During Israel\u2019s twenty-fifth year in captivity in Babylon Ezekiel received from God the name Yahweh-Shammah: the Lord is there.<\/i> He described their future home, Jerusalem, saying, \u2018The name of the city from that time on will be: The Lord Is There.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
It applies not only to the Lord of the old covenant, but equally to Jesus, the Lord of the new covenant whose name, \u2018Immanuel\u2019, means \u2018God is with us.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a01:23\u00a0NLT) It means that at all times<\/i>, in all places<\/i>, under all circumstances<\/i>, for all of us<\/i>, He\u2019s available and present! <\/p>\n
David discovered: \u2018I can never escape from Your Spirit! I can never get away from Your presence! If I go up to Heaven, You are there; if I go down to the grave, You are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there Your hand will guide me, and Your strength will support me.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a0139:7\u201310\u00a0NLT) The name Yahweh-Shammah<\/i> signifies that God\u2019s presence is all we need. <\/p>\n
Remember when just the presence of your mother or father was enough to comfort and bring confidence to you? Fear, loneliness and helplessness disappeared when they were there. In Israel\u2019s worst moments God\u2019s response was always the same: \u2018I am with you.\u2019 Those words guaranteed their needs would be abundantly met! And today God\u2019s saying to you, \u2018I\u2019m with you, and neither death, life, angels, spirit-powers, present or future fears, height, depth, nor anything else in all creation will separate you from My love\u2019 (see\u00a0Romans\u00a08:38\u201339). <\/p>\n
That\u2019s promise enough for anybody. Take it and run with it today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During Israel\u2019s twenty-fifth year in captivity in Babylon Ezekiel received from God the name Yahweh-Shammah: the Lord is there. He described their future home, Jerusalem, saying, \u2018The name of the city from that time on will be: The Lord Is There.\u2019 It applies not only to the Lord of the old covenant, but equally to […]<\/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\/1655"}],"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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}