PRAYING THE NAMES of JESUS: SAVIOR

WEEK EIGHTEEN

The Name of Jesus for this week with Ann Spangler at Crosswalk.com

Hope you will join us each Friday(or anytime during that weekend)sharing from what we read or would like to share about the Name of Jesus for that week.

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The Name

Just as Yahweh is God’s personal name revealed in the Old Testament, Jesus is the personal name of the One we call Redeemer, Lord, and Christ. His name is intimately linked to the God of the Hebrew Scriptures because it means “Yahweh is salvation.” Indeed, Jesus is Yahweh come to earth. If you have ever pictured God as a distant, wrathful Being, you will have to reconsider that portrait in light of Jesus Christ, who is God bending toward us, God becoming one of us, God reaching out in mercy, God humbling himself, God nailed to a cross, God rising up from the grave to show us the way home. Jesus, name above all names, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord!

Key Scripture

Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:20 – 21

Understanding the Name

...The name “Jesus” (in English ) or “Iesous” (in Greek) is the equivalent of the Hebrew “Yeshua,” itself a contraction of the Hebrew name “Yehoshua,” translated “Joshua” in English Bibles. The name Joshua is the oldest name containing Yahweh, the covenant name of God, a name so sacred it was considered too holy to pronounce. Both “Jesus” and “Joshua” mean “Yahweh is help” or “Yahweh is salvation.” Yeshua is also related to the word yeshu’ah, which means “salvation.”

“Soter” is the Greek word translated “Savior.” Its Hebrew equivalent is Moshia. In Greek, “Jesus the Savior” is rendered Iesous Soter (yay-SOUS so-TAIR). Through the centuries, the church has affirmed the belief of the earliest followers of Jesus that “salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved”

(Acts 4:12).

Yeshua, my Savior. You are God forever. Thank you for saving me from all my sins. You reached down from on high to rescue me. Help me to live with the continual awareness of my need for your saving grace, now and always. Amen.

SCRIPTURES this week:

(T)

Luke 15:1 – 7 and 19:8 – 9

Pray today for the grace to know how much you still need Jesus. Ask him for the grace to see beyond your wants to the things you really need — more compassion and less harsh judgment, more generosity and less fear, more patience and less irritability, more faith and less doubt. Pray that Jesus will enable you to move beyond the kind of selfish praying we all do so that you can pray in a way that reflects his heart, letting whatever moves him move you. Then pray for the privilege of joining him as he seeks out and saves those who are lost.

(W)

Philippians 2:9 – 11 and Acts 16:16 –18

(TH)

Luke 2:11 – 14 and 2 Thessalonians 1:11 – 12

(F)

Promises in Scripture

Acts 2:38 – 39
John 20:30 – 31

Continued Prayer and Praise
Believe in the power of Jesus’ name. (Matthew 12:15 – 21; John 3:16; Acts 3:1 – 10; 4:1 – 12; Romans 5:9 – 11)

Rejoice when you are found worthy to suffer for the sake of the name. (Acts 5:40 – 42; 21:10 – 14)

Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Colossians 3:15 – 17)

Trust in Jesus for salvation. (Titus 3:3 – 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYWme7gQs9g

MAY THE POWER OF PRAYING IN JESUS' NAME BECOME MORE REAL TO YOU THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK of STUDY!

TRUST IN JESUS! THERE IS NO OTHER NAME!