This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2026. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God. 

Today we’re going to learn how to celebrate differences in one another and in other children of God around the world.

Galatians 3:28

There is [now no distinction in regard to salvation] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you [who believe] are all one in Christ Jesus, [no one can claim a spiritual superiority]. And if you belong to Christ [if you are in Him], then you are Abraham’s descendents, and [spiritual] heirs according to [God’s] promise.

Acts 17:26

And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands and territories. 

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

God created us. He created every single human being that lives on this earth—in this city of LA, in the state of California, in the nation of America, in the continent of North America, and in every continent and nation of this world. Every human being has been made in God’s image. God made every one with care, with love, and with intention. And He has given every single one equal value, similar to when parents have multiple children and they each have the same value. 

God has made every person in His image, even though everyone looks different and even though everyone’s personality is different. God is massive. He created everything. He created the whole universe. Imagine how massive God is! He created things we can’t even comprehend. 

It’s so beautiful that God made us different, that God made us unique because we all get to reflect Him in different ways–by seeing different skin colors for example, by seeing different cultures, we are seeing different parts of God. And we are all family. We are all children of God. We are all brothers and sisters. We literally are all relatives, actually biologically. Scripture says we are all descendants of Abraham. We are made from one man. We are literally blood relatives. Even though we all look so different, even though we all have different skin colors, even though many of us around the world don’t speak the same language, even though for many of us our culture is completely different, we are still related brothers and sisters. 

That is the truth: every human is made in God’s image and every human has equal value. A lot of people don’t live in this truth. Certain cultures and certain societies, including so much of America and Western culture, do not live in this truth. But this is the biblical truth that I’m sharing with you today.

If everyone is made in God’s image, that means that every single person is beautiful, because God is beautiful. That means that every single skin color is equally beautiful, that every single hair color and hair texture is equally beautiful, that every kind of body type is equally beautiful, that every height—short, tall, average, extremely short, extremely tall—is beautiful. If someone is seven feet and above, they’re made in God’s image. If someone is four feet or under, they’re made in God’s image. Every kind of eye color is equally beautiful. 

On the inside and on the outside, every single human is equally beautiful in God’s eyes, and that is the truth, the spiritual truth. Not only is every single person equally beautiful, but they are equally valuable. 

There are people who are uneducated, and they are equally valuable and equally intelligent. We have different IQs and abilities, but no one is less than, in terms of intelligence, in terms of value, of having capability and ability to do things on this earth, to use their mind. Every one is equally valuable. No one should be looked down upon. Those who are wealthy and those who are in poverty are equally valuable. People who live in Africa, in the Middle East, and in Asia are equally as valuable as those who live in America or Europe. Equally valuable! Equally important! Equally precious! Equally beautiful! Equally worthy! 

Mark 12:30

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. And the second is equally important. Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.

Love your neighbor as yourself: that’s one of the greatest commandments that God gives us. Who is your neighbor? Not just your next-door neighbor or your roommate or your family member, your brother, your sister, your spouse, and your children! Your neighbor is the person who lives across the world, who looks completely different from you, and who has a completely different culture than you that you don’t understand at all. They look as different from you as they could possibly be. Maybe they have no education. Their life is so different from yours, but they are your neighbor. And God is calling you to love them as yourself. As yourself! Not even second to yourself, but as yourself!

What does that mean practically? These neighbors that God is calling you to love, you may never talk to or meet, but He’s still calling you to love them. So what does that look like?

First of all, it means to respect them, to see them as having equal worth and value as you, no matter what they look like and no matter what their culture is. To respect them is also in the spiritual sense, to not look down on them or think of them as not as spiritual as you, maybe because of their culture. Their way of worshipping Jesus may look different than yours, and that’s okay. Respect them. You should never think, “I am better. I am a better Christian. I am more spiritually superior than this person” because of their culture, because it looks different how they praise God. No! How you love your neighbor is to respect them, to not look down upon them because they have a different culture or they’re from a different area of the world or they have a different skin color. Respect them.

To love your neighbor means to really see people that way. If you don’t automatically see them in that way, renew your mind to see them with God’s eyes. Be aware of these lies in your mind, of these wrong perceptions that you have, and reject these lies of the devil. Make the intention to renew your mind to see them the right way. That’s how you love your neighbor, especially those that you never meet around the world.

To love your neighbor means to not condemn them, to not judge them, but to have grace. It’s not anyone’s job to judge another. It’s so common in society and culture to look down upon others who are in a different culture or look down upon others simply because you don’t understand them—their way of life or their way of worshiping God. It’s very important for you to understand, “Judging these people because they’re different is not loving my neighbor.” This is never anyone’s job. It is against the law, in the spiritual realm, to judge people.

Matthew 7:1

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

It’s against the law, in the Kingdom of God, to judge another. It’s not your role. It’s God’s role.

In America and in the West, we are very privileged, but we should never mistake that to think that we are better than those who are not as privileged. We should never think that our privilege means that we are special in God’s eyes, that God loves us more, and that others are less than.

When I was 21 years old, I went on a study abroad program called Semester at Sea. It’s a study abroad program where you are on a college campus that is on a cruise ship. We had classrooms on the ship, we went to school on the ship, and then we went to 13 different nations around the world. I circumnavigated the world on this ship. We would learn, we would take classes, and then we would take field trips in these different countries. Part of our grade was going on these field trips. It was incredible. 

I was on this ship with hundreds of other Americans. There were some people from other nations too, but it was mostly Americans, and we were all around the same age. The first nation we went to was Dominica, which is a tiny island in the Caribbean. This was my first time and most of the other students’ first time in a nation that wasn’t first world. What happened in that nation was a very defining moment of my life. 

I was there just for two days, and there was a cab driver that ended up driving us around a lot throughout the two days. I think it was the second day, I vividly remember asking him, “How are you doing today, Ken?” And he said, “Blessed, man! Blessed! I brought my child to school today.” There you have to pay to bring your children to school. And just hearing him speak, you could feel the depth of his gratitude, just that he was able to bring his child to school. It was like everything was right in the world. 

That moment changed me because I had never seen an example of gratitude like that. It gave me such a big revelation of how in general, I and most of us in America and in Western culture are so entitled and prideful. We take things for granted and we are not grateful; we don’t appreciate the blessings God has given us. It hit me like a ton of bricks, and when I got back on the ship, all the people I talked to were having the same awakening. For most of us, it was our first time ever to experience a country that isn't first world. Everyone was feeling kind of angry and burdened of being an American, and thinking, “We’re spoiled. We’re entitled. We’re prideful.” It was shocking how many people were having this same revelation, but it wasn’t everyone that had the same experience that I did. It changed me, and I know it changed so many of them. 

We visited 13 other countries. We went to Ghana, South Africa, India, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Japan, and Hong Kong. As I visited these different nations, and it opened up my eyes to see that the world is so big and all these different people are so different. Their cultures are so different, but they’re beautiful! And America and Western culture isn’t better than these cultures. Every culture is different and beautiful in its own way. Cultures are a reflection of the image of God. God makes us in His image, so our creativity in life, our way of doing things, and a lot of our culture is from the image of God. Some things in culture are influenced by the devil and twisted, but there are many parts that are pure, and there’s nothing demonic about it. There’s nothing wrong with it; it’s just creativity, part of being made in the image of God.

I look back and I see how God was beautifully guiding my footsteps and preparing me, molding me, and preparing me for my calling to be an apostle to the nations, to be able to really love my spiritual children around the whole world—to see them as God sees them and to want God to use them so greatly. And God was preparing me to be able to receive impartation of anointing from my spiritual father who was in Tanzania, East Africa, and to be able to receive my calling to be his spiritual daughter. God was already starting to open my eyes to get ethnocentrism out of me and the pride of thinking that America is the best, so that I could be humble and teachable and be able to learn from an African. 

All these different cultures around the world are made in God’s image. It’s like you here—even looking at the people serving and the worship band, for example, they have different gifts. Some have instrumental abilities and they don’t have the gift of singing, and others sing, but they don’t have the instrumental, musical abilities that the instrumentalists do. This is how God creates us. Nobody has it all. We all have different gifts that reflect God and are to be used for the Kingdom.

Cultures are that way, too, because people make up culture. There are different flavors of God around the world. You can’t have all the flavors of God in America and in the West. You have to go to Africa and to Asia to find different flavors of God. 

There is something so beautiful about the culture of America that is a blessing for the world—that other cultures in the world should learn from. America has this spirit of faith to believe that anything can be possible: that you could be in poverty and your family could have been in poverty, but you can prosper when you work hard and you believe—the American dream! 

I’ve traveled all over the world and I’ve seen something so beautiful about the American work ethic, specifically customer service. Good customer service equals businesses prospering. But in other cultures where they don’t have this revelation that you can prosper even if you’ve been in poverty, there’s no motivation to have good customer service. Some people in other cultures can therefore remain stuck in poverty because of how their culture is. This is one example of something beautiful in American culture that can be a blessing for the world, for others to think, “Oh. We don’t have that in our culture. We should adopt that.” So we can bring this element of faith that you can go from poverty to prospering, and this attitude of having dominion, for the glory of God. We can bring that to their nations and to their cultures to be a blessing. 

We need to be embracing of all cultures because there are images of God, aspects of God, that God wants us to take from different cultures to learn from, to adopt, and to embrace. So now I want to talk about Africa too. Asia has aspects of this as well—but I’m just going to focus on Africa for a moment. In African culture, there is great humility in the heart and honor for others. That is a great and beautiful strength that the Western culture, by and large, does not have. I’ve been to Tanzania several times to visit my spiritual father’s church, Ngurumo Ya Upako, in Tanzania, East Africa, and so I already know this from experience, but I did some research about what I am about to share with you. 

This is what I found about comparing Western culture and Africa. Western cultures emphasize closeness and equality, but many African cultures emphasize honor, hierarchy, and reverence. However, part of the focus on equality in Western culture means people do not want to be teachable and do not have respect where respect is due. In Africa, parents are addressed in ways that emphasize honor, authority, and gratitude, not familiarity. And parents are called in such a respectful way, like, “my father, my mother.” But the way that people in Western culture treat their parents is that when you grow up, you become best friends, equal. There’s not an emphasis on respect for your parents. We think, “We’re all the same. Nobody can tell me anything. I know better.” That’s common, and that’s so opposite from Africa. You don’t do that in Africa. You don’t disrespect your parents like that. There’s humility.

It is a problem to see everybody as equal when that means you don’t have respect for those whom God has called to be leaders in your life, like your parents, your teachers, your boss, and your spiritual leaders. But in America and Western culture, it’s very common to put yourself on the same level as those who really should be respected. We need to be humble and teachable and give honor where honor is due, and know in our hearts, “I don’t know better. I need to learn from those above me. This is how I grow.” That’s humility.

So there is a problem of pride in America and in the Western culture in general. Maybe your parents didn’t raise you in that way, but you can’t escape where you live. Society is going to impact in some way. It’s like that reckoning, that awakening that myself and the classmates had, “Whoa! We’ve been taught wrong. We haven’t been taught humility in the Western culture, in Western society.”

So, I and we at 5F Church, by accepting a true prophet of God, Prophet GeorDavie, as a true prophet, we have been part of exposing a huge flaw in the American church. And that flaw is pride in thinking we are the best, that we know best, that our way of doing things in the church is best. That’s a huge flaw in general in the body of Christ in America and the Western church. 

There is this great judgment in the American church and Western church, by and large—looking down upon those who are not a part of your culture, of thinking that our way of doing church is the best. It’s not the only way, and it is not the best. America’s way of preaching is not the best and the only way. America and the West’s way of giving, of how they do offering, is not the best way and only way. America and the West’s way of praying for people is not the best way and only way. In general, how America and the West does church, from how honor is given or not given is not the best way and only way. 

People worship God in all different ways in different cultures around the world, and I’ve experienced it. I’ve ministered to so many different cultures. I ministered in an arena in Kansas City, Missouri, at Seven Hours in His Presence, and as I preached, many of the people were standing up the whole time. They were so hungry for that word, and they were on the edge of their seats or standing because they believed, “This is the word of God. I need this, and I want to respect it, and I’m grateful for the word of God coming forth.” It was beautiful. Now that’s not the only way though to receive the word, but it was beautiful.

Some cultures, some people prefer to receive the word sitting down. They’re focused, and if somebody stands up around them, that’s a distraction to them. And there’s nothing wrong with thinking, “Oh, that’s kind of a distraction. I prefer if everyone is just sitting down.” There is nothing wrong with that—that’s your culture. But if you were raised where you were standing up all the time, it wouldn’t be a distraction. So the way some mostly sit down and the way some mostly stand up—there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s different cultures. 

If you have pride and judgment, you can so easily twist it to think, “My way is better.” If you’re sitting and you see someone standing up, you can think “Ugh! I’m distracted. They’re being extra. You don’t really need to stand up every time. Can they stop? I just want to focus on the word, and this is distracting. There is no way that God would like this because it’s obviously distracting me, and it’s distracting other people. Maybe they are being used by the devil. Maybe that’s a witch that keeps standing up.” And so now you’ve created this whole culture to be demonic or to be operating in witchcraft because their way of receiving the word is different than yours. 

I could go through every different aspect of church: offering, how you say thank you to someone and honor them, how you follow God, how to do church, how to do the different things that God is instructing us to do. There are these different ways, and most of the time, there is nothing wrong with any of the different ways—it’s just different culture

There is another aspect I will share with you about how church is done in Africa, at least in my spiritual father’s church, that is so different from America and Western culture: how they give offerings. They give with this revelation: that the word coming forth through the pulpit is alive, it’s powerful, it’s God’s word, and there is power in sowing. Something powerful happens when we sow. The main thing is that God’s kingdom advances through our seed, and it’s also God’s way of releasing blessings to us: you sow and then you reap. 

We need certain things on this earth to survive, and God wants to give it to us supernaturally. One of the main ways that He gives it to us supernaturally (not the only way, but one of the main ways) is through us sowing, and He then releases a reaping. That’s what happens when you sow, and there’s power when you sow to advance the kingdom and receive from God.  

In Tanzania, in my spiritual father’s church, they give with this revelation that there’s so much power in the words released and there’s also so much power in their seed. So they connect their seed to the words being spoken. It’s how they show value. They think, “I’m not just sitting here listening to a message—I am grabbing this word. This specific word that was just preached from the altar, I connect to that. I value it. I receive it freely. I don’t have to pay to receive the word, obviously, but I want to give thanks to God with action, so I’m going to bring a seed up to that altar and connect myself spiritually with this action of sacrifice to that word that’s coming forth.” So at my spiritual father’s church, throughout the sermon, throughout the whole service, people are randomly, continuously, bringing seeds to the altar. That’s the culture. 

Some people have traveled to my spiritual father’s church, and they see the beauty in that, and they want to adopt it into their own lives. We should embrace and adopt some aspects of cultures sometimes because it’s an image of God—it’s a revelation God has given. So that’s why some people do this at 5F Church, but if you don’t do this, that’s fine. What’s important is that we worship God. What’s important is that we give to God. What’s important is that we listen to the word. Religion makes things so complicated, but following God is so simple: God looks at the heart. He doesn’t look at the technicalities. You can do things in different ways, according to different cultures, according to what you like. Some of you listen to all different kinds of worship music. It doesn’t matter; what matters is that you worship God. 

Africa has this culture of honor and respect. They respect their elders. They respect their parents, and that has enabled so many of them to be humble and give honor where honor is due, like it says in the Bible. It has enabled them to humble themselves before servants of God and come to this place of gratitude of: “Thank you for being obedient to be a vessel of God and for sacrificing.” You have to surrender your whole life to be an anointed vessel of God; there’s a cost. And so it enables people to be able to humble themselves and put themselves under you as they see, “I needed you to go before me so I could receive what I’ve received today. Thank you. And I acknowledge that you’ve sacrificed more than me. I acknowledge that you carry anointing that I don’t have, that I needed to receive from God through you as a vessel.” That’s what honor and respect is for servants of God. They really grasp this in Africa. 

Humility is how you receive everything from God. It’s how your spiritual eyes open. It’s how He can entrust you with anointing. It’s how He lifts you. He lifts the humble. So people in Africa are able to receive so much more than many people in America and Western cultures, by and large, simply because they’re humble and they’re able to honor. They’re able to respect— to have respect and show respect. And God sees that: He sees how they honor, how they respect, and that enables God to be able to trust them with anointing. Africa is known for many miracles happening, and the biggest reason why is because people, by and large, are more humble there than in America and Western cultures. And part of that humility looks like honor, giving honor where honor is due, honoring servants of God. 

A big secret of why I’ve been so humbled and honored to be a vessel of God, of His power—where we hear these beautiful testimonies of people being healed and freed as they come to 5F or events—is that I’ve given honor to my spiritual father, unashamedly. I respect him greatly, I honor him greatly, and that enables God to be able to release anointing. It’s not so hard and difficult to receive anointing but you really have to go against the American and Western culture of pride to be able to humble yourself enough to where God can see you are humble and He can entrust you with anointing. 

By and large, in America and in the West, people confuse and misinterpret honoring servants of God for worship. But most people in Africa who bow down, who put a knee down as they honor a servant of God, are not worshipping the servant of God; they are purely honoring them. Throughout the Bible, there are examples of people kneeling down to show honor to a servant of God. Joseph had the dream where his brothers were kneeling down to him, and they were so angry, so jealous! But the reason was because they knew that meant that he was anointed servant of God and them kneeling down meant that they were showing honor to him; and they wanted to be at the same level or higher than Joseph. That was the root of why they got so angry. They didn’t get angry because he was accusing them of worshipping him. Then that dream came to pass, and they did end up kneeling, but they were kneeling to show honor. In their culture, that’s how you show honor. Even in the New Testament, there’s a Scripture where people are putting seeds at the feet of the apostles. That was showing honor to their leaders. That’s why they didn’t just hand them in their hands. That's the New Testament, the new covenant. 

Luke 18:9-14

Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else: “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’ I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

I relate to this tax collector. One of the biggest attacks that I’ve faced, ever since I stepped into my calling, was this same kind of Pharisee judging me. I went to my spiritual father’s church and in their culture they kneel down, not to worship a servant of God, but to show honor. But in America, generally, the culture is people just verbally saying, “Thank you for being an obedient vessel of God. Because of your obedience, God was able to use you, and touch me, bless me, etc..” But in Africa, when you honor a servant of God, there is a physical aspect to it of kneeling down. And it’s literally disrespectful to not do that because it would be like not saying “Thank you” verbally here. It’s literally disrespectful to not kneel down in respect and honor, not worship, in Africa. There’s nothing wrong with that because they’re not worshipping the person, just like in the Bible. There are many other examples, and I won’t go through them all today, in the Bible, both the Old Testament and New Testament, of people kneeling down with honor and respect, not worship. 

So when I went to Tanzania, East Africa, I didn’t even blink an eye—of course I’m going to kneel down, not in worship to my spiritual father, but giving honor and respect. I was so happy to. In fact, I saw the beauty in it. I saw it comes from that heart of reverence, of humility and reverence, where one thinks, “I’m in awe of what you’ve done for me as a vessel of God.” How do I express thanks for your obedience to God? 

God chooses to use vessels. When we give honor to vessels, it blesses God. Also because the devil attacks the anointed servants of God the most, so that’s combatted through honor. When we’re quiet, people can’t see the fruits. But when we testify, “I received this and this and this through your ministry,” it destroys the lies of the devil that speaks against anointed servants of God, that says, “It’s fake, it’s demonic, it’s witchcraft”—all of those same lies that were spoken about Jesus. When we honor servants of God, it blesses God! It’s obedience to God. So I was so happy to kneel down with honor and respect to my spiritual father in Tanzania, East Africa, back when I first visited. But there’s a video of that and this video has gone all over the world. I don’t know how many people have seen it but, it’s been twisted and people are being just like this Pharisee, saying, “Oh! I’m so happy I’m not like her, worshipping a man.” I’ve seen it again and again—modern day Pharisees. The root of it is pride, self-righteousness, and judgment. For some, the root of it is also jealousy and that comes with pride, thinking, “I am so much better and I know you’re not supposed to do that. That’s not how you show honor. That’s not right. That’s wrong. That's demonic.” It’s just like this example in this Scripture, isn’t it? 

The biggest attack on believers today is not the devil. The biggest attack on believers today, in the body of Christ today, is other believers who have pride, who have judgment, and who are like this Scripture we just read about: that Pharisee who looked down upon other believers, who judge other believers, who say, “That’s not right! That’s demonic! My way is the right way to worship God and follow God. That’s wrong! Don’t follow that person; don’t follow that leader." And it brings division and confusion, and fighting in the body of Christ. Then the devil is able to really take control of people who are ignorant, who aren’t aware of his schemes. And he’s able to hold back people from receiving the power of God, from receiving where God is calling them to receive from. 

This is a serious problem in the body of Christ today, in America and in the West. The devil has really won in this area, as of now. But you will know the truth and the truth will set you free (John 8:32). 

It's time, through the sharp word of God coming forth today, for eyes to open up in America and the West, of their ignorance, their pride, and their self-righteousness—not all, but many.  The root of it is looking down upon others: pride, not being able to see with an open heart and thinking, “Maybe they just have a different way of doing things. Maybe they’re just different. Maybe they just have a different culture.” God is grieved at the disrespect that Americans and Westerners, by and large, show—the great disrespect to Him and to His servants around the world, to His people around the world of other cultures. He is truly grieved. I know this with all of my heart. 

Proverbs 14:12 

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

‭‭This way of pride, of looking down upon others, seems right. A lot of people think,“I’m doing what God sent me to do. I’m exposing what’s wrong.” Some people are led astray but this way leads to death, to spiritual death. Pride comes before the fall (Proverbs 16:18). 

Christian Americans and Westerners should have the fear of God. The fear of God is missing so heavily in the American and Western body of Christ. It is so badly missing. We should think, “I can’t go out of God’s will. I can’t displease God. I can’t judge another person; that’s God's creation. I don’t know best! I've been wrong a lot of times in the past. I don’t want to be wrong and judge someone wrongly. And it’s not my job to judge. God says not to judge. I’m going to be judged by my words! God's going to judge me by my words that I speak. I don’t want to wrongly judge somebody. I don’t want to speak against somebody. I don’t want to grieve God by speaking against His precious child. I don’t want to grieve God by speaking against His anointed. I can’t dare to put myself on God’s level.” 

In America, everyone’s just equal with one another without reverence and respect for one another. This is the root of it. That culture has seeped into how people see God: “buddy buddy” rather than “Lord.” They treat God as a relative, an uncle, a brother. They put themselves on God's level. That’s why it’s so easy for them to judge. Judging is God’s job! But it’s easy for them to put themselves on God’s level. “Hey God, I’m going to help you judge today”. It’s very bad. It’s very foolish. It’s the highest level of foolishness. 

We should have this fear of God and think, “I can’t dare to put myself on God’s level.” We should live in the fear of God for our salvation. Not that we should be worrying, “Will I go to heaven?” but a reverence. A reverence for God, that we could go to heaven, but also reverence just to please Him every day. So many don’t have the fear of God and they abuse God’s grace so much. God’s Grace is so massive that people take advantage of it, but they don’t realize that there are serious consequences to your actions when you don’t repent.

People might judge somebody, be self-righteous, and speak against somebody, and they don’t find the fire of God immediately coming on their lives. It’s because of the grace of God, but I wouldn’t abuse it if I were you. There are consequences. 

It’s like Pharaoh, who was given so many chances, but eventually that ran out. Eventually, enough was enough, because God's plans had to prevail. It was the same thing with Saul. For years, he was chasing David and God’s grace allowed him to do it for eight to ten years. That’s the grace of God. But eventually the time ran out. 

I think a lot of people today are abusing God's grace because they think they can just abuse it forever without consequences. IIt’s time to have the fear of God, body of Christ. 

Matthew 7:1-5 

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

‭‭To love your neighbor is to not condemn and judge. It is not your job to look at the speck in your brother's eye; that is God’s job. Period. The plank is bigger than a speck, and Jesus is saying, “Get the plank out of your eye before you think about the speck in your brother's eye.” It’s bigger because having pride and self-righteousness and judgment is a bigger sin than whatever the sin of the person you’re judging. Because it’s wrong to judge people. It’s God’s job, not your job, and if you’re doing that, there’s pride there. Pride is what leads to destruction. Often, there’s not even a speck. Jesus had no speck in His eye but the Pharisees were pointing every day at the speck in His eye. That’s why it’s not our job, because often we’re judging wrongly. That’s why we need to have the fear of God, body of Christ. Because it’s a big deal to judge wrongly. It’s not something to play around with. 

Jesus’ enemies, when He was walking upon the earth, were fellow believers. They weren’t nonbelievers who wanted Jesus to be stopped, arrested, tortured, and crucified. Some of them hopped on board because the Pharisees twisted and contorted the truth and judged Jesus wrongly. They presented this twisted false accusation about Jesus, and that’s how they helped to get Jesus crucified. So the body of Christ needs to wake up and have the fear of God so that you don’t make the same mistakes as the Pharisees. We should all read the word of God and have this serious fear of God: “No matter what, I cannot be like the Pharisees. No matter what, I cannot judge people, be prideful, or be self-righteous. This is so dangerous.”

God wants us to celebrate our differences. It’s time to be okay with people having differences, and to stop seeing them as wrong. People do things differently than you; that’s okay. People worship God differently than you; that’s okay! Love them. People worship God in a way you don’t really understand; it doesn’t really make sense to you; that’s okay, love them! It’s time for us to celebrate our differences and love all of our brothers and sisters in Christ. 

Most of the people that need this aren’t sitting in here or watching right now. But I pray that those who need this will hear this. But many of us live in America or in the West, and we’ve been swimming in this culture. We’ve been immersed in this culture. It affects us all. I was raised by the most humble and pure parents, but I still felt gross when I went to Dominica. I felt like, “I’m entitled compared to this. I’m not grateful, compared to this.”

We can all grow in this area, and God is calling all of you to grow in this area. This is so prevalent in the body of Christ today: this pride, looking down upon others, self-righteousness, and judgment. So you really have to be diligent to not take in those wrong voices. You have to be diligent about getting the old wine out of you. Many of you grew up in these environments in the church, and you have spiritual work to do.

I believe this word will be life changing for you. God will use this word to transform you to be more humble and pure, so He can pour out more of His spirit, more of His anointing, and more of His light in you and upon you, and change can come to the body of Christ. Change can come to America and to the West through you, through us, as we shine with humility, with honor, with respect, with the fear of God. 

I want to speak to every person here who is not white, and I want to say that if anyone ever treated you differently because of your skin color—if anyone looked down upon you, if anyone judged you wrongly, if anyone degraded you, if anyone abused you, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that happened to you. You didn’t deserve it, and I declare that you are equal to me, to every white person. You are equally beautiful. You have equal value. And I love you so much. I think you are so beautiful and so perfectly made by God. This is God’s heart. 

I declare this must be the way in the American and Western Church. I declare that at 5F Church, we will be a people that reflect heaven, where everyone is treated with respect. Everyone is treated equally, with equal value, in Jesus’ name. I see you. God sees you. 

I want to speak over every person right now who has been discriminated against, who’s been looked past, who’s been looked down upon, who has experienced racism—I speak all of that hurt, all of that pain, to go, in Jesus’ name. And I speak everything that came in you, the lies you believed about your identity that were wrong because of that abuse, because of racism, because of discrimination, they must go from you now, in Jesus’ name. I declare that you are made perfectly. You are made beautifully, inside and out. There’s nothing wrong with you. You reflect God. You have the image of God. Let your beauty and light shine to the world, in Jesus’ name. Thank you, Jesus! Hallelujah! 

And I want to say right now to every different culture out there—Asian cultures, European cultures, Middle Eastern cultures, Australian cultures, New Zealand cultures, all types of different island cultures, South American cultures, Central American cultures, Canadian cultures, every culture out there—your culture is beautiful! You are beautiful. Thank you for the image of God that you carry that’s a blessing to us in the body of Christ, that’s a blessing to the world. Thank you, Africa. Thank you, Jesus, for Africa. Thank you, Jesus, for Africans. Thank you, Jesus, for the revelations that you’ve given Africans, that you’ve given my spiritual father, Prophet GeorDavie! And thank you for opening up a door for that revelation to come to America! Thank you, Jesus, for this precious anointing! Thank you, Jesus, for this precious anointing you poured upon Prophet GeorDavie, my spiritual father. Thank you, Jesus, for imparting that anointing through him to me to bless the people in LA and America and all over the world. Thank you, Jesus! May they be blessed. May Africa be blessed! May Tanzania be blessed! May Ngurumo Ya Upako be blessed! May Prophet GeorDavie be blessed! And may all of the negativity, all of the negative words people have spoken because of racism, because of self-righteousness, of looking down upon those cultures, may this be turned around, and may they be blessed more for all the persecution they’ve endured. May many blessings come upon them! Many, many, many blessings, in Jesus’ name! Amen!