February 1, Exodus 35:1 - 39:1

Exodus 35:4-36:7

Amplified Bible (AMP)

^"4 And Moses said to all the congregation of the Israelites, This is what the Lord commanded:

⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing and generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

⁶ Blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], fine linen; goats’ hair;

⁷ And rams’ skins tanned red, and skins of dolphins or porpoises; and acacia wood;

⁸ And oil for the light; and spices for anointing oil and for fragrant incense;

⁹ And onyx stones and other stones to be set for the ephod and the breastplate.

¹⁰ And let every able and wisehearted man among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

¹¹ The tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its socketsor bases;

¹² The ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;

¹³ The table and its poles and all its utensils, and the showbread (the bread of the Presence);

¹⁴ The lampstand also for the light, and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

¹⁵ And the incense altar and its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the hanging orscreen for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;

¹⁶ The altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its base;

¹⁷ The court’s hangings, its pillars and their sockets or bases, and the hanging or screen for the gate of the court;

¹⁸ The pegs of the tabernacle and of the court, and their cords,

¹⁹ The finely wrought garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the [high] priest and for his sons to minister as priests.

²⁰ Then all the congregation of the Israelites left Moses’ presence.

²¹ And they came, each one whose heart stirred him up and whose spirit made him willing, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the [new] Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and the holy garments.

²² They came, both men and women, all who were willinghearted, and brought brooches, earrings ornose rings, signet rings, and armlets or necklaces, all jewels of gold, everyone bringing an offering of gold to the Lord.

²³ And everyone with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet [stuff], or fine linen, or goats’ hair, or rams’ skins made red [in tanning], or dolphin or porpoise skins brought them.

²⁴ Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s offering, and every man with whom was found any acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

²⁵ All the women who had ability and were wisehearted spun with their hands and brought what they had spun of blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] and fine linen;

²⁶ And all the women who had ability and whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

²⁷ The leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate,

²⁸ And spice, and oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

²⁹ The Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all men and women whose hearts made them willing and moved them to bring anything for any of the work which the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done.

³⁰ And Moses said to the Israelites, See, the Lord called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

³¹ And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and wisdom, with intelligence andunderstanding, and with knowledge and all craftsmanship,

³² To devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

³³ In cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, for work in every skilled craft.

³⁴ And God has put in Bezalel’s heart that he may teach, both he and Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

³⁵ He has filled them with wisdom of heart and ability to do all manner of craftsmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, of the embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do or design any skilled work.

36 Bezalel and Aholiab and every wisehearted man in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary shall work according to all that the Lord has commanded.

² And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab and every able and wisehearted man in whose mind the Lord had put wisdom and ability, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work;

³ And they received from Moses all the freewill offerings which the Israelites had brought for doing the work of the sanctuary, to prepare it for service. And they continued to bring him freewill offerings every morning.

⁴ And all the wise and able men who were doing the work on the sanctuary came, every man from the work he was doing,

⁵ And they said to Moses, The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the Lord commanded to do.

⁶ So Moses commanded and it was proclaimed in all the camp, Let no man or woman do anything more for the sanctuary offering. So the people were restrained from bringing,

⁷ For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work and more."

Love, love, love this passage of scripture. 

This is exactly what God wants us all to do! God gives each of us gifts and talents and He wants us to give back with a willing heart! And as we join together as the body of Christ, we can complete ANY task He calls us to do!

I have a few photos of our redecorated master bedroom on facebook, but I'm not sure how to post them here.

We started with a free rug and Scott painted the walls to match. Then my dear mother found a beautiful (like new) bed cover at Goodwill, and I borrowed some lovely art work from her stash. I had a couple of pretty wall mirrors I wasn't using. Scott pulled up a small desk from our basement, we switched out a chest of drawers, added free coffee sacks and old sheer curtains for window treatments, and voila! the bedroom is a beautiful oasis!

It was a group effort by my mother, Scott, and I.

The cost was 2 cans of paint and ten dollars for the bed cover.

"Dear Jesus, I want to give freely from a willing heart! You've given me gifts, and I want to give back. Your word says, "For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required; and of him to whom men entrust much, they will require and demand all the more." (Luke 12:48 AMP) I just know and believe You will multiply and bless my gifts. I give You ALL the glory and praise for what You are doing and are about to do in and through me! In Jesus precious name, AMEN!"

"Give, and [gifts] will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour ^[a]into [the pouch formed by] the bosom [of your robe and used as a bag]. For with the measure you deal out [with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others], it will be measured back to you." (Luke 6:38 AMP)