Yahweh Yireh
Yahweh is the personal name of God, I AM THAT I AM. This is the name given to Moses in Exodus 3 as a proof to the Israelites in Egypt.
Yahweh Yireh (some of you might know it as Jehovah Jireh, well Jehovah is a mistransliteration of the Hebrew - Hebrew, particularly Yahweh, is written as consonants and I believe the vowels are merely diacritics, but I could be wrong. So, YHWH = Yahweh, not Jehovah).
Anyway, this name means "The Lord Will Provide". We see this name occur in Genesis 22:14. In this passage, Abraham was told to give Isaac as a sacrifice to God. As Abraham is about to lay the fatal wound, God stops him and provides a sacrifice.
We can apply this in our own lives. God is a god who provides. After all, did He not make everything which we use or consume? Beyond that, He is a god who gives gifts of various kinds. I have seen spiritual gifts, monetary gifts, gifts of providence and more come into play because God gave them and they were a blessing.
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