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30 Days of Praying the 1 is . 2 God is Jehovah-M’Kad- 3 God is infinite. The of the independent, desh. God is beyond measure- self-complete being—“I AM This name means “the ment—we cannot define Him WHO I AM”—only belongs God who sanctifies.” A God by size or amount. He has no and Attributes of God to Jehovah God. Our proper separate from all that is evil beginning, no end, and no response to Him is to fall down requires that the people who limits. Though God is infinitely far above our ability to fully understand, He tells us through the Scriptures very specific truths in fear and awe of the One who follow Him be cleansed from —Romans 11:33 about Himself so that we can know what He is like, and be drawn to Him. The following is a list of 30 names possesses all authority. all evil. and attributes of God. Use this guide to enrich your time apart with God by taking one description of Him and medi- —Exodus 3:13-15 —Leviticus 20:7,8 tating on that for one day, along with the accompanying passage. Worship God, focusing on Him and His character.

4 God is omnipotent. 5 God is good. 6 God is love. 7 God is Jehovah-jireh. 8 God is Jehovah-shalom. 9 God is immutable. 10 God is transcendent. This means God is all-power- God is the embodiment of God’s love is so great that He “The God who provides.” Just as “The God of peace.” We are All that God is, He has always We must not think of God ful. He spoke all things into be- perfect goodness, and is kind, gave His only Son to bring us He provided yesterday, He will meant to know the fullness been. All that He has been and as simply the highest in an ing, and all things—every cell, benevolent, and full of good into fellowship with Him. God’s also provide today and tomor- of God’s perfect peace, or His is, He will ever be. He is ever order of beings. This would every breath, every thought— will toward all creation. love not only encompasses the row. He grants deliverance from “shalom.” God’s peace surpass- perfect and unchanging. be to grant Him eminence are sustained by Him. There is —Psalm 119:65-72 world, but embraces each of , the oil of joy for the ashes of es understanding and sustains —Psalm 102:25-28 But he is more than eminent. nothing too difficult for Him to us personally and intimately. sorrow, and eternal citizenship us even through difficult times. He is transcendent—existing do. —1 John 4:7-10 in His Kingdom for all those It is the product of fully being beyond and above the created —Jeremiah 32:17,18, 26,27 adopted into His household. what we were created to be. universe. —Genesis 22:9-14 —Judges 6:16-24 —Psalm 113:4,5

11 God is just. 12 God is holy. 13 God is Jehovah-rophe. 14 God is self-sufficient. 15 God is omniscient. 16 God is omnipresent. 17 God is merciful. God is righteous and holy, fair God’s holiness is not simply This name means “Jehovah All things are God’s to give, This means God is all-knowing. God is everywhere—in and God’s merciful compassion is in- and equitable in all things. We a better version of the best heals.” God alone provides and all that is given is given by God’s knowledge encompass- around everything, close to finite and inexhaustible. Through can trust Him to always do we know. God is utterly and the remedy for mankind’s Him. He can receive nothing es every possible thing that everyone. “‘Do not I fill Christ, He took the judgment what is right. supremely untainted. His brokenness through His son, that He has not already given exists, has ever existed, or will and earth?’ declares the .” that was rightfully ours and —Psalm 75:1-7 holiness stands apart—unique Christ. The Gospel is the us. ever exist. Nothing is a mystery —Psalm 139:7-12 placed it on His own shoulders. and incomprehensible. physical, moral, and spiritual —Acts 17:24-28 to Him. He waits and works now for all — 4:8-11 remedy for all people. —Psalm 139:1-6 people to turn to Him and to live —Exodus 15:22-26 under His justification. —Deuteronomy 4:29-31

18 God is sovereign. 19 God is Jehovah-nissi. 20 God is wise. 21 God is faithful. 22 God is wrathful. 23 God is full of grace. 24 God is our Comforter. God presides over every event, This name means “God our All God’s acts are accom- Out of His faithfulness God Unlike anger, God’s Grace is God’s good pleasure Jesus called the Holy Spirit the great or small, and He is in banner.” Under His banner we plished through His infinite honors His covenants and wrath is never capricious, that moves Him to grant merit “Comforter,” and the apostle control of our lives. To be sov- go from triumph to triumph wisdom. He always acts for our fulfills His promises. Our hope self-indulgent, or irritable. It is where it is undeserved and Paul writes that the Lord is ereign, He must be all-knowing and say, “Thanks be to God, good, which is to conform us to for the future rests upon God’s the right and necessary reac- to forgive debt that cannot be “the God of all comfort.” and all-powerful, and by His who gives us the victory Christ. Our good and His glory faithfulness tion to objective moral evil. repaid. —2 Corinthians 1:3,4 sovereignty He rules His entire through our Lord Jesus Christ” are inextricably bound together. —Psalm 89:1-8 —Nahum 1:2-8 —Ephesians 1:5-8 creation. (1 Corinthians 15:57). —Proverbs 3:19,20 —1 Chronicles 29:11-13 —Exodus 17:8-15

25 God is -Shaddai. 26 God is Father. 27 God is the ’s 28 God is our intercessor. 29 God is Adonai. 30 God is . This name means “God Jesus taught us to pray, “Our head. Knowing our temptations, God This name means “Master” or This name means “Strength” Almighty,”the God who is Father” (Matthew 6:9), and the God the Son, Jesus, is the head the Son intercedes for us. He “Lord.” God, our Adonai, calls or “Power.” He is transcendent, all-sufficient and all-bountiful, Spirit of God taught us to cry, of the Church. As the head, opens the doors for us to boldly all God’s people to acknowl- mighty and strong. Elohim the source of all blessings. “Abba, Father.,” an intimate the part of the body that sees, ask for mercy. edge themselves as His is the great name of God, —Genesis 49:22-26 Aramaic term similar to “Daddy.” hears, thinks, and decides, He Thus, God is both the initiation servants, claiming His right to displaying His supreme power, The Creator of the universe gives the orders that the rest of and conclusion of true . reign as Lord of our lives. sovereignty, and faithfulness cares for each one of us as if we the body lives by. —Hebrews 4:14-16 —2 Samuel 7:18-20 in His covenant relationship Sources: The Knowledge of the Holy, were the only child He had. —Ephesians 1:22,23 with us. by A.W. Tozer; , by Nathan Stone; and God of Glory, by —Romans 8:15-17 —Genesis 17:7,8 Kenneth Landon.