If life is going along well, with very few problems, if we have happy families, live in a nice place, and have no big financial burdens, then we tend to get satisfied, and think that all is well. And it is! But the world is in the hands of satan.
Living in a time and place when many tribes and nations openly served their own personal god, Daniel was always faithful to The Most High God. The Bible is consistent in letting us know that the God who created the world, and spoke things into being, is this El Elyon.
To say that Jesus is The Word, what does that mean exactly? The short answer is I do not know. But I think there has to be a link to the beginning of Genesis where we read of God speaking things into being. Let there be … appears 7 times there.
Sadly many babies do not survive the 9 month gestation period. And many of us know someone who has experienced miscarriage, or not been able to conceive. These things are not unseen by our God who sees. The biggest problem in our day is the fallen world we live in.
These verses refer to the God of knowledge which is El-Deah in Hebrew, and we find this word very clearly explained in 1 Samuel 2 where we read the prayer of Hannah when she was about to dedicate her young son to the Lord for the rest of his life.
The Lord is My Banner. The Israelites found they had many battles to face as they took over the land promised to them by God. And this battle against the Amalekites was one of the most difficult. Only as Moses held high his hands did the battle go their way!
Many followers of Jesus today are teaching the things that He taught and doing what He did. But none of us has overcome death as He did. It was in raising His Son from the dead that Father God proved that Father and Son were of the same family line.
When Jesus identified Himself as the Messiah, the woman at the well immediately ran off to tell her whole village. Messiah means one who liberates from sin, and that woman at the well began that day to understand that Jesus was The One who could liberate her from her past.
God as Shepherd is a regular theme running throughout the Bible. Many people who have never attended a church service have heard or sung some rendering of Psalm 23. It begins The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. A very confident statement from the shepherd boy who became king.
God has always been intent on having a Holy nation as a witness to the rest of the world. We see the continuation of that intention in the life of Jesus. When He was healing someone He said your sins are forgiven. In that statement God was making people Holy.
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