Who Dat Gonna Give Glory To God? Series

*Then Mother took my hand, and we went into the waiting room where there was more light. With tears running down her cheeks, she looked at me. She kept looking at my face, long and hard, staring at me. Then she turned to my dad. ‘Arnett!’ she cried, ‘he's gone and looked like you! He looks just like you!’” (2)

*Our goal is to look just like our Heavenly Father, and the more we focus on Jesus, the more we will grow to look like Him. We will be transformed to reveal His glory to others.

2. How can we do all for the glory of God? -- By a growing awareness of God’s glory, and by growing prayerfulness in our lives.

*On the night before the cross, Jesus connected God’s glory with our prayerfulness. We see this in John 14:13-14. Here Jesus said, “Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”

*Now this is not a blank check to get something wrong or selfish. The Book of James tells us that. And God is not our “genie in a bottle.” He is the Almighty, All-knowing, All-powerful God who always answers our prayers in the right way, even when the answer is not what we wanted.

*But at the same time, God makes an amazingly powerful promise to us here:

“Whatever you ask in (Jesus’) name, He will do it!” He will do it according to His perfect will, so “the Father may be glorified in the Son.” The more we pray in Jesus’ name, the more glory we will bring to God. So we need to pray a whole lot more.

*The most talked-about Super Bowl ad this year is the pro-life ad featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. This ad by Focus on the Family has been all over the news, because pro-abortion groups can’t stand to see a positive, pro-life message go out to the world.

*Tim and his mom will share their personal story centered on the theme “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.” You see, Tim Tebow would have been a victim of abortion, if his mother had followed a doctor's recommendation in 1987. In their story we can see the great connection between prayer and the glory of God.

*Pam Tebow and her husband Bob were missionaries in the Philippines in 1985, and they prayed for "Timmy" before she became pregnant. After Pam got pregnant she got sick with amoebic dysentery, a terrible intestinal infection that even put her in a coma for a while. The treatment required very strong medications. Doctors thought the medicine caused irreversible damage to Tim, so they advised Pam to have an abortion.

*Now it would have been easy for the Tebows to think, “God, what is the matter with you? We prayed for Tim, and now all this trouble.” It would have been easy to give up on prayer. It would have even been tempting to give up on God.

*Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed. But the Tebows didn’t give up! They kept on believing. They kept on praying to the Lord. And look at the glory that has come to His name. (3)