An Offertory Devotional video for Sabbath, July 9, 2022, in your @adventistchurch: vimeo.com/716534765. Putting God first can be difficult. What can we learn from this video that will help us put God first in our lives today?
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church is known throughout the world for its mission outreach.
Your regular and systematic mission offerings are like a life-giving river with tributaries
flowing around the world, carrying refreshing water to mission fields. Every time we give our
mission offerings, we’re adding water to a life-giving river that flows through often-parched lands bringing life and hope. We’re helping the church grow, not only locally but also in areas we may not have even heard of. We’re assisting missionaries we may never meet and building schools and clinics we probably will never visit. We are helping plant churches we may never worship in. And we’re bringing life to the church’s mission by introducing Jesus’ love to the hearts and minds of people all around the world.
Did you know that even before COVID-19, the Adventist Church was experiencing a noticeable
decline in mission offerings? Part of the reason is that we sometimes want to give to a specific
project or put our offerings toward something special that stirs our hearts. We see the results, and we feel satisfied. Giving to the mission offering may not be as glamorous as giving to a specific, well-advertised project or program. But mission offerings help sustain all mission projects.
As with offerings, we do not know where every drop of water in a river goes, but we can see the results, and they are beautiful. Psalm 104 says, “He sends the springs into the valleys, they flow among the hills, they give drink to every beast of the field, the wild donkeys quench their thirst. By them, the birds of the heavens have their home, they sing among the branches.”
In Matthew 28:19, Jesus Himself said, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to
obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”