When God changes your name its for purpose.
He called Abram Abraham because it was attached to his purpose to be the father of many nations. He called Jacob Israel because it proclaimed who he had become in God and the future of the children of Israel. He called Cephas Peter when He got ready to build His church. He called Saul Paul when He sent him to the Gentiles.
What has called you?
He called me to be an evangelist but because I wasn’t sure how to be an evangelist and I wanted the approval of people I settled for what I felt comfortable with, what I felt people would accept, and what I could do by my own works. The result has been no peace and missed blessings because I have not been true to the call.
Paul being wiser than most said:But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood. Galatians 1:15-16
God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called.
Before they could step into their new identities and live the reality of their purposes they had to stop caring what people might say about them and confess their new names. The truth is that some people will never affirm the call in you. God meant it that way so that you walk it out by faith in Him alone. When you step out on faith and just believe God, He will open up doors and show you how to walk out your purpose. Then others will follow, and not until then.
Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! Corinthians 9:16 Selah
I struggled with what God called me to be even though I knew I had heard him clearly as clearly as you hear yourself while ready this post, but because I could not get past my fears I settled. I found out that I will never have peace as long as I try to be anything other than who God created me to be. So, I choose not to do so anymore. I am an evangelist and it is a great honor and a privilege for God to call me to the ministry of preaching the gospel. I say yes, Lord. I openly confess who I am.
Being yourself?
Have you answered the call? Have you accepted your new name? Are you ready to be yourself?
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