“God's favorite context for miracles is sacrifice.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus (2003-09-04) from his book, Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul (Kindle Location 1580). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

I have been having a problem this morning with finding a thought that quickens some thought in me that I pray would do the same in you. Now the temptation is the desire to write something that has a lot of readers. But the miracle may be in God using the thought for one reader as a defining moment in their life. It’s in the context of sacrifice where miracles happen.

What does that say to you? Where are you having great anxiety and you need God to work? Stop and think about what sacrifice maybe God is asking you to do.

Money is usually where we think about sacrifice but what about time? Maybe you have no time but God wants you sacrifice some time to reach out to a hurting person. Maybe it is money and you fear you’re not going to have enough to meet your obligations but you feel God wants you to give to someone who needs your help. What are you going to do? Save or sacrifice?

I am reading in Acts in the New Testament of Paul’s sacrifice of going to Rome as a free man. He had to sacrifice his freedom so God could work a miracle of reaching the inner circle of Rome and also of his writing a big portion of the New Testament to reach throughout all of time but as a prisoner. He had to sacrifice his freedom.

God wants to use our total devotion to Him by working through our sacrifice. He has the power and He wants to work in and through us. But it happens through our giving, through our sacrifice. You see He works through our faith and trust in Him.

So what is He asking you to sacrifice?

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