Who Is God Part 4
Billy Graham- Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Penned Truth: We must never allow God’s names to be emptied of their true meanings. Never to be discarded as unimportant.
Pastor Tony Evans: “The bad news today is, life has problems. The good news today is, God has a name for them.
Penned Truth: God’s Names contain tremendous power, and we need to use them.
Superman Responds: Do you think I have enough power to deliver you from the fire but not enough power to deliver you safely home?
Penned Truth: My God is all-sufficient in every need that we will have.
Genesis 17:1 (EXB) 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am ·God Almighty [El Shaddai].
El = Power Shaddai = Almighty God; all-sufficient God
Penned Truth: We must see God as our source and supplier of life-giving provision.
Reality Check: God has thousands of years of experience taking care of stuff, compared to our very limited time of taking care of stuff.
Heart of the Message
El Shaddai Will Provide Material Needs
Deuteronomy 29:5 (ESV) 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
1 Kings 19:4–8 (ESV) 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” 5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
Diane H. Moody- El Shaddai. My all-sufficient God who is able to handle all my needs. Everything I will ever need I can find in Him. Think about that for a moment. Do you sense the power He offers us in those words? There is nothing, absolutely nothing in your life that He cannot handle.
1 Kings 17:2-6 (ESV) 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
1 Kings 17:8–16 (ESV) 8 Then the word of the LORD came to him, 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” 12 And she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” 13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.’ ” 15 And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah.
Lexham Theological Wordbook- Obedience is a responsive action. It assumes that God has already acted on our behalf and that our fitting reply is to follow his will; very often, he then promises further blessing.
Isaiah 1:19 (ESV) 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Exodus 23:22 (ESV) 22 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Final Statement: Your faith and my faith should stand and be based on the power of God. For He said, I am El Shaddai, the Almighty God, the All-Sufficient God, and the God of More than Enough. El Shaddai will do what He proposes to do on your behalf to provide your needs, overpowering all opposition.
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