Names of God

Learning the names of God has increased my understanding of His character, built my faith, and expanded my capacity for praise and worship. (God loves to hear us use His names in our worship!) I hope that you, too, will find these names a benefit to your spiritual life.
The great purpose of man, especially the believer in Christ, is to glorify God. “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). Essential to our ability to glorify God is the knowledge of God and knowing Him personally in view of that knowledge.

The word “glory” in the Greek New Testament is doxa which means an opinion, an estimation, or reputation in which one is held. It refers to that which should accrue to God as praise, thanksgiving, obedience, reverence, and service because of who God is and what God does (past, present, and future). In other words, giving glory to God is tied in with the knowledge of God (revelation of God), and knowing God personally (response to God).

The Lord Jesus said in John 17:3, “And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.” The many names in Scripture constitute additional revelation of God’s character, His works, and His relationship to us based on His character and works. The names which God chose for Himself and which are ascribed to Him in the Word of God are additional revelations of the who and what of God that we may know and relate to God.

Now, let us look at the names of God from the scripture so that we can also use and worship Him with meaning.

Who Cares?

At the centre of the HIV/AIDS response are the 12 million people who need care and treatment. Those who are ill require support from carers who provide physical, social and psychological support. Yet these carers – essential actors in the response – are often invisible to the system that relies on them.
At the household level, directs assistance where it is most effective and most needed, will respect human rights, and will help achieve the millennium development goals in health. Are you with me? Let’s look at these basic facts;
Although people living with HIV and AIDS can be healthy and strong and live perfectly ‘normal’ lives they can experience a range of AIDS & HIV symptoms that will affect their day-to-day life, and for which they will need care and assistance. In a survey of home based care AIDS patients in Malawi just one in seven were able to live as if they did not have the disease. Around a third needed help with washing, walking and going to the toilet. Another study in South Africa found that 16-17% of those who had AIDS could not control their bladders or bowels and needed help getting on and off the toilet. A similar proportion required help with washing themselves. Poor sanitation makes many of these tasks all the more difficult. At the time of the study, less than half of the households had a tap and only one fifth of rural homes had access to a flush toilet, with a quarter having no access to any form of toilet or latrine.
Given the often debilitating effects of AIDS, people living with HIV and AIDS may need assistance performing basic household tasks. These can include washing, cooking, feeding, cleaning, purchasing household essentials, going to the toilet and other needs not necessarily specific to HIV and AIDS. Let us give a helping hand and show some care for them
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The Big Question

Where can I find wisdom, he asked? and understanding, they questioned? It a big question right! Consult the holy book. It will tell you; ‘the fear of the Lord is true wisdom, to forsake evil is real understanding. In the book of Job Chapter 28 verse 12 and 13, it read “But do people know where to find wisdom? where they can find understanding? No one knows where to find it, for it is not found among the living”. Then comes the question again. Let’s listen to what these people have to say about finding wisdom and understanding
Eliphaz: Wisdom is learned by observing and experiencing life…
Bildad: Wisdom is inherited from the past. trustworthy knowledge is secondhand.
Zophar: Wisdom belongs to the wise.
Now, as the saying goes “opinions are like head, everybody has one”. Whether you agree or disagree, that is what they have to say.
This is how Job answered the big question; “God is the source of wisdom, and the first step toward wisdom is to fear God”
This obviously remind of Proverbs 9:10, do you remember that Sunday school memory verse? I guess you do.
In conclusion, I want you to understand that fact that, God reveals His wisdom to those who humbly trust Him. God alone understands the way to wisdom; he knows where it can be found, for he looks throughout the whole earth and sees everything under the heavens.
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Hello world! Knowledge

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data — the lowest cognitive form — has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information. But there is this argument between knowledge and wisdom, which of them is supreme. Join me to share what we know and what we have learn to know.
Knowledge is but the messenger that calls you to wisdom, but it is not wisdom. One can gain knowledge, but one does not seek wisdom – one meets it when one often least expects it and recognizes it as kindred. Knowledge puts us in the way of wisdom, but wisdom is experiential; it is a truth one recognizes in the external world that already resides in the internal one. One cannot *learn* wisdom – one must awaken it. Knowledge gives you the tools but never mistake the tools for the treasure. I find that most religions preach the tools and talk wisdom to death trying to reduce it for swift and easy consumption. Shun this habit. Kahlil Gibran said that height and depth are nearer to each other than the mid ground. Do not be mislead – there are no fast-food outlets for wisdom. Simplicity is best understood as we find the endless connections in complexity. Simplicity cannot be found in one prophet, one book, one religion or one school of study. It is found in all of life by learning from everything – people, books, experiences, pain and pleasure, this age and ages past.