HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD ? IT'S ALL IN HIS NAME !

5/29/2019

SOMETIMES WHEN I SIT QUIETLY AND SPEND TIME WITH GOD, I AM AMAZED AT ALL THE THINGS THAT HE MEANS TO ME. I FIND MYSELF CONTEMPLATING A LOT OF THINGS. HIS POWER. HIS STRENGTH. HIS PRESENCE AND GREATNESS. I THINK OF HIS COMMANDMENTS. HIS FEROCITY. HIS JUDGEMENT. I THINK OF HIS ENDLESS LOVE. HIS PLAN FOR SALVATION AND RELATIONSHIP. HIS PLACE IN MY LIFE. HIS WILL AND PURPOSE FOR ME. HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PERFECTION. HIS ENDLESS PATIENCE FOR MY IMPERFECTION AND STRUGGLES. HIS COVENANT WITH ME, AND HIS MARK IN MY SPIRIT AND HEART. HIS PLACE AS MY FATHER, AND MY PROTECTOR. FORMING ME, GIVING ME A FOUNDATION, PATIENTLY STRAIGHTENING ME TO BE WHO I AM. HIS. HIS CHARACTER. HIS SON. A CHOSEN SERVANT IN HIS KINGDOM. HIS. FOREVER. A PART OF HIM.

BUT YOU ARE A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, GOD’S SPECIAL POSSESSION, THAT YOU MAY DECLARE PRAISES OF HIM WHO CALLED YOU OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO HIS WONDERFUL LIGHT. 1 Peter 2:9

YET TO ALL WHO DID RECEIVE HIM, TO THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN HIS NAME, HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD. John 1:12

IF YOU DO SOME RESEARCH INTO ANCIENT TIMES AND HISTORY, YOU WILL SEE MANY NAMES THAT MANKIND USED TO CALL OUT TO GOD. MANY OF THESE COME FROM HEBRAIC ROOTS, BUT THEY ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. EL….GOD. ELOHIM….GOD, MIGHTY CREATOR. EL SHADDAI…..GOD, THE ALMIGHTY. EL ROI…..THE GOD WHO SEES ME. EL OLAM…..THE EVERLASTING GOD, THE ETERNAL GOD. YAHWEH…..LORD. ADONAI….. MY LORD AND MASTER. SO MANY NAMES TO DESCRIBE OUR GOD. AND WHAT IS SO COOL IS THAT YOU WILL FIND THEM IN ALL THE AREAS OF SCRIPTURE, FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, FROM THE TORAH, TO THE PROPHETS, TO THE WRITINGS ( PSALMS, ETC.) TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. IN FACT, THE MOST AMAZING THING IS THAT THEY ALL SPEAK INTO THE CHARACTER OF JESUS. GOD THE FATHER GAVE JESUS THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER THE ENTIRE EARTH AND HEAVEN. AND JESUS HAD THIS POWER DURING HIS EARTHLY TIME, NOT JUST AFTER HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.

“ALL AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH”. Matthew 28:18

IMPORTANTLY, JESUS GAVE HIS POWER AND AUTHORITY TO HIS DISCIPLES, ALLOWING THEM TO OVERCOME DEMONS, CURE DISEASE, TO TREAD ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS, AND TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SATAN. AND, WE HAVE THAT POWER AS WELL. IF WE CALL ON THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF JESUS, WE TOO CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS. WE TOO CAN OVERCOME DARKNESS AND THE MANY WAYS THAT IT MANIFESTS IN OUR CULTURE AND OUR WORLD. IT TAKES FAITH, AND IT TAKES BELIEF. BUT EVEN WHEN OUR FAITH IS WEAK, AND OUR BELIEF WAVERS, HE IS THERE. HE IS POWERFUL, AND LOVING, AND BOY AM I GLAD THAT HE IS. IN HIM, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD. WE CAN LET HIS LIGHT SHINE THROUGH US, AND BRING HOPE AND LIFE AND THE GIFT OF SALVATION AND RELATIONSHIP THROUGH HIM, HIS RESURRECTION, AND HIS LOVE TO ALL WHO WOULD EMBRACE HIM.

“AT THE NAME OF JESUS, EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THINGS IN HEAVEN, AND THINGS IN EARTH, AND THINGS UNDER THE EARTH”. Philippians 2:10

AND JESUS IS THE EVERLASTING GOD. THE ETERNAL GOD. HE IS THE LORD, OUR MASTER, THAT WE WILL WORSHIP AND SERVE AND PRAISE FOR ALL TIME.

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. John 3:16

ASK YOURSELF, WHO IS JESUS TO YOU ? FOR ME, JESUS IS MY EVERYTHING. MY SAVIOR, MY LORD, MY KING. MY TRUE COMPANION WHO GUIDES ME, HELPS ME IN MY STRUGGLES, CELEBRATES MY VICTORIES, AND IS ALWAYS RIGHT THERE BESIDE ME. BLESSING ME, BEING PATIENT WITH ME. FORGIVING ME. LOVING ME ENDLESSLY. JESUS IS MY EL ROI….HE SEES ME. DEEPLY. ALL OF ME. HE IS MY EL OLM…..ETERNALLY THERE FOR ME. LOVING ME. HE IS MY ADONAI…..LORD AND MASTER. THREE IN ONE.

TAKE SOME TIME AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL HIM, AND WHY. THINK ABOUT HIS POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE, AND KNOW HE LOVES YOU AND WANTS THE BEST FOR YOU. MOST OF ALL, NO MATTER WHAT YOU CALL HIM,….CALL HIM “YOURS” ! PEACE JA

“ NOW ALL GLORY TO GOD, WHO IS ABLE, THROUGH HIS MIGHTY POWER AT WORK WITHIN US, TO ACCOMPLISH INFINITELY MORE THAN WE MIGHT ASK OR THINK”. Ephesians 3:20