Hey guys, Peter Lewis here, and I pray that this week's message encourages you to the core.

I just pray that the Spirit of God, as you listen, just gives you great faith, strengthens you,

awakens you to what really matters in the Christian faith and gives you the confidence that

no matter what's happening in the world around you, you will overcome by the Holy Spirit through

Jesus. And so be encouraged. I pray it blesses you deeply. Love you guys so much.

Amen. All right. Go to 1 John chapter 5. I want to read a lot of Bible.

If you love the Bible, say amen.

Oh.

Can I say one thing about worship?

Did you notice we were singing about giving God glory for about 40 minutes?

I used to have a hard time connecting my heart to that phrase about giving God glory. I didn't know what that meant. And usually it was accompanied by incredible melodies that I would sing. And then about 30 minutes later, I'm like,

what am I singing? Is anyone relate? I just gave some of you permission. You're like,

wait a minute. I realized that glory, one of the words

for glory in the Bible is cabot. It's the weighty glory of God. It's a weight. And the way I interpret it now,

and I'm sure there's a number of interpretations, but the way I connect my heart to those songs

that really ministers to me and I know ministers to the Lord

is that the glory of God is the goodness of God. It's everything good about God. And to give God

glory, you have to have glory. You cannot give God something that you don't have. This is why a lot of our hearts don't necessarily

connect with that song. We're like, it feels like the right thing to do to give God all the glory,

but we don't really have, we don't really know what glory is. And here's how I interpret that and get

my heart in line with that phrase and that, in those, those those choruses is that everything good in my life

every nice thing that anyone has said about me the beauty of my wife the the the glory of my

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