Mentoring Minutes

(Psalm 20:7)- “Some praise their chariots and some their horses, But we will praise the name of the Lord, our God.”

Jehovah-Adon Kai Ha’arets – The God or Lord of All The Earth” (Joshua 3:13)

Our first Name as we continue with this Names of God series is found in Joshua 3:13 and should remind us of why His Lordship is so important and necessary in our lives. The Name is JEHOVAH-ADON KAI HA’ARETS –“THE GOD OR LORD OF ALL THE EARTH.”

In this text we find Joshua, as the newly anointed servant-leader of the Israelites, has led them to the banks of the Jordan River according to God’s command. BTW – it was during the heavy flooding season and the Jordan was deep and swift and there were likely over 3 million Jews that needed to get into The Promised Land…what to do?

God, just as He had done with Moses at the Red Sea, showed Himself as The God of All The Earth! He gave the instructions for the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant to step into the water. When they did, the waters parted because He is The God of All The Earth!

Jesus, as God in the flesh, is Lord of All The Earth and we find this in no greater expression than what we know as The Great Commission in Matthew 28:18 when He clearly proclaims, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.”

Again we find this Truth revealed in The Revelation of Jesus Christ in 19:16, “King of kings and Lord of lords.” He is Lord of All The Earth and we must willingly choose to submit and walk with Him as Lord of our lives.

Jehovah Shalom – “The Lord Is Peace” (Judges 6:24)

The next Name comes from a fairly well known story in Scripture in Judges 6. It is the story of Gideon, an unlikely candidate for a hero but in God’s will and provision that’s exactly what Gideon becomes.

He is secretly thrashing wheat in a wine press so that the Midianites would not come and steal the wheat. An angel of The Lord appears and tells Gideon essentially that God has chosen him to lead the Israelites into victorious battle over the Midianites.

Gideon’s response is to build an altar and worship JEHOVAH-SHALOM – “THE LORD IS PEACE” (Judges 6:24) because He realizes he has see the angel of God and not died! This powerful Hebrew word that we translate loosely as “peace” certainly includes that concept but it is much more. It is best translated as “wholeness or completeness” and it is when we are walking fully in God’s Truth in every part of our lives that His Shalom (wholeness in line with His Truth) brings peace into our lives.

Christ has become and is our Peace as our Savior and Lord in the New Covenant. We find this in numerous places but two of the most compelling for me (and I hope they encourage you) are in Isaiah 9:6 where He is prophesied as the Prince of Peace (Shalom), pointing to the New Covenant, as He alone brings wholeness and peace into our lives. The other Scripture that brings me great comfort regarding His peace is Philippians 4:4-7 where we are told that our rejoicing and thanksgiving in all circumstances (even the bad ones) brings a peace that we can’t fully comprehend and that guards our hearts and minds in The Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ! PTL!

Jehovah Hashopet – “God The Judge” (Judges 11:27)

Continuing in Judges we find another powerful Name in a lesser known story as well as a lesser known Israelite judge. In Judges 11:27, God reveals Himself to Jephthah, the ninth judge of Israel, son of Gilead. It is the fact that his mother is a prostitute that his family and others scorn Jephthah until they need his valor as a mighty warrior to conquer their enemies, the Ammonites.

Jephthah was made leader and inquired of the Ammonites as to why they were coming against Israel and they falsely claimed that the Israelites had taken land from the Amorites that belonged to them.

Jephthah refutes their claims with historical truth and then proclaims to the Ammonites…and to his people as well as us today…God is JEHOVAH HASHOPET – “The Lord, The Judge.” We can even go so far as to say that God was revealing Himself as The Righteous Judge as He always judges rightly and fairly regardless of what we or anyone else thinks.

Christ is our JEHOVAH HASHOPET – “The Lord, The Judge” and “Our Righteous Judge,” proclaimed in several New Testament texts but none more poignantly than 2 Timothy 4:8 where Paul declares in strong faith that Jesus Christ, the Righteous Judge, will award the crown of righteousness to him and to all who believe in Him and look for His glorious appearing! PTL! He will judge perfectly and righteously!

He will reward and avenge, rightly and justly, because He is the Righteous Judge (Romans 12:19), so we can leave all judgment and revenge in His Righteous Hands and justice!

Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – God is Jehovah-Adon Kai Ha’arets – The God or Lord of All The Earth” and the more that we recognize His sovereignty over all of creation the more we can honor Him as Lord of our life. He is also Jehovah Shalom – “The Lord Is Peace” which is so comforting in our trying times as His Presence is peace no matter what we are facing. Finally He is Jehovah Hashopet – “God The Judge” and in Christ we find He is not only The Judge but The Righteous Judge that we can always count on execute justice perfectly…that’s also very reassuring as we walk in faith and allow Him to deal with any vengeance or revenge.

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. Think about and journal daily how Jehovah Shalom brings peace into your life even when the world around you is chaos.
4. How does God as Lord of all the Earth and The Righteous Judge help give you a peace that others may not have? How can you encourage others to know Him?

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(Psalm 75:1) – “We give thanks to You, God, we give thanks, For Your name is near; People declare Your wondrous works.“

El Taur – “God Our Rock (Has Redeemed)” (Deuteronomy 32:3-4)

The Name of God that we look at today is a strong Name that we all need just as the Israelites needed Him when He revealed Himself as “EL TAUR (or ZUR) – GOD OUR ROCK (Has Redeemed)!” This is found in Deuteronomy 32:3-4 in Moses song to God’s people as he is about to leave them and entrust Joshua to lead them into The Promised Land.

The Song of Moses is powerful song that reveals the rollercoaster lives of the Israelites as individuals and as a nation. They will ebb and flow greatly in their walk with God and their faithlessness in chasing after idols and false gods.

However, in v. 4 Moses declares by God’s Spirit that God is EL TAUR…He is THE ROCK and His Ways are perfect and just, always. Even as His people’s faith comes and goes He will remain steadfast and will redeem them!

That promise is fulfilled in Christ, our Rock and Redeemer, in The New Covenant and we find it most poignantly in 1 Corinthians 10:4 where Jesus is explicitly called The Rock, speaking of His provision to the Israelites themselves and encouraging us today, “for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.” Again we find in 1 Peter 2:6-7 that Christ as The Rock is The Cornerstone of our faith but a stumbling block to unbelievers, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a choice stone, a precious cornerstone, and the one who believes in Him will not be put to shame. This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for unbelievers, a stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief cornerstone.”

He is also called The Rock and Cornerstone as that which holds His Church together in Ephesians 2:19-22 (emphasis v.20)!

PTL that He is El Taur – God our Rock from the beginning and throughout time and is revealed clearly in Christ as The Rock, the Cornerstone of our lives and His Church, and is our Redeemer (Ephesians 1:7, 18-23)!

El Kedern – “God From The Beginning” (Deuteronomy 33:27)

I pray that you are drawing closer to God the Father, Son and Spirit as we explore and study the Names that reveal all that He is to us. I have to believe that The Lord is doing this in and through all of us.

These next, actually 3, Names for God come from Deuteronomy 33 and the first Name is “EL KEDERN – GOD FROM THE BEGINNING” which echoes His Name Jehovah Olam our Everlasting and Eternal God! He already existed from the beginning as we understand time but He has no beginning and no end!

In Deuteronomy 33:27, Moses is in the midst of blessing the tribes of Israel and he closes the blessings by addressing EL Kedern/Jehovah Olam as The Eternal God. We never have to fear that God is not with us and for us nor will He ever fail in producing all his blessings…from the very Beginning!

As we enter into the season of Holy Days Lent, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, we see this same concept and transition for us to see Christ as God and God in Christ in Isaiah 9:6 as a clear prophecy about Christ as one of the Names is “Everlasting Father.” How profound and comforting is that!?!

He is not claiming that Christ take the role of Father here but is describing the same divine nature of God in Christ and His role as Son, and as Savior and Lord to us. A divine mystery that I can’t fully comprehend but I trust in His Word in all things!

In the transition to, and fulfillment of, the New Covenant, Christ is given that same Name and attribute in numerous places as we observed in a recent blog in this Names of God series (see https://loveandlordship.com/blog/names-of-god-pt-3/). We can clearly see Christ and His Nature of God from His own lips in John 10:30 and in John 14:9-10.

Jehovah Chereb – “God Our Sword” and Jehovah Magen – “God Our Shield.” (Deuteronomy 33:29)

I pray that these final two Names of God in this post will encourage you to get into the battle and stand firm because He is all that we need. Watch closely as God orchestrates in His Word Who He Is both to us and for us.

These Names of God today comes again from Deuteronomy and is found in Deuteronomy 33:29. He is “Jehovah Chereb – God Our Sword” and “Jehovah Magen – God Our Shield.”

As Moses is closing out the blessings of God on all the tribes of Israel, he proclaims by The Holy Spirit, that God saves them, as He is “The shield of your help, and He who is the sword of your majesty!”

How awesome is that! He is all we need to battle the enemy and defend against all the enemy brings against us!

As always, how does this Name and all that He Is translate to the New Covenant and Christ? First of all we can look and see in Ephesians 6:17 that the Sword of The Spirit is The Word of God. And just Who Is The WORD or SWORD of God (See John 1:1, 14)? In that same chapter in Ephesians, v. 16, we are to take up the Shield of Faith to stand against all the schemes of our enemy, satan.

John 1:1,14 tells us very plainly that Christ is THE WORD become Flesh! God our Sword is His Word, Living in Christ and written in His Holy Word, The Bible! In the Ephesians 6 passage (vv. 10-18) we find that all of these items of God’s Armor are found in Christ (see v. 10) as we stand strong in Him as we intentionally put them on every day.

Just as God The Father is our Sword and Shield, so is Christ as our Savior and Lord and as God in the flesh. He is our strength and protection!

How are you daily putting on and standing in His protection and wielding His Sword of Truth in Grace and Love?

Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – God as El Taur (Zur) is our Rock and Redeemer and we can always count on Him…no matter what! We also know this because He is and always has been El Kedern – God From The Beginning with no time or limitations. He is eternal and never changes! He is also Jehovah Chereb – God Our Sword and Jehovah Magen – God Our Shield in which we find both protection and Truth to cover and guide us. That’s a God we can always depend on! I pray 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. Which of the Names of God in today’s post has had the most significant impact in your life and why?
4. Find at least one other person to share what the Names of God in this post (or at least the most significant one you chose in 3 above) means to you?

Contact us at Love and Lordship to find out more about how you can know God the Father, Christ His Son and The Holy Spirit and The Lord God.

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(Psalm 69:30) – I will praise the name of God with song, and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

EL RACHAMIM – “The God Who Is MERCIFUL” or “The God of MERCY” (Deuteronomy 4:31)

We continue our series on knowing and loving God by getting to know Him through all His Names revealed in Scripture. Our next Name is a powerful and much needed Name of God for us and is found in Deuteronomy 4:31. It is a derivative of EL RACHUM – “The God of Compassion” from our last post. He is the God of Compassion because He is “EL RACHAMIM – The God Who Is MERCIFUL” or “The God of MERCY.”

Just as with the Israelites, we are in great need of His compassion but we would never receive it if it were not for His mercy. Mercy is defined simply as not receiving what we deserve. He proclaims in this text that He will never abandon, forget or destroy His people…even though that is what their sinful lives deserved…as do ours apart from Christ.

In rebellion, the Israelites deserved death and hell but God in His great mercy told them that whenever they would return to and seek Him, He would not abandon them but would forgive them and give them what they could never earn or deserve.

Apart from Christ we are all sinners who deserve Hell but EL RACHAMIM, in Christ, gives us mercy in salvation and eternal life with Him, something WE could never earn and don’t deserve. All who believe in Christ as Savior and Lord receive God’s mercy!

There are many texts in the New Testament where we see the mercy of God in Christ. I want to highlight three that show us that EL RACHAMIM is manifested to us because of Christ’s humble and sacrificial gift of mercy…

1) Romans 6:23 – we deserve death because of our sin but Christ has forgiven and freed us by paying the price and we mercifully don’t receive Hell and do receive eternal life in Him!

2) Ephesians 2:4-5 – continuing with this same concept, we were/are actually dead apart from Christ but freely made alive in Him as we believe in and accept His Mercy!

3) Romans 12:1 – In light of all that we have mercifully been spared from in Christ we are called to respond by giving ourselves back to God as a “living sacrifice”…because of His Mercy toward us!

El Hanne’eman – “The Faithful God” (Deuteronomy 7:9)

You may find our next Name of God is both comforting and at times, if we’re being honest, “frightening.” Why do I say that? Because this Name is “El Hanne’eman – The Faithful God” and is revealed in Deuteronomy 7:9 where God is telling the Israelites through Moses that He is The Faithful God and will be to all those who obey Him to a thousand generations, literally forever…now that’s faithfulness!

We can count on Him as He is Truthful and His Truth will never change…and that’s why at times it can be frightening. He is just as Faithful to give me the fruit of destruction when I choose to sow in the flesh as He is to give me the fruit of eternal life when I sow in His Spirit. He cannot be mocked and cannot lie…He is The Faithful God (Galatians 6:7-8)! In every situation, both good and bad, his Faithfulness is Loving!

Having already referred to His Faithfulness in the New Testament, we also see that Christ is called Faithful and True and will return someday with that very Name as we are told in Revelation 19:11-15.

Are you walking in The Spirit so that His Faithful response is bringing eternal life in and through you, even here and now? Or are you sowing in the flesh and reaping destruction and wondering why (understand the fear now?)? He is Faithful and everything He does is loving so choose His Spirit by His Grace through faith in Christ, the Faithful and True.

Can you truly say, “I know He is Faithful and will show me what I’m sowing and reaping because He loves me?”

EL HAGGADAL – “The Great God” (Deuteronomy 10:17)

Our final Name of God for this post is “EL HAGGADAL – The Great God” and is revealed in Deuteronomy 10:17. Here we find a recounting of God giving the second tablets of The Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites after the people had rebelled against Him and Aaron had led them in crafting a golden calf as their idol when God had given Moses the original tablets (Exodus 20).

God doesn’t pull any punches in letting them know Who He Is as He literally gives them a second chance with this second set of commandments, proving that He is both Faithful and Gracious.

He is gracious but He is no less GREAT and will not compromise, show any partiality, or consider any bribery to do so.

Christ as God in the flesh is seen as The Great God in Titus 2:13 in proclaiming God the Father and Son as one, “the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.”

An incredible mystery that we struggle to understand but as we continue to search out and study all the marvelous Names of God, we can be so thankful that Immanuel came in the flesh as “God with us” to redeem us, set us free and give us an eternity with Him. Now that’s a Great God!

Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – God is EL RACHAMIM – “The God Who Is MERCIFUL” or “The God of MERCY” and even though we don’t deserve it He gives us good things and watches over us. He will never leave or forsake us and even though we deserve nothing from Him He is merciful to pour His Love on us. He is El Hanne’eman – “The Faithful God” and that should be an incredible comfort to us as we walk with Him in a world that is increasingly opposed to and rejecting Him. He will be with us and do exactly what He says He will do. Finally, He is EL HAGGADAL – “The Great God”and we can count on His greatness because He never fails and never compromises!

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. Choose one name from this article and describe how God has revealed Himself to you in this way.
4. Which of the names in this post appeals the most to you and why?

Contact us at Love and Lordship to find out more about how you can know God the Father, Christ His Son and The Holy Spirit and The Lord God.

Check out this week’s Love & Lordship Mentoring Minute Video