One of the things that God seeks is people who are willing to confess who they are in him at all costs. Jesus said that who ever confesses him with their mouths he will confess him to the heavenly father up in heaven (Mt.10:32). Having the audacity to stand up as a child of God has to come from some kind of experience or encounter that had happened at some time in ones life. To confess the name of Jesus; and especially his name a name that of controversy, requires boldness. I mean Jesus’ name is a name that is above any other name. According to the bible there is no name given to man by which one can be save like the name of Jesus (Act4:12). It is a name that comes with gifts and promises. For example, through the name of Jesus we receive the ultimate gift of God, the Holy Spirit (Acts2:38). The early church persecuted those of the way for preaching in the name of Jesus as it happened to Peter and John whom as they were on their way to pray at the temple they healed this lame man in Acts 4:17. They took the two apostles and harassed them not to preach in the name of Jesus but that did not stop them.<\/p>\n
John 9:8-9<\/p>\n
8\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? <\/span> 9\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>Some said, This is he: others said<\/i>, He is like him: but<\/i> he said, I am he<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n It is the name by which every Christian is identified in, Jesus Christ. The title of Christians is given to the followers of Christ. We identify with Christ by what he has done in our lives and we are not afraid of confessing him like this blind guy whom Jesus healed by putting clay on his eyes. Everyone who knew him once Christ healed him questioned if he was that beggar who once stood at the gate begging. But, he stood firm about who he was and what Christ did for him. Even when he was taken to the rulers and was cast out of the temple for his confession he did not waiver from his confession. He became one of the first ones Jesus revealed himself too (Jh9:35-38). Once Christ does something for you nothing stops you from confessing him where ever you go. Like this lame guy whom when Peter and John healed while they were on their way to prayer. Once he was healed he leaped for joy and praised God aloud (Acts 3:8-10). He was not afraid to shout and jump and leap for joy this lame guy once he was healed. Finally, the demon possessed from the\u00a0Gadarenes who spent a good portion of his life at the graves cutting himself, and hurting himself when Jesus set him free decide to go and publish his experience throughout (Mk5:19-20). Who we are in Christ is based on our experience we have and thus our confession should easily flow from our mouths (Ph2:10).<\/p>\n One of the things that God seeks is people who are willing to confess who they are in him at all costs. Jesus said that who ever confesses him with their mouths he will confess him to the heavenly father up in heaven (Mt.10:32). Having the audacity to stand up as a child of God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}