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Abba: The God who is our daddy. Abba is the name Jesus Himself used for His Father when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:36) In Aramaic, it is the familiar name small children use for their father—Daddy. Jesus prayed, “Daddy, all things are possible for You.”. Abba expresses all the love and affection of a small child for ...
The call of Matthew to the apostolic band is mentioned in Mark 2:14, Matthew 9:9 and Luke 5:27-28. From these passages, we learn that Matthew also was called Levi. It was a common custom in the Middle East at the time of Christ for men to have two names. Matthew's names mean "a gift of God." The name Levi could have been given to him by Jesus.
The armor of God, found in Ephesians 6:10-18, is made up of the following six items: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit. A list and description of the full armor of God can be found below.
In Hebrew, rapha means “to heal.”. So Jehovah Rapha means “the Lord who heals.”. This name for God appears for the first time in the Bible in Exodus 15:26. God told the Israelites: “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will ...
The God who provides. Jehovah Jireh thus becomes one of the names for God in the Old Testament—one that emphasizes how He provides for our needs. The Hebrew word, jireh, means not only “to provide;” it also means “to perceive,” “to experience.”. Our Lord is the “God Who Provides,” because He is also the “God Who Perceives ...
God created the world and all that is in it. It’s in the Bible, Genesis 1:1, NKJV. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”. God created human beings. It’s in the Bible, Genesis 1:26-27, Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the ...
Its name is Jehovah Shammah —God Is There (Ezekiel 48;35). John says of the New Jerusalem, “God is with men, and He will dwell with them. . . . God Himself will be with them” (Revelation 21:3). In vision, God takes Ezekiel to a high mountain to show him the restored city (Ezekiel 40:2). John says that an angel “carried me away in the ...
God is Jehovah Shalom. What the Bible says about the peace God offers. There is no real peace apart from God. “The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest. . . . ‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked’ ” (Isaiah 57:20, 21). The wicked have no peace because they will not trust Jehovah Shalom—the “God of ...
Jehovah Tsidkenu. Jehovah Tsidkenu is one of the names of God in the Bible. It combines God’s personal name (Jehovah or Yahweh) with the Hebrew word for “righteousness” (tsidkenu). Together this name for God means “The Lord Is Our Righteousness.”.
Prophets stimulate the work of God. It’s in the Bible, Ezra 6:14, NKJV. “So the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and ...