A New Name, a New Legacy, a New Inheritance

 

A New Name, a New Legacy, a New Inheritance

When an adopted child receives a new name, a new legacy, and a new inheritance, something profound takes place. Their outward circumstances and perspective may not shift overnight, but their identity does over time— and identity shapes how they see the world.  As they realize they are fully accepted, and you want better for them.  That they are not condemned or sure to follow the cycles previously set before them, but are given new life, with a family to guide them.  

The same is true for every child of God.  We often think of it as sanctification- we become more like God as we recognize who He is and what He's done for us.  Our perspective changes direction as we see through new eyes the mission  and the intentions He has for us.  As we let go of past perceptions, what we find out to be lies told by the enemy, and create new habits as we walk with the Lord and study His word, our focus changes and our spirit is renewed.

What we choose to focus on becomes what our spirit receives.  If you wander why your child is acting out, consider what they are focusing on: who they are identifying with, where their perspective has been formed, and help them re-form it.

The enemy fights so hard to distort our view of God — because if he can warp our perspective, he can influence our experience. But when we see God truthfully, we begin to live in that truth.

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Recognizing God at Work

Your circumstances are not the final voice — God’s truth is.
When your heart learns to recognize God’s presence, His patterns, and His promises, everything begins to shift.  This is why it is so important to read His Word.  As we become familiar with His character, we can recognize what He's doing in our life.  We must read the Word to Know Him, ask Who He is, and what He wants us to know about His intentions.  As we get to know Him, we become a reflection of Him- who He created us to be.  If we look only for what He says about us in His word, we will be like the child who is only looking for what he can get- still insecure because we don't know the character of the giver.  We don't know who we are because we don't know our Father.  

In order for us to pass on an adoption legacy, we must fully accept our Heavenly Adoption.  When our children see us walking in the Light of His Word, with the confidence that our Heavenly Father really does love us, will never forsake us, and really does have the whole world in His hands, they too can relax, and follow suit as adopted, transformed individuals:  In your family and in the Family of God.

We are different, not because our external situation instantly changes, or obviously looks different, but because we do:  we accept that we are different.  1 Peter 2:9  "You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises for Him, who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy."

The Message says it this way, and recognize, "chosen" is the same as adopted, no longer left to wander: 

The Message

1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.

Faith does not blind you to reality; it opens your eyes to a greater reality.

It teaches you to see beyond what is visible and into what is eternal.

It means accepting what God says, so that you can see it revealed! 

Just like a newly adopted child grows into the understanding of her new family, you grow into the fullness of your identity as a child of the King.

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The Names of God Declare Your New Identity

God does not simply bring you into a new home:  He adopts you — He reveals Himself to you.  We are not transferred from one prison cell to another: we are set free!  If this is our desire for our adopted children as well, we must give up our "guard" and fully allow them to become one with us.

Jesus prayed for His disciples, for us, "Holy Father, protect them by the power of Your name-- the name You gave me-- so that they may be one as We are one." John 17:11

He gives you His name, and each name He carries tells you something about your inheritance in Him.:

• El Roi — The God Who Sees You

• Abba Father — Your Loving Father

• Jehovah Jireh — The Lord Who Provides

• Jehovah Shalom — The Lord Your Peace

• Jehovah Rapha — The Lord Who Heals

• Jehovah Nissi — The Lord Your Banner and Protector

• Jehovah Rohi — The Lord Your Shepherd

• Jehovah Shammah — The Lord Who Is There

• El Shaddai — The All-Sufficient God

Every name of God is an invitation
to recognize the truth over your circumstance.

When you fix your eyes on the God who provides, you begin experiencing provision.
When you focus on the God who heals, you begin to receive healing.
When you trust the God who sees you, you begin to live as one deeply known.

Your perspective of Him determines what you receive.

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God’s Abundance: His Heart for You and Your Children

God is not reluctant with His goodness.
He is not limited, withholding, or scarce.
He is the God of abundance — in love, in grace, and in provision.

His desire is that you and your children know Him not merely as Savior, but as:

• The God who embraces you

• The God who provides for you

• The God who shepherds you

• The God who fights for you

• The God who stays with you

• The God who calls you His own

In order to fully welcome your child into your family, you must know what it is to be welcomed into the Family of God.  You are invited into a life marked by His goodness, His strength, and His unwavering care, and that is what you are able to offer to your child. You must know how to rebuke Satan's lies and speak God's truth for yourself, and for your children.  When we can identify Satan's attempts to thwart God's plans for us, we can see his attempts in our children.  Their reaction may look like acting out, rebelling, pushing us away, or disrespect.  What they need is to be reminded who they are, and whose they are, because of who we are and Whose we are:  we have so much more to offer them.  

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Identity Before Circumstances

When God’s truth becomes louder than your circumstances, your circumstances begin to shift.
Not always immediately, and not always externally — but internally, where the greatest transformation takes place.

Because in God’s Kingdom:

Identity comes before experience.
Faith comes before sight.
Perspective comes before breakthrough.

When you see God rightly, you begin to receive rightly.
And as you receive from Him, your life begins to reflect the abundance that belongs to every child in the house of God.

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Prayer of Perspective

Father, open my eyes to see You clearly.
Help me recognize Your truth above every circumstance.
Shift my focus from lack to Your abundant provision.
Let Your names speak identity over my life:
my Provider, my Healer, my Shepherd, my Peace, my Father.
Teach me to receive the fullness of what You have for me,
and let my children know You as the God who is more than enough.

Because You are my amazing Heavenly Father, God.  Thank you for my Heavenly Brother, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, who like a mother counsels and consoles me.  You are my family.  I have an inheritance through the blood of Jesus.  Thank you for that great price You paid for me.  In Jesus precious and Holy Name, Amen.