Glorifying God

Snookie · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 64

"Trust me in your times of trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory." Psalm 50:15 NLT

I need to personally glorify God every chance I get. If He delivers us so we will glorify Him, does it stand to reason that the more we glorify Him, the more He will deliver us?
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snookie

God's Warrior · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks for posting this subject, Snookie.

Glorifying God is a subject that needs more attention than it gets at this point in time.

Prof. Albert Finney's Lectures.
GLORIFYING GOD
March 27, 1839.

How to Glorify God
The steps of a righteous man glorify the Lord as they are ordered by the Lord for generations, and He breaks generations of curses. The Lord will remember His own even to the End of Time and He is worthy of all glory. Glorify the Lord in your activities, in your ways -- but how does one do that?

Is this verbal praise -- no! It is God's will and His plan in action: actualized in all of us. It is our living out the good news in our flesh...
Steps
1. Take the Good News: Go into the world--first outside your gate--and teach/preach the Gospel to every creature; thus you glorify the Lord.
2. Lift up the Lord: Jesus said, "If I be lifted up I will draw all mankind to me!"
3. Bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. (Psalm 95:6)
4. Worship the Father in spirit and in truth: [not in word or deed only] for the Father seeks such to worship Him. (John 4:23)
5. Sing songs in the house of your pilgrimage, and remember the name of the LORD, in the night, and kept His law. (Psalm 119:54,55)
6. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto His name: and bring an offering when you come into His courts.
7. Fear Him, in all your ways, and worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. (Psalm 96:8,9)
o He is Unmoved: Unchangeable, undefeated Conquerer and Champion of saving souls that are called to repent.
o He is a Healer: "He was wounded for our transgressions [trespasses], he was bruised for our iniquities [sins]: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes [whipping] we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)
o He is First and Last: the Beginning and the End, the Creator and Keeper of your soul!
o He is Architect: of the universe and Lord of all time; He always was; He always is and shall be.
8. Magnify Him: Armies can't defeat Him; science can't explain Him, leaders can't ignore Him!
9. Acknowledge Him in all your ways: New Age religion can't replace Him, and no one can ever explain Him away! So, give all honor to the Father, and the Son and to the Holy Spirit in all things good or ill--great or small.
10. Work God's Plan: The Lord is the One who shelters his own and finds them precious. His eyes are upon them from early to late. His plan for his followers is a good plan never bad.
11. Do not be slothful in business, but do all things as to the Lord, and glorify Him. Jesus said, "What you do to the least of these my children, you do to me." Strengthen one another.
12. Love others, especially fellow Christians: Loving others will testify to how authentic your faith is: "By this shall you know that you are my disciples, if you love one another!" Jesus said.
13. Proclaim that Jesus Saves and that God is eternal -- and so He is outside of time constraints: God has no beginning and has no end.
14. Be Happy God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him.

Tips
• Trust God: A Christian life is a supernatural life, a life that goes against the world of doubt and disbelief. Unless you trust on Him for grace, you will trust in your own resources, and eventually you'll fail.
• Remember that when you glorify God, you're not giving Him glory, you're reflecting His glory!
• It's good to fear God, but unhealthy fear is not good. Remember that God is not a cruel God!
• He took your punishment: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb [peacefully] to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
• He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (Isaiah 53:7,8)

Warnings
• "When you think that you stand beware lest you fall. Pride which will not allow you to glorify God leads to destruction and a haughty spirit goes before a fall."(1 Corinthians 10:12)
• "The fool refuses to glorify God and even has said in his heart [from his core being]: 'there is no God.'"(Psalm 14:1)
o He shall be ashamed when he stands and is judged by the one just judge of all things, and persons great and small.
• You should not harm the innocent, but do good and not judge falsely: "And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth."(Genesis 6:12)
o God saw that it was not some people or some nations but that all mankind were capable of and guilty of unacceptable evil and corruption.
• Be aware that as you glorify God "people will be surprised that you do not run with them into the same confusion and rioting, so they speak evil of you!"(1 Peter 4:4)
o As an adult you may become self impressed, like you have finished growing, not allowing God or His followers to teach you to adapt to new things, i.e.: learn to use technology for God's plan.
o You need to learn to shift into willingness to be like new, full of a new confidence, leaning forward toward the future, but not coming from your own deficit, but unified with other believers with God, not alone, not in your own strength.

http://www.gospeltruth.net/1839OE/390327_glorifying_god.htm