My Name - 2-7-10

My name. I finally understand its meaning and its purpose. I am Nicole. The victory of her people. I have claimed the M____ clan as my people as I pray for their future, their legacy, as I stand in the gap and call into existence their healing. God will rebuild their devastated places, he will restore the barren wastelands. All the generational cycles of dysfunction do not confound him. He is the Ancient of Days who was there when the first cracks appeared in the mortar. No stubbornness can outlast him. In his great name, I bind the spirits of discord and blame, the wounds and insults, the selfishness and hopelessness, the sense that this is as good as it gets. With my pure, stubborn faith, I speak freedom. I speak healing and hope, love and forgiveness, great wisdom to see through God’s eyes the precious members of this family – all of them. No wounds are too deep for the Ancient of Days, no crooked towers too tall for him to demolish, no shadowed places too dank and small to escape his notice. I pray for my people.

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That is my name. The Lord has called me by name, and I finally see the purpose I have always wondered about. That is why the enemy has been attacking so viciously – because I am getting close. Victory is in my mouth. The entire course of this family’s future was altered the day B____ first found me. This is the new future in a secure land with delightful inheritances to take the place of the depleted ones left by all the strongholds nursed by the enemy.

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This is why I am so stubborn; why I was made so stubborn. This is why I was made Jacob, wrestling so long with God so that I knew only discouragement. This was the purpose – that I might be stubborn enough and tough enough to stay the course. Now Jacob wrestles not with God but with God, and such freedom will find the captives. They are not lost. We know where they are and where they are going now.

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Ephesians 1:17 – 20:

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“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.”