Child of God | Husband | Father | Grandfather | Friend | Pastor with J3 Khai Ministries | Vanguard | Chaplain Trainer | Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Retired.
Purpose Statement: Help people, groups, organizations and nations find, refine and live out their DNA, (Divine Natural Ability) so they, and others, will live abundantly.
Here is the invite to the PTSD webinar we are hosting. This event is free and one of the few we offer that is open to all. Please share as you see fit.
One More Day is beyond honored to host Delta Force Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly as our featured speaker on our PTSD webinar on 1/14/22 @ 1400 EST. Tom is one of the most respected special operations warriors of all time and was involved in thousands of classified missions to protect the United States and his brothers/sisters. Tom did not know it at the time, but his worst foe was yet to come. After leaving the military, Tom, like many of our warriors, was haunted by Post Traumatic Stress. Listen to Tom and his wife Jen as they explain to us how he came back. Tom is now back in the saddle and helping other special operations warriors overcome that same foe. We will be discussing the neuro-psychology of why we suffer from PTSD, some current awesome treatments, and even what is on the horizon. Dr. Paul E. Holtzheimer, PTSD will be our featured expert. Deputy Director for Research, National Center for PTSD , Executive Division White River Junction VA Medical Center and Professor, Psychiatry, and Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
We will have a number of experts on-hand to answer a multitude of questions regarding PTSD.
If you are suffering from PTSD and want to learn about the ways we are working with experts to find new ways to help.
Today Darlene took three steps forward and three steps backward and Friday night we enjoyed pizza night together and Darlene sat on the edge of the bed the entire time!
Come, click on this link Joy to the World message by Pastor Steve Morgan, and enjoy an excellent Advent message by my Pastor Steve Morgan last Sunday. He uses Isaac Watts song, Joy To The World, and Psalm 98, the Psalm Isaac used to write this song, as he encouraged us to rejoice with heaven and earth because “The Lord is come.” Especially check out the worship band present their rendition of Joy to the Earth.
Steve’s message begins around the 55 minute point into the service if you want to start their. After he shares a little the worship band comes up and presents Joy to the World and then Steve continues he message.
I believe our Father wants us to call him by his actual Name.
Introduction
If I told you that God’s name appears more than any other name in the entire Bible, would you believe me? If I said that it appears in the Hebrew Tanakh, the Old Testament, 6828 times, and if you include the poetic form, 6877 times, would that surprise you? If I asked, could you tell me His name? If it appears in the Bible that many times, surely it must be very recognizable, right? In fact, it would have to appear multiple times on almost every page, wouldn’t it? When I assure you that it does, could you point it out to me?
I am not trying to trick you, but those questions are tricky, aren’t they? I can tell you that if you read any of the popular English translations, from the King James Version, to the New International Version, to the New Living Translation, to the Message Bible, and on and on, you will not see God’s name more than a handful of times, if at all.
I think I hear a cry of “Fake News!”
If you are curious to find out the answer to the questions I have posed and even if you know the answers, I invite you on a journey of discovering the hidden name of our Father in Heaven. Hallowed be His name!
Are you ready? Let’s get started!
God Is NOT His Name
On March 3, 2018, my sister, Lisa, sent me a link to a blog post entitled, “What does the Bible say about OMG?” It was a brief post, opining on the dangers of taking God’s name in vain and pointing out that our common usage of OMG is doing just that. The article got my sister and I thinking. I had often been grieved when hearing fellow Christians use terms like that casually and often when angry or frustrated. “Good Lord!” is another one I often heard from a young woman in ministry at a church I once attended. She always seemed to say it in a tone that showed frustration or irritation with someone/something. I, too, always thought that it was bordering on taking God’s name in vain if not outright doing so. However, I knew then that God is not His name; neither is Lord, or Christ. Those are titles, not names. BIG DIFFERENCE, right?
Reading through the comments of social media posts can be “fun” and informative. You can get a real sense of where people’s attitudes and beliefs are from these. This article was no different, except that it was a civil discussion that did not devolve into viciousness and name calling that is so rampant on many sites. I noticed that most people were agreeing with the writer of the post, but there were several that pointed out that God is not the Creator’s name. (Neither is Creator, BTW!) It is a title and there are a number of titles for Him in the Bible. A few took extra pains to really lay out their argument for this. At one point, the blog writer made a comment which was designed to shut down all further arguments. She said, “Can we agree that God is the name that English-speaking people know and use? Can we agree on that? You can get technical on me, but the bottom line is that when we say ‘God’ we are referring to the Creator of the Universe.” (The answer is NO, by the way!)
That statement was one of the main reasons why I set out to study more about God’s real name, and why many, if not most, Christians believe, as Leslie A. does, that God is His name. Where this study led me was deeper than I had expected and took me down paths of discovery I could never have imagined!
What’s in a (Nick)Name?
Does consistently referring to someone in the same way for a long period of time with a specific term cause that term to become his proper name? For instance, I have always called my father “Daddy” (I’m a Southern girl). Does that make his name Daddy? Obviously not. But sadly, this is not at all obvious when it comes to the name of the God of the universe. Another example could be a nickname. Sometimes, a nickname is just a shortened form or a slight variation of the given name: Michael becomes Mike, David becomes Dave, etc. Or, it could be something totally different. My husband was a tall skinny boy who was all arms and legs and he earned the nickname Spider! Some people still call him that to this day. But do his friends think that is his real name? Of course not! Unfortunately, many of us (me included) have been tricked into believing that Lord or God is our heavenly Father’s name, because we read it so often in His Word. But His REAL name has been hidden in plain sight behind the most common title in the English translations of the Bible. It was also silenced in another way in the Hebrew Bible.
Purpose of This Study
We will seek to discover the who, what, where, when, why and how behind the intentional hiding of God’s name, as we uncover His true name. Why is knowing His personal name important? How can it affect our relationship to our Father, the one true God of the universe? If you want to find the answers to these questions, come with me on this journey!
“Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?” Proverbs 30:4
Your Turn
Before you head to Part 1-B, consider the questions below. Answer honestly, from the knowledge you currently have. This will give you a benchmark to measure any changes in perception as you progress through this study.
Does the difference between a title and a proper name have any real significance in understanding or relating to a person? To God?
Does consistently referring to someone with a specific term for a long period of time cause that term to become their proper or legal name?
Why do you think it might be important to know God’s personal name?
How might knowing God’s personal name affect our relationship to our Father, the one true God of the universe?
What are the answers to the questions posed in Proverbs 30:4?
I hope you will join me for the rest of this study on the Hidden Name of God. See you in Part 1-B. A new section will post each Wednesday.
We believe America is at a crossroads and that our time is short. God hates the shedding of innocent blood and the Mississippi abortion case presents us the best opportunity since 1992, to see the reversal of Roe v. Wade. But we need to pray desperately.
The Supreme Court has announced the day of Oral Argument in the Mississippi Ban on Late Term Abortion Case (Dobbs) for Wednesday, December 1, 2021.
Will you partner with us in helping to organize and call for a National Day of Repentance and Solemn Assemblies where we humble ourselves, pray, seek His face and turn from our wicked ways on the day of Oral Argument for this case?
We must have physical assemblies, perhaps in front of the Supreme Court, on the National Mall, in front of abortion clinics, and in churches across the nation. As well, we will be having a national 24-hour zoom call on the day of Oral Argument. We also believe we should be praying the day before, the day of, and the day after Oral Argument. Organizing this call will help generate millions of Americans and others to pray for the Supreme Court all the way through June 2022, when the decision will probably be announced.
America has committed the 4 great sins that can bring national destruction:
1. We have forsaken God (1962 Supreme Court Prayer case)
2. Shedding innocent blood (1973 Roe and Doe )
3. Sexual immorality on a vast scale (repeatedly)
4. The love of money and greed
We must repent of all these things.
There must be actual concrete ways to demonstrate turning from our sin on that day. Our suggestions would include praying in front of abortion clinics, signing The Moral Outcry Petition, helping the poor, the homeless, donating to pregnancy resource centers – either with time or donations, committing to pray more, and committing to be more publicly vocal that abortion is a crime against humanity and offering help to those considering abortion, etc. We value your suggestions also.
We encourage everyone, everywhere in America to pray as the Holy Spirit leads in accordance with your understanding of prayer and your sphere of influence. We need each denomination in America that still believes the Bible and that God hates the shedding innocent blood to stand up and cry out to the Lord.
We need to reach the fourth step of II Chronicles 7:13-14. We have prayed, we have humbled ourselves somewhat, but we have not yet turned from our wicked ways. We need to continue to confess that and see that this is the only remedy. The alternative is national or existential destruction, but if we turn, God will heal our land. Could you please share this short video call for a National Day of Repentance on the Day of Oral Argument in the case that could reverse Roe, December 1, 2021? Over 40 ministries are joining in this call. Will you join us? I believe this could be the last opportunity for the Nation and the Body of Christ to repent and TURN from the wicked ways of abortion.
The Gospel is about how good God is, not how bad we are!!!
Jacob upon waking from a beautiful revelation of the LORD (Yehovah) himself talking to and confirming promises made to Abraham and Isaac, that now promise to him also, Jacob says, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. (Gen 18:16)”
I am amazed and encouraged by this observation. Amazed at how wonderful God is and encouraged because he revealed to Jacob that in fact, he was in that place. I don’t know why the grandson of Abraham and son of Isaac does not know Yehovah was in that place, but I do see God making himself personally real to Jacob.
I wonder, is this experience like the one Peter had when Jesus told him, “Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you but my Father who is in heaven, (Mt 16:17)” after Peter proclaimed that Jesus was “the Messiah, the Son of the Living God? (Mt 16:16)”
I believe that God is building his Church “upon the rock” of God revealing himself to us. I also wonder if this interaction with Jacob was an “upon the rock” building moment?
Update on Darlene
Father is blessing and healing Darlene as he loves her and responds to your loving prayers for her. Her wound is healing, and she is getting stronger as does a little more physical exercise each day.
We know God can heal her completely right now and if he heals her over time his grace is always sufficient!!
We hope to be in Springfield together for Christmas!!!
Darlene’s health continues to improve, she may come out of ICU in the next day or two. She is also receiving Physical Therepy and sat on the side of the bed yesterday and today.
Thank you again for loving and praying for us.
Darlene and Michael
The Gospel (Good News) is more about how much God’s loves us and less about how bad we are.
“Chaplain Lord was such an inspiration to me, and an amazing example of what we should all aspire to be. I first met Bill at a 1st Cavalry reunion in Colorado Springs. That day he met with Ellis for the first time since Vietnam. Neither man was sure that the other made it home. Chaplain Lord had last seen him as he held his head together with both hands while loading him on a medivac chopper. Getting to see these wonderful men see each other for the first time and wordlessly embrace flooded the room with thankful tears. I knew that I was in the presence of the Lord. And the other one too! I am so thankful that I got to know Bill and Bettye. My sincere condolences to the family and friends. We all have lost a dear friend, but I am happy that he is rejoicing in Paradise. He has earned it. Well done, Chaplain Lord, and welcome Home.“
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