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Friday, September 17, 2010

Yahweh-Raphah:  
"The Lord Who Heals" (Exodus 15:22-26). From rophe ("to heal");
implies spiritual, emotional as well as physical healing. God heals body, soul and spirit.


 When God first revealed Himself to the people of Israel after their deliverance from Egypt, He called Himself "the Lord Who Heals."
 He didn't just describe Himself as a healer -- He actually gave Himself that name. In Exodus we God making the following declaration "For I am the LORD who heals you."

One of God's names is "The One Who Heals" or we could just say "Healer."
 Certainly God heals physically. Yet we should not limit our thinking on this. God heals, or makes whole and sound, everything that He touches. (So, if we need healing, our plan should be to get closer to God.)
 The idea of making whole and sound is what we should focus on. God, by His nature, makes things whole. He IS a healer. A healer of bodies, of minds, of relationships, of nations  whatever needs making whole and sound. The important point is to realize that we need not convince God to heal, because that is His very nature.

Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah

As Christian how long do you sit with your head in the sand?  Do you know what is going on at your child school?  Have you ever even seen a Qur'an (Koran) do you know what it says about you and I?




A Memo from your Father to you

Yea, Yea Yea I know I posted this one before, but I had to repost it, something about this I just want to make sure that we all get it!!!!!

So did you get it???
 You know what !!!
Did you get the memo???
Okay just in case you didn't here it is :)


MEMO FROM GOD:

Effective immediately, please be aware that there are changes you need
to make in your life. These changes need to be completed in order that I
may fulfill my promises to you to grant you peace, joy and happiness in
this life. I apologize for any inconvenience, but after all that I am doing, this seems very little to ask of you. I know, I already gave you the 10 Commandments. Keep them. But follow these guidelines, also.

1. QUIT WORRYING
Life has dealt you a blow and all you do is sit and worry. Have you
forgotten that I am here to take all your burdens and carry them for
you? Or do you just enjoy fretting over every little thing that comes
your way?

2. PUT IT ON THE LIST
Something needs done or taken care of. Put it on the list. No, not YOUR
list. Put it on MY to-do-list! . Let ME be the one to take care of the
problem. I can't help you until you turn it over to me. And although my
to-do-list is long, I am after all, God. I can take care of anything you
put into my hands. In fact, if the truth were ever really known, I take
care of a lot of things for you that you never even realize.

3. TRUST ME
Once you've given your burdens to me, quit trying to take them back.
Trust in me. Have the faith that I will take care of all your needs,
your problems and your trials. Problems with the kids? Put them on my
list. Problem with finances? Put it on my list. Problems with your
emotional roller coaster? For my sake, put it on my list. I want to help
you. All you have to do is ask.

4. LEAVE IT ALONE
Don't wake up one morning and say, "Well,! I'm feeling much stronger now,
I think I can handle it from here." Why do you think you are feeling
stronger now? It's simple. You gave me your burdens and I'm taking care
of them. I also renew your strength and cove! r you in my peace. Don't you
know that if I give you these problems back, you will be right back where
you started? Leave them with me and forget about them. Just let me do
my job.

5. TALK TO ME
I want you to forget a lot of things. Forget what was making you crazy.
Forget the worry and the fretting because you know I'm in control. But
there's one thing I pray you never forget. Please don't forget to talk to
me - OFTEN! I love you. I want to hear your voice. I want you to include
me in on the things going on in your life. I want to hear you talk about
your friends and family. Prayer is simply you having a conversation with
me. I want to be your dearest friend.

6. HAVE FAITH
I see a lot of things from up here that you can'! t see from where you
are. Have faith in me that I know what I'm doing. Trust me, you wouldn't
want the view from my eyes. I will continue to care for you, watch over
you, and meet you! r needs. You only have to trust me. Although I have a
much bigger task than you, it seems as if you have so much trouble just
doing your simple part. How hard can trust be?

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Yahweh Yireh (Lord Provider)


Yahweh Yireh  The Lord will provide. Yahweh Yireh, which is translated the "Lord Provider".  Simple in and of itself, but the word "reh" actually means to see.  The word Yireh is then more accurately translated to see beforehand!  So it actually has the richer and deeper truth of His omniscience!  He is the Lord who sees our need beforehand and thus provides for us in every situation.  What a comfort to know that the Lord can and will provide for you because He has seen and knows your need far before you even knew you had one!  We are truly loved with an everlasting love - demonstrated on the cross, partaken of today.

Abraham named this place after Jehovah (Jehovahjireh ) for provided a ram to sacrifice in place of Isaac. (Genesis 22:14).
Jehovahjireh : as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen."

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)
 The Lord will provide the word of God tells me that it never seen the children of God begging for bread.  So let us trust in the Lord with all of our heart and soul.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? (Matthew 6:25-26)

Are you starting to see a theme here? My heavenly Father will provide, for he did not bring any of us this far to leave us. He did not leave Abraham on that mountain alone, he went with Abraham into the valley of death and Abraham did not fear instead he trusted in the Lord God and was blessed.  Isn't it time we start to trust in the Father, since we are his children, will he provide for his own???
 To me this picture speaks volumes of our Lord and how he is our provider and he carries when we can not bare up our own burden.  Thank you for your provision for the body.


Wednesday, September 15, 2010

WHO IS YEHOVAH?

As the Gospel of John has established, the Godhead is composed of two Godly beings: 
Theos - "The God" and "The Logos" - God's spokesman.  Yehovah is simply their surname - and applies to both these personages of the God Family - just as every member of any family all have the same last name. 
"For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named"   (Ephesians 3:19) 
A name so sacred that it could not even be spoken out loud by the people of ancient Israel.
In the Hebrew scriptures it was represented by four letters called the Tetragrammaton" So this sacred name would be represented in English by the four letters - YHVH.  Since the vowels of the sacred name are not indicated and the name wasn't spoken out loud for centuries, the exact pronunciation has been lost. Many may debate over the true pronunciation of God's Holy Name. Some, pronounce it Yahweh -  Others say Jehovah. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible tells us Yehovah - pronounced {yeh-ho-vaw'} - is the correct Hebrew  rendering.   should be aware of the true Hebrew names of our Father and our Savior, as well as the proper incidence of their Biblical usage
But I find fault in those who insist that these other renderings are just generic terms that should not be used.  Strong's Exhaustive Concordance tells us:  Jesus in Greek, is of Hebrew origin and is taken from the name Yehoshua, which in English is translated as Joshua(Jesus a bad translation of the true name of son of God in English we would simple address him as Joshua and the Jews would address him as Yeshua).  Yehoshua, in Hebrew means "Yehovah Saves". 
Christ - in Greek, is Christos, meaning the Anointed One - or the Messiah.
Keep in mind this information is shared with you in the hopes to get you to seek out and discover more about our savior. How can we defend our faith if we do not understand it. I encourage each of you to study the old text and discover the God of Abraham the great provider, the Great I' AM, all parts of the whole which we know as our Heavenly Father. To learn of our savior and his name the name we are saved by to better explain to those who are lost and have not meet him or know him.  If you are ever blessed to read the Torah its like reading a love story or a family history, different from the English Old Testament .


Lord like you did with Mose's (Moshe) reveals yourself to us in a way that we have never known you. It is my prayer and hope that both Father and son would reveal themselves to us Lord God grant us the wisdom and insight to draw near to you as children. We come to you with open arms to receive what you would have to know.
 

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

El Roi (The God Who Sees Me)

El Roi is one of the biblical names of God found in the Hebrew Bible. 
In the Hebrew bible in the Book of Genesis, Hagar called the divine protagonist, El Roi. Roi means “seeing". To Hagar, God revealed Himself as “The God Who sees".
Hagar is a distraught, frightened, pregnant, non-Israelite slave girl who encounters God in a desert, and feeling she has been miracuously aided by Him, calls him this name.
El Roi: The name El means “God, god, mighty one, strength". It is used to denote “either the generic name ‘god’ or ‘the God’ of Israel". In some instances of a significant encounter with Elohim, believers would form a compound of El and a word which described God’s revelation of Himself in that encounter.


Even the most watchful parent must sleep.  Scripture makes it clear our Heavenly Father neither  slumbers nor sleeps,  He is diligent ,He is aware of  all that happenings in your life and mine.
El Roi, a God so watchful that He is said to note even when the smallest sparrow falls to the ground. This is our Father who watches over us daily, whether or not you recognize his presence. He is aware of you though and the fact that we sometimes find ourself in desolate places, He is always near, helping us find a path through troubles, working out His plans for our lives. Lord thank you that you are always there that you will never leave us and that you care so dearly for us. Fill us with your spirit and may our steps be guide by you.  Thank you Father for loving us so much.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Adonai (master)

Hebrew word for "Lord"  he introduces himself to Moses in Exodus as Adonai in the Torah.  Did you know that  Adonai,  is used 439 times in the Hebrew Bible? In the Tetragrammaton YHWH appears approximately 6000 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. To avoid violating the commandment "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain" (Exodus 20:7), sometimes Adonai was used as a substitute for Yahweh (YHWH) or the vowels "a-o-a" were inserted between the letters "YHWH" to remind people to not pronounce the name "Yahweh"
  Christian Bible translators have misinterpreted this to mean that God's name is Jehovah, which is the result of combining the vowels of 'Adonai' with the consonants YHWH (written using Latin orthography in which "J" and "V" are pronounced as the English "Y" and "W").  Adonai (Lord) means "master", "owner", or "sovereign ruler" and generally denotes the authority and position of God. Adonai is first used in (Genesis 15:2) where Abram asked, "Lord Yahweh [Adonai], what will You give me, seeing I go childless...?" The word Adonai, in reference to God, occurs 300 times in the Hebrew text especially in Isaiah, Ezekiel (200 times), and Daniel (10 times in the 9th chapter). It is usually written "Lord" in most English Bibles, "Jehovah" in the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Bible, and "Yahweh" or "Lord" in the online World English Bible.

Primarily, the name Adonai stresses man's relationship to God as his Master, Authority, and Provider. Some examples of where the name "Adonai" is used...

  Yahweh [Adonai] appeared to him (Abraham) by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. (Genesis 18:1)
 He said, "No; but as prince of the host of Yahweh [Adonai] am I now come." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship..." (Joshua 5:14)
Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh [Adonai]." (1 Samuel 1:15)
Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord [Adonai]! Selah.(Psalm 68:32)  
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord [Adonai] sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the temple . . . One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Hosts! The whole earth is full of His glory!" The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of Him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.(Isaiah 6:1-4)See also (Exodus 4:10); (Judges 6:15); (2 Samuel 7:18-20); (Psalm 8, 114:7),  (Psalms 135:5),  (Psalms141:8), (Psalms109:21-28)

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. (Exodus 3:14)  I have in my library a copy of the Torah, and the Nevi'im and the Kethuvim and the Jewish bible, from these document was birth what we today call the Old Testament via Greek and Latin and many English translation.  For me to understand a thing, one must first go to the root or the beginning.  As I desire for my children to know me, I know my Heavenly Father desire for his children to know him. Adonai is one of the many aspect of our Father. Should each of not endeavor to know our Father better to love what he loves and hate what He hates.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Elyon (most high)

Elyon (Biblical Hebrew עליון'; Masoretic ʿElyōn; traditionally rendered in Samaritan as illiyyon) is an epithet of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. ʾ
The name ʿElyōn 'Most High' standing alone is found in many poetic passages, especially in the Psalms. 

  For you have said in your heart:  I will ascend into heaven,  I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
  I will also sit on the mount of the congregation  On the farthest sides of the north;  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,  I will be like the Most High.(Elyon)  (Isaiah 14:13–14)

’Elyōn is in other places firmly identified with God, as in 2 Samuel.
God thundered from heaven,
and the Most High (Elyon) uttered his voice. (2 Samuel 22:14)
Also:in Psalms in the Hebrew bible we  again the name of the Most High
For you, God, are Most High (ʿelyōn) over all the earth;
you are raised high over all the gods. (Psalms 97:9)

Please keep in mind I'm not trying to change you thought process on how you identify our Heavenly Father, but simply to understand what the names meant. When the Hebrews uttered Elyon it simply meant the Most High. This simple one more attribute of our Heavenly Father, as his child I want to know all I can about my Father as He is proud of me I'm also very proud of who my Heavenly Father and what he has and is still doing for his children.
     

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Want you join me a moment of prayer.  Lord God it is you whom I put my trust. I'm here for your pleasure and joy. I glorify you for your name is above all names. Lord from what the enemy did cause destruction I pray that you will bring honor to your name and that you will be glorified above all else. Bless those that have lost love one's comfort those that feel lost and the pain never seems to end for them. Lord God let every voice that sing sing praises to your name



Do you know why I worship God

Do you know why you worship God?  Or why you refuse to believe that He is who he said he is?







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