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When you are in need of provision, get to know the name Jehovah Jireh —God, the provider. God has a name for every situation we find ourselves in. We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us. There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and Get the Best of Beliefnet Newsletter! From time to time you will also receive Special Offers from our partners. Top 7 Questions About Heaven, Answered There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
I want to instill into you a sense of the power, the virtue and the glory of that name. Six people went into the house of a sick man to pray for him. He was an Episcopalian vicar, and lay in his bed utterly helpless, without even strength to help himself. He had read a little tract about healing and had heard about people praying for the sick, and sent for these friends, who, he thought, could pray the prayer of faith.
Find the lyrics for Power in the Name by Indiana Bible College IBC Choir, Chorale, Praise on Rockol. Power in the Name At the mention of His Name Every tongue confess It's there we find our rest In His Name At the mention of His Name Mountains have to move .
He was anointed according to James 5: The six people walked out of the room, somewhat crestfallen to see the man lying there in an unchanged condition. I wish you would all go back with me and try it. As they saw that God was beginning to work, their faith and joy increased; and they whispered the name louder and louder. As they did so the man arose from his bed and dressed himself. The secret was just thus, those six people had gotten their eyes off the sick man, and they were just taken up with the Lord Jesus Himself, and their faith grasped the power that there is in His name.
O, if people would only appreciate the power that there is in this name, there is no telling what would happen. I know that through His name and through the power of His name we have access to God. The very face of Jesus fills the whole place with glory. All over the world there are people magnifying that name.
One day I went up into the mountain to pray. I had a wonderful day. It was one of the high mountains of Wales. I heard of one man going up this mountain to pray, and the Spirit of the Lord met him so wonderfully that his face shone like that of an angel when he returned. Every one in the village was talking about it.
As I went up to this mountain and spent the day in the presence of the Lord, His wonderful power seemed to envelop and saturate and fill me. Two years before this time there had come to our house two lads from Wales. They were just ordinary lads, but they became very zealous for God. They came to our mission and saw some of the works of God. When we arrived at the place we went to the man to whom I had addressed the card.
Nothing will hold you. The man was helpless. He was nothing but a mass of bones with skin stretched over them. There was no life to be seen. Everything in him spoke of decay. You remember that at Jericho the people shouted while the walls were still up. God has like victory for you if you will only believe.
There was not an atom of faith there. He had made up his mind not to have anything. Never hearken to human plans. God can work mightily when you persist in believing Him in spite of discouragements from the human standpoint.
Did the Holy Spirit fall upon them? In times of great mental disturbance or of lack of wisdom, in times when peace and harmony seem to have fled from the home or when one is in the presence of impure-minded persons or of any false teaching or association, just quietly repeating within one's own heart the sacred and all-powerful name of Jesus Christ will not only keep one's own mind Page in perfect peace "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee" Psalms We know that all sensations, all impressions, either mental or physical, that reach man from without or within reach him through vibrations of one sort or another. Tim Hughes Related Phrases: Jesus Salvation Song Jesus Songs. They prayed for her, and later she left the meeting healed and saved and full of joy. I want to instill into you a sense of the power, the virtue and the glory of that name.
I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.
I know this-no man looks at appearances if he believes. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it. Every man who comes into the Pentecostal condition can laugh at all things and believe God. There is something in the Pentecostal work that is different from anything else in the world. Somehow, in Pentecost, you know that God is a reality.
Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present. Pentecostal people are spoiled for anything else than Pentecostal meetings. We want none of the entertainments that the churches are offering.
When God comes in He entertains us Himself. Entertained by the King of kings and Lord of lords! O, it is wonderful. There were difficult conditions in that Welsh village, and it seemed impossible to get the people to believe. But a man and a woman there asked us to come and stay with them. It will never do to give way to human opinions.
If God says a thing, you are to believe it. I told the people that I would not eat anything that night. When I got to bed it seemed as if the devil tried to place on me everything that he had placed on that poor man in the bed. When I awoke I had a cough and all the weakness of a tubercular patient. I rolled out of bed on to the floor and cried out to God to deliver me from the power of the devil. I shouted loud enough to wake everybody in the house, but nobody was disturbed. God gave victory, and I got back into bed again as free as ever I was in my life.
God assigned the power of salvation to the name of Jesus and He wants you to know today that He has declared over you an identity that is determined by the power of Christ. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
We are called, named and labelled sons and daughters of God. We are called a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God 1 Peter 2: Because of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, God has given you a completely new identity.
It doesn't matter what you've done before, doesn't matter how qualified or unqualified you are here today, God has declared that you are now sons and daughters. He has given you a new last name and called you His children. The power behind names and why God restores our name.