When He calls us, we change….. Mark my words however; whatever the Lord calls you will not go unchallenged. It may actually become one of the greatest 'thorns' in our flesh that will cause us to cry out to God continually, and depend on Him more than we would have……. but when we hold fast to what He has told us, it is certain that we WILL live out and live up to the name He has called us by…
Take my name Mettabel for instance - It is the only Hebrew female name that means - 'Favored of God'.... It was not a name I was christened by at the time of my birth, but now I consider it the name that embodies all that is my destiny, and encompasses all that I have been blessed with….. The Lord christened me with this name by speaking these words to my heart...."call yourself favored for 'I' have called you favored" and that's exactly what I did.... I called myself Mettabel.
Now one would think that with this name in my armamentarium it would be smooth sailing all around and favor everywhere I go….. Yes it has been that way sometimes in almost hair-raisingly phenomenal proportions.... BUT... I also have never been challenged as much in this area by life events as I have over to the past few months…. It has almost been enough to make me wonder if I had heard the ‘little people’ in my head rather than God speaking to me...but ALWAYS just before I go over the edge He speaks that name again to me and whispers it in my ear, speaks it to me through the many beautiful and gracious people around me, or roars it out by causing something absolutely gasp-worthy to happen to me….. or He quickens His Word in my heart so that I am the one slinging the pebbles… and down he goes…. How many of us are identifying here? ...... He IS good….
The first time God ever opened my eyes to this truth of Him calling us a name or names according our destiny and purpose by His Spirit waaayyyyy before it manifests, I just went into ‘paroxysms of elation’ or as they would have called it in Victorian times …. ‘The flutters’….. oooooohhhhh….
It was where Jesus asked his disciples who men thought He was …. They all had varied answers (If you want the details, you know where to go ☺)….. Then He asked them in particular…. This time only Peter answered and said, “ You are the Christ, Son of the living God”. Jesus then answered “ Simon Bar Jonah, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father which is in heaven”……
All my Christian life this is where I would stop, the train of speech and then I would jump to the carriage of “And upon this rock ….” etc….. BUT at this point, Jesus made a statement pivotal to his destiny, to Peter …. He said - “And I say ALSO unto you that you are PETER”….. Simon Bar Jonah’s REAL IDENTITY was PETER! …. Not the impulsive boaster, or whatever PEOPLE called him, but Peter - solid, dependable, unmovable….
We see that by the self-same Spirit of Revelation that Peter called Jesus by His ‘real’ name, Jesus too called Simon by his ‘real’ name….. Then He said upon this ROCK not the stone - Peter, but the on Rock solid platform of DIVINE REVELATION He the Lord would build His Church, and the gates of hell would not prevail against it ……
From then on I note that the Lord NEVER did call Simon Peter again……
We cannot receive from Him the revelation of who we are, until His spirit reveals Him, that is Jesus to us, THEN our eyes are opened to see ourselves as we really are…. But it is He who opens our eyes……
Ephesians 1:18… Note Paul’s prayer:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints….
Stay with me a bit there’s more…. Now Jesus knew who he was and knew His purpose and was so fully persuaded of it that when a little while later, when the devil attempted to use Peter to derail Jesus from His destiny by trying to inveigle the idea that someone else might die in his place….. He would have none of it, because the name he was attempting to call Jesus – ‘ Unsavior’ was diametrically opposed to who he really was !!! and what His destiny dictated that He must do…. Hence the almost violent “Get thee behind me Satan!!” Noting that He did not say get the behind me Peter… HHe was not calling Peter the devil, but he was dealing with the SOURCE…..
Much in the same way, when the devil starts using circumstances, people or just ‘stuff’ to ‘un-seat’ or ‘un-name’ us, (like I was alluding to earlier with regards to my name), we don’t attack the people or the circumstances, we attack the real enemy…. And when we tell him where to get off, WITH AUTHORITY, FULL KNOWLEDGE OF WHO WE ARE AND WHO IS BACKING US, he has no choice but to GO TO HELL (pardon the pun)…..
So let’s begin to see some name-calling – good, bad and ugly.... the latter two, for the ones who deserve it...... Let us pray that the eyes of our understanding be enlightened….. That we may see Him and in Him see who we really are
…… And JUST WHO IS HE???
WHY HE IS THE LIVING WORD OF GOD!!!……. In HIM we have life….. Let there be light…. And there was ……AND THAT'S THE DIVINE NAME REGISTRY..... that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints….
What is your real name? ……
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