Elohim gave Gideon a new name. Instead of naming him according to how he appeared at that precise moment, which was “scared man hiding in the winepress”, the Creator of Heaven and Earth called Gideon by the name befitting His calling and destiny for his life, “mighty man of valor”.
Have you ever noticed the personality transformation of someone who’s been given a new name? It happens in the workplace all the time; a grocery store “manager” no longer resembles the carefree kid who was first hired as a “bagger”, nor does an impressive, successful “businessman” act like the reckless “class clown” he once was. And how about all of us who transition from “single” to “married” and, eventually, “mother” or “father”? These are just a few examples of how a life can be transformed once receiving and rising up to the higher standards of “a new name”.
As born-again children of the Most-High, Abba-YHWH, we’ve also been given “a new name”—a written, secret name our Father has given each and every one of us. It’s not a common name like John or Mary, but one which denotes Elohim’s specifically designed purpose for each of our lives. Furthermore, because it’s a secret name, it is a name that no one else knows or can even understand except the Father who gives it and His child who receives it.
Therefore, let us come boldly to Abba-YHWH’s Throne of Grace asking Him to reveal His new name for our lives that we may begin to mature in it, too, rising up to meet its standards just as Gideon did, in the Name and by the Blood of Yeshua Ha’ Mashiach, Messiah Jesus of Nazareth. Amen.
[Tracie Justice]
Judges 6:12 ... And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Revelation 2:17 ... He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. ❤
