Name Dropper
Jehovah Shalom - God Our Peace
The name of God was so powerful to the ancient Hebrews that they wouldn’t even say it. But through Jesus we’re told, “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13) God’s name brings salvation and strength. A name dropper is someone who uses another person’s name to get access to something they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get. As Christians, we’re invited to use God’s names in our time of need. God is so powerful that He goes by many names: El Shaddai (Almighty), Jehovah Shalom (peace), Jehovah Rapha (Our healer) In this series, we’ll look at the power of calling on God’s many names and attributes to face the challenges of life.
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Name Dropper Week 4 Jehovah Shalom – God Our Peace
Judges 6:1-24 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. 4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. 6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help
7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8 he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9 I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10 I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”
11 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”
13 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
14 The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
16 The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”
17 Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. 18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.”
And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.”
19 Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah[a] of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. 22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”
23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.”
24 So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace.
Key Point:
True peace doesn’t come from absence of conflict, it comes from awareness of His presence.
Key Point:
We fight for peace, from peace.
Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Name Dropper
Sermon Notes. March 24, 2024.
SUMMARY – Jehovah Shalom, God is our Peace.
The Names of God. Sometimes we misunderstand who God is, what he does for us, and what he means to us. God is everything to us and to understand his many names from the bible will help us in our growth as Christians, our relationships, and our battles against the enemy. He is our provider, our shelter, our strength, our healer, our father, our builder and many more. HE is our banner. HE IS Jehovah Nissi. He provides us with our provisions, takes care of our needs, and nourishes us both physically and spiritually. HE is Al Shaddai. He is present in everything we do, everything we think, and in every situation we encounter. HE is YHWH. (Yahweh). He is the one who calms us, gives us rest, and recharges our soul. HE is Jehovah Shalom.
True and lasting peace only comes from God. It is the peace that takes over when we finally abandon our worries, stress, and discomfort, to the Lord of All. So often though, we sabotage our peace. Our nature is to find conflict, and the conflicting emotion to peace is anxiety.
Q1: Can you think of a time when you knew spending time with God, truly experiencing Him, would calm you down and offer you peace? Do you ever sabotage that peace? If so, how?
“God sees the potential in you when you can’t see it yourself”. We know what we can’t do, God knows what we can do. – thought up that last one myself! We see this playout throughout the bible as God selects the most unlikely people to fulfill His plan. He has never abandoned you in any storm. If you can’t see him in the commotion, it is because He is waiting for you to learn what He is trying to teach you.
Q1: Have you ever found yourself resisting God’s plan? How did that turn out?
Read the bible in 4D – Literally, Metaphorically, Morally, and Mystically. – The single most important thing about reading my bible I have ever heard.
Judges 6
There is a pattern when we don’t listen to God. First we run from His call, then we experience 3 seasons of darkness, then we have a resurrection.
True peace doesn’t come from the absence of conflict, it comes from being aware of His presence in it.
Q3: Have you ever found yourself asking God for some peace? How does He answer?
We fight for Peach from a position of Peace. We can’t fight for peace from a place of conflict. That doesn’t work. Before we can spread peace to others, we need to find the inner peace that comes from the Lord.
Philippians 4:6-7
PRAY IT OUT
Remember His name. The Lord of our Peace. Jehovah Shalom
Father, help us to find you in the conflicts we face every day. Help us to seek and see you when we need peace. You are the calm in the storm, the eye of the hurricane, the shield that gives us peace. Help us to recognize the lessons you have planned for us and to spread peace to others when you have established it in us. God. You are our banner, You are the provision that nourishes our soul, You are everything that is and exists in our world, and you are our Peace. You are Jehovah Shalom. We Love you Jesus. Amen.