Welcome to Bethany Bible Church

The way you see God determines the way you live your life.

If this is who God is, what does it mean to follow Him?

The Names of God

• Elohim – God created us.
• Jehovah – God is trustworthy and present.
• El Shaddai – God is sufficient.
• Adonai – God rules over our lives.
• Jehovah Sabaoth – God is in Control of what you cannot see!
• Jehovah Nissi – “The Lord Is My Banner.”

• Jehovah Rapha – The Lord is our healer. 
• Jehovah Shalom – The Lord is Peace

Jehovah Jireh – The Lord Will Provide.

Jehovah Jireh reminds us that God sees our greatest need and has already provided the perfect sacrifice.

Genesis 22:1-2 – Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.

“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”

2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Genesis 22:3 – 3 The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. 

Genesis 22:4 – On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Genesis 22:5-7 – 5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”

6 So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together,7 Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

Genesis 22:8 – 8 “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.

Hebrews 11:17-19 – 17 It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, 18 even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.”[a] 19 Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.

Genesis 22:9-13 – 9 When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. 10 And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. 11 At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”

12 “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”

13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. 

Genesis 22:14 – 14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

HEAD – HEART – HANDS

HEAD – God sees my greatest need and has already provided what I need most through Christ.

HEART – Am I trusting God’s provision or demanding that He provide on my terms?

HANDS – Practice grateful trust this week and take your next step in faith.