"I'm too intense, too loud, too opinionated - I need to be quieter to be godly."
How it sounds in your head: Everyone says I'm 'a lot.' Youth leaders hint I should be softer, gentler, less passionate. Maybe God made a mistake making me this fiery. Godly girls are supposed to be gentle and quiet, right?
"Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time."
-- Judges 4:4Religion twisted 1 Peter 3:4 into a personality requirement instead of a heart posture, making boldness seem ungodly.
Church culture celebrates soft-spoken girls and side-eyes the passionate ones. She's been told to 'calm down' so many times she thinks her intensity is a character flaw.
Deborah was a prophet and judge leading an entire nation - she commanded generals and won wars. God didn't ask her to tone it down; He put her intensity at the FRONT.
I REFUSE the lie that my passion is too much for God. IT IS WRITTEN that Deborah judged Israel with boldness, and God used her fire to liberate a nation. My intensity isn't a mistake - it's DESIGN. IT IS WRITTEN in Psalm 139:14 that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The BARAK blessing flows through women of STRENGTH - not shrinking violets. I am ALIVE in Christ, positioned as HEIR (Galatians 3:29), and my personality is a WEAPON in God's hands. I speak truth with FIRE because that's how He wired me.
The Father isn't waiting for you to become someone else - He's celebrating the YOU He created. He crafted your intensity on PURPOSE, and He's running toward you with assignments that NEED your roar.