A minister warns against copying another person's calling or preaching style. God has already given you your own gifts and battles to fight. Wearing borrowed armor collapses when your Goliath appears.
Here is the— the Lord has already determined your calling. Stay pure. Someone else's calling will kill you on the battlefield of your own. The reason so many ministries collapse is because pastors are wearing armor God never gave them. They are preaching someone else's preaching. They are building someone else's church. They are mimicking someone else's anointing, trying to sound like this person, trying to dress like this person. And when their Goliath shows up And Goliath always shows up. You do know that, don't you? Goliath always shows up. The borrowed armor they're wearing fails because it was never tested on them. I love what C.S. Lewis said. C.S. Lewis said, the greatest gift God could give us is the gift to be ourselves. You remember that old song, that old funky song that A song sung by Sly and the Family Stone. He said, thank you for letting me be myself. Again, be who God called you to be. Ah, don't be a copy. Don't be a clone. Be who God called you to be. C.S. Lewis said the greatest gift God could give us is the gift to be ourselves. The grace to stop performing. The grace to take off The armor that was never measured for you. The grace to walk into your battle with your own staff and your own stones that God has given you to fight the enemy.
