FAITH CAPSULE: What is the meaning of your name?

1 Chronicles 4

Maybe it is time for you to check the meaning of your name. Your living life might be answering to your name. What is the meaning of your name? The case of Jabez is an example of checking the meaning of his name to reverse irreversible challenges in his life. For Jabez, bible recorded, “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)
Imagine Jabez, a God made to him to be honorable but his mother named him Jabez meaning pain. Answering as pain in the place of answering as an honored man of God is an error. Jabez came out of answering to a meaningless name, a name (Jabez) that prophesied pain over his life.
What is your name? Is your name setting you back from answering fully to the calling of God upon your life? Check it out! Check to change a negative name that you are answering to.
In your life journey, not long ago, you had all that it takes to live life and to live it well because everything was in place for you. Things have now changed compared to where you were then. In your case, help is not in place or in sight; hope dwindles; faith is failing; stagnation; living in shame and it just does not seem like there is a way out to where one as a believer wants to be. Does that sound like you? Above all, God is waiting for you to seek Him diligently and find your self-deliverance just like Jabez sought his solution for his self deliverance before God.  without any doubt, God is God. The Lord God is a good God and He has said in His word that His thoughts for us are peaceful and good. They are not of evil (Jeremiah 29:11) He is a wonderful God. Isaiah 55:8-9, For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Remember that and that will solve the whole pain in your life. The name of Jesus is what makes the difference. God made us in His image (Genesis 1:27). He that made us in His image has a name that is meaningful. His name is a name that transforms and in His name, there is power. As a creature in the image of God you should answer to a name that is meaningful; a name that is positive. With a positive meaningful name, Jabez answered as an honorable man created by God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to reverse irreversible in your life for His glory.