Psalm 16:4, 74:20
• It is not about what you are confessing to be, it is about where you stand with the God that is behind you.
• Can God entrust you to spread his influence?
• The only way we can escape wickedness in the world is by having a covenant walk with God.
• Not every child of God is walking right with Him.
• Not every child of God can be entrusted by God to do things for Him.
• God wants an open heaven over your life first so that it can attract others to your light.
• Politicians are not the ruling class of a land, they are just agents.
• A spiritual entity is the real ruler of a land.

THE MYSTERY OF NAMES

• It takes a lot more than just speaking to change a name.
Gen 4:4-5
• Your givings, kingdom service, etc. are activities done on the earth, but they rise to God accompanied by your name in the spirit realm.
• The name of a witchdoctor is given to him by a spirit.
Dan 2:10, 12, Psa 105:22, Gen 2:19, 3:20
• A believer that doesn’t have access to the wisdom of God day by day cannot rule anything.
• A name is not meaningless.
• There is something that is invoked every time your name is called.
• The word “name” in Hebrew is shem. It means:
reputation, character, glory, memorial, authority and honour.
• We don’t receive the same attention before God, the attention we receive is based on our name before Him.
• Names come from the spirit realm through men to men.
• Spirits understand the power of names because they were the first to receive names.
• Even God the creator answers to names.
• What was the inspiration behind the name you are answering to?
How do names come about?
• Names come about through inspiration, including circumstances.
• The devil can create certain circumstances around a person’s birth so that the person can have a name based on those circumstances (1 Sam 4:21).
• Don’t casually give a name to your business, take time to pray so that you can receive correct inspiration.
• You might like your name and might want to give it your child but who is inspiring you to do so?
• Would you want your child to live the life that you have lived?
• There is a spirit that answers to the name you are called in the physical realm, you must pay more attention to that (Rev 21:9-12).
Acts 19:5, 12:15, Gen 12:2
• Who are you? What do they call you?
• If you are bearing wrong names, the blessing might not stick on you because your name could be repelling the blessing.
• Jacob’s name caused the blessing his father put upon him not to stick. When his name was changed, everything about him changed (Gen 27:27-30, 32:26-27).
• Prayer is an avenue through which God can change your name.
• Abram’s name was changed to Abraham so that he could carry the blessing (Gen 17:5).
• Isaac was named by God (Gen 18:12).
• Riches, favour, silver, gold, etc. answer to a name (Prov 22:1).
Josh 7:1, 5, 1 Kings 21:25, 19:2, Exo 7:1
• God put His name on anybody that he ever used.
• The problem many people have is that they don’t appear in the place where God changes names.
• Some people’s struggles with prayer are because a spirit that they were given to cannot allow them to be intimate with another spirit.
• Don’t mechanically change your name, it is the mouth of God that should name.
• Names that musicians give themselves are inspired by spirits.
• When your name changes, the claim over your life from another camp changes because you are no longer theirs.
• In the spirit realm, names are keys that open doors.

PRAYER POINT
GOD, GIVE ME HYPER UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING THE MATTER OF NAMES AND HELP ME COME TO A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN CHANGE MY NAME SO THAT I EXPERIENCE NEW THINGS THIS YEAR.