Hello friends, welcome to Embolden. I'm Chris Shatter, an ordinary Christian living with and learning about an extraordinary God. Welcome friends to my new series, 30 Days of Giving Glory to the Almighty God. Today's episode is Day 1, and it's inspired by Revelation 4-11.
You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, where you created all things, and by your will, they were created and have their being. And please join me in this prayer. Holy Father, loving Jesus, and ever-present Spirit, today I will exalt you. I will praise your name forever.
Great are you Lord. You are worthy to give all glory and praise. I will speak of your glorious splendor and majesty. I will tell of the power of your wonderful works, and I will celebrate your abundant goodness and proclaim your great deeds.
Amen. A few years ago, I started a prayer project. I had no problem asking God for things to happen in my life. I also didn't struggle with asking for forgiveness.
And I always added others to my prayer petitions. What I had a difficult time doing was praising God, not just thanking Him for what He has done for me, but praising Him for who He is. When I did it, it seemed silly and flowery. But as my faith has progressed, I realized how important it is for us believers to acknowledge God's magnificent power and, well, just plain awesomeness.
It helps to put our whole lives into perspective. It reminds us who really is in charge. And so I started the 30 Days of Praise series. Eventually, I went on to write 30 more Days of Praise and then 30 Days of Thanksgiving.
You can find all three of those on the emboldened website at emboldened.net and also as podcast series on this podcast. Recently, I kept seeing the word glorify in the study I'm doing about the Trinity. I started looking into the differences between praising God and giving God the glory due to Him. And I found this helpful description of Praise and Glory by Dr.
Thomas Clodier. Praise a painose. It means the excellence of a person. Glory, Doxa, means splendor and greatness.
Honor, Timet, means respect and high status or value. And it got me thinking how I need to up my praise game. God isn't just excellent in the ways He shows up in my life. He without anything to do with me or you is full of splendor and awesome in power.
Jesus's every move was to glorify the Father. The Father loved and glorified the Son. The Holy Spirit came to live in us to glorify Jesus's act of salvation and to continue the work of the Father. The Trinity uses us to glorify the work of creation, its beauty and mystery.
Author Peter Crow wrote, We glorify Him when we care more about what He wants than what we want. Even better, we glorify Him when we want the same things He wants. I'm not sure I can fully describe the glory of God through words, but I'm going to make an attempt to show how our everyday lives can be lived to give Him the glory due. Please join me on this 30 day prayer journey of glorifying God and watch as His love for us and holds into a beautiful story.
Have a great day. I hope you enjoyed this episode of The Abolden Podcast. Be sure to follow along so you don't miss any episode and check out my blog at Embolden.net.