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Praying The Names of God

Throughout the Bible, names were both powerful and prophetic. Your name not only described who you were, but what you were capable of. It is the same with the names of God. His names have power. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray (Luke 11:1), Jesus responded with a strategy that we now call the Lord’s Prayer. We’re going to read Jesus’ prayer strategy each day of this devotional. We learned on day one about connecting with God relationally. I want to take it to another level today by challenging you to worship God by recognizing His names and character in your prayer times. In beginning His prayer, Jesus addresses God in worship, saying, “hallowed be your name”. When we worship who God is, we start to see that attribute show up in our lives.

A great google search for you to do is to google the various names of God throughout the Bible. There are dozens. Let me give you a few of them and tell you what His names mean for you:

Righteousness- He makes me clean

Sanctifier- He has called me and set me apart

Healer- He heals all my diseases

Banner of Victory- He has defeated my enemies

Shepherd- He speaks to me and leads me

Peace- He is my peace in every storm

Provider- He supplies all of my needs

Father- I am His son or daughter

Alpha and Omega- He goes before me and will come after me

Take some time today to pray and worship the names of God. This should take 5-10 minutes each day. When you take time and focus on His names, you start to get your focus off of your problems and onto the problem solver. Worship is where you assign worth to something. Make God’s names a priority in your life by giving those names time and focus during your prayer times