Topic #6 Calling on Yahweh's EVERLASTNG Name - 7 Days Devotion
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7/26/14
Topics # 6 - Calling on Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name
Topic #6 Calling on Yahweh's EVERLASTNG Name - 7 Days Devotion
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7/12/14
Calling On Yahweh's EVERLASTING Name - 6
Subject: Habakkuk calls on Yahweh’s Everlasting Name
Today we are going to learn from another prophet who calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name.
Habakkuk 1:12 " Are you not from everlasting, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Yahweh, You have ordained them as a judgment, and You, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Habakkuk is a prophet in the Bible. There are only 3 chapters in Habakkuk and the entire book records the dialogue between Habbkuk and Yahweh God. Habbakuk wrestles with difficult issues, such as why do evil men prosper and go unpunished?
In Habakkuk 1:12, he began his second complaint by asking Yahweh God, "Are you not from everlasting, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?"
Here, the prophet is not asking God for information expecting an answer. He is using a rhetorical question to affirm his conviction that Yahweh God is everlasting, indeed confirming his conviction to the everlasting nature of God.
In wrestling with difficult issues understanding God and His doings, Habbakuk calls upon Yahweh God in faith. You see this right at the beginning of his prayer "O Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help and you will no hear?" (Hab 1:2) Can you feel the depth of Habakkuk's cries and his longing for God's answer? Is God indifferent? Is God inactive? God then gives Habakkuk a reply.
Habakkuk trusts Yahweh God but it doesn't mean that he fully understands the answer God gives him. Aren't we also like this all the time? Habakkuk knows God hates evil and therefore does not understand why God would use a nation even more wicked than Judah to punish Judah. After all, Judah has her problems, but she is still better than the Babylonians.
And then when we get to Hab 1:12, you can tell that Habakkuk has tremendous faith in God. He hangs on to the everlasting nature of Yahweh God that what He says He will do, He will bring it to pass. Israelites shall not die. Habakkuk knows that God will not totally destroy Israel because of His covenantal promises to Israel. Even though the Israelites are exiled as captives to Babylon, God will bring them back to the land.
When you have time today, read Habakkuk. In 3 short chapters, you hear him calling out to God's everlasting name 'Yahweh" 10 times.
Throughout the entire book, Habakkuk calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name by faith and expectantly waits for God's answer. God replies him every time. The prophet searches and searches for a deeper understanding from God as he calls out to His Name. We need to do the same too.
The prophets of old do have a very deep relationship with God. When they call out to Yahweh God, they truly have faith in the eternal God who acts and responds to them.
When justice seems to be tarrying, we have the feeling that it will never come, and so faith diminishes.
Let us learn from Habakkuk. Let us also have faith in our everlasting God who acted in history and continue to act now and forever. Thus Habakkuk says in 2:4, "the righteous will live by faith."
Let us go forth in faith.
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Habakkuk 1:12 " Are you not from everlasting, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Yahweh, You have ordained them as a judgment, and You, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Habakkuk is a prophet in the Bible. There are only 3 chapters in Habakkuk and the entire book records the dialogue between Habbkuk and Yahweh God. Habbakuk wrestles with difficult issues, such as why do evil men prosper and go unpunished?
In Habakkuk 1:12, he began his second complaint by asking Yahweh God, "Are you not from everlasting, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?"
Here, the prophet is not asking God for information expecting an answer. He is using a rhetorical question to affirm his conviction that Yahweh God is everlasting, indeed confirming his conviction to the everlasting nature of God.
In wrestling with difficult issues understanding God and His doings, Habbakuk calls upon Yahweh God in faith. You see this right at the beginning of his prayer "O Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help and you will no hear?" (Hab 1:2) Can you feel the depth of Habakkuk's cries and his longing for God's answer? Is God indifferent? Is God inactive? God then gives Habakkuk a reply.
Habakkuk trusts Yahweh God but it doesn't mean that he fully understands the answer God gives him. Aren't we also like this all the time? Habakkuk knows God hates evil and therefore does not understand why God would use a nation even more wicked than Judah to punish Judah. After all, Judah has her problems, but she is still better than the Babylonians.
And then when we get to Hab 1:12, you can tell that Habakkuk has tremendous faith in God. He hangs on to the everlasting nature of Yahweh God that what He says He will do, He will bring it to pass. Israelites shall not die. Habakkuk knows that God will not totally destroy Israel because of His covenantal promises to Israel. Even though the Israelites are exiled as captives to Babylon, God will bring them back to the land.
When you have time today, read Habakkuk. In 3 short chapters, you hear him calling out to God's everlasting name 'Yahweh" 10 times.
Throughout the entire book, Habakkuk calls on Yahweh's Everlasting Name by faith and expectantly waits for God's answer. God replies him every time. The prophet searches and searches for a deeper understanding from God as he calls out to His Name. We need to do the same too.
The prophets of old do have a very deep relationship with God. When they call out to Yahweh God, they truly have faith in the eternal God who acts and responds to them.
When justice seems to be tarrying, we have the feeling that it will never come, and so faith diminishes.
Let us learn from Habakkuk. Let us also have faith in our everlasting God who acted in history and continue to act now and forever. Thus Habakkuk says in 2:4, "the righteous will live by faith."
Let us go forth in faith.
:)
6/16/14
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 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.
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.
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