“I have manifested Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your Word. John 17:6.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
The conversation that Jesus had with Me at that Passover Seder the night of His betrayal, which is shared with you by My beloved disciple John in his recounting of the life of My Son, was spoken aloud by Jesus for the disciples present and all those down the generations who would believe in My Son through their word. It is a prayer for the generations of believers who would follow. Each generation also continued to make disciples by sharing the Word they received and cherished in their hearts.
You, and every believer, should cherish and read this prayer as a revelation of the heart of My Son, which expresses My heart as well, for you. For in this prayer you will learn what eternal life is, what My call to you is, and what consecration (sanctification) is. It is a prayer of linking as One with Me through your joining in Covenant with My Son, together with all others who also will join with Him. It is a prayer about My Name on you, My glory in you, and My love for you. It is a prayer of knowing in the fullest sense in a unification beyond all earthly boundaries.
In linking with Me through My Son you will find true love that is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea that surpasses all earthly understanding. And this love I have for you, in My drawing you back into Myself freed from all sin, manifests to you in the work I have done for you in My Son.
My apostle Paul who prayed you to would have revelation of My love which is for you:
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21.
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39.
So let us now continue with the conversation of Jesus with Me about you the night before He died for your sins. We are picking up where we left off in our last Life Lesson.
“I have manifested Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your Word. Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the Words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.” John 17:6-8.
Jesus manifests My Name to those I give Him out of the world. And He goes on to say that those I give Him are Mine.
How do you qualify as Mine? I resist the proud, but I give grace to the humble. It has to do with the heart and how you treat My Word. My secret is for those who respect and honor Me, whose eyes are continually upon Me, and I make known to them My Covenant. Psalm 25:14-15. Proud people who scoff at Me and scorn My Word are not Mine. Their hearts are not right.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7.
If anyone loves God, he is known by Him. 1 Corinthians 8:2.
For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. Romans 2:14-16.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.” John 14:23-24.
Humble people who love are Mine. I do not just look at outward appearances but at the heart. I show Myself strong to save on behalf of those whose hearts are turned towards Me.
And what do I do with these people who are Mine? I give them to Jesus to be cleansed of and released from all their sins by His blood and to be anointed with His anointing as kings and priests unto Me.
“Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own treasured possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” Exodus 19:5-6.
Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Revelation 1:4-6.
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10.
And Jesus manifests My Name to you who are Mine that I give to Him. I so love you I give you My Son and He so loves you that He manifests My Name to you. My Name is a strong tower that the righteous run to and are safe, lifted inaccessibly high where evil cannot take them.
We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who is born of God, God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 1 John 5:18-20.
And what is My Name? Moses asked Me that question many years ago and My answer is still the same. I have not changed My Name and I never will.
Jesus told you He manifests My Name to you. If you don’t know it, you can see My Name manifested in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. I am the LORD your healer, I am the LORD who looks ahead and provides for you, I am the LORD your righteousness, I am the LORD your redeemer, I am the LORD your refuge, I am the LORD who is shalom, I am the LORD your fortress, I am the LORD your helper, I am the LORD your Shepherd, I am the LORD your strength, and I am the LORD who sanctifies you. In Jesus you see the manifestation of My Name in action. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. He redeemed you from the curse of the law of sin and death, which is sickness, poverty, and eternal death.
And if you do not know the secrets in My Covenant Name, My memorial Name for all generations that you translate as LORD, let Me introduce Myself to you as I once did to Moses from the burning bush on Mt. Horeb (Sinai).
My Covenant Memorial Name that in your translation from the original Hebrew you see written as “LORD” is much deeper in Hebrew (יהוה). It is made up of three tenses of the Hebrew verb “to be,” that is of everlasting existence, in a shortened form of four letters that contain all the tenses, that is I AM, I was and I am to come. Haya, hoveh and yiyeh.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:8.
And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.” Revelation 4:8.
I AM, I was, and I am to come. What does this tell you of My everlasting love for you? I reach into your past and give you beauty for your ashes and restore to you the years the devil stole from you. I AM with you every moment in the present to lead you, protect you, direct you, guide you, comfort you, love you, forgive you, and bless you. And I am to come: I have your future covered and a life of good deeds prepared for you in advance in Christ Jesus that you should walk in them and enjoy your amazing life that I planned for you. And the “to come” part goes forever. I have precious plans for you that outnumber the sand, so that in the ages to come I might show the exceeding riches of My grace in kindness toward you in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:7.
How precious also are Your thoughts towards me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You. Psalm 139:17-18.
The Hebrew letters that make up My Covenant Memorial Name of love tell you of things to come as well. The four letters that make up My Name are yod, hei, vav and hei. In Hebrew all letters have a numerical value, for they are used as the numbers, and have a pictograph and meaning.
The first letter in My Name is “yad” or “yod,” (י), which is the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet. It is the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and its pictograph is a hand, in fact the word “yod” is the word for hand in Hebrew. It is My loving hand of power. It is number 10, which is completeness and the tithe is 1/10th and is from the work of your hands.
And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a powerful hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.” Exodus 13:14.
The next letter in My Covenant memorial Name is a letter “hei” (ה), which is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet the pictograph of which is a man standing with his hands both raised in awe as he receives grace from Heaven. It is number 5 and its meaning is “grace.” So far in the letters of My Name you have a hand and you have grace.
The next letter is a “vav” (ו), which is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its number is 6 and its pictograph is a nail, a large peg-type nail.
And after that there is another letter “hei.” Which is number 5 and means “grace.”
The number of My Name is 10 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 26, which is the number that signifies power and when you reduce it once more to 2 + 6 = 8, which is the number of new beginnings. I make all things new.
My Name is “Yahavah” (יָהָוָה), which when said aloud signifies “hand of love,” being the Yad with the vowel sounds of Ahavah (love). You are all the works of My hands, and I am love. I shelter you and keep you in My hand. There is no snatching out of My hand. I put My Words in your mouth and cover you with the shadow of My hand.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our potter; and all of us are the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64:8.
Please look at the lessons in My Name in pictograph and meaning and you will see a hand, grace, a nail, and more grace. A hand nailed with grace upon grace flowing to humanity from the divinity. I am telling you of the solution that I had in place since the foundation of the world. I sent My Son to save you and set you free from the law of sin and death. He is the cornerstone on which all is built.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. Isaiah 53:5-6.
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” Zechariah 12:10.
They pierced My hands and My feet. I can count all my bones. Psalm 22:16-17.
Everything in My Word has layers of lessons if you care to look deeper with My Spirit to guide you to all truth.
And it is this name of eternal existence that I join with adjectives that give you My magnificent promises for those who enter Covenant with Me. I lift you on high because you know My Name, that is the Name that fills your present need.
And here I will repeat them and add more with the place where you first find them in My written Word: The LORD your healer, Exodus 15:26, the LORD who sees ahead and provides for you, Genesis 22:14, the LORD who is there for you, Ezekiel 48:35, the LORD your Shepherd, Psalm 23:1;Ezekiel 34:16; John 10:11, the LORD your Righteousness, Jeremiah 23:6, 2 Corinthians 5:21, the LORD your banner (victory, miracle), Exodus 17:15, 1 Corinthians 15:57, the LORD your peace, Judges 6:24, John 14:27, the LORD your fortress, 2 Samuel 22:2, the LORD your shield, Genesis 15:1; Psalm 144:2, the LORD your Refuge, Deuteronomy 33:27, the LORD your strength, Psalm 18:2, the LORD your rock, Psalm 18:2, the LORD your sanctifier, Exodus 31:18, Leviticus 20:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, the LORD your redeemer, Isaiah 43:14; and the LORD your Savior, Isaiah 49:26.
And Jesus adds His “I AM” names to the promises of the New Covenant as well, all of which you find in Him for I have given Him My Name as well: The Light of the world, and the promise with that Name is that no follower of His will ever walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life. The way, the truth and the life, the Bread of Life, the Door, the good Shepherd, the Resurrection and the Life, and the Vine.
You are Mine and I have given you My Son, My Covenant promise Names (and all My promises as many and as magnificent as they be are “YES” to you in Jesus), His blood, My Spirit, My Word, and His life.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:31-32.
And that is enough for you to meditate upon for today’s Life Lesson. We will look further in our next Life Lesson at this shared prayer of Jesus at the Last Supper. In it you will find treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
I love you. You are with Me always and everything I have is yours, for you are Mine and you are precious in My sight.