Magnify, Magentize, Multiply

Magnify:to cause to be held in greater esteem or respect


Magnetize: to attract like a magnet : charm


Multiply: to become greater in number : spread

I was sitting in church yesterday morning, the "Praise and Worship" team were leading us in praise. They were singing a song about His Majesty, I did not know all the words, and luckily our church "Sings off The Wall" with the words being projected on overhead screens for people like me. I was worshiping God as we sang and singing from memory, that was a mistake. I caught myself saying the word magnetize instead of Majesty. When I heard myself I opened my eyes embarrassed someone else heard me also. "Lord we Magnetize you" is what came out instead of "Lord we magnify you".

A few minutes later our Pastor came to the front and said he felt there were those present that needed to Magnify Him in our lives. He said this two or three times, saying he felt this so strongly that by magnifying our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it makes all of our doubts, problems, etc. smaller. By making our Lord Larger in our lives, we make us, and our little problems seem tiny.

Then during Pastors sermon, he mentioned that the early church was "added to daily, after the Holy Spirit had come." Or Multiplied.

Well here I am, with these three words in my brain, trying to understand what God was trying to say to me, and then it seemed to all fit together like a puzzle. When we Magnify our Lord, He becomes larger in our lives, because we see more and more of Him as we shift our priorities. Then we receive the Holy Spirit and become even closer to Him and His will, We take on an attitude of service, and worship and others notice, they are attracted to our new found love for Him, thereby becoming attracted or magnetized by what we are saying, how we are living, and who we are serving. This also attracts others to us and we get more and more chances to tell them about our relationship with Jesus. Then others come to know Him, and His children are multiplied and added to "daily".

OK, Magnify: " to cause to be held in greater esteem or respect". That is not the normal definition that we think of for magnify. Usually it is a microscope, or a magnifying glass or some item that has the power to make things larger so we can see them better. Bingo, there is is, make things so that we can see them better. If you really concentrate on something, you see it better, you understand it better. Remember those paintings that were popular a few years back, you know the ones that had a picture hidden inside another picture? Everyone said: "You have to not focus your eyes, to see it, there see it it's a sailing ship"? OK, I have a confession to make, I never saw it, I just pretended, so that you would stop treating me like I was stupid because I couldn't see it. You can magnify your attention on an object or person and they seem to become larger because there are less distractions. So how, then, do we Magnify God? By concentrating on Him and nothing else. Concentrate on Him, everything about Him, His word, His praise songs, His love for us, spend more time on the things of Jesus and less on the things of US, and guess what? He is magnified.


Magnetize: " to attract like a magnet: charm."
Remember science, magnetism, you could rub a magnet with another piece of iron and the piece of iron would obtain the magnetic properties of the magnet.(This was not easy, it took a lot of rubbing.) So, basically, spending allot of time with someone will rub off on you. If they are strong Christians, they will have an affect on you ,and if they are not Christians at all they will have an affect on you. How do you sharpen a knife? Rubbing it against another piece of iron that has a rough texture. Sometimes this means that if your not living the way that God wants you to, it may take someone who "rubs you the wrong way' to get you to see you need to be sharpened, or magnetized.

Multiply: " to become greater in number: spread"
Spread: So when you spread peanut butter on your bread, your really multiplying? Well, not really, because your not adding to the peanut butter, unless you put your knife back in the jar and get more. This is more like when you spread the flu. To become greater in number. Since Baylor QB Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy this last season, I am sure that the Baylor Football program had a growth in the number of season tickets being sold for next season. The Baylor Fans, multiplied, because of success. We, as humans, tend to be attracted to quality, good, and winners, things that we see as good. If we see a individual that seems to have it all figured out, who is serving the Lord Jesus, without failing, without doubt without wavering, then we are attracted to that person. And this means multiplication of people that want to believe and live like this also.

So there you go : Magnify, Magnetize, and Multiply. Magnify Him so that everything else is not nearly as important. Magnetize: sometimes this take "rubbing someone the wrong way" or irritation, and Multiply: If we get Magnify and Magnetize right, Multiply will happen, in number of those that want to know why we are like we are.

Acts 5:14
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.

So Magnify: make Him larger and us smaller.
Magnetize: reflect Jesus so that others are drawn to Him through our lives.
Multiply: If we Magnify and Magnetize, then the church will surely Multiply.