2. Giving&receiving -Your offering rises up to God as a pleasant fragrance

Your offering rises up to God as a pleasant fragrance

Your acts of benevolent and kindness will be remembered today.

They will send for you to come and receive your reward.

Do you see your giving or offering as something that rises up to God as a pleasant odour or is it just a contribution or a gift.

The bible says our generosity makes people thank God and their thanksgiving rises up to God as a sweet odour.

When you give, don’t  think about giving away your gift, think about how people will thank God because of your gift.

When you are kind to people (your spouse, parents and your leaders) , they thank you and thank God for your life.   Don’t just expect people to thank you, expect them to thank God for your life. That has a great reward.

People respond to pleasant scent and God also respond to a good odour that comes from our offering.   In our next study we will see how God responds to the sweet odour that rises up to him as a result of our giving

Gen8:20 Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord. Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God. The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. TEXTWORD