BLESSED be the Shem of Yahweh FOREVER – 16

Subject: Calling on YAHWEH who is worthy of PRAISE

"I called to YAHWEH, who is worthy of PRAISE, and I am saved from my enemies." Psalm 18:3

Last time, we saw that Job was under spiritual attack, and in his pain and sorrows, he called on Yahweh and blessed the Name of Yahweh. God is worthy of our praise on the basis of WHO He is, apart from blessings He bestows on us. This is the secret of Job's life in face of all his loss.

Psalm 18 is psalm of David. He too, like Job, recognizes that Yahweh God is worthy of praise. He called on the Name of Yahweh and praised Him to overcome spiritual battles. Yahweh God delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.


David is praising God in the middle of spiritual battles. Here is an important connection of calling on the Name of God and praising Yahweh's Name, especially under severe spiritual attacks. God responds. The enemy flees. God's Name is honored.

We are familiar with praising God when the music is on, when the drum is beating, when the pianist dances beautiful music on the piano, or when the singspiration leader leads us with singing. We seem to think that church worship is the best environment that is suitable to bless and praise God. Not so. Learn true spiritual meaning of praising God at all times, especially under the pressure of severe spiritual attacks,  because He is worthy of praise all the time.

'My Name" - 4

Subject: Yahweh Yahweh - God manifests His Divine Character through His SHEM

• At another time, Moses was instructed to chisel another two new stone tablets to receive the 10 commandments from God again.

• What did God do?

• Yahweh God came down in the cloud and proclaimed "His NAME" in front of Moses.

Can you see how God places tremendous importance on His SHEM.

This time, what does God want to reveal about His SHEM?

Exodus 34:5-7

Then Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed His NAME, Yahweh. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “Yahweh, Yahweh, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”


Can you now see how God strongly feels about His SHEM?

• He proclaims His SHEM to Moses again for the second time. 

• This time He proclaims His SHEM twice in front of Moses.

Why does God do that? 

• Whenever God says a name twice, He wants to say something EXTRA significant to grab our attention. 

• This time, God repeats not a man’s name twice, but His own name twice. 

• God is giving us important revelations of His nature and character.

1.  Our human names have no revelation.

2.  God’s SHEM Yahweh is self-revelatory.

God's SHEM progressively reveals His Divine character: He is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love, faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, forgiving, punishing sins.

Our God is too wonderful for words. 

• His deep character draws me to want to call on His Name in prayer more and more. 

• I experience His compassion and everlasting love when I call on His Name Yahweh.

'My Name" - 3

SUBJECT: I will proclaim "My Name"

One time, Moses made a request to God: “Show me your Glory”. Exodus 33:18

Can you guess how God showed His glory to Moses?

• You would have never guessed. 

• God showed His glory by proclaiming His Name to Moses.

Exodus 33:19b “…I will proclaim MY NAME, YAHWEH in your presence…”

• Can you see how strongly God feels about His SHEM, Yahweh?

• God could have done something else to show His glory.

• God chose to use His SHEM to reveal His glory.

Let’s look at the entire verse of Exodus 33:18-19:

Then Moses said, "I pray Thee, show me Thy glory!" And Yahweh said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim My SHEM, Yahweh, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.


1.  God’s glory is focused in His SHEM, Yahweh.

2.  Yahweh’s glorious SHEM reveals His goodness, mercy and compassion.


This truly motivates us to call on God's SHEM, Yahweh, in prayer.

"And blessed be his glorious SHEM for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen." Psa 72:19

Topic #3: "My Name"

Here is a summary of the 7 subheadings:

Click onto the following links for your devotions:

1.  "My Name" 1 -   Statistics "My Name" in OT

2.  "My Name" 2 -   He has known My Name (Psalms 91:14-15)

3.  "My Name" 3 -   I will proclaim My Name (Exodus 33:19)

4.  "My Name" 4 -  "Yahweh, Yahweh"  (Exodus 34:5-7)

5.  "My Name" 5 -  I will make My Holy Name known  (Ezekiel 39:7)

6.  "My Name" 6 -   I come in My Father's Name (John 5:43)

7.  "My Name" 7 -   The Name of Father written on their foreheads (Rev 22:4)

Enjoy! :)