7 REDEMPTIVE NAMES OF GOD

Imagine two people trying to get to know each other and love one another without knowing each other’s names. "Unthinkable!", you would say. the same is true concerning our relationship with our Father/God. As we discover and understand the names of our God, the more our love for him will increase. In the Lord's Prayer, we are told, 'Hallowed be thy name'. God's name is holy, sacred, and sanctified. Knowing God's name is a good way to know God because it reveals to us his person, nature, and his work. In the Old Testament, there are three fundamental names of God besides his other names and titles.

They are Elohim, Jehovah, and Adonai.

·        Elohim - refers to God as the Omnipotent Creator.

·        Jehovah - unveils God as the Self Existent Lord who reveals himself.

·        Adonai -  reveals God as Master and Head.

Studying the various names of God is more than just studying his many titles. The names reveal and relate to the age of the world and God's people’s perspective of him at a particular point in their history. Also during the Old Testament, Israel connected the divine presence or power of God to His name.

Proverbs 18:10 (NKJV)

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

Deuteronomy 28:7 (NKJV)

The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

There are seven redemptive names of the Lord demonstrating his capability of supplying our every human need.

When you LACK, when you are in need

Jehovah Jireh – The Lord, is my provider who sees and provides all.

Genesis 22:13-14 (NKJV)

Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place, The Lord Will Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

When you are feeling SICKNESS

Jehovah Rapha – The Lord who heals me and restores.

Exodus 15:26 (NKJV)

He said, 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 put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

When you feel like a FAILURE

Jehovah Nissi – The Lord is my canopy, my protection.

Exodus 17:14-15 (NKJV)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-LORD-Is-My-Banner

When you are WORRIED about everything

Jehovah Shalom – The Lord is my Peace; O will fear no evil.

Judges 6:24 (NKJV)

So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it The-LORD-Is-Peace.

When you feel CONFUSION

Jehovah Ra’ah – The LORD My Shepherd who watches over me.

Psalm 23:1-3 (NKJV)

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the path of of righteousness for His name’s sake.

When CONDEMNATION hits you hard

Jehovah Tsidkenu – The Lord my Righteousness. Jesus Christ became sin for us so that we could become the Righteousness of God.

Jeremiah 23:5-6 (NKJV)

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.”

When fear set in, FEAR NOT

Jehovah Shammah – The Lord is present, always, and forever at my side.

Ezekiel 48:35 (NKJV) 

And the name of the city from that day shall be: The LORD Is There.”

As our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, our Redeemer operates with mighty power in each and every one of these redeeming names.  He is the Lord who never leaves us and never fails us. Let us call Him by these names and as He says, if we lift Him up, He will draw all His people unto Him.

God Bless, Israel