Pastor Stephanie
WHY STUDY GOD'S NAMES?
DANIEL 11:32-33 AMP
".. the people who [are SPIRITUALLY MATURE and] KNOW
THEIR GOD will DISPLAY STRENGTH (be strong) and TAKE
ACTION."
THEY who are WISE and have SPIRITUAL INSIGHT among the
people will INSTRUCT MANY and HELP them UNDERSTAND.."
Those who know their God will DO exploit, do great things, display strength. And therefore we have faith!
We have more spiritual insight!
Spiritual eyes open bigger and bigger!
We will begin to do what He created us to do
Take action!
Learn God's names to take action, to be able to lead others and feed others
PSALM 9:10 TPT
For everyone who KNOWS YOUR wonderful NAME
keeps putting their TRUST in YOU.
They can count on you for help no matter what.
O Lord, you will never, no never, neglect those who come to you.
Most of the time we don't do anything because we don't trust the person
We know something about the person, than we will trust the person
God has good plan for us for our lives! We can trust Him more and serve Him
Going witnessing is an action
Knowing God gives us confident to do
God wants us to really trust Him and He can do and fulfil our destiny. They can count on us for help
ISAIAH 64:8 NKJV
But now, O LORD, YOU are our FATHER;
We are the CLAY,
and YOU OUR POTTER;
And all WE are the WORK of YOUR HAND.
H2563 clay
Original: חמר
Transliteration: chômer
Phonetic: kho'mer
homer - a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 liters)
Strong's Definition:
From H2560; a bubbling up, that is, of water, a wave;
of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence a chomer or dry measure:- clay, heap, homer, mire, motion, mortar.
H2560
Original: חמר
Transliteration: châmar
Phonetic: khaw-mar'
Strong's Definition:
to boil up; hence to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from H2564) to smear with pitch:- daub, foul, be red, trouble.
We are the clay. God is the Author. When fire is put there, we can change shape
H3335 Potter
Original: יצר
Transliteration: YÂTSAR
Phonetic: yaw-tsar'
Strong's Definition:
probably identical with H3334 (through the SQUEEZING INTO SHAPE); (compare H3331);
to MOULD into a FORM;
especially as a potter; to determine (that is, form a resolution):- X earthen, fashion, form, FRAME, make (-r), potter, purpose.
Squeezing into shape or mould into a form
JEREMIAH 18:1 KJV
The WORD which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, SAYING,
It is in God's mind to create something out of this clay
Hear from God and speaks what God say
This is what prophesy is. Prophesy is speaking what we hear from God
JEREMIAH 18:2 KJV
Arise, and go down to the POTTER'S house,
and there I will CAUSE thee to HEAR MY WORDS.
I am THE GOOD SHEPHERD, I will GUIDE you, PROTECT you and will NEVER LEAVE YOU
ISAIAH 45:1-7 MSG
God’s Message to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he took by the hand
To give the task of taming the nations, of terrifying their kings—
He gave him free rein, no restrictions:
“I’ll go ahead of you, clearing and paving the road.
I’ll break down bronze city gates, smash padlocks, kick down barred entrances.
I’ll lead you to buried treasures, secret caches of valuables—
Confirmations that it is, in fact, I, God, THE GOD of Israel, who CALLS you BY YOUR NAME.
ISAIAH 45:1-7 MSG
I’m THE ONE who armed you for this work,
though you don’t even know me,
So that everyone, from east to west,
will know that I have no god-rivals.
I am God, the only God there is.
I form light and create darkness,
I make harmonies and create discords.
I, God, do all these things.
ISAIAH 45:8-10 MSG
“Open up, heavens, and rain.
Clouds, pour out buckets of my goodness!
Loosen up, earth, and bloom salvation; sprout right living.
I, God, generate all this.
But doom to you who fight your Maker— you’re a pot at odds with the potter!
Does clay talk back to the potter: ‘What are you doing?
What clumsy fingers!’
Would a sperm say to a father, ‘Who gave you permission to use me to make a baby?’
Or a fetus to a mother, ‘Why have you cooped me up in this belly?’”
People turn to God when they have big problem
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
GOD, CREATOR of the HEAVENS — HE IS, remember, GOD.
MAKER of EARTH — he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch.
He didn’t go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it.
He made it to be lived in.
THIS GOD says: “I AM GOD, THE ONE and ONLY.
God always repeat because we did not hear.
Man may fail you, but I will never fail you
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
I don’t just talk to myself or mumble under my breath.
I never told Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.’
I AM GOD.
I work out in the open, saying what’s right, setting things right.
SO gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs.
They don’t seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their
no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick?
There is no hiding secret with God, He openly tell us
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
So tell me what you think.
Look at the evidence.
Put your heads together.
Make your case.
Who told you, and a long time ago, what’s going on here?
Who made sense of things for you? Wasn’t I the one?
God?
It had to be me.
I’M THE ONLY GOD THERE IS —
THE ONLY GOD who does things RIGHT and KNOWS HOW to help.
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
SO turn to me and be helped—saved!— EVERYONE,
WHOEVER and WHEREVER you are.
I AM GOD, the only God there is, the one and only.
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
I PROMISE IN MY OWN NAME :
EVERY WORD out of my MOUTH DOES WHAT it SAYS.
I never take back what I say.
He is the One and Only!
He promise with His own name
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
EVERYONE is going to end up kneeling before me.
Everyone is going to end up saying of me,
‘Yes! Salvation and strength are in God!’”
All who have raged against him will be brought before him, disgraced by their unbelief.
ISAIAH 45:18-24 MSG
And ALL who are connected with Israel will
have a ROBUST, PRAISING, GOOD LIFE IN GOD!
In harmony
God has given us good life, good things
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God?
Do you for one moment suppose any of us KNOWS ENOUGH
to call God into question?
CLAY doesn’t TALK BACK to the fingers that mold it, saying,
“Why did you shape me like this?”
Shepherd don't follow sheep, shepherd leads sheep
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
Isn’t it obvious that a POTTER has a PERFECT RIGHT to shape
one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another
into a pot for cooking beans?
If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show
his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show
his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right?
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other
people. Hosea put it well:
I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies;
I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.
In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!”
they’re calling you “GOD’S LIVING children.”
When people said we are nobody, the One who formed us said THIS IS MY CHILD, I have formed and I will make him into somebody. He made us into His beloved
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
Isaiah maintained this same emphasis:
If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered and
the sum labeled “chosen of God,”
They’d be numbers still, not names;
salvation comes by personal selection.
GOD doesn’t count us; he CALLS us BY NAME.
ARITHMETIC is NOT HIS FOCUS.
God sees us by name
We don't measure God by numbers
God called you by name and chose you for a purpose and make you for a purpose
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
Isaiah had LOOKED AHEAD and SPOKEN the TRUTH:
If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy
of living children,
We would have ended up like ghost towns, like Sodom and Gomorrah.
How can we sum this up?
All those people who didn’t seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives.
Speak the truth
God is the One who straighten our lives
God sees our hearts
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
And Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking
about what God was doing, missed it.
How could they miss it?
Because INSTEAD of TRUSTING GOD, they took over.
They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing.
They were so absorbed in their “God projects” that they didn’t notice
God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road.
God intercepted and showed him the truth
ROMANS 9:20-33 MSG
And SO they stumbled into him and went sprawling.
Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together:
Careful! I’ve put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion,
a stone you can’t get around.
But the stone is me!
If you’re LOOKING for ME, you’ll FIND me ON the way, NOT in the way.
ISAIAH 43:1-4 MSG
But now, God’s Message, the God who MADE YOU
in the first place, JACOB,
the One who GOT YOU STARTED, ISRAEL:
When God said He made us, He called this person Jacob
With your new name, this is who you are
New creation, old has passed and new has begun
That is where you start in your new journey in life
You will not drown. He will come on time
ISAIAH 43:1-4 MSG
“Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called your name.
You’re mine.
When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you.
When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down.
When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end—
ISAIAH 43:1-4 MSG
Because I AM GOD, YOUR PERSONAL GOD,
The Holy of Israel, YOUR SAVIOR.
ISAIAH 43:1-4 MSG
I paid a huge price for you: all of Egypt,
with rich Cush and Seba thrown in!
THAT’S HOW MUCH you mean to me!
THAT’S HOW MUCH I love you!
I’d sell off the whole world to get you back,
trade the creation just for you.
ROMANS 8:29-30 MSG
God knew what he was doing from the very beginning.
He decided from the outset to SHAPE the LIVES of those
who love him along the SAME LINES as the LIFE of HIS SON.
The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored.
We see the ORIGINAL and INTENDED shape of our lives there in him.
First Product was Jesus, the Son and Living God
We were all made in the same image
As He is, so are we in this world
He lives above situation, we are overcomers and live above situation. We have the same spirit.
The Son stands firm, with the life of humanity, He restored
He made us beautiful in His image
See yourselves the way God sees you
We are put into this world as a reflector.
ROMANS 8:29-30 MSG
AFTER God made that decision of what his children should be like,
he FOLLOWED it UP by CALLING PEOPLE by NAME.
AFTER he CALLED them by NAME,
he SET them on a solid basis with himself.
AND THEN, after getting them established,
he STAYED with them TO THE END, gloriously completing what he had begun.
ROMANS 8:31-39 MSG
So, what do you think?
With God on our side like this, how can we lose?
If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us,
embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst
by SENDING HIS OWN SON,
God put Himself on the line when He sent Jesus
ROMANS 8:31-39 MSG
is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?
And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one
of God’s chosen?
Who would dare even to point a finger?
The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us.
We don't have to defend ourselves. Let God be our Defender.
He is for us and not against us
Have confident
Trust Him to work everything out for us
ROMANS 8:31-39 MSG
Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge
between us and Christ’s love for us?
There is no way!
Not trouble,
not hard times,
not hatred,
not hunger,
not homelessness,
not bullying threats,
not backstabbing,
not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:
ROMANS 8:31-39 MSG
They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
NONE of this fazes us BECAUSE JESUS LOVES US.
ROMANS 8:31-39 MSG
I’m ABSOLUTELY convinced that nothing—
nothing living or dead,
angelic or demonic,
today or tomorrow,
high or low,
thinkable or unthinkable—
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING can get between us and GOD’S LOVE because of THE WAY that JESUS OUR MASTER has embraced us.
He made you and form you in love to be a beautiful vessel for His purpose. He is responsible for what He made. He will be with you for the rest of your life!
You are shortlisted with a name! You are unique and original because God made us. You are safe and sound in the Potter's hands. He is always in charge of your life. Trust and rest assured for your life and your future in His wonderful hands!
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