This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA on January 16, 2025. Below is a word for word transcription of the message as if Apostle Kathryn is writing this to you. 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.  

God's heart, God's dream is for His people to know Him. For all people in this world, to know His love, to encounter Him in power, to be healed and delivered, to be equipped to be powerful vessels of God, victorious over the devil. That is God's whole heart. But our hearts aren’t naturally that. We have to deal with the flesh, we have to deal with our selfish nature. All of us! It is not immediate over night when you give your life to Jesus that your heart is aligned with God's completely. So the beautiful part of this process and the years of process time is that every day you obey, you show up, you do what God is calling you to do, He changes you, He changes your heart, He gives you desires you didn’t have before.

And that’s what happened for me: When I first started preaching, I had zero desire to preach. I loved to see people be touched by God’s power but I had zero desire to pray for people. I just wanted to watch them encounter God’s power. So I had a heart for people, but I didn’t have a heart to minister at all. But as I kept showing up, week after week after week, God changed my heart. But that changing of the heart literally happened by just consistently obeying, consistently showing up, consistently choosing God, choosing what He wanted me to do. That’s how the change came. So fast forward 4.5 years, now I have a heart to minister. Now my passion to see people know Jesus and encounter Him has grown so much. That prepared me for the greater things, the greater responsibility, the greater cost. So instead of being like: "This cost is too much, I think I want to give up.", instead I was like: "Of course! Of course there is a cost, it is worth it." When it was hard, when I was tired, when the persecution was tiring and so difficult and painful, God had made my heart so passionate for His kingdom, to please Him and to serve His people, that that passion in my heart outweighed the pain and discomfort of the cost, of persecution, of the cost of so much time that I don’t have to myself anymore, but it’s  W O R K  W O R K  W O R K  for God. You see?

That preparation God gave me helped me to always have the right perspective. One time when I faced the worst persecution, I was fighting tears constantly, just because it was painful, not out of weakness but just because it was heartbreaking. The persecution was such betrayal by several people in a public manner and was lies completely made up about me. And the very next day after that happened, and it was continuing to happen for many days consecutively online before everyone, I was ministering a two day Conference. And so of course I didn’t want to do that. I was fighting tears. But I showed up anyway. And because God had prepared me, I was able to be strong. I was able to have the fierce lioness heart and remember that God has called me for this. His people here in Kentucky, Louisville, where I was at the time, they need His power. There are people who are oppressed. These people, they don’t believe the lies. They want Jesus. They don’t want to follow the Pharisees. They want Jesus. And God has sent me there to release His power to them. So this is serious. This is a big deal.

Who cares what people say about me? Who cares about my feelings? Who cares that I am trying to fight tears and stuff? Who cares that I would rather just lay in the bed and have a moment? Who cares?

This is critical. These people are so much more important than all of that junk, how I feel, how my feelings are hurt. You know?

But I can’t tell you that I’d be strong and that I’d have that heart and would be able to have the right perspective, if I didn’t go through that preparation time; God’s perfect preparation process, that was the perfect amount of days, the perfect amount of years, the perfect amount of seconds.

And in those moments we are like: "God, why isn’t the promise here yet?"

He is like: "I know what I am doing. You need this, or else when it comes you’ll lose it. You won’t be able to do what I have called you to do."