A Beautiful Offering- Angela Thomas
Part 1 When You Are
pg. 2 "I guess I always thought that my offering to God had to be perfect and without any flaw, something like a perfect sacrifice. I am coming to understand that the Father receives the offering of my life, even when it is broken or weak or marred. It's the covering of Christ that makes it perfect, and the desire to give my life to God that makes it beautiful."
pg. 2 "May you hear the voice of God call you beautiful. And may you desire with all your heart to return the love of God with your life."
Chapter 1 Broken
pg. 5 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 5:3)"
pg. 5 "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." (Ps. 34:18)"
pg. 15-16 "Maybe through the sermon of Jesus, God wants you and me to know that He gets it. He understands humanity, and He's not mad at us about it. He designed the vessel that we reside in. He knows that we get weary. Our muscles fatigue. Emotions fray. Health fails. He wired us to long for the love of one another and without human-being love, He knows that can be desperate loneliness. He completely sees and hears and understands how the spirit can become emptied and broken. And from His understanding comes His compassionate blessing.
If the blessing for being closer to heaven comes through poverty of spirit, then maybe we can come to embrace our brokenness, knowing that we will experience a nearness of heaven that we cold not know otherwise. As a woman who longs after God, we can look into our emptiness, trusting that God is drawing us to Himself through life's pain and disappointment."
pg. 18 "I know it sounds ridiculous now, but I was truly just doing all that I knew. I had no idea about the blessings attached to the When You Are's. I didn't understand that God cold look on my imperfections and offer His tender compassion and blessing anyway. It has transformed my entire relationship with God to be able to come to Him as is, completely human, worn out, with hurt feelings, procrastinating or aimless. Through prayer I have learned to lay my empty spirit on His alter.
My brokenness is a beautiful offering to Him, and just the act of giving my poor spirit to the Father ushers me into the inheritance of His kingdom."
pg. 18-19 "It's almost as if Jesus says, 'I know about your brokenness and your flaws. I know that you aren't worthy. That's where I come in. What's Mine is yours anyway.'
Jesus wants you to know that when you are broken, shivering, alone, or afraid, with nothing left and nowhere to go, then you can turn in His direction and lay yourself at the foot of His love. Lay your broken offering on His altar. He will come and carry you into His presence. He will hold you with the warmth of His embrace and cover you with the blanket of His kingdom inheritance.
God wants you to know that when everything else is gone, that makes more room for Him, and every time there is more room for Him, you are blessed."
Chapter 2 Wounded
pg. 21 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." (Matt. 5:4)
pg. 27-28 "I am learning that the only way to the other side is through (grief).
pg. 28-29 "Our lives can be a beautiful offering because the empty soul finds itself before the only one who can heal."
pg. 29 "I think Jesus wanted us to know that the only comfort that speaks stillness to the squalling soul is supernatural."
pg. 29 "When you are hurting, your head says that God is far away, but Jesus says, in fact, that God is closer than ever."
1 Corinthians 1:3-11
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the suffering of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same suffering we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many."
Part 1 When You Are
pg. 2 "I guess I always thought that my offering to God had to be perfect and without any flaw, something like a perfect sacrifice. I am coming to understand that the Father receives the offering of my life, even when it is broken or weak or marred. It's the covering of Christ that makes it perfect, and the desire to give my life to God that makes it beautiful."
pg. 2 "May you hear the voice of God call you beautiful. And may you desire with all your heart to return the love of God with your life."
Chapter 1 Broken
pg. 5 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 5:3)"
pg. 5 "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." (Ps. 34:18)"
pg. 15-16 "Maybe through the sermon of Jesus, God wants you and me to know that He gets it. He understands humanity, and He's not mad at us about it. He designed the vessel that we reside in. He knows that we get weary. Our muscles fatigue. Emotions fray. Health fails. He wired us to long for the love of one another and without human-being love, He knows that can be desperate loneliness. He completely sees and hears and understands how the spirit can become emptied and broken. And from His understanding comes His compassionate blessing.
If the blessing for being closer to heaven comes through poverty of spirit, then maybe we can come to embrace our brokenness, knowing that we will experience a nearness of heaven that we cold not know otherwise. As a woman who longs after God, we can look into our emptiness, trusting that God is drawing us to Himself through life's pain and disappointment."
pg. 18 "I know it sounds ridiculous now, but I was truly just doing all that I knew. I had no idea about the blessings attached to the When You Are's. I didn't understand that God cold look on my imperfections and offer His tender compassion and blessing anyway. It has transformed my entire relationship with God to be able to come to Him as is, completely human, worn out, with hurt feelings, procrastinating or aimless. Through prayer I have learned to lay my empty spirit on His alter.
My brokenness is a beautiful offering to Him, and just the act of giving my poor spirit to the Father ushers me into the inheritance of His kingdom."
pg. 18-19 "It's almost as if Jesus says, 'I know about your brokenness and your flaws. I know that you aren't worthy. That's where I come in. What's Mine is yours anyway.'
Jesus wants you to know that when you are broken, shivering, alone, or afraid, with nothing left and nowhere to go, then you can turn in His direction and lay yourself at the foot of His love. Lay your broken offering on His altar. He will come and carry you into His presence. He will hold you with the warmth of His embrace and cover you with the blanket of His kingdom inheritance.
God wants you to know that when everything else is gone, that makes more room for Him, and every time there is more room for Him, you are blessed."
Chapter 2 Wounded
pg. 21 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." (Matt. 5:4)
pg. 27-28 "I am learning that the only way to the other side is through (grief).
pg. 28-29 "Our lives can be a beautiful offering because the empty soul finds itself before the only one who can heal."
pg. 29 "I think Jesus wanted us to know that the only comfort that speaks stillness to the squalling soul is supernatural."
pg. 29 "When you are hurting, your head says that God is far away, but Jesus says, in fact, that God is closer than ever."
1 Corinthians 1:3-11
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the suffering of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same suffering we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many."
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