Your New Name

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Several years ago I wrote a book entitled Why Do I Always Feel Guilty?  And the reason I wrote that book was because I knew from my own experience and from ministering to women for years that we take on guilt at the drop of a hat!  It doesn’t take much at all to make us feel guilty.

I’m talking about changing our names, or rather letting God change our names.  God wants to change our names from Bitter to Joyful, from Anxious to Peaceful, from Discouraged to Delivered, from Addicted to Unshackled, and Guilty is another name God wants to change

• Is your name Guilty? 

God wants to give you a wonderful new name:  Forgiven.  David said that his guilt had overwhelmed him like a burden too heavy to bear.  But then he acknowledged his sin and God forgave the guilt of his sin.  God wants to do that for you today.

Colossians 1:13-14: For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Ps. 32:1: Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

And God also wants to take away that false guilt you’ve been carrying around.  Many of us are allowing ourselves to feel guilty about things that either have already been forgiven and forgotten by God, or things for which we are not truly guilty.  For example, if you’ve confessed your past sins, you are forgiven and you don’t need to carry guilt with you any longer.  And if you’re feeling guilty for things totally beyond your control, that’s false guilt that the enemy has dumped on you.

God wants you to change your name to Forgiven, and live in the joy that he remembers our sin against us no more.

God knows that old name you’ve got. He knows you and he knows your name.  But here’s the best news in all the world: The God who created the heavens and the earth, the only true God, loves you with a love that cannot be quenched or changed.  He knows the worst about you and he loves you still.  He wants you to know abundant life that is found only in Jesus Christ.