God’s Name – The Presidential Prayer Team

The Lord bless you and keep you. – Numbers 6:24

The Lord told Moses to tell Aaron and his sons to bless Israel with these words: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.” In so doing, they were placed under the name of God, so He could bless them.

When going through life’s difficulties, it may be hard to imagine God smiling upon you. God is love and desires to bless you and keep you, look on you favorably and give you peace. The Israelites received God’s blessing due to the words spoken by Aaron and the priests, and now believers are blessed through Christ, the High Priest. God has that same tender love and care, the same desire to look on His people favorably and give them peace is in Jesus.

Many Christian counselors encourage positive affirmations. The healthiest ones often come directly from the Bible. Today in your quiet time, meditate on this blessing in the name of Jesus. “The Lord blesses me and keeps me; He makes His face shine upon me and He is gracious to me; the Lord lifts up His countenance upon me and gives me peace.” Because Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, believers are free to receive His name and His blessing.

Pray during this Easter season as Christians rejoice in the resurrection of Christ, that many will reach out and receive the blessing and eternal life that Jesus died for. Pray that the citizens and government officials of the United States would repent of their sins, turn to God and adopt His ways in Christ Jesus.

Today’s Verse: Numbers 6:24

The Lord bless you and keep you;

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Recommended for further reading: 1 John 3:1-3, 16-24

 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ²Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. ³And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

⁶By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? ¹⁸Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

¹⁹By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; ²⁰for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. ²¹Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; ²²and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. ²³And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. ²⁴Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.