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Sunday Message - Fountain of Grace International - Pretoria North

You Were Not Made to Be a Copy of Someone Else

Do you ever feel like you were born into the wrong story - comparing yourself to others, wishing you looked different, or trying to fit a mould someone else set for you? Pastor Ricardo Zaal tackles that pressure head-on in this message, showing that God did not clone you - He crafted you. From the Hebrew meaning of fearfully and wonderfully made to the intimate knowledge God had of you before birth, this sermon reminds you that your fingerprints, your quirks, and your calling are not accidents.

Pastor Ricardo Zaal - Fountain of Grace International, Pretoria North - 30 August 2025

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No Two People Are the Same and That Is the Point

Billions of people have walked this earth across thousands of years of human history, and not one of them shares your fingerprints. That single fact - so ordinary we rarely stop to think about it - carries the weight of an extraordinary truth. God did not run out of unique designs after a few thousand people and start repeating Himself. He has never repeated Himself. Every person born into this world arrives as a first edition, never to be reprinted. Pastor Ricardo Zaal opens this message by sitting with that reality and asking why, given such clear evidence of God's creative intentionality, so many people spend their lives trying to become someone else.

The examples are everywhere. People who reshape their bodies, their voices, their mannerisms, their entire personalities to match a celebrity, a peer, or a parent's unfulfilled dream. Pastor Ricardo points to Michael Jackson as a striking case - a man who was born uniquely Black, with a natural afro, and who by the end of his life had altered his appearance so dramatically he was unrecognisable as the person he once was. And yet people still try to imitate that imitation. When you copy a copy, you move further and further from the original. God's invitation is always back to the original.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made - What the Hebrew Actually Says

Psalm 139:14 is one of the most quoted verses in church culture, but its depth is often reduced to a feel-good affirmation. When Pastor Ricardo unpacks the Hebrew behind it, the verse becomes something far more confrontational and far more liberating. The word translated fearfully comes from yare, which carries the meaning of standing in awe - you were made in such a way that the appropriate response is wonder and reverence. The word wonderfully comes from pala, meaning to be set apart, to be distinguished, to be done through supernatural skill. You were not assembled on a production line. You were distinguished from every other human being through a process that only God could execute.

This is not poetry designed to make insecure people feel better for a moment. It is a foundational statement about the nature of your existence. You are an awe-inspiring, supernaturally distinguished original. The problem is not that God made you wrong - the problem is that you have believed other people's assessments of you more than you have believed His. Pastor Ricardo shares honestly about growing up being teased for the size of his ears, and the temptation to want surgery to fix what felt like a flaw. But what others mock as a flaw is often simply a distinction - and distinctions are exactly what God specialises in.

God Knew You Before You Were Formed - Jeremiah 1:5 and the Intimacy of Yada

Jeremiah 1:5 records God saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. The word translated knew here is the Hebrew yada, and it is not a casual, surface-level awareness. It is the word used for the deepest kind of knowing - intimate, experiential, relational. Pastor Ricardo illustrates the difference with a simple story: he has greeted the same man near a purple building in Pretoria for over a decade, knows his name is Peter, but knows nothing else about him. That is awareness. What God has toward you is something incomparably deeper.

God knows your thoughts before you think them. He knows the fears you have never spoken aloud. He knows the promises you made in desperation and forgot. He knew all of this before your mother knew she was pregnant. The weight of that intimacy means that no painful label placed on you by another person - no name you were called in school, no narrative assigned to you by your family, no identity stolen from you by trauma - can override what God established about you before time began. You were sanctified, which means set apart. You were ordained, which means appointed for a specific work. These are not rewards for good behaviour. They are the conditions of your birth.

You Carry God Imprinted in Your Makeup - Do Not Trade That for a Lower Grade

Genesis 1:27 says God created man in his own image - and the Hebrew word tselem means an imprint, an essence, and a shadow. You do not merely look like God in some vague theological sense. You carry Him imprinted in your very constitution. When Pastor Ricardo connects this to Colossians 1:15, where Christ is described as the image of the invisible God using the Greek eikon - meaning an exact representation - the point becomes clear. To walk in your God-given identity is not arrogance. It is representation. You are meant to make God visible in the world, and you can only do that as yourself, not as a diluted version of someone else.

Pastor Ricardo closes with an image from the South African school system that will resonate with many. Some learners were pushed from higher grade Mathematics to standard grade - or today's equivalent - simply because those around them were afraid they would fail. He names this as a trap. When you accept a lower-grade version of yourself to fit in, to avoid rejection, or to escape the pressure of your own potential, you do not just lower your performance - you lower your character. God has designed you to stand out wherever you are placed. The goal is not to survive by taking the easier paper. The goal is to walk in the fullness of what you were originally made to be.

"God didn't clone us - He crafted us. Every one of us carries a distinct imprint of His divine spiritual DNA, formed even before birth, tied to a purpose only we can fulfil."

- Pastor Ricardo Zaal

What to Do Next

  1. Read Psalm 139:13-16 daily this week and replace any negative self-talk with the declaration that you are fearfully and wonderfully made - not as a cliche but as a Hebrew covenant statement of how God set you apart.
  2. Identify one area where you have been imitating someone else's style, calling, or identity out of insecurity and make a deliberate choice to develop your own voice in that area, trusting that what God placed in you is sufficient.
  3. Write down two or three qualities about yourself that others have mocked or that you have been ashamed of, then ask God in prayer whether those same qualities might actually be the distinguishing marks of your specific purpose - as He told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Psalm 139:14 mean when it says fearfully and wonderfully made?

The Hebrew word for fearfully in Psalm 139:14 is yare, which means to stand in awe, while wonderfully comes from pala, meaning to be set apart and distinguished through supernatural skill. Together they declare that you were not mass-produced but individually crafted by God with divine intentionality. The KJV says, I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Why do I keep comparing myself to others and never feel good enough?

Comparison is rooted in a misunderstanding of how God made you - when you do not know your own unique design and purpose, you naturally reach for someone else's identity to fill the gap. Pastor Ricardo Zaal points out that even famous people like Michael Jackson rejected who they were, and yet others then imitate that already-distorted version, moving even further from their original selves. The Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5 that God knew you and ordained you before birth, which means there is a specific purpose only you can fulfil.

How do I find my God-given identity when I was born in difficult or painful circumstances?

God's knowledge of you, described in Jeremiah 1:5 with the Hebrew word yada, is an intimate, experiential knowledge - He was aware of every detail of your conception and birth, including painful or traumatic ones. Pastor Ricardo Zaal teaches that even a child born out of violation or hardship was placed into that family by God because they carry something that is needed there - a healing, a purpose, a breakthrough. Your origins do not define your destiny; God's design does.

What does it mean that humans are made in the image of God?

Genesis 1:27 says God created man in his own image, and the Hebrew word for image is tselem, meaning an imprint, an essence, and a shadow. This means you do not merely resemble God in a general way - you carry Him imprinted in your very makeup and DNA. Colossians 1:15 also describes Christ as the image of the invisible God, using the Greek word eikon, which means an exact representation, showing that bearing God's image is a call to represent Him accurately in the world.

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So if I say my message entitled Born Original, Marked by God, if I look at each and every one of us, it doesn't matter who you are, millions and millions of people has lived this earth, yet no one have the same fingerprints. How does God get it correctly to make each and every one with unique fingerprints? If a policeman come in and look for evidence, they will take the fingerprints. And when they find the fingerprints, yet they can't find the person. But when we look at the Bible, yet God says, I knew you even before you were born. When you were still in the womb of your mother, he knew you. So how can it be that you were born originally and you were marked by God, yet you live as if you live in somebody else's shadow? This message I've preached before, I can guarantee you now, I've preached it before. But something I can tell you, it's yet to be, how do you call it? It must sink in one's spirit before I will stop preaching it. It's a message that has been continuously in my mind. And it made me to realize, yo, how did we get it wrong? By thinking that you are more like your mother, thinking that you are more like your father, and yet you don't know why you are more like your mother, and then suddenly in other areas you are more like your father. It's not because of you are like them. It's a combination of both. And therefore, you are divinely made by God. Divinely made by God. It's hectic when I think of a message like this, and I go back and think of people that want to be like somebody else. Let me make an example. And I'm here to say it again. Michael Jackson wanted to be somebody else. And you still find people that wants to be like Michael Jackson. Imagine somebody that is not even him. I want that to sink in. Picture Michael Jackson with afro. Nicely afro black skin. Like black, not this color color of mine. But before he died, he was this color of mine. And yet somebody wants to be like Michael Jackson. God has made us original. Like I've been, I've been hearing about my, my ears ever since I was in school. It's like everybody was telling me how my, my, my, my, my ears were big. At first, you know, when you're young, there's nothing you can do about your big ears, but yet you're fighting all of them. And as you're fighting all of them, you're fighting your own character, because now you wanna, as you grow up, you wanna go for a, a, a what is that, a, a, a, a surgery just to remove your ears and make it smaller. Because somebody has told you having big ears is a problem as you grew up you have this Sarki Bartman back and yet somebody was was calling you Sarki Bartman and as you grown up you think I don't want it but do you know the one with the flag back so much wish they could have been you and these are the things that we go through daily we are never satisfied with what God has given us yet we are satisfied would sting in somebody else's ways of doing things nobody can play keyboard like me ma musicians will tell you everybody have their unique way of playing an instrument if you've been taught by the news musical school the unfortunate parties you will be restricted only for that theory or things that they've given you because what they do is they they gave you a theory and you have to make your own music and if you don't make your own music you have never been seen by somebody because the music you play is exactly the same that others play and therefore I said to you born original you are born original and you are marked by God now if I can ask you a few questions did God clone us I know of of identical twins they look exactly the alike but there's a distinction between the two regardless of whatever body shapes and and sizes they are they are exactly the same but it's only the outer shell they will never be the same in mind God didn't clone us he crafted us actually he crafted us if I I can tell you now everybody carries a distinct imprint of his divine spiritual DNA and it's formed even before birth and it's tied to a purpose only they can fulfill if I want you to fulfill something that I wanted to do like before when I was younger I used to say I would love to be a a carpenter but my my dad had something else in mind he wanted me to become an engineer and to be precisely a civil engineer and just because he said it I didn't want it to become it but it's because he wanted me to live in his dreams that he would want it for him to become but he didn't now if you're looking at it now the bible says that you are fearfully and wonderfully made now let me let me let me go back to the hebrew of this words and don't mind my my my pronunciations of it it's not about the pronunciation because I don't know this pronunciations so it's if you look at the word fearfully fearfully it's it means to stand in awe so you are made to stand in awe it's spelled y-a-r-e but with all this hebrew funny characters so it's fearfully you are made to stand in awe and then going on wonderfully made now wonderfully which is now wonderfully it's to set apart to distinguish done with supernatural skill so it's to set apart to distinguish meaning to say that you are distinguished from others you are different from others distinguish and you are done with supernatural skill so you are all inspiring set apart supernatural design of god not a replica do you know what why this came in like i was preparing something else and then suddenly i got this thing of somebody wanting to be somebody else and i was like oh my no please don't be somebody else ever in your life the one you are young don't let anybody else tells you how you need to be be yourself and i'm i'm saying this you will see as time goes on peer pressure will pressurize you so much that you will be coming by a place where they say if you don't do this you are not in you're not in like when to be cool you need to do certain things but when you do it you lose your identity by doing it i remember when we were younger we were we were told that if you don't have a girlfriend you're gay like as if you you just don't even though you don't want a girlfriend for obvious reasons to focus on certain things just because they tell you that you are gay now you are forced to get a girlfriend just to be in now i want to take you to a few things let me start by psalm 139 139 psalm 139 and i want us to read to read verse 14 i will praise thee for i'm fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous as i works and that my soul know it right well now the new king james version says i will praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well but there is some foundational truths that you need to know the the truth shall set you free what do i mean by the truth shall set you free the truth of the matter is that you are not a clone number one god designed you even way before your body was was was was was formed picture this somebody had had you in mind thinking ah and how long it would take god to meet one person because each one must not be a replica of the other just picture that in his infinity you're you're i'm okay okay let me just read from my notes and not go to the bible because i'm i'm worried i will i will get um i will get confused by going bible here jeremiah 1 verse 5 jeremiah 1 verse 5 jeremiah 1 verse 5 says before i formed you in the womb i knew you before you were born i sanctified you i ordained you i sanctify you and i ordained you now picture this man when you go to the to the to the hebrew word new not not to be um new like i know to know to new now he knew you when you go to the hebrew word it's yada so not just an awareness but the intimate experiential knowledge that he have of you not just an awareness not he's aware like somebody pass you every day so they know you like that no i i i see this guy every day when i pass there's a guy that that stays in in in pretoria not somewhere there by the purple building that i um i know from i think it's 2013 2014 i just know the guy i know his name is peter but i don't know anything of him from a bar of soap i can tell you this is peter i every time i i pass by him i will greet him he will greet me back if i don't greet he will greet first but that is an awareness i'm aware of him but what we're talking about god has an intimate experiential knowledge about you so you when you're looking at your life thinking that god don't don't know you you know those times where we make promises oh yeah if you can only do this for me by the time i will be done uh you know i will i will serve you thinking that you can lie to god telling him what you want just to get it and run away if i can almost call it that way now if you're looking at somebody like that i know a lot of them a lot not just one two or three i know a lot they they will tell you no me you know when god comes through for me i will serve you god doesn't want to give him a car because god knows the day when he get the car and not even his family will see him over weekends it's the reason why god doesn't want to give you a car because you say god if only you can give me a car i will serve you but then suddenly something doesn't happen he knows you within like deep within he's he's having that instant intimate experience with you he knows your deeper thoughts some of us think that we were accidents when we were born no i was raped no i was a child of my mother being raped and now you you you your inner being already feel violated but god has chosen you to be alive because of there's a reason that you must stand out of that wetlock or out of wetlock or whatever that you call it there's a reason that he has made you into that specific family although your mother feel violated but you are there to bring out something within her that will help her to heal from those wounds that is why god designed you even way before your body existed imagine this is the thing that you also should know is that your your dna is a reflection of god's image picture that that whatever you're going through it's literally and a reflection it's like here is god and you can see him in the mirror and you can see him in the mirror it's a mirror image of him here if i stand before him and look at him because remember the bible says when when when when when they ask who am i going to say he has sent me has sent me he said i am said i am now that i am makes him exactly what you want him to be so if you come in and say god is a fighter he is the fighter because that is how you see him now when you see him as loving that is also how you will treat him as loving i am now when you're looking in the mirror and you see a downcast spirit and you see somebody's shoulders that is slouched and you look at that person he's stressed the the the the forehead full of wrinkles because of the stress it's because of what you've made god to be because you are a mirror image let me go go to scripture genesis 127 he says so god created man in his own image in the image of god he created him male and female he created them in his own image love and what is god to do if you're looking at your own image of what you see within you you see that's how god is it's your own perspective of what god is and therefore you will have this own perspective of what god is lived within you because that's the image if you go to the image image in in in in in the hebrew word is telem it's t-s-e-l-e-m image is telem now what the image means it's an imprint an essence and a shadow so which means the imprint it's the same thing that you see god in you don't just look like god you carry him imprinted in your dna you carry him imprinted in the makeup that you have imagine somebody saying to others you are ugly yes it's because that's how you see yourself as ugly because that is why you can portray ugliness if there's a distinction between ugly and beauty then that is why to you you see it as different i mean if you're looking at uh colossians 1 verse 15 let let me quickly read colossians 1 verse 15 colossians this this side of the books are so close together colossians 1 verse 15 the read has followed it says who is the image of the invisible god the first bond of every creature who is the image of the invisible god now when you're looking at that it's a it's that image is icon so it's an exact representation an exact representation so when you go out you represent god why do you want to represent god if you want to represent god as as being the fighter he will always be the fighter let me not go into this this this sounds too deep to explain but the only thing about everything that i see even though it sounds or it feels or it it makes confusing just remember one thing like from everything i said maybe it sounds too higher grade you know like in school we had standard grade higher grade and some of us were asked to to change our subjects to standard grade because they were afraid that we're going to fail so they're making the grading to be lower just so that we can pass i remember there was uh what is this um maths because of i was having problems with maths they asked me to take it to a standard grade today it's it's it's even a a more easier one uh what's something meds i don't know i don't know there's a there's something um that they were saying it's even a lower class of meds it's not like your standard grade and higher grade they call it the meds numeracy or meds literacy or something like that i can't remember i don't know don't laugh with me i don't know so they make it easier for you don't let that be because you feel life is too hard now you want to make it easier and get the meds literacy just to to pass in life you don't pass in life due to the fact that you you take the the lower grade uh exam page don't take an exam that is lower because of when you take the exam that is lower it makes your character to also go lower god has made you in an image that is so powerful that wherever you stand you will always stand out it doesn't matter where you stand people will look at you differently if you just being yourself don't be a copy of somebody else because being a copy of somebody else will make you to to to to to blend in god has not made us to blend in you know when you blend in you stand next to michael jackson looking like michael jackson but let us start dancing you will soon realize this dancing is not michael jackson this one so you might look like jack michael jackson yes although michael jackson doesn't look like himself but it doesn't matter but you might look like him but can we dance because this is where the next point comes in because every time whenever you think that this is who you are and trying to be in somebody else's shoes then this is where the the the extinction comes in where you get seen differently is every gift and tendency is there for a reason this is where you will stand out by the gift that god has given you because if you can look like your mother you can look like your father but the gift that is within you is not a replica of them i might be okay i think it i might be as harakat as my pal but i'm not i'm not i'm i might look like him i might be having the same things like him but i'm not him you know my my my father has a as a head for business i don't have i might look like him because uh last week or week before we we were my wife was saying hey when she looked at that she had to look a second time again because i always look like my father there and then when she said that it actually triggered something in me yeah diamond it made me it made me he's like big ears because it's because of him that were i was called big ears since young even up till now my friend who is now 38 years my friend is still calling me or because my ears will always be i've grown into it so whatever they call you you just accept it and says yes it's true most because the moment you say it's true they lose their power when they call you something just say wow that's wonderful i love it you will see how they lose their power because you're not jumping to what they say that you are anybody telling you who you are just say wow i am that that's fine thank you that's actually nice to hear it from somebody else i thought i i was thinking of it only it's actually nice to hear you will see how they lose their power that they can't even like we said it in school we acquire you or tease you now every gift trade and tendency is for a reason now in romans 12 verse 6 a new international version says we have different gifts gifts according to the grace given to each of us different gifts according to the grace given to us each of us now when you're looking at the word grace grace is the courage now grace which is the greek word for for it is now it's a a divine enablement not just favor enablement then when you're looking at the word gift it's charisma charisma a grace empowered function now when i look at charisma you will see some people when they enter they have this charisma surrounding them that everybody likes them everybody just like them it's like weird have you seen have you seen when you get into a place and then suddenly there's a certain person that you just don't like them and you don't know why it's that kind of thing that we call charisma that gift that is within him that can aggravate the hell out of you do you know what i'm talking about have you ever walked into a place you don't know this person from above so and you just know for a fact you don't like them have you seen that have you seen that it's like as if i don't i i in africans this is what we say a canati a canati it's funny like i just don't know what's what's about him but i just don't know and then i normally go on my gut because they call it god i don't care whatever they call it is it the holy ghost they're telling you hey be careful or is it this thing that we call the gut be careful whatever it is i just know god has always given me the spirit of discernment to know and that is why you can discern somebody's gift is is is to break you down because when they break you down you will stand up stronger wait let me not go you were just not given a random gift you were given a gift for an assignment in your life and that assignment you should figure it out as soon as you can because the quicker you find out that assignment the quicker your life becomes better because now you're living in that gift or assignment that god has given you that is why i'm telling you now from the beginning of this message i said to you that you are born original you are born original and you are marked by god some of us say hey my diamond it is like you're having a personality like nobody's business ah it's it's it's not a problem for your personality to be like that it's a tool that god is using because if you go to first corinthians uh 12 first corinthians uh 12 first corinthians 12 verse 4 to 6 and i'll read out of new king james i'm skipping a few uh words in there it says there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit did you hear diversities of gifts like my gift is not your gift but it's the same spirit backing that and there are diversities of activities even but it's the same god who works all in all so you what you do is different than what others do i cannot play a keyboard like any other musician but i play like me there's a there's this song that we were we were singing oh more more or more and any musician can tell you I'm going out of all the musical theories that they got look at this mark this is a this is a you can hear it's wrong in any way that's the right chord but can you hear three chords that I play out of one chord that is differently but it sounds differently it's because of it goes against all the rules of the theory of musicians because a musician will tell you this is a C sharp or a D flat but this what is this you understand it's like it sounds different but it's the same key and that is how your personality sometimes must go against everybody's thought of how you should be when they teach you at school one plus one is two don't just take it on face value because when you say one plus one in a seed it's two seeds but the power of that seed is a multiplication of of of of of none because you can't see what is within that seed therefore you need to reason this out hey you say I'm this kind of person no no no doesn't matter because the diversity we're talking about there are diversities of gifts the diversity means that it's distinctly separated that diversity means it's distinctively like without a doubt it's different from others it's uniquely arranged it's uniquely arranged like a a chord that you don't understand huh some of these chords we don't understand when we play and this only musicians will understand it sounds off but when you play it within the music it makes the difference the difference the thing that sounds alone it sounds not right but just let it play with somebody else it's the same way you as a person is uniquely built so diversity diversity it's in this it's it's like diarese so diversity diversity is in this it's like diuresis this is another word I don't know ok let me not say it means distinctly separated uniquely arranged so God made you to be expressive for purpose or on purpose he made you to be introverted for a reason you thinking by being introverted it's not right but there's a reason he made it for you to be all loud whenever you come and somebody is like he made that person uniquely to be like that I know of people that when they enter into a room immediately when they enter you start laughing for no reason you don't know why you're like and you're it's because of how God uniquely give them that diversity to be cheering up people and you because of now somebody says hey you're too loud the next thing the same person that gives such a great thing comes in here not having the same impact because somebody told him to be that is too loud that makes the problem some are made strategic some are made artistic some are made detailed some are loud but it's all for God's purpose so don't let anybody tell you who you should become tell yourself what is it that makes me to feel the best about me to feel this is me don't be a copy never be a copy in life because the moment you become a copy you're not living in your own purpose the moment you become a copy you're not living in the the the the the the the the the the Afrikaans whenever whenever we we are we are in our youth we say anifleer van ons je I don't know how to say it in the okay when your youth is just becoming youthy by that time you are more vulnerable because anytime whenever you you express who you are it's where they will start with peer pressure in you who you can't smoke because suddenly they come with opposite you can't smoke but just because everybody is in now you also want to smoke do you know that anytime whenever something doesn't feel right from the word go regardless if anybody ever told you it's right or wrong for you it's not right the moment it feels wrong just leave it because at that time I can guarantee you now the Holy Spirit is the most evident one to tell you what is right or wrong somebody can say to you no you can you can have a drink but within your own you feel that this drink is not right for me don't do it because within you God is woven into you your characters and the things that you should not do the same drink that somebody is enjoying might be your killing you can come with your jinn no I want my sudden comfort the moment you start going to the jinn somebody said to you ah just for today you are sick like hell somebody tells you to sing but you know you are a rapper and you start rapping and anybody that hears your rapping is like wow this is powerful now they want you to sing and you sing imagine now you are talking more than what you are singing because it's not your grace to sing if something is for you it will feel right but I can tell I can guarantee you something also there's something that people don't understand that when you do something for the very first time you are scared to do it and it might even be that you feel uncomfortable to do it but if it is your grace you will feel I need to do this I remember what's her name Kaylin at first she didn't want her to sing and anytime she sing she will sing nicely but as soon as people look at her she stop but within her you can see she wants to sing we went to McDonald's she was about I think it could have been 2008 let's say 4 4 5 years yeah by the time we went to a McDonald's and here I'm sitting and she's in her element while we were waiting for the food she started singing a song of you must not know I can have another minute in a minute but full you know out of the chest she started singing and everybody was standing looking at her and that attitude you should have seen she's on the table not table but on the chair and started dancing and she was in her element and that was the real her as time goes on she became ingetrek reserved some yeah like she became reserved she doesn't want you to be all out but being all out is her when she turned 16 18 17 somewhere around there she became herself again and I'm making an example of her because I know her from when she was what she was and when she is now and here all the years we taught of her as somebody that is very reserved doesn't want to be seen and I was reminded that do you remember the day when you first took her out for a burger or something I can't remember what I took them out for she was like all out my my thing that I am saying to you your personality is not a problem your personality it's a tool this one I'm going to quickly run through it because I'm worried I'm seeing the time now Bible says that let them have dominion over all the earth in Genesis 126 he says dominion so your difference is your dominion where do you have dominion you are not called to blend in you are called to rule in your lane you know we say in Afrikaans they keep on saying stay play in your lane stay in your lane your lane is to have dominion dominion it means is to tread down to reign to rule by occupying take over take over your dominion is found in what others are doing I mean your dominion isn't sorry your dominion isn't found on what others are doing it's found in the area where your divine DNA gives you supernatural flow another one quick one comparison cancel design comparison cancel design what do I mean comparison is the devil's tool to distract you from your blueprint the blueprint that God has given to you if the enemy can't rob your salvation you try to clone your identity you were not made to be a copy 2nd corinthians 10 verse 12 the new king james version 2nd corinthians 10 verse 12 4th meaning to say that I can't sing like Laverne therefore I can't sing does not matter because the same squeaky voice is the best worshipper in the worship team Mamruti do you know what I'm talking about those people that can't sing they have such an anointed voice that they do better than the Whitney Hustons of this world I've heard somebody sing like basic not not no high pitch and what what what just basic with oomph and with spirit and there they think that they can't sing because of somebody else sings better than them don't compare yourself I have seen so many times we compare ourselves in the fact that my house is bigger than yours and now you think I need to have something it's a it's a good and a bad let me tell you the good in it do you know why it's it's best to be exposed to greater things the reason being is that you can see God is want us to have greater things he doesn't want you to stay in Mkuku forever Mkuku is good for a start but it's not a good thing for a lifetime I went to the northern cape sleeping in my mother's house and the cold made me feel like I'm in the fridge because of the roof is zinc now that zinc roof made the cold to come easily through it but we are not supposed to stay there we need to put some ceiling or whatever can help to help us not to get through to that cold imagine you staying in that cold for while while in a place that comes to minus 3 degrees minus 5 degrees minus 9 degrees and you had to get cold like that we're not supposed to stay in one place and allow it to just let us be picture those people staying in the mkuku's day how cold it must be God has said to us we must not compare but compare yourself at least that you don't want to go back to mkuku life compare yourself to only be bigger than what you were before other than compare yourself that I'm mkuku and I get paid 100 rent a month but I want 1000 rent a month rent pay play please rather look for something that can pay you the 2000 rent to go and look for a better place that's the only time you compare but other than that don't compare even your struggles can be a part of your design I'm saying your struggles can be a part of design this is another point do you know that if you struggle to do certain things Paul you remember Paul Paul says that there's a tone in my flesh but Paul's tone was never removed meaning to say your struggles might never be removed but it didn't cancel his calling it didn't cancel his calling it actually sharpened every flow that you have it's an authentication of who you are this big years it authenticate me to be who I am my my english that is not good when I schooled at Afrikaans it doesn't matter because this is who I am second corinthians 12 verse 9 my grace is sufficient for you my strength is made perfect in weakness can you see what it says so even in your flaws even if in your struggles his strength is made perfect identity also unlocks your destiny to all who receive him this is now Christ now he gave the right to become children of God born not of natural design but born of God John 1 verse 12 and 13 so when you embrace your true spiritual identity your heavenly DNA activates I am who God says I am I know who I am working in power walking miracles I live a life of favor because I know who I am oh oh oh oh now when you when you when you see this man to all all all who received him he gave the right to become now the right there it it's like he delegated authority to you that right it means exosia e-x-o-u-s-i-a exosia so he delegate authority to you he gave you power of choice he gave you legal empowerment so the right to become a child of God is the right to have authority that's what he gave you and remember that the more uniquely you you are it's a threat to darkness it's another point because if you are who you are you are a threat to darkness do you know what happened when satan and jesus had a conversation satan tried to to to rob jesus from him do you know what he said if you are the son of god not he doesn't say you are the son of god he put he put almost a question mark on jesus life if you are the son of god you will take this stone and make it bread because you are hungry you will turn it into bread i mean so he he tests jesus there if you are who you say you are they will always come and test you the unique you will be tested if i am who i am i can go ma there was a time that when you go into northern cape i say northern cape but i am specifically from post musberg you buy a beer you walk with it like this you are pasta tomorrow you are drunk the beer is not open regardless they will call you drunk some of the times i would aspris what is aspris no on purpose on purpose on purposely i will go and buy beer for my sister and walk out of the whatever you call it the beer place i will walk out of it what it there and i will ask them to have a clear plastic not a not a close plastic the plastic that people can see what it is in so that they can go and tell others he's back in the world again just so that i can feel because i am not threatened by anybody seeing of me i am seen by myself as who i know god has made me to be regardless of whatever they say i can go into a club and dance like nobody's business and yet i know who i am when i'm in the club i'm not there as a person that i want to be joined into no i'm there to touch somebody's life jesus was seen sitting amongst those i'm not going to say those what and yet when he does it he was still jesus when he came from there i am still ricardo regardless of where you found myself even if you found me in the drug den and people were using drugs surrounding me i am not a drug dealer or a drug addict i am ricardo my environment doesn't tell me who i am i am who god says i am therefore when you are going in there the devil wants to use that to mark you i will you mark he will go to god and says have you seen job then god will say have you seen ricardo righteous then by that time there is no need for you to talk anything because satan wants people to see that who you are putting a mark on you that is not who you are by being with the people that you think no let me let me not go there romans 8 verse 19 says as for the creations wait in eager expectation for the children of god to be revealed eager eager expectation for god's children to be revealed now that revealed is to uncover what is hidden they are waiting for you to uncover what's hidden within you what is hidden within you is there something specifically that you want them to know the world is waiting not for more celebrities not for more imitators even but for the reveal who you are in christ imitators is easy to find celebrities are easy to find but those who are in christ is hard to find you walking in your identity is literally an act of war against house agenda wherever you go you're going to be in trouble but with all this i want you to take the following very seriously before i formed you i knew you so seek god's designer like seek god's first the designer of things seek him first the original blueprints that he have for you that's number one how to get your god designed you can almost call it dna seek god first number two is break the diction of comparison because you need to run the race marked out for you according to hebrews 12 verse 1 marked out for you that race that is marked out for you don't compare activate your gifts stir up the gift of god that is within you stir up the gift that is within you according to 2nd timothy 1 verse 6 2nd timothy 1 verse 6 he says out and another thing that you need to do embrace your strength and your weaknesses some of the things you can't be strong all the time you can't be weak all the time you need to have both sides because when you prove your weaknesses it's actually where the power of god is made perfect according to 2nd corinthians 12 verse 9 our weaknesses makes us to rely on god that is the reason why you need to embrace your weakness if you don't embrace your weakness you can't you can't have god's reliance last one speak identity daily speak identity daily death death and life are in the power of the tongue proverbs 18 verse 21 i'm useless no no no no i'm very much useful in the kingdom of god i'm a nobody but i'm everybody in god's kingdom i might be useless but in god's kingdom i stand stronger than the strongest devil not devil but devil's markers those guys of them of him i want to declare this to you you are not a mistake you are a masterpiece i want to declare that you are not extra you are essential you know those people that think they are they just made for you are essential in our society you are some of the things that you thought has never happened heaven broke the mold when it made you you carry a divine dna of the living god but don't bury it don't copy others let your design speak and darkness will fly darkness will not just flee but you remember the bible says that resist the devil and he will flee by how you can resist the devil is by being the own true you father i received the revelation that i'm fearfully and wonderfully made father i repent from comparing myself to others for envying others and for neglecting what you put inside of me father i activate now my divine design that you have made me to be and i declare i made in your image i filled with your holy spirit and i'm authorized by heaven to walk in my own unique being heavenly father i also come and say to you i am a son of god and therefore i will see jesus through my unique calling as he were the son of of you and i'm saying to you i am who i am in jesus mighty name amen and amen now may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the sweet fellowship of the holy spirit rest and abide with us all until jesus comes surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever in jesus mighty name amen and amen
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