still learning from her action.
iii. Turn around comes on the platform of sacrifice: There is a way your life can be headed in a direction you do not like, and all you have done to change it may have failed. But on the platform of sacrifice you can change that trend. In Psalms 126:1-6, God turned around the captivity of Zion on the platform of sacrifice. I see your own turn around coming in Jesus Name.
iv. Stories change on the platform of sacrifice: Your story can open a new chapter at the instance of a sacrifice. Such that, what was a ‘full-stop-sign’ in your life becomes a ‘coma sign’; meaning that the story continues, and gets better from here.
Receive the heart to sacrifice for God and His kingdom in Jesus Name.
Assignment
i. Ask God for the heart to sacrifice for all these results.
ii. Focus on any nagging situation or condition in your life and prayerfully raise an altar of sacrifice against it as soon as you can.
Prayer
-Father give me a little bit of the kind of heart you have, that made you sacrifice your only son Jesus, In Jesus Name.
-Jesus please give me the kind of heart you have, that made you lay down your life as the ultimate sacrifice for man, in Jesus Name.
Nugget
On the platform of sacrifice you can easily get God’s attention to change negative trends.