May 1 Devotion - Knowing God through His Names - Part 2 - Jehovah Jireh

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Every time we hear the word Yahweh, or every time we see LORD in the English Bible, this is a proper name built out of the word for “I am” and reminding us each time that God absolutely is.

Compounds of Yahweh (or Jehovah in English): are designations or titles which reveal additional facts about God’s character.

Jehovah Jireh (Yireh): “The Lord will provide.” Stresses God’s provision for His people. The name memorialized by Abraham when God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of his son Isaac.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

Genesis 22:13-14 King James Version (KJV)

وَإِذْ تَطَلَّعَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ حَوْلَهُ رَأَى خَلْفَهُ كَبْشاً قَدْ عَلِقَ بِفُرُوعِ أَشْجَارِ الْغَابَةِ، فَذَهَبَ وَأَحْضَرَهُ وَأَصْعَدَهُ مُحْرَقَةً عِوَضاً عَنِ ابْنِهِ. 14 وَدَعَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ اسْمَ ذَلِكَ الْمَكَانِ «يَهْوَهْ يِرْأَه» (وَمَعْنَاهُ: الرَّبُّ يُدَبِّرُ). وَلِذَلِكَ يُقَالُ حَتَّى الْيَوْمِ «فِي جَبَلِ الرَّبِّ، الإِلَهِ يُرَى».

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

وَإِنَّ إِلَهِي سَيَسُدُّ حَاجَاتِكُمْ كُلَّهَا إِلَى التَّمَامِ، وَفْقاً لِغِنَاهُ فِي الْمَجْدِ، فِي الْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ.

Philippians 4:19

For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

إِنَّهُ يُوْصِي مَلاَئِكَتَهُ بِكَ لِكَيْ يَحْفَظُوكَ فِي جَمِيعِ طُرُقِكَ.

Psalm 91:11

As God provided for Abraham and as we are promised that God shall supply all our needs, physical, emotional and spiritual, I and you should live a worry free life in complete dependence on God and in total awareness that He is our provider, to the point that God has appointed angels to keep us in all our ways. We may be tried as Abraham was but not necessarily to that deep of a trial; however we have total confidence that we shall evolve victorious because God is our provider.

Watch and listen to this song: https://youtu.be/y9h-LPV3h2Y

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, thank You for Your unfailing, inseparable, deep and everlasting love for me, Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace upon my life. Jehovah Jireh, I thank You for providing for me all my life and I know I can depend on You to continue providing because You are Jehovah Jireh my provider. In the name of The King of kings and Lord of lords, in the Holy Name of Jesus my Lord and Saviour, I pray. To Him be the glory, the power, the dominion, the majesty and the blessings before all time and now and forever and ever and unto ages of all ages.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein

April 28 Devotion - Knowing God through His Names - Part 1 Day 4

(5) Kurios: Greek word translated “Lord.” Stresses authority and supremacy. It is used mostly as the equivalent of Yahweh of the Old Testament. It too is used of Jesus Christ meaning God or Deity 

(6) Despotes: Greek word translated “Master.” Carries the idea of ownership.

(7) Father: A distinctive New Testament revelation is that through faith in Christ, God becomes our personal Father. Father is used of God in the Old Testament only 15 times while it is used of God 245 times in the New Testament. As a name of God, it stresses God’s loving care, provision, discipline, and the way we are to address God in prayer.

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, Adonai, thank You for Your inseparable, unfailing, deep and everlasting love for me and Your abundant blessings in my life. God I put my life in Your hands Elohim. I pray that Your covenant will be fulfilled in my life El-Shaddai. You are my everlasting God El Olam. I submit to Your supremacy El Elyon. I thank You for providing for me all my life and I know I can depend on You to continue providing for You are Jehovah Jireh. My LORD Jehovah Elgibhor, fight all my battles for me and give me peace Jehovah Shalom. Heal my body and my spirit my Jehovah Rapha. In the name of Theos, The King of kings and Lord of lords, in the Holy Name of Jesus my Lord and Saviour, I pray. To Him be the glory, the power, the dominion, the majesty and the blessings forever and ever and unto ages of all ages.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein

April 27 Devotion - Knowing God through His Names - Part 1 Day 3

(3) Adonai: Like Elohim, this too is a plural of majesty. The singular form means “master, owner.” Stresses man’s relationship to God as his master, authority, and provider. In the Old Testament, YHWH is more often used in God’s dealings with the Jewish people, while Adonai is used more when He deals with the Gentiles.

(4) Theos: Greek word translated “God.” Primary name for God used in the New Testament. Its use teaches:

A. He is the only true God

B. He is unique

C. He is transcendent

D. He is the Saviour. This name is used of Christ as God

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, Adonai thank You for Your inseparable, unfailing, deep and everlasting love for me. Jehovah Jireh thank You for providing Your abundant blessings in my life. Theos I put my life in Your hands Elohim. I pray that Your covenant will be fulfilled in my life El-Shaddai. You are my everlasting God El Olam. I submit to your supremacy El Elyon. Thank You for healing my body and soul Jehovah Rapha. Thank You Jehovah Maccaddeshcem for sanctifying me. Thank You Jehovah Rohi for guiding me and directing me. Thank You Jehovah Tsidkenu for Your grace of making me righteous through the redemptive work of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jehovah Elgibhor I pray. Amen.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein

April 26 Devotion - Knowing God through His Names - Part 1 Day 2

(2) Yahweh: a form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible and is built on the word for "I am." The name came to be regarded by Jews as too sacred to be spoken. Comes from a verb which means “to exist, be.” God’s name is almost always translated LORD (all caps) in the English Bible. In the middle ages, in English, Yahweh became Jehovah. Yahweh is present, accessible, near to those who call on Him for deliverance, forgiveness and guidance.

So every time we hear the word Yahweh, or every time you see LORD in the English Bible, you should think: this is a proper name built out of the word for “I am” and reminding us each time that God absolutely is.

Compounds of Yahweh (or Jehovah in English): Strictly speaking, these compounds are designations or titles which reveal additional facts about God’s character.

•     Jehovah Jireh (Yireh): “The Lord will provide.” Stresses God’s provision for His people. The name memorialized by Abraham when God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of Isaac.

And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” Genesis 22:14

•     Jehovah Nissi: “The Lord is my Banner.” Stresses that God is our rallying point and our means of victory; the one who fights for His people. This name commemorates the desert victory over the Amalekites in Exodus 17.

And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner

•     Jehovah Shalom: “The Lord is Peace.” Points to the Lord as the means of our peace and rest. The name given by Gideon to the altar he built after the Angel of the Lord assured him he would not die as he thought he would after seeing Him.  

So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it The-Lord-Is-Peace. Judges 6:24  

•     Jehovah Rapha: "The Lord Who Heals" both in body and soul. In body, by preserving from and curing diseases, and in soul, by pardoning iniquities.

…For I am the Lord who heals you. Exodus 15:26

•    Jehovah Maccaddeshcem: “The Lord your Sanctifier.” Portrays the Lord as our means of sanctification or as the one who sets believers apart for His purposes. God makes it clear that He alone, not the law, can cleanse His people and make them holy.

‘…that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.’ Exodus 31:13

•     Jehovah Rohi: “The Lord my Shepherd.” Portrays the Lord as the Shepherd who cares for His people as a shepherd cares for the sheep of his pasture. After David pondered his relationship as a shepherd to his sheep, he realized that was exactly the relationship God had with him, and so he declares:

The (Jehovah Rohi) Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalms 23:1

•     Jehovah Tsidkenu: “The Lord our Righteousness.” It is God alone who provides righteousness to man, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who became sin for us “that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him”.

Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Jeremiah 23:6

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21

•     Jehovah Shammah: “The Lord is there.” The name ascribed to Jerusalem and the Temple there, indicating that the once-departed glory of the Lord had returned.

“..and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE.” Ezekiel 48:35

•     Jehovah Sabaoth: "The Lord of Hosts" Hosts means “hordes,” both of angels and of men. He is Lord of the host of heaven and of the inhabitants of the earth, of Jews and Gentiles, of rich and poor, master and slave. The name is expressive of the majesty, power, and authority of God and shows that He is able to accomplish what He determines to do.

The Lord of hosts is with us. Psalm 46:7

•     Jehovah Elroi: "God of Seeing" The name ascribed to God by Hagar, alone and desperate in the wilderness after being driven out by Sarah. When Hagar met the Angel of the Lord, she realized she had seen God Himself in a theophany. She also realized that El Roi saw her in her distress and testified that He is a God who lives and sees all. (Theophany means a visible appearance of God in the Old Testament period often, but not always, in human form).

Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?” Genesis 16:13

•     Jehovah Elgibhor: “Mighty God” The name describing the Messiah, Christ Jesus, as a powerful and mighty warrior, the Messiah, the Mighty God, will accomplish the destruction of God’s enemies and rule with a rod of iron.

Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Revelation 19:15

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father thank You for Your inseparable, unfailing, deep and everlasting love for me. Jehovah Jireh thank You for providing Your abundant blessings in my life. God I put my life in Your hands Elohim. I pray that Your covenant will be fulfilled in my life El-Shaddai. You are my everlasting God El Olam. I submit to your supremacy El Elyon. Thank You for healing my body and soul Jehovah Rapha. Thank You Jehovah Maccaddeshcem for sanctifying me. Thank You Jehovah Rohi for guiding me and directing me. Thank You Jehovah Tsidkenu for Your grace of making me righteous through the redemptive work of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jehovah Elgibhor I pray. Amen.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein