Hosanna Wong: "I Have a New Name"- Finding Your True Identity in Christ: Page 267
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Where do you find your identity? In approval, performance, relationships, or in what God says is true about you? From growing up on the streets of San Francisco to navigating loss, shame, and self-doubt, she shares how she discovered her worth in Christ. Hear the story behind her viral spoken word poem, "I Have a New Name," and learn how her books "You Are More Than You've Been Told," and "Uncomplicate It" offer practical guidance to reclaim your identity and live as the person God created you to be. This episode is for anyone ready to stop chasing approval and start hearing God's voice above all else.
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Website: https://www.hosannawong.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hosanna.wong/
"I Have a New Name": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A_uXO3CgwY&t=6s
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@hosannawong
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| 0:00.0 | Page 267 of the unfolding is the story of Hosanna Wong. |
| 0:05.2 | Here I am feeling guilt and shame and loss and I'm going to other people to tell me who I am. |
| 0:11.2 | I lost who I was. |
| 0:12.3 | And my husband would tell you he didn't recognize his wife anymore. |
| 0:15.0 | If we want to know who we really are, we're going to have to go to the person that knows us the best. |
| 0:20.7 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:24.0 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:27.1 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:32.5 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:37.2 | Hey, this is Meredith Foster. When you think about who you are, |
| 0:41.7 | where did those beliefs come from? For so many of us, our sense of identity has been shaped by the |
| 0:47.4 | voices around us, by expectations or approval, by what we've been told we're supposed to be, |
| 0:53.9 | or by what we've learned just to survive. |
| 0:57.0 | Hosanna Wong knows that struggle all too well. |
| 1:00.4 | Long before millions of people saw her viral spoken word poem, I Have a New Name. |
| 1:05.8 | Hosanna was wrestling with the temptation to find her worth in all the wrong places, |
| 1:12.5 | performance, approval, |
| 1:18.6 | belonging, even ministry. Hosanna grew up hearing about how God radically transformed her father's life on the streets of San Francisco. She found her voice through spoken word poetry. After college, |
| 1:24.8 | she packed up her old Toyota Corolla and spent years on the road saying yes to |
| 1:29.9 | churches and camps and prisons, preaching and performing poetry. And all the while, God was |
| 1:35.9 | healing her broken heart. But the poem that would eventually inspire thousands to memorize it, |
| 1:42.3 | share it, and declare it. It wasn't written for an audience. |
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