WHAT’S IN A NAME? Part 3: Jehovah-El Roi

Psalms 9:10 NIV
10 Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.

Jehovah-Shalom Peace isn’t something we achieve, but Someone we know.

Jehovah-Jirah God’s provision isn’t limited by our perception.

Genesis 16:4 NIV
4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Genesis 16:5 NIV
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

Genesis 16:6 NIV
6 “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

Running away doesn’t solve the problem of invisibility. It just changes the scenery.

What do we do when we feel invisible?

Genesis 16:7-8 NIV
7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

Genesis 16:9-10 NIV
9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

Regardless of our circumstances, we are never victims of our circumstances.

Genesis 16:9-10 NIV
9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

Genesis 16:11 NIV
11 The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.

Psalms 34:18 NIV
18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Genesis 16:13 NIV
13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Genesis 16:14 NIV
14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

In a world where you feel invisible, you’re never out of sight of Jehovah El Roi

Psalms 139:1-18 NIV1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.

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