The Fine Pearl. Julie Teariki-Tautea
son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.” Proverbs. 1: 1-5.
God’s creation. The bible called God's creation; (Nation/People or world) as people of the nations or people of the world we all do go through trials, tribulation, and temptation, God is not the one to be blamed for our arrows, or he is not the one leading us into sin or temptations, but God will be the one to set us free, deliver us out and saves us out from all unrighteousness, trials, tribulation, temptation, and mistakes that we make on our journey in life. Christ teaches this prayer, lead us not into temptation but deliver us out from temptation. “When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempts anyone.” James. 1:13. “So listen to me, men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, for the Almighty to do wrong. He repays a man for what he has done; he brings upon him what his conduct deserves. It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice.” Job 34: 10-12. God is love and good all the time and he cannot go against his characters of love, peace, patience, and kindness when he knows the time is right he will act in his own time for us, not our timing.
CHAPTER ONE
Do you really know God?
God is our Heavenly and Creator Father. Like little children they always ask parents so many questions when they grow up they are discovering things around them, the same goes for many Christians we grow in our faith we are now discovering about our heavenly father, and we have questions like; Who is God like? We want to know more about God, we learned that he is a living Spirit and powerful energy alive and living forever and ever. Even before the heavens and the earth was created. God exists and is an everlasting God in Spirit and wonder-working power: In the beginning, was “God” and God alone who created the heavens and the Earth, The Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep waters, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Genesis, 1: 1-2, God Jehovah is mighty and powerful, and whatever he thinks and says in his spirit and power the word of his power will come into existence.
The Spirit of God the power of God was hovering over the waters. In the beginning, was the word, there was nothing on earth, but the spirit of God's power was hovering over the empty space of the universe and because he is God he can do whatever he sets his mind to do, it will come into existence, in the beginning, was the word, and the Word was with God, The same was at the beginning with God, John 1:1-2. Chapter 2 clarifies that Jesus was at the beginning with God. God spoke the word and the word came into existing, Genesis, 1: 3-31, 2. When God spoke all creation came into existence, Jesus was the first man in heaven after all the heavenly angles with God in the beginning. Adam was the first man on earth who ruined God's perfect plan for paradise earth. Jehovah God plans the future again and sent his Spirit Son the second Adam to earthborn into the human body, it happened as how God intended it to be. What the first Adam did was very hurtful to our creator God because both Adam and Eve disobeyed Jehovah, yet God is slow to anger and abundant in love that he sent the second Adam to earth, Jesus Christ his first creation Son was very obedient and more than that to the point of death itself. Jesus Christ comes down to this earth in a human form as it meant to be in this worldly birth system. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hardest formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Before anything was formed God exists and he still exists from everlasting to everlasting. Psalms 90:1-2, God is omnipotent, God is Spirit, and God exists from everlasting to everlasting now and forevermore. God exists before the world was formed and God will remain the same as yesterday, today, and forevermore in his Holy Spirit and Power. Thanks to God' that makes sense to me, He is way beyond anyone’s knowledge and imagination. The Bible answers many questions if we apply our hearts to it and learn from Bible studies and we surely will get answers to many of our questions answers.
Does God have a name? Yes,” Indeed His name is Jehovah, Yahweh” YHWH.
God's name YHWH is unique and special to him alone. God and the LORD were his honorable titles, and there are many character title names about him in the Bible, but this one is the very unique and special name “YHWH”, this one name is mentioned more than any other names in the original Hebrew text than any other names, and because out of respect for his holiness and royalty, we pray to him as LORD or GOD our heavenly father. Just as kings or president are their titles but they have their individual names and they are treated as gods of the earth. What a discovery that God has a name and his name was ” “YHWH” “JEHOVAH” Is an English pronunciation, (King James Version) “Psalms 83:18, That men may know that thou, whose name alone is YHWH or JEHOVAH, art the highest over all the earth.
God’s name JEHOVAH means that he causes, to become.” Only he has the power to do anything he decides to do. He can fulfill any promise he makes and can carry out any purpose he has in mind. God's name is unique, one of a kind that belongs only to Him. He is Lord God Almighty. Other Bibles translators translate YHWH' Jehovah as the “LORD” All in “CAPITAL” in place of YHWH or JHVH. Hebrew language. God’s name appears in the original Hebrew text of the Bible nearly 7,000 times written in four letters as YHWH OR JHVH. Likewise, JESUS was also mentioned in Greek as JESUAH but the main pronunciation now in English is Jesus. Jehovah the scriptures also describes him by his many characters like his name. But YWHW Jehovah is his name.
People all over the world have different pronunciation; others say Yahweh and others' pronunciation is as Jehovah and Iehowah. I said to our ladies group, Honestly, and all this time, I thought his name was God and Lord Jesus. They showed me to turn to the first pages of the bible front cover of the bible; before Genesis, the first book will be explained there. The Bible translators change “YHWH” to LORD all in capital letters, so as in all other bibles, you will see that” YHWH” was changed to LORD, but still you will see small “Lord” or “God” because it’s his title and even Jesus was called Lord and any kings of the world can be called Lord it a title and not name.
Drawing closer to God: It is possible to get closer to God? Yes, it’s possible; Jesus made a way for us if we ask Him to forgive us of all our sins and renew our lives to know him more and love Jehovah our God. God, will hear us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Because God, first loved us in that while we were, yet sinners, Christ came into this world and died for our sins. God indeed wants us to get closer to him he gave us a way to get closer to him through his only son Jesus Christ and that we should be; (Seeking) reading his words and asking his Holy Spirit to teach guide, and help us to understand the bible, and if we have any question in life matters and issues or problems, the truthful answers will be found in the bible, (Prayer) is about being obedient and acknowledging our father how important he is to our life, asking for anything and forgiveness, we should be thanking God for the life that we have and that we are alive because he loved us, we should be asking for his blessings, healings, and strength in his Holy Spirit. (Knocking) is when we must keep on asking Jehovah our father, through his son Jesus Christ for help and inviting the Holy Spirit and power to exercise our faith in Jesus Christ our savior King to come into our lives. Many of our troubles, fears, and problems that we encounter in our life journey here on earth our mistakes failures, and sins, we must ask him in His Spirit and power to help us, let us not forget that we are not alone, but that we have our fathers love through his son Jesus Christ as our Savior. Jehovah has given his son to the world to believe and trust