Calling On Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name - 5

Subject:  Jeremiah calls on Yahweh’s Everlasting Name

Today we move on to the next servant of God who calls on God's Everlasting Name.

Lamentations 5:19

You, O Yahweh, abides forever; your throne from generation to generation.

Lamentation is written by the prophet Jeremiah in the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of Babylonians in 586 BC. The rebellious sins of Judah had brought a final end to Jerusalem. God's anger was exercised against His people and the city. God's people had been utterly rejected with the hope that they would wake up, like Jeremiah, to call upon Yahweh to turn His face to them in their repentance.

It is in face of degradation, humiliation and abandonment that Jeremiah calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name with faith.  Can you feel the heartbeat of Jeremiah's faith?

Look at Jeremiah's abiding faith in God.  Even though he had seen the destruction of Jerusalem, witnessed the Israelites going off in exile to Babylon, preached to the faithless Israelites not heeding to his warning, realized the apparent failure of his preaching ministry in Jerusalem, Jeremiah continued to call on the Everlasting Name of Yahweh in faith. God was still reigning and He abides forever. There is hope in Everlasting Yahweh God even though the Israelites at that present moment was despised and cast down in a foreign land.

Many Israelites had already lost faith in Yahweh God and turned aside to worship the Babylonian gods in their exiles. They turned their eyes away from the eternal God to what they could see with their physical eyes for a quick temporary solution.

But Jeremiah had the confidence of faith in God in this enduring difficult circumstances. 

Most people would lose faith and hope in God because they could not mentally reconcile their suffering to their picture of God. They may consider God unjust or in the wrong for destroying Jerusalem, known as the city of God. 

But Jeremiah accepted the punishment of God's anger towards them and he understood why God had rejected Israel because of their sin.  There was still hope in the Everlasting God.  In calling upon Yahweh, Jeremiah longed to know how long God would forget Israel.  He begged God to turn back to Israel and restore her as of old.

Thus the book of Lamentations ended with these words of hope in Jeremiah's prayer:

Lamentations 5:19-22

You, O Yahweh, abides forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

Wherefore do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?

Turn thou us to You, O Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

But You have utterly rejected us; You are very wroth against us.

Our hope and faith is in our Everlasting Yahweh.  
O Yahweh, you abide forever.

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Calling On Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name - 4

Subject:  Isaiah calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name

Here is another servant of God who calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name.

“O Yahweh, You are our Father, our Redeemer; Your Name is from everlasting.” (Isaiah 63:16)

1.  This is Isaiah’s prayer. 

2.  Isaiah calls on God’s Name, Yahweh. 

3.  Isaiah recognizes God's Name is everlasting. "Your Name is from everlasting."

Isaiah, like Abraham, has faith in Yahweh's Everlasting Name!

To many people, God is just a great idea with no real existence.  

I want to impress on your mind in this series of topic that the God of the Bible is an everlasting God with an everlasting Name.  

This everlasting God is actively involved in our lives. So when we call out to Yahweh God,  we experience a personal God who relates to us intimately like a Father and Redeemer.

He has given us His Name so that we can call out to Him.  

His Name, like Himself, is Everlasting.

Let us have faith to call on God’s Everlasting Name.  

Indeed, Yahweh is our Father and Redeemer.

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Calling On Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name - 3

SUBJECT:  Abraham calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name

Abraham is a man of prayer.  

In the short narrative of Abraham’s life from Gen 12-25 (13 chapters), the author specifically mentions 3X about Abraham calling on the Name of God, Yahweh.  

Gen 12:8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to Yahweh and called upon the Name of Yahweh.


Gen 13:4  to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the Name of Yahweh.

Gen 21:33  Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and there he called on the Name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

It’s not to say that Abraham only called on God’s Name three times in his life, but the repetitive mentioning of Abraham calling on God’s Name tells us that Abraham is a man in the habit of calling on Yahweh’s Name in prayer.  As Abraham continued to call on Yahweh's Name in prayer, his faith in Yahweh was developed and strengthened as the years went on.

No wonder Abraham is called the father of faith.  Faith indeed is strengthened in a close walk of calling on God’s Everlasting Name.  

Now, do you understand why you need to spend time in prayer?
Now, do you understand why you need to spend time to call on God's Name in prayer?

You need to have faith to call on God's Name, Yahweh.
You need to have faith to recognize the Everlasting Nature of God's Name. 


If you don't have faith, you will not spend time in prayer.

If you don't have faith, you will not bother to call on God's Name in prayer.

If you don't have faith, you will just treat God's Name like every other name and not see its EVERLASTING nature to call upon.

How did Abraham know God’s Name is Yahweh?

God had already revealed His Name to Abraham in Gen 15:3,  "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

God directly revealed Himself to Abraham, "I am Yahweh".  Since then, Abraham continued to respond to Yahweh God by faith. 

By faith, He came to know God as everlasting God. In Genesis, we know that God reveals His everlasting covenant, everlasting promise to Abraham.  Not only that, God also reveals His everlasting Name to Abraham so that Abraham calls on the Everlasting Name of Yahweh.

Abraham always trusted and called on God’s everlasting Name, Yahweh. That's how He became a man of great faith. 

We, too, need faith to call on God’s Name, to trust in His everlasting Name, Yahweh.  

Calling On Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name - 2

Subject:  Your Name, O YAHWEH is EVERLASTING

Calling on God's Name is something that the Psalmists naturally do in their prayers.  You see this all over the place in the book of Psalms.

But sadly today, when we share with Christians that they need to call on God's Name in prayer, they look very puzzled and their minds are full of questions. 

Some of the questions I get asked are:

1.  How do I call on God's Name?

2.  What exactly is God's Name?

3.  Which name of God do I call on?

4.  How do I pronounce God's Name correctly?

etc.

Their questions are legitimate because down through the centuries, Christians have stopped calling on God's Name.  We don't know where to begin.  All of a sudden "Calling on God's Name" becomes a 'study' that we need to look into, just like what we are doing in this Blog page.

This Blog page is a good start to bring us together to the importance of calling on God's Name.  

In this new topic #6, I want to impress on your mind that first and foremost, you need FAITH to call on God's Name.  It is not a method that you need to learn.  It is not a theory that you need to memorize.  

You must have FAITH when you call on God's Name, because God's Name,  Yahweh is an Everlasting Name.

Psalm 135:13   Your Name, O Yahweh, is EVERLASTING.

1.  Psalmist specifically calls on God's Name in prayer: "O Yahweh".

2.  Psalmist recognizes God's Name is everlasting.

The Hebrew word "everlasting" is "olam". 

Olam means to last forever.  

Our Names are not eternal. We live in this physical world where everything is temporal.  Temporal things are things that belong to this age.  What we can see with our eyes do not require faith.

Nothing on this earth lasts forever.  Everything has an expiry date. 

Our Everlasting God has an everlasting Name that lasts forever. 

God's Name, Yahweh, lives forever.

God's Name, Yahweh, never grows old.

God's Name, Yahweh, remains true always.

God's Name, Yahweh, will never change.

God's Name, Yahweh, has no expiry date.

Can you see that God has given us something of great eternal value?  

Do we have faith to call on God's Name that carries everlasting significance?

Now we begin to understand why we do not call on God's Name.  Sadly, most Christians pursue things of this temporal world, what they can see with their eyes and what they can grasp with their hands.  As a result, all their times are spent on things that soon expire and disappear in front of their eyes.

Who wants to spend time on prayer?  Do you spend time with God?

To call on Yahweh is to spend time with the Everlasting God.  You cannot see God with your eyes.  You need FAITH.  We walk by FAITH, not by sight. This is the most important principle in prayer when we call "O Yahweh, your Name is Everlasting." 

Our everlasting God has an everlasting Name that never expires.

God’s Name, Yahweh, also lives forever.

God's Name, Yahweh, will never die.

Let's hold on to God's Name Yahweh and spend time today to call upon Yahweh.  

• It maybe just 5 minutes.  Try it.  It is a good start already.  
• Whisper from your heart, "Your Name, O Yahweh, is everlasting."

Tomorrow we will learn from a servant of God who calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name.  Can you take a guess who he might be? It is in Genesis.

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Calling On Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name - 1

Subject:  6 Bible Statistics Graph - Importance of Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name

In this coming week, we are going to start a new topic on Yahweh's Everlasting Name.  

• In Topic 4, we looked at "This is My Name FOREVER"
• In Topic 5, we looked at "Blessed be the Name of God FOREVER"
• For Topic 6, we will look at "Calling on Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name"

Hopefully in these 3 sequential series of Topics, you can see the importance of the 'eternal' nature of God's Name.  

Yahweh's Name is not like any name.  
Yahweh's Name is an Everlasting Name.  

When we call on God, we are calling on God's Everlasting Name.  

In the following days, we will see examples of prophets and men of God consciously calling on God's Name, paying special attention to the 'everlasting' nature of Yahweh.

For today, I will post 6 Bible statistics Graphs for you to have a general overview again on the significance of God's Name - Yahweh.

The following 6 sets of words are very important to our present study. From now on, whenever you come across these words in your Bible, highlight them.  You will find that you will see these words appearing on every page in your Bible.

After serving Yahweh God for 25 years, I have now come to realize the significance of the Name of God, Yahweh in the Bible.

Just looking at the following 6 statistics graph will give you a lot of insights about God's mind as He reveals His Name to you in the different books of the Old Testament.

1.  Yahweh - the most frequent noun in the Bible - 6828X

So far in our studies, we have seen that the word "Yahweh" is the most frequent noun in the Bible.  The main focus of the Bible is "Yahweh". 

We have seen that the most occurrence is in the Book of Psalms.  Then it is followed by the Book of Jeremiah.  Do you know why Jeremiah emphasizes on "Yahweh"?   Meditate on this. :)  

2.  I am Yahweh - 207X

Whenever God says something of great significance and requiring special attention, He reveals Himself as "I am Yahweh".  Can you feel the heart beat of God as to how much He wants us to know Him as Yahweh? 

Last year, when I discovered these words spoken by Yahweh God, "I am Yahweh", this revelation drew me to love Him and His Name more and more.  There are so many riches in this simple phrase.  We will need to spend a few weeks to study on this topic this year if God willing.

The most occurrence of this phrase is in Ezekiel.  Do you know why?  The rebellious Israelites in exiles were forgetting God's Name.  Ezekiel's message kept drawing them to remember "they will know that I am Yahweh."

Do you also notice that "I am Yahweh" occurs frequently in the Book of Leviticus. This should draw you all the more to study the book of Leviticus with new insights.  What we often thought was a boring book will turn out to be a very exciting book of God's revelation of His Name.

3.  Name of Yahweh - 87X

While "Yahweh" appears the most in the book of Psalm, the phrase "Name of Yahweh" occurs also the most in the book of Psalm.  Can you guess the reason why?

4.  My Name - 52X

Yahweh God sometimes puts emphasis on 'My Name' because He wants us to call on "His Name" and not just call on Lord or God in prayer. 

If you take time to look at all the references to "My Name", you will be able to see where God puts the significance regarding His own Name.  Again, if God willing, we will do an in-depth study on this in the future.

5.  My Holy Name - 10X

To emphasize the importance of the holiness of His Name, God specifically says "My Holy Name".

The most occurrence is found in the Book of Ezekiel as Ezekiel is dealing with the rebellious Israelites who had polluted themselves in grievous sins, so God is reminding of His holiness to draw them back to Yahweh God.

6.  Your Name - 94X

It is not surprising that "Your Name" has the most occurrence  in the book of Psalms.  While the psalmists often call on Yahweh in prayer, they are also concerned to pray to God concerning Yahweh's Name, thus "Your Name" is usually a focal point of their prayers.  

Do you ever pray to God about "Your Name . . ."?  In the Lord's prayer, Jesus instructs us to pray "Hallowed be Your Name."  



These statistics reveal to us the important emphasis God places on His Name.  When we enter into prayer, all the more, we must call on God's Name, Yahweh. This week we will call on God's Everlasting Name ever more deeply from our hearts.

:)