Give God The Glory

At the heart of this powerful message lies a divine mandate that echoes from Isaiah 42:8—God will not share His glory with another. We're confronted with the sobering account of Herod Agrippa from Acts 12, who dressed in radiant silver garments and accepted worship from the crowd, only to be struck down by an angel and consumed by worms because he refused to give God the glory. This isn't just ancient history; it's a mirror held up to our own lives. The message challenges us to examine where we're directing our praise and whether we're subtly stealing glory that belongs to God alone. We learn about three angels God created—Gabriel for delivering His word, Michael for spiritual warfare, and Lucifer for worship. When Lucifer fell through pride, God didn't replace him with another angel; He created us. Our worship carries a weight angels can never know because we worship from redemption, not just proximity. We've been lost and found, broken and healed, dead in sin and made alive in Christ. Every time we lift our hands in genuine praise, we remind the enemy of his defeat and participate in something heaven itself leans in to hear. The call is clear: in every situation, whether we're facing courtrooms or hospital rooms, financial struggles or relational pain, we must give God the glory—not after deliverance, but in the midst of the storm.