Role Models are people we aspire to be like, someone who encourages us to live a life worth living. They teach us wisdom and principles that will last us a lifetime and we can now pass on. We look upon such people, watch their every move and soon we become like them in many ways. I believe these people are not people pleasers in the sense of when it comes to correction and truth. They encourage, they edify but they also correct and bring into order the chaos.
We all have role models in our lives whether we realise it or not. For some of us it is our earthly parents, to some our friends. Other people look up to leaders and some to total strangers. These people have a huge amount of influence in our lives on different levels. If we look around in our communities and our nation, we see the lack of good role models. All I see are people who live reckless and broken lives who carries influence and young people look up to them. This constant cycle begins to run from one bad role model to the next and so on. Why if their are bad role models, why are there not good ones? My question today to you who reads this blog post, who do you look up to? Who is that one person or group of people you aspire to be like? I am not saying become like these people entirely, because you can never be them. We have been blessed with an unique individuality and we can only be the best we can ever be. Instead, allow these people to be the encouragements in your walk of life, allow these people to teach you things that will help you grow.
I have seen how people have looked up to people and have idolised them because of their great works in this life, all good and well, but when these people fall all their followers begin to fall. I am not saying idolise these people, but look up to them. We must remember that any human being is prone to fail and we are not faithful, we don't carry it in our nature, only God does. I believe just as in the secular world, that God has been raising up generals and role models in the faith throughout the generations. For the Israelites it was Moses. For us South Africans it was Nelson Mandela.
Many of my role models are people that don't know me on a personal level but they encourage me in ways they could never understand. Sadly, most of these people are women who I aspire to be like. Not that there are not any good men who can be a role model to me, but I just don't feed off from what they bring to the table.
Let me make a few mentions of role models on a bigger scale that I look up to, and these are people on the other side of the ocean.
First I would like to honour the beautiful, fun woman Kim Walker-Smith.
She is a worship leader and pastor who serves under the Jesus Culture banner in the USA. I had the privilege of sitting under her ministry once at His People N1 and boy was that amazing. Furthermore I just feed off from what is on the inside of her from YOUtube and other platforms.
Next up on my list is Suzy Yaraei from Morning Star ministries in the USA.
She is also a worship leader who carries an amazing anointing in worship and carries a powerful sense of prophetic freedom in her worship. She has shifted our generation in ways not often seen. She has mentored the likes of Kim Walker-Smith and Molly Williams at some point and some of Bethel's people like William Matthews etc.
Now this lady has been such a blessing in my life and she carries a depth to her that not many has attained. I am speaking about Misty Edwards.
Many people do not gravitate to the depth of her worship and it is not really contemporary in any way. I believe this woman has been a forerunner in the faith and she has spear headed the freedom of spontaneous worship and Word singing under the International House Of Prayer in Kansas City, USA. She walks out the fasted lifestyle and a life that is separated unto God.
Next we have some people from the Bethel Ministry in Redding California.
Above we see the likes of Brian and Jenn Johnson the father and mother of Bethel Worship movement. Following them are power tag team and best friends in Bethel Music Steffany Frizzell Gretzinger and Amanda Cook. I simply cannot elaborate on these people as they are deep in the depths of who they are. You can search for them on Facebook.
Lastly, we have the infamous Taya Smith from Hillsongs United and Hillsong Young and Free band from Sydney, Australia. This woman is a beast in vocals and she carries her heart in her worship.
As you can see, most of these people are women and all of them are in fact worship leaders. I feed off these people, look up to them and hang on most of the words they say. As much as I want to be like them is as much as I want to be myself. Some of these people are deep, some are just plain amazing, but all of these people I greatly look up to.
For some we have local role models and to others we have international role models. The question still remains, who do you look up to that you can aspire to be like? Find good, great and pure role models who will teach you things never to be forgotten. In turn, who can you be a role model to today? You really don't know who is watching and paying attention to every detail of your life. Be someone's role model today and shift things in the seen and unseen.
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Shalom.
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