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Speaker 1: You're listening to daily devotions with Pastor John. I'm John Stangey,

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Speaker 1: and today's devotion is inspired by First Chronicles, chapter twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: verse eleven, which says, Yours, O Lord, is the greatness

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Speaker 1: and the power, and the glory, and the victory and

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Speaker 1: the majesty. For all that is in the heavens and

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Speaker 1: in the earth, is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord,

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Speaker 1: and you are exalted as head above all. The chief

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Speaker 1: aim of our lives is to glorify God. While it's

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Speaker 1: easy to lose sight of that or become distracted with

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Speaker 1: all kinds of other pursuits, giving glory to God is

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Speaker 1: what he has designed us to do. When we give

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Speaker 1: him glory, we rob the idols in our lives of

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Speaker 1: the power they crave. When we give him praise, we're

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Speaker 1: testifying to the fact that we understand that we are

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Speaker 1: not the center of our own universe. Glorifying God involves

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Speaker 1: an acknowledgment of his great power as well. We were

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Speaker 1: powerless to do anything to change our eternal fate, yet

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ came to this earth to rob Sin, Satan,

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Speaker 1: and Death of the power that they had over us.

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Speaker 1: The power of God is infinitely greater than any other

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Speaker 1: power or force in this world. It can be tempting

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Speaker 1: in certain contexts of life to want to exalt ourselves,

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Speaker 1: but in the end, our hearts will never be satisfied

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Speaker 1: with exalting anyone or anything above our Lord. If ever,

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Speaker 1: we're struggling to understand the meaning and purpose of our lives,

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Speaker 1: this is the concept we need to return to yours. Oh, Lord,

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Speaker 1: is the glory. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege that

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Speaker 1: it is to be able to read a portion of

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Speaker 1: it together today. And Father, we're grateful that in this

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Speaker 1: portion of your word, you remind us that we are

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Speaker 1: called to give you glory. You want us to glorify

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Speaker 1: your name. You want us to spend our lives giving

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Speaker 1: you glory in all matters and in all areas. And Lord,

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Speaker 1: we know that so often it's very easy for us

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Speaker 1: to go about life in such a way that we

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Speaker 1: at times want to receive glory unto ourselves. Sometimes we

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Speaker 1: brag about ourselves, and sometimes we boast about our accomplishments

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Speaker 1: or all sorts of things that we have no business

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Speaker 1: boasting about at all. And yet, Lord, when we look

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Speaker 1: at your word, your word reminds us that we weren't

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Speaker 1: called to give ourselves glory. We weren't called to go

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Speaker 1: about life in such a way that we seek to

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Speaker 1: praise ourselves. Your desire for us is that we glorify

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Speaker 1: you and enjoy you forever through faith in your son,

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And Lord, since that's what you've designed us

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Speaker 1: to do, we pray that that's exactly what we would

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Speaker 1: carry out. We pray that we would glorify you, that

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Speaker 1: we would honor you, and that we would put you

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Speaker 1: first in all matters and in all areas. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Lord for your help, thank you for your guidance, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for creating the desire within us to do

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Speaker 1: this very thing. We commit ourselves to you now, and

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Speaker 1: we pray this all in Jesus' name, Amen,