If we keep telling people "Oh friend, just be yourself", without making them understand that there's repentance and transformation needed before they become the best version of who they were created to be, then it's a just shortcut to destruction instead of fulfilling their divine function.
It will be hard to show up as yourself effectively and fully function at your best potential without finding your identity in Christ first.
Powerfully influencing others can only be done with the influence of the Holy Spirit.
It's vital to get the character work done first before you get the platform. It's okay to stay silent when you're in the process of gaining wisdom in secret.
Don't rush your promotion. Don't even get bothered by the purpose-hype communities where everyone has already found out what they're called to do.
Your calling requires a higher, delivered, healed and empowered version of you.
Being yourself alone is never equal to being someone who God created you to be.
Wait and be teachable. Grow and prepare.
May we submit to the transformation that is required.
--- Romans 8:29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
1 Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
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