“Unto Him that is able to keep you from falling” (Jude 1:24 KJV). Far from trivializing God, we personalize God with an infinite number of names to express His relationship to us. It may mean little to another, but arriving safely home without harming anyone meant a lot to me. Faith looks for ways to exalt God. David called his God Jehovah Rohi or “The LORD is my shepherd” (Psalm 23:1). Gideon identified God as Jehovah Shalom for the angel of the LORD had just granted him peace and promised success in delivering Israel. So “Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom [Jehovah is peace]” (Judges 6:24 KJV). What is your name for God? Or, perhaps as an elderly person, God Who Keeps Me From Losing My Balance And Falling.
Names of God
Casting Out Demons
Plain Christians can cast out Satan from their presence by simply resisting him (James 4:7) and his temptations. One of the “signs [that] shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils” (Mark 16:17 KJV); but, be warned, in supernatural warfare, sometimes “this kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting” (Mark 9:29 KJV). LORD, prepare Thy people for overcoming the Wicked One. Amen and amen.
Supernatural Christianity
“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived — the things God has prepared for those who love Him” (1Corinthians 2:9 NIV).
For nearly 2,000 years the religion of Christ has striven for acceptance in the world. It has succeeded in integrating itself into the world, but it has also produced an effect of focusing upon the natural process and order of things — understandably, since God is both the originator, as well as, the continuous providential director of all things (Acts 17:28). Though all things concerning our natural existence are far from being answered, we have lost touch with the supernaturalness of our circumstances. God gave the earth to humankind for our benefit and blessing, that we might have “dominion [Hebrew, radah, rule]” over “all the earth” (Genesis 1:26 KJV). Jehovah, the Everlasting God, “walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3:8 NIV), with our Original Parents, not only communed with Adam and Eve, but directed them to extend the influence of His Divine Council beyond the Garden of Eden to the uttermost parts of the earth. It was His Divine Council because we know that even in the creation of man, God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness” (Genesis 1:26 NIV). “God [Hebrew, elohim, singular] has taken His place in the Divine Council; in the midst of the gods [Hebrew, elohim, plural] He holds judgment” (Psalm 82:1 ESV).
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