When God raises you up, the Holy Spirit transforms your habits, speech, and how you relate to people. Others will notice you're different and may distance themselves. The speaker says to embrace it: being strange is a sign you're becoming a vessel for God's use.
When God favors you, when God begins to raise you, when God begins to affect your life in such a way that others around you start to become transformed, then you're gonna stand out. And when you stand out, people are gonna perceive you as different, as strange. You're not gonna be doing the same things that everyone else is doing. You're not gonna be comfortable with the things that everyone else is comfortable with. You're not gonna be able to say the things that you used to say. You're not gonna be able to go the places that you used to go. Your habits are going to change. And because of that, you're going to stand out and you're going to be different. And you may have noticed this, that as God begins to purify you, as God begins to make you a vessel fit for his use, people start to sneer at you. They look at you a little bit different. They're distancing themselves from you. They're no longer comfortable around you. And maybe they're even talking about you behind your back, talking about how different you are now, how strange, how peculiar. And that's the truth of the matter. When you surrender your life to the precious Holy Spirit, and as his power begins to flow through you, You become strange, different, otherworldly. You're influenced by the heavenly realm, not necessarily by the earthly realm anymore. Don't despise that. Don't regret having that. Embrace that. Celebrate that. Because of that difference in you, that difference is going to bring praise to our Heavenly Father. People will glorify God because of the different way that you live and exist in this world.
