The Giver Gets the Glory

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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We get the help; God gets the glory. That arrangement keeps us humble and happy, and keeps him supreme and glorious.

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0:00.0	January 26th, the giver gets the glory.
0:06.0	To this end, we always pray for you that our God may make you worthy of His calling and
0:12.1	may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power.
0:18.2	So that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in Him according to
0:25.6	the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:31.0	2 Thessalonians 1, 11 and 12, it is very good news that God designs His glory to be magnified
0:41.3	through the exercise of His grace.
0:45.6	To be sure, God is glorified through the power of His wrath, Romans 9.22, but repeatedly
0:53.9	in the New Testament and the Old Testament, for example Isaiah 30, 18, says that we should
1:00.8	experience God's grace so that God gets glory.
1:05.8	Ponder how this works in the prayer of 2 Thessalonians 1, 11 and 12.
1:12.8	Paul prays that God would fulfill our good resolves.
1:19.7	He prays that they would be done by God's power.
1:25.1	That is, that they would be works of faith.
1:29.4	Why?
1:30.4	So that Jesus would be glorified in us.
1:35.3	That means that the giver gets the glory.
1:39.0	God gave the power, God gets the glory.
1:41.8	We have faith, He gives the power.
1:44.8	We get the help, He gets the glory.
1:48.2	It's the deal that keeps us humble and happy and keeps Him supreme and glorious.
1:55.7	Then Paul says that this glorification of Christ is according to the grace of our God and
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