1) Importance of prayer – Prayer: What’s It All About?
intensity, union, and communion that will radically alter the way we live our lives….Prayer above all else is conversation with God. It is the primary speech of the true self to the true God.
Biblical Words Related to Prayer
Prayer is communication between the soul and what that soul considers divine. For me divinity is found in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, Christianity’s Trinity. To whom the soul prays matters.
Names of God in the Bible
To Whom am I to pray? To whom am I to communicate? With whom am I to commune? Islam prays to الله Allāh, Judeo Christians to YHWH/God, Christians to Jesus, Hinduism to Shiva, Brahma, and Indra, The list of names used to address God is longer than the total number of languages which have existed. […]
Shaddai: Sufficient or Almighty
Shaddai (Sufficient/Almighty, Hebrew šad·day, שַׁדָּי) Occurs along with El, Occurs independently as a name of God, (see Job) LXX., sometimes παντοκράτωρ the word as (“He who is sufficient”)
Ehyeh: I AM – אהיה
Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh (I Am that I Am) God is Past, Present, and Future Ehyeh denotes God’s potency in the present and future, “I will be because I will be”
Elohim (God) אלהים
Elohim (God) (Hebrew: אלהים) The plural form of EL, meaning “strong one.” creative work of all sovereignty over all denotes multiplied power, Almighty often read instead of YHWH YHWH is sometimes written with Elohim’s vowels Eloah אלה, Elohim’s root is a feminine noun, meaning goddess