Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with Shanna Thompson singing the Andre Crouch classic song … My Tribute … poignantly singing of how must give God all the glory for all that He has done for us, especially for giving us His Son to save us.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 1 Chronicles 29:16 [NLT] … 16 “O Lord our God, even this material we have gathered to build a Temple to honor your holy name comes from you! It all belongs to you!
… King David acknowledges that everything is from God and for God’s glory.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 1 Chronicles 29:6-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David recognizes that all that was giving by God’s people for the Temple constructions was God’s anyway.
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Reference Passage : …Deuteronomy 8:18 [NLT] … 18 Remember the Lord, your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful, in order to fulfill the covenant He confirmed to your ancestors with an oath.
… Moses declares that we must remember that God has given us EVERYTHING and the ability to do everything … FOR HIS GLORY.
Reference Passage : …Psalm 24:1 [NLT] … [See Photo] … 1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to Him.
… David, repeating in song, that everything God created in this world is HIS for HIS glory.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:32 [NLT] … 32 Since He did not spare even his own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?
… Remembering that our God was willing to give up His Son for us; so shouldn’t we recognize, with our gifts to Him, that He is willing to give all things to us … for HIS GLORY.
Reference Passage : … Colossians 1:15-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle Paul acknowledges that all things in heaven and on earth were created BY God … FOR God.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, James Banks, uses a personal reflection of a friend who recognized that everything we have comes from our God. The ODB author wrote … As we bowed our heads over lunch, my friend Jeff prayed: “Father, thank You for letting us breathe Your air and eat Your food.” Jeff had just been through a difficult job loss, so his heartfelt trust in God and recognition that everything belongs to Him profoundly moved me. I found myself thinking: “Do I honestly understand that even the most basic, everyday things in my life are really God’s, and He’s simply letting me use them?”
What do we do with all God has created for our good pleasure and especially for His glory? Do we hoard it and even covet more? Or are we willing to give Him the glory by giving back at least a portion, especially a sacrificial offering, to recognize His providence and, as the linked song sing, … to give God the glory for all He has done?
I leave that as the question we need to resolve in our own hearts … so that we can give our Lord the glory for all that is His and He shares with us.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for the bounty of Your grace and providence in our lives.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me to acknowledge with our tithes and offerings to You that all is Yours and for Your glory. … Amen
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