✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 24✨ The New Name

✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 24 ✨
The New Name

📝 Their Message (Summary)
Throughout scripture, when men and women encountered God, they received new names—new identities. Saul became Paul, Jacob became Israel, Abram became Abraham, Simon became Peter. Each name was not just a label, but a revelation: God declaring who they truly were in Him.

The book of Revelation promises the same to all who overcome: “a white stone, and a new name written… which no one knows except the one who receives it” (Rev. 2:17). This is deeply personal—it is God Himself telling you who you really are, beyond the false self and fig leaves you’ve hidden behind.

George MacDonald taught that this new name expresses the very nature and purpose of the soul. It is the Father’s intimate word about you, to you. Scripture says every family in heaven and earth derives its name from Him (Eph. 3:14–15). This is not a distant future promise—it is the restoration of identity God is working in us now.

🔥 My Reflection
This post stops me in my tracks. I realize how often I live out of false names—labels given by others, or by my own failures: unworthy, inadequate, broken. Yet God has a different name for me, one that no one else can give, one that speaks of who I really am in Him.

I think of Jacob wrestling with God: wounded, stripped of self-sufficiency, and yet finally blessed with a new name. That feels like my journey too—battles, brokenness, surrender—yet all leading to identity.

It’s humbling to think: one day, God will whisper to me who I truly am, and it will be nothing like the voices of shame or fear. The truest thing about me is not my sin or my failure—it is the name He calls me.

🕊️ The Invitation
Ask the Father to begin revealing to you your true name. Pray:
“Lord, I lay down every false name—failure, shame, fear. Show me who I am to You. Call me by my true name, the one You wrote before the foundation of the world.”

Then sit in silence. Pay attention to the whispers, the scriptures, the words that stir your heart. You may not hear it all at once, but the Spirit will begin pointing you toward the identity only He can give.

Because at the center of His saving work is not just forgiveness—it is restoration.
It is God calling you by your true name.

🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.
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