Gen 16:13
Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, "Have I also here seen Him who sees me?"
While Hagar was fleeing the angel of the Lord (as Jesus is called in the OT) met her on the way and spoke to her and told her to humble herself and return.
Hagar responded by saying that she had seen the God that saw her. She met God in such a personal way that she called him "The God that sees me."
She thought that she was hiding - but God had seen her all along. She had been given to Abraham to wife by Sarah, who was barren. It was the practice in those days that if the wife was barren, the servant may be given to wife to bear a child for the real wife. When Hagar saw that she was with child, Satan influenced her and she despised her mistress. Satan influenced Sarah as well and she mistreated Hagar. Hagar then fled from her, but God met her and told her to return - then she realised that God had seen all. She called Him, 'The God who sees me'.
Do you have a name for God, because of your meeting with Him? Would you call him 'The God who sets free', or maybe 'The Holy God', because He has set you free from your sins and revealed His holiness to you.
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Erlo Stegen (1935 - Present)
Used of God in the Zulu revival in South Africa. He helped found the Kwasizabantu Mission where a few thousand live on the mission doing work for the Lord. He shares a powerful burden for the purity of the Church and revival in the Church.Many ministers have preached in their large conventions through the years namely David Wilkerson who enjoyed greatly the mission's work. They have established over 30 other missions around the work as a work of the Spirit of God.