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God Will Never Share His Glory With Anyone
Tuesday 15th July
Text: Acts 12:21- 23
Key verse: Psalm 95: 3 “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.”
The pastor may be highly anointed and virtuous; the preachers, singers, and others may be so gifted, talented and saintly, but they should not be the focus of the worshippers. It is God who gave them the grace, wisdom, anointing, gifts, talents, and wealth. He is the One to be worshipped. God will not give His glory to another. Ministers in the church must not direct the people's hearts to themselves but to God. We can show appreciation to man for yielding himself to God so that divine grace and virtues pass through him to bless fellow men but praise and adoration should be given to God. Denominationalism has the evil tendency of hero worship which promotes the names of their ministers and churches and not the supremacy of the name of the Lord. This principle should rule the family, human institution and nation.
God perfected beauty in the creation of Lucifer and gave him special anointing for His own glory. But a time came Lucifer began to magnify himself among the angels because of these qualities. A third of the angels began to give glory to Lucifer because he was specially made and not to God who created him in His excellent wisdom. This misplacement of praise and glory led to their evacuation from heaven and condemnation to everlasting destruction in the lake of fire, Church ministers and members must be warned against this error of Lucifer and the fallen angels.
When Nebuchadnezzar gave glory to himself and not to God for the great Babylon he had built, God reduced him to a bush animal, till he should know that the Most High ruled in the kingdom of men. When Herod received undue praise and adoration from depraved men and neither forbade them nor did he transfer this glory to God, he was killed by an angel of God and eaten up immediately by worms, Do not take God's glory and praise, neither give His glory and praise to another. Divine judgment may not come immediately but will come surely, both in this world and in the world to come Be warned. Great men and leaders must point men to Jesus and hide from being the focus.
Thought for the day: Some trust in the name of Mary, Jesus' mother. This is idolatry.
Song for the day: Take glory Almighty God, receive glory Almighty God
Bible reading for the day: Isaiah 1-3
#Horemow.
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