Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”

So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”

And he said, “Here I am, my son.”

Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

 

Psalms 15:1

LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle?

Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

 

“No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.” 

A.W. Tozer 

 

"We must never rest until everything inside us worships God." 

A. W. Tozer 

 

“Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.” 

Richard J. Foster 

 

sacrifice

/ˈsakrɪfʌɪs/

noun

 

1. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity. 

 

2. To give up (something valued) for the sake of other considerations.

"working hard doesn't mean sacrificing your social life

 

3. To give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person. 

 

Scripture to put into context. 

 

Hebrews 10:8-11

Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

 

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

Hebrews 9:12

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

 

 

  The wood, the fire & the knife. 

 

1. Wood- crucified body/ Christ lives in us.

 

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

 

James 4:7-8

 

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

 

 

Jeremiah 29:13-14

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

 

John 15: 5

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

 

Prayer point.

Lord our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, which resides in us since we are in Christ. May we totally surrender to you and be used of you Lord. 

 

 

2. Fire- the holy spirits.

 

John 14:16-17

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. 

 

John 14:26 ESV

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

 

Acts 1:8

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

 

Luke 11:13

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

 

Psalms 51:11-12

 

Do not cast me from your presence

or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation

and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

 

Prayer point 

Holy Spirit let us have sweet fellowship with you. Let your voice be the loudest in our ears. We pray for an encounter with you that will transform us into what you want us to become.

 

 

 

3. Knife- the word of God.

 

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

Psalms 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light to my path.

 

Proverbs 2:6-7

For the LORD gives wisdom;

From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;

He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;

 

 

 Isaiah 55:11

It is the same with my word.

I send it out, and it always produces fruit.

It will accomplish all I want it to,

and it will prosper everywhere I send it. 

 

Isaiah 66 :1-2

1 This is what the Lord says:

“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.

Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?

2 Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”

declares the Lord. “These are the ones I look on with favour:  those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.

 

Prayer point

That we will have a desire for the word, divine revelation through the word and an encounter as we search scriptures.

Lord our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, which resides in us since we are in Christ. May we totally surrender to you and be used of you Lord. 

 

 

That we will have a desire for the word, divine revelation through the word and an encounter as we search scriptures.