Magnify the Lord

Magnify the Lord


Psalm 81 v 1 - (KJV) Sing aloud unto God our strength.  Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

The Passion Translation says it like this - Lord, just singing about you makes me strong, So I'll keep shouting for joy to Jacob's God, my champion.




This is a beautiful verse of scripture.  Singing really does lift your spirit and especially if you are singing unto the Lord.  There is a joy that comes into our spirit that strengthens us.  It brings joy to the Lord and as Nehemiah 8v10 tells us that the joy of the Lord is your strength.

Isaiah 61 v10 says "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels".

Have you ever used a magnifying glass?

Sometimes we need to use a magnifying glass to read small print that is hard to focus on with our natural eyes.  The thing to realise is that the magnifying glass doesn't make the print bigger  but rather it magnifies the print in our view and in our eyes.  This is what happens in our worship.  We are magnifying our God and our Lord Jesus.  Knowing that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever - and God is everlasting and never changing. So when we say we are magnifying through our worship - it is not that we are making God bigger it is that as our eyes are fixed on him our focus becomes clearer and he is magnified or bigger in our view.

Whatever we focus on will be magnified in our view.  If we focus on the problem then the problem will seem to get bigger BUT if we choose to focus our eyes on our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus then everything will change in our view.  So we can find strength instead of feeling weak and helpless, peace instead of fear.

A great way to focus on him is to sing to him. I have chosen these 'moments of worship' As I was listening, my first thought was that it wasn't perfect - but then I heard the Holy Spirit say - your singing doesn't have to be perfect - as long as your singing to the one who is perfect.  And Praise Him because our God is perfect, he loves with an everlasting love and his perfect love casts out all fear.

Be encouraged to magnify the Lord with praise and worship as you lift your eyes to the one who is perfect to the one that is never changing to the one that loves you and receive his joy and strength in your life today.






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