MIXED SPIRIT, CONFUSED IDENTITY.
Only for Pastors, please.
Many of us grew up admiring different graces at different times. One time you want to be like this minister, then you start following. Another time you want to be like another, you get mixed up again and again. You admire a grace even if you are not called in that stream. We fight to be who we are not because who we are is not popular enough. We get mixed up, and then we die in confusion and distraction.
Before you finally understand ministry, you are confused, and you don't even know who you are anymore and what kind of grace you carry. This loss of identity makes you start looking for yourself in other people other than looking for yourself in God.
Added to that, what we call mentorship and fatherhood worsened the situation. To us, your father is the one you preach like, prophecy like, jump like. We spend all our early years in ministry trying to copy what we don't even understand. We spend our early years building a failed mentality of ministry. We spend time catching different fires until we lose our own fire.
We left our original calling to become a copy because the copy will make us appear more popular than our originality. We lost ourselves in followership because what was defined as followership to us is being a photocopy of who you follow, which was very different from what Jesus instituted.
Mixed spirits made us so confused that we tried to belong to every network or group just to feel successful and relevant. Sometimes, we even join just to be in the happening group. We tried to find relevance from who we followed rather than from God. We judged our success by the one we copied and not by God's margin.
Mixed spirits have made us die in our identity such that we don't even know what to do. We feel we are failing because we are not connected to the right person. We try to find success from others. That's why we keep moving from one person to another. We keep fighting in crusades because we have mixed spirits; a complicated coagulation of different graces.
To even think that you reading this post thinks I am no longer following makes it even worse. You have a frame in your mind that you use to fit everyone who follows. Your standards are about pictures, videos, and mentioning names during preaching.
Listen, you will never succeed as a copy of another. You will only succeed as the person you are created to be. Follow people, but do not lose yourself by trying to meet up to a standard that Jesus never put.
Do you remember what God told you the first day He appeared to you? Do you still remember the vision God gave you when He sent you to preach? Are you doing today what God asked you to do some years ago? Are you fulfilling that ministry, or you are rather doing your best to be another person? Who are you? Have you forgotten who you are?
Ask these questions and get realigned so you can find true fulfillment and peace.
- Prophet Joel Mayaba
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