Study Number 9 JEHOVAH JIREH – THE ONE WHO MEETS YOUR NEEDS.

Jehovah is the revealing One who reveals His Ways to you. He is the eternal ‘I am’ who is changeless. He is the Holy One of Israel who judges sin. However He is the Redeemer who is full of mercy.

JEHOVAH JIREH  is the first of the compound Names of Jehovah to appear in the Old Testament. Here Jehovah meets Abraham’s need for a burnt offering.

Gen 22:1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

Gen 22:2  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

God was proving Abraham’s faith. He had walked with God for many years yet the Lord tried Him. We need to grow and move on in our faith and this is just what Abraham did. None of us has arrived and till our dying day we will be growing.

Gen 22:3  And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Gen 22:4  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Abraham had waited in faith for many years before Isaac was born. Now that he was there God was asking for a sacrifice. How did Abraham react to God’s instruction? He thought that if God can give me a son when I am 99 years old, He will make sure that His promise is kept. I am going to have descendants as the dust of the earth.

He did not collapse in disappointment but arose and took the lad, the wood, the fire, and the donkey with him. He saw that God was bigger than these circumstances. He obeyed to the last detail taking Isaac to Mount Moriah; (The Present temple Mount).

Here Abraham was making a Burnt Consecration Offering to the Lord which involved consecrating himself completely to God. There are times that we are to set aside to wholly commit ourselves to the Lord. Perhaps he is asking you to give your all to Him in Prayer and fasting, waiting on God or for witnessing or whatever He asks of you. Abraham gave to God what he loved Most of all.

Abraham did not focus on the problem but on the faithfulness of God. In Gen 26:4 God said.. “I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens....” He knew that Isaac was that promised seed and that God could raise him from the dead.

Hold to the promise of God and you will see God come through for you.

Gen 22:8  And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son: so they went both of them together.

Gen 22:9  And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

Gen 22:10  And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Gen 22:11  And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

Gen 22:12  And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

Gen 22:13  And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

As you obey the Lord even though sometimes it seems illogical ten God will work a miracle of provision for you. You need hearing ears and seeing eyes so as he can work supernaturally for you.

After the ram had been offered as a burnt offering of consecration to God, Abraham looked at the place and called it Jehovah Jireh. That Name comes from the Hebrews " to see "

JEHOVAH JIREH “Which may be rendered either "the Lord hath seen", as the Septuagint, or "has provided", the future being put for the past, as Abendana observes, and so it is called, in answer to what Abraham had said, Gen_22:8; "God will provide": now he had provided, and, as a memorial of it, gives the place this name; or "he will see or provide" (m); as he has provided for me, so he will for all those that trust in him; as he has provided a ram in the room of Isaac, so He has provided, and will send His only Son in the fullness of time to be a sacrifice for the sins of His people: “ J. Gill

Application.

1.      Are you still growing in your faith? God will test you even in your old age.

2.      God is the One who sees our need even before we need it. Her makes provision for us. He provided the Lamb of God to take away our sin even before we knew it.

3.      Trust the Lord today. He sees and He will provide for all your need.