The third Name revealed of FATHER is ADONAI!
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Genesis 15:
2 But Abram said, “Lord GOD (Adonai), what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3 Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”
4 And behold, the Word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.”
5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward Heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
6 And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Elohim speaks of God’s greatness, might and power. Yahweh speaks of His intimacy, redemptive plan and desire to bring us into a personal relationship with Himself. Now we are introduced to this new Name, Adonai. This new Name for God is used around 300 times in the Old Testament. The King James Version translates it ‘Lord God.’ It is the equivalent title that is used of Jesus throughout the New Testament – ‘Lord.’
This Word ‘Lord’ means ‘Master’ or the One to Whom we must surrender our life. Have you given yourself to Adonai? Have you made Him Lord of your life by fully surrendering to HIM?
It is important that Abram addresses God as Adonai (Lord). In praying that prayer, he surrendered to the Lord. When he did, the miracle blessing of God was released into his life. Abram was childless. He longed for a son and heir. However, it was not until He made Adonai, Lord of his life that the miracle happened.
The devil is an aggressive attorney and is constantly looking for a legal loophole to be empowered by you. GOD is Just and HE is even Just with the devil.’ FATHER gave us authority on the earth, and we have the option to give that authority over our lives to the adversary. GOD will not stop this, HE is just!
‘Give no place to the devil.’
He is constantly trying to get you into unbelief, fear, resentment, negative speaking and doubting the promises of God. He knows that it is then, that he can legally rob you. It is not enough to know God as your redeemer (Yahweh), have you made
Him Lord (Adonai)?
When you make Jesus Lord, you open your life to the fullness of His
blessing. When He is Lord, you experience His protection, His provision,
His promotion, His prosperity and His peace. God did not covenant with Abram until he said Adonai and made Him Lord of his life. He had known Him before as Elohim. Then he encountered God as Yahweh. But he had to know Him as Adonai. When Abram said, ‘Adonai’ (Lord), God said, in effect, ‘Now I am going to give you your hearts desire and answer your prayers. Look towards the stars, there is
no limit to the blessing you are going to receive now that you’ve made Me
Adonai in your life.’
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 6:
33 But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
What things? Read the verse in its context. He was referring to food,
clothing and houses – material things. Notice Jesus said ‘things’ will be
added. When we seek first the Kingdom, things will not be taken away,
they will be added.
Where is our only safe place? Until we surrender to Christ the devil has rights and will take full advantage of them. The only safe place in the universe is in surrender to Jesus Christ and living in obedience to Him. The only safe place is under the protection of Adonai.
When Jesus entered His home town of Nazareth ‘He could there do
no mighty miracles.’ It does not say He chose not to, it says He ‘could not.’
God will not violate the principles of faith which He has established in
His Word, which are prerequisites and conditions for His intervention in
our lives. If He did the opposite of what He says in His Word, He would
be a liar. Faith and surrender are consistently presented in God’s Word as
conditions for receiving from Him, from Genesis to Revelation. So many
believers misunderstand sovereignty. God is not unpredictable.
Theology means the ‘knowledge of God.’ However, there is a big difference
between knowing about God and knowing Him. Every time God’s Name is used, He is telling us something different about Himself!
The simplest believer can comprehend more of the Word of God than those teaching theology in universities. As a believer you can testify, ‘I believed in God as the Great and Mighty Creator of the universe (Elohim). Then, I came to know Him as Yahweh, the Intimate One Who cares for me. Then, there came a time in my life when I surrendered to Adonai and closed the door on the devil.’
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Judges chapter 6:
13 Gideon said to Him, “O my Lord (Adonai), if the LORD (Adonai) is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD (Adonai) bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD (Adonai) has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”
When Gideon prayed Adonai, God intervened and worked a miracle of deliverance. If you haven’t don so, surrender your life to Him right now.
PRAYER
‘Lord, I want to know You as Adonai. Thank you for revealing Yourself to me as the God Who is Lord of all. From Your Word I now understand how much You Love me and want to pour out upon me Your blessing. By faith, I acknowledge that You are the source of all that is good and eternal. I open up my life to Your miracles of provision, of protection and of peace. Lord, I surrender my life to
You. Just as Gideon surrendered, I give all to You. Come into my life and be my Saviour, be my Adonai, my Lord and I will seek to follow You all the days of my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.