Magnified

There are many places in scripture that speaks about our LORD being "magnified". Below are some examples:

"I will praise the name of God with a song,
and will magnify Him with thanksgiving."
                                    Psalm 69:30

"Let all those who seek You
rejoice and be glad in You;
Let such as love Your salvation say continually,
"The LORD be magnified!"
                                    Psalm 40:16

"Oh, magnify the LORD with me,
And let us exalt His name together."
                                     Psalm 34:3

"And Mary said:
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit has rejoiced in God, my Savior."
                                      Luke 1:46-47

Now the Hebrew word for "magnify" is the word gadal. This word means to grow, become great or important, make powerful. Considering the fact that God is already all-powerful, already the greatest God, already so large that He is omnipresent, and fills everything, how can we do anything that would make Him larger or greater? 
The interesting thing about that word gadal, is that there is an imagery connected with it. The imagery is of threads or cords being twisted or twined together. It would also be the same imagery as two wrestlers so physically intertwined as they wrestle that they appear as one entity. 
So when we rejoice in our Father, when we exalt Him, praise Him, and lift our thanksgiving to Him, when we magnify Him, we become, as it were, physically and spiritually intertwined with Him, making His Person even larger, greater, and more powerful than it already is. As thousands of cords wrapped together are larger than one cord, so the people of God, joined with Him, enlarge Him!
The LORD is not the only One magnified, or enlarged. He also says in His word that He magnifies us:
"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."
                                                   Josh. 3:7
"What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him? and that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him?"                                          Job 7:17
"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...And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly."
                                                     1 Chron. 29:25, 2 Chron. 1:1

To intimately entwine ourselves with our Father through praise, and thanksgiving, through rejoicing and song, not only enlarges Him, but also ourselves before our spiritual enemies, and before man.
The entwining of ourselves with our Father is required of our walk. Jesus commanded us to be entwined with Him:
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine; neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me, you can do nothing."
                                                      John 15:4-5
"Abide" above, means to be held, kept continually, to remain as one, not to become another or different. We are entwined with Him, as we abide in Him. As we are entwined with Jesus, we are also entwined with our Father:
Jesus prayed to His Father for all who would believe in Him, "that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me...I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me."
                                                       John 17:21, 23 
Our spiritual perfecting can only come as we are entwined with Jesus, and in turn, entwined with the Father. This relationship testifies to the world that Jesus was sent from God. There is no other way for man to be entwined so intimately in our Father that we become one with him.
The result of this entwining impacts our lives tremendously.  In Romans 8, Paul talks about the results of a life entwined with Christ's and the Father's.
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"  And, "We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."
"If God be for us, who can be against us?"
                                                        Romans 8:35, 28, 31 

As the Father is magnified by our praise, thanksgiving, rejoicing, and we are entwined with His Being, He is enlarged, and we cannot be separated from Him. If we are entwined with Him, what can man or devil do to us? He even shares His glory with us, as we are joined with Him in magnification (Jn. 17:22, Rom. 8:30). 
Hallelujah! Be magnified Father! My soul and my spirit magnifies You.


Our Father is magnified.


"I Came to Magnify the LORD"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DbpMCd8-_4

"Magnificat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F33Y7OgXzM 

"10,000 Reasons"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E