Who Do You Say I Am? El Shaddai’s True Meaning

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Good morning. Praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherry Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you the message I began sharing with you last week that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called, Who Do You Say That I Am? My Abundant Provider. So join me now in our live service for the continuation of this message. Who Do You Say That I Am? My Abundant Provider. Luke 12, 32 says, your father is pleased to give you the kingdom. And then the kingdom is in you. The kingdom is within you. And so don’t look up to heaven for the power to come down. Don’t look east to west for somebody to go get it and go get that man of faith or that healing evangelist. It’s near you. It’s within you. That’s where the kingdom is. That’s where the power is. That’s where the Holy Spirit is. That’s where the anointing is. It’s in you. And how do you bring it out of you? With your heart and mouth. You believe it in your heart and you say it in your mouth. And there’s the power. And when there’s revelation, the light goes off. Remember I said there’s a light and the Lord also showed me there’s an explosion of power. Well, when you believe it in your heart, say it with your mouth, with that revelation, there’s the explosion of power when you say it. And then it brings forth and it creates the thing that you believe. Hallelujah. So you have the answer inside of you. Turn to somebody. Say you have the answer inside of you. The power is in you. The anointing is in you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. So who do you say he is? So tonight, we’re going to be looking at El Shaddai. Glory to God. Glory to God. El Shaddai, his name is El Shaddai. El is the shortened version of Elohim. Elohim is the name of God, the creator name of God, and it indicates God’s strength and power. Shaddai traditionally by itself means almighty or omnipotent or all-powerful God. When you see El Shaddai, it is often translated almighty God. El Shaddai shows God’s power to provide as the giver to mankind. He is the all-bound giver. However, I went into the deeper Hebrew study because I remembered it translated as the breasty one, and I learned about it. Shaddai also means the breasty one, the one who sustains, nourishes, enriches, fully satisfies, and makes fruitful, the all-bountiful giver. Because the word Shaddai comes from the Hebrew root word Shad. Shad is a root word. I’ve told you that in the Hebrew there are root words, and out of them come spokes of words that come out from those words. Shad is the root word, and that is the word for breast. And so Shaddai comes from that word. Jacob used the name Shaddai in Genesis 49, 25, where it was actually translated Almighty, when he spoke a blessing over his sons. And he spoke the blessing of the breast and the womb. In Genesis 49, 25, it says, By the God of your father who will help you and by the Almighty, El Shaddai is translated, but it could have been translated the Breasty One. who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, and blessings of the breast and of the womb. So that would have actually been more appropriately translated as the breasty one, because he’s speaking of the blessings that flow, and one of those is the blessings of the breast and womb. Shaddai also might derive from the contraction of sha, which means who, and di, meaning enough, to indicate God’s complete sufficiency to nurture the fledgling nation coming from Abraham. Into fruitfulness, which we need to remember these words, sh. sufficiency and fruitfulness and multiplying. Those are key words related to the name Shaddai when it’s used in the Bible. Sufficiency, fruitfulness, and multiplying. As God first uses the name El Shaddai when speaking to Abraham, referring to his offspring, he will multiply his offspring. And the first use of this name is in Genesis 17, verse 1. And when Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, that is the name El Shaddai in Hebrew. Walk before me and be thou perfect. Verse 2, and I will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply, there’s the word, key word, multiply in relationship to Shaddai. Shaddai multiplying thee exceedingly. Verse 6, and I will make the exceeding Fruitful, fruitful again is the key word there connected to Shaddai. Shaddai multiplies and makes fruitful. Shaddai multiplies and makes fruitful. I will make the exceeding fruitful and I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee. So this scripture shows God’s complete sufficiency to nurture the seed of Abraham, a fledgling nation, into fruitfulness and becoming a mighty nation and actually nations coming from him. So we see out of El Shaddai came sufficiency, came fruitfulness and multiplication. The law of first mention, it’s a Hebrew practice among the Jewish scribes and teachers that states that the first time a word is used in the Bible, that it carries that meaning with it throughout the rest of Scripture. So the first time the name El Shaddai is used in scripture is Genesis 17.1. It’s in reference to and in context of multiplying Abraham and making him fruitful. Therefore, by the law of first mention, that that being the first mention of that word, that meaning will always be contained in the name El Shaddai. for the rest of all scripture. Every time you see El Shaddai, it will contain the meaning of the first use. I will multiply thee and make thee fruitful. So that is always to be carried forward in the name El Shaddai. And so just like a mother’s breast, fully nourish and satisfy an infant, so our Lord fully nourishes and satisfies us. Psalm 104, verses 27 and 28 say, These all look to you to give them their food at the proper time. When you give it to them, they gather it up. And when you open your hand, they are satisfied. I love that word, satisfied with good things. As I’ve said before, that word satisfied is so satisfying, isn’t it? Praise the Lord. Psalm 107, 9, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. Hallelujah. And Psalm 145, 15 and 16, the eyes of all look to you and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy, again, satisfying the desires of every living thing. Hallelujah. So just like an infant is totally dependent on its mother for everything, we must also be fully dependent on God for everything that he will fully satisfy us in all of our needs and desires. Guess what? You’re not satisfied until your desires are met. Your needs can be met and you have enough, but there can still be longings So you’re not satisfied until the desires are satisfied. That’s when you’re fully satisfied. And so it’s his pleasure to satisfy your desires with good things. And I’ve given you several scriptures of that before. Psalm 37, 4, delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 103, he… What is it? Bless the Lord, O my soul. I have to start at the beginning. Bless the Lord, O my soul. All that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul. I’m forgetting all of his benefits. Who forgives all your sins, heals all your desires, and satisfies your mouth with good things. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And I’ve given you lots of scriptures on that before. Hallelujah. So we have to look to him. Look to him to fully satisfy. Psalm 104, 27. These all look to you to give them their food at the proper time. Psalm 145, 15. The eyes of all look to you. You give them their food at the proper time. Psalm 105, 4. Look to the Lord and his strength. Seek his face always. Look to him and he will satisfy you. Hallelujah. When you use your faith to take. Hallelujah. Use your faith to take. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. So in the Hebrew text, the word exceeding in Genesis chapter 17, verses 2 and 6, the word exceeding is written double or twice in both verses. Verse 2, it’s double. And then verse 6, it’s double. In other words, it’s written exceeding, exceeding. So in verse 2, Genesis 17, 2, And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceeding exceedingly. So in the English Bible, you only see the word exceeding one time. But in the Hebrew, it’s written twice. So if you have your Bible open, write it beside exceeding, write maybe times two. Beside the word exceeding, you might write times two. Or if you have room to write exceeding, exceeding, write it in there. Because in the English, they didn’t translate it twice. They only wrote it one time. But in the Hebrew, it’s twice. That word is there two times. So you want, I will multiply the exceeding exceedingly. And verse six, and I will make the exceeding exceedingly fruitful. Again, you can write times two over the word exceeding. Or you can, if you have room, write exceeding, exceeding. Because it’s literally in that Hebrew text, that word is two times. It is actually the Hebrew word meyod, M-E-O-D. M-E-O-D. And it’s meyod, meyod. Exceeding, exceeding. And so it’s there twice. Now, this is very exciting also. The word meyod translated exceeding is also a very good word in the Hebrew. It means exceedingly, might, force, abundance. Do I have that? Yeah, I do. It means exceedingly, might, force, abundance. Now look at this, muchness. That’s a good word. Might not have existed in English before, but it’s in the Hebrew, and it’s in the Hebrew dictionary. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Muchness. Everybody say muchness. Greatly, very, very referring to magnitude or degree. To a great degree and with muchness. And that’s what the Hebrew word exceeding means. So he said, I will multiply the exceedingly might with abundance, muchness, greatly and very greatly to a great degree with muchness. Glory to God. And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful. I will make you abundantly fruitful, greatly very fruitful with muchness. Hallelujah. That’s right. Amen. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So God was saying to Abraham, I am El Shaddai, the breasty one, the one who nourishes and fully satisfies, who multiplies you and makes you fruitful. What you just heard was the continuation of a message that I preached in one of our victorious faith services called, Who do you say that I am? My abundant provider. And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow. And remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.