Local Church Budget
May 3, 2014
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Video Presenter: John Mathews
PRESENTER: John Mathews
Usually when a successful meeting has been concluded, the person who organized it receives the credit. The credit instead should go to God—exactly where it belongs.
David and the people had given a fortune in gold and silver, plus thousands of tons of bronze and iron. How the papers would be filled with that sort of news today.
First Chronicles 29:13–15 reads:
“ ‘Now therefore, our God,
We thank You
And praise Your glorious name.
But who am I, and who are my people,
That we should be able to offer so willingly as this?
For all things come from You,
And of Your own we have given You.
For we are aliens and pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.’ ” (NKJV)
As we support the ministry of our own church, remember that God makes it possible for us to give and is pleased when we show a generous spirit in doing so.
David and the people had given a fortune in gold and silver, plus thousands of tons of bronze and iron. How the papers would be filled with that sort of news today.
First Chronicles 29:13–15 reads:
“ ‘Now therefore, our God,
We thank You
And praise Your glorious name.
But who am I, and who are my people,
That we should be able to offer so willingly as this?
For all things come from You,
And of Your own we have given You.
For we are aliens and pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.’ ” (NKJV)
As we support the ministry of our own church, remember that God makes it possible for us to give and is pleased when we show a generous spirit in doing so.