QUTES PICT GRACE

ONE WAY LOVE QUOTES

One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World by Tullian Tchividjian

“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.” - Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World -

“Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster. Musician Rich Mullins once wrote, “I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I’ve listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I’ve listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number [of sermons] that were a simple proclamation of the Gospel of Christ.”4”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful of books have been published urging a more robust, radical, and sacrificial expression of the Christian faith. I even wrote one of them—Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. I heartily amen the desire to take one’s faith seriously and demonstrate before the watching world a willingness to be more than just Sunday churchgoers. That Christians would want to engage the wider community with God’s sacrificial love—living for their neighbors instead of for themselves—is a wonderful thing and should be applauded. The unintended consequence of this push, however, is that if we’re not careful, we can give people the impression that Christianity is first and foremost about the sacrifice we make for Jesus rather than the sacrifice Jesus made for us; our performance for him rather than his performance for us; our obedience for him rather than his obedience for us. The hub of Christianity is not “do something for Jesus.” The hub of Christianity is “Jesus has done everything for you.” And my fear is that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have heard our pleas for intensified devotion and concluded that the focus of Christian faith is our love for God instead of God’s love for us. Don’t get me wrong—what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us. Furthermore, it often seems that the Good News of”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Children will run from law, and they’ll run from grace. The ones who run from law never come back. But the ones who run from grace always come back. Grace draws its own back home.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.…”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The law offends us because it tells us what to do—and most of the time, we hate anyone telling us what to do. But ironically, grace offends us even more, because it tells us that there is nothing we can do, that everything has already been done. And if there is something we hate more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything—that we are helpless, weak, and needy.” 

-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“One surefire way to know you’re starting to grasp this message of grace is when you’re finally able to admit that you’re not the good guy—that you never were and apart from grace never will be.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“If you’re simply looking for moral reformation (improved behavior), you might need a life coach, a cheerleading section, or a really good friend, but not a Savior. But if you require mortal resurrection, you’re going to need something beyond yourself, someone who will raise dead people to life, give sight to the blind, and set captives free.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Gospel only sounds good to a heart that knows it is bad. For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Southern novelist Walker Percy writes in Love in the Ruins, “We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.”6”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“I wish I could say I do everything for God’s glory. I can’t. Neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself. I wish I could say Jesus fully satisfies me. I can’t. Neither can you. What I can say is Jesus fully satisfied God for me.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The refrain repeated through this books is that everything we need, we already possess in Christ. This means that the what-if has been taken out of the equation. We can take absurd risks, push harder, go further, and leave it all on the field without fear--and have fun doing so. We can give with reckless abandon, because we no longer need to ensure a return of success, love, meaning, validation, and approval. We can invest freely and forcefully, because we've been freely and forcefully invested in. (188)” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The gospel doesn’t just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“It amazes me that you will hear great concern from inside the church about too much grace, but rarely will you ever hear great concern from inside the church about too many rules. Indeed, the absurdity of God’s indiscriminate compassion always gets “religious” people up in arms. Why? Because we are, by nature, glory-hoarding, self-centered control freaks—God wannabes. That’s why.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

why we need to hear, each and every week the basic good news that because of Jesus’ finished work, we already have all of the justification, approval, significance, security, freedom, validation, love, righteousness, and rescue for which we desperately long---and look for in a thousand things that are infinitely smaller than Jesus.” (205)” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The fact is, real life is long on law and short on grace—the” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The reason this is so important is because many people inside the church think God cares only that we obey. In fact, many believe that it is even more honorable—and therefore more righteous—when we obey God against all desire to obey Him. Where did we get the idea that if we do what God tells us to do, even though “our hearts are far from Him,” it’s something to be proud of, something admirable, something praiseworthy, something righteous? Don’t get me wrong, we should obey when we don’t feel like it (I expect my children, for instance, to clean their rooms and respect their mother and me even when they don’t feel like it). But let’s not make the common mistake of proudly equating that with the righteousness that God requires. The truth is that doing the right thing with the wrong motivation reveals deep unrighteousness, not devout righteousness.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“If I can do enough of the right things, I will have established my value. Identity is the sum of my achievements. Hence, if I can satisfy the boss, meet the needs of my spouse and children, and still pursue my dreams, then I will be somebody. In Christian theology, such a position is called justification by works. It assumes that my worth is measured by my performance. Conversely, it conceals a dark and ghastly fear: If I do not perform, I will be judged unworthy. To myself I will cease to exist.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly to our performance and accomplishments. Performancism casts achievement not as something we do or don’t do but as something we are or aren’t.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Galatians 5:6, “The only thing that counts is faith [passive righteousness] expressing itself through love [active righteousness]” (NIV). Faith alone, in other words, gives the power to love.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“We need to be told that the sins we cannot forget, God cannot remember,”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Also, unless you critique moralism, many irreligious people won’t know the difference between moralism and what you’re offering. The way to get antinomians to move away from lawlessness is to distinguish the gospel from legalism. Why? Because modern and post-modern people have been rejecting Christianity for years thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism. Non-Christians will always automatically hear gospel presentations as appeals to become moral and religious, unless in your preaching you use the good news of grace to deconstruct legalism. Only if you show them there’s a difference—that what they really rejected wasn’t real Christianity at all—will they even begin to consider Christianity.2”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“A high view of the Law involves the devastating reminder that God’s acceptance of us is ultimately contingent on Christ’s perfection, not our progress; Christ’s imputation, not our improvement.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“to what some Christians today would have you believe, the biggest problem facing the church today is not “cheap grace” but “cheap Law”—the idea that God accepts anything less than the perfect righteousness of Jesus. My friend John Dink explains cheap Law this way: Cheap law weakens God’s demand for perfection, and in doing so, breathes life into … [our] quest for a righteousness of [our] own making.… It creates people of great zeal, but they lack knowledge concerning the question “What Would Jesus Do?” Here is the costly answer: Jesus would do it all perfectly. And that’s game over for you. The Father is not grooming you to be a replacement for his Beloved Son. He is announcing that there is blessing for those who take shelter in his Beloved Son. Cheap law tells us that we’ve fallen, but there’s good news, you can get back up again.… Therein lies the great heresy of cheap law: it is a false gospel. It cheapens—no—it nullifies grace.11”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

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NAMA : YHVH

Archive for September, 2014

Something to think about: יהוה (YHVH)

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

What is God’s Name?

The place to start is in Exodus 3:13, where Moses asks God, “Then Moses said to God, ‘If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name? ’ what shall I say to them?”

Jewish Publication Society Translation (JPS):
Exodus 3:14 “And God said unto Moses: ‘I AM THAT I AM’; and He said: ‘Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM hath sent me unto you.’ “

Exodus 3:13 in the Hebrew text:

NOTE: Hebrew is written right-to-left.

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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר כֹּ֤ה תֹאמַר֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה שְׁלָחַ֥נִי אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

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אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה — אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה = ‘Ehyeh’ = ‘I AM’ (I Am Who I Am)
These three words are the words that God used to describe Himself:
אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה ( Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew English Lexicon [BDB] ) היה “be; become; happen; occur; niphal: be; occur; flee” code: vqi1cs Hebrew, verb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, singular ‘I am’
אֲשֶׁ֣ר ( BDB ) אשׁר “who; which; that” code: Pr Hebrew, particle, relative
אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה ( BDB ) היה “be; become; happen; occur; niphal: be; occur; flee” code: vqi1cs Hebrew, verb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, singular ‘I am’

Exodus 3:13 in the Greek Translation (Septuagint – LXX):

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14 καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν καὶ εἶπεν Οὕτως ἐρεῖς τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ Ὁ ὢν ἀπέσταλκέν με πρὸς ὑμᾶς – LXX

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Ἐγώ εἰμι = ‘I am’
εἰμί ( LEH ) “to be, exist” code: v%pap%nms%9xx verb, present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular

So Why Did He Call Himself “I AM”?

The Israelites named themselves using names that described them and that captured their nature and essence in one name.
For example, “Noah”, means “Comfort”.

“And he called his name Noah, saying, ‘This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.’” (Genesis 5:29 NKJV)

“Emmanuel” means “God with us”. The Hebrew is “Emma” (with)+“nu” (1st Person Plural) + “el” (God). (With Us God). In Matthew 1:23, “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us).” This is a quotation from Isaiah 7:14.
“Isaiah” means “the salvation of the Lord”
The main point: It is impossible to sum up God’s nature and essence in one word. Hence, the name “I AM”.
So, God’s first response to Moses’ question was “I AM”.
In John 8:56-59, Jesus said,

“Before Abraham was, I AM”.

The Jews who heard Jesus say this knew exactly what “I AM” meant and their reaction was to want to kill him.

John 8:56

⁵⁶ “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
⁵⁷ So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
⁵⁹ So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

So, what about YHVH?

Interestingly, God then continues in Exodus 3:15:

God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” — (ESV)

Exodus 3:15 “And God said moreover unto Moses: ‘Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations.’” — (JPS)

Exodus 3:15 in Hebrew:

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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ ע֨וֹד אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה כֹּֽה־תֹאמַר֮ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ יְהוָ֞ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם אֱלֹהֵ֨י אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִצְחָ֛ק וֵאלֹהֵ֥י יַעֲקֹ֖ב שְׁלָחַ֣נִי אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם זֶה־שְּׁמִ֣י לְעֹלָ֔ם וְזֶ֥ה זִכְרִ֖י לְדֹ֥ר דֹּֽר׃

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יְהוָ֞ה = YHVH

Exodus 3:15 in Greek (LXX):

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 15 καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πάλιν πρὸς Μωυσῆν Οὕτως ἐρεῖς τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν θεὸς Αβρααμ καὶ θεὸς Ισαακ καὶ θεὸς Ιακωβ ἀπέσταλκέν με πρὸς ὑμᾶς τοῦτό μού ἐστιν ὄνομα αἰώνιον καὶ μνημόσυνον γενεῶν γενεαῖς

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In the Greek translation (the Septuagint [LXX]), which was done in the second century BC, יְהוָ֞ה (YHVH) is translated as Κύριος (Lord).
The first occurrence of YHVH in the Torah is in Genesis 2:14.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

4 אֵ֣לֶּה תוֹלְד֧וֹת הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם וְהָאָ֖רֶץ בְּהִבָּֽרְאָ֑ם בְּי֗וֹם עֲשׂ֛וֹת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶ֥רֶץ וְשָׁמָֽיִם׃

The words in bold type are: “YHVH elohim”.
So why did the Jews, when they translated the Hebrew text into Greek (known as the Septuagint [LXX]) use Κύριος (Lord) in place of YHVH? They knew that the reason that they had been exiled to Babylon was because they had not kept the Law, which includes Exodus 20:7. They did not want ever again to risk taking “the Lord’s name in vain” even accidentally, so they substituted Κύριος.
Even today, observant Jews do not even spell out “God” but use “G-D”, or refer to Him as “The Name” (Ha Shem) or as “Adonai” (Lord).

What does YHVH Mean?

The current Hebrew alphabet is derived from the Aramaic script. There was a more ancient Hebrew script based upon pictographs.

Ancient Hebrew Pictographic Alphabet

Ancient Hebrew Pictographic Alphabet,with the Aramaic Alphabet below.

(Both are written right-to-left).

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There is only one person in the Bible that these words apply to — “Behold the hand, Behold the nail”.

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NAMA YESUS KRISTUS

The Name of GOD

GOD has several Hebrew names;  Elohim (Authority God), Adonai (Master), El Shaddai (Almighty God)... The Bible records more than a dozen of  GOD's Name .

All these names of GOD are His titles except for the name, Yahweh. Yahweh(proper noun) is HIS personal name. "God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM. ...The LORD (YAHWEH), the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.'" Exodus 3:14 

Yahweh is called Tetragrammaton or 4-letter word in original Hebrew text referring to GOD. It spells יYud, הHei, וּVav and הHei. 

Yahweh is the most sacred, highly regarded name of God for the Hebrews. For the Orthodox Jew, the יהוּה Tetragrammaton is never spoken, only written. Only the High Priest can speak this name with fear and reverence and only on a very special day of the year, the Yom Kippur. Since 70AD, after the 2nd Jewish temple was destroyed by the Roman soldiers, the ceremonial rituals of this celebration ceased to be performed. After almost 2,000 years of silence, scholars can only speculate wether there is someone who could actually pronounce the original Tetragrammaton perfectly since it is all consonants and no vowel.
Today in synagogues during Scripture readings, "Adonai" (Master) is spoken in place of "YHVH." In a regular conversation or in written documents the Orthodox Jews substitute "HaShem" (The Name) to provide further protection of the Name YHWH.

The English name Jehovah was coined by Roman Catholics during the Middle Ages resulting from a misunderstood Masoretic Hebrew texts. The consonants Y-H-V-H (the "Y" used to be pronounced as "J") and the vowels from the word "Adonai" combined to form the word Jehova.


It is interesting to note that the first time the Tetragrammaton appeared in the scripture was after He created man in Genesis 2:7. Yahweh is the covenant-keeping GOD. The GOD who have a relationship with man. Before GOD created man, GOD was called Elohim.

The TETRAGRAMMATON 

Snapshot from the video "Meditate on God's Word and Receive Grace Upon Grace" by Joseph Prince

These four Hebrew letters are the 4 letters of the Tetragrammaton; Yod Hei Vav Hei. יYod, as mentioned earlier, means hand. הHei means grace. וּVav is pictured as nail. To read the whole Hebrew Pictograph of the Tetragrammaton it says 

The hand of grace nailed in grace! 

Snapshot from the video "Meditate on God's Word and Receive Grace Upon Grace" by Joseph Prince

“They will look on me, Aleph Tav the one they have pierced..." Zechariah 12:10(NIV)

The end is declared from the beginning BUT in RIDDLES. 

The Word

Riddle solved! “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" John 1:1 (NIV)
Aleph Tav
is the WORD revealed to John.

The mysterious Word in the Middle of the Genesis 1:1 Creation Account

                       

Jesus Christ is Aleph Tav! He is present when everything was created. He was at the center of the happening.

Four times Jesus said in Revelation: "I am Alpha and Omega..." Revelation 1:8; Revelation 1:11; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13 John, who saw the vision he wrote in the book of Revelation, was Hebrew-speaking. When Jesus said Alpha and Omega, He said it in the language John can understand, in Hebrew. Alpha and Omega is the first and last letter of the Roman Alphabet, translated to Hebrew is Aleph Tav; the first and the last letter of the Hebrew Alephbet. Jesus Christ is incscribed in the Bible, from the first (Genesis) to the last (Revelation) book.

Aleph Tav is the same Alpha and Omega

revealed to John in Revelation.

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"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:8 KJV

This mystery was finally revealed by Jesus Christ Himself to John in a vision! 

Jesus Christ is the The sacrificial Ox. The Lamb of God who died for the sins of the world. (John 1:29) . The cross means covenant and completion/finished, being the last of the Hebrew Alephbet. When Jesus hung on the the cross, He shouted "It is finished!" 

He was the sacrificial lamb slain from the creation.  "... the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. Revelation 13:8 (NIV)

"looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God" Hebrews 12:2

JESUS is the WORD, the answer to the riddle, the answer to all the puzzles of the heart and mind. His person, His being in man, completes.

“No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" -- 10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:7-10



"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings." Proverbs 25:2

sumber: http://womenoffaithnet.blogspot.co.id/2011/02/all-in-name-tetragrammaton.html

NAMA ABRAHAM DAN SARAH

Grace In A Name


In the ancient world of the Bible, names had meaning. Some names depicted the wish of parents or of God for a child to fulfill a certain destiny.

Snapshot from the video "Meditate on God's Word and Receive Grace Upon Grace" by Joseph Prince

Abraham's name was originally Abram. God changed his name from Abram to Abraham. But before that, God breathed ה hei (grace) into him, blessing him in a covenant. From then on, Abram has grace ה(hei) in his name. See Genesis 17:3-8 God's covenant with Abraham

Snapshot from the video "Meditate on God's Word and Receive Grace Upon Grace" by Joseph Prince

Sarah received the same treat from God. She received ה grace and enjoyed the blessings from God. But while Hei was added to Abram's name, Hei was exchanged in Sarah's who was then called Sarai. Her name in Hebrew reading from right to left spells with a י Yod.  .י Yod is the tenth letter in Hebrew alphabet. It stands for a closed hand. It symbolizes action and personal possession. Action, in essence, manipulation. Manipulation comes from the latin word manus that means hand. For the most part, Sarai worked her way to get the promised son for herself. She went off-hooked offering her servant-maid to her husband making her more miserable with Ishmael's birth. Personal possession; me and mine was all over her person. She wanted what was already promised. God wanted to bless her. To do this, God removed the work of her hands.  Number ten is a representation of everything she tried to do with her hands. The letter Yod with a number value of ten and picture of closed hand was removed and was replaced with ה (Hei) that represents the number five the number of grace. With that, there was no more condemnation of the past. Everything pertaining to the sins that was wrought in violation of the number ten י (Yod/closed hand), or the standards of the law (ten commandments) removed and exchanged with grace! From then on, her name became Sarah, a woman full of God's grace and favor.

sumber : http://womenoffaithnet.blogspot.co.id/2011/02/all-in-name.html

NAMA HAGAH

Word Wonder

The Hebrew letter ה (Hei) spells wonder! 

In the Talmud;, Menachot 29b teaches that this letter Hei is God's sacred breathבִּדְבַר יְהוָה, שָׁמַיִם. נַעֲשׂוּ; וּבְרוּחַ פִּיו, כָּל-צְבָאָם

"By the utterance of Adonai the heavens were made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." Psalms 33:6

In Joshua 1:8 we see in Hebrew the word meditate is Hagah. Hagah (meditate) spells with two ה Hei(s).                                              Read from right to left.

Snapshot from the video "Meditate on God's Word and Receive Grace Upon Grace" by Joseph Prince

Hagah is spelled הגּה  (Hei, Gimmel, Hei). 

Snapshot from the video "Meditate on God's Word and Receive Grace Upon Grace" by Joseph Prince

Gimmel, the 3rd letter in Hebrew Alphabet, has a picture word of a camel.
                Camel is a common vehicle of transport in ancient days.

Hei, the fifth letter in Hebrew Alphabet is number five. Five is the number of grace.

The word Hagah/meditate gives a message of "grace bringing more grace".
When we read the Bible, we need grace to keep reading. And when we do read, we receive more grace. Meditating begins with grace from GOD, and meditating brings blessing of grace from GOD.

sumber : http://womenoffaithnet.blogspot.co.id/2011/02/all-in-name-hagah.html