Christ the Cornerstone Church

God is so big, vast, broad, and so huge that words could not describe all that is encompassed within Him and His Kingdom. The power, the majesty, and the magnificence of God is too much to comprehend.

When we look up into the heavens, especially on dark, starlit night, and see all the stars in the sky, we get just a small glimpse of just how big and great our God is. When we consider the universe, the many galaxies that we will never explore personally, we get a slim idea of just how expansive God’s world is.

Yet, that is still nothing compared to how high, how long, how deep, how wide God’s love is! It is nothing compared to the depths of the deepest valley to which God would go to reach  any one of us in our time of need. It is nothing compared to how far God would go to find one lost person, to lift one person up from underneath the heaviest load of care, to carry one person up out of the pit of despair. It is nothing compared to how hight we can climb, how far we can go, how much we can see upon God’s shoulders as he carries us above all of life’s circumstances. It is nothing to how far God would go to prove His love for us. He is willing to sacrifice everything to save even one soul.

It’s good to know how far God has cast away our mistakes, weaknesses, our faults, our failings, our shortcomings, our sins. It wonderful to know that as far as the east stretches out to the west, the earth stretches out to the heavens, that is how far God has stretched out His arms of love to us all.

To know that the God who made heaven and earth, who holds the stars in the sky, who tells the oceans how far to touch the shore, who keeps the universe in perfect order, also keeps us in the palm of His Hand. How safe and secure we can all feel knowing that the God who made order out of chaos in the universe, can also make order out of the chaos of our lives and our world.

How peaceful we can all be, knowing that even when we, and everything we see or hear around our world, seems out of control, God is still in control. And, if we’ll surrender our will to God, give Him control over our lives, and admit that we cannot control anything anyway, and we trust God to do for us what we cannot do, what peace of mind we can have!

God has so many names by which we call Him, because God is so many things to us and for us. Whatever we are looking for, or need, God provides. No person, place or thing can encompass all that God can or is. God is so big to the Jewish people that they spell God “G-d” because the hyphen contains so much that God is, and the letter “o” would just limit God too much!

When we realize that whatever we need or want we can find in God, then we can never fear going without anything. We can find that all we need is available to us, 24-7, 365 days a year!

So here are the Names of God that not only describe His character, but all I hope you will know that G-d can be for you:

Jehovah: I AM Who I AM

Jehovah Shalom: My Peace

Jehovah Rapha: My Healer

Jehovah Melech: My Sanctifier

Jehovah Shammah: My Sustainer

Jehovah Rohi: My Shepherd

Jehovah Jirah: My Provider

Jehovah Seli: My Rock

Jehovah Nissi: My Victory

Jehovah Yeshua: My Savior

Jehovah Barra: My Creator

Jehovah Magen: My Shield

Jehovah Ori: My Light

Jehovah Kabodhi: My Glory

Jehovah Izoz Hakaboth: My Strength

Jehovah Palet: My Deliverer

Jehovah Gaol: My Redeemer

Jehovah Melekh: My King

Jehovah Tsidkenu: My Righteousness

Jehovah Emmanuel: God with us

El: Mighty, Strong, Prominent

El-Shaddai: All Sufficient

El-Elyon: Most High

El-Kadosh: Holy One

El- Olam: Everlasting God

El-Gibhor: Mighty God

El-Berith: God of the Covenant

El-Sophia: God is Wisdom

JESUS: Derived from the Hebrew “Joshua” (Y’shua) or “Je-Hoshua” meaning JEHOVAH IS SALVATION.

CHRIST: is equivalent to the Hebrew ‘Messiah’ (Meshiach), “The Anointed One.”

Other New Testament Titles for Jesus: Shepherd of the Sheep; Master; King of kings; Lord of lords; Bishop and Guardian of our Souls; Daystar, Deliverer, Advocate, Last (or Second) Adam, Ancient of Days, Branch, Chief Cornerstone, Immanuel, First Born, Head of the Body, Physician, Rock, Root of Jesse, Stone, Potentate; Chief Apostle; Great High Priest; Pioneer and Perfecter of our Faith (or Author and Finisher); Lamb of God; Lamb Slain before the Foundation of the World; Lord God Almighty.

Names for the Holy Spirit: Counselor; Comforter; Baptizer; Advocate; Strengthener; Sanctifier; Spirit of Christ (not the same as the spirit of Christ); Seven-Fold Spirit (Rev.); Spirit of Truth; Spirit of Grace; Spirit of Mercy; Spirit of God; Spirit of Holiness; Spirit of Life.

Symbolized in OT and NT by (l) breath or wind; (2) fire; (3) water; (4) oil; (5) light; (6) a dove.

ALPHA AND OMEGA: The First and the Last, The Beginning and The End

Enough said!

FROM NIGHTINGALE.COM

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” — Earl Nightingale:

How do you approach each day? Awaiting possibilities of good, blessings, opportunities for love, happiness, peace, joy? Or dread and fear of negative things, worrying about things that may never happen, or that are out of your control?

You get what you expect. If you seek, you find. It’s all just a question of what you’re looking for. As a line in the song “Mitzpah” says, “if good is what you’re looking for, then good is what you’ll find.”

You often miss opportunities, open doors, or Divine appointments because you’re looking in the wrong direction. You cannot climb uphill thinking downhill thoughts! Which window and which glasses are you looking out from? Try God’s…use “SON”glasses because you know and believe that your future is bright!

Keep looking up–that’s why God put the stars up there in the heavens–so you’ll see how high you can go and how vast your options are! And if God knows all the stars by name, surely He knows yours, and cares for you!

Start your day asking God to show you the possibilities laid out just for you! And then reach out and hold onto each one as they come to you. See how high and far you can soar! Aim at the sun (Son). You may not reach it, but you will fly higher than if you never aimed at all.

As soon as you awake,  remind yourself to live only for this day. Yesterday has vanished, and tomorrow is not promised to us. Refuse to think about either the past or the future. Live in the only moment you have any power over or any choice in, the gift of now: the present.

Give God your heavy loads of your yesterday’s memories and tomorrow’s worries–after all, they are two days you can do nothing about! So give them to God and just walk lightly through today. Ask God to guide you along your path, and to clear any obstacles along your way. Listen for G0d’s guidance, and follow His directions.

Watch for small and big blessings throughout your day–then share some of them with others around you. Most importantly, share the gift you can give everyone and anyone: the gift of yourself! Be there with and for those you love, and for those who need love. Be to others what Christ has been to us all and what He gave so freely of: time, personal attention and unconditional love. You’ll always find that the more you give to others the more you have given back to you! Kindness is like jam: you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself!

At the end of the day, you will find that because you looked for it, you found something, or many somethings, to be grateful for, to realize how blessed you are, and reasons to be happy that you are alive! As a result, you will look forward with even greater expectation and positive anticipation to find all the good that God has in store for you tomorrow. So, know that you can alter your life by altering your attitude. And PACE yourself: Positive Attitude Changes Everything!

Luke 12: 6-7:  Jesus said to the whole crowd of thousands who were listening to Him and to His disciples, “Dear friends, what is the price of five sparrows? A couple of pennies? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows!”