Jason Hayes

Presenting A Worthy Offering

By request, I am posting my last message at Beach Reach 2009.  I was teaching out of the book of Malachi.  And while Blemished is a study of the book of Malachi, this message covers much of the material that didn't make it into the book.  It's a bit long as it is a camp-like setting, but I hope you find it to be of encouragement and worth your time.

Presenting A Worthy Offering from Jason Hayes on Vimeo.

What Are You Throwing Away?

NPR reported today online that "$1 Million Hidden In Mattress Gets Thrown Out With Trash."  According to the full article at BBC News:

A Tel Aviv woman has been searching through Israeli rubbish dumps after accidentally throwing away a mattress containing $1m (£700,000).  The woman, identified only as Anat, had bought a new mattress for her mother as a surprise and threw away the old one, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.  But when the older woman returned home she "almost fainted", as she had hidden her entire life savings inside.  A search of three landfill sites has so far turned up nothing, said the paper.

Can you imagine the panic of realizing that you've thrown something of such value away?  This leads me back to a question I've recently been asking myself.  Now, I'll ask you.

What valuable are you unknowingly throwing away?

Is it your giftings?  Is it your family?  Is it your time?  Is it your dreams? Is it your relationships?

Whatever it may be, act now before you find yourself rummaging through the trash to salvage it.