Understanding Honor

Proverbs 24:27

Amplified Bible (AMP)

27[Put first things first.] Prepare your work outside and get it ready for yourself in the field; and afterward build your house and establish a home.

we must come to the place that we value God and value His Kingdom more than any then anything else that is in our lives or around us.

Saying God has priority in your life and how you schedule and organize your life can be two different things. In other words,we can look at how you and I schedule our lives and see whether God is the priority in our lives.

1 Corinthians 6:12

New King James Version (NKJV)

Glorify God in Body and Spirit

12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 6:12

The Message (MSG)

12Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean that it's spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I'd be a slave to my whims.

When you don't set proper priorities in our lives we become slaves to our whims.

If we don't set priorities in our lives, our circumstances will set priorities in our lives for us. When we don't set proper priorities in our lives, other people will set priorities in our lives.

2 Corinthians 8:5

New King James Version (NKJV)

5 And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.

John 5:21

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21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

When God is first amazing things will begin to happen in your life.

When love is your motive,honor will be your objective.

Honor-fix a high value upon

To honor God means that you will allow His Word to carry more weight in your life than any other influences in your life.

How much weight does God's Word carry in your life?

Are we allowing God's Word to weigh in on everything that we do and say?

1 Samuel 2:30

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30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the LORD says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

To despise God is to have the heart attitude that His Word does not carry weight with you.

Things may not be working in our lives because we are not walking in honor and we might actually be despising God.

John 5:44

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44 How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?


The honor that comes from God is like no other honor.

The honor that comes from God is the blessing of God.

Remember, the blessing is not the house, the car, the promotion,etc. Thant is the result of the blessing.

The blessing is an empowerment. It is God's ability coming on your ability to give you the ability to things that you did not have the ability to do before.

BUT IT STARTS WITH HONOR!!!

Matthew 15:8

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8 ‘ These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And[a]honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.

Ephesians 6:1-3

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Ephesians 6
Children and Parents
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”[a]

To honor your mother and your father means more then just a holiday. It means that you gives the authority to speak into your life with the full intention to obey what they say to you.

The key to our lives becoming everything everything that God wants it to be is to honor God. He has to be first and then I have to give Him the authority to speak into my life with the full intention of being obedient to what He says.

If God's Word carries weight in your life and you carry it out, then your words will carry weight in heaven and God will carry them out for you.

Proverbs 3:9

New King James Version (NKJV)

9 Honor the LORD with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;


When you honor the Lord with your possessions, you give Him the authority to speak into your life where your possessions are concerned with the full intention of obeying Him.

What is the degree of your honor? Is He really first in your life? Is He really your King?

Preached By Pastor Brad
http://springhill.cc/