BENEFIT OF BEING A SON OF GOD

THE RIGHT TO USE THE FATHER’S NAME: Every son, every daughter until the daughter is married physically or naturally (as the way events happen) is entitled to use the name of the Father. In fact, it is a Right you receive before you are able to know what the right is. Because as soon as you are born, your father gives you a name and the name of your father, forms part of your name and in natural matters, we call it surname. 

Your personal name comes before your father’s name; your father’s name is added as a capping to your name. That is the same way it happens physically, it is the same way spiritually. When you become God’s children, we become entitled to use the name of our father; we become entitled to bear the name of our Father, we become entitled to invoke the name of our Father.  

In the physical terms or natural terms of doing things, a man who is intelligent or wise does not deal with a growing person carelessly without first finding out who is your father. In many case, the question that comes before he makes up his mind to deal with somebody standing before him is: “who is your father?”  Sometimes when you mention the name of your father, the man tries to find out if your father is that person he knows and that name he fears. And immediately, he changes either for the better or for the worse the treatment you will receive. Therefore, you have the right to bear the name of our father and Jesus gave us the power of attorney to not just bear the name, but to use the name; to invoke it for our benefit in different circumstances (John 16:23). 

If you remember that God Himself (according Philippians 2) gave Jesus the name above every other name so that at the Name of Jesus, every knee shall bow; the things on Earth, the things in Heaven and the things under the Earth. 

Now, this name that the father gave Jesus represents the name of the Father, Jesus is saying: “I give to you to invoke, so that you can use it to get whatsoever you want. And so, whatever you ask my father I my Name, He will give it to you”. It is not just a question of what we do with the name “the Father” in getting what we want. 

Jesus also said a thing in Mark 16:17 about what we do with the name against strangers; in particular against Satan. He says “these signs shall follow them who believe; for in my Name, you shall cast out demons”. In other words, Jesus gave us the name of the father to use (which was the name the Father gave Him); the Name that is above every other name to use in even opposing or bringing down opposition of the enemy. 

So, it is not just receive something in the name of the Father because that’s whose name we are bearing. We also invoke the Name to stop attacks, to stop opposition from outside. People of God, that’s why John said: “what manner of love has the Father bestowed upon us, that we should be called His Sons or His children”.

#copied from The Power Of Divine Son-ship (Coming up Soon)

By Pastor Mike Okwundu Onyeka