Seize the Moment – Day 400
The Power of a New Name!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, April 21.
Have you ever noticed how often people’s names are changed in the Bible?
In the New Testament, we see Jesus changing the fisherman Simon’s name to Peter when Jesus invited him to become His follower (John 1:42). When God gives someone a special task to do, He doesn’t want anything to stand in their way, even a name.
There is power in a name. Sometimes keeping an old name can keep a person caught up in the old life and sometimes receiving a new name can free a person to fulfill God’s purposes for his or her life. This is what was happening in Genesis 17.
First, God changes Abram’s name in Genesis 17:3-5,
Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying, “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Second, God changes Sarai’s name in Genesis 17:15-16, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
Is there anything standing in the way of you fulfilling God’s purposes for your life?
Seize the moment and walk in the new name of Christian. Jesus has placed His name on your life. May your life and legacy lift up the name of Jesus, the name above all names and the only name by which anyone can be saved.