The Courage to be Different

I have a word of prophetic encouragement from the Lord for you today: 

Have the courage to be different! Be true to what resonates in your spirit. 

Don’t let others stifle or edit the song you are called to sing. 

There are many voices contending in your ear to go this way or go that way but I, the sovereign Lord, will reveal the path you are to take as you come into the light of My presence. It will become a clear picture to you. 

In the past you were distressed by those who did not stay, but now you will be surprised at who shows up. They are helpers in your harvest. Stay true to the heavenly vision. Though it has tarried, it now comes to you in waves and stages according to your capacity to steward the increase. 

This is really a word that speaks to being true to who you are and your calling.

If you want to orchestrate heaven’s symphony you must be willing to turn your back on the audience of earth. 

Sometimes God puts His people into a thing called “isolation processing.” It is a place where you go into your own wilderness so you can find God's voice and find yours! You can experience this “isolation” while still surrounded by people.

It takes courage to believe in your music, the symphony you hear, and to be faithful to write it out accurately so that others can hear it also. 

When you are true to the one thing that you alone were created to do, you tap into an inner strength, a “gut certainty” that you are doing the right thing, even when nobody around you fully understands. This “state” of being is the most powerful in the world. It is an aspect of God speaking out through the design you are exhibiting.

Remember this: You are designed for purpose and driven by passion. 

If you are driven by purpose but have no passion, your work is mediocre and never the best. If driven by passion without purpose, you’re a hedonist. If driven by both, you are a creative force in a universe waiting to cooperate with you.

Steve Jobs lamented that in most people’s vocabulary’s “design” means veneer. “It’s a word used for interior decorating,” such as the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. “But to me,” Jobs said, “nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” 

Steve said, “To design something you really have to get it! Be passionately committed to thoroughly understand something. The design of the Mac was not in how it looked…it was how it worked.” 

Be free from the opinions of others while you are in this transition. The delivery room is ugly but the baby is beautiful. Turn your back on the unresolved problems of the past. The music you are about to conduct will change everything in your future.