Glorify

Who has the world’s best and most fanatical fans? Athletes, musicians, race drivers or other public figures, and which team or person in particular?

We love to love and identify with someone or something. It gives us a sense of belonging and the opportunity to live the vicarious victory. It’s all in good fun as long as we can stay out of strife and not be overly affected by the vicarious defeat. We have hats, t-shirts and trinkets and we give our time to support the ones we adore. And the best fans of all are the truly devoted, for who wants a halfhearted fan?

So how’s your devotion to God? Do you, identify with Him, worship Him, cheer for, and Love Him with all your heart and above all else? Align your allegiance to the Almighty! Live not in vicarious victory but true triumph by having Him in your heart. He’s on your side and you’re not just a fan but actually on His team and glorified to glorify.

Enthusiasm enables energy, lukewarmness lethargy. So don’t let the lame live in their shame but make it your aim to inspire the flame. Don’t merely observe, but get in the game, empower others also - to do the same, for God is the Greatest, and you’re called by His name!

Rom 8:28-39
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

"For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matt 5:14-16
14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
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John 15:7-8
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
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1 Cor 6:20
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
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1 Peter 4:10-11
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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2 Thess 1:11-12
11 Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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