Jehovah Ezer - The Lord My Help

“Jehovah Ezer”

The Lord my Help

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - The other day while driving down the road I passed a billboard that said, “Help is here” then another said, “For life’s unexpected moments Help is here”! “Another said “For that big purchase Help is here”! And then yet another said, “For whatever! Help is here”! Then, it went on and named a bank.

My mind went to Psalms 121:1-2 which says, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth”. I began to sing that song in my truck and it just made my soul happy. But as I began to sing that song God began to deal with me and I began to think true all of my help cometh from the Lord but not only does our help come from the Lord, like getting help from the bank, but He is Jehovah Ezer - the Lord my help.

The word from indicates a starting point my help comes from here – like getting money from the bank.

The word is, embodies presence, He is my help, He is here. Psalms 46:1 says, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble”. Present means in a particular place, a period of time now.

Now is always now. Our past is the past it is gone our future will one day become our past, but now is always present. 30 seconds in the future will be now, but in 31 it will be the past. Present is now therefore God is our refuge and strength a very RIGHT NOW help in trouble.

PRAYER: -

SCRIPTURES: - Hebrews 13:5-6 says, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me”.

Psalms 33:20 says, “Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield”.

I really began to think about this word help and I started digging into the word help and came to find that.

The English word help means to aid, to lend strength, to succor, to lend means of deliverance (as to help one in distress), to give assistance to cause to stand or support and to carry the weight of. Help means to do for someone what he or she cannot do for himself or herself.

The Hebrew word for help is EZER and refers to divine help in times of despair or distress. Robert Alter, a renowned expert on Hebrew literature and language, highlights the implicit strength in the word ezer. He states in his notes on Genesis 2:18 that “Help” is too weak because it suggests a merely auxiliary function, whereas ‘Ezer denotes intervention on behalf of someone, especially in military contexts, as a “sustainer beside him.”

Ezer describes aspects of God’s character: he is our strength, our rescuer, our protector, and our help!

Ezer means to save and rescue. In Exodus 18:4 Moses named one of his sons Eliezer, which in Hebrew means “My God is my helper” because as the verse states “And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”.

The Hebrew phrase Jehovah 'Ezer is translated as the “LORD my Help” or the “LORD our Help”

When we come to the New Testament the Greek form is used. Boetheo which means to help or to come to the aid of someone. Boetheo is derived two words boe = a cry, exclamation + théo = to run. The idea conveyed is of one who upon hearing a cry for help, runs to give aid to assist.

Jehovah 'Ezer is not one of the classic Names of God, because Scripture never specifically declares His Name is Jehovah 'Ezer like it does when it says Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Shalom.

He is Jehovah Ezer – the Lord my Help the one that runs to my aid, rescues me, and saved me from all my trouble when I cry out unto him.

WHY – BECAUSE JEHOVAH EZER HEARS!

Psalm 22:24 says, “For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard”.

Psalms 34:6 says, “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles”.

One song writer said it like this “Now let us have a little talk with Jesus - Let us tell Him all about our troubles