Verse from 1 Chronicles

“耶和华我们的神啊，我们预备的这一切财物，要为你的圣名建造殿宇，都是从你而来的，也都是属于你的。”

历代志上 29:16

“O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy name, it is from Your hand, and all is Yours.”

1 Chronicles 29:16

Keila was 18 years old when she got her first fulltime job, and she learned an important lesson about the discipline of saving money. She worked and saved until she had enough money for a year of school. Then her mom had emergency surgery, and she realized she had the money in the bank to pay for her operation.

Her love for her mother suddenly took precedence over her plans for the future. These words in the book Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot took on new meaning: “If we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to let it go when the time comes to let it go or unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used, we stunt the growth of the soul. It is easy to make a mistake here, ‘If God gave it to me,’ we say, ‘it's mine. I can do what I want with it.’ No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, . . . ours to let go of.”

Keila realized that the job she had received and the discipline of saving were gifts from God! She could give generously to her family because she was sure God was capable of seeing her through school another way, and He did.

Today, how might God want us to apply David's prayer from 1 Chronicles 29:14, “Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us”? (nlt).

Lord, 

we know there is nothing that we have that we obtained on our own. 

It’s all Yours. 

Help us to have open hands for You
to give and take as You please. 

Increase our faith.

Everything belongs to God.