Random post because I felt so urged yet encouraged to share this sweet moment I settled in today. If you clicked on this link, you assumed this post would be interesting or could help you somehow. I agree with you, and I’ll say that it is for you! So let’s get into it! Today, as I drove home, I listened to Revival Culture, a ministry out of Dallas, TX, led by Prophets Johnathan and Amanda Ferguson. As I listened, I began to think of a previous service I watched one afternoon. In that service, Prophet Amanda wore a cream dress with sequence or glitter from her waist up and down her arms. I thought to myself how pretty and adorned she looked as she preached the word of Lord. It was a detail that didn’t cross my mind until now. I thought about the day when I would share the word of the Lord. What would I wear? Would I sparkle the way she did in the dimly lit room? I drove a little further down the tollway, and my perspective began to shift.
I began to see, not literally but in my mind’s eye, that the sparkle on Prophet Amanda is unique to her. It is not her style or the way she preaches but her character and the personality traits that God has graced her with that she has allowed to be sharpened by Him. I began to see myself and the little things about myself that I did not value, that I had laid aside as unuseful in the world, and it made me dull. Some of you are reading this post that has a sweet, kind, and soft disposition so much so that people can describe it as your presence. Some of you have big, bold personalities that attract people when you walk into the room. But people have said things like “why talk so soft? Can’t nobody hear you!” or “Why do you want so much attention?” Unknowingly, you allowed the words of people, that standards of the world, and the happenings of life to make you put down touches of light God has placed all over you.
I used the think phrases like “don’t let anyone knock your shine” or “don’t let them dim your light” were cheesy and trendy phrases until I had this moment. It is deeply spiritual that you hold on and press into how God has fashioned and formed you. Just as Amanda shined in a truly dim-lit room, we are in a dim-lit world. You don’t know who needs to see the light of God upon you. You don’t know who’s the path you may cross that needs your loud laugh or your soft embrace. I want to make clear I’m not talking about acting out under the guise of “I am who I am” or never doing what it takes to improve yourself- that is not biblical. But I am saying there is a way that God intentionally created you for His glory. Be that. Live in that. Press into that. Don’t go dull for anyone. Take back your authentic power – your sparkle that is specific to you.
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