3 Lifting Your Name
Yeshua’s “Avinu” אבינו
Our Father)
His Patterns for Prayer
[3] “Hallowed be Thy name…”
the Names of God as an outline for prayer.
We pray to God, so...
Who is He?
It would help us to understand WHO we are praying to. Right? It’s interesting to note, that it’s one of the first things God himself wants us to know about know.
This is true of all relationships. We can’t relate to someone we don’t understand. Correction: we can relate to them in a superficial way. There is a parashah called Va’Ereh וָאֵרָ֗א ( Exodus 6:2-9:35) which is God saying “I appeared”
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD.
וָאֵרָ֗א אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֛ם אֶל־יִצְחָ֥ק וְאֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֖ב בְּאֵ֣ל שַׁדָּ֑י וּשְׁמִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה לֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖עְתִּי לָהֶֽם׃
I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name יהוה
Exodus 6:3.
I would have thought that having God appear to me was FAR superior a moment in one’s spiritual life than just “knowing (God) by name”. But no, apparently not. It’s the next step we are to take. KNOW God’s name.
אל שדי El Sh'dai
God says the 1st way he made himself known was to appear personally as אל שדי
God: you are אל שדי El Sh’dai. The God (El) that (sh) is enough (dai) sufficient. At passover, Jews say “dai’eynu” = it would have been enough “dai”... to us, suffix “-eynu”. In modern Hebrew, if a mom has heard enough racket from the kids she says “dai!” Enough!
That’s how they knew him. The God who is all I need. All I need is to believe what he told me, and that will work out. Abram (Abraham) had been given the promise of being a father of a great nation, the inheritor of the land. It wasn’t happening and seemed that it couldn’t. God said, don’t concern yourself with the facts.
Gen 17.1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Sh’dai. Walk in My ways and be blameless.
But now, in slavery in Egypt, in the hour of harshest abandonment and need, which by the way Abraham prophesied…
13 God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. Genesis 15:13)
… now comes a new key. God says, now, you are going to KNOW MY NAME. and says to Moses go tell them this…. Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: Ex 6:6 I am the LORD. אני יהוה literally translated (ani, YHVH ___unpronouceable____ “). Traditionally, we substitute in the word אדוני adonai = “Lord”.
This study is going to continue, with applying a study of the names that God calls himself, and that others call Him. We’ll frame an outline of prayer by the titles and roles that are truly God’s. But for now, here are the things that God YHVH, the one with an unpronounceable, unfathomable name does for us.
I believe God’s next step after he is SUFFICIENT and appears to us, is a confession, recognition, surrender, to who he is.
Gen 6:6-8 Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am the LORD.
Elohim = "God" (plural) as in the Creator: In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
El Elyon = "God (singular) Most High": And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of [El Elyon] God the Most High. And He blessed him and said, ''blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand (Genesis 14:18-20).
El Roi = "God Who Sees": Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, 'You are a [El Roi] God who sees'; for she said, 'Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?' Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi [well of the living one who sees me] (Genesis 16:13-14).
I am who I am. אהיה אשר אהיה
Ehiyeh asher Ehiyeh “I will Be Who I will Be “
13 Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “ I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE” Exodus 3:13-14 … This is My name forever, and this is My name to remember to all generations. Exodus 3:15
יהוה יראה Adonai Yireh = "the God who Sees / provides"11
(just before Abraham is about to sacrifice his son, Isaac) But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” 13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. 14 Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide,(Genesis 22:11-14).
יהוה רופאך Adonai rofecha = "God who heals":
I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.” Exodus 15:26
יהוה נסי Adonai nissi = "Yahweh My Banner":
Moses built an altar and named it The LORD is My Banner; Exodus 17:15
יהוה מקדשכם Adonai m’kadoshechem “God who makes holy”
I am the LORD who makes you “kadosh”, holy, pure. Exodus 31:13
יהוה שלום Adonai Shalom “God is Peace”
“Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.” 23 The LORD said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.” 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it The LORD is Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Judges 6:22-24
Yahweh-sabaoth = "Yahweh of Hosts" (the "hosts" are the army of angels who serve God): Who is He, this king of glory? Yahweh of Hosts [Yahweh-saboath], He is the king of glory (Psalm 46:7, NJB); The LORD of Hosts [Yahweh-sabaoth] is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold (Psalms 22:10, NAB).
Yahweh-raah = "Yahweh My Shepherd": The LORD [Yahweh raah] is my shepherd; I shall not want ...(Psalms 23:1, NAB).
יהוה צדקינו Adonai tzidkeynu -
The Lord, Our righteousness
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;
And He will reign as king and act wisely
And do justice and righteousness in the land.
6 “In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel will dwell securely;
And this is His name by which He will be called,
‘The LORD our righteousness.’ Jeremiah 23:5-6
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