Godswriter

Q4. How did Jesus’ disciples use his name when they healed and cast out demons? Do we have this kind of authority, or was it only for the apostles themselves? In what way does speaking or acting in Jesus’ name demonstrate the concept of power of attorney? Why are we sometimes afraid to speak or act in Jesus’ name? How might hearing his voice about a particular matter alleviate that fear? They did so in authority and with prayer. They also did it as Christians and nto ot unbelievers. Yes we do and we must be willing to use it as believers. It comes through when we are used by the Holy Spirit and we do what the Spirit tells us to do. When we choose to speak in Jesus' name in any area that is in need of it. We are sometimes afraid of the retaliation we will get from speaking on His behalf. It will cause us to be brave and do the will of Him who sent us to do His will.

Q3. What does it mean when you pray “in Jesus’ name”? Do you use the phrase “in Jesus’ name” as you pray? Why or why not? How does praying “in Jesus’ name” limit what we will pray for? It means that I am praying in Jesus' authority and using His name to ask for things in His will. Yes I do. I do it because it is only that my prayers will be answered. For Jesus said, " I am the way, the truth and the life. That means that He is all we need to get His Father and get our prayers answered. It limits it by causing us to pray us to pray for things that are only God's will.

Q2. In what ways does taking Jesus’ name on ourselves, or identifying ourselves with him, open us to shame and persecution? Have you seen examples of this in your own experience? What actions might show that a Christian is ashamed of Jesus? What actions might show that a Christian is unashamed of Jesus? As Jesus said if the world hates me it will hate you also. It is as simple as that. We will be persecuted or hated for our faiths and beliefs. Yes I have I tried to share my faith with someone and someone got me in trouble for it. Everything I did for someone else was watched carefully like no tomorrow. I got called into the supervisor's office more times than I care to count. Now as a person in ministry I am being persecuted even more but by other faiths. By not doing his will in some way that He acts us to. Like not praying for someone when asked. Or not sharing your faith with someone. By sharing faith with others even when there is possibility of persecution.

Yeshua or Jesus means Yahweh saves just like the name Joshua. It is completely linked to his mission by His Heavenly Father that He was given which was to die on the cross at Calvary. He was not meant to overthrow the Roman government until a later date when his 2nd coming not his 1st coming. Jesus was meant to be under their authority up to the point of His death where He would die for the sins of His people even when they would reject Him. He is our atonement and propitiation for our sins and we should be thankful for it. He said in Luke 4:18 what His mission was and they rejected Him because they thought He was supposed to overthrow Rome for them. In one week's time they had a change of heart from praising Him to yelling crucify Him over repeatedly on a Friday. He fulfilled His mission in mine at age 7 and I gave my life to Him at that age. But I rededicated myself to Him in 20's while watching a Billy Graham Crusade as well.

Hi; My name is Jennifer Strnad and I have done 2 of these studies so far. I am 38 and live with my mom, a dog and 2 cats in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. I like to read, write poems and stories, cook, bake, do puzzles and play games, knit, crochet, cross stitch plus much more.

I wrote out my own Psalm of Thanksgiving today to God. It meant more that way. My Psalm of Thanks to the Lord Lord I cried to you in my distress And You answered me O Lord Now here I am Lord, My God You have done something great That I can't contain it For to hide it wouldn't be right For You are my God And are higher than I And far mightier than me Thank You for Your mercy And Your unending favor For You have taken me And shown to me Your loving-kindness How can I thank you enough? Thank You for Your works And Your Glorious Name By Jennifer Strnad

David says that if we are humbled for sin and emptied of self God will draw near to us. They must also have no confidence in self and not rely on self but be totally reliant on the Lord. Secondly, when they have God near unto them their spirit does not need broken much more than necessary from sin. As Isaiah 57:15 states the Lord is higher than we are and lives in the highest heavens and is in the Holy Place and helps those who are humble and depend only on Him. God will keep us and cause us to rejoice fully in Him. We are under full protection of His government. We shall be redeemed in the end whatever befalls us God will make sure that we are given justice in the end. We won’t go without comfort. It means that He saves us. We must call on the name of the Lord and ask Him to help us.

We should praise God continually because in heaven we will be praising Him nonstop or continually. I believe one of the barriers to continual praise is a negative mindset. Where someone is not willing to see the positive in a situation. Another barrier could be sin either by omission or commission. Either kind could block praise. Praise lifts up our spirit and gives us a new view on what is going on in our lives. I listen to music on Spotify at home that is Christian and sing along to it most of the time.

According to the Complete Matthew Henry Commentary it says this about verses 22 and 23 It deals with His humiliation because He was rejected by the rulers of the Jews and the people as well. It also deals with His exaltation as well. Because God chose Jesus exalt Him when He humbled Himself in what He did. Verses 25-27 are the Hosanna verses of the psalm and they speak praise to the Messiah about His majesty.

The predominant emotion in Psalm 100 is joy. It causes me to want to shout and sing praises to His holy name. He made us and we are His people. His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting. His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations. Make a joyful noise. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence with singing. Enter His gates with Thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His court with praise. Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise Him. Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

Lord I cry to you for forgiveness Have mercy on me, Lord For before You and You only I have chosen an idol That idol being food I seek your forgiveness For my heart is both broken and tattered My soul is also that way I come before Your throne Seek Your mercy and grace For You are my God And I love you For You are good

As the Commentary by Adam Clarke again states, “As my crimes are such as admit of no legal atonement, so thou hast reserved them to be punished by exemplary acts of justice, or to be pardoned by a sovereign act of mercy: but in order to find this mercy the heart and soul should deeply feel the transgression, and should turn to thee with the fullest compunction and remorse. This thou hast enabled me to do. I have the broken spirit, ruach nishbarah; and the broken and contrite heart, leb nishbar venidkeh. These words are very expressive. Shabar signifies the exactly same as our word shiver, to break into piece, to reduce into splinters; and dakah signifies to beat out thin, - to beat out masses of metal, etc., into laminae or into thin plates. The spirit broken all to pieces and the heart beaten all to pieces, stamped and beaten out, are the sacrifices which, in such cases thou requirest; and these “ thou wilt not despise.” The earmarks of the condition are a proper turning to God over our sin meaning repentance, remorse about the act and a choice to not to do it again. Being sorry for sin leads to death as Paul while having Godly sorrow over your sin leads to true repentance and life. Humility plays into this because only someone who is truly humble can turn to God and say the things that David said in his Psalm to the Lord.

According to the Adam Clarke Commentary on the Bible it says this on Psalm 51 verse 10-12 Mending will not avail; my heart is altogether corrupted; it must be new made, made as it was in the beginning. (Clarke, A. 2105) This means that David is looking for purity of heart from his sin. It means that He wants to be free from his sin and closer to God. According to the Adam Clarke Commentary on The Whole Bible it states this: ruach nachon, a constant determined spirit; called Psalm 51:12 ruach nedibah a noble spirit. A free, generous, princely spirit; cheerfully giving up itself to thee; no longer bound and degraded by the sinfulness of sin. (Clarke, A 2015) What this means is that we need to be willing to confess our sins and learn that sin causes a breach between us and God because our heart is unclean and not pure. Continuing on with the theologian Adam Clarke says in His Commentary about this Psalm. He is asking God not to be banish him from the House of the Lord and its ordinances. He also says I know I have sufficiently grieved it to justify its departure forever, in consequence of which I should be consigned to the blackness of darkness, - either to utter despair or to a hard heart and a seared conscience; and so work iniquity with greediness, till I fell into a pit of perdition. While the Spirit stays, painfully convincing of sin, righteousness and judgment, there is hope of salvation; when it departs, then the hope of redemption is gone. But while there is any godly sorrow, any feeling of regret for sinning against God any desire to seek mercy, then the case is not hopeless; for these things prove that the light of the Spirit is not withdrawn. (Clarke, A. 2015) This shows that God was disappointed in David for His grave sins that he committed and was very serious about them and what he wanted David to do to seek forgiveness. In verse 12 it goes on to say that it is an awful prayer because he lost the joy of his salvation and he lost it by sin. That is how most of us lose it. A pure heart consists of one free of sin and one that is not marred by divided attentions as well. In Psalm 86:11 it says this join all the purposes, resolutions and affections of my heart together, to fear and to glorify thy name. This is an important prayer. A divided heart is a great curse; scattered affections are a plague. When the heart is not at unity with itself; the work of religion cannot go on. (Clarke, A 2015) What this means is that the heart must be fully pure and also undivided as well in order to be used by God.

He is not minimizing his sin at all. When you take the text as a whole it speaks of how God is greater than King David for God chose him to begin with. For to God alone was he responsible for the kingdom of Israel. Especially when the king chooses to sin the king is accountable to God only for that sin. He means that he must repent of the sin to God for God is His creator and King over all. He is speaking of Original Sin and how it causes one to sin and causes one to commit acts of evil like murder. He is neither blaming Original Sin or excusing himself. He is stating that he is stating that he is a sinful being who is in need of redemption like us. The body and mind grew up in a state of corruption to begin with.

As an addict myself I believe self-deceit operates with sin through making us believe that we are not harming anyone when we really are. I say this from experience as an addict to food and materialism. I also believe that it tells us that we can do without God and we don’t need Him. When in truth we truly do. It also operates to chain or enslave us by making us believe that we can do everything ourselves and we have everything under control when we really don’t. For if we did we wouldn’t need to repent and ask for repeated forgiveness from God all the time for our sins. When confession is made thoroughly and sincerely by the sinner and the person chooses to really repent and confess what they have done and not hold back what they have done. We sometimes resist the truth because we do not want to face the hard facts of what we have done in our own lives to others or to God with our sin. That may mean taking responsibility for our actions and realizing that we are not perfect like we think and we need to realize that only God is and we are not. Sometimes it takes a broken relationship or something else to get us to see the truth of our condition. It all depends on what God uses to show us our depraved state.

I chose to meditate on Psalm 22 and think on the similarities in it between the crucifixion. I am in awe of them.

First of all He was despised and rejected by men and knew grief and understood it. Men chose to hide their faces from Him. He was despised and no one esteemed Him. I see the similarities of how He was handed over to the Gentiles and they mocked Him and ridiculed Him and insulted Him and spat upon Him and even whipped Him with a cat of nine tails and chose to crucify Him. I see how the rulers chose to mock Him on the cross and say that He could save Himself on the cross. I see how the rulers chose to meet with the rest of the rulers to kill my Lord all in the name of money. I see how Jesus is in anguish about the crucifixion and wants the cups passed from Him but only if it is in His Father’s will not His own. I see how he cries drops of blood. I see how He cries out about being thirsty and it is quenched with vinegar. I see also how they use Roman method of death meaning crucifixion to kill people. I see how that the very one they pierced is the one who is my Salvation. I see how in the end the Romans cast lots over his garments to see who will get his clothing as well. Yes I believe He did. I believe the Spirit inspired David to write or pen it because it dealt with Jesus and how he would die and the Jews needed to know how He would die eventually.

Jesus spoke the words of Psalm 22:1 because He was forsaken by God because of the world’s sin and God could not look upon His Son as He suffered on the cross and died for our sins. He was hurting because His Heavenly Father could not bare to gaze upon Him as He bore our sin, shame and guilt. He was seeking to express His utter despair at the thought of being separated from His Father for even a moment for the sins of the world. He was also expressing sorrow at the loss of companionship between them as well. He was feeling sorrow, despair, heartache and hurt as well as the sense of loneliness by being forsaken by God. God alighted a dove on him upon him at the time of his death.

He was challenging the Pharisees’ knowledge of this Psalm since they full well knew what this one meant and what it meant if they acknowledged the truth of it. He calls him Son because he will be the Son of David and also calls Him Lord because He will be Son of God as well. He was making the point that He was the king that had come to bring the kingdom of heaven on earth. That he was to be feared and glorified and magnified because He was the king spoken of in the passage. He is warrior-king in the sense that fights our battles for us and he is there for us. He is our high priest because he was at all points tempted and yet did not sin but knows what we went through at the same time. In order for there to be a Prince of Peace there has to be a resolution to all wars and fighting going as well and sometimes God has to bring an eternal end to all of it.

Psalm 2 teaches us that Jesus is the begotten Son of God. God placed Jesus on the throne and it is in Zion. The nations will become Jesus’ inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth will become His possession. It also speaks of His coming again. Because God was speaking to the Messiah about being begotten. Not only that the fact God could not have a son without someone being appointed for the job as his mother. When we don’t learn to submit to Him he becomes angry and can choose to discipline us like it says in the Psalm because we are His children. We need to realize that God is holy and He wants holiness and purity from us.

I chose to write my own Psalm again and found it meaningful to me. here it is. I will bless You O Lord You are greatly to be praised For You are a good God How can I thank You enough? For all Your love And all You have done for me When I was wasting away in sin And not following You The least I can do Is to devote my life to serve you

Q3. (Psalm 117 and Lamentations 3:22-23). Why are love and trustworthiness so important as the bedrock of the Old Testament faith? What kinds of terms does the New Testament use to talk about these characteristics? Can you think of any New Testament verses that speak of these themes? The love and trustworthiness of God are so important because they needed to know that God would not abandon them even when they failed and did wrong and didn’t do what they were supposed to do. But also it proves that God doesn’t change from age to age at all. He stays the same. Charity in I Corinthians 13 is used to describe the kind of love God has for us. Which is the same kind we should have for others. Other scriptures that talk about trustworthiness is 1 Cor 1:9 and 2 Cor 1:18 God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amplified Classic The first verse states that the Lord is faithful, reliable, trustworthy and ever true to His promises. That means what He says He will but in His timing. As surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes [that might mean] No. Amplified Classic The next one states how God is faithful and says what He will do.

Q2. (Psalm 145) Which aspects of God's character mentioned in Psalm 145 stand out to you in particular? Why is it important for "every creature," every human being, to praise him? What are you doing to help that happen? The aspects that stand out to me are His compassion and mercy. As an addict who is addicted to food and material goods I realize how blessed I truly am to have a God who is compassionate and full of mercy towards me continuously when I fail. I have realized also that with God that He loves me enough to be patient and wait for me when I do fail and forgive me time and time again. I am beyond amazed at His love! It is important to praise Him because He is our Creator. That He is also the One who died for us as well. I am praising Him daily through singing songs at home and staying abstinent through eating in a God honoring way and exercising that way as well.

Q1. (Psalm 103) Which one or two aspects of God's character mentioned in this Psalm stand out to you? Why do you think the Exodus was so foundational in Israel's understanding of God? According to Psalm 103:10-12, what are the limits to God's forgiveness?There are exactly two aspects of God’s character in the Psalm that stand out to me. It is the forgiveness of the iniquities and the healing of all diseases. The reasons behind it are simple the cross of Calvary that he died upon for our sins as our Saviour I cannot imagine the pain he endured as they pounded the spikes into His hands and feet! Also the stripes upon His back that he bore for our healing I cannot imagine how painful they were when they beat Him with the cat of nine tails. I believe the Exodus was essential for Israel because they needed to understand who He was through how He would provide them food and water and other things. I also believe it was essential because of the fact that He is God and He cared enough to fight for them more than once. His forgiveness is endless and so there is no limits to it.

I write out my own Psalm to God. Here it is: My God I cry out to You I need You right now My life is in Your hands You alone can save me I am afraid of the unknown I don't know what it'll bring I only know You are in control I am unsure how to feel Because You alone know the end As well as the beginning Yahweh Only through You will I find rescue Or the safety I need May You be My Healer But also be My Provider And My Protector in this storm So I can praise You.