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const id = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(`${blockId}-${matchIterator}-${correctCompletion ?? ''}`).digest('hex')

ret.text = ret.text.replace(completionMatch[0], `[${'⠀'.repeat(10)}](sspmCompletion://${id})`)
ret.text = ret.text.replace(completionMatch[0], `[${'⠀'.repeat(length > 0 ? length : 10)}](sspmCompletion://${id})`)

if (!ret.data) { ret.data = {} }

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title: New Year's Resolution
date: 04/01/2025
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> <p></p>
> “Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.” –1 Corinthians 4:2
Today is the first Sabbath of 2025, and we look forward to great accomplishments. Many people around the world have made resolutions for the new year.

Such resolutions may include building a family home, relocating to a new city, pursuing a childhood dream of a better life, or attaining higher academic qualifications. Others have made it their goal to walk the aisle with their dream man or woman. And yet others have not made any resolutions at all.

As an Adventist living in the closing stages of this world’s history, what resolution have you committed to regarding Jesus’s words in Matthew 24:14: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come”? The gospel will not be preached in all the world without individual believers making resolutions to support its propagation.

Generations before us did their part in spreading the gospel. We, too, should do our part in furthering it. While we may not be able to cross borders and oceans to preach to God’s people in distant lands, we can do so in the comfort of our homes through tithe and offerings. As we give, we can reach people we will probably never meet in this life.

### Appeal

As you prepare to give your tithe and offerings, make it your resolution this year to actively participate in spreading the gospel. Make a resolution that you will continually worship God with your tithe and percentage-based offerings.
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title: New Year's Resolution
startDate: 29/12/2024
endDate: 04/01/2025
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title: Hastening Jesus's Return
date: 11/01/2025
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> <p></p>
> “As cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a far country.” – Proverbs 25:25
Last Sabbath, we read Matthew 24:14, which reads, “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”

According to Jesus, the end of the world will come when the gospel has gone everywhere in the world. If the return of Jesus in fulfillment of this verse depended solely on how the gospel has penetrated your community, would Jesus’s coming be near or decades away? Now, how about comparing that with people living in the 10/40 Window?

From the human perspective, going by the numbers of those who have not yet been reached with the gospel, our Lord’s coming appears to be far away. True as this might be, the Bible says God will cut short His work in righteousness as recorded in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

Although God is all powerful and has all avenues at His disposal to accomplish this, we know that our giving is one way God uses to cut short His work in righteousness. Through the tithe and offerings given, missionaries are able to go

to distant places to reach God’s people with the gospel of salvation. What we give helps sponsor programs on television networks, create and disseminate content through the World Wide Web, publish materials in different languages, and build schools and medical facilities from which people come to know about God’s love for them.

### Appeal

Thus, we see that our giving helps hasten the coming of Jesus. Is it not your desire to help the gospel go everywhere so that Jesus can come and take us home? If that is your desire, prayerfully return tithe and generously give offerings. Let us pray that we may help to hasten our Lord’s return.
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title: Hastening Jesus's Return
startDate: 05/01/2025
endDate: 11/01/2025
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title: Continuing With Jesus' Work
date: 18/01/2025
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> <p></p>
> “On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper.” 1 Corinthians 16:2
In Matthew 9:35, we read that “Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness” (NIV).

What a blessing it was living in the time of Jesus! Imagine you were sick and then healed by Jesus. I am sure the vigor that comes with Jesus’s healing cannot be fully explained. It can only be experienced.

The church continues to heal the sick through its many medical facilities around the globe, mirroring Jesus’s healing ministry during His time on earth. Many of those who come to these facilities have never been to our churches. They have not heard of Jesus, let alone His soon return. By coming to these facilities, they receive medical attention and the knowledge of Jesus, the Great Physician. In fact, in some places, the only way of sharing the gospel is through our medical and educational institutions.

### Appeal

For the gospel to reach many people in areas where preaching publicly is prohibited by law, medical institutions are needed more than ever before. However, for these to be built and operate well, resources are needed. Our offerings help build and take care of workers in these facilities. May we therefore give handsomely the Promise offerings—our percentage-based offerings—so that many people can hear about Jesus through our medical facilities.
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title: Continuing With Jesus' Work
startDate: 12/01/2025
endDate: 18/01/2025
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title: Showing Appreciation
date: 25/01/2025
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> <p></p>
> “And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head.”–Mark 14:3
The woman in this verse anointed Jesus with “very costly oil of spikenard.” Apparently, the value of the oil made the disciples to disapprove of the woman’s act. It seems they would not have had challenges if the oil had been of less value.

Though the Bible does not clearly explain what prompted her to pour such expensive oil on the head of Jesus, it is evident that she held Him in very high regard. If she did not consider Jesus to be of such great value in her life, she would not have done what she did.

Commenting on the above incident, Ellen G. White wrote, “But few appreciate all that Christ is to them. If they did, . . . nothing would be thought too costly to give for Christ, no self- denial or self-sacrifice too great to be endured for His sake,” (The Desire of Ages, p. 565). Our level of appreciation influences the quality of our giving!

### Appeal

As we give our tithe and offerings today, let us give generously as people who know and appreciate what Jesus is to us.
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title: Showing Appreciation
startDate: 19/01/2025
endDate: 25/01/2025
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title: January 2025
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title: God Blesses In His Own Way
date: 01/02/2025
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### Sabbath 5

> <p></p>
> “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” –Romans 8:28
Dexter, his wife, and her friend went to the fresh vegetable market. As they drove home, the ladies had to stop at another store. After they exited the car, Dexter looked for his two phones’ intending to occupy himself, only to discover that they were missing. That’s when he remembered he left them on the car’s side rails as he was loading the car at the vegetable market. He hastily drove back to the vegetable market.

Upon arrival, Dexter sought for the shop attendant who had helped them push their trolley to their car. The shop attendant remembered Dexter putting the phones on the car rails, but did not know what happened to them afterward.

Feeling frustrated, Dexter proceeded to the police station to file a report. As he drove past the premises, he saw two individuals across the road. After reporting the case, Dexter came to where the men were. As he approached them, he called out, “A distressed brother is looking for lost phones.”

A stout man who was standing next to his car, said, “Come here, and tell us how you lost your phones.” After recounting the events, the man looked at him and said, “We picked up your phones. Go and see Freddy in that car.” Freddy gave him his two phones, valued at over $1,000. Dexter gave them a token of appreciation.

This episode taught Dexter a valuable lesson that when we return tithe and give offerings, God blesses us in His own way. God did not bless Dexter in monetary form, but by giving back to him his two phones which contained crucial work information.

### Appeal

Brothers and sisters, God has promised to bless those who return tithe and offerings. The blessings may not come in monetary form, but we can be rest assured that God will bless us in His own way. May God bless us as we give to Him what we prepared, and as we plan to bring something for Him next Sabbath.
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title: God Blesses In His Own Way
startDate: 26/01/2025
endDate: 01/02/2025
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title: Teach Them Young
date: 08/02/2025
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“But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”–2 Timothy 3:14, 15

Paul encouraged Timothy to continue “in the things” he had learned, emphasizing that he knew from whom he learned. Paul further stressed the importance of family training by reminding the young man how he had known the Holy Scriptures from childhood.

We can conclude that Timothy’s spiritual standing was a result of the training he received in his family. What he was taught early in life in the family setting prepared him for greater future responsibilities.

Ellen G. White also underscores the importance of the home influence in shaping the church and its overall well- being. She wrote, “In the home the foundation is laid for the prosperity of the church. The influences that rule in the home life are carried into the church life; therefore church duties should first begin in the home” (Adventist Home, p. 318).

### Appeal

As we return our tithe and offerings to God today, let parents and guardians begin early to teach the children under their care to worship God with their little tithe and offerings. As the children grow, they will continue this practice for the benefit of God’s church.
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title: Teach Them Young
startDate: 02/02/2025
endDate: 08/02/2025
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title: The God Who Shares
date: 15/02/2025
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> <p></p>
> “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.” –Colossians 1:16
There are a lot of things in God’s creation that never ceases to amaze us, from the vast expanse of the universe teeming with its myriad of stars and galaxies to the intricate ecosystem of the earth. Consider the wealth of minerals waiting to be discovered and unearthed, and the diverse array of animals and birds that inhabit our planet. Yet the Bible also mentions the invisible things. All these, the Bible declares, “were created through Him and for Him.”

Precious minerals such as gold, diamond, and uranium, along with resources like oil, which significantly impact life on earth, were all created through Jesus and for Him. In essence, both the visible and the invisible were created for Jesus, not for us.

We use these resources because Jesus graciously shares them with us. In return for His blessings, He simply asks us to acknowledge His ownership by returning a mere 10% as tithe, along with offerings. Isn’t it strange how we sometimes deny the Owner what rightfully belongs to Him? Each time we are blessed, there is a call to acknowledge our Saviour’s ownership of everything we claim as ours.

### Appeal

May God bless you today as you acknowledge His ownership and benevolence through returning tithe and offerings.
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title: The God Who Shares
startDate: 09/02/2025
endDate: 15/02/2025
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title: I Got Rid Of It
date: 22/02/2025
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> <p></p>
> “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” –Luke 6:38
A story is told of two friends who had a nice day discussing everything that crossed their minds. But regardless of what they discussed, the issues of money kept coming up. It seemed they could not divorce themselves from that topic.

As they kept on talking, one of them said that he had been saving some loose coins, which he now didn’t know what to do with. Though many in number, their value was so insignificant that they could not buy anything meaningful.

He then asked his friend a question: “What should I do with those coins?”

In response, the friend asked if he had tried giving them to his children.

“I did, but they don’t want them.”

At this point the friend said that he knew the best place to take them. “The best place you can take them is to the church. The church accepts any amount.”

“Are you sure they won’t reject them?” the friend asked. “No, they won’t.”

“Thank you so much. I will take them there.”

A few days later, they met again. The friend wanted to know

if his advice was carried out. “Did you give your coins to the church?”

“Yes! I got rid of them.”

There are people who give offerings to God as a way of getting rid of what they have no use of. Consider your giving pattern. Have you been giving to get rid of what you didn’t want or had no use of?

### Appeal

As we give our tithe and offerings today and in the future, let us not give to get rid of what we have no use of. Let us give the best we have, just as God gave us the best He had.
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title: I Got Rid Of It
startDate: 16/02/2025
endDate: 22/02/2025
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title: February 2025
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title: Uncle, This Cannot Buy Anything
date: 01/03/2025
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> <p></p>
> “’And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?’ says the Lord of hosts.” –Malachi 1:8
A young girl lived happily with her parents in a city with over two million people. This girl, Kezia, enjoyed buying little things children her age like so much.

One day, a visitor from overseas visited her family. Everyone was very happy because they had not seen him for a long time. Kezia and her family spent every available moment with him, chatting and sharing old memories. It was a good time indeed.

Three days after he arrived, the visitor decided to explore the city to see the changes that had taken place since he left. When he came back, he brought some goodies for Kezia, which she gratefully received. To her surprise, she was given a monetary bill along with the goodies. Without looking at it carefully, she ran to her bedroom to feast on the delicacies she was given.

After she had finished eating, it was time for her to take the bill to the nearest shop to spend it. She looked at it carefully, and her joy turned into sadness. Kezia came screaming from her bedroom to the living room, where her father and the visitor were enjoying their stories. She interrupted them as she came to where the visitor was and said, “Uncle, this cannot buy anything!” Kezia’s father tried to calm and interrupt her because he was embarrassed by what she was saying.

The visitor asked Kezia’s father if it was true that the bill Kezia was holding could not buy anything valuable. He answered, “Yes, it cannot buy anything. You need two of those bills to buy something.”

Dear friends, what about us today? Do we give God the money that cannot buy anything? If Kezia did not want the bill that could not buy anything, what about God? If the smallest amount you give is your best, God accepts it. But if that is not all you have, don’t give God what you can’t use yourself. God gave us the best gift in the person of Jesus. Let us give Him also the best.

### Appeal

As we give our offerings today and in the future, let us remember to give God the best we have.
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title: Uncle, This Cannot Buy Anything
startDate: 23/02/2025
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title: I Don't Give
date: 08/03/2025
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> <p></p>
> “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” –Proverbs 22:6
Kezia and her family lived in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. They lived in the church compound, which housed union workers. With such proximity to the church, Kezia did not walk a long distance to go to church.

One day during their evening worship, the discussion centered on tithe and offerings. This was a subject that was very dear to the family because Kezia’s father was the stewardship director of the union. As the discussion continued, Kezia’s father encouraged everyone to faithfully return tithe and give offerings systematically.

Before the closing prayer could be offered, Kezia put her hand up, and her father gave her permission to speak. She asked, “Daddy, did you say we all return tithe and give offerings?” The father said yes. She shook her head and said, “No, Daddy. I don’t return tithe and give offerings myself.” The father and mother understood what she meant because they gave tithe and offerings as a family. They thought that was enough, but to Kezia it was not.

The following week they gave each child pocket money and reminded them to remember God. When they had an evening worship after Sabbath, even before people could be given the floor to share what they learned at church, Kezia’s hand shot up, and when she was given the floor, she said, “Daddy, today I gave tithe and offerings.” Everyone smiled and said amen. From thereon, Kezia’s parents gave their children money so that they could learn to return tithe and give offerings on their own.

Kezia’s experience encourages parents to give their children money so they, too, can learn to worship God through tithe and offerings.

### Appeal

As we give our offerings today and in the future, let us let us pray for children like Kezia to start giving when they receive some money.
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title: I Don't Give
startDate: 02/03/2025
endDate: 08/03/2025
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