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Mensa Otabil - The Lord is Our Peace


Mensa Otabil - The Lord is Our Peace
TOPICS: Word to Go, Names of God

This is our final installment in our teaching on the names of God. We’ve done it over two weeks. We started with the names of Lord that begin with «L,» and now we have dealt with the names of God that start with «Jehovah.» We’ve talked about several of the names of God, and I hope that they’ve blessed you because anytime you think about the names of God, you think about how to relate to Him and how God also expresses Himself to you. Our prayer must always be based on what God has revealed about Himself, not on what we think we know about Him, but on what He has revealed about Himself.

So today, we do the last of the names. It’s not all of them, but it’s the last one we will discuss for this time, and that is Jehovah Shalom. We get that from Judges chapter 6, verses 23 and 24. Then the Lord said to him, «Peace be with you; do not fear; you shall not die.» So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it «The Lord is Peace.» To this day, it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. The Lord is Peace, or the Lord is our Peace, Jehovah Shalom. Of course, Shalom, we know, is peace, and that is the name that Gideon gave to the altar he built when the angel of the Lord came to give him a message about orders to go and fight the Midianites.

It’s interesting, isn’t it, that the angel of the Lord spoke to Gideon about war, yet Gideon named the altar peace. So why is it that he received a message to go to war but called the altar that he built to commemorate that statement peace? The Lord is our Peace. Gideon called the place «The Lord is our Peace.» If you look at the verse, at the beginning the angel of the Lord said to him, «Peace be with you,» because he was afraid that after he had seen God, he was going to die. The angel says, «Hey, peace! Rest! Take it easy. You’re not going to die.»

So because God extended peace to him, he built the altar of the Lord to commemorate that the Lord is peace. So what does Jehovah Shalom mean? The Lord is peace. What does it mean in the context of this passage? First, it means that God’s peace removes our fears. That’s what the angel of the Lord said to Gideon: «Don’t be afraid.» The peace of the Lord removes our fear, and when God gives us peace even in the midst of war, we are not afraid. Even when we are attacked, we are not afraid because the peace of God removes all our fears. That’s the first thing you’ll know about the peace of God.

Second, God’s peace offers us life. The Lord said to Gideon, «Do not fear; you shall not die.» He would not die at that time, not in the presence of the Lord, and not in the war that was going to ensue. He was going to overcome. The Lord gives us life, not just to stay alive, but His life gives us wholeness and wellness of being. So when God says, «I give you life,» it’s not just so that you exist for a long time, but so that you have a good life, you enjoy wholeness, and your life is well, and things go on well for you.

So, the peace of God removes fear from us, the peace of God offers life, and the third thing about the peace of God is that the peace of God makes us winners. That’s what Gideon experienced. Gideon went to war against the Midianites. The Midianites had an army of 135,000 armed men-135,000 soldiers-and Gideon only went with 300. Three hundred against 135,000 is a no-brainer; you can’t win. Yet Gideon won because the peace of God gives us victory. So whatever battle we are in, the peace of God ensures that we go in and we come out victorious, and the Lord will subdue everything that is troubling your peace, everything that is taking your well-being from you, everything that is taking wholeness from you. May the Lord give you peace all around you.

So this is how we end our teaching on the names of God. I trust they have been a blessing to you. Take time to go through the YouTube and listen to what we’ve taught all over again, and let it be part of your own knowledge. I’ve put a lot of information out there that you can really feed on to build your life as a Christian, so take time to go through them all over again.

Let’s pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, You are my peace. Thank You for the blessings of life, health, and prosperity. In Jesus' name, amen and amen.»