When we study Genesis chapters two and three concerning how Adam named every living creature, we see that he named them as they are or as he saw them. He gave the woman her name because she was taken out of man. Genesis 2:23. After God told the woman that she would bring forth children in Genesis 3:16, we see in Genesis 3:20, He called her Eve, because she was the mother of all living. This works fine as long as everything you see lines up with God, but what about things that do not line up with God and his nature. Calling things as you see them can get you in to trouble.

In the beginning of creation God saw darkness and called it light. And light it was. This is faith. We have been taught this and know it to be true.

Adam named a certain beast of the field, "Serpent", which means, enchantment, divine, to practice divination and fortune telling. That is what he saw, so that is what he called him. Adam could have saved himself a lot of problems if he had consulted with God before naming this creature. Lord, what do you think about naming this one Serpent? Well Adam, I would think again on that name if I were you. Use your faith Adam and call it what you desire it to be, because what you call it that is what it is. The word name in the original text means, position, reputation, fame, and glory.

Take for example the name Lucifer, which means shinning light, morning star. At some point we find him with a name change. Satan means adversary, one who is against. He is living up to his name to this very day. He is against and resists God’s will in the earth until his appoint time.

When God’s people were in a fallen state, doing the opposite of what he desired them to do, He gave them a new name. Note Isaiah 62:2, And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. He gave us the name of Christ, which is above every name. Now we are seated with Him in His throne and have His divine nature. This is how it works. Everything lines up with its name.

Many people today, Christians and sinners, wonder why their life is the mess it is. Well, they are calling (naming) things as they see them. They call lack, lack. They call sickness, sickness. They call storms, storms. etc. They are speaking against and resisting God’s will in the earth. Their tongues have been deceived by the wicked one. They are refusing to walk in their new name. They are refusing their God given authority, which is in His name. Faith says, Yes I have a new name and place in God. I deny any other position or name. I choose the Name of Christ. I choose to walk in the fullness of the blessing of His name.

The answer is so simple on how to change lives from one extreme to the other. Just change the names of things that you do not like. If you do not like lack, change its name to abundance, because what you call it, that it is. If you do not like sickness, change its name to health, because what you call it, that it is. If you do not like a storm, change its name to peace, because what you call it, that it is. According to Genesis 2:19, whatsoever you call things, that is what they are to you. Faith calls or names things that be not as though they were.

This is how you rise up and challenge things that are contrary to the word of God and deny their right to exist. You do it by faith calling things that are not in line with the word of God as though they were in line with the word of God. You have full right to change the name of things in your life that are contrary to the word of God.

The word of God is the standard and you have every right to make all things in your life line up with the standard. When you rise up with your authority and speak God’s word, He will rise up with his power and cause all things to line up with the standard that you speak out of your mouth. Nothing can be added to the standard and nothing can be taken away from the standard. It will stand as it is, The Standard.

Jesus was speaking as a counselor, or advocate, when he said, By your words you shall be justified and by your words you shall be condemned. You shall be judged for every word that proceeds out of your mouth just as in a court of law. Stand up for your God given rights in this courtroom of life and say, I object Your Honor, and state you case with the word of God.

If the adversary can keep you unlearned to the laws of the kingdom of God He will win the case and send you out of the courtroom with you tail tucked between you legs to try again another day. But if you know the laws of the kingdom of God you will win every case. As a matter of fact, when you get skillful with the sword of the Spirit you can prevent the case from ever going to court. But if you say the wrong things with your unlearned tongue, you are going to court. You can still win the case, but the fight of faith is on. It will be much easier in the long run if you learn to speak right things and stay out of court altogether.

Whatever that comes against you contrary to the word of God, rise up and challenge it and deny its right to exist, as in a court of law.

Isaiah 54:17, No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment (in a court of judgment) thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

Concerning lack, don’t talk lack, talk abundance. Say, I hear the sound of the abundance of rain, raining down the blessing upon us. I hear the sound of a mighty rushing wind blowing away lack from us. Say Isaiah 59:19, So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

Stand on the complete blessing of a tither. The blessing of a tither is God sending rain and Him holding back the enemy so we can flourish. We do the resisting and God does the holding back. Resisting the devil and holding him back are two different things. We resist him with our mouth. God holds him back with his power.

There is a place in God that the wicked one cannot touch you. That place in under His feathers. We are not talking about chicken feathers. We are talking about the feathers that cover His throne room, the feathers of the covering cherubs. This is the place where no evil shall befall you according to Psalm 91. Under His wings shall you trust! When your faith has taken you into His throne room, a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you, because he has given His angels charge over you to keep you in all of your ways. They shall lift you up in their hands lest you dash your foot against a stone. You will fear no evil. Your faith will bring heaven to you in the earth.

There are however, some things that can block heaven’s blessing from getting to you. You will find them in Isaiah Chapter 58. In this chapter we see God’s people earnestly and delightfully approaching Him to have their needs met and are having no success. God points out to his people through the prophet Isaiah the things that were blocking the blessing from being poured out on them. In verse 6 and 7 we read, Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

God tells His people in this chapter if they will do these things their light and health will spring forth like the noonday and when they call, He will say, Hear I am. He went on to say that by keeping the sabbath holy and honoring Him by doing the things above and not doing their own pleasure and not speaking their own words, He will cause them to ride on the high places of the earth and feed them with the heritage of Jacob their father, because the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. In other words, if they do these things, nothing can stop the blessing from overtaking them. He goes on to speak to them in Isaiah Chapter 59 saying, His arm is not short nor is He deaf, but their sins have caused Him to hide His face from them. Isaiah 59:13-14 also states, In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

When people speak things out of their mouths that are contrary to the word of God there is no justice of judgment coming to them because the truth is not in their heart. They have conceived a lie and have spoken falsehood from their heart. God the Judge hides Himself from these lies that speak against His truth.

When people stop speaking their own words and start speaking God’s word the blessing is feeding them with heritage of Jacob. These people will be called the repairer of the breach and the restorer of paths to dwell in. They will build the old waste places. They shall be a watered garden whose waters fail not. Out of their belly shall flow rivers of living water. People will come and draw out of their wells of salvation.

We are this generation. We are the ones that are restoring the paths of faith to dwell in. We are the generation that is calling the Church out of the darkness of unbelief into the glorious light and blessing of Christ Jesus. We are the generation that is once again making the sabbath a delight by the words of our mouths and keeping it holy through the rest of faith. We do not speak our own words of error that lie against the truth, but we speak the word of God calling for justice and pleading for truth before the Judge of the whole earth. How do we plead? "We plead, not guilty." "The world is not guilty." For the truth has made us free.

We are the generation that is no longer called Desolate or Forsaken, but we are called Hephzibath (which means the Lord’s delight), Beulah (which means married) and Sought Out. The blessing seeks us out and overtakes us. People come from far and near to bring the blessing of the Lord to us because we are the Lord’s delight and His delightful land. We are married to Him.

If you want blessings in your life call yourself, Sought Out. If you want blessings in your church, call it, Sought Out. If you desire blessings in your city call it, Sought Out. Call yourself Married to the Name of Christ. Call yourself the Bride of Christ. (Isaiah Chapter 62)

When you call yourself by the name of Christ, the Holy Spirit will bring you to everything that He is, everything that He has and everything that He represents. All things were created by Him and for Him. That includes us, His bride. Because we are Christ’s we have everything He has. The two have become one flesh. We are bone of bones and flesh of His flesh. Just like the woman came out of man and was given back to man, so it is with Christ and His bride. We are the body of Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond or free, male or female, but we are all one in Christ just like Eve was created in Adam, not from Adam. We have been created in Christ Jesus unto good works It was fore ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10) When was it fore ordained? When God decided to make man in His image.

When were we created in Christ? We were created when God created a new creature in the face of His enemy in the bowels of hell, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus was the first born of this new creature from the dead. No creature has ever existed like this one before. Adam was of the earth and was earthly, a living soul. This new creature, the man Christ Jesus is the Lord from heaven, a life giving spirit, a God-Man.

Jesus had to lay down eternal life so he could take it up again with us in Him. Jesus said that no man has greater love than when a man lays down his life for his friends. The only life that Jesus has is eternal life. He said my life is mine to lay down and mine to take it up again. I received this from my Father. The man that died on the cross was not the same man that was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father. He was a new creation and if any man be in Christ, he too is a new creation, old things have passed away. (I Corinthians 5:16-18)

Look angels, all things have become new. Behold your God. The angels had never seen a creature like Him before. The Father had to say to the angels, Let all the angels worship Him. He never said to any angel at any time you are my Son, this day have I begotten you. Your throne is forever. Again, I will be a Father to you and you shall be a Son to me. Sit here at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. But this time we are seated with Him in His throne as He is seated with the Father in His throne. We have been raised up together with Him. (Hebrews Chapter One) We are the body of Christ. O death, Where is your sting? O grave, Where is your victory? (I Corinthians 15:55) Beloved, now we are sons of God and it does not yet fully appear what we shall be, but we know this, that when he shall appear we shall be like Him. (I John 3:2)

This is the gospel. Man is created in the image of God, not after the first man Adam before the fall, but after the second man Adam, Jesus Christ, after the resurrection. The first man Adam was subject to death before the fall, the second man Adam (the new creation) is not subject to death. The first man Adam was the seed for the second man Adam. Being born of a woman, Jesus called Himself that seed saying except a corn of wheat fall in to the ground and die it shall abide alone, but if it dies it shall bare much fruit. (John 12:24) For as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (I Corinthians 15:45-49) Jesus spoke a parable about this new creation when he said, No man can put new wine into old wine bags. New wine must be put into new wine bags. (Luke 5:37-38)

Paul tells us in Romans 8:9 that we are not after the flesh (after Adam) but after the Spirit (after Christ) if the Spirit of God dwells in us. As far as God is concerned the first man Adam has passed away. There is no evidence that He ever existed with God. The entire race was buried in baptism of the cross. God now sees all things new in the new creation, Christ Jesus. He has given us His word of reconciliation so we too can see all things as He sees them. His word will accomplish that for which it has been sent. We are the standard in the earth, Christ in us the hope of glory.

Some say we are the Body of Christ. Others say we are the Bride of Christ. Both are right. Christ and His bride are one flesh. God was in Christ reconciling all things unto Himself. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)

There is one glorious salvation. Now you understand why there is so much excitement in heaven when one person turns to Christ and says, Yes Lord, and takes his place in the body of Christ.

This is the great mystery that the Apostle Paul revealed in his teachings. Ephesians 5:30-32, For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

In Isaiah 56:4-5 we read, For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

In order to understand these verses you must know what a eunuch was. A eunuch was a male chosen at a very young age by royalty and made where he cannot have children and brought in to the king’s house to serve him. The idea is that because the eunuch cannot have a future of his own, he will have no personal desires to increase his own good. Eunuchs were given much authority in the king’s business, in finances and even within the bedchamber. Eunuchs had to be faithful to the king because they knew everything about their master. We read about a eunuch of Queen Candace in Acts 8:27-28.

God is comparing what He will do for those who do the things that please him to eunuchs of old. They shall not be a dry tree. They shall have an everlasting name and their future shall not be cut off. They shall have a place in Him that is better that a son or a daughter. They shall enter in to His bedchamber and know the intimate knowledge of God. They shall have the name of Christ Jesus as their inheritance.