A Weekly Devotional – Names – Personal Meditation

A Weekly Devotional – Names – Personal Meditation

Comment: In the Testaments of the Holy Bible, that is; the Old and the New, God reveals Himself to us by His NAMES. There is no other name, that is; the fifteen names and His variations in the Old Testament or the seven names of the New Testament that is given among men by which WE MUST BE saved. There are four, three from the Old and one from the New Testaments that we will look at this morning. O.T. “El” (singular), “Elohim” (plural), “Adonai”, “Yahweh or Jehovah” N.T. Jesus. There is one other name that sends this important message, “Immanuel or Emmanuel” and the message is “God with us” and lest we forget it, God is always with us.

Devotional: At Christmas these days, we miss the mark. Recently our Pastor finish a study of the book of Amos and in chapter 7, verse 7-8, the LORD said to Amos, “Amos what do you see?” Amos answered the LORD and said, “I see a plumb line”, God is Merciful, El Shaddai – the Almighty God, He is powerful, able to save and to comfort. God is Most High, El Elyon – the Sovereign God.

God is Jehovah Jireh – the provider, God is Jehovah Sabbaoth – the LORD of hosts (armies), and He is Jehovah Shalom – the LORD of peace. God is Jehovah Tsidkenu – the LORD our Righteousness. God is Jehovah Nissi – the LORD is my banner. The keeps me safe in the daily battle. God is Jehovah Maccaddescheem – the LORD our Sanctifier, last but certainly not least God is Jehovah Rophe, the LORD who heals.

Now the plumb line of God in the days of Amos means something different to Jeroboam, just as it did in 2 Kings 21:13 when Manasseh became king at the age of twelve. The plumb line that I wish for us to consider this Christmas is this. God, the LORD is the same God of yesterday and today. He will also be the same God of tomorrow and forever; Hebrews 13:8. His Name is: Jesus – The LORD is salvation. Jesus Christ/Messiah is the “I AM” without Him you are left to live life on your own. Merry Christmas.

What kind of Christmas will you have this year?

What kind of Christmas will you have this year?

Most of us have a thought or a plan for this Christmas, your thoughts and plans are personal. Do you know that God has an ongoing plan for Christmas and not unlike you, His plan is personal too! Whatever your view or concept of God is, God has a plan for you. But His plan is not a plan that any of us will ever seek in seventy or eighty years, His Christmas cannot be changed or amended. It is His plan and it is the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb 13:8), His Christmas plan began before there ever was a universe including the Earth our temporary home. Some would argue that the earth and universe was created roughly six to seven thousand years ago. However, like God’s Christmas, Creation is NO LIE!

God prepared His Christmas event over six thousand years ago, before there ever was an EARTH. John 17:1-5 God’s Christmas is God’s Son; as if you did not know this, His Name is Jesus Christ, or Jesus Messiah, He is the One who is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

God’s first mention of Christmas is revealed to us in Genesis 3;14-19. Now you say, I do not see any reference to Christmas in these verses, true because our common human view of Christmas misses the mark. God’s plan differs from ours, take a look at verse 15. The first mention of life through the “seed” of the woman is in ‘lower case’. All borne into the world, whether man or beast is in lower case, but there was one “Seed” born of the woman whose Name is Jesus, “Emmanuel”, He is God’s Christmas.

Continuing from Isaiah 52 and 53, God decorated His Christmas with ornaments of the world. Beginning with verses 13-15. As I read, I will point out the highpoints of this important passage of scripture that was written by the prophet Isaiah about 2800 years ago.

God’s ornaments are not what we expect, as the Father has laid on His Son the iniquity of us ALL. What a sight! Bruised beyond recognition, if we saw Him, like the world sees Him, we would despise Him and reject Him. He was broken and afflicted, He was physically wounded. Why because we like wayward sheep ran away. His ornaments are your sins and mine and for the entire world. In this He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a the Lamb (John 1:29), He was led to the slaughter.

Matthew 1:1-25 – this Child is the Son of God. God’s Christmas Event, He is “also” the gift of God the Father for all who believe, therefore I am not ashamed of Him, I have received Him as a gift from God and as scripture reveals my sins are taken away. I am forgiven as my sins were placed on Him, as yours was too, you only need to believe and trust the message, as it is impossible for God to lie.

Titus 1:2 – In hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. Also see Numbers 23:19.

A Weekly Devotional – Godly? – Personal Meditation

A Weekly Devotional – Godly? – Personal Meditation

Comment: A scandal perfumes the air! Have you not noticed? The liberal news medias fill the minds of people with an alarming flame. Much of what is produced in the media today, while sadly being an immoral and idolatrous truth of most countries, is currently being fanned with our tongues in this country; which if not checked will destroy the infrastructure of our nation. “The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity (unrighteousness). The tongue is so set among our members (bodies) that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, (our very existence); and it is set on fire by (source) hell”. James 3:6.

Devotional: Help LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. They speak idly everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things, who have said. “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy. Now I will arise.” Says the LORD; “I will set him in safety for which he yearns.” The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation forever. The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

The above is Psalm 12 if you do not know. The psalm speaks prophetically of a current time in our countries history when godliness is absent and the faithful have disappeared among most of its citizens. Solomon has said; “There is nothing new under the sun, what once was will be again.” Ecclesiastes 1:1-11. You might also read, Ecclesiastes 10:1-20 and see that today's disgrace was yesterday’s news. How does a nation mend these problems? By returning (repenting) back to the LORD! Nothing else will solve the human problem of immorality and idolatry.