Magnify Your God
Magnify = make large, praise, honor, boast about, lift up, promote, to declare great
The Bible tells us to magnify your God in Psalms 34;1-3 “I will bless the Lord at all
times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the
Lord, the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let
us exalt His name together”, Psalms 40:16 and 70:4 says “Let all those that seek You
rejoice and be glad in You, let such as love Your salvation say continually, the Lord be
magnified”.
In Psalms 107:20-32, we see when they praised the Lord, things changed. Hannah
prayed for a son and promised to give him back to the Lord, and as God saw her
heart, He granted her petition. Hannah was a godly woman who miraculously bore a
son through the intervention of God; after the birth Hannah prayed and said “My heart
rejoices in the Lord, my horn is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over my
enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation. There is none holy as the Lord, for there
is none beside You neither is there any rock like our God” (I Samuel 2:1-2). Hannah’s
son was Samuel, the great prophet.
Mary’s song of praise, when she was greeted by her cousin Elizabeth before the birth
of Christ (Luke 1;46-55). Mary received what the angel spoke to her as being done
(Luke 1:38) “and Mary said. Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to
your word”.
You magnify God by repeating your miracles and blessings (Revelation 12:11) “and
they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and
they loved not their lives to the death”. Paul told us in Philippians 1:6 “being confident
of this very thing, that He which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the
day of Jesus Christ”. Verse 19-20 “for I know that this shall turn to my salvation
through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. According to my
earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all
boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by
life, or by death”.
You magnify God by letting others see the power of God flowing through you. Peter
and John with the lame man (Acts 3:1-16). Paul and Silas (Acts 16:25-34).
When you magnify God you also lift yourself up, remember David encouraged himself
in the Lord (I Samuel 30:6-8) this was after David returned from battle to find that their
city burned and their families taken captive. Most people would have fallen apart, but
David reflected on how the Lord had blessed him in the pass and called out to God.
When you look at the storm, the problem you magnify it. When you get angry, the
more you think and talk about what happened, the madder you get, but nothing
changes. When you magnify God, He can calm the storm, change the problem. Jesus
said “speak to the mountain”, you speak the word of God against the problem. So you
see, we benefit by praising and magnifying God.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: August 25, 2006