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 - 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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