We are asking Jesus for one person from each parish to pray 5 decades of the Holy Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet with us daily. Please pray that these people join us in spreading Divine Mercy. In addition if you feel lead by the Holy Spirit to join us; are blessed by this Apostolate and are able please consider giving a $1 a month to help us do works of mercy as a group. Individually we are limited, together we are unlimited in our potential. God bless, Todd
Adonai
This name of God means "owner, master, and Lord". This name is used nearly 300 times in the Old Testament. It is again a covenant name as all of God's names are. The significance of this particular name is easily lost to modern Americans or anyone who lives in a free country. It implies the servanthood of mankind and the sovereignty of God! It implies that we are not our own, but rather belong to someone else and that someone being our covenant partner - Elohim, Jehovah, El-Shaddai!
In Abraham's time, the servant was considered part of the Lord's household and family. Eliezer, Abraham's steward, was his heir until the birth of the promised child, Isaac. (Genesis 15:2) The servant was part of the great household and it was his Lord's responsibility to provide for, protect, and bless him. It was the servants responsibility to ensure that his Lord's dealings were profitable and to take care of his Lord's family and possessions.
For us this means that we are no longer our own, but as Paul writes in I Corinthians 7:20-23, "Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men."
Because we are bought (redeemed) by the blood of Jesus, we are made members of God's household. He then has made us His children and friends as partakers of His covenant. He made an emancipation proclamation eighteen hundred and thirty years before Abraham Lincoln. Let us therefore present ourselves as servants to God.
By doing so, we place ourselves in position to receive all of the blessings God desires to give to us. Romans chapter 6 covers this very well and should be studied closely to understand what God is trying to achieve for us. Verses 16-18 state, "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, His servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form doctrine which was delivered you. Being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness." Again, verses 22-23 state, "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
This is an excerpt from the ebook Covenant of Mercy and Blessing, it is yours free simply look at the index and go to that page on this site. Todd
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