Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week, daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

I'm into this week on the Five-Word Prayers Daily because we're diving into this subject in our second G-themed week.

Talked about grieving last week because it's a real

thing over the holidays. And this week, we're talking about glorifying God. What a sweet

subject, I think. And we can't talk about the holidays without it. The very reason for December 25th,

not the sort of commercialized thing we've made it to be. But I want to get into things like

what glorifying

God of the holidays really means, how to bring that back into our lives, and especially this

month. And oh man, we have maybe my favorite ever Friday 5 airing on Friday with a huge

show announcement. So don't miss that. But up today, I want to share with you quickly what I've

learned about glorifying God in 2018. You up for it? Let's go. So I looked up the word glorify,

and its definition is this, to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent

than would normally be considered.

I liked this definition because I think it gives a down-to-earth definition to a word that can feel

kind of lofty and isn't maybe used as much in normal conversation.

And as I'm thinking, especially about the holidays, I think of the Christmas story itself in Luke

2 and the use of the word glory there. Mary has had Jesus. They went to stay in the stable because

there's no room in the end. An angel appears to some shepherds to announce this birth. And then it says

in verse 13, and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

glory to God and the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. I get such warm, fuzzy feelings

recalling this story. I really do. It's such a part of my childhood growing up in the church.

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