Consecration — an Altar and a Tent (1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bible Verses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gen 12:7 And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, To your seed
I will give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah
who had appeared to him.
Rom 12:1 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the
compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words of Ministry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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After Abraham had arrived at Moreh and after God had
reappeared to him, he built an altar (12:7). This was the
first altar that Abraham built. In the Bible an altar means
that we have all for God and serve God. Building an altar
means that we offer everything we are and have to God. We need
to place all that we are and all that we have on the altar.
Before we do anything for God, God would say to us, “Child,
don’t do anything for Me. I want you. I want you to put all
that you are and all that you have on the altar for Me.” This
is real fellowship, real worship. The real worship of the
called ones is to put all that we are and have on the altar.
If you check with your experience, you will see that
immediately after you were called, God appeared to you again,
and you said, “Lord, from now on everything is Yours. All that
I am, all that I have, all that I can do and am going to do is
for You.” I can still recall what happened on the afternoon
that I was saved. As I went out of that church building and
walked along the street, I lifted up my eyes to heaven and
said, “God, from today on everything is for You.” That was a
real consecration. In a spiritual sense, it was the building
of an altar.
