Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.” — Matthew 28:19-20
Jehovah
Jehovah occurs over 6800 times in the Old Testament. It is translated "LORD" in the King James Bible. It is the most frequently used name of God in the Bible. It is the name of the great "I Am". It is the name used to define God as the only God. It is a name which shows the one true God to us!
Often combined with Elohim, Jehovah-Elohim shows us God as God of gods and there is no other God beside Him. Issiah 43:10-12 says, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am He: before me there was no God (Elohim) formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord (Jehovah); and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange God among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord (Jehovah), that I am God."
Here in Issiah, we can see that God declares himself to be God and saviour. He desires to reveal himself to us so that we may know and believe (have faith) that He is Lord! He has declared and saved us, He has shown us His covenant and made us witnesses to His covenant that He is God. And that His covenant is based on love and is true.
Jehovah occurs over 6800 times in the Old Testament. It is translated "LORD" in the King James Bible. It is the most frequently used name of God in the Bible. It is the name of the great "I Am". It is the name used to define God as the only God. It is a name which shows the one true God to us!
Often combined with Elohim, Jehovah-Elohim shows us God as God of gods and there is no other God beside Him. Issiah 43:10-12 says, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am He: before me there was no God (Elohim) formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord (Jehovah); and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange God among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord (Jehovah), that I am God."
Here in Issiah, we can see that God declares himself to be God and saviour. He desires to reveal himself to us so that we may know and believe (have faith) that He is Lord! He has declared and saved us, He has shown us His covenant and made us witnesses to His covenant that He is God. And that His covenant is based on love and is true.
Jehovah has its root in the Hebrew word "for being or to be". He is the source of being, the source of life. There is no other source of life in the universe. He is the ever existing, ever living source of all that we need, want or could ever ask for. He is the eternal source of all life that has been or ever will be. He offers us a choice to join Him in covenant and live eternally with Him as His children. What an awesome and loving God He is!
In Exodus 34:5-7, Jehovah declares himself to Moses in a new way. "And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with Him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord (Jehovah). And the Lord passed before Him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation." Jehovah is merciful, but also the ultimate judge.
Thus in Deuteronomy 30:19, Jehovah says through Moses to Israel, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him: for He is thy life, and the length of thy days: That thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
It is the desire of our God to bless us, to prosper us and to give us health. It has been so from the beginning of creation until now. It is our choice to make this happen. Thank God He loves us enough to give us such a great choice and that He continues to give this choice to everyone in the person of Jesus!
The name of Jesus is the Greek translation of Joshua which is a Hebrew word meaning "Jehovah saves". Even the name of Jesus is a covenant reminder that we are His. Every time He looks at Jesus seated at His right hand, He is reminded that He saves us from the wrath that is due us. His covenant hesed is given life in the person of Jesus!
It is Jehovah God who says in Exodus 23:25, "And you shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." Jehovah is a God of love and compassion, mercy and grace, health and prosperity. Our covenant with Him clearly shows us these things and He has sworn by himself and by His blood that He shall cause them to pass for us. We in turn must receive these blessings and freely give them to others.
That is why He gives us this covenant of love and enables us to pass that love and grace to others. So then, they can do the same for someone else and so on, for all mankind.
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 in North America or Europe please consider giving a $1 a month to help us do physical works of mercy. Individually we are limited, together we are unlimited in our potential. God bless, Todd
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