and is sometimes put between the subject and adjective, since Hebrew doesn’t have the verb: to be in the present tense, by placing a personal pronoun after the subject it helps to give the thought of: state of being.
So, literally איתנו הוא אלוהים
would be:
God, He (is) with us.
The Hebrew translation of
God is near (to me)
אֱלֹהִים קָרוֹב אֵלַי
Elohim – אֱלֹהִים – God
Karov – קָרוֹב – (he) is close
Elay – אֵלַי – to me.
The prepositionעִם – eem means:
with or together with,
as in אני עם יוסף – I [am] with Joseph.
עִמָּ֫נוּאֵ֫ל – JESUS Is IMMANUEL
GOD WITH US
and it marked the fullness of time.
`Eemmanoo eyl
Mary/Maryām/מִרְיָם, Did You Know??
The questions we must ask ourselves are …
Is Immanuel also IN us?
Is the kingdom of God present withIN us?
Is God – the hope of glory – IN us?
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
John 15:4-6. 4 Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.]
The abiding within…
This time of year can stress the calmest of individuals… The hustle and bustle and pressures of all things commercial designed to separate us from our hard earned money! There is little doubt that the disciples and emissaries of 2000+ years ago would NOT have had the same issues…it makes one wonder why we have allowed this month of the year to evolve into such a time consuming and expensive event; where the focus is not on the Lord but on gifts, food, drink and family festivities. For many it is a nightmare because of overspending leading to debt, travel leading to commuting horrors, and over-indulgence in every area giving ourselves excuses to behave way outside of our normal lifestyle.
Let’s answer the primary question…
Is Immanuel IN us not just WITH us?
Are we filled with His Spirit?
Or are we filled with the false Christmas spirit offered by the worlds’ holiday season…what are we focused on?
God is in us in Hebrew is:
בנו נמצא אלוהים
God is in me
In Hebrew, it is written as
איתי אלוהים
It means that our Heavenly Father is at work within all His creations and watches us every moment of every day.
Psalm 121:4 indeed, he who watchesoverIsrael will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord watchesover you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
He will never leave us alone whenever we face certain problems or we are put in difficult circumstances that we are unable to overcome.
The promise: I will never leave you nor forsake you; was first given to Israel and Joshua before entering the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 31:6.
Instead, He will lift us up with His righteous right hand, and will fill us with His wisdom and love, enabling us to go through the storms and climb over the mountains in our lives!
Never will I leaveyou; never will I forsakeyou. Hebrews 13:5 is the same promise in the Brit Chadashah/New Testament.
Our Heavenly Father, in the present time in the form of His Spirit of Holiness, is WITH US, in a very personal and intimate way.
The God of all creation lives within us, if we have invited Him in to stay.
He comforts us through challenging times.
He teaches us through His Word,
and leads us in His Way by equipping us to serve Him.
The fullness of time was marked at Messiahs’ birth and we are in the days of the wrapping up of the ages. Don’t let’s allow the wrapping up of gifts overwhelm us and cause us to push aside the presence of the most precious present ever given to the world and to each one of us.. Emmanuel…. He came, and although He left for a season; He will return in the completed fullness of time. Meanwhile He sent Himself as comforter, helper, counsellor; and in His spirit form He will never leave us nor forsake us.
He comforts the lonely and He heals the broken hearted.
He is the Peace that can fill and calm our chaotic lives and remove all fear, anxiety and depression.
There is not one reference to December 25th in the scriptures, so really it is just a date on the calendar when so many try to remember their Christianity.. maybe go to church and sing a nostalgic carol or two.. but that is not what our Heavenly Father has told us to do nor did Jesus. Rather it’s what we (people), have decided to do… We should rather celebrate Him every day, in every aspect of our lives. Continually grateful for our salvation because He gave His life for us. His death gave us life…eternal life and the opportunity to live the spiritually abundant life here on earth; being filled with fullness of God by His indwelling spirit, and sharing the good news that He did indeed come.
He is Emmanuel – God with us – and He desires to be
God IN US too,
so He can work His works through us, to a dying world lost in sin.
When sin abounds how much more does grace abound.
Romans 5:20
Where sin exists in abundance and is multiplying and constantly expanding… describes the growing nature of unrestrained sin today.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt. 5:16
The darkness is rapidly increasing and we are to
shine all the brighter
and allow His glory to be seen in and through us; because
the night cometh when no man can work; John 9:4
Meaning the night of death, and of the grave, also suggesting His own death and that He had but a little time to be in this world and needed to do the works of His Father.
So it is for each individual follower of Messiah,
As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me.
There’s a storm coming! A spiritual storm and we need to be spiritually prepared!
We need to be certain that we are filled with His Spirit that Immanuel is both with us and IN us.
Salvation is Nearer Now than When We First Believed. ‘And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber. Romans 13:11
This is a time of spiritual reawakening, as we return to what we should be doing.
If you are already awake then wake up someone else!
It’s closer now than when we first believed and it’s time to
be ready and not be caught unprepared…
Don’t be distracted by things which have no heavenly value and are of no eternal benefit.
Be about our Fathers business and stay alert
being prayerfully on watch
for you know not the hour your master comes.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Matt.24:42 & 25:13
Phil. 4:7 And let the peace that passes understanding fill your hearts and minds this season because He is our Sar Shalom. This is a season of opportunity to remind all those around us why we have this date on our calendars and exactly what it means to us.
In previous years, the story we are so familiar with has been the focus of the posts. Below is a list of some whose content looks at details we may have missed.
If you haven’t read earlier posts.. below are some links for this season
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
Christmas contains a prophetic Hebrew name..Is God With Us? YES HE IS!!!!
The name Immanuel or Emmanuel is familiar during this season.EEM-ANU-EL meaning GOD WITH US is translated from the Hebrew and is found in Matthew 1:21–25 & Luke 8:22–25
The word for God is EL
The Hebrew word for WITH is IM and pronounced EEM
And the Hebrew word for US is ANU
Literal translation is IM ANU EL is WITH US GOD
So GOD WITH US would read EL IM ANU
EL ANU IM means GOD US WITH.
So how we would say (literally), ‘with us is God’ is how we get our
Eem anu el /Emmanuel / ImmanuelPronounced as a long E (meaning with) and can be spelled Immanuel or Emanuel. However rather than just a Christmas title for Our Heavenly Father. It is more than a name. It’s actually a sentence and a declaration of Messiah’s ever present glory in our midst.When the storm arose on the sea of galilee and there was a threat to their safety and violence was breaking against their lives.Messiah was sleeping.
The disciples were about to panic, as their prospect of drowning became too real. Messiah was in complete faith because He really didn’t have to or need to do anything. It was enough that He was there. Shammah.
Messiahs name Emmanuel. He was God with us, on the boat in the stormThere is not one who does not know what a storm is like and has not experienced storms in our lives; the times when everything seems out of control, the circumstances are overwhelming and the boat we are in is sinking fast.Storms are part of life, its part of the testing and trying of our faith, to see in whom we really put our trust. Remember who is with us in the boat as we travel through the storms of life. If we are Messiah’s, then IM ANU EL is in the boat WITH US. The wind and the waves will not prevail against us and our boat will not sink because we are not alone in the storm. Put your hand in the hand of the One who stilled the water and who calmed the sea. An old song but nevertheless still holds as true today.Josh 1:9 I am with you wherever you go.
It’s in these times we grow. If we don’t have a situation where we need faith, then we don’t need God! and without faith, its impossible to please Him.If you’re relying on other means or people and things, then you’re not in faith and trusting His provision. It’s when we have storms, that we will see the caliber of our faith in Emmanuel.This is why we are to count it all joy, for EM IM ANU
and the joy of the lord is our strength and we can speak to the storm in His name just as He spoke PEACE BE STILL. He said SHALOM, which means more than one word and cannot be translated with one English word.Where there is shalom it means that:
there is tranquility, an absence of: disorder and violence. There is justice, sufficient food, clothing, housing, divine health, no sickness. An absence of: conflict, lack, hatred, abuse, bribery, corruption, pain, suffering, immorality and all other negative forces. In John 14:27 when Jesus/Yeshua said
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Ve•a•ta sha•lom ani ma•ni•ach la•chem et-sh`lo•mi ani no•ten la•chem lo cha•a•sher yi•ten ha•o•lam ani no•ten la•chem al-yir•gaz lib•chem ve•al-ye•chat.
He was giving us SHALOM the peace of EMMANUEL and in turn we are to speak that same peace to the storms in our own lives. No wonder Shalom and Shalom Alecheim, are both greeting and farewell in Israel, Peace be unto you.
Isaiah prophesied 7:14 of Messiah. A virgin shall conceive and give birth to a child and we shall call Him Immanuel.The name of Messiah in Hebrew is a sentence. It is a declaration of a reality.
His very life on earth was the physical manifestation of this Hebrew sentence.eem anu el.
When He was sorrowful it was Emmanuel, (eem anu el in sorrow). It forms a sentence, God is with us in sorrow.
When He was in the boat on the Sea of Galilee in the midst of the storm, He was Emmanuel in the storm. Eem anu el.He is with us in rejection, in judgment, in every circumstance of life; so that we can say at all times and in all places and in every circumstance,Imm anu el – God is with us always.
He did not accomplish salvation by removing evil from the world, salvation came through His presence, by Him coming into the world and becoming God with us. Emmanuel. He did not take the problems away, or remove them from the world. He did something better, He gave us the answer. He poured the answer into the world as He poured out His own life.Salvation is not the absence of sin, it is the presence of God. Salvation is not removing the world’s darkness, it is the shining of God’s light into the darkness. When His light is present, the darkness is driven away. Salvation is the incarnation of God by and in His very presence. It is Jesus/Yeshua, the solution was Emmanuel eem anu el.Anochi – I Am That I Am and Who I Will Be.
He Was, Is and Will Be, God incarnate. ‘Incarnate’, means ‘to put into concrete form, to embody in flesh, especially human flesh’. He came in bodily form to show us, by example, the way each of us is to live and to minister.We don’t overcome darkness by focusing on it, we overcome the darkness by focusing on the light. We don’t overcome sin by dwelling on sin, we overcome sin by dwelling in and focusing on God. We overcome emptiness by dwelling on His presence, by dwelling on the answer to the problem not on the problem itself.We overcome sorrow by the presence of His joy. We overcome hate by the presence of His love and evil by the presence of His good. It’s like having an empty cup, the only way to get rid of the emptiness is by filling it. So we need to be-being filled up with His Holy Spirit.He died in our place, He became sin. He made Himself the focal point of all judgment so He had to be separated. It’s part of the judgment, being separated from God.There is a paradox here, He said, ‘My God My God why have You forsaken Me?’
But who is it that is saying these words? The one saying it is God Himself. so is He asking Himself why He has forsaken Himself?He’s speaking those words in our place. The one saying the words is eem anu el Emmanuel, God with us. So the one asking why God is not with Him is, God is with us. This is so amazing because when we come to the darkest moments in our lives and we feel God has forsaken us, even then, He will be with us.When we cry out, ‘My God why have you forsaken us?’ He is right there saying those words with you. When you feel infinitely far away and hopelessly separated from God, He will be there with you feeling just as infinitely far away and hopelessly separated from God with you. For He too experienced it and understands what it is like.That it was God Himself saying those words in our place means that, even if you were forsaken by God, God would choose to be forsaken with you and so you will never be forsaken. If God was with us even when He was separated from God, then there is nothing in this world or beyond, nothing in this age or the ages to come, that will ever separate us from the love of God. We are in Him, who is the love of God and who will always be eem anu el
Isaiah 43:2 Matthew 27:46 Matthew 28:19–20 Romans 8:35–39
However, Jesus is not a baby in a manger anymore…Neither is He still on the cross…Nor is He in a grave and apparently although He is in Heaven now, He is not staying there forever either!
During this season celebrating new birth and new life. Let the reality of hope, that dependable anchor for our souls, flood our lives with a fresh faith.A deep inner knowing that we are safe and secure in Emmanuels hand and He truly is the hope of the coming glory to which we are securely fastened.Shalom and may GOD be WITH US EL be EEM ANU! ALWAYS!
Immanuel or 
YES HE IS!!!!
He came in bodily form to show us, by example, the way each of us is to live and to minister.
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