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 Some Bible insight to help us get into this study today…

A scripture for discussion from Q3 in our study today…

Psalm 57:1-3… (ESV) To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy.
A Miktam (POEM) of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.  (2)  I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.  (3)  He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

— Psalm 57:2 (MKJV) I will cry to God most high, to God who does all things for me.

— Does God have a purpose for YOU even in the times of ‘storms of destruction’?

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God wrote a notification for us in 2nd Peter 3:3-7 (ERV) It is important for you to understand what will happen in the last days. People will laugh at you. They will live following the evil they want to do.  (4)  They will say, “Jesus promised to come again. Where is he? Our fathers have died, but the world continues the way it has been since it was made.”  (5)  But these people don’t want to remember what happened long ago. The skies were there, and God made the earth from water and with water. All this happened by God’s word.  (6)  Then the world was flooded and destroyed with water.  (7)  And that same word of God is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. They are being kept to be destroyed by fire. They are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.

The Apostle John speaks of Jesus in John 1:1-3 (ERV) Before the world began, the Word was there. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.  (2)  He was there with God in the beginning.  (3)  Everything was made through him, and nothing was made without him.

— As you read through John 1, you find he makes it very clear that Jesus is this Word of God.

Jesus spoke on His own behalf in John 10:37-38 (ERV) If I don’t do what my Father does, then don’t believe what I say.  (38)  But if I do what my Father does, you should believe in what I do. You might not believe in me, but you should believe in the things I do. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

— Jesus did many miracles, curing diseases and healing people, He also made things out of nothing as when He multiplied the bread and fish in Mark 6:41-44.

— If you know Jesus, you know God the Father. For the Word (Jesus) is God. Not only can you know God through the miracles (works) Jesus did, but you may know God by His very creation we live in, even though it’s corrupted by sin, for Jesus was God’s Word by which all things were made.

— Is getting to know God better one of your passions? …(KRK)

That is where we are going in these studies.

The first name of God we looked at was – Jehovah Elohim Meaning – Creator

The Hebrew meaning of God’s name, Jehovah Elohim is “God is Creator”.

Do you see a connection with:
Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”  (27)  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

John 1:1-3 (ESV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  (2)  He was in the beginning with God.  (3)  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

— Q1. Some people struggle over the wording for a ‘plural’ God in Genesis 1:26… Do you?

— Q2. Does this name ‘the Word’ that John gives to Jesus, give you any further confidence in the promises of God? (God speaks the WORD and things come into existence. See John 1:3.)

— Q3. If Jehovah Elohim created you, how do you answer the question from the scripture hand-out of Psalm 57:1-3?

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Next, we delve into another name the Bible gives to God…

[Quote from Megan Allen Ministries – Jehovah – Self-Existent One…

— The Hebrew word for Jehovah means self-existent one. He is the Alpha and Omega. God has always existed and will always remain. He has no beginning and no end. 

— (13) Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” (14) God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” – Exodus 3:13-14 …end of quote]

Q4. (Discuss) Can we grasp the idea of a GOD who had no beginning and has no end?

Q5. Take time to consider that when people ask, “Who is this one you call GOD?” …just as they did of Moses, we need to understand that the “Great I AM” has sent us to be His ministering servants.           – How should that affect our witnessing to them?

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Q6. Does being God the ‘I am’ also fit the name for Jesus, ‘The Word’, found in John 1:1-3… “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made”?

Q7. If our God is the ‘Great I am’, and that nothing exists without His bringing it into existence, how should we react to Romans 8:31(b) If God is for us, who can stand against us? (ERV)  

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Leaving our study there for today, we will take this knowledge into our prayer-time…
— It should help us to pray with a better understanding of the one who hears our prayers. …(KRK)