People are under a lot of pressure, and they yearn for a reassuring word. They may be dealing with discouragement. Discouragement The Lord has directed me to the life of David and the story of his chaos at Ziklag (1 Samuel 30) The One Year Seasonal Bible  and how he finally recovered from this trauma. David didn’t sing a sad desperate song, but one that echoed the majesty and power of God. Commanded To Sing The Bible states that “David encouraged himself in the Lord his God” (Psalm 34). He could very well have dug himself deep into depression.

He sat where his home once stood and sang, “I will bless the Lord at all times” (Psalm 34). All times—good, bad, super bad, and horrific times. Later he sang, “Oh, magnify the LORD with me” (Psalm 34:3).  What do those words mean—magnify the Lord? The word “magnify” means to “enlarge or to make bigger in perspective”—like when you use a magnifying glass or a microscope to see it more clearly. But we are not making the object any bigger; we are just changing the way we look at it. We cannot, in any way, make God any larger than He is, but we can change the perspective we have—either smaller or larger. We can be encouraged by things or depressed by things.

Reject the tendency to magnify the negative trouble you may be facing. Magnify the Lord! Say out loud all the great things He has done. Words To Live By Teach your children and grandchildren to do the same as they grow. Magnify Perhaps you may want to magnify by journaling and reading it aloud. Try it!  When you are able to magnify the Lord, He becomes larger, and when He does, all those concerns and troubles become smaller.  Turn It To Gold

Magnify His name……