Proverbs 18:10 CSB – The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are protected.
The Journey Begins: The Search for a Powerful Word
Proverbs 18:10 CSB – The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are protected.
Ephesians 1:18-19 CSB – I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.
2 Peter 1:3 CSB – His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Moses and the power of a Name!
Exodus 3:13-14 CSB – Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”
14 God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.”
Exodus 4:1 CSB – “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
Exodus 4:2-5 CSB – The Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.
3 “Throw it on the ground,” he said. So Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 The Lord told Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand. 5 “This will take place,” he continued, “so that they will believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
Proverbs 18:10 CSB – The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are protected.
How Do People Run to God’s Name for Strength?
Abraham Finds Provision God’s Name
Genesis 22:7-8 CSB – Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:11ff CSB –
But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He replied, “Here I am.”
12 Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
13 Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. 14 And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide, so today it is said: “It will be provided on the Lord’s mountain.”
God’s Name Means, “The Lord Will Provide!”
1 Corinthians 10:13 CSB – No temptation has seized you that isn’t common for people. But God is faithful. He won’t allow you to be tempted beyond your abilities. Instead, with the temptation, God will also supply [provide] a way out so that you will be able to endure it.
2 Peter 1:3 CSB – “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness”
Gideon Finds Peace in God’s Name
Judges 6:11b-12 CSB – Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 The Lord’s messenger appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior!”
Judges 6:13 CSB – But Gideon replied to him, “With all due respect, my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his amazing works that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Didn’t the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and allowed Midian to overpower us.”
Judge 6:23 CSB – But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Don’t be afraid! You won’t die.”
So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace.
Proverbs 18:10 CSB – The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are protected.
1. Run to Jesus’ Name for Salvation
Matthew 1:21 CSB – She will give birth to a son, and you will call him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Acts 4:12 CSB – There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.”
- Run to Jesus’ Name for Victory
Luke 10:17 CSB – “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”
John 10:11 CSB – “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:27-28 CSB – My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord
Forever.
Colossians 3:17 CSB – And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Philippians 2:9-11 CSB –
9 For this reason God highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow—
in heaven and on earth
and under the earth—
11 and every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
John 14:13 & 14. Jesus says, “Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”
John 16:24 CSB – “Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive that your joy may be full.”
Pray “In Jesus’ Name”
- “In Jesus’ Name”– We Pray in Jesus’ Righteousness
Hebrews 4:14, 16 CSB – Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession…
…. let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
- “In Jesus’ Name” – We Pray in Jesus’ Authority
- “In Jesus’ Name” – We Submit Everything to His Will
Philippians 2:8-9 CSB –
[Jesus] humbled himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—
even to death on a cross.
9 For this reason God highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
John 14:13 CSB – “Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
- “In Jesus’ Name” — We Pray Expecting Victory
Revelation 3:12 CSB – “The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God–the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God–and my new name.
1 John 3:1 CSB – See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are!
