The Lord Is Your Banner Today!

"And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:" (Exodus 17: 15)

"Jehovahnissi" means "The Lord our Banner".

What were the events which lead Moses to set up an altar with this name?

"12But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." (Exodus 17: 12-13)

The more that Moses rested, with the High Priest and his assistant holding his arms high, then Joshua had the victory.

Joshua, a picture of our Savior Jesus Christ, will grant us victory if we see Him as our banner.

What kind of banner is Jesus in our lives?

"He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love." (Song of Songs 2: 4)

This reference of a banqueting table reminds of this Psalm:

"5Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." (Psalm 25: 5)

This verse speaks of God's grace which we receive by the anointing of His Holy Spirit:

"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. . .But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." (1 John 2: 20, 27)

This Love is not just a warm feeling, but based on what He has done for us at the Cross:

"1Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not." (1 John 3: 1)

This love is bestowed, not forced nor earned.

This love includes the following:

"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." (1 John 4:9)

God's love did not stop at the Cross, but continues in that the Sons lives in and through us.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4: 10)

Then:

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

The Lord is your banner today, a banner of love which has taken you from sin to son, that you may reign in life through Him (Romans 5: 17)