Sep 18, 2026 · 26 min · 9 segments
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And we have to be able to come to terms with that who God has created you to be might not be palatable to everybody else and not to take that offensive but to say you know what I am committed to walk in the gifting and the calling and the personality that God has created me as and it doesn't have to be a stage presence it doesn't have to be for some big title but just simply becoming acquainted and loving the secret sauce that God gave you to walk in because God created you specifically for his plan and his purpose.
That means every personality trait, the way you look, the giftings, the callings, your emotional makeup, how it's expressed, it's all very intentional.
They can make us want to shrink down to a size or to a representation of who we are that isn't true to who God has called us to be.
And this podcast is so So important to me because there's a fine line and we're going to talk about it between allowing God to do a work and refine us and then the other end of the spectrum is where we want to completely back shelf or become completely different.
And the thought that people would think I was intimidating really bothered me because I'm like, I'm like not intending to be intimidated.
And so the thought that I could be intimidating or make somebody feel some sort of way actually caused me to back off of some of the very things that I feel like God created me to walk in that are actually my secret sauce.
But instead of giving that to God and allowing him to grow it and refine me, I started to shrink back or water down who I was for fear of coming off wrong or for fear of being misunderstood.
or upsetting somebody and there's a difference between being humble and actually shrinking back and so you know you don't have to make yourself smaller necessarily when you have a humble heart when you're like god everything that i am comes from you see that's humility humility is saying everything that i am god you created me this way for a reason it comes from you and shrinking says i should probably hide what god gave me and they're not the same thing And so many times I've apologized for who God created me to be.
And we're going to talk about that process of purification so that we can truly walk with confidence in who God created us to be.
And it's not permission to become arrogant in our ways, like I just who I am who I am and I'll just never change.
No, really what it is, it's permission to be authentic while allowing God to do a work in us and through us.
And I know for me, a lot of times I would look around to get like my cues, my emotional cues, like as people would tell me you're too much or you're too intimidating, then I would try to like understand what that meant.
And we have to be able to come to terms with that who God has created you to be might not be palatable to everybody else and not to take that offensive but to say you know what I am committed to walk in the gifting and the calling and the personality that God has created me as and it doesn't have to be a stage presence it doesn't have to be for some big title but just simply becoming acquainted and loving the secret sauce that God gave you to walk in because God created you specifically for his plan and his purpose.
That means every personality trait, the way you look, the giftings, the callings, your emotional makeup, how it's expressed, it's all very intentional.
They can make us want to shrink down to a size or to a representation of who we are that isn't true to who God has called us to be.
And this podcast is so So important to me because there's a fine line and we're going to talk about it between allowing God to do a work and refine us and then the other end of the spectrum is where we want to completely back shelf or become completely different.
And the thought that people would think I was intimidating really bothered me because I'm like, I'm like not intending to be intimidated.
And so the thought that I could be intimidating or make somebody feel some sort of way actually caused me to back off of some of the very things that I feel like God created me to walk in that are actually my secret sauce.
But instead of giving that to God and allowing him to grow it and refine me, I started to shrink back or water down who I was for fear of coming off wrong or for fear of being misunderstood.
or upsetting somebody and there's a difference between being humble and actually shrinking back and so you know you don't have to make yourself smaller necessarily when you have a humble heart when you're like god everything that i am comes from you see that's humility humility is saying everything that i am god you created me this way for a reason it comes from you and shrinking says i should probably hide what god gave me and they're not the same thing And so many times I've apologized for who God created me to be.
And we're going to talk about that process of purification so that we can truly walk with confidence in who God created us to be.
And it's not permission to become arrogant in our ways, like I just who I am who I am and I'll just never change.
No, really what it is, it's permission to be authentic while allowing God to do a work in us and through us.
And I know for me, a lot of times I would look around to get like my cues, my emotional cues, like as people would tell me you're too much or you're too intimidating, then I would try to like understand what that meant.
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