“May God cleanse our hearts of the covetousness that leads us to waste money on the temporal while neglecting the eternal. And may we realize that with the receiving of every gift, thanksgiving fills the heavens, ascending past Satan’s principalities and powers right to the very throne of God–the One alone to whom belongs all praise, honor, glory, power, and dominion. When the Spirit of God has dominion over all our monies, all our possessions, then and only then will we know contentment.”
Kay Arthur in Money and Possessions: The Quest for Contentment (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook, 2004) 93.