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In Jesus God, bless you. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.160 I want to talk to you today about change your name. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.400 It's easy to go through life letting people put names 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:17.359 on us, things like average, unqualified, poor, addicted. Sometimes our 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:23.680 own thoughts have named us not talented, not good enough, unattractive. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.840 As long as we're wearing these names, believe in the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.639 lives that people and circumstances have told us it's going 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.160 to keep us from our potential. You have to change 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.600 your name. I'm not talking about on your birth certificate. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.400 I'm talking about in your mind. Who do you believe 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.520 you are? How do you see yourself? When God breathed 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:52.320 life into you. He names you blessed, prosperous, talented, one 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.680 of a kind. He calls you a masterpiece. People will 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:02.400 call you average, ordinary, nothing special. If you accept those names, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.360 you'll be average, ordinary, nothing special. And what's holding many 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.960 people back is they have the wrong name. A man 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.800 was walking down a busy street in Thailand and he 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.120 came upon this tattoo shop. In the window, there were 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.360 many of the tattoos they offered. One said born to Lose. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.080 He couldn't believe anyone would have that tattooed on them. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.960 The owner came up. They struck up a conversation. He 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.200 asked the owner if anyone ever got the born to 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.480 lose tattoos. The owner nodded his head yes and said, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:41.160 in broken English, before tattooed on body, tattooed on mind, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.120 He's exactly right. If you accept the name in your mind. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.080 If you believe negative things people have spoken over you. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.000 If you let life name you, you're giving it the right 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.520 to come to pass in your mind? Is your name 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:03.320 born to lose or born to win? Is your name poor, broke, defeated? 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.359 Or is your name blessed, prosperous, more than enough? Have 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:13.839 you let life name you addicted, struggling? Limited? Or do 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:19.280 you go by what God names you? Free hold, victorious, overcomer, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.200 anything that's telling you otherwise you need to change those names. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:29.320 In the scripture, Jacob's wife, Rachel, died while giving birth 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.320 to their second son. The baby was born fine, but 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.839 she was in so much pain. Just before she died, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:42.080 she named the baby Benoni, which means son of my sorrow. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.800 Here the little baby had done nothing wrong, but he 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.440 was going to have to go through life being called 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.839 son of sorrow. Back in those days, the names they 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:57.560 gave people were much more significant than today. Those names 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.800 could literally determine the person's death destiny. It seemed like 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.320 for little Benoni, it's just bad luck. His mother was 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.880 in pain. She took out her misery on him. She 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.479 pronounced that he would live a painful, sorrowful, depressing life, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.800 and sometimes The people that should have been speaking faith 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.919 into you, naming you talented, valuable, masterpiece, have done just 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.360 the opposite. Because they were hurting, because they were in pain. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.480 They named you less than, not good enough. They may 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.880 not have said it, but how they made you feel, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:37.000 putting you down, not showing your love and affection. The 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.440 good news is what God names you overrides what people 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.880 name you. They may name you son of sorrow, son 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.640 of pain, son of defeat. God names you son of victory, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.440 son of favor, son of blessing. Don't let the negative 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.960 things people have spoken over you, how you were raised, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.080 what you didn't get, determine your destiny change your name. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.680 A few minutes after Rachel died, Jacob came running in. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.320 The nurses handed him the baby and said, here's your son. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:14.840 His name is Benone. When Jacob heard that, something rose 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.160 up on the inside. He said, no, that is not 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.600 his name. No matter what's happened in the past, no 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.720 matter what someone else said, he will not be called 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.680 son of sorrow. His name is Benjamin. Benjamin means son 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.040 of strength, son of power. In that one moment, with 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.760 that one name change, he went from son of sorrow 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.880 to son of strength. Benjamin went on to become a 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.040 great leader. Out of his genes, his family line came 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.680 the kings of Israel, one king after another. God had 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.480 a great assignment for Benjamin, but he knew if he 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.200 had gone through life being called son of sorrow, that 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.160 would have gotten on the inside. He would have seen 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:06.360 himself as limited and defeated. So God stepped up and said, no, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.160 he will not be the son of sorrow. He is 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.360 not the son of defeat. This child is a son 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:17.240 of destiny. This child has greatness in him. Now, maybe 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:23.120 someone has tried to name you average, unqualified, unattractive, too 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.920 many mistakes. God is saying to you what he said 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.880 to Benjamin. I'm changing your name. No more son of sorrow, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.440 no more son of not good enough. I'm renaming you 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.439 son of strength, daughter of destiny, child of greatness. Now 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.280 you have to do your part and get rid of 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.120 the old names. The enemy would love for you to 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.720 live as the son of sorrow. When God has called 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.040 you the son of strength, he knows what's in you. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.480 That's why he's been fighting you since you were a 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:04.000 little child, trying to change your name through people, through disappointments, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.839 through your own mistakes and failures. But when you learn 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.160 to change your name back to who you were created 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.640 to be, all the forces of darkness cannot stop you. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.960 When you know you're a son of strength, equipped and empowered, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:25.760 talented and creative, surrounded by God's favor, with royal blood 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.400 flowing through your veins, then doors will open that no 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.040 man can shut. The right people will suddenly show up. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.080 You'll overcome obstacles that look too big. When you have 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.720 the right name, you'll go further than you ever imagined. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.839 I know a man that was told by his high 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.480 school counselor you wasn't very smart, and that he should 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.480 pursue the lowest skilled job that he could find. The 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.760 counselor may have meant well, but people don't know what's 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.800 in you. They can't see your seeds of greatness. That's 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.680 why David's father left David out in the shepherd's fields. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.680 When the prophet came to anoint one of the sons 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.960 as the next king, David seemed ordinary. He wasn't like 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.000 his older brother eli Ab. He was tall, handsome, he 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.719 looked like a king. David's father thought, David will never 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:23.119 amount too much. Nothing special about him. He named David Abridge, 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.200 but God named him giant killer. He named him a 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.240 shepherd boy. God named him a history maker. His father 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.920 named David not going to amount too much, God named 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.000 him King of Israel. Don't let what people can't see 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.800 in you talk you out of who you know you are. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.120 This counselor didn't see anything special in this young man. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:52.160 He named him below average, not talented, barely get by 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.440 for thirty years, this man believed those lies. He went 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.440 around thinking, I'm not smart enough, I'm not up to 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.800 par I don't have what others have. He worked at 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.880 the local factory and stayed at the lowest level position 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.000 year after year. One day that factory closed, he went 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.120 across town to another factory and applied for a job. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.440 They had a policy that every applicant had to take 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.400 an IQ test. He took the test. His score came 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.160 back at a genius level. The owner called him in said, 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.960 what are you doing applying for this low level position. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:33.080 You've scored higher than anyone in our company's sixty year history. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.559 That day, a stronghold was broken in his mind. He 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.280 realized what that counselor couldn't see in him did not 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.840 define who he was. What people have spoken over you, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.720 or what they haven't spoken over you, hasn't changed what's 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.080 in you. It didn't lessen your potential. The greatness is 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.680 still in there. He did what I'm asking us to do. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.280 He changed his name. No more not good enough, no 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:06.720 more not talented. He started seeing himself as bright, as valuable, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.800 as one with seeds of greatness, and eventually he started 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.000 his own company. He went on to invent several products 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.920 that are now patented and very successful. You can't stop 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.760 people from saying negative things, But I've learned you are 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.280 not what people call you. You are what you answer to. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.120 They may call you unattractive, unqualified, not up to part. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:39.319 That's fine, just don't answer to it. When thoughts say hello, fearful, Hello, depressed, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.040 Hello insecure, you must not be talking to me. That's 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.920 not who I am. I am confident, I am secure, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:54.360 I am victorious, well Hello sick, Hello limited, Hello chronic pain. Sorry, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.440 there's no one here by that name. You must have 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.240 the wrong address. I am healthy, whole, energetic, that's who 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:06.000 lives here. Are you answering to something that you're not? 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.840 Quit giving your time and energy, letting those negative thoughts play. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.000 That is not who you are. When thoughts whisper you 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.400 don't deserve to be blessed, you made too many mistakes. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:23.600 You're unworthy. Recognize what's happening. They're trying to rename you. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.199 When you here forgiven, redeemed, restored, that's when you need 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:34.360 to listen. Well, Hello, unqualified, inexperienced, less than Excuse me, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.400 do you mean anointed, highly favored, well abled? That's who 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:43.960 I am. When thoughts tell you you're not attractive, nobody wants 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.720 to be around you. You don't have a good personality. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.760 You're too tall, too short. Don't give that the time 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:55.600 of day. When you hear hello, masterpiece, Hello, good looking, Hello, tall, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.200 dark and handsome. Yes, how can I help you? 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:58.439 Now? 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:03.680 You're calling my name? Answer to victorious, answer to fearfully 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:09.240 and wonderfully made, answer to overcomer. Growing up, my friends 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.320 at school used to call me peanut because I was 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.640 very small. Nobody said it in a derogatory sense, but 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.239 I can tell you it didn't help my self esteem 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:24.320 all through the day. Hey, Peanut, how's it going playing basketball? Peanut? 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.920 Pass me the ball. I couldn't stop them from calling 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.200 me peanut, but I never let peanut get on the inside. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.360 I didn't let them change who I knew I was. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.640 And yes I was small, but deep down I knew 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.840 there was a history maker in me. I wasn't as 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.400 strong as some of my friends, but I knew there 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.320 was a giant killer on the inside. They couldn't see it. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.400 All they could see was peanut. But I never let 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.200 peanut take root in me. Even going into high school. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.680 My freshman year, I was four feet eleven inches tall. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.840 I grew a lot after high school, but you can 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.640 imagine at my basketball games, people say, look at that 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.040 little kid, Look how small he is. I never saw 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.080 myself that way. I may have been four feet eleven 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.400 on the outside, but on the inside I stood seven 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:21.040 feet tall. But people can call you a lot of things, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.320 but you don't have to let it get in. You 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.400 go back to what God says about you. Let your 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.920 heavenly Father name you, not people, not your mistakes, not 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.920 your past. God calls you exceptional, He calls you redeemed 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.240 and forgiven. He calls you healthy and whole. He calls 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.680 you a masterpiece, a giant killer, a history maker. Now 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.440 do your part and let what he names you override 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:54.280 all the other names. Your assignment is too important to 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:59.280 go through life. We're in names like inferior, unqualified, average, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.480 asking you to change those names and get in agreement 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.080 with God. A friend of mine grew up in El Salvador. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.880 His father was an alcoholic and would become very violent 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.000 when he was drinking. His mother moved to the United 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.760 States when he was a small child, and he was 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.640 raised by his grandparents. As a young boy, he felt 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.920 lost and confused. He did very poorly in school. He 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:29.560 didn't interact socially with people. One day, he overheard his 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.720 grandparents talking about how he was mentally impaired, how he 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.000 was a slow learner, how he needed help. They sent 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.320 him to a psychiatrist and he confirmed that the little 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.120 boy had all these learning disabilities. He was told again 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.200 and again he would never amount to much. He wasn't talented, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.200 he wasn't smart enough. At ten years old, he was 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.840 about to move back to the state with his mother. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.320 He told his grandfather that he needed an American name. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.200 He had never heard his grandfather say one good thing 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.520 about him, but his grandfather looked up in the air 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:11.040 and started thinking. He said, Okay, son, this name needs 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:15.720 to be something very strong, something that says honor, something 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.679 that says valor. It needs to be the name of 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.240 a great leader, of a genius, of someone that will 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.320 impact the world. He said, I've got it. Your new 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.440 name will be Erwin. Well, the little boy had never 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.720 heard the name Erwin. He didn't like that name. He 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:37.840 wanted a normal American name, like John or Bill. Over 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.320 the years he moved from state to state with his mother, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.800 he could have changed his name at any time, but 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.159 he wouldn't do it. As much as he didn't like 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.760 his new name. What made him keep it is that 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.200 was the only time he'd ever heard anyone say he 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.719 was going to do something great. His grandparents, teachers, counselors 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.800 never encouraged him. But that day he heard that he 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.480 was going to impact the world, that he would be 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.439 a person of honor and valor, that that was the 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.600 name of a genius. He knew all the negative things 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.240 said about him, but this day someone was saying he 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.880 was exceptional, that he had seeds of greatness. And every 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.600 time he was tempted to shrink back, settle for mediocrity, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.119 he would remember what his grandfather said. The name Erwin 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:38.560 represented today, our friend Erwin McManus is an amazing pastor, author, filmmaker, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.720 one of the brightest minds around. But I wonder if 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.840 we would have ever heard of Irwin. I wonder if 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.520 his gifts would have ever come out if he had 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:54.280 not changed his name, if his grandfather had not reminded 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.960 him who he really was, not who people said he was, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.080 not who the expert said he was, not who the 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.480 environment said he was, but who God said he was, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.960 a masterpiece, valuable, talented, with seeds of greatness. Maybe, like 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.760 with Irwin, no one has ever told you who you 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.800 really are. Life has put some names on you, told 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.840 you what you can't do, what you're not, how you've 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.560 made too many mistakes. God has you hearing this because 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.560 he wants you to change your name. No more mediocre, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.680 no more born to lose. There is greatness in you. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.080 When God created you, he put a part of himself 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.560 in you. He's equipped you, empowered you, and anointed you. 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:50.359 He crowned you with his favor. Your new names are blessed, prosperous, 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:55.439 well able, forgiven, talented, one of a kind, a masterpiece. 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.800 When God gave Abraham and Sarah the promise that they 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.480 will going to have a baby. They were both way 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.320 too old. It looked impossible, but God did something unusual. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.840 He didn't just give them the promise. He changed their 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:18.040 names from Abram to Abraham. Abraham means father of many nations. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.080 When God changed his name, they didn't have one child. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:27.119 Yet every time someone said hello Abraham, they were saying hello, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:33.080 Father of many nations. They were speaking faith into his destiny. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:38.040 What you continually hear starts to get down on the inside. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.160 That's why it's so important to have the right names. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.359 I am blessed, I am talented, I am healthy. Well, Joel, 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.520 I don't feel healthy. We'll keep calling yourself that. That's 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.240 what allows it to happen. I don't feel blessed. I'm 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.080 in debt. I'm struggling. I've got these bills. You're right 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.320 where Abraham was said. We don't have any children. We're 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.120 not gonna have a baby. God, my wife has gone 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.320 through the change of life. That's why God changed his 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.640 name so he would hear it again and again. You're 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.760 the father of many nations. You may not feel blessed. 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.760 You're tempted to talk about what you don't have, how 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.760 it's not going to improve. That's why you're here. God 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:27.320 is changing your name from lack, from struggle, from not 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.359 enough to bless to prosper us to more than enough. 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.440 Now you have to keep calling yourself what God says 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:40.680 about you. May not happen overnight. Abraham waited for years, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.760 But every time you call yourself what God named you, 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:49.440 it's getting deeper on the inside. It's changing your self image. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:54.639 It's reprogramming your thinking. I'm sure many times Abraham thought 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.720 we're never going to have a baby. About that time 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.879 someone would walk up and call his name, Hey, Abraham, 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.760 he would be reminded, you're the father of many nations. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.600 You have to call yourself blessed before you'll ever be blessed. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.880 You have to call yourself healthy while you're still fighting 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:18.280 the illness, call yourself free while you're still struggling with 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:22.040 the addiction. Having the right names is what's going to 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:25.480 help you to stand strong so you can become what 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:30.560 God says about you. God changed Sarah's name from Sarah 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:35.800 to Sarah. Sarah means princess. If anyone didn't feel like 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.080 a princess, it would have been Sarah. She had been 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:43.600 bearing for over eighty years. She didn't feel attractive, didn't 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:47.520 feel special. Everything told her you're finished, you'll never have 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.320 a baby. She could have said, don't change my name, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.199 just call me Sarah. I'm not a princess. That's not 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:59.600 going to do any good. No, she accepted the name change. 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:03.840 He said, in effact, this seems impossible. The odds are 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:07.360 against me. But if God says I'm a princess, then 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.440 I'm going to get in agreement with him. And every 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.880 time someone said good morning Sarah, they were saying good morning, princess. 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:19.240 She heard that so many times, something began to come 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:23.359 alive on the inside. Faith started to rise up. It 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.800 wasn't long after that before the promise came to pass. 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.480 You may have situations that you don't see how it 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:35.320 could work out in your health, your career, a relationship. 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:40.600 What you're up against looks permanent, like with Abraham and Sarah. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:45.080 God is changing your name. You've had that addiction for years. 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.960 God is calling you free. You haven't been able to 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.160 have a baby you've been bearing. God is calling the 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.320 fruit of your wound blessed. He's calling you a mother. 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:59.640 Your dream seems too big. You don't have the experience 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:06.960 the training. God is calling you successful. He's calling you bountiful, flourishing, abundant. 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:10.560 Now the whole key is will you do like them 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:15.040 and accept the name change? Will you keep calling yourself 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:18.159 what God calls you, even when it doesn't make sense. 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.399 Every time you do it, it's getting stronger on the inside, 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:26.000 and eventually you're going to become what God named you. 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:31.320 Luke Chapter one, an angel appeared to Zachariah told him 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:34.399 that his wife, Elizabeth was going to have a baby 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:39.159 that they were to name John. Well, like Sarah, Elizabeth 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:42.800 was way too old. Zachariah asked the angel how it 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:47.000 could happen. The angel assured him that what God promised 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:51.240 would come to pass, but because Zachariah doubted, he would 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:55.600 remain silent until the baby was born. From that moment on, 0:24:55.760 --> 0:25:00.080 he couldn't speak. Nine months later, Elizabeth gave birth to 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:04.000 a baby boy. The family. The relatives were so excited 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:07.520 they came over to the house to celebrate. Verse fifty 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:12.440 nine says they wanted to name the son Zachariah after 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:17.880 his father. God said his name is John, but they 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:21.919 wanted to name him something different. We all have some 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:25.560 days in life people that will try to name you 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:30.080 something that you're not. They may be well meaning. When 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:33.760 my father was a teenager, his parents told him that 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:36.840 he couldn't become a minister, that all he knew how 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:40.520 to do was pitt cotton. God named him a pastor, 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:44.040 but they named him less than not up to parr. 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:47.639 If he would have accepted their names, he would have 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.720 never impacted the world. Don't let they name you, Let 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:56.960 God name you, Elizabeth said to them, No, his name 0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:01.280 will not be Zachariah. His name will be John. They said, 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:04.600 what do you mean, Nobody in your family is named John. 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:08.760 That doesn't make sense. They went to Zachariah, the father, 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:12.119 to ask him what the baby's name would be. He 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:15.080 still couldn't speak, so he wrote on a tablet, his 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:19.320 name is John. Suddenly he was able to speak again. 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:23.600 But what's interesting is the mother couldn't name the baby. 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:28.240 Women in those days didn't have the influence that they 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:31.960 have today. The family, the friends, the neighbors, they couldn't 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.720 name the child. The only one that had the authority 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:39.720 to name the baby was the father. They had to 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:43.560 go find Zachariah to see what the child's name would be. 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:48.600 The principle is your heavenly father is the only one 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:52.639 that has the right to name you. Go through life 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:57.280 letting other people put their names on you. They'll try 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:03.320 to name you addicted, struggling, defeated. God names you free, whole, 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:09.399 victorious that theyse will name you average, mediocre. God names 0:27:09.400 --> 0:27:14.680 you a masterpiece, one of a kind. Exceptional. People will 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:18.520 try to name you washed up, too many mistakes. God 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:24.000 names you forgiven, redeemed, and restored. Have you let the 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:28.040 thays name you? Have you let life convince you who 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.560 you are. Letting those negative thoughts tell you that there's 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:35.920 nothing good in your future, like with Abraham and Sarah. 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:40.199 Right now, God is changing your name. Your new names 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:46.159 are blessed, prosperous, one of a kind, valuable, child of 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:50.080 the most High. Now do your part and accept the 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:54.280 name change. 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