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IIRC, the name Jesus is derived from the phrase "God saves," as is the name Joshua.

Well I'm sure Jesus knows His Name, and I have personally witnessed the Power of that Name for it is written "He who calleth upon the Name of the Lord (i.e. Jesus), shall be saved" and I should be dead today from a wreck in 2003 the police told me I had no business surviving, but the last thing I shouted out as I watched my vehicle collapsing around me was "Lord JESUS save us!" and I'm here as a living witness to His Word, to His Mercy, to His reaching down and snatching me out of the jaws of death when I called out to Him.

I freely confess that I am not a great example of a Christian, I will tell anyone and everyone NOT to look to me as any kind of role model for good Christian behavior, but to look to the Lord Jesus, Who provided the best Example possible for all of humanity to follow.

Every day, I try to do my best, and trust Jesus for the rest. And I will keep doing that as long as He lets me keep waking up in the mornings.

You wrote: “Well I’m sure Jesus knows His Name, and I have personally witnessed the Power of that Name for it is written “He who calleth upon the Name of the Lord (i.e. Jesus), shall be saved” and I should be dead today from a wreck in 2003 the police told me I had no business surviving, but the last thing I shouted out as I watched my vehicle collapsing around me was “Lord JESUS save us!” and I’m here as a living witness to His Word, to His Mercy, to His reaching down and snatching me out of the jaws of death when I called out to Him.”
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My response: Let me see if I have this right. You were about to be killed by a wreck, so you asked Jesus to not let you die. You did not die, SO you have concluded that Jesus intervened in the chain of causation of events, altering what would have otherwise been the flow of events. Basically, Jesus changed history just for you, and because you asked him to.
How do you account for the fact that, every day, a coal miner somewhere gets trapped in a mine, a plane plummets to earth, a soldier is attacked by an enemy, and a car spins out of control on a wet or icy road, and in each instance, the soon-to-be-deceased shouts out for Jesus to intervene in the flow of causation and spare him? And of course, Jesus fails to show up most of the time and the person involved dies.
Why would you think you escaped death in your accident as a result of divine intervention?