Making Offerings to Temple

Offerings to temple

Have you ever wondered why your prayer (praying for good luck, good health, profitable investment etc.) some time is not answered when you have been praying to Tua Pek Kong or other wealth deities ?

Just to share with you my personal experience & view on this :

One could give offerings to the respective temples to create enough merits for the prayers to manifest. Offerings is based on your own wishes and these could be through light / oil offerings, temple restoration, Good-Luck or Year-end thanksgiving prayers.

When you give offerings, you are actually "sowing" the seeds of prosperity and the principle of sowing is similar to sowing seeds as a farmer. It's the seeds that you sow receive a crop (a harvest of increase /return). Which is why Chinese /Taiwanese farmers in ancient times and till now continue to give offering to Tua Pek Kong which is the landlord of that land. They knew that in order to have a good harvest they must pray and give offerings to Tua Pek Kong.

So, if you have not been receiving the bountiful harvest, where is that ? What happened to it ? Where is it and who own it ?

Personally I believe that ALL good-hearted prayers will be answered by Tua Pek Kong and other deities. If you don't have it in your possession, I'll interpret it as it is still out in the "spiritual realm". Your harvest is still out in the God's realm (the spiritual realm) where it would eventually be released from the God to you.

It doesn't matter how long ago you planted the seed, your harvest is in the spiritual realm waiting for you to reap it. Unlike a typical harvest we see, which a farmer planted seed for, if it is not harvested or reaped during a certain time it will be spoilt. I believe that our harvest in the spiritual realm is permanent. In the earthly realm (ie realm where we are living) , harvests are perishable, but in the spiritual realm your spiritual harvests are ever-lasting.

Tua Pek Kong is a God. Whenever God gives something to us. it becomes manifest first in the realm where the God exists (that is, in the spiritual realm). In spiritual realm, it is not "initially" visible to us in earthly realm but eventually it will become visible here.... when we have activated our FAITH.

The activation of our FAITH will cause the unseen to become seen.

The spiritual realm is God's realm and it is eternal. Once God releases something to you and into that realm, it does not change. It doesn't matter how long ago you planted seed, your harvest is yet in the spiritual realm "waiting".

Remember the moment you sowed the seed, you activated the returns in the spritual realm but, you must now exercise your FAITH and PATIENCE in order to bring it out of the spiritual realm to you. All the conditions must be conducive ( ie. you must have enough "merits") for your harvest of return to come out of the spiritual realm to you.

It's like a farmer's seed that is sown into the ground, although it is not seen, it is in the ground (in the soil) germinating and eventually the seed will break through the soil and become visible on the surface. After some time, the farmer knew that it will produce the crop for which it was planted, with the right conditions (eg. sunlight, rain, fertiliser etc.. which is equivalent to your "merits").

So, one should try to consistently give offerings because if you sow nothing, you will get nothing. 

You sow little, you reap little; you sow big, you reap big. You must be happy when you give and not give with a unhappy thoughts. This concept of giving offerings and the benefits is consistent to all major religions Buddhism, Taoism, Christian, Hinduism, Islam etc.

If you have only a little to sow in the beginning, sow that little. Tua Pek Kong will take the little that you sow and will multiply it and you will receive much more than you sowed. Then, the size of your next seed could be more for a bigger harvest. ! A farmer understands how to plant an adequate amount of seed to produce a specific size crop. If you only have little in your possession, plant that little amount of seed  you have ( it could be as little as fifty cents :>)

I always believe that Tua Pek Kong will use what you have and will multiply and increase your harvest of returns ! Once you have your harvest of return just remember to give thanks to share your goodness with Tua Pek Kong & Tua Pek Kong will in turn share his goodness with you !!