All humankind was created in the “image and likeness” of God, Who gave us “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” We learned this at the very beginning of the Bible. We are all beloved children of the Most High. Therefore, though the name on our certificate of birth may be John or Joanna, our true name, our God-Given name is I Am. This is our Divine Name.
The name “I Am” is akin to “HRH” (His/Her Royal Highness) in heralding our ascendancy as sons and daughters of the King and rightful heirs to the Kingdom. “I Am” also boldly affirms our dominion over the world of appearance and must never be spoken in vain. Why? Because, as it states in the Bible, “life and death are in the power of the tongue.”
In the previous post, Your Word Is Your Bond, we learned the importance of choosing the words we utter with eternal vigilance; only expressing the good, the positive and the truth we desire to experience in our daily lives. Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940), one of the most well-known New Thought spiritual teachers of the 20th Century, said: “Every day is a day of Judgment. We used to be taught that it would be at the end of the world. Look back in your life and see how you have attracted either happiness or disaster through your words. The subconscious has no sense of humor. People joke destructively about themselves and the subconscious takes it seriously. It is because the mental picture you make while speaking impresses the subconscious and works out on the external. A person who knows the power of the word becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know they do not return void. People make their worst mistakes by speaking while they are angry or resentful, because there is so much ill-feeling back of their words. Owing to the vibratory power of words, what you voice, you begin to attract. People who continually speak of disease, invariably attract disease.”
It is equally unwise to use our I Am name (or the more familiar contraction “I’m”) idly, for it packs the wallop of an incoming Tomahawk missile on our mental, physical and spiritual well-being when it precedes a negative expression such as the following: “I am sick and tired!” “I am down and out!” “I am all washed up!” “I am one step from the poorhouse!” “I am fed up!” ”I am going crazy!” “I am gonna blow my top!” “I am such a loser!” “I am a klutz!” “I am scared to death!” “I am drowning in debt!” (I personally don’t like to say “I am sorry” because God is never sorry. He Knows and Does only Good. I prefer to say “I apologize” or “Forgive me” or “I regret” or “My bad.”)
To say such things about ourselves is to dishonor our Father in Heaven. God is none of these things. God is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Perfect Health, Infinite Wealth, Peace, Unconditional Love and Boundless Joy!
Claim your true identity now. Speaking your Divine Name I Am gives you access to the unlimited Power of the Universe and opens all the channels to your Good.
Therefore, say it loud: “I Am God’s child!”
“And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the Israelites and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM, and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you!” (Exodus 3:13-14)