His Name is More Excellent Than Yours and Mine~

Acts 3:6  “Peter said, ‘I don't have any silver or gold for you.  But I'll give you what I have.  In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!’”

My name is a little unusual.  In all my years I have yet to meet someone named, “Yenise.”  If I had a dollar for every time I have said, “It’s like Denise, but with a Y…”

And then there’s my husband, Jorge.  His name is more common.  According to www.howmanyofme.com there are 166,212 others named Jorge in the good ole’ USA.

The closest thing I have found as to the meaning of Yenise is a river in Russia spelled Y-e-n-i-s-e-i, and Jorge means farmer.   

I am used to our names, and they are nice enough, but there is a name that is more excellent than mine and yours and all the others in the history of the world.  Can you guess?

Philippians 3:9-11 “God exalted Christ and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the earth – and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”

(There are many who won’t confess or bow to Him now, but they will. Amen! This is a topic for another day.)

These verses are cause for great celebration.  What are you going through? Does it have a name? Repeat after me: Jesus’ name is higher than my (fill in the blank). His name is higher than divorce, poverty, sadness, loneliness, hopelessness…and being lame, which is why Peter told the crippled man to get up in the name of Jesus.

He didn’t say “get up and walk in Peter’s name,” because Peter, while lovely, doesn’t have any power.  He didn’t say your name or mine either because we all know that none of us has a lick of strength apart from Jesus. 

Christ is the One Whom has been given “ALL authority in heaven and earth.” (Matthew 28:18)

How much authority? ALL OF IT, and it’s over anything that is beneath His name, which is everything.  Every single thing we face – Jesus has authority over it.  This is the reason why every prayer we pray is in Jesus’ name. 

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You that Jesus has all authority over all circumstances and situations. There is not one little thing that is beyond His reach, and that is great news because I need Him to use His authority in this area of my life ________________.  In Jesus’ name, AMEN~