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Jehovah Shammah

Posted in Knowing God, Names of God on February 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“The city shall be 18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘The LORD is there.'” Ezekiel 48:35 

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. Psalm 139: 7-8

God is Jehovah Shammah “The Lord is there.”  Do you know that God is everywhere?  There is no place we can hide from God.  We should make it a point to recognize the presence of God wherever we go.  It is a great comfort to know that whatever challenges life brings us God is there.  He is always with us.  We are guaranteed that He will never leave nor forsake us.

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Jehovah Shalom

Posted in Knowing God, Names of God on February 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it The LORD is Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.  Judges 6:24

 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.  John 14:27

God is Jehovah Shalom “The Lord is Peace.”  We have peace in God.  Jesus gives us His peace.  The kind of peace we have in Jesus is the kind that surpasses all understanding.  Jehovah Shalom gives us peace even when trouble is all around us.  Jehovah Shalom is so good that He even causes our enemies to live at peace with us.  We are told to live peacefully with all men.  Are you frustrated or troubled then call on Jehovah Shalom.

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Jehovah Rohi

Posted in Knowing God, Names of God on February 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »

1The LORD is my shepherd,
         I shall not want.
    2He makes me lie down in green pastures;
         He leads me beside quiet waters.
    3He restores my soul;
         He guides me in the paths of righteousness
         For His name’s sake.
    4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
         I fear no evil, for You are with me;
         Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
    5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
         You have anointed my head with oil;
         My cup overflows.
    6Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23

God is Jehovah Rohi “The Lord, my Shepherd”.   God is our shepherd.  David was a shepherd and wrote Psalm 23 describing God as his shepherd.  We can take great comfort in knowing that God shepherds us.  We are referred to as sheep by Jesus in the New Testament.  Jesus says that His sheep know His voice.  Jesus lays down His life for His sheep.  If one sheep goes astray Jesus will leave the other sheep to find the one lost sheep.  Sheep are lost without their shepherd.  Sheep need their shepherd for everything.  The shepherd guides the sheep, protects the sheep, feeds the sheep and will even die for the sheep.

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Jehovah Rophe

Posted in Knowing God, Names of God on February 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to You; For You are the LORD our God.” Jeremiah 3:22

 ‘For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the LORD, ‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying: “It is Zion; no one cares for her.”‘ Jeremiah 30:17

God is Jehovah Rophe “The Lord who heals.”  God is our healer.  He heals us physically, emotionally, spiritually, in all areas of our lives.  There is nothing the Lord can’t heal us from.  Are you sick in your body?  Then call on Jehovah Rophe.   God desires that we walk in healing and wholeness.  Sickness is not the will of God for our lives.

When Jesus came to earth the bible says that He healed the people of all their diseases.  People would bring the sick and Jesus would heal them.  Jesus not only healed the physical ailments but He also healed us spiritually.  Jesus died for us so we have been healed from sin and death.  Healing belongs to us because God is Jehovah Rophe.

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Jehovah-Jireh

Posted in Knowing God, Names of God on February 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” Genesis 22:14

One of the Hebrew names of God is Jehovah-Jireh which means “The Lord will provide.”  The Lord will provide all of our needs.  We do not have to worry about what we will eat, where we will live, what we will wear because God is Jehovah-Jireh.

We should not rely on other things or people to supply our needs.  God has promised to provide for each one of us.  Whatever the situation and whatever our need we know that God provides in that moment and in that season.

What is your need?  Ask God because He is Jehovah-Jireh.

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“I AM WHO I AM”

Posted in Knowing God on February 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »

13Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”  14God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”  Exodus 3:13-14

Before God appeared to Moses, the Israelites knew God to be the God of their forefathers.  God was referred to as the God of Abraham, God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.  When God appeared to Moses and told Moses that he was being sent to Egypt to free Israel, Moses asked God His name.  God responded “I AM WHO I AM”.  In other words, there is no one like God.  He is who He is.  He exists within Himself.  There is no one that created God; He is the creator of all things.  God does not change.  He is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.  We cannot fully comprehend who He is.  He is the beginning and the end.  He is eternal.  In God we have our being.

God had not revealed Himself as “I AM” before Moses.  So when Israel spoke about God, they referenced Him by the God that the forefathers worshipped.  In other words, there were those that worshipped other gods but Abraham, Isaac and Jacob worshipped God, so that is what Israel referred to until God revealed Himself as LORD to Moses.  He is Master.  He is above all names.  He is above all other gods.  He is Jehovah – Lord, the omnipotent One.

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Knowing the Father

Posted in Knowing God on February 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »

 25″O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

 26and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”  John 17:25-26

In the Old Testament the Law and the Prophets made sin known.  People’s understanding of God was limited to the law.  Many saw God as a judge or law giver.  When Jesus came to the earth He revealed to us God the Father.  Jesus said He only did and said what He saw the Father doing.  Whenever someone had an encounter with Jesus they had an encounter with the Father. 

Through the life of Jesus we can get to know the Father.  In the above scripture Jesus is praying to the Father how He has made the Father known to us who believe.  By making the Father known to us we can also know the love of the Father and the love that Jesus experienced is also in us.

Too often we rely on our own viewpoint of God in our quest to know Him.  We rely on what we see or have experienced in our own lives.  Jesus points us to the Father.  His life is a reflection of God the Father.  So if Jesus did what the Father was doing then we can know this: That God loved us so that He clothed Himself in flesh, came and lived with us, taught us, healed us, died for our sins, arose from the dead, and clothed us in His righteousness.  God is in us and we are in Him.  Now that the Father is made known in us, let us be a reflection of Him so that we may make Him known to the world.

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Bible Reveals God

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:29

God has revealed Himself through His word.  In order for us to get to know God’s ways and heart we must study His word.  What is revealed about God in His word belong to us.  God desires for us to get to know Him.  As we spend time in His word and in His presence, He will reveal more things about Himself to us.

So let’s take a journey together and explore the scriptures that point us to knowing God more.  As we study the scriptures the Holy Spirit will reveal the nature and heart of God.  As we seek Him, He will draw closer to us.  The more we know about God the more intimate we become with Him.  We will never learn every detail about God but each day we can learn a little more about our Heavenly Father.  We have all of eternity to get to know God.

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