TIME TO CELEBRATE ELOHIM AND OUR MIRACLE MINUTES
There are many names for our God in the Bible, but the
very first one is “Elohim,” God the creator! It says is Genesis 1:1: “In the
beginning God [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth.” We see the wonderful
creative miracle minutes of Elohim demonstrated throughout the Old Testament. And
then in the New Testament, we’re told that people can get born again of God’s
Spirit, and when that happens, there’s the opportunity to experience miracle
minutes that change our lives forever, walking according to Christ’s leading
and not our own, as it says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “all things are become new.”
I’ve had many miracle minutes in my life and still have
them and I know you do too. They are the things that just happen straight from
the Lord, things that change us instantly. When I got hepatitis in my 20s from
eating at a café that didn’t properly clean the dishes, I had a bad case of
yellow jaundice and was pretty sick. I got ministered to with the laying on of
hands and when I went back to the doctor, he was shocked because there was no
evidence that I ever had it.
Also, I’d been carrying a spirit of depression since I
was very young, until finally I realized it wasn’t something I had to live with,
and I asked Jane to minister to me. She spiritually pulled out a very dark
spirit from deep inside me and I could actually see it. We cast it out and told
it: “You can never come back, in Jesus’ name!” It never did, but there were a
few times after that when a spirit of depression did try to tempt me to go down
that path, but it just couldn’t connect to me at all and had to take off.
Then just last year Elohim created a miracle minute that
I really needed, but didn’t even know I needed it! For years, if someone at
work asked me a yes or no question about doing something, I would always
respond with “No, no, no.” And then I’d end up doing the thing I said no to. This
past year I finally realized in an Elohim miracle minute that the “no” was an
old demon from my early childhood coming up, but the real me went ahead and did
the thing anyway, in spite of the “no.” For the longest time I didn’t
understand why I acted so weird in saying no to everything! The thing is, I
didn’t recognize it as a demon. But then one day, Jane and I got to talking
about it, and instantly Elohim created the clear picture in my mind showing me exactly
how it was working and I could even see and hear the difference in my voice
when I said “no!” Well, of course I rebuked it in the name of Jesus Christ,
reminding it of Philippians 2:10 and some other scriptures I use against
demons, and it had to leave. It’s gone, thank God!
Personality characteristics and habits are miraculously
changed by the wonderful active love of our God, our Elohim. Even the murdering
heart of Paul was radically changed when he got knocked off his high horse and
Jesus called on Ananias to mentor him (Acts 9:10-17). And we know that Paul
became one of the most loving and influential Apostles of the first-century
body of believers.
God created in Paul a clean heart, just like David asked
for in Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a
right spirit within me.” The word “create” in that verse is the same word used
in Genesis 1:1 with God creating the heavens and the earth. And “God” in that
verse is Elohim. David knew that something brand-new had to be created in his
heart to change how it responded, and he knew it would take a miracle from
Elohim. There was nothing he could do on his own that would make the special permanent
changes that he knew only his creator could do.
We see many examples in the Old Testament of Elohim’s
miraculous workings, proving His love and willingness to not only help us, but
change us into the wonderful people He sees in us.
God knows who He’s called us to be before we were even
born. Even from the beginning God has focused on our best selves and I believe
that at some point in our lives we begin to see glimpses of what He sees in us
and we have the opportunity to grow into that person.
In Isaiah 45:3 God says: “And I will give thee the
treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest
know that I, the LORD, which
call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.” What is God
saying here?
God says He has treasures and hidden riches for us and
that in our covenant relationship with Him as our personal God, He calls us by
our name. But what name is it? He tells us in the next phrase. He does not say
“I am the God of Jacob.” Why not?
Because the boy born Jacob was born with some major inherited issues, like we
all are.
Jacob’s parents even called him a name that labeled him a
sinner. The word, “Jacob” means “supplanter” or “manipulator,” and that’s what
he was as a natural man—born with a tendency to manipulate, to trick, to take
what wasn’t his, to be dishonest in his actions if he could get away with it.
Even coming out of the womb, he tried to get out faster than his brother Esau
by grabbing onto his ankle. Then later on when Isaac was old and couldn’t see,
he needed to pass on his birthright to his eldest son Esau, who was a hairy
man. Jacob was smooth skinned, so he and his mother contrived to put the hairy
skin of a goat on his arms and neck to trick Isaac into giving the birthright
to him instead of Esau. And it worked!
Throughout the Bible, when God uses the name “Jacob,”
He’s talking about the man who desperately needs God. He’s talking about the
corrupt nature of man—the supplanter, the manipulator, the con, the weak one,
or like we’re reminded of in Ephesians 2: “dead in trespasses and sins. . .by
nature the children of wrath. . .without Christ. . .and without God in the
world.”
So, back to Isaiah 45:3: “And I will give thee the
treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest
know that I, the LORD, which
call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.”
Wait a minute. God says He calls us by our name. But what
name is it? He does not say “I am the God of Jacob.” Why not? Because God, our Elohim, our
creator, created out of Jacob a new man with a new name and brand-new attributes,
the opposite of what he was before. God called him “Israel,” meaning: the
upright, the honest one, the righteous. No more deceiver, no more a
manipulator. Elohim did a miracle that only He could do—make a new man out of a
broken one. And that’s what He does for us today!
Jeremiah 1:5a tells us something really important too: “Before
I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.” God saw us
before we were even born. So, what did He see? He saw us in covenant
relationship with Him and called us into His own home to live with Him, because
He saw the person we could and would be in Christ. Elohim creates the new
person. Every person in the Bible who got a new name is an example, Abraham,
Sarai, Jacob, John the Baptist, Peter, precursors to what we receive in Christ
when we accept him into our hearts. A new person is created, another miracle of
our Elohim. He saw it, He called it, we become it if we so choose.
So, in Isaiah 45:3 our Jehovah (Yahweh) has not only
opened His home for us to “dwell in His house forever” (Ps.23: 6b), but He’s
also our creator, Elohim, our miracle maker. And there’s more! When you look up
where the word for God is “Elohim,” or several places where the word “create”
is used, you see even more creative miracles that are available.
For instance, do you ever feel like you need to be
stronger? Take a look at Isaiah 41:10b: “I am thy God [Elohim]: I
will strengthen thee.” It’s not normal strength we need; it’s miracle strength
we receive from our Elohim who creates in us spiritual benefits—supernatural
strength, supernatural endurance, love that is not found in our fleshly parts,
but true Godly love that only He can provide. And what about “peace that
passeth understanding” (Phil. 4:7)?
Let’s not forget about our Elohim. He can bring these
attributes up to our consciousness in a miracle minute and replace old habits
with spiritually pure new ones! He does that!
And I know some are going to say that we already have
those attributes available and we can believe for them to come up, and that’s
true. But sometimes we just need those miracle minutes to kick us into high
gear fast! And as far as I can tell from the Bible, God has not changed nor
packed away deep in a closet somewhere, any of His overwhelmingly wonderful
attributes. Elohim, our miracle maker is still here and readily available with
the supernatural miracle minutes for every one of us! Time to celebrate what
He’s already done for us and the ongoing miracle minutes we will continue to
experience.
We choose Elohim and “we all, with open face beholding as
in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as
by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18). Miracle after miracle after
miracle, our whole lives through. That’s the way God likes it. 😊
Love, Carolyn
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