GLORY

Glory is the opposite of shame. According to Proverbs 3:35, the wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools. Fools are the opposite of the wise, so shame is the opposite of glory. Glory is the opposite of reproach. 2 Kings 5:1 tells us that as a successful as Naaman was, there was a ‘but’ in his life because he was a leper. Glory is the opposite of failure, glory is the opposite
of defeat, glory is the opposite of bondage and glory definitely is the opposite of sorrow. The Bible says in Proverbs 12:25 that the heaviness of heart makes it stoop. When the head is down, that means something which is not glorious has happened. Whatever is causing you to bow your head in shame shall be removed today in Jesus name.                                                                                                                       

So glory is the opposite of shame. Glory is the opposite of reproach, it is the opposite of failure, it is the opposite of defeat, it is the opposite of bondage and it is the opposite of sorrow.

Who is a glory producer?

A glory producer is someone who removes shame, reproach, failure, defeat, bondage, and sorrow. When we go to the scriptures we will find a number of glory producers.                                          

The first one we will talk about is Samuel who is a shame remover. Before Samuel was born in 1Samuel 1:1-17, his mother was constantly kept in shame and sorrow. The second wife in the family made sure that Hannah was constantly reminded that she was barren but when Samuel came, everything changed. The woman who had been bowing her head in shame was able to lift up her head proudly. As soon as Samuel arrived in 1 Samuel 2: 1, you can hear what Hannah said; And Hannah prayed and said my heart rejoice in the lord, my horn is exalted in the lord, my mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in his salvation.’’

A glory producer is a reproach removal and the example here is David. Before David showed up in 1Samuel 17:22-26, Goliath had reproached not only Israel but also the God of Israel. He had boasted saying, ‘I defile all the army of Israel today’. When David showed up, he asked, ‘What shall be done for the man, who kills this giant and take away this reproach from Israel.’ The Bible in 1Samuel 49:49-52 tells us that on the same day, David knocked down Goliath, cut off his head and raised it up for everybody to see. Those who were once reproach shouted for joy.  A glory producer is someone who removes failure. Joshua was a failure remover. In Joshua 1:1-6, the Bible says where Moses failed, Joshua will succeed.

Moses brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, but he could not take them into the promise land, and so God said to Joshua, you will take these people to the land and distribute the land to them.

A glory producer is a defeat remover, and we take the example of Gideon. In judges 6:1-6, Israel was defeated totally by the Midianites such that whenever Israel was planting, the Midianites would not pay attention but when what they had planted was ready to be harvested, the Midianites would move in and take everything away from them.

 In judges 7:19-25, Gideon wiped out the Midianites and he turned the defeat of Israel to a great victory. Every defeat in your family shall be changed to victory today in Jesus name.                   

A glory producer is someone who is a bondage remover. According to Exodus 3:7-10, Israel was in serious bondage in the land of Egypt, until God raised up Moses who brought the children of Israel out of  bondage. In Exodus 15:1-6, the children of Israel sang the song of victory.

A glory producer is a sorrow remover. According to Genesis 21:1-6, when Isaac was born, the mother who had been sad for a good part of ninety years, said “God has made me laugh and all that hear will laugh with me.’’

When you know the opposite of glory; shame, reproach, failure, defeat, bondage, sorrow” then you know that a glory producer is someone who removes the opposite of glory.

“There is another way of producing glory and this has to do particularly with the youths. It is going beyond the greatness of your parent, and going beyond the greatness of your parents, and going beyond their highest expectation of you,” The most outstanding way of producing glory is to be greater than your parents and exceed their greatest expectation of you.

The Bible tells us that Abraham was great, Genesis 24:34-35; Isaac was greater, Genesis 26:12-014, and Jacob was greater than Isaac, Genesis 30:40-43. So we see a great father, Abraham, a greater son, Isaac and even a greater grandson, Jacob.

Now I know that some of your parents are great, they are already very big people, very great people and you look at them and you say ‘how can I ever catch up with this person?’ There is a God, in the heavens who can make a son greater than is his father; the God of Isaac who made him greater than Abraham. That same God is still alive and if you will allow Him, He will pick you up where you are now and make you greater than your parents in Jesus name.

Then there is this young man who exceeded his father’s expectation. His name was Elisha. In 2 kings 2:9-15, His father, Elijah, asked him, ‘I am about to go, what do you want? What do you want me to give you as a heritage?’ Elisha said to Elijah, ‘I want double portion of your spirit’, Elijah said ‘What do you think you are asking for? Don’t you your father is? The spirit that is on me called down fire at will, raise the dead, sealed and opened the heavens, and that is not enough for you?

The boy said that you are the one who asked me to make a request and that is what I have done. That is what I want. Your expectation is that I will be like you but my desire is that I will be twice as great as you.

Elijah said you asked a hard thing, but if you see me when the one who sent me comes for me, you will get what you have asked for.

So what have all these glory producers in common?

What are those things that all these glory producers have in common so that I too can become a glory producer?

1)      They all had faith. Mark 11:22-24 says And jesus answering saint unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saint shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saint. Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. If  you have faith, you will be able to remove the mountains of shame, failure, reproach, defeat, bondage and sorrow. When David was going to face Goliath, he said, I come against you in the name of the Lord of host’. He believed that there is power in the Lord of hosts. Do you believe that the mountain before you shall in the name of Jesus Christ? So it be in Jesus  name.

2)      The second thing the glory producers have in common is anointing. There is anointing of God on every glory producer. The bible says in Zech 4:6, not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Anyone who is going to produce glory must have the anointing of God

There was a special anointing on Elijah that was transferred to Elisha. There was a special anointing on Moses which was transferred to Joshua when he laid his hands on him. The Bible says in Acts 10:38, How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him . Anointing is necessary to destroy yokes. That is why every child of God who is truly born again must seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit urgently, because the anointing comes through the Holy Spirit.

3)      The third thing that these people had in common is total submission to authorities. This is total submission to the authority of parents, whether biological or spiritual. The Bible in James 4:7 says that you must first of all submit to God before you resist the devil. When you look at the example of Isaac in Genesis 22:1-18, how did Isaac became somebody who excel, and go beyond his father? It was because he surrendered completely to his father.

The father was going to offer him as a sacrifice. The father was almost 120 years old and Isaac was only fifteen. How could an old man bind a young man if the boy did not surrender?

All he needed to do was to run away. Let a fifteen year old and a hundred-twenty year old run a race and see who will win. We know who will win, but this boy surrendered.

Because Isaac surrendered to the authority of his father, God said in Genesis 22:16-18, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy only son, thine only son: That in blessing , I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed myvoice.   In other words, God said, Abraham, I swear, in blessing II will bless you and turned to Isaac, in multiplying I will multiply you. I will bless your father; I will multiply you, because you surrendered to the authority of your father.

How did Elisha manage to get the portion of the anointing of Elijah? He surrendered completely to the authority of his spiritual father. Read the story in 2 kings 2:1-8, wherever his daddy went, he went. Whatever Elijah wanted done was what Elisha would do. That was  why the father asked him, ‘what do you want?’

Let me conclude, by asking if you know that, according to the word of God, everyone who is a christian can exceed what Jesus did when he was here on earth? He said so himself in John 14:12, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. He said I opened blind eyes; you will do same, I made the lame to walk; you will do the same, I raised the dead; you will do the same. He sealed it by saying that even greater than all these you will do.

TOTAL SUBMISSION is however required to actualize all these. In Matthew 11:28-30, He said,  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laiden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

You want to be a glory producer? Wherever you go to, you want glory to be produced? You want to be one of those people who will change shame to glory, remove reproach from lives, change failure to success, change defeat to victory, change bondage to freedom, change sorrow to joy? Do you want to be one of those people, who when they arrive, miracles arrive? Then you must surrender completely to Jesus Christ today.

Total surrender to Jesus, total obedience, and willingness to do whatever He says, are all He requires. I am appealing to you to surrender your life to Jesus today. If you do so, you will have a brand new beginning. You see, the word of God is clear, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are new. If you have not given your life to Jesus and you want to do so, you want shame  to end, you want failure to end, defeat to end, you want bondage to end, you want sorrow to end, call upon Jesus where you are and ask him to have mercy on you, save your soul and write your name in the book of life.

I want you to pray this prayer with all your heart. Say Father, make me a channel of blessing, let me be a glory producer, where there is shame let me bring glory, where there is reproach, let me bring your blessing, where there is failure, let me bring success, where there is defeat let me bring victory, where there is bondage let me bring freedom, where there is sorrow let me bring joy. Father, make me a channel of blessings.     

BY PASTOR ADEBOYE'S