Monday, October 15, 2012

Seeking HIS face...


"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


Who is God to you?

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?

Hallowed be Your name?

To hallow a thing is to make it holy or to set it apart to be exalted as being worthy of absolute devotion. To hallow the name of God is to regard Him with complete devotion and loving admiration. God's name is of the utmost importance

~Lately God has put it on my heart that he knows everything about me, but I want to know more about him!!!

Isaiah 43:1-28 But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. ...

Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:1-4
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

Isaiah 49:16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.

See he know us so much...and in this relationship with him, I long to know more about him.  I will be honest that I have sang many songs at church, and although I love them, I am a bit confused about the meaning.  Maybe you are with me...or maybe you know all the names of the Lord and you can give us more insight on this topic :-) 

I know there is a song at church that says "There's no God like Jehovah", and I will be honest when I first heard it I thought "what Jehovah...Jehovah's Witness???"   WHAT??? lol

Jehovah

Definition: The personal name of the only true God. His own self-designation. Jehovah is the Creator and, rightfully, the Sovereign Ruler of the universe. "Jehovah" is translated from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, which means "He Causes to Become."

There is a beautiful song that declares names of the Lord, and I love it so much...gives me chills all over everytime I hear it...maybe it will mean even more now that I actually know what all the names mean to me. 

The song is called "Lord You're Holy" here are the lyrics...I would encourage you to look it up and listen to it on you tube...it is a very annointed song!  Love it!

Lord You're Holy
Lord You're Holy
Lord, You're Holy
Lord, You're Holy
And we lift You up
And magnify Your Name
Lord, You're Holy
Lord, You're Holy
And we lift You up
And magnify Your Name

 As I look around and I see
All the works that Your hands have made
The awesomeness of You
And how Your love will never fail
Mere words cannot express what I feel inside
I can't describe Your glory divine
But as a token of my love
This is what I'll do
I lift my hands and cry holy

Lord, You're Holy
Lord, You're Holy
And we lift You up
And magnify Your Name
Lord, You're Holy
Lord, You're Holy
And we lift You up
And magnify Your Name

There's not enough words that I can say
To tell you how much I appreciate
All the wonderful things You've given me
Your loving kindness
Your tender mercies
It's my desire to praise You
And tell you how much I love You
You're worthy of all the honor
Lord You're worthy of all the praise

 I don't know how
You can love me
How You could give me
So much mercy
You didn't have to suffer and die for me
Way back on Calvary
But I just wanna thank you
I thank you
I thank you
I thank you

 Wonderful, Glorious, Holy, and Righteous
Victorious, Conqueror, Triumphant and
Mighty
Healer, Deliverer, Shield and Defense
Strong Tower and My Best Friend
Omnipotent, Omnipresent
Soon Coming King
Alpha, Omega, Lord of everything
Holy, holy, holy is Your Name

So first of all what does Holy mean?  The best definition I could find to describe God as Holy is "Sacred and Worthy of Worshiping" 

Omnipotent~Having very great and unlimited authority!

Omnipresent~Being present everywhere!

Alpha and Omega~Begining and the End!

Also when looking up names of God I found he has a lot, and just to read through them is amazing!  So here we go:

Advocate, Almighty, Alpha, Angel, Amen, Angel of the Lord, Annointed One, Apostle, Author and Perfecter of Our Faith, Beginning, Bishop of our Souls, Branch, Bread of Life, Bridegroom, Carpenter, Chief Shephard, The Christ, Comforter, Consolation of Isreal, Cornerstone, Dayspring, Day Star, Deliver, Desire of Nations, Emmanuel, End, Everlasting Father, Faithful and True Witness, First Fruits, Foundation, Fountain, Friend of Sinners, Gate of Sinners, Gate for Sheep, Gift of God, God, Glory of God, Great Shepherd, Guide, Head of the Church, High Priest, Holy One of Israel, Horn of Salvation, I Am, Jehovah, Jesus, King of Isreal, King of Kings, Lamb of God, Last Adam, Life, Light of the World, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Lord  of Lords, Master, Mediator, Messiah, Mighty God, Morning Star, Nazarene, Omega, Pasosver Lamb, Physician, Potentate, Priest, Prince of Peace, Prophet, Propitiation, Purifier, Rabbi, Ransom, Redeemer, Refiner, Refuge, Resurrection, Righteousness, Rock, Root of David, Rose of Sharon, Ruler of God's Creation, Sacrifice, Savior, Second Adam, Seed of Abraham, Seed of David, Seed of the Woman, Servant, Shepherd, Shiloh, Son of David, Son of God, Son of Man, Son of Mary, Son of the Most High, Stone, Sun of Righteousness, Teacher, Truth, Way, Wonderful Counselor, Word, Vine.

WOW~  He is EVERYTHING!!!  Is there anything that we can fathom that is all that???  And the most amazing thing is, he is our Father...he made us, created us...his Greatness is in us.  We are his children...we come from good genes!!!  See in my quest of finding out more about him...it is just like the Lord to reveal to me that all of the Goodness is living in me!!!  I set out to find out more about him, and he in turn Blessed me!  That is so like him!  How diferent would this world be if all his children knew what was in them...what Greatness they came from... 

PRAISE YOUR NAME LORD...PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME!
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