Gods Sign Post - EP 622 - Joyful Service - 4/22/2025

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:
Isaiah 46:3-4 NIV
3) “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born.
4) Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
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Isaiah 46:3-4 NKJV
3) “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb:
4) Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
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Life Lessons from 1 Peter
Lesson #7 - Joyful Service
1 Peter 4:1-11
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Further Reading:
To Complete the book of 1 Peter during this nine-part study, read 1 Peter 4:1-11.
More Bible passages on Serving, read Deuteronomy 10:12; Joshua 22:5; Matthew 20:26-28; Romans 12:11; 2 Corinthians 9:12;Galatians 5:13; Ephesians 6:6-8; and Colossians 3:23-24 .
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD
Week #26: AB, ABBA, PATER - FATHER
Key Scripture’s : Luke 15:20

Understanding the Name:
THe Hebrew Scriptures normally depict God, not as the Father of individuals but as Father to his people, Israel. Pious Jews, aware of the gap between a holy God and sinful human beings, would never have dared address God as Ab (Hebrew) or Abba, the Aramaic word for “Daddy,” which gradually came to mean “dear father.” Jesus shocked many of his contemporaries by referring to God as his Father and by inviting his followers to call God “Abba, Father.” Rather than depicting God as a typical Middle Eastern patriarch who wielded considerable power within the family, he depicted him primarily as a tender and compassionate Father, who extends grace to both the sinner and the self-righteous.

The most frequent term for “Father” in the New Testament was the Greek word pater. The first recorded words of Jesus, spoken to his earthly parents, are these: “Didn’t you know I had to be in my fathers house? (LUKE 2:49 NIV), In John’s gospel, Jesus calls God his Father 156 times. The expression “Abba, Pater” (AB-ba pa-TAIR) is found three times in the New Testament, all in the prayer. It is the form Jesus used in his anguished cry in Gethsemane: “Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will” (Mark 14:36 NIV).