Names of God

Jehovah Nissi

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 […]

Jehovah Rohi

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 […]

El Shaddai

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 […]