THIRTY DAY PRAYER CHALLENGE - DAY 9

PRAY THE NAMES OF GOD

DAY 9


JEHOVAH- JIREH


The great John Newton, who wrote the timeless classic "AMAZING GRACE" also wrote these beautiful words about the LORD Who provides! Here is part of the poem:

Though troubles assail and dangers affright, 
Though friends should all fail and foes all unite; 
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, 
The scripture assures us, the Lord will provide 

The birds without barn or storehouse are fed, 
From them let us learn to trust for our bread: 
His saints, what is fitting, shall ne'er be denied, 
So long as it's written, the Lord will provide 

We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed 
On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost. 
Though Satan enrages the wind and the tide, 
The promise engages, the Lord will provide. 

His call we obey, like Abram of old, 
Not knowing our way, but faith makes us bold; 
For though we are strangers we have a good Guide, 
And trust in all dangers, the Lord will provide 

The phrase "The Lord Provides", which is also a Name of our Great God and Father, comes from the prophetic event on Mount Moriah. It was here that Abraham was told by God to go up and sacrifice his only legitimate son at the time, Isaac. Genesis 22 has the full account. Abraham obeyed. When God provided a ram for the sacrifice in the thicket, Isaac was spared.  In verse 14, Abraham called that place "The Lord will provide..." or Jehovah Jireh!

ACTION POINT:

Read the poem by John Newton again above and let us pray this Name of God:

Father in the Name of Jesus, You are my Provider, my All in All.

You are the Source of every good thing.

You are the Father of Lights Who giveth Life.

I am nothing without You.

I am worthless without You.

The bed I sleep in is Yours.

The house I live in is Yours.

The food I eat comes from You.

The job I work it was given by You.

The car I drive is a gift from You.

The children You blessed our family with are Yours.

Their children are Yours.

Their future is Yours.

Everything is Yours.

You, oh God, provided all.

I thank You Lord for Your mercy.

I thank You for Your kindness.

I thank You for Your Goodness.

I thank You for You, Jehovah-Jireh, oh God Who provides.

Most of all, I thank You for providing the Greatest Gift of all – the Lord Jesus, Who gave His Life that I may belong to You and can praise You like this. It is in His Name I pray, amen.

TOMORROW: JEHOVAH-SHALOM

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THIRTY DAY PRAYER CHALLENGE: DAY 7

PRAY THE NAMES OF GOD

DAY 7

GOD IS GOOD!


Even today, after all is said, done and read, the majority of people who live both IN and OUT of Christianity, still believe they have to be good to get into Heaven. Even worse, they believe that THEY are good enough to get there on their own!


Scripture records the incident of the "rich young ruler" in Luke 18:18-19 who went up to Jesus and called Him "good teacher". Jesus' response was ""Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good - except God alone."


The reason GOD IS GOOD is included here as a Name to be prayed is this - we cannot separate the Attribute of from the Person. We also have to look very closely as the word Jesus used for "good" here - Agathos in the Original Greek. Remember Jesus is describing His Father - God, and our Father, Whom NO man has seen and lived!


Jesus is saying here that Father is "Agathos" and it means He is GOOD, whether His Goodness is visible or not. The rain falls equally on the saved and the unsaved. The unsaved co-worker down the hall could actually be in better health and more legitimately wealthy than you, a hardworking Christian who is just getting by. God is Good to whomever He wishes and He gives Grace to all, hoping and looking for ALL to come to Him.

The invitation is open to everyone, from any part of this great planet Earth. Nothing is stopping anyone from coming to a saving knowledge of the Truth, but human pride. Regardless, God is still Good. His Name is Good. His Son is God. His Spirit is Good.


Today's scripture to meditate and pray over is Psalm 119:65-72:

You have dealt well with your servant,
O LORD, according to your word.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.
Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
You are good and do good;
teach me your statutes.
The insolent smear me with lies,
but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;
their heart is unfeeling like fat,
but I delight in your law.
It is good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
(Psalm 119:65-72 ESV)


Our prayer today is to read this passage and find every mention of the word GOOD here. Then make a note of it in either your bible or prayer journal, then THANK GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS IN EACH INSTANCE!


I have highlighted them for you.  However just look back on this past week alone and if you really search your heart, you will find forty more things about which, God has been Himself - more than GOOD - to you!


Father I thank You, in the Name of Jesus for not just the Fact that You are Good and gives good things to Your people, but that YOU - the Good God of Heaven, would look down, have pity, show compassion and save someone such as I!


Lord God Almighty, You are Good and just in everything You do.
You are Good in everything You create.
You are Good in everything You said in Your Word.
You are Good in everything You have done in my life and not just mine, but those Whom You have saved and called according to Your Plan, before the Foundation of the Earth.


Day after day, moment by moment, morning after morning, Who You are - Good, demonstrates itself to me in every way imaginable! Your mercies are true every day, Abba Father. Great is Thy Faithfulness, Lord unto me! I thank You, Lord, I thank You from every fiber of my being. I bless Your Holy Name. I glorify You in all and for all and to all. I worship You in thanksgiving for You are Good.


In the Blessed and Holy Name of Jesus, the King, amen and amen!

TOMORROW'S NAME- GOD IS LOVE!

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THIRTY DAY PRAYER CHALLENGE - DAY 4

PRAY THE NAMES OF GOD

DAY 4
GOD IS OMNIPOTENT:


Yesterday's Prayer Point/NAME OF GOD WAS INFINITE

This can be taken both as His Name and one of His many attributes! The extension of being Infinite is Omnipotent - also both a Name and an attribute!


A God Whose scope of His reach cannot be measured  automatically has ALL power in His grasp, in order to execute the full breadth of His Might!


Just as He cannot be limited, you should come to both revere and FEAR Him because of that aforementioned Might!

As we pray on Day 4 of Praying the Names of God, let's key in on the passage I selected from Jeremiah 32:  ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts, great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
(Jeremiah 32:17-19 ESV)


What we find today is a lack of love - not physical or emotional love of which there is an abundance. I am talking about Agape - the true by which they will know we are Christians (by our love, by our love!!!)


But here, my favorite OT prophet Jeremiah shows exactly why we should be walking repositories of God's love: because HE IS!

Verse 17 says He made the heavens and earth by HIS GREAT POWER and OUTSTRETCHED arm - NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM!  


YET, YET - this same God Who cause the earth to have footings scientists could never explain,  this same God says in this same passage "You (God) show steadfast love to thousands"! Jeremiah undercounted! God has been showing steadfast love to gazillions since Creation - time and time again. 


Therefore, please join me in prayer this morning as we worship this Most Powerful, yet Personal God:


Father God, in the Mighty Name of Jesus, we are IN AWE OF YOU!  
YOU, oh God, Who asked Job where he was when You created the earth and if he could describe its foundation.
YOU about Whom David asked "where I can I go and You are not there".
YOU Who blew open a dry road across a sea to free Your people.
YOU Who led in a Cloud by day and a Pillar of Fire by night.
YOU Who confused the prideful at Babel and destroyed the sinners at Sodom.
Yet YOU Who also said "come let us reason together as men, though your sins be scarlet, I will make them as white as snow"!
YOU Who can be so Infinite and Powerful, yet caring about the soul and life of a single human - WE MAGNIFY YOUR NAME!


LORD GOD - we see Your Omnipotence in everything around us....if we would just open our eyes. 
We see You in the Winds across the Plains.
We see You in the Waves across the ocean.
We see You in the Wheat, golden swaying in the breeze.
We see You in the Work of everything around us.
Yet, Heavenly Father, You reach down and touch the heart of the tiniest baby or unworthy sinner, to save him/her from the pit, for this - WE MAGNIFY YOUR NAME!


Father, all Creation worships You, I do also.
Father, all of Heaven bows down to You, I do as well.
Father, all living things speak of Your Name, I proclaim you as well.
Father, all....all...even the rocks call out Your Name - I preach it from the mountaintop!


Most Holy and Powerful God, I revere, respect and love everything about You! Even when You discipline and call me on things I need to change. I bask in the Discipline of Your Hands. I bathe in the Depth of Your Mercy. I become strong in the Desire for Righteousness.

Thank you for choosing me as a Servant, oh Most High and Magnificent Abba! Thank You, Father, Who is both my Daddy and my Judge. Thank you for judging and more in Your Righteousness...because it is because of Your infinite Power and Steadfastness, I can find true peace, joy, rest, hope and contentment, this day and forever more, in Jesus' Holy Name, amen!

TOMORROW: DAY 5 "GOD IS ADONAI"!!