I. Nothing in this world is really ours. Everything belongs to God only. “Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that is therein” (Deut.10:14; 1 Cor. 10:26,28). This means the whole universe is the Lord’s possession. While speaking to Job out of a whirlwind the Lord said “…whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine” (Job 38:1; 41:11). God also said “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and all the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof” (Ps. 50:10-12). The Lord even declared that all people are his (Ezek. 18:4). The reason everything belongs to him is because he is the Creator of everything (Gen. 1:1; Acts 17:24-26). You cannot beat God’s giving when you own nothing to give.
II. Whatever we have to give is what God has given us to give. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?” (Rom. 11:34-35). No one gave to God first but was first given to. We are all stewards of God’s property and should be faithful with it (Mt. 25:14-30; 1 Cor. 4:2). The devil has power to give earthly riches unto men (Mt. 4:8-9). But he understood what the righteous have is because of God (Pr. 10:22). Satan speaking of Job said to the Lord “…thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land” (Job 1:10).