Dedication
And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar…Numbers 7:10, ESV
A few months ago, the Holy Spirit had prompted me to do a vision book with my niece. She had come to visit and he had given me some instructions of what we were to do during our visit together. It is so amazing how God works! A few days after our visit together I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to listen to a message.
The message was all about “dedication” and what the word dedication meant. I knew immediately in my spirit that God was giving me instructions about the vision book. He was saying I would have to be dedicated to this vision for it to pass. The speaker was teaching from the passage of scripture Numbers 7:10-11. This is where Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all it’s furnishings and now the Chiefs of the twelve tribes of Israel were dedicating offerings to God.
Dedication in Hebrew means: to choke oneself with a rope, to restrain, to restrict oneself. Everything that the Chiefs were dedicating to God for the tabernacle were strictly for the purpose of worshiping God. The items were holy and would never be used for anything else.
When God gives us a vision, we are not to just be passionate about it, but to remove all obstacles to pursue that vision. We must be willing to remove any obstacle that would obstruct us from completing the direction God has laid in our heart. The speaker said, when we are in a dilemma on how we should move, we can ask ourselves does this contribute to the vision? The vision God gives us is always bigger than what we could ever think, or imagine doing. If your vision is something you can do on your own, then it is not from God. What he gives us will always require working with hm and he will be the only one who gets the glory!
This reminds me of Moses when he sent his wife and their children back to his father-in-law for a season so he could be focused on the work God had called him to do Exodus 18:2. Now, I am not saying that we are to separate from our spouses, but we have to be so focused on what God has called us to do that we let nothing be a hinderance. I have found that getting up early in the morning while everyone else is a sleep helps me to get things completed. One morning while up working and praying the Holy Spirit said, “This is presenting your body, you are offering your sacrifice, your reasonable service unto God.” When we are dedicated to the vision God has given us and allowing him to work through us, we have surrender our complete will over to him.
Remember the scripture, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 Dedication to the vision in love through the Holy Spirit is one of the ways we present our bodies to God, which scripture says is our “reasonable service.” Reasonable in Greek is lagikos which means rational or proper, or spiritual. Which is our worship to him. Obeying God is worship unto him! Amen.
Key points:
We worship God through our obedience to what he has called us to do.
In the same way that Jesus did not wavier from his assignment on earth, we are to emulate what he did in all that he has called us to do.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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