Names of God

Names of God

How many of you remember the name of your best friend growing up? Or the name of your first love? How about your great-grandma or great-grandfather? As I can recall all of those names I figured you all could too. Now don't you think that the Names of God should be more important for us to know then our family,or  friends from our past? So I put together the list of as many as I could and if you all know any that I may have missed please let me know.

El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty)

El Elyon (The Most High God)

Adonai (Lord, Master)

Yahweh (Lord, Jehovah)

Jehovah Nissi (The Lord My Banner)

Jehovah-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd)

Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals)

Jehovah Shammah (The Lord Is There)

Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our Righteousness)

Jehovah Mekoddishkem (The Lord Who Sanctifies You)

El Olam (The Everlasting God)

Elohim (God)

Qanna (Jealous)

Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Will Provide)

Jehovah Shalom (The Lord Is Peace)

Jehovah Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts)

"Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven." Psa 148:13

In the Old Testament times, a name was not only identification, but an identity as well. Many times a special meaning was attached to the name. Names had, among other purposes, an explanatory purpose (e.g., Nabal, whose name means "fool," is the target of Abigail's explanation to David: "For as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him:" - 1Sa 25:25). Throughout Scripture God reveals Himself to us through His names. When we study these names that He reveals to us in the Bible, we will better understand who God really is. The meanings behind God's names reveal the central personality and nature of the One who bears them.

Is He your Most High God, All sufficient One, Master, Lord of Peace, the Lord Who Will Provide? Is He your Father? We must be careful not to make God into an "it" or a "thing" to which we pray. He is our Jehovah Raah, the Lord our Shepherd. God knows us by our name, shouldn't we know Him by His?

Who is God to you? Do you know Him in a personal way as ABBA Father,Dad? Or is God some abstract understanding whom you have never ready taken the time to know Him? Jesus Christ died for you and me for payment for all the sins and Jesus paid that price with His BLOOD!  Give your life to CHRIST.

May Jesus guide and protect you this day.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.     Pax Carl