Gods Sign Post - EP 627 - God is in Control - 5/2/2025

A daily bible study to draw us closer in our relationship with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ in prayer and reading the word of GOD.
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365 Devotions on the Power of Prayer:
Hebrews 7:24-25 NIV
24) but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.
25) Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
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Hebrews 7:24-25 NKJV
24) But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25) Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
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Life Lessons from 2 Peter
Lesson #12 - God is in Control
2 Peter 3:1-18
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Further Reading:
To Complete 2 Peter during this 3-part study, read 2 Peter 3:1-18.
For more Bible passages on Trusting God, read 2 Chronicles 20:5-9; Psalm 20:7; Proverbs 3:5; Isaiah 12:2; Daniel 4:34-35; Nahum 1:7; Zephaniah 3:12; John 14:1-3; and Hebrews 2-23.
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD
Week #26: AB, ABBA, PATER - FATHER
Key Scripture’s : Luke 15:20

Understanding the Name:
THe Hebrew Scriptures normally depict God, not as the Father of individuals but as Father to his people, Israel. Pious Jews, aware of the gap between a holy God and sinful human beings, would never have dared address God as Ab (Hebrew) or Abba, the Aramaic word for “Daddy,” which gradually came to mean “dear father.” Jesus shocked many of his contemporaries by referring to God as his Father and by inviting his followers to call God “Abba, Father.” Rather than depicting God as a typical Middle Eastern patriarch who wielded considerable power within the family, he depicted him primarily as a tender and compassionate Father, who extends grace to both the sinner and the self-righteous.

The most frequent term for “Father” in the New Testament was the Greek word pater. The first recorded words of Jesus, spoken to his earthly parents, are these: “Didn’t you know I had to be in my fathers house? (LUKE 2:49 NIV), In John’s gospel, Jesus calls God his Father 156 times. The expression “Abba, Pater” (AB-ba pa-TAIR) is found three times in the New Testament, all in the prayer. It is the form Jesus used in his anguished cry in Gethsemane: “Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will” (Mark 14:36 NIV).