EP 524 - CALLED BY GOD - 12/14/2024

A daily bible study to draw us closer in our relationship with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ in prayer and reading the word of GOD.
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365 Devotions on the Power of Prayer:
2 Samuel 22:29-31 NKJV
29) “For You are my lamp, O LORD; The LORD shall enlighten my darkness.
30) For by You I can run against a troop; By myGOd I can leap over a wall.
31) As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
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2 Samuel 22:29-31 NIV
29) You, Lord, are my lamp; the LORD turns my darkness into light.
30) WIth your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.
31) “As for GOD, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
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Life Lessons from ROMANS
Lesson #8 - CALLED BY GOD
Romans 11:1-15
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Further Reading:
To Complete ROMANS during this twelve-part study, read ROMANS 11:1-36
More Bible passages on the way God chooses to save, read Deuteronomy 9:4-5; Romans 2:4; 8:28-29; Ephesians 1:4-6:11; 2:8-9; 1 Timothy 2:3-4; and Titus 3:4-5.
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD:
Week #10: CONSUMING FIRE, JEALOUS GOD
Key Scripture’s : Exodus 34:14 and Deuteronomy 4:23-24
Understanding the Name:
God sometimes manifested himself through images of fire – as a blazing torch, in the burning bush, or as a pillar of fire. When Moses met with God on Mount Sinai, the Israelites thought the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

Most often, when Scripture pictures God as a consuming fire Esh Oklah; AISH o-KLAH, it is in connection with expressions of divine anger against the sins of human beings and nations. Even so his jealousy is not the “green-eyed monster” so often associated with human jealousy. As biblical scholar Edward Mac pointed out: “This word…did not bear the evil meaning now associated with it in our usage, but rather signified ‘righteous zeal,’ Jehovah’s zeal for His own name or glory.”

Even so, Scripture compares God’s Jealousy to what a husband feels when his wife has been unfaithful. No wonder the first of the Ten Commandments prohibits the worship of other gods. The Lord is a jealous God (EL Kanna; EL kan-NAH), who cannot endure unfaith-fulness. Jesus expressed this same kind of exclusiveness when he told his disciples: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him” (John 14:6-7 NIV)