"CHRIST JESUS --- Therefore GOD has highly exalted HIM and given HIM the NAME which is ABOVE EVERY NAME"!!! (Philippians 2:9).
(Please, let me insert a clarifying note here: It does NOT say above every Other name - Through study I have learned that in Hebrew thought the name cannot be separated from the person---and certainly JESUS is above every person.)
"Nor is there Salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven...by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12).
For health reasons --- I try to average 8 hours sleep per night. Recently, I had experienced several consecutive nights in which I slept only 5-6 hours per night. Then I had a night which gave to me the opportunity to sleep late the next morning---so that I could "make-up" for the sleep which I had missed.
But on that morning...I awoke Earlier than normal --- and I could Not go back to sleep! But then the HOLY SPIRIT brought to my remembrance God's Word (As HE promises in John 14:26). So HE guided me to: 1) slow my breathing rate to the normal breathing rate for sleeping; 2) HE guided and enabled me to silently REPEAT the following: a) "JESUS' SHALOM" b)"JESUS' REST" c) "JESUS' SLEEP"
So HE had me focus on JESUS, rest in Him--- JESUS IS "the WORD of GOD. JESUS IS "the TRUTH" (Revelation 19:13; John 14:6); And to CONTINUE repeating those Truths/Words. Soon, I did indeed fall back to sleep; and I did sleep for several hours --- and I awakened feeling rested and refreshed!!!
"So shall MY WORD be...it shall not return to Me void, but it will accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." (Isaiah 55:11)
Definition: Peace, Shalom ("sha-loam"), Strong's # 7965. "wholeness, completion, peace, health, welfare, safety, tranquility, rest, harmony; the absence of war and conflict. Thus SHALOM is much MORE than the absence of war and conflict; it is the Wholeness that the entire human race seeks! (Nahum 1:15).
