In Jesus we can find all the names of Jehovah, Almighty God.

Jesus Himself said He had come to “declare my Father’s name.”  He said, in His great intercessory prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, “And I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.” (John 17:26)  What does that mean?

It means that when He fed the 5,000 (plus women and children) with 5 loaves and 2 fishes, He was declaring His Father’s name, (Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord our Provider).  When He went about healing the sick and curing every disease He was declaring His Father’s Name, (Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord our Healer).  When He had a battle to fight in the wilderness temptation with Satan and defeated him with His Word, He was declaring His Father’s  Name (Jehovah-Nissi, the Lord our banner).  When He said, “My peace I leave you, not the peace the world gives, but my peace.” He was declaring His Father’s Name (Jehovah-Shalom, the Lord our Peace).  When \He said “I will never leave you or forsake you, lo, I am with you always…” He was declaring His Father’s Name (Jehovah-Shammah, the Lord Who is Present).  

Finally He bore our unrighteousness, our sins, our iniquities, our weaknesses, our faults and our utter failure to please God in Himself.  When He received us into Himself in the Garden agony, when He took the insult and execution of men and was nailed to a cross of crucifixion, when God Himself “laid bare His holy arm” and exacted holy justice and judgment on Him for it all, when finally He suffered an eternity in hell and whatever else it took to pay for sin, and cried out “IT IS FINISHED”….When He was buried in a borrowed tomb, and wonder of wonders, when He came out on the third day, Immortal, Incorruptible, Glorified, the Firstborn of many brethren….Finally He had declared His Father’s Name JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU, the Lord our Righteousness!  And He is still declaring it with every day that passes in our lives!

And now, “wherefore, God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a Name which is above every name:  That at the name of JESUS, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)  Thus the fulfillment of Psalm 138:2…He truly has magnified (made large) His Word (logos) above ALL HIS NAME!

So when you breathe the name of Jesus you call upon your Provider, your Healer, your Battle-fighting, victory-getting God.  You say “Jesus” and demons tremble because He is the One who is Present with you.  You rest your head on your pillow knowing that He is your Peace and you walk confidently knowing that He is all things to you, not because of works that you have done but by His grace, His mercy…HE IS YOUR JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU, YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!  HE IS JESUS, the One who bears the NAME that is ABOVE EVERY NAME and IN HIS NAME, you will be saved, you will speak with new tongues, you will cast out devils, you will lay hands on the sick and they will recover, you will raise the dead, you will finish your course and you will rise to glory!  IN HIS WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS, MIGHTY, EVERLASTING NAME!   ALL HAIL KING JESUS!!!!!

Now how awesome is that!

In His love,
Elizabeth