FAITH CAPSULE: It is important to know who you are and the One you answer to.

Acts 9

What is the name man calls you? Are you being called by your challenge? God is the unchanging changer and He is perfect to reverse every irreversible. He alone remembers with favor and visit with salvation. God will remember you at His appointed time and you will have a name change, a name that glorifies His Holy name shall become the name you answer to.

It is written, “Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.” (Luke 1:36) Her name was Elizabeth not Barren which call her. No man had any idea of what God was going to do with her when they were calling her barren. When God visited her, mockery was converted to miracle and she became the mother of John the Baptist. After Jesus, there was none like John in the bible days. Watch out, God is going to visit you the same way He visited Elizabeth and turned her story around for His glory.

Again, it is written, “Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:46-47) Blind Bartimaeus was his popular name. Despite the fact that they know his father’s name (Timaeus), they could not call him out without adding blind to his name. On his day of visitation he disregarded many from keeping him quiet. Many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more until Jesus gave him a standstill attention and his story was changed from blind Bartimaeus to one that followed Jesus.

The bible documents, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.” (Acts 9:1-2) He was Saul the adversary of the brethren. Jesus located him on his way to wicked act against followers of Jesus. In that encounter with Jesus, he had a change of name from Saul to Paul the Apostle. He was transformed from agent of destroyer to agent of deliverance. Whatever man calls you is the evidence of limited understanding about what God can do with your life. However, it is important to know who you are and the One you answer to. Be encouraged in the Lord and you shall live to the fulfillment of your destiny in Christ Jesus.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace not to miss the time of His visitation for your life.