Praise the Lord!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. I will like to say a big thank you to all of you that have celebrated my birthday.
Welcome to another day, another time in the presence of the Lord.
Welcome to a very special morning. A morning to magnify the King of all kings, the Lord of all lords, the Alpha, the Omega, the Beginning and the End. The morning to say thank you to the One who woke us up today, who gave us the privilege of life, the opportunity to be alive, to be counted among the living. The One who strengthens us every day, who exceeds our expectations and who makes us to be in His presence at all times.
Heavenly father we give glory, we give praise, we give honour, we give adoration, we give celebration, we give magnification, we give awesome thanksgiving to your name. Mighty God, awesome God, Healer, Deliverer, our joy, our salvation. You are the One who makes our lives make sense, you are the One who gives meaning to our lives, you are the only way, the only truth, the only life. Without you we are nothing, with you we are something, we are everything, we are believers, blessed of God, princes of God, called of God, loved by God, filled with God. We give glory to your name. Bless someone in this meeting today in the name of Jesus.
We are going to take today to magnify the Lord, to exalt the one who really deserves to be exalted, the one who deserves to be magnified, the one who deserves to be celebrated. The good God, the great God, the awesome God, our Jesus, our saviour.
(Luke 1:46-55) This morning we magnify the King of all kings. This passage is the song of Mary. It is often called the magnificent. The song of profound celebration and worship from the heart of a woman who is amazed at what God has done or who was rather shocked at how she was the one picked by God to be blessed.
You see from Genesis 3:15 something went out, we called it ‘protoevangelium’. Proto means the first, the prototype. Protoevangelium means this is the first message of evangelism, the good news for the salvation of mankind. God said and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed. Thy seed will bruise her heel and her seed will bruised your head.
So that day God established that a woman will carry a child that will bruised the head of satan. Every Jewish woman believe that; that was going to come from her and some never even married. Possibly that could be the reason why Anna the woman in the temple at about 84 years just waited to see this great day. So, this Mary, a teenage girl, possibly some Bible scholars believed that she may not be more than 16 finds herself pregnant and so her heart respond in worship to the revelation that she has been the one who all through the ages from the garden of Eden to the glories of Canaan, she was the one chosen.
Think of what God has done in your life, his faithfulness, His hand, His power in your life. You have to think of how God has proven Himself in several ways in your life. How He has opened doors for you, how He has delivered you from situations. So Mary said my soul magnifies the Lord…
- To magnify is to increase in apparent size. You use a magnifying glass for you to increase in apparent size. We will use our verbal capacity to magnify the Lord God but who can really say the size of God? While on one hand our head locationally wants to place him in heaven yet He is the God, He is not a polytheistic God; that is many gods. He is one God, He is not a pantheistic God. At the same time He is eminent, He fills all things and yet we cannot worship all things but we must worship the one who fills all things.
- To magnify is to make greater than the actual size.
- To magnify the Lord is to amplify Him. When you make a little sound, the amplifier explodes it and takes it to the farthest corner, so we amplify the goodness of our God. We make great His name.
- To magnify the Lord is to boost. Can you really boost God? When we don’t boost God, Satan’s name becomes apparent in the mouth of those who don’t know God. When we don’t boost the name of our God, flesh takes over.
- To magnify the Lord is to expand. When you magnify a thing, you expand it. We expand the King of all kings this morning, we expand His name.
- To magnify the Lord is to aggravate. It is time for God to be aggravate in our own world so that the people who are full of flesh and themselves will not think that they are gods.
- To magnify the Lord is to heighten. We heighten our God because no one is great like our God.
- To magnify the Lord is to glorify. To sing of His power, His awesomeness, His greatness, His Shekinah, the light that shines in the darkness.
- To magnify the Lord is to jack up. Today oh Lord we thank you because you are the Greatest of the greatest.
Our worship of God must be replaced by rituals. We must not let rituals take over. We must be careful and we must always remember the one who loves us, the one who saved us.
- (Isaiah 29:13) Father we magnify you, we celebrate you, we make great you name, our hearts are still full of you fear. We fear you God, we honour you God. The Hebrew word for fear is “yir’ah”. Yir’ah is when you fear God, when you have a respectful fear for God, a godly fear.
Today Lord we magnify your name. We do not come to ask, we came to thank you for the ones you have done, we came to say you are God and there is none like you. We have come to give you a great worship.
- (John 4:44) Lord we worship you from our spirits. Our souls magnify you. Our spirits praise you. You are God and there is none like you. None so powerful, none so glorious. We do not worship you in vain, not just the movement of our lips or the response of our bodies because of the sound of beaten drums. We magnify you in the name of Jesus.
(Matthew 15:8-9) Lord we draw close to you with our heart, we worship you, we give you all the praise, all the glory, all the adoration to you in the name of Jesus.
-(Psalm 15:1) Lord our praise this morning comes from a heart of obedience. You are the God that occupies the holy hills. We sing to the one who occupies the holy hill, we sing to the one whose tabernacle is lifted high, we sing to the one who is lifted above all situations, above all power, above all kingdoms, above all thrones. You are not comparable to anyone.
- This Morning from the very depth of who we are, we celebrate you, we bless you, we magnify you, we rejoice in what you have done for us, we thank you, we cause you to grow in our spirits again, we cause you to expand in our spirits again, we cause you to swell in our spirits again. Above all matters, above all issues, above all mountains, above all troubles, our souls magnify you.
- (Jeremiah 33) Lord you are the One who answered us when we call, we thank you, we celebrate you, the mighty one, the El Elyon, the El-Shaddai, we thank you for all things.
- Lord you replace the strong with the weak, Lord we praise you. The oppressed find help, they find mercy, we bless you, we rejoice. People who have been neglected and taught to be nothing, you are making something beautiful out of their lives, take the glory, praise and honour this morning in Jesus name.
- Thank you, dear Lord, for the salvation of our souls, take the praise, take the honour, take the adoration in Jesus name. Thank you, Lord, for victories over tough and difficult situations and battles.
- We thank you also for you are a covenant keeping God. Thank you God, be glorified in Jesus name.
- Psalm 34:3 “Oh magnify the Lord with me, let us make great His name together.” In the next couple of minutes, as we magnify the Lord together may every of the great name of the Lord, its essence manifest in your life in Jesus name.
- Our God is wonderful. This is my heart and prayer for you; may everything wonderful begin to manifest in your life!
- Our God is counselor. May the Spirit of counsel guide you in this season of your life!
- Our God is Prince of peace. May the peace that passes all human reasoning guides your heart!
- Our God is the eternal rock. May the rock who never shifts, never changes, who never moves, never fails, the rock in a weary land, the rock that can give water to the thirsty. May that rock be in the journey of your life as a place to rest, a place of refuge, a place of water, a place of satisfaction!
- Our God is the King of glory. May your life be a reflection of the glory of God. May you be a carrier of Shekinah. I pray for you today; may you truly carry the glory of God!
- Our God is the King of all kings. May the Lord lift you up as a king upon the earth!
- Our God is the Lord of lords. Today, the Lord will make you lord over all things. Challenges will not lord over your life, money will not lord over your life. Every good thing you desire will not lord over your life rather you will lord over them!
- Our God is the Lord of hosts. May the Lord lead your hand in every battles of life that you face and bring the kind of victory you’ve never imagined! The Lord of host will release the hosts of heaven, the military of heaven to fight your fights and win your battles!
- Our God is the lily of the valley. May the Lord beautify your life in the midst of the valley of life. Peace, joy and uncommon grace follows you!
- Our God is our healer (Exodus 15:26, Isaiah 53:3, 1 Peter 2:24, Matthew 8:17) I speak into your life today total health and healing!
- Our God is our righteous judge. Everywhere people have taken advantage of you and judged you wrongly; heaven will speak for you. God will vindicate you. The God of vergence will fight on your behalf, speak on your behalf, win battle on your behalf!
- Our God is the who sees. The Lord will see you when others are not seeing you and He will see you through!
- This faithful God will be faithful to you in 2021 and beyond!
- This Jehovah Raphael will heal you!
- This Jehovah Rohi will be your shepherd!
- This Jehovah Jireh will be your provider!
- This Jehovah El Gibbor will be your substance and help!
- This Jehovah Shammah will be the ever-present God in your life!
- This Jehovah Shalom will be your peace in the middle of the trouble of our world!
- This Jehovah EL Elyon will be the mighty God in your life!
- This Defender will defend you. This Redeemer will redeem you. This Comforter will comfort you. This Instructor will instruct your mind to where treasures are. This Teacher will teach you where to go so that you will not fail. This reminder will remind you!
IN JESUS NAME!
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