I need to worship God more. Every day.
But sometimes I have trouble focusing on God like I should.
Sometimes it helps me to have a tool to pull out of my mental tool belt to help me focus better.
I don’t remember where I first learned this, but a fellow blogger caused this to resurface in my mind a few weeks ago, and I started going through as many ABC’s of God’s names and characteristics as I could think of. As they came to mind, I talked to Him about each one, worshipping and thanking Him for who He is.
A – Alpha, Almighty, Able, Advocate, Awesome
B – Beginning, Beautiful, Bread of Life
C – Christ, Compassionate, Caring, Comforter, Creator
D – Deliverer, Disciplines those He loves
E – Everlasting Father, Eternal God
F – Father in Heaven, Forgiving, Friend, Fortress
G – God, and there is no other, Gracious, Good, Glorious, Guide, Great, Generous, Giver of life
H – Heavenly Father, Help in time of need, Helper, Healer, Hope, Holy
I – Immanuel (God with us), Indescribable, Interceding for me (Romans 8:27), Incomparable, I AM
J – Jesus, Jehovah, Judge, Joyful (Psalm 16:11)
K – King of kings, King of the Universe, Kind, Kinsman Redeemer
L – Lord of lords, Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, Lion of the tribe of Judah, Love, Light of the world, Life
M – Master, Messiah, Merciful, Majestic, Most High God
N – Name above all names, Never leaves me nor forsakes me
O – Omega (Rev. 21:6), Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Orderly, Overcomer, Owner of all
P – Prince of Peace, our Peace (Eph. 2:14), Patient, Perfect, my Portion, Powerful, Persevering in love (1 Cor. 13:7)
Q – Quiet Rest (Zephaniah 3:17)
R – Refuge, Redeemer, Resurrection, Righteous Ruler, Reward (Gen. 15:1)
S – Savior, Sacrifice for my sin, Shepherd, Spirit, Shelter in a time of storm, Strong Tower
T – Teacher, Treasure, Triumphant, Truth
U – Unchanging, Understanding, Unfailing, Upright & Just
V – Vast, Victorious
W – Wonderful, Wise, Worthy, the Word
X – eXists, eXample (1 Peter 2:21), eXultant (Zephaniah 3:17), eXtolled, eXalted
Y – Yahweh, Yeshua
Z – Zealous (John 2:16, 17)
Some of these names and characteristics of God trigger melodies of songs as I talk to God about them, so I mentally “sing” the worship of those songs to Him as I pray.
Others are so easily paired with another word or words, that I find I must break from the alphabet for a moment and praise Him for them all! (example: Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End) The point is not to stick religiously to the alphabet, but to get jump-started into worshiping God.
What a joy it is to worship God, in this way, or whatever way He leads us to worship Him!
If you have thought of other ABC’s of worship, I invite you to share them in the comment section below. I’d love to hear from you! 🙂
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What a wonderful list to remind you of all the goodness of God! How can we not worship Him when we think of who He is! Pinning this to remind myself as well.
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Super! I hope it will continue to be an encouragement for you, Kym! Feel free to share with others as well.
Thanks for your encouragement!
May God’s Presence fill you with peace and grace as you worship Him!
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This is a meaningful, extensive list, Ruth. Thank you. God’s greatness is so boundless, isn’t it? I once made a list of the ABCs of Jesus’ love. It has its own page at my website, and each month I add another way Jesus loves us. https://freedtofly.me/abcs-of-jesus-love/ Love and hugs to you!
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Thanks for sharing your list with me, Trudy! I’ve been over to visit it and enjoyed it very much! God’s love is so wonderful, and I love all the verses you listed with each way that He loves us! 🙂
Praise God for His beautiful word that tells us how amazing He is and how wonderful His love is for us!
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Ruth, I love this so much. Thank you for taking the time to think through all of those and share them. I will have to print it out when I come back tomorrow. — I bet you could put a pretty little design around this and use it as a lead-magnet printable for your site! — Beautiful, Ruth, thank you! ((hug))
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Thanks, Brenda! I’m happy that this touched your heart, and I pray that God will use it to help you and others to draw nearer to Him for His glory.
I’m not sure how to do the design thing, but I think it is a good idea, and I will look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!
((hug))
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I love your list! I’ve used the alphabet and added the names and attributes of God when I couldn’t sleep during a very difficult time in my life. The peace He gave me through that practice continues to bless me today. Beautiful post!
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Yes, Deb, it’s a good way to get our thoughts to line up with God’s truth, and surrender to Him brings us peace that passes understanding. He is wonderful and all the above descriptions no matter what trials are going on in our lives.
Thanks for your sweet comment!
May God continue to bless you richly. 🙂
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Worshiping God is such a beautiful way for us to show our love for Him. I have the first page in my prayer guide & journal full of such wonderful characteristics of God to help believers worship the Father. Thanks for sharing on Grace and Truth.
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I’d love to see that first page, Aimee!
Some of my most amazing experiences with God have been during a worship prayer by someone else as I prayed along in agreement.
Blessings.
🙂
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What a wonderful compilation! Thank you for sharing. God bless.
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Thanks, Diana! And, you’re welcome!
God bless you, as well! He is good! 🙂
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You’re welcome and yes, He surely is!
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Boy, can I ever identify with you on focusing on the Lord during our quiet time. I will try this. Thanks for sharing
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Hope this helps you!
Thanks for your visit and follow!
Blessings, sister!
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Happy we ‘met’ 😂
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Yes, me too!
Here’s to many more “meetings”! 😊
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😂 😂
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I love these ABC’s of worshiping God. We all need triggers of some sort to remind us to focus on God, and this is a great method. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, Lisa! I hope this will help you or someone you know. 😊
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Love your list. I started a similar post back in December and well haven’t gotten it there yet. It’s in a draft with several hundred others.
Thanks for sharing your ABCs.
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That’s amazing that you have so much already written in draft form! I’m guessing that life got really busy, and that the drafts got put on the back burner; that happens sometimes.
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment! Blessings to you and yours. 😊
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I adore this post. I am always enthralled by God’s names and I love being inspired by what others call him.
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Hi, Chizoba! Yes, God’s names are amazing, and often the names we call Him reflect our personal discoveries of who He is.
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What a beautiful list. I read through it while listening to worship music. So inspiring. I’ve been thinking lots about worship and praise lately. How I need it.
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Amen, Betsy! Don’t we all! I’d like to invite you to join me on Tuesdays for my “Worship with me” series. You can check out the first one here: https://plantedbylivingwater.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/worship-with-me-1/
Hope to see you tomorrow for #3!
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Wow! I love this. Great post!
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Thank you, brother! To God be the glory!
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Love this. What a perfect list to add to a prayer journal
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Thank you, Kara! I’m glad you like it!
I visited your about page, and what a lovely spot it is!
Thanks for visiting me here. 🙂 ❤
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Wow! This is such a great list and a wonderful way to jump start worship. Thanks for the inspiration. Love it!
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Thanks, Connie! I’m glad you like it! 😊
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This would be great to print and hang by my desk! Thanks!
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Feel free, Amy! I hope it will be an Ebenezer and help you in your daily walk with God. 😊
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I love the alphabet! I often mentally sing worship songs too; I find that a wonderful way to praise especially when I don’t know what to pray.
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Yes, the music helps us to remember the words and keep them in order!
Welcome to plantedbylivingwater! As you look around, you’ll find that I also have been doing a series called “Worship with me”. There’s no music to it, but the prayers are written, so you can go back to them and pray them as many times as you like! Enjoy!
Have a blessed week! 😊
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This is beautiful.
I’ve never thought of it actually.
Recently, I started focusing on God’s New Testament names in worship and prayer (I was so used to the Old Testament names like Jehovah shammah, Jireh, and the rest, I hardly ever called him by His New Testament names) and you’ve just given me another idea.
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Thank you!
Once when I was a child, my Sunday School teacher challenged us to find as many names of Jesus as we could in the Bible. I don’t remember how many I found, but she told us that there were over 200 different names of Jesus in the Bible, the Old and New Testaments together. May your search for His names be a fruitful and joyful one! 🙂
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What a beautiful list! Love this so much =)
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Thank you, Lea (Faith)! I’m glad you like it! Have a great week!
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This alphabet is all encompassing.
Thank you. I shall be sure to share it with the family.
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Thank you, Kavita! Much appreciated! I’m glad you liked it!
Have a great day! 🙂
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I love hearing or reading all of your positive names you’ve given God. I, too, will print them out and meditate on them as often as I can.
Thank you very much.
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Thank you, Debby! That’s a good idea! God blesses us when we worship Him!
I hopped on over to your blog and followed it. I’d love to have you follow mine, as well, if you’d like!
The Lord bless you and keep you and give you grace and peace.
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Thanks for sharing Ruth. The more we know God, the easier it is to worship Him. Blessings to you.
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Yes, amen!
Thank you! Blessings to you, as well!
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I just saw this at the top of your blog! What a great idea!
I love this and read it out loud to my girls (ages 10 and 12) and they both said “mom I want to copy that down!” I told them they could use this idea but could always come up with their own names, words, characteristics of God. Thanks for sharing this!
Alicia
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I’m glad you and the girls like it, Alicia! It won’t bother me if the girls want to copy any of the names from this list that are meaningful to them. The reason I blog is to help others in their faith walk, so if this will help your girls jumpstart a deeper relationship with God, that would be a joy for me to know that this has helped them! Of course they can still add others to their lists as the Lord teaches them about Himself along the way!
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Thank you so much for your ‘always kind words!’ Soooo very appreciated!
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😊 ❤
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WHAT A SIMPLE and profound way to love and worship GOD! May we all sit down and list the alphabet and write the names down that honor our LORD. Thank you for this insightful post. Blessings!
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You’re welcome, heavensreef, and blessings to you, as well! 🙂
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Amen-Amein!!
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I find remembering God’s names and traits to be calming and empowering. Love your list!
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Yes, it is, Deb! I agree! 🙂
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Yes! I do this at certain times when my mind is easily drifted away by worries. 😂 Thanks for sharing this.
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I mentally sing to Him as well sometimes before I pray and during the day as well! Never thought of a worship ABC before! That’s so creative! I love that idea!!!
Blessings and peace!
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Thank you, Tammy! Blessings and peace to you, as well! 🙂 ❤
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So much welcomed! Thanks so much, do keep me in your prayers please, the enemy is wrestling against my mind a lot these days!
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Yes, ma’am, I will! In Christ you will win, for He has triumphed over the enemy! I come with you against the enemy in the name of Jesus. We are weak, but God is strong, and He has given us the authority of the Name of Jesus and the authority of wielding His Word as a sword. Do you have your “dagger list” (as Priscilla Shirer calls it) written out for the mental struggles that you are facing?
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Amen and Amen!!!! Yes my sister! Thank you so much for that powerful prayer!!! A dagger list? No I don’t have one!
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So, you know how Ephesians 6 talks about using the Sword of the Spirit? The idea of a dagger is having short verses instead of long ones so you can remember them and use them in spiritual battle. (Jesus used some like these in His temptation in the wilderness). So, you know what your personal attacks have been about. Find the short verses where God speaks to that struggle, and make your list. Like if you struggle with fear, you could say, “It is written, Fear not for I am with you!” For discouragement, you could say, “It is written, Be not dismayed for I am thy God.” (Isaiah 41:10) For self-pity, you could say, “It is written, the disciple is not above his master,” (Matthew 10:24) and so on. You stand on the word of God like Jesus did!
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Yes, I know the scripture well. Yes, I do have a dagger list, but in my mind I sort of have it there, but you see the thing is I don’t use it the way I’m supposed to. Well I think I’m not fighting back enough if you comprehend what I mean! But I’m gonna take what you told me into consideration, I’m gonna write it down and find those scriptures. I’m still pretty young in reading and understanding the Bible so I believe my sword is still being sharpen.
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May the Lord help you become more skilled in the handling of your Sword. May He help us to be more faithful in using it. May He help us be more aware when the enemy is fighting against us. His word rightly spoken in faith will send the enemy packing. When you find new verses to use in this battle, you could write them on note cards and put them on your mirror or fridge, or make it your phone wallpaper, whatever will help you see it often until you have learned it thoroughly.
Another thing I often do is name the enemy, like, I might say in faith, “I bind the spirit of discouragement in the name of Jesus. Lord please bind that spirit in the heavenlies and send it away, in Jesus’ name.” I very rarely have to say it more than once. Sometimes I might name more than one spirit and do the same thing for each one when the battle is intense. Every single one has to flee at the name of Jesus!
I’ll be praying for you, sister. ❤
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Amen and Amen in Jesus Mighty Name! Thank my sister! I really appreciate it! I’m still a baby in this race, I’ve only been born again two years now and believe me I do the same as well when I binding those dirty spirits. I name as well! I believe I’m going through spiritual training too as well! I’ve already won in Jesus Name! I need to be still and allow God to fight for me! Thank you so much again! Blessings! ❤
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No problem!
Praise the Lord for bringing you into His family and for all the progress He has helped you make thus far!
Yes! Be still and let the LORD fight for you! The sword He has given you will find its mark! He will make sure of that for you! Stand in faith on the word of God and abide close to Him! Keep on learning His word. And, may you be still and see the salvation of the LORD! In Jesus’ name!
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Letters C, U, and W really got me this morning. This is such a creative way to praise the ultimate Creator!
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Praise the Lord for how He reaches down to us and speaks to our hearts!
Thank you for stopping in for a visit! The Lord bless you with grace and peace in His Presence now and always!
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Thank you- and you as well!
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So cool. It’s so encouraging and helpful. Keep going. You will never know how this will bless others.
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Thank you, Keith, for your words of encouragement! The Lord bless you! Keep up the good work in His service and in your walk with Him!
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Great way to praise and worship God. He is the Almighty, my Benefactor, Creator, Desire …. You are blessed! ❤
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Yes, He is!
Grace and Peace to you, sister! 😊
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