Mentoring Minutes

“I will praise You forever, because You have done it, And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.”  Psalm 52:9

El Chuwl – The God Who Gives Us Birth (Creates Life) (Isaiah 43:1)

Just a reminder as we continue with the Names of God of two things that I pray are happening as we learn more of His Names…1) In revealing more of His Names He gives us the wonderful opportunity to know more of His character and who He Is; 2) Some of the Names build on previous or similar names and give us a chance not only to know Him more but to know His Love more intimately and to love Him more intimately. That’s my prayer for all of us.

Today’s first Name certainly does both of these as we build on a previous Name we have learned in Jehovah Bara as Creator God revealed in Genesis 1:1 and Isaiah 40:28.

Isaiah takes us deeper into knowing God not only as The Creator of all things but also as “EL CHUWL – THE (Creator) GOD WHO GIVES US BIRTH,” (Isaiah 43:1) the Creator who literally breathes life into us and who births us…gives us life from the moment of conception in our mother’s womb! How awesome is that?

David takes the concept of this name even further in Psalm 139:13-16 where God sees and knows us even before He breathes that life into us. He has even ordained our life with purpose before He brings about our birth!

This name, character and concept of creative Birth is fulfilled in each of us in Christ as EL CHUWL – THE GOD WHO BIRTHS US, not only in His imminent role in Creation and life, of all that exists (Colossians 1:16-17), but in His divine role in grace in saving and recreating… rebirthing…us for all that God has purposed for us even before we were born (Ephesians 2:8-10)!

Do you know The One who has not only given you life but The One who can recreate you into a New Life? Christ is The ONLY ONE who can give us birth and recreate us into a new birth to fulfill the incredible Kingdom purpose that God has for you. I pray you know Christ as Savior and Lord!

Jehovah Meqor Mayim Khayyim – The Fountain of Living Waters (Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13)

Today’s final Name is one that gives us strength and encouragement. It is found in Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13 and is “JEHOVAH as MEQOR MAYIM KHAYYIM – THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER(S).” Jeremiah in this text uses the word “meqor” instead of just “mayim” because the former connotes a “digging” for the living water whereas the latter a “natural spring.” We have been freely given Living Water in Christ…and we can by His Spirit dig and receive more!

God has freely given us all that we need in Christ to be in a relationship with Him, including the grace to strengthen us to dig deeper and work to build our relationship with Him as Christ’s disciples and sons and daughters of God. This requires faith and He has given us the grace to not only be saved but to work out that salvation as we mature in our relationship with Him to love Him more (with all we are) and glorify Him by making Him known and helping others to know and love Him in Christ!

Which brings us to Christ as JEHOVAH MEQOR MAYIM KHAYYIM – THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER(S)…this is obvious in two specific Scriptures in the New Testament where Jesus calls Himself “Living Water(s)!” We find these in John 7:37-39 (The Holy Spirit of God/Christ) and in the account with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:4-38 (emphasis v. 14).

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are JEHOVAH MEQOR MAYIM KHAYYIM – THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER(S). Do you have the Life that comes from this Living Water? You can but only in Christ! I pray that you know Him and are drinking from the Water of Life/Living Waters of Christ today!

Attiyq Youm – The Ancient of Days (Daniel 7: 9, 13, 22)

As we continue with these fascinating and character-revealing Names of God we find another unique Name in Daniel 7: 9, 13, 22 and it is “ATTIYQ YOUM – THE ANCIENT OF DAYS.” This is another way of saying that God is Eternal, having self-existed before time and throughout all of time and eternity! We can count on this One True God…from last week’s post!

The reference and Name here in Daniel is pointing to the final days and Christ’s return and judgment of the world…are you ready?

The only way you can be ready is to know Jesus Christ who, while not specifically given that Name, is referenced as The One that Daniel refers to as sitting on the throne, who will return to do the conquering and judging (Revelation 7:9; 11:15-19)!

How awesome is that…and we can know Him…I pray that you do! Those who do will literally reign with God and Christ – ATTIYQ YOUM – THE ANCIENT OF DAYS! It’s incredible the role that God The Father and God The Son will play in these final days of victory for His Kingdom and all who believe in Christ! Do you believe in Christ for your victory in this life and for Eternity? I pray you do!

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Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – El Chuwl – The God Who Gives Us Birth (Creates Life) – He not only births life in us but New Life in Christ. This also should be the #1 reason we stand for life and against abortion! He is also Jehovah Meqor Mayim Khayyim – The Fountain of Living Waters…not only does He birth and create all life but He sustains Life as Christ is the Bread of Life and The Living Water(s) for all who put their faith in Him. Finally, and this is powerful as believers we will someday know this…He is Attiyq Youm – The Ancient of Days – for all those who know God through Christ the Messiah will know the One who has existed from before time and will do so beyond time…eternally He is The Ancient of Days! Do you want to know Him? You can! Jesus is the Key, The Truth and The Source to all of this!

Love and Lordship…Action Item –

1. Read the Scriptures in this article and ask The Holy Spirit to teach you.
2. Write down what each of the Names of God in this post mean to you. 
3. Journal about how God has given you life, as Creator and Life Giver and as The Living Water(s)…now and for Eternity.
4. Reflect and journal on what The Ancient of Days means to you.

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“As is Your name, God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.”  Psalm 48:10

El Echad – One God (Malachi 2:10)

In the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi, we find the prophet sharing God’s admonishing, encouraging, chastising and promising Israel of good things to come…and the greatest thing to come, The Messiah!

In the midst of this poignant message Malachi declares a Name of God that echoes throughout all of the Scriptures and all of Time and Eternity. In Malachi 2:10, he proclaims that God is “EL ECHAD – ONE GOD” which repeats the greatest command given to Moses by God in Deuteronomy 6:4 before the Israelites are to enter The Promised Land and in Mark 12:29 where Jesus repeats this as the First and Greatest Command, “Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”

In declaring this again approximately 400 years before Christ comes and with the silence from God during that same period, God is reminding us of the greatest of Truths that we must come to know as our own and that is that God is One, The Only God and exists as Father, Son and Holy Spirit as One…and He is the Only One worthy of our worship and praise!

Christ tells us very clearly that He is “EL ECHAD – ONE GOD” as He is One with The Father God (John 10:30; 17:21-22). God The Father, Son and Holy Spirit alone are One God and alone are worthy of our praise.

Christ has made it so that we can be in a relationship with “EL ECHAD – ONE GOD” and worship Him forever because of the sacrifice that He made. We can come into His presence and give Him praise and thanksgiving as the ONE TRUE GOD!

Do you know God in Christ and through The Holy Spirit as “EL ECHAD – ONE GOD” and as your Savior and Lord?

Jehovah Channun – The God Who is Gracious or El Channun – The Lord Full of Grace (Jonah 4:2)

The next name we’ll look at is from the prophet Jonah, who himself was quite cantankerous. However in stark contrast to Jonah’s attitude of bitterness and revenge toward the evil Ninevites, he recognizes and calls God by the name, “JEHOVAH CHANNUN – THE GOD WHO IS GRACIOUS or EL CHANNUN – THE LORD GOD FULL OF GRACE!” (Jonah 4:2)

Nineveh was the capitol of the powerful ancient Assyrian empire. The Assyrians were known as the most ruthless and evil people of their day in the way that they conquered other kingdoms and peoples and killed and tortured them.

Isn’t it interesting that right in the midst of this horrifically evil empire, and an angry, vengeful and prideful prophet of Israel, that God expresses Himself through that very stubborn prophet, Jonah, as “JEHOVAH CHANNUN – THE GOD WHO IS GRACIOUS or EL CHANNUN – THE LORD GOD FULL OF GRACE!” Isn’t that just like God? And thanks to The God of Grace that He is!

Apart from Christ, we are all just as prone to and involved in sin, evil, pride and anger…BUT Jesus came full or Truth and GRACE (John 1:14, 16-17) as “JEHOVAH CHANNUN – THE GOD WHO IS GRACIOUS or EL CHANNUN – THE LORD GOD FULL OF GRACE!”

Grace literally means that we receive (love, forgiveness, peace, hope, joy, salvation, eternal life) what we don’t deserve and could never earn because Christ paid the price and gifted it to us by GRACE through faith!

Both the Ninevites and Jonah, as well as you and me, deserve God’s wrath and punishment…but He is a God of Grace and Christ is the conduit of that grace to us!

Have you by faith received the free gift of grace in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9)?

Yahweh Gmolah – The God of Recompense (Jeremiah 51:56)

Have you ever struggled with a spirit of revenge when someone, anyone has done you wrong. I’ve found that often those who call themselves Christians can say and do the most hurtful things and hold grudges more than others.

However, God has a different response that we are to have and we find it in His Name revealed in Jeremiah 51:56 – “YAHWEH GMOLAH – THE GOD OF RECOMPENSE.”

In Jeremiah’s prophecies and revelation of God, it is God bringing vengeance on Babylon, an enemy of Israel, who would go far beyond what God intended when they would take Israel captive as punishment for their rebellion against God. His payback is perfect…ours is not.

We must remember this in our walk with Christ as Savior and Lord as Paul reveals in Romans 12 as he lays out how we are to live as Christ followers. In v. 19-21 Paul specifically tells us to turn our vengeance and grudges into service and sharing with even our enemies. He says that YAHWEH GMOLAH – THE GOD OF RECOMPENSE will take care of any vengeance and we are to know that we can trust Him to do so perfectly because that is Who He Is!

John tells us in Revelation that there will be a day that He will bring final vengeance, wrath and judgment when Christ returns to make all things right (Revelation 20:11-15)…perfect vengeance and judgment from Christ who is YAHWEH GMOLAH – THE GOD OF RECOMPENSE!

I pray that you know Christ as Savior and Lord and are willing to trust His perfect recompense as He has paid the price not only for you but for all who will believe. He is patient and kind, desiring that all will repent but there will be a day for those who don’t do so. Let Him handle it and let us keep pointing others to Him in repentance, kindness and love.

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Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – Jehovah God is El Echad – The One (and Only) God Who is also El Channun – Full of Grace and that is much needed because He is also Yahweh Gmolah – The God of Recompense! Have you received Christ who paid the recompense by Grace of the One God…or will you have to pay that on Judgment Day? I pray that you know Him!

Love and Lordship…Action Item –

1. Read the Scriptures in this article and ask The Holy Spirit to teach you.
2. Write down what each of the Names of God in this post mean to you. 
3. What does it mean to you that God declares Himself as the One and Only God?
4. What do you see in His Names that reflect His Grace and His Recompense (punishment or reward)?

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“Willingly I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, Lord, for it is good.”   Psalm 54:6

Jehovah Tsidkenu – The Lord Our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6; 33:16)

The Prophet Jeremiah reveals another much needed character trait in another Name of God in 23:6 and 33:16 – “JEHOVAH TSIDKENU – THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!” As we found a few days ago, God is Jehovah Tsadik – The Rigtheous God.

His Name as Jeremiah tells us carries it even further as he prophesies about Christ The Coming Messiah as The Righteous Branch. So immediately we see God and Christ as JEHOVAH TSIDKENU – THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. God’s Righteousness becomes our Righteousness. That’s incredible but how can He do that when we are sinners and unrighteous and as such can never enter His Presence (Romans 3:10)? Jesus!

Just as Jeremiah prophesied, Christ is JEHOVAH TSIDKENU – THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS (2 Corinthians 5:21)! His sacrificial death has covered our sins, paid our debt and literally made all who believe in Him righteous before our Perfect and Righteous Heavenly Father! PTL!

Do you understand that there is no way that, in and of ourselves, that we can be righteous nor stand in the Presence of a Perfect, Holy and Righteous God? Do you also realize that Christ has taken care of our sin? Have you believed in Him and know that because of His death, you are now righteous? I pray that you.

Jehovah Nakeh or Makeh – The Lord Who Strikes You (Ezekiel 7:9, 27)

Continuing with God’s Names revealed to us in His Word, we come upon a difficult Name in another of the major prophets, Ezekiel 7:9, 27. Your likely not going to like this Name but we must learn to love it in this fallen world and because of our sinful nature.

The Name is “JEHOVAH NAKEH or MAKEH – THE LORD WHO STRIKES YOU.”

Ezekiel is prophesying specifically against Israel and all the evil they have continually done. Interestingly though it is a general warning of all who do evil that God, who is Love, strikes those who will not heed His Truth and choose to walk in evil ways.

Without Christ being stricken of God (Isaiah 53:3-5) for our sake and because of our evil, sinful hearts and actions. But Christ is also JEHOVAH NAKEH – THE LORD WHO STRIKES YOU and one day every eye will witness this Holy God who cannot allow evil and sin to endure or to be in His presence. He will fulfill this ultimately when He returns.

You and I may need to be stricken from time to time to remind us that our walk must be in line with His Word and He has given us all we need in Christ to do so. However, Christ will return to claim all those who are His and to STRIKE all those who have rejected Him, sinners and all those who have been deceived by satan and their own flesh and the world, as well as satan himself (Revelation 19:19-21; 20:10)!

All can know JEHOVAH NAKEH – THE LORD WHO STRIKES YOU. We as believers in Christ can receive His loving striking, or punishment, for our good (Hebrews 12:1-15) but those who reject and rebel against Him will receive a final and eternal striking.

Praise The Lord that He is JEHOVAH NAKEH – THE LORD WHO STRIKES YOU! Do you know Him?

Jehovah Shammah – The Lord is Present (or There) (Ezekiel 48:35)

On the heels of Ezekiel revealing that Name of God as Jehovah Makeh (Nakeh) – The Lord Who Strikes You and understanding why that is needed and still a part of a loving God, today’s Name is also found in Ezekiel 48:35 and is much more comforting.

Ezekiel prophesies to the Israelites of his day before the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC and all they will face. The latter prophecies are visions of the End Times and of the restoration of Jerusalem, Israel and The Temple. In the last part of these visions he sees the land of Israel being divided once again among the tribes and it is here that he reveals that God is “JEHOVAH SHAMMAH – THE LORD IS PRESENT (OR THERE).”

Essentially he is declaring that God is ever present and it is a great comfort to know that He is! This is where we get the concept of God as Omnipresent – ever and always with us!

Christ is our JEHOVAH SHAMMAH – THE LORD IS PRESENT as we find in no greater place than what we know of as The Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 which Christ closes with these words, “and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Do you know Jesus as being always with you as JEHOVAH SHAMMAH – THE LORD IS PRESENT? He is and you can count on Him no matter what you’re facing. I pray that you know Him and are aware that He is always present with and for you.

Are you assured of Christ’s presence in your life? You can be! Let us know at Love and Lordship if you have questions or would like to know more?

Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – God is Jehovah Tsidkenu – The Lord Our Righteousness found only in Christ who has made us righteous. He is Jehovah Nakeh or Makeh – The Lord Who Strikes You…and has done so in striking His very own Son and our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ…and as we need it He lovingly strikes us to give us the chance to respond to His Truth, Love and Righteousness. Finally He is Jehovah Shammah – The Lord Who Is Present and we know this in Christ, once again, as He has promised to be with us to the end of time!

Love and Lordship…Action Item –

1. Read the Scriptures in this article and ask The Holy Spirit to teach you.
2. Write down what each of the Names of God in this post mean to you. 
3. I must ask and think it would be very beneficial to think on this… The Lord Who Strikes You…How can you see God’s Love in this Name in your life?
4. Through which of these Names is God speaking most clearly to you in this season of life? Why?

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