Today we are going to look at “Jehovah Shalom”, “The Lord send Peace.” God delights to choose for His service – and use – those who consider themselves unworthy and unequal to such a calling. Take Gideon in Judges 6 – he is a frightened and timid young man threshing the family wheat in an […]
Let’s look at “Jehovah-Nissi” today – it means “The Lord my Banner.” The children of Israel hadn’t travelled far in their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land before they were attacked by the Amalekites. The battle wasn’t of their seeking – they were unprepared and ill-equipped. Moses encouraged them, saying that he would stand […]
Let’s do another “Jehovah”(Yahweh) name today. A very familiar one – “Jehovah-Rohi” – “The Lord is my Shepherd”. The big thing it is saying is that He always provides “pasture” for His people. But there are lots of others things too. For example – it is beautiful poetry in English that we don’t want to […]
So as promised we begin today to look at the “names of God” in the Bible. We have looked at one name, the one that appears at the very beginning of the Bible – “Elohim” – it comes 2,570 times – and means “Absolute, unqualified and unlimited energy.” He is truly an OMNIPOTENT God! Let’s […]
There is only one verse we can look at today. You may find it rather surprising! “On the first day of the month were tops of the mountains seen,”(Genesis 8:5). The month here in Hebrew is the tenth month and that corresponds to our January. On the ark what an exciting discovery that must have […]
Winston Churchill once said of a political opponent, “ He has a genius for compressing a minimum of thought into a maximum of words.” The Apostle Paul on the other hand, had the genius for concentrating brilliant pen-portraits in very few words. For example: “Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker” (Philippians 2:23). Epaphroditus is my […]
