Elohim - The Strong Creator God
I Am: Adoni, Elohim Marker of the Earth
Hey everyone! Welcome to episode number 5 of this brand-new podcast - Heartfelt Conversations with Diana. The first episode I gave a little background history into my life as a way to introduce myself and my heart. Then the three episodes to follow we began conversations on the many Names of God to help us understand His character more. There was El-Roi: The God Who Sees Me, Jehovah Rohi- The Lord My Shepherd and the previous episode was Jehovah Tsaba - God My Warrior, and in that episode, I went a little deeper into my own personal story.
Today, I would like to share the name of our MOST HIGH GOD:
Elohim; The Strong Creator God
Diana’s Notes
In the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, God introduces Himself as the Creator of all things
Genesis 1:1 in the AMP Bible reads:
In the beginning God (Elohim) created (by forming from nothing) the heavens and the earth.
Do you believe you are living your best life? Do you believe your life is EVERYTHING that life was meant to be? Is your life abundant, full? Do you live in peace, harmony, rest - or do you strive, push, just trying to survive and hang on- feeling weary, tired, restless, frustrated, aggravated. Always the back end of everything, lacking. But you know, you know that you know that you, that there must be more than this! There is something, you feel something magnetic pulling, tugging at your heart, you feel something deep within you. That is your spirit.
There is a Kingdom, a spiritual Kingdom and Jesus taught on this.
Jesus was teaching that there is a different lifestyle to be had. To be sought after. There are people called “snowbirds” who travel to warmer areas during the winter to escape the cold. Well, you can “escape” worrying about your troubles when you learn about God’s Kingdom laws that are yours when you become a child of God. It does not mean your days will be perfect and worry free, it means that when trouble does come and worry tries to creep in; there is a God you can turn to that will bring comfort to your soul and the ability to face anything you need with new energy and ease.
Matthew 6:31-34 Jesus is talking
I’m reading from the New Living Translation
“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’
These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows your needs.
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.
So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. “
Challenge number 1: Don’t let worry, anxieties, fears dominate your thoughts. Instead, seek after God’s Kingdom and as you seek after Him, your trust and confidence in Him will grow and you will see that everything works out for the good when we do.
We allow worry, fear, people, circumstances we have no control over to dominate our thoughts. When you become a child of God you learn or at least should be learning a new way of doing and being. Heaven’s ways.
Jesus spent the last 3 years of His ministry teaching, preparing and equipping the disciples on the Kingdom of God. One day He would no longer be with them, and they had a lot to learn about this Kingdom, so that they could continue to spread the Good News, which is - that while we wait for God to set things right again… To set right His Original Plan for man and our relationship with Him; that these Kingdom Laws are part of our inheritance when we become co-heirs with Jesus. And I don’t know about you, but if I'm gonna be a co-heir with anyone, I want it to be with the Son whose Father owns cattle on a thousand hills…………..
Psalms 50:10-12 and I'm reading from the New Living Translation:
For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.
God’s supply of anything you need is endless, because he is Creator of ALL THINGS -
He is Elohim
That was one of the missions Jesus had- teaching about His Father’s Kingdom, the other was laying down all rights as God’s Perfect and Holy Son when He allowed Himself to be sacrificed on the cross as payment in full for all of humanity’s sin, future, past, present.
He cried, “It is Finished” When He surrendered His last breath to die. The work is done. Everything needed to reconcile a person to right standing with God was fulfilled and supplied on that day. Nothing more can be done or will ever need to be done. Everything as far as Heaven is concerned is legally done in order for you to become a child of God, the adoption papers have all been paid for and notarized by the blood of Jesus. But you can’t be adopted if you want to stay in the orphanage. If you want to live on your own without the protection of God. Salvation is not just hell insurance it is the beginning of a new covenant with God and in this new covenant are blessings and benefits for His children.
That is HOPE!!! You have been given access to a WILL, an inheritance, that would change your life forever. What will you do? Receive it, I hope.:}
I did not know this information for most of my life. In fact, it wasn’t until I started “sneaking” into Valley Family Church, that I ever began to know anything to actually teach me the spiritual laws and principles I had access to as God’s daughter. And when I said “sneak” in, I felt embarrassed to be there. It was so different from any teaching I was used to. I knew enough about Salvation and parables and stories from the Bible, but I did not know about the Kingdom of God and what that meant to me as someone living in the world, still on planet earth. I thought you had to be dead to receive eternal life, but we still get the benefit of a supernatural, Spirit empowered life here. That’s not just good news that is life-changing news!!!
I spent most of my life lost, wandering around living a self-defeated life with no real feeling of purpose and worth. But now, I have seen the goodness of God myself. I simply stand in the witness box in the courtroom of life, giving my testimony to any who might receive it that God is ALIVE and IS STILL IN CONTROL. Sometimes, as a parent, we have to allow our kids to skin their knees. Meaning when they won’t listen a little rug burn to allow them to recognize they have not outgrown your wisdom is beneficial. Maybe if God feels dead in your life, absent, nowhere to be seen, felt, maybe, just maybe He is waiting for you to skin your knees a little until you realize that you do need help. Humility. That is what God needs to move and show His strength and His Might and His Power and creative harness to change or re-direct any circumstance in your life. A humble heart that He can shape and mold into its very purpose.
My past does not describe me. It describes a period of time in my life when I was absent of humility, and the pride in my head kept telling my heart and my spirit that I was never going to be hurt by anyone again and God was not doing it right, so I had to. That my friend is ego! Pure stubborn ego! Jesus was my Savior but God had not become a Father to me yet. There was mistrust and as long as I would not recognize His authority over all creation including me, my life would continue to be a clash, a battle. If I knew then that God already won all the battles of my life, ALL including the ones still to come, and all I needed to do was trust in Him while learning to live the life Jesus taught the disciples and remain in Christ, everything I wrestled with would untangle and be worked out as it should, man!
That would have given me so much hope! The Bible teaches us that if we seek after God First, He will direct our steps, our path. He does it daily. I am learning this principle and as we travel this journey together we will have deeper conversations on subjects like this because Jesus wants you to know so that you are comforted and feel safe and well cared for. As soon as I removed myself as the master of my life and I stopped waffling on the Bible, Is it true?? is it not true??? are parts true and other parts just opinions of other people????, and so on and so on. There are a thousand excuses not to believe in the Bible and I wasn’t completely confident that everything in there was useful or beneficial nowadays. But I stopped.
I stopped debating in my mind whether it was or wasn’t. I stopped looking for scriptures to use against other people when it was convenient. I stopped using it to maneuver and manipulate others into what I wanted or needed them to do so that there would not be stress in my life. I made an absolute decision. If I was wrong then so be it. But what did I have to lose? Anything?? My life was as low and as lonely as it could get. I really didn’t think I had anything to lose, and I didn’t think my heart could take losing anything else, but I had to get off the path I was on. It was death and destruction. If God offered what Valley Family Church was teaching, I wanted it. I got alone with God in my living room and told Him I was ready. I was ready to be well. Whole. Healed. That I did not want to be on the path that was leading me further away from Him and further away from Who He created me to be, not who I thought I needed to be or should be, but who I am by His design. I found a picture of myself when I was in about the 2nd grade and I thought to myself, “where did this little innocent happy little girl go? “And for the first time I had a slight stirring inside of me, wishing to know that part of me again, but I was so lost, I thought she died a long time ago.
I was holding a picture of myself, and I couldn’t remember how to get back to her. I prayed and asked God for a lot that day and one of them was to know her again, When I told God I really wanted to know the truth, about myself, about the chains I wrapped my life in and face them, not hide or run but have the courage to turn around and face them so I could heal,... but there was no way I could do it alone,... do it unless He truly was God- Elohim, The creator Who could create new life in me, breathe new life into me and if He would not do that for me - then just leave me alone, leave me to my misery! (Very dramatic LOL). But if, If He really wanted to be the God of my life and my heavenly Father then I wanted to learn how to be His daughter by following His Son Jesus as my Savior my Rabbi my Teacher by letting go of my mind, my thoughts, my reasoning and free fall right into the Bible, God’s Holy Word. I basically begged God to prove to me He was really there and loved me because I was desperate to believe.
Sometimes, it’s not so much the words we say but the heart from which they come from. God knows your heart and He knows when you are sincere in the ask of your prayer. It has been my experience that the very second you step down from being the god of your own life and let Elohim in, all things are new , even though it may seem nothing has changed. But there is a shift in the universe, something happens and another creation of God becomes His son or daughter. Kinda like the story of Pinocchio when he became a “real boy”. You might feel the same, you might look the same, your life might seem the same, but you are about to begin a new way, an opposite way of living. All I can tell you is that I used to read the bible and get nothing out of it except for exactly what the words said on the page. They were dead, flat and lifeless to me. But the moment I made the choice to believe God’s Word no matter what.
No matter if I liked it, no matter if I understood it, no matter if I thought it was relevant to me or this current world, whether or not it made sense to me or if I felt like agreeing with it or doing it, no matter if it cost me relationships, positions, no matter what - the word of God from that day forward was going to be the Word of God.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15)
No matter what. Once you determine and purpose in your heart that God’s word is God’s word, then life becomes pretty simple and it's AMAZING how much stress leaves ,once you are fully walking, in this partnership and deeper relationship with God.
By sharing my trials, faults and failures, struggles, grief and brokenness, my prayer is that God will take all the ashes of my broken past and weave together a beautiful garment of hope for someone who might be listening.
I am embraced by God’s love. He has brought His Kingdom to me here, while I am still here on this earth. I have full access to all the benefits of heaven while I am alive and living here. AND that is worth sharing!!! You don’t have to be dead to enjoy heaven’s benefits!!
Who knew !!! LOL!!
The why, The purpose of this podcast is for you to know - to know beyond doubt that God loves you! God gave us His perfect Holy, Son as the PERFECT sacrifice for us so that we- you- me - could exchange the ashes of our broken, burdened, empty life for a life of joy, praise, to be an Oak of Righteousness - Lofty- Strong- Magnificent!!
God wants you to know that you are MAGNIFICENT!
You just need to exchange your feelings of a failing spirit for uprightness - to be in right standing with God.
This Podcast is to bring HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT from someone who should have been knocked out in the first round. But as Romans 8:31 in the AMP Bible says:
What then shall we say to all these things? If God is for us, who can be (successful) against us?
Additional Resources:
Songs to inspire you:
My Testimony | Live | Elevation Worship
Passion, Kristian Stanfill - God, You’re So Good (Live/Lyric Video) ft. Melodie Malone
Prayer of Salvation read from resources provided by Lynne Hammond Ministries