Originally Posted by Demon Buster
You can ask him for a name that he will give to let you know it is He who's calling...ok maybe I worded it wrong, but there are people who had there names changed by Father God and Jesus .
here are some I found,
Name changes in the Bible
A lot of people in the Bible had their names changed, or went by more than one name. I appreciate your patience while I compile a comprehensive list of all of them.
Abram renamed Abraham by God
Hadassah also known as Esther
Hoshea renamed Joshua by Moses
Jacob renamed Israel by God
Lo-Ammi renamed Ammi by God
Paul also known as Saul
Lo-Ruhamah renamed Ruhamah by God
Sarai renamed Sarah by God
Simon renamed Peter by Jesus
again thanks for your post
I'm not seeing how people changing their names has anything to do with recognizing God. In fact, if anything it speaks against the concept. If everyone I knew in the world changed their name I'd still recognize them. It'd have no effect whatsoever on my ability to recognize them.
So, here's my point. If you need a name or password to recognize God's voice then you don't know God's voice very well. There's no reason at all why this should be so and I don't think you show God any respect expecting Him to concede to your refusal to know Him. And, yes, I do think that's largely what this entails.
Consider: If someone asked this of me (some fake name or password by which to recognize me) I'd immediately ask why in the world that's necessary. The only way it could be is if they're insisting somehow upon maintaining such a distance that there's nothing else by which to recognize me. Refusing to meet me in person, talk to me on the phone even. They'd probably have to refuse to receive written correspondence, else risk getting to know my handwriting.
Really, you'd have to go out of your way not to interact with me enough to recognize me the next time we met. And I'd be perfectly right to take this as evidence that you don't want to know me. And, so, I'd have no inclination to interact with you at all.
Especially if, like God, the thing I'm trying to communicate to you in the first place
is me.
Simply, God wants you to know Him and nothing will stop that from happening but you refusing Him. There's no need for passwords or captchas, and there's no insidious force in the world that could interfere between you two.
And I'll say that again. There is no force in the universe that can prevent you getting to know and recognize God but your own refusal to do so. If you're worried about supernatural forces pretending to be God then you should be doing the exact
opposite of what you're doing here. You should be getting to know Him so nothing and no one can pretend to be Him to you.
Just like refusing to meet me in person, talk to me on the phone or read my handwriting is the exact
opposite of what you should be doing if you were concerned some random stranger on the street might pretend to be
me to you.
Psalm 95:7
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
John 10:3
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:4
And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10:16
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
John 10:26-28
26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand