{"id":1653,"date":"2021-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2021-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T14:00:00","slug":"whats-in-a-name-everything-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/whats-in-a-name-everything-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s In A Name? Everything! (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name <i>Yahweh-Shalom: the Lord my peace,<\/i> was discovered by Gideon when God assigned him the job of leading Israel against the Midianites\u2014a position Gideon saw as far beyond his abilities. <i>\u2018How can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.\u2019<\/i> (Judges\u00a06:15\u00a0NIV) The Lord responded, <i>\u2018I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites\u2026 Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.\u2019<\/i> (Judges 6:16, 23\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n<p>A frightened Gideon believed God before the battle was even fought and the victory secured. Through the eyes of faith, he envisioned peace already secured, and built an altar to <i>Yahweh-Shalom: the Lord my peace.<\/i> We assume that we can only have inner peace when our outer circumstances are favourable. Let\u2019s learn, like Gideon, that inward peace doesn\u2019t depend on altering outward circumstances. It depends on believing that <i>Yahweh-Shalom<\/i> is with you, and that will bring you through the battle with inner peace. <\/p>\n<p>Jesus said: <i>\u2018Peace I leave with you; My peace<\/i> [inner, faith-based] <i>I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives<\/i> [outward, circumstantial]. <i>Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a014:27\u00a0NIV) No matter how inadequate you feel today, remember these words: <i>\u2018I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace\u2026 take heart! I have overcome the world.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a016:33\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n<p>Your job is to \u2018take heart\u2019 because <i>Yahweh-Shalom<\/i> is with you, and to trust Christ the \u2018overcomer\u2019 to handle the circumstances for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name Yahweh-Shalom: the Lord my peace, was discovered by Gideon when God assigned him the job of leading Israel against the Midianites\u2014a position Gideon saw as far beyond his abilities. \u2018How can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.\u2019 (Judges\u00a06:15\u00a0NIV) The Lord responded, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}