JEHOVAH ELOHIM

 

JEHOVAH ELOHIM

THE LORD IS MY GOD

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third through the fire.

Refine them as silver is refined.

And test them as gold is tested.

And I will listen and answer them:

I will say, 'They are My people'. 

And they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

Say His Name

  

His Name is Jesus

His Name is Wonderful

His Name is Power

Prince of Peace

Say His Name

Say His Name

His Name is Jesus

His Name is Beautiful

His Name is Glorious

King of Kings

Say His Name

Say His Name

His Name is Counselor

His Name is Wisdom

His Name is Righteousness

Lord of Lords

Say His Name

Say His Name

His Name is Yahweh Shammah

His Name is Yahweh Jireh

His Name is Yahweh

God of All

Say His Name

Say His Name

His Name is Yahweh

His Name is Yahweh

His Name is Yahweh Rapha

His Name is Yahweh Ro'i

His Name is Yahweh

The Lord Is Here

Say His Name

Say His Name

His Name is Yahweh

His Name is Yahweh

Your Name is Yahweh

Yahweh Shalom

The Lord is Peace

Yahweh Shammah

The Lord is There

Yahweh, Yahweh

Yahweh Jireh

The Lord Provides

Yahweh Ro'i

The Lord is Healer

Yahweh Rapha

The Lord is Shepherd

Yahweh, Yahweh

Say His Name

Say His Name

Yahweh

Yahweh

Yahweh

The Lord Is ... Month of May

 

JEHOVAH PISTOS 
The Lord Is Faithful
2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
1 Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
FAITHFUL: trustworthy, worthy of trust; reliable.
Lamentations 3:21-23
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

And just like that Mary became a mother.

THEOS PNEUMA

God Is Spirit

God Is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

John 4:24

JEHOVAH TEHILLAH

The LORD Is My Praise

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my Praise.

JEHOVAH TSUR OLAM

GOD THE LORD IS THE ROCK ETERNAL

Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.

Isaiah 26:4

At The Remembrance of His Holy Name

 

 AT THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS HOLY NAME

Psalm 30:4

Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.

Have you forgotten Who the LORD your GOD is? He Is The ALMIGHTY GOD. He Is The Great I AM. He Is The CREATOR OF EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE and everything in them. He Is HOLY and His Name Is HOLY.

HE IS.

He Is REDEEMER, SAVIOR, HEALER.

He Is JOYBRINGER, HEARTBREAKER, TEARWIPER. He Is SINGER, SONG, MUSICMAKER.

HE IS.

He Is all of this and so much more. Come, come to the cross and see the One Whom God has Chosen to Save your souls from destruction.

Come, hurry, let us run to the cross and see this JESUS. 

• THE LORD ALMIGHTY - 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 4:8
• I AM THAT I AM - Exodus 3:14
• CREATOR - Exodus 20:11; Acts 4:24; Nehemiah 9:6 
• HOLY - Psalm 111:9; Luke 1:49; 1 Chronicles 16:10
• REDEEMER - Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 43:1; 
• SAVIOR - Isaiah 33:22; Matthew 1:21; Acts 4:12
• HEALER - Exodus 15:26; Ezekiel 47:8-10 (cf. Matthew 13:47, 4:19, John 21:6;  Jeremiah 30:17
• JOYBRINGER - Zephaniah 3:17
• HEARTBREAKER - Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 44:7; Jeremiah 24:7
• TEARWIPER - Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 21:4
• SINGER - Zephaniah 3:17
• SONG - Exodus 15:2; Psalm 118:17
• MUSICMAKER - 2 Chronicles 7:6; 2 Chronicles 5:12-13
• THE ONE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN - John 3:16

And why must we hurry? 2 Corinthians 6:2  For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation. (NLT)

Tomorrow is not promised; there is only today. And the days are shortened, time is getting away from us. So hurry, hurry to the cross and repent of your sins, turn away from the wicked devices of the heart and surrender yourselves to God through Christ. Come and receive forgiveness through the blood which Christ has shed to wash away sins ( as if they never were for God not only forgives sin but Forgets sin). 

Come, and believe that this Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son who died to make you free and bring you with Him to the place which He has prepared for you, where He lives and reigns with His Father. 

Come, let us go; let us go now. Hurry, hurry; before He leaves without us. Let us go and see Jesus in the garden, for He conquered death, hell and the grave. See the keys in His hand? Come, let us seek Him out, let us follow Him wherever He may go. Hurry, hurry.

JEHOVAH 'ERECH APPAYIM

 

JEHOVAH 'ERECH APPAYIM

(YAH-WEH 'AREK APH)

THE LORD IS SLOW TO ANGER

Nahum 1:3

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Slow to anger means more than patient, it is longsuffering or allowing for long stretches of time at a time.

John 3:16-17 tells us God loves the world of people He creates, that He didn't send His Son to condemn us but to save us.

The Bible says God is slow to anger, it doesn't say God never gets angry. Eventually, the longsuffering will end, God will move against those people and nations who have refused to repent and turn to Him; then, you better hope and pray you are not one of them.

This passage in Nahum is speaking of Nineveh, and the destruction which came upon the city and its inhabitants who refused to turn their hearts to God.

But because we know The Word of God is Living and breathing, we know that what happened then could and will happen even in our day.

To day is your day of salvation. Call upon the name of the LORD and walk in His ways today, while it is still today. Keep in His Word and His Word will keep in you.

JEHOVAH MACHASEH

 

JEHOVAH--'EMET -- GOD OF TRUTH

JEHOVAH-'EMET

THE LORD GOD OF TRUTH

Psalm 31:5

Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of Truth.

 GOD OF TRUTH

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the Truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." --John 14:6

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ. --John 1:17

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true--in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the True God and eternal life. --1 John 5:20

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and Truth. --John 1:14

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are True and faithful. --Revelation 21:5

A Shelter For Me-Psalm 61:3

As Christians, we know where to go when we are distressed: to God. Our Bibles tell us that God is many places of rest and hiding when the enemy of our souls comes against. Whether the enemy whispers in our ears that we are not enough, not worthy to be heard by God, we know that we are. When the enemy attacks us via the people we love, and who say they love us, but refuse to believe the Truth of The Word of God, we know we can run to God and He will comfort us. 

For Thou hast been a Shelter for me, and a 

Strong Tower from my enemy. 

Psalm 61:3

There is nowhere else we can go to hide, to recuperate. We are not running away from the fight, we are running to God that He might fight for us. These battles against the enemy cannot be won by sheer will power on our part. We must turn to God or we will lose the fight.

With God as our Shelter, we are covered above and below, on every corner and walled about. Psalm 32:1 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." Romans 4:7 repeats this verse "Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered." We are in the secret place of The Most High God; we are in Jesus Christ. And having overcome the enemy of our souls by His Blood and His Resurrection, we know that we are safe and sound in Him. 

With God as our Strong Tower none can come against Him and win. Many have tried and still attempt to erase God and God's Word by eradicating His people and His Church. They will not succeed. Psalm 92:7-8 "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish: it is that they should be destroyed for ever: But Thou,  LORD, art Most High for evermore." Revelation 1:18 "I AM He That Lives, and was dead; and, behold, I AM Alive For Evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death." 

Why we would turn to anything man has to offer in this world when we can turn to God every single time for every little or huge thing that comes against us? Anything or anyone that is against any part of God's Word is against God, God's people and God's church.

Now is the time to fall on our knees, beg God's forgiveness, get renewed in The Spirit and tell this world in which we live that God Is Love; that God's Love was manifested in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ for the sins of the  whole world, not just a few. 

And remember, God is as close as the next breath of air we breathe, for with Christ living in us and we living in Him, we have become one in Spirit. We are an empowered Church and God will change the hearts of those who hear and believe. 

Declare His Name

I will declare Your Name ... in the midst of the congregation, I will praise You. Psalm 22:22
The congregation is also on Google+, so I must needs declare His Name on here! 

His Name is Wonderful, Councillor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
His Name is I AM THAT I AM. Exodus 3:14
His Name is Jehovah--Jireh=The Lord Provides. Genesis 22:14
His Name is Jehovah-Shammah=The Lord Is Present. Hebrews 13:5
His Name is Jehovah-M'Kaddesh=The Lord Is Sanctifier. 1 Corinthians 1:30
His Name is JESUS-Savior, for He shall save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21
His Name is Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The Ending. Revelation 1:8
His Name is Alpha and Omega, The First and The Last. Revelation 1:11
His Name is The Lion of The Tribe of Juda, The Root of David. Revelation 5:%
His Name is The Word. John 1:1
His Name is The Light. John 1:7
His Name is The Lamb of God, Which Takes Away The Sins of The World. John 1:29
His Name is Messiah, The Christ. John 4:25
His Name is Bread of God, Bread of Life. John 6:33, 35
His Name is Light of The World. John 8:12
His Name is Good Shepherd. John 10:11
His Name is Resurrection and Life. John 11:25
His Name is Master. John 11:28
His Name is King of Israel. John 12:13, Psalm 72:17-19, 1 Timothy 1:17
His Name is The Way, The Truth, The Life. John 14:6
His Name is The True Vine. John 15:1
His Name is Jesus of Nazareth. John 18:5
His Name is The Root and Offspring of David, The Bright and Morning Star. Revelation 22:16

With His Holy Word I have declared His Holy Name unto the congregation. Amen and Amen.

F.R.O.G.

Remember this? F.R.O.G.
Fully
Rely
On
God

Starting now. For everything. God is my Provider. His Name is Jehovah-Jireh. God is my Healer. His Name is Jehovah-Ramah. God is my Righteousness. His Name is Jehovah-Tsidkenu. God is my Sanctifier. Jehovah-M'gaddisheem. God s my Glory. Jehovah-Kabodhi.

It is God who makes us holy via The Holy Spirit in a process known as sanctification. Jehovah-M'gaddisheem, The Lord my Sanctifier. "It is because of God that you are in union with the Messiah Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption." 1 Corinthians 1:30 (ISV Bible)

Who shall I be afraid of? Why should I complain? No one and no reason. I have God as my God through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ The Messiah. I live in Jesus and He lives in me. There is none that I fear, none that I should be discouraged of. Life is hard. But it's harder without a relationship not just with Christ, but in Christ Jesus.

God does not meet me halfway, but all the way: He gave His Son to the whole world as a sin offering, that sin and its consequences would be for ever overcome/conquered by His death and resurrection. The consequences, the wages, of sin is death. Jesus conquered death.

And God requires us to meet Him all the way. God calls. Jesus saves. The Holy Spirit sanctifies. We are called to salvation. We answer that call when we repent of our sins and ask Jesus into our hearts. God forgives us and replaces our sinful heart with a new heart, a new desire to love Him and make Him happy. But how do we do that? How do we make God happy?

We ask The Holy Spirit of God to make us holy, because we have learned that without holiness no one may see God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Matthew 5:8 (KJV Bible) "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10 (KJV Bible)

No one else can save us. No one else can make us holy. We need God.  We need Jesus. We need The Holy Spirit. We need to be forgiven, saved and purified. And we need it now.

(Don't you just love this painting?)

Soon Jesus will be extending His hand to His Bride and the Church will leave, along with The Holy Spirit, who has been preparing the Bride to meet her Bridegroom. This preparing stuff? Being made holy. 

In Jesus' Name - Is All Righteousness (Part 3 of 3)

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord Is Righteousness.

 

 

In the tabernacle in the wilderness near Mt. Sinai was a room

called The Holy of Holies and in this room was a golden box with a golden lid

which had two golden angels atop it.

This box and lid are known to us as The Ark of The Covenant and The Mercy Seat.

The Ark is made of acacia wood and overlaid inside and out with solid gold.

The Mercy Seat is created from one solid sheet of gold; both the lid and the angels

were hammered into shape from one sheet of gold. It was not broken in two, nor

were the angels created separately and set atop: it was solid gold.

 

Inside the Ark were three items: the pot of manna,

Aaron's rod, and the Ten Commandments

written by the finger of God into two tablets of stone.

Each item represented a period of time

in which God's people were disobedient and sinned against Him.

The manna was a symbol of when they rejected God's provision.

Aaron's rod was a symbol for when they rejected God's authority.

Tablets of stone, with

ten commandments emblazoned across them by God's finger,

symbolized their rejection of God's right standards for living.

 

 



      Why do you think that God would allow or even want these 3 items in the Ark? After all, they represented events in which God's people had deliberately sinned against God's Word. And not just God's written Word either, they had sinned against God's spoken Word, also. Exodus 10:23-28 God would speak to Moses and Moses would relay God's Word to God's people, with the expectation that they would listen to Him, for they had said that they would. But, again, they did not. The people were told to gather the manna for six days, and on the sixth day they could gather enough for two days and it wouldn't rot, which it did not. And some obeyed.
     But some went out on the seventh day and there was no provision from God, for this was God's day to rest. The seventh day of the week is the day which God had ordained as a day of rest. And to instill this command within His people, He made no provision for them. Their disobedience was made apparent when they left their homes and tried to collect the manna that had not fallen that day. We are no better.
     God's day of rest was created for God by God Himself as a Day of Rest. Though God does not grow weary, people do. And He set the seventh day aside for Himself and as an example to all people that even they need to rest in God's Presence at least every seven days. This is why the sabbath day is holy: for God is Present: JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH. "Be still and know that IAM GOD: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10. "For thus sayeth The Lord GOD, The Holy One of Israel; "In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not....And therefore will The Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for The Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are they that wait for The Lord." Isaiah 30: 15, 18.
     "Until The Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. .. And the work of Righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And My people shall dwell in a peaeable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. .." Isaiah 32:15, 17-18 In Jesus' Name is ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. The seventh day of the week was set apart from the other six days to rest in God, to be quiet before The Lord. Resting in The Lord brings us to a place of repentance and salvation in Him. Waiting on The Lord reminds us to be patient and thoughtful  in our ways before God. Confidence is Faith; it is the knowledge that what has been said is so and will be. Waiting on God and having Faith in His Word is our strength. And it is this strength that enables us to move forward when we work for The Lord.
     But God's people would not. Therefore, as stated in Isaiah 30:18 The Lord waits for us to return to Him, that we may receive His grace, praise His holy Name, receive His mercy and then be judged. Those who wait on God are blessed. As God's called people, we are blessed. For we wait on the return of His Son, Jesus Christ. Who, in the twinkling of an eye, will return and take His people home with Him. But there was a time when we, too, did not listen. And I am thankful, very thankful, that I live in a time of grace. For had I lived back in the day of Moses, I would surely have been stoned for my wicked ways. But now, I live in the Age of Grace; for Christ was crucified for my sins. And for your sins.

    
     Every body sins. "For ALL HAVE SINNED and COME SHORT of the glory of GOD." Romans 3:23. Nobody is perfect. Nobody is good enough. Nobody is worthy under their own glory. Nobody can buy or purchase their entrance into the glory of GOD. Nobody means me. Nobody means you. It does not say "Some", nor does it says "Most": God's Word tells us that ALL have sinned.
     "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. How 'bout that? How many people do you know would be willing to take the place of a murderous lying thief? Would you? Would you die for the worst sinner you can think of? Jesus did. He died for us. All of us.
     Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Because sin is in this world, it is also in us. But Jesus died for us, so we wouldn't have to die in our sins. We just have to believe that this is true. We didn't see it happen and we have yet to see Jesus face to face; that's why it's called 'faith'. Hebrews 11:1 "FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED FOR, the EVIDENCE of things not seen." See? Faith has substance, it has matter, therefore faith matters. And it doesn't take much faith to believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and that God's Word is faithful and true. It takes more faith to move mountains than it does to believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, the Lord of our lives and the Savior of our souls. "For He (GOD) has made Him (JESUS) to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the Righteousness of GOD in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21.
    Romans 10:9-11 "If you confess with your mouth The Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your hearts that GOD has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, we believe unto Righteousness; and with our mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whosoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed." Whosoever means me. John 3:16 says 'whosoever believe in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life'. Whosoever means me. You and I are the 'whosoever' when it comes to making a statement of faith in the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
     With our mouth means to speak it out loud. With our heart means to believe it whole-heartedly, not just whenever we feel like it; not just one day  out of the week; not just at the holidays, or the Holy Days. Whole-hearted Faith. As The Word says, in the paragraph preceding, "with the heart we believe unto Righteousness." Our righteousness in and of ourselves is dirty, filthy rags; but the Righteousness of Christ within us when we believe that GOD has raised Jesus from the dead is clean and pure; it is this Righteousness which makes it possible not only for us to see God, but for God to see us.
     Romans 10:13 "For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved." There that word is again: whosoever. You are that whosoever. I was that whosoever. I called upon The Name of The Lord to save me, and He did. I am crucified with Christ because I believe that He was crucified for me, and that GOD raised Him from the dead that all, including me, would be raised with Him. This promise is for everyone, even you.
     To call on God's name is to seek His face and ask for His forgiveness on your sinful ways. There was a time when I thought that some of the things I did were okay. But the closer I have become to God, I have been made aware and realized that many of the things I thought were passable in my life, are actually impossible in God's righteousness and God's holiness. And while I knew that some other things were definitely sin, I thought that as long as I didn't do them, I was okay. But I was not. Sin affects every part of a person, even if they are believing that they are not participating in it. Jesus says that if you even think about doing something wrong, you and I are already guilty of that sin. For with our hearts we believe, therefore our hearts have sinned when we think sinful thoughts, too.
     Watching people sin (movies, peep shows, adult TV shows/movies, MA ratings on games). Reading about people's sinful ways (romance/soft porn books/stories, tabloids, celeb watch, etc). Hearing people talk about their sin or participating in sin while they speak(gossip, back-stabbing, booty-watching, flirting with or without the intention of following up on where flirting leads, two-faced conversation, etc). These are offensive to me. Foul language is foul all the time, whether you give it ratings or not. It hurts my ears; it hurts my heart and my soul. And I will, have no doubt on this matter, speak up and tell you so.
      No, I am not speaking from a 'holier than thou' pulpit. I am speaking from been there, done that stance. Having lived that lifestyle and now living a righteous life in Christ, I make it a point to allow The Holy Spirit of God to work through me and sanctify me and make me holy, because I want to see GOD one of these days and Stay with Him in all eternity. I have set myself apart from livng a sinful sin-filled lifestyle. And sanctification means that I am being made holy by God's Holy Spirit for God's pleasure and God's purpose.
     This is the life and the lifestyle I preach from this pulpit wherein God has placed me. "You must be born again," Jesus told Nicodemus, a Pharisee. "How can I?" asked Nicodemus, "I am old. How can I enter my mother's womb again?" Jesus reply? "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." And then He proceeded to tell Nicodemus what I have shared here with you. Nicodemus was a whosoever, too.

How do you call on Jesus' Name for salvation? Like this. and remember, this is just an example, because God wants to hear from you from your heart with your voice:

Oh Lord my God, I have sinned and gone against Your Word and  Your Will for my life. I have lived in sin and walked in sin and my sins are all over me. Lord, search me and try me. Reveal the areas in my life where I have sinned against You. Show me me and show me You. Oh Lord God, don't let me leave this world without You. Show me me and show me You. Lord God, reveal Yourself to me. Show me in my life where You want me to be. Show me in Your Word who I am to You and who You want me to be. Show me, Lord, Who You are. Forgive me, Father God, for all my wicked ways and the wickedness of my heart, and my mouth and my mind. Cover me, Lord, with Your precious blood, which flowed from out of Your body onto me, cover my unrighteousness with Your Righteousness, Lord God, and take away my sins. Come into my heart and be The Lord of my life and The Savior of my soul. Make me to know You in all Your ways. These things I ask Lord and give You all the glory and honor and praise for, in Jesus' Name. Your Beautiful, Marvelous, Wonderful Name. Thank You, Lord, for saving a wretch like me. Thank You, Lord, for choosing to die in my place and washing away my sins. Make me holy, Lord God, send me Your Holy Spirit, that I may begin to walk the paths of Righteousness which You have placed me on. Amen.

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord Is My Righteousness.

In Jesus' Name is All Righteousness. In Jesus' Name is All P:ower. In Jesus' Name is All Healing. In Jesus' Name is All Wisdom. In Jesus' Name is All Forgiveness. In Jesus' Name is All Strength. In Jesus' Name is Creator of All. In Jesus' Name is All Peace.

 HOLY HOLY HOLY IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY

In Jesus' Name - Is All Righteousness [Part Two]

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord is Righteousness.

What is sin?

 

 

     Sin seperates us from God. And when we are separated from God, we cannot hear Him speak. Nor can we see Him. He is a far away God instead of an ever near God. JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH. The Lord is Present cannot be seen or known when sin has its way.

 

Genesis 2:1 Records the first time God said "Don't".

 

Genesis 3:1-7 Eve listens to the serpent, the medium through which Satan worked, and disobeys God. When Adam saw her eat it and not die, he ate it, too.

 

     The primary sin would be not listening to God. Disobedience, rebellion. We now have an inherent sin nature within all of us. We have an awareness of what is right and what is wrong. But in order to grow in righteousness we need more than just a whiff of right and wrong. We need a Teacher to direct us in our ways and help us mature in the righteousness of Christ.

     We are created by God with another inherent ability: the power of choice. We can choose to do right or we can choose to do wrong. When we choose sin, we are turning our backs on God, and and closing our ears so as not to hear Him speak. In our sin, we become arrogant and prideful. Just like Lucifer was before he got thrown out of heaven after he lost the war against God. Lucifer is the reason sin exists at all.

     God created a beautiful angel and named him Lucifer, meaning brightness, the morning star. Isaiah 14:12 describes his downfall from heaven and the reason he attacked his Creator. Ezekiel 28:11-19 describes how God created this creature. God did not create evil. Lucifer looked upon his own beauty. He knew he was the anointed cherub. He knew God had covered him with every precious jewel, and gold. Also, the music within Lucifer was placed there by God on the day in which Lucifer had been created. The purpose for which he was created was to worship his Creator, God. Instead, Lucifer chose to worship himself.
     He set himself above God; he willfully and deliberately desired to be worshiped and declared war against God after convincing one-third of God's angels that he deserved all the glory instead of God. He was wise in his own eyes because he was corrupt. His light was corrupted because his wisdom was corrupted first. And he was corrupt because evil had corrupted him. Evil was born in Lucifer; pride filled his being and arrogance ruled him. A multitude of evil was found in him; he was filled with violence and sin [Ezekiel 28:16].
     He was profane and God threw him out of the mountain of God. The day is coming when God will fully destroy him publicly. Lucifer's sanctuaries are defiled: his word is broken (liar), his music is polluted and profane, he prostitutes and slays. A sanctuary is a holy place, a hallowed place, a consecrated place. And, yet, his are defiled making his sanctuaries unholy, unhallowed, unconsecrated. Every thing he was when God created him, he has defiled and ruined because of his evil ways and wickedness in high places.
     Ephesians 6:11 The devil is wily. He is sneaky, deceitful, cunning. Ephesians 6:12 He is a principality, a power, a ruler of darkness of this world; he is spiritual wickedness in high places. Matthew 4:1 is the first time he is referred to as 'devil', which means false accuser, slanderer, traducer.  Traducer is the opposite of praise. He was created to praise; but in every thing he does and every word he says, is the opposite: he deliberately misleads they who listen to him.
     1 Peter 5:8 The devil is our adversary, he walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. What is a roaring lion? Why is the devil referred to in this way? [for Christ is also known as a lion: The Lord is The Lion of God, He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah.] A roaring lion is one who makes his presence known, that those around him would be fearful and wary. A lion roars when on the hunt, instilling fear in his victim, his prey, making it harder for said victim to escape; where can you run to, when you are fearful of every direction. For the roaring of the lion lingers and makes escape almost impossible. And if the roaring lion is able to overcome you, he will take you with him. Satan knows his destination and wants to take you with him. He would rather see you in hell suffering and screaming for all eternity than see you believe God and accept Christ as Lord.

     In the animal kingdom a lion's roar can hit 114 decibels, equivalent to a jet engine and louder than a jackhammer. It can be heard as far away as 5 miles [8Km]. Fear brings the sound closer, making a person believe that death is nearby and that there is nowhere to turn. This is an illusion created by the devil. There is only one way out of this illusional maze: and that way is up. The only way to go up is to go to your knees and cry out to Jesus to save you. And He does.
     1 Peter 5:10 BUT GOD (two of my fave words). But The God of ALL GRACE, Who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after we have suffered a while, makes us perfect, established, strengthens, settles us. We have a Savior, He will keep the lion at bay.
     1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel, which was a sin against God's Word, as David was reminded in verse 3 by Jo'ab. A census was taken and the people were numbered and God was displeased and smote, or punished the nation of Israel. Though the king had ordered, because the people complied, all of them were punished for disobeying The Word of God. When man's laws go against God's law, God's law is to be obeyed first.
     The name Satan means adversary, the arch-enemy of good, the opponent, withstand. God is good all the time. Satan is wicked all the time. God is Love. Satan is hate. God is Righteous. Satan is unrighteous. God is Holy. Satan is unholy. God is Judge. Satan will be judged. God is Sanctifier. Satan is unclean. God is Shepherd. Satan is a thief. God is Truth. Satan is a liar. God is Strength. Satan is weakness. God is The Banner Over Me. Satan is a worm beneath my feet. God is Healer. Satan is deceiver. God is Redeemer. Satan is destroyer. Every thing God IS, Satan is the opposite.
     He is real. You know this, for you see the world around you. We are in our predicament because of the sinful nature in every person. There seems to be an abundance of hate every where you look. Your fingers take you around the world or into your own backyard via the internet. You and I are able to view, from a distance, the chaos that is increasing in our world. Leaving this world for another is not an option for the majority of us. And burying our head in the sand like an ostrich is not a good solution either. 



     If you want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem, you will need to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord. You will need to make a decision for Christ instead of a decision to ignore Christ. It is a lack of integrity that prevents many from making the choice to acknowledge that God is and that God is holy. You may think you are without options in the midst of chaos and destruction, but you are not: Jesus died for you that you would not continue to be separated from God. It is sin that prevents you from getting near God. It is sin in your life that prevents God from hearing your prayers. If your prayers are getting answered, it is not the God Who created the universe and everything in it that is answering your prayer: it is the god of this world, Satan. He is determined to continue to deceive you.
      Why does Satan want to deceive you? To prevent you from knowing God. To prevent you from seeing God or hearing God's voice or knowing God's heart. Satan will do every thing and any thing he can to convince you that the only god you need is the god that is within you. This is a lie. There is no god within you. It is not your energy that will heal you, nor can anything in nature or the heavens bring you peace. The power of positive thinking will only take you so far; you need Jesus Christ in your life to take you all the way to God. Without Jesus, you are lost in the dark.
      Why continue to walk a dark and lonely path, when there is a Light waiting for you to turn on your heart and believe that He is real? Yes, life is hard. And being with Jesus is hard, too. But He takes most of the burden on Himself and gives us His strength to hold us up. All you have to do is ask Him. Ask God to forgive you of all your sins. Turn from your wicked ways and begin to live a holy life, a life of integrity and morals, and reasoning. Seek The Holy Spirit of God to receive the power He has to lay on you, that you, too, may search God's Word in power and humility, asking Him to reveal God to you. I do. I ask Him to reveal Himself more and more when my Bible is open. I get lost in The Word.Not the kind of lost where you can't find yourself, but the kind of lost where a person loses track of time. Time does not stop when I am reading my Bible; it is that time ceases to exist.

O Lord my God, You are my Strength and my Love, In You I rest and am blest,

     Be Gracious to me, O G-D and have mercy on me when I fail You. You are my desire and I live to please You. Be not far from me when I am weak, but stay near me JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH. The Lord is Present. You are my JEHOVAH, my God. You are my Love and my Law; in Your Word I live and speak and walk. Bow low Your ear to hear my prayers, O Lord, for I love to listen to You when You speak. Your voice is as thunder to the distant crowds, but when You are with me, Your whisper is close to my ear. Stay near me Lord, for fears are making themselves known. Make Yourself known Lord and keep me near Your heart and in Your hand.
     You are my Strong Tower; none can tear You down: and in You I am safe and sound. You have given me a sound mind and a broken heart. Raise up a standard in me that I may ride forth and defeat the enemies that have beset me on every side. For You, O Lord, are my Savior and my Strength. In You I bear witness that Your Testimony is everlasting and for ever more.
     In Your Word is Light and Life. You have given Your Word to me that I might have light and life, also. And, Lord, I love You for keeping me, I love You for saving me and I love You for staying near me and instilling within my heart Your Peace and Your Hope. Thank You for choose me and calling my name out of the darkness. I will praise, O my Lord, for all of my days. I will preach Your gospel when ever and where ever You call me, open my mouth and fill my mouth with Your Words. For while I hunger for more, there are many who hunger for crumbs.
      In Jesus' Name, the Name Above All Names, the Name of The Only Begotten Son of God,
these things I ask and give Your praise and glory for. Amen. And Amen.


In Jesus' Name is ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. ALL POWER. ALL STRENGTH. ALL WISDOM. ALL HEALING. ALL FORGIVENESS. ALL GLORY. CREATOR OF ALL. LORD OF ALL.



 

In Jesus' Name - Is All Righteousness [Part One]

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord Is My Righteousness.

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 55:1,2 Come, you thirsty, come you to the waters, and you without money; buy , and eat; buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread? and labor, work, for that which satisfies not? listen to Me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Isaiah 59:1-3, 8, 12, 13 Behold, The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. (8) The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them[selves] crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace. (12) For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; (13) In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

 The Lord is Righteous. We are unrighteous. While transgressions and iniquities are both sin, we may wonder why these words are used. Well, transgression is national revolt, moral revolt, religious revolt, rebellion, sin and trespass. Iniquity is fault, mischief, punishment of iniquity, perversity, sin. By using both words, all sins are covered. And, indeed, our sins are covered: under the blood of Christ. But only if that blood is applied to our soul: our hearts, the seat of our emotions and attitudes; our minds, the area wherein we reason and think. Then, and only then, can God see us and hear us; because the righteousness of Christ is upon us.

But, you say, my sin is not listed, therefore it is not sin. You are wrong and your words have declared you to be a liar and a thief. All sins against God are listed in the Bible, the written Word of God. All sins were laid upon Christ, the Living Word of God. All sins were named when God speaks, the Spoken Word of God. Don't just read the parts of the Bible that make you happy, read the whole Bible and start from the beginning, where God says, "Don't" to Adam. Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you may not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of [this tree] you shall surely die."

Sin is disobedience to God. All sins are in this one sin. Because Adam and Eve's decision to disobey God and eat the fruit of the tree that was forbidden, sin entered into the whole world and the whole world and everything in it was cursed by God. (Genesis 3:1-19) Everything includes you and I. We have inherited a sinful nature within us, because of the sin that was in Adam and Eve. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil that they ate. So they had an awareness now of what is right and what is wrong.

I would imagine they were not happy. They knew too much and it was overwhelming. This knowledge could have overwhelmed them to the point of self-destruction, but they knew God; they had enjoyed a relationship with Him that they never knew again in life. They would not see God again, nor hear Him until Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, bringing all souls from paradise into heaven with Him. Because they didn't listen to God, all sin entered the world. Death. Hate. Anger. Pride. Greed. Lying. From these other sins branched out. Sin is unrighteous living.

It has been said that if you break one commandment, you break them all. It is true, you know. For the first commandment is to love God above all else. More than you love yourself. More than you love your spouse. More than you love your children. More than you love your life. More than you love His created world and His created animals and His created nature. And the second commandment? Don't make any graven images of heavenly things, earthly things, nor water things and don't worship them, nor serve them. This is sin.

God is a jealous God. He loves us and shows us mercy time and again now. Before Jesus Christ came into our world in the flesh, grace was only given to those who proved themselves righteous by obeying God. Those who did not obey God were judged immediately and sentenced to death. But when they repented of their sin, they were forgiven after they brought a sacrifice to their priest, who then would bring the sacrifice to the altar. No more is this necessary. For Christ became our sacrifice, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. He is our sacrifice, our priest, our mediator to God: He intercedes on our behalf when we are covered with His blood. Isaiah 1: 16, 18 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil; Come now, and let us reason together, says The Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they [your sins] be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Only Jesus Christ, The Only Begotten Son of God, never broke any commandment. To imply otherwise is blasphemy and God is your judge. In the New Testament, Jesus always puts God first, when speaking. He always went to God when He was stressed, frustrated and tired. Though many people were healed during His ministry, the majority of them just walked away after thanking Him; not waiting to hear His messages. This was disheartening and He would find a quiet place somewhere and pour His heart out to God. As our example, this is what we should do when we are ignored or come against.

Jesus honored all the commandments because He is the law fulfilled. In Him is all righteousness. He is holy. He is pure. He is clean. You can see that He was without sin. He honored His father and His mother. We first learn of Him at His birth and early childhood: the wise men did not find Him until two years after the star appeared, for it had taken them that long to find Him. We see Him again at 12 yrs of age in the synagogue, speaking to the scholars there (Luke 2:46-52). Verse 51 tells us that He was subject unto them. In other words, He listened and obeyed His parents. Verse 52 tells us that He grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. That is all we know of the next 18 years of His life, until He began His ministry at the age of 30.

Jesus never killed anyone. Nor was He angry enough to the point where He would do so. He did not commit adultery, nor was it on His mind. He did not steal: the thought of taking something away from someone else for any reason was not in Him. He did not lie: Jesus is Truth and Truth is in Him. Nor did He covet any thing that any one had. Jesus was with God when the world was created. Every thing that is in the world is His, for by Him were all things created. Why would He covet, or jealously desire, any thing, when He is every thing?

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord is My Righteousness.

In Jesus' Name is All Righteousness.
In Jesus' Name is All Power.
In Jesus' Name is All Wisdom.
In Jesus' Name is Creator of All.
In Jesus' Name is All Healing.
In Jesus' Name is All Forgiveness.

In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.

[This concludes part one of this discourse]

 

In Jesus' Name-Is All Forgiveness

JEHOVAH-GO'EL. The Lord is My Redeemer.

In Jesus' Name is All Forgiveness.
We did not know Him
We could not see Him
His ways were strange
His words were new and different
In our fear we hated Him
In our hate we nailed Him
But He forgave us.

In our ignorance we mocked Him
And with our apathy we crowned Him
But He forgave us.

As He died there on the cross,
We watched,. Some still fearing
Some still grieving,
Some doubting.
Some crying.
One acknowledged Him as The Son of God.
But all turned their back and walked away,
when He died.
But He forgave us.

Three days in the grave:
not asleep, nor awake,
fightig Satan in all His Ways.
He emerged from the tomb
Where His body was laid
Holding the keys
To death and the grave
And He forgave us.

He forgives us still.
His Name is Forgiveness
and He always will.

Come and see
the women said
There's no body in the tomb
Someone must have taken Him
in the night, we assume.
His Word had fallen
on ears that had not heard
Nor hearts that had been stirred.
We doubted, we cried, we searched
and we found
The Teacher, The Rabbi, The Master
on the grounds.
And He forgave us .

He forgives us still
For He knows our hearts
And He always will.

Judgment and Justice are His to decide
Fairness and equity balance in time
He writes His  laws with His finger
On tablets of stone, then hearts
The first was temporary
The second is permanent
With His blood He writes
Upon my heart
The Words I have come to know:
Written in Red for me to see
"I forgive all your iniquity."
And He forgave me.

A two-edged sword
Divides and separates
Families and friends
Parents and children
He cuts through wickedness,
Self-righteousness
As a searing blade
Through cold hearts.
His Mercy, His Truth
Emblazoned on my heart
Are bound round my neck
He has set me apart.
For He forgave me.

He forgives us still
For He knows our hearts
And He always will.


I did not know I was going to put this in verse, but there you have seen what God can do when all I have is my notes and my Bible, He multiplies the words x the ideas and brings forth a beautiful poem. In Jesus' Name there is power to create. He is JEHOVAH-BARA. The Lord is Creator.

How Great Thou Art, who forgives and forgives and forgives; time and again without number. He knows our failings, our doubts, our faults. And, yet, He loves us still. And in His great love, He forgives us.

This is grace in action. To show mercy and compassion. To not hold a grudge. To not speak against another who is made in God's image. To be an example to all who see and watch. To bring you and you and you and , yes, even you; you and you and especially you, to Himself. To embrace you, hold you in His arms, more than a hug, it is true forgiveness. The touch, the word, the grace that frees the unforgiven, the unloved, the lost, the lonely, the hurting, the hopeless, the despairing,  the least of these.

Your Grace Still Amazes Me by Steve Green

And as He died,
there on the cross,
the veil blue
was torn in two
from top to bottom
the thickness gave way
for the Son of God
had cleared the way.
No longer did the people
need go
to the Priest in the temple
for sin to atone.
One Man, this Man
Jesus the Christ
Became the way
to be near God.
His body the bread
His blood the wine
Was poured out for all
This one time.

Earth quake
Rock fall
Graves open
Saints rise
Seeing the Christ
the young man spoke
Truly, this was
The Son of God.
Never he heard
What Jesus had said
But knowing in his heart
That this man had bled
He believed
And Jesus forgave him.

He knows our hearts and He loves us still.
He will alwysy forgive us.
And He always will.




(please forgive any grammatical errors, including spelling, it is hard to see. one of my eyes is kinda blurry and  it is makiing it difficutlr for me to spell the first time, much less edit these. thak you)

In Jesus' Name is All Forgiveness. All Healing. All Power. All Wisdom. All Righteousness. All Provision. All Peace. All in All.

Amen.

and
Amen.