The Three Country Bridge at night in Huningue (France) and Weil am Rhein (Germany) next to the Tripoint near Basel (Switzerland).by Taxiarchos228
Good morning, friends,
I am home! It is good to be around my family once again. I come home still hurting, still dizzy and without answers, but I made the decision that I must learn how to cope. So I shall in the strength only the Lord can give me. I am thrilled to go to church this morning and be among my church family. We went to the grocery store as a family yesterday and had fun. I just kept grabbing my kids to hug them and love them. They were so cute with their conversations and happiness that Mom was coming home. As we drove home, we listened to one of our favorite books. It was just so good to be together. Joshua and D made us beautiful fire and we ate our dinner staring at the fire.
I went to bed early and had a boy join me. We listened to a podcast of a kids show in the dark. He would wake me every time I would drift off. 🙂 It was good, good, good to be with my boy.
3 Know (perceive, recognize, and understand with approval) that the Lord is God! It is He Who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His]! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!
5 For the Lord is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations. Psalm 100 AMP
As I talked with Joshua yesterday, this may be my cup. God may be giving me a new chapter filled with physical pain but huge blessings with family and friends. This is when I must remember that…
…Lord is God…I must know it deep in my soul. Recognize His breath in my life. He made me. He made you.
…We are His own. I love my family, my friends but I love even more knowing I am the Father’s kid.
…So we wake up, we walk into our day, we give thanks. We praise Him. We affectionately praise His name.
When I think about praising His name, this makes me think about many of His names that mean so much to me. 🙂
From the Blue Letter Bible,
“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
In the Old Testament times, a name was not only identification, but an identity as well. Many times a special meaning was attached to the name. Names had, among other purposes, an explanatory purpose (e.g., Nabal, whose name means “fool,” is the target of Abigail’s explanation to David: “For as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him:” – 1Sa 25:25). Throughout Scripture God reveals Himself to us through His names. When we study these names that He reveals to us in the Bible, we will better understand who God really is. The meanings behind God’s names reveal the central personality and nature of the One who bears them.
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 (Neh 9:5); therefore we ought reserve it a position of grave significance in our minds and hearts. We should never take His name lightly (Exd 20:7; Lev 22:32), but always rejoice in it and think deeply upon its true meaning.
Please take some time and look at this list on the link I gave you. Well, I’ll give it again. (The Names of God in the Old Testament)
What name means the most to you right now? Print it out. Dwell on the verses. Remind yourself again and again of the truth of God’s Word and the knowledge that God, our God is GOOD! His loving-kindness are FOREVER! He is faithful and true always.
Find a church this morning, beloved. Praise the One who has always existed and will always exist. Devote yourselves to the knowledge of His word. Pray on. Pray on.
The sea at Indre Fure, in the Stad peninsula. Selje municipality, Norway. by Frode Inge Helland
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