Magnify: To make great in representation; to extol; to exalt in description or praise.
To extol; to exalt; to elevate; to raise in estimation.

When people think of you, do they think of:
family / financial status / your vehicle / your house / your beauty (or lack of it) / your pets / your children / your job / your nose / your education / your temper / your sickness and troubles / loneliness / aches and pains / relatives / your great weight loss / gain - haha / your garden / music / vacations / your newest thing that you bought that everyone should also have / your church / your religion / your denomination / or do they think of the KJB that you always talk about?

What is it that you magnify in your life?

The bragging "doer!"
Do you take the credit for what 'the maker' did?  Do you brag on the increase?  Pride?
Isaiah 10:15: Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?  or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?  as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Any increase in number... it must be you... aren't you great!  (especially since these are the days of apostasy - you even say so yourself!)

Mary magnified the Lord!
That ought to surprise the Catholics, eh!
Luke 1:46,47 - And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

Paul magnified His Office!
Romans 11:13,14 - For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Not Acts 2:41 - And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine

Speaking in tongues - magnified God in those days, but not today!
Acts 10:46 - For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

Themselves against God!
Jeremiah 48:26 -  Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah 48:42 -  And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
See Romans 1:29-32 - 32: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Themselves against God's people!
Zephaniah 2:10 -  This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Lamentations 1:8,9 - Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.  Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter.  O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
See Romans 11:25; 28; 30,31

Themselves against us!
Psalm 35:26 - Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Psalm 38:16 - For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Jeremiah 18:18 - Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.  Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Nehemiah 1-6 - Sanballat and Tobiah;  2:10 - When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah *4:11 - destroy them from within.  And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
Nehemiah *5:1 - Family - wives, children, finances, etc. etc.  And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Nehemiah 4:10 - Their own rubbish, And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

A friend magnifies himself against you!
Psalm 55:12-14 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.  We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

• Proverbs 6:3 - Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
• Proverbs 16:28 - ...and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
• Proverbs 17:9 - ...he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
• Proverbs 22:24 - Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
• Proverbs 27:6 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
• Proverbs 27:14 - He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
• Proverbs 27:17 - Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
• Acts 27:3 - And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
• I Corinthians 16:18 - For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.

Magnify Modern Christianity
Their Pastor / Leader?
I Chronicles 29:25 - And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
II Chronicles 1:1 - And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
II Chronicles 32:23 - And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
Joshua 3:7 - And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
P.S.  Paul's way about pastors:  I Thessalonians 5:12,13 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;  And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

The church?  I Timothy 3:15 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
His workmanship? Ephesians 2:10 - For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Programs, buildings, etc.
The team? Acts 5:12,13 - And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.  And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Latter times heading towards last days warnings - good words; fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple; speaking great swelling words of vanity; vain words; sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; enticing words of man's wisdom;
Jude 16b - having men's persons in admiration because of advantage... (closer and closer to being the main source for all!)

God's Work?
Job 36:21-37:1-19

The Lord?
Psalm 34:1-3 - I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.  My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.  O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psalm 35:27,28 -  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalm 40:16 - Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psalm 69:30 -  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalm 70:4 - Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Malachi 1:5 - And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

God Magnifies Himself?
Ezekiel 38:23 - Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Mercy?
Genesis 19:19 - Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
Ephesians 2:1-9 - Words from Paul

The Law?
Isaiah 42:21 - The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Romans 7:7 - What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Great Commission folks vs Greater Commission from Paul!
It does have a lawful purpose: I Timothy 1:8-11 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,  For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
But not to us, if saved! Galatians 2:19 - For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Life or Death of Christ magnified in my body?
Philippians 1:20 -  According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

You might even be thinking EVERYTHING/EVERYONE is magnified against you?
Job 19:1-6 - Then Job answered and said,  How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?  These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.  And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:  Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Your Flesh?
Colossians 2:11-16- you are cut away from your flesh, but what do you feed the most?  Mind?  Spirit?  Flesh?
Romans 7:15-23 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 13:14: But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
The flesh gets it's PR time in the Tribulation when the Spirit of God comes upon all flesh - Acts 2:17 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

The Spirit of God?
It was never to be magnified, still isn't and never will be!
That is old fashioned Pentecostal hooplah and a modern Christianity lie!
Yes, we are to walk in the Spirit but not glorify it - nor magnify it - nor even talk for it!
John 14:26 - But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13,14 - Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
The Spirit of truth went right on to the word of truth in Paul's writings and into the King James Bible - But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.