that was not given to you BY GOD?
We may not think to realize this but we would have nothing if God did not give it to us first.
Do you have children?
Do you have a talent?
Do you have creativity?
Do you have food?
Do you have a home?
Do you have land?
Do you have possessions?
Do you have wisdom?
Just were did all these things come from? They in some way shape or form came from God for everything comes out of the ground even our dust/clay/fragile bodies. And they all belong to him and we need to give thanks and offerings to God for the USE of them. For we use these to benefit us, comfort us, or multiply us in this life.
Ps 24:1
The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
KJV
Hag 2:6-9
6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
KJV
Ps 50:10-14
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
KJV
We can never repay God nor claim that anything is our own.... for it was God's before He ALLOWED us to use it for our good. So when they pass that offering plate, do not think that you are doing God a favor... you are just giving Him a tiny portion back of what He has already given to you First!
All imitations of life are of the devil who tries to deceive us with ill gotten gains(stolen) that really belong to God's children of obedience out of love for Him and His Word.
We may not think to realize this but we would have nothing if God did not give it to us first.
Do you have children?
Do you have a talent?
Do you have creativity?
Do you have food?
Do you have a home?
Do you have land?
Do you have possessions?
Do you have wisdom?
Just were did all these things come from? They in some way shape or form came from God for everything comes out of the ground even our dust/clay/fragile bodies. And they all belong to him and we need to give thanks and offerings to God for the USE of them. For we use these to benefit us, comfort us, or multiply us in this life.
Ps 24:1
The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
KJV
Hag 2:6-9
6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
KJV
Ps 50:10-14
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
KJV
We can never repay God nor claim that anything is our own.... for it was God's before He ALLOWED us to use it for our good. So when they pass that offering plate, do not think that you are doing God a favor... you are just giving Him a tiny portion back of what He has already given to you First!
All imitations of life are of the devil who tries to deceive us with ill gotten gains(stolen) that really belong to God's children of obedience out of love for Him and His Word.