" This is another thing you do"

"...This is another thing you do: you cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands." Malachi 2.13

This has been the life of the majority of people who consider themselves of God, Christians: crying, tears, weeping, etc., accompanied by religious offerings and void of spiritual content, as if God would be influenced by emotions and feelings, or by those empty offerings.

The life of those who sacrifice on the altar is determined there, because it was built for this reason.

It is all or nothing, the point of contact between a person and the Creator. This is where you stop being who you are to be what God wants you to be.

There are times to grieve, cry, weep, moan, but that can be done in the atrium, in church, at home... But the ALTAR IS TO MAKE DECISIONS!

Jacob was blessed financially, and consequently, he established a large family, because he had made a vow to be a tither, and when a vow is sincere, accompanied by faithfulness, God fulfills His part, because He is Faithful and True.

But in order for his identity to change, the Promise be fulfilled in full, it was necessary to sacrifice. He had to completely surrender: materially, physically and spiritually; come before God alone, stripped of everything.

Your time has come!

The Altar is prepared, like the hand of God is extended to you.

source: www.bishopmacedo.com