Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand

1 Chronicles 29:1-30
Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided for this holy temple: three thousand talents[b] of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents[c] of refined silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings, for the gold work and the silverwork, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the Lord today? 
 They gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents[d] and ten thousand darics[e] of gold, ten thousand talents[f] of silver, eighteen thousand talents[g] of bronze and a hundred thousand talents[h] of iron. 
David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly. 
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head overall. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.  We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.  Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a temple for your Holy Name comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you. I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.
In addition to all he has put by over the years, David makes a last lavish personal gift for the Temple building fund forth a willing, joyful response from the people, and the gifts pour in. Deeply moved, David thanks God from his heart that such giving is possible from people who apart from God's goodness have nothing. His prayer is one of the greatest in the whole of the Old Testament. It shows as perhaps no other passage does, just why this man could be described as ' a man after God's own heart'.
Why?
God is great above all in all. Everything comes from the Lord, and we have given you only what comes from your hands. We are nothing without the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord and praise his holy name.
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大衛的奉獻和所有官長首領的奉獻，及大衛的感恩禱告。
一、大衛的奉獻： 已經準備了聖殿的材料，這是以國家的名義做的。其他金銀是大衛個人的奉獻。大衛的存錢是為了建造聖殿。一生活著是為了百姓而活著，我們一生也是為了領人信主，為了敬拜神。
二、也鼓勵眾人也奉獻：百姓看到官長如此奉獻，百姓也樂意。我們的榜樣是耶穌基督，牧者、長老傳道是弟兄姊妹的榜樣，弟兄姊妹是未信者的榜樣。
三、奉獻者是歡喜快樂的：因為全部是神使人尊大，有財物。且神給人願意奉獻的心，更是大的福氣。歡喜快樂的奉獻讓人的心大得滿足的喜樂。
享受豐富、尊榮而死。如何得到尊榮?甘心樂意的奉獻，自然得到尊榮，在主面前謙卑。這是得榮耀、尊榮的途徑。
國王的兄弟們最不容易尊崇繼任者，代表神所立的令眾人信服。同樣今天教會是基督做王，我們完全信服
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How?
Praise the Holy Name of the Lord, our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. Be humble and courage before the Lord!