"EL" means God in the Hebrew and "Eloheim" is plural as in "God in three persons.
"I Am That I Am" also "YHAH" in the Hebrew, which has no vowels in it. All the promises and pledges are present in God's Name, He is the essence of everything that He promised and everything that He provides.
Exodus 31:12-13 "12 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 13 “But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you."
Exodus 3:13-14 "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 AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
God is also called the "Rock", meaning refuge and strength, our protection.
Isaiah 8:14 " 14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
El Shadi means all sufficient One. We need nothing of ourselves in this walk on earth, but we need all of Him.
Jehovah Jirah means God the Provider.
There are many names of God that describe Who He is in Character and purpose, if we look to His names we realize that we have nothing and He has everything.
God protected His people, He took them to the dessert, their shoes and clothes did not wear out, they were provided food without having to hunt or grow it, When the Pharaoh chased them to the sea, God parted the sea and they walked across on dry land. God provided shade in the desert by day and a pillar of fire by night.
They grumbled and complained that they missed their quail, so God gave them what they wanted, so much of it that they became sick of it too.
Numbers 11:19-20 "…19 'You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"
When God told Moses to speak to the rock to make the water come out, Moses decided to strike it, not once but twice. God never told him to strike it, he told him to speak to it. Moses allowed his emotions to do what God had not said to do, because of this the Lord did not let them enter the promised land.
I notice that God gave the people the water they wanted, he allowed it to flow from the rock even though Moses disobeyed, so they got their water, but missed the greatest blessing of all and that was going into the promised land.
You see obeying the Lord in part your own way, may bring temporary blessings but in the long run He will withhold something even greater than the thing in which we partially obeyed.
Get the water and lose the land, what a trade off that was for Israel.
Did you know God's way is the best way and that when He speaks to us, whatever He says is the perfect way? It is foolishness to think that we can obey God our way and still be blessed by Him. We may get what we want temporarily, but miss the greater blessing down the path, the one He had intended to have for us. It does not pay to exude arrogance thinking that your way is better than God's.
This is the condition of the modern church today. Instead of preaching the gospel in confidence and with authority, most are giving out a false gospel bathed in gooy sentimentality, designed to get the people to like the men, but in the long run it has no lasting power, the converts are false and disobedient to the Word but the leaders who do this continue to walk in pride. They claim there are results, and there may be a few, but in reality the results are superficial, phony and the people who buy into this false gospel continue in their arrogance that lead down the wide road to hell.
Messaging ones exaltation of self is the way of most churches today, they are not very interested in genuineness, only in pretense. As long as it looks good on top, it isn't important that there is rottenness underneath. As long as the people praise one another often and everyone "feels" real good about themselves, there is contentment with all this frivolity that worse than nothing.
A study of God's names would show us Who He is and what He does for us, it never assigns any greatness or goodness to self. It's all about Who God is in us, He is the author and finisher of all that is good, we bring no good all by ourselves.
The churches today are messaging the egos of many, while feeding them baby food that is rotten.
There can be no power of Christ in our hearts when we elevate ourselves for what we think we have done or how good we think we are, there is no goodness in us. It is only when we look to Christ that we can operate in His purpose and will.
When someone treats you as though you do not measure up, they believe they do, or they would just as harsh on themselves as they are on you.
Thankfully, God no longer looks at me, but sees Christ in me, Christ is my covering.
If you are your own covering because you think you do things all the right way, then you cannot be saved. You must come to the end of yourself and see that only Christ working in us is good. Then He gets the glory. Those who elevate themselves above Christ, feeling blessed because they are living the way they want to, do not realize that they are walking a dangerous path, the same one Moses walked when he allowed his emotions to dictate his own way, resulting in getting the water and missing the biggest blessing, the one he had not thought of in the midst of his emotions.
Those who are proud of their own righteousness will be brought low, shame will be their days because they gave themselves the credit for their own righteousness, all the while missing the real blessing, that of God's will and purpose in their lives, the one that would have brought much greater blessing than they thought they wanted. The Spiritual blessing of wisdom that comes from Christ.
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