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Clearly, those phrases can't mean that we have the ability to alter God in any way. I don't think that the definition of "magnify God" in these phrases means to actually make God "bigger" or "greater". I understand them to mean "Make God more prominent in my life, our culture, etc." Magnification doesn't make objects bigger, it alters our perception of an ...

Quite simply, we do give credit where credit is due. As a Christian I am quite happy to thank the farmer for their labors or the waitress for serving me, but I believe that it is God who provides me the food (and the farmer rain and the waitress a job). The same reasoning can be applied to all your other cases. The example of "self" however is most out of ...

There is a distinction between stewardship and provision. Christians who thank God for all things realize that it is God who gives us life, who gave us our minds to understand, our talents and skills with which we labor, our ability to learn and think, our health, who blesses the work of our hands and our relationships with others, who has enabled us to ...

the food you eat likely came from a farm or store, why not thank the farmers ? Who created the the soil, the seeds, provided the rain? Who created the farmer? if a student does well on a test and exclaims "thank God I got did well on that test," Who gifted the student with the motivation to study and the strength of mind to store and recall what ...

I believe we thank God for the condition for all these things and not for a specific thing. One day at church the pastor said that we should thank God for every good thing that happen to us and blame ourselves for every bad thing that happen, to me that is stupid. I'm used to say that God gave man two powers, the one to create and the other to destroy in ...