God
The One and Only
God the Father holds the position at the top, the supreme commander of all. He is the mighty, the holy, the Old Testament LORD God. He is responsible for maintaining the integrity of God Himself. He has laid out the requirement of perfection to gain the honor of coming into His presence.He also knows mankind inside and out. He knows that perfection is impossible for any person to attain, so embarked on a wonderful plan. The entire Bible is the record of the plan's implementation: a Saviour would come to redeem the human race from the sin it had chosen to serve.
The Father had quite a bit of work to do with His children the people of Israel. Leading, providing, disciplining, teaching. He still has to do the same with His children today.
Look through what the Psalms call Him (size indicates frequency of occurrence):
- My God
44 times: Ps 18:2, 30:12, 31:14, 38:21, 40:17, 42:11, 43:5, 50:7, 59:1, 63:1, 69:3, 71:3,22, 81:10, 84:3,10, 86:2, 89:26, 90:17, 91:2, 92:13, 95:7, 98:3, 99:5,8,9, 102:24, 104:1, 105:7, 106:47, 113:5, 115:2,3, 116:5, 118:28, 122:9, 123:2, 140:6, 143:10, 145:1, 146:2,5, 147:1 - Righteous
27 times: Ps 5:8, 7:9,17, 11:7, 35:24,28, 36:6, 40:10, 45:4, 50:6, 51:14, 69:27, 71:2,15,16,19,24, 72:1, 88:12, 89:16, 97:6, 98:2, 111:3, 116:5, 119:137, 129:4, 145:17 - Merciful
24 times: Ps 21:7, 31:7, 33:18,22, 36:5, 44:26, 59:16, 62:12, 85:7, 89:1,14,24,28, 90:14, 94:18, 98:3, 101:1, 102:13, 103:8,11, 109:26, 115:1, 116:5, 130:7 - Good
17 times: Ps 4:6, 25:8, 33:5, 34:8, 86:5, 100:5, 106:1, 107:1,8,15,21,31, 118:1,29, 135:3, 136:1, 143:10 - My Strength
15 times: Ps 18:1,2, 19:14, 27:1, 28:7, 28:8, 31:4, 37:39, 46:1, 59:17, 71:16, 81:1, 89:17, 118:14, 144:1 - Salvation
13 times: Ps 9:14, 13:5, 20:5, 21:1,5, 40:10,16, 51:12, 69:29, 71:15, 85:7, 96:2, 98:2 - My Salvation
12 times: Ps 24:5, 25:5, 27:1,9, 35:3,9, 38:22, 62:7, 70:4, 98:3, 118:14,21 - Glorious
- Faithful
- The Most High
- Holy
- Lovingkind
- My Help
- My Shield
- Strong
- My Refuge
- My Defense
- The God of my salvation
- My King
- My Rock
- Truth
- God
- Great
- My Fortress
- Mighty
- Majestic
- My Deliverer
- Terrible
- Powerful
- Truthful
- The LORD
- My Glory
- The God of Israel
- My LORD
- The LORD God of hosts
- Worthy to be praised
- Slow to anger
- On my Side
- A Refuge
- Greatly to be praised
- A Spirit
- Great in mercy
- My Helper
- My Shepherd
- My only Rock
- The Almighty
- My Buckler
- Light
- Full of compassion
- Strength
- With me
- The LORD of hosts
- My Light
- My only Salvation
- Exalted
- My high Tower
- My hiding Place
- Judge
- King forever
- Beautiful in holiness
- Clothed with honor
- A Refuge for those that fear Him
- Very great
- The God of my mercy
- Creator
- Plenteous in mercy
- Pleased with fruitful servants
- Marvelously kind
- Wrathful
- The Source of life
- Clothed with strength
- Impervious to time
- Living
- My Health
- The God of my strength
- My exceeding joy
- The Same
- King
- Fair
- Graceful in speech
- Most mighty
- High above all people
- Meek
- The King
- Help in times of trouble
- Great in Power
- Victorious
- A great King over all the earth
- King of all the earth
- Greatly exalted
- LORD of the earth
- Clothed with majesty
- Beautiful
- Full of righteousness
- My God forever and ever
- Fearful
- My Power
- My Hope
- My Trust
- Faithful to His people
- Great in truth
- My strong Refuge
- Honourable
- Wonderful
- My Mercy
- Blessed
- My Shelter
- My strong Tower
- The Strength of my heart
- My dwelling place
- The Rock of my strength
- My Portion forever
- Greatly lovingkind
- The Confidence of the earth
- Awesome
- Fearsome
- Father
- Leader
- My great God
- Indignant toward sinners
- Stedfast
- The Rock of my salvation
- My Father
- The Holy One of Israel
- Just
- Good to Israel
- Great in power
- High
- Excellent
- A Sun
- Greatly to be feared
- Longsuffering
- Gracious
- A Shield
- Upright
- Glorious above all the earth
- Mighty in battle
- Covered with light
- Wise
- The Beginning of wisdom
- High above all nations
- From everlasting
- On High
- King of all
- Glorious above all
- The God of Jacob
- My Rock of refuge
- My Redeemer
- My Song
- A Rock
- My Portion
- Froward with the froward
- Pure with the pure
- Upright with the upright
- Merciful to the upright
- My Stay
- Near
- A Great King
- The Horn of my salvation
- A Great God
- My Keeper
- My Shade
- Round about me
- Above all gods
- God of gods
- The Source of plenty for the ungodly
- At my right hand
- My Reward
- Satisfying
- The Refuge of the poor
- With the righteous
- Indignant
- Lord of lords
- The trust of those who know Him
- A Refuge for the oppressed
- The just Judge
- God of heaven
- Mindful of man
- Great in glory
- Ready to punish the unrepentant
- Angry with the wicked
- The Strength of my salvation
- My life's Portion
- My Goodness
- Of great mercy
- Merciful to me
- My Righteousness
- My Saviour
- My Pride
- Good to all
- Nigh unto all them that call upon Him
- Mighty God
- Righteous in judgment