Your True Identity

Genesis  35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

When people label you,  those labels can cause you to shrink instead of to stretch to your full potential. 

But God who gave Jacob a new identity can give you one too.

Are you struggling with the old names people called you and the old images you have of yourself? 

Nothing will change in your life until it first changes in your mind. 

Jacob's wife Rachel died in the desert in childbirth.  Just before she died  she named her son Ben-Oni,  which means 'son of sorrow'

When the midwife handed him to his father Jacob,  he said,  'He shall not  be called Ben-Oni,  the son of my sorrow,  he shall be called Benjamin, ' the son of the right hand' (son of power). 

Guess which name prevailed?  Benjamin.  Hear this,  you are who God says you are,  not who others say you are,  if God didn't give you the name,  it's not yours.

Only believe what God says about you.  nobody understand better than Jacob the power of name change.

It was in God's presence that Jacob the trickster was renamed Israel,  '... A Prince with God...' 

Christ breaks the power of every negative thing that attaches itself to you.  'you are a Saint,  not a sinner ; not a looser but a winner. ..

When people try to label you,  tell them you don't answer to that name anymore.  Tell them the person they're talking about died,  was buried,  and rise brand new in Christ. 

God sees you as a new creation.  So start thinking,  talking,  and acting like one. 


God bless you.