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READING YOUR ROLE IN THE STORY

Imagine your life as a film. A sweeping epic. A quiet character drama. A psychological thriller. Perhaps all three. And now picture this: you’re not just the lead actor—you are also the writer, the director, the producer. But here’s the twist: for years, you’ve been performing a script you didn’t write.

Parents, teachers, governments, churches, partners, and culture at large handed you a pre-written character sheet: “You are the anxious one,” “You’re the caretaker,” “You’re the failure,” “You’re the breadwinner,” “You’re not leadership material,” “You’ll never amount to much,” or “You’ll never find love; you will remain alone.”

You accepted the role because you didn’t know you had the authority and the duty to say no.

And so you began acting out a storyline. You attracted scenes, conflicts, and supporting characters that matched the script you’d unconsciously rehearsed since childhood. Your “beliefs”—quiet, persistent thoughts repeated over time—became the fate you feared or the ceiling you couldn’t break. But what if the movie of your life doesn’t have to end that way?

WHEN YOU ARE A CHILD, YOU CANNOT DISCERN THE SCRIPT

When you are a child, you are handed a script before you even know how to read. You don’t get to vet it. You don’t get to challenge it. You don’t yet have the critical faculties to ask: “Is this true?” or “Is this good?” or “Is this God,” or even “Is this what I want?”

Innocent and impressionable, you absorb the script handed to you by those with the most authority in your world—parents, pastors, teachers, government figures, media voices, and society at large. And because you are wired for survival and connection, you internalise it without question.

You learn lines like:

“Be quiet.”
“Don’t dream too big.”
“People like us don’t get ahead.”
“God is watching—He’s mostly disappointed.”
“The government knows best.”
“This is just how life is.”
“Work hard. Keep your head down. Retire at 65.”
“You’re too much. You’re not enough.”
“Security is better than freedom.”

These are not merely sentences. They are spells. They shape your identity. They limit your destiny. They bind you and strip you of agency and freedom. They tell you which stage you’re allowed to stand on and which roles are off-limits. And though many of the people who gave you these lines were well-meaning, they themselves were just passing down scripts they never questioned. They never knew freedom or agency either.

You inherited a script of slavery, dressed up as “normal life.”

A script rooted in:

• Obedience without discernment.
• Performance without purpose.
• Survival without sovereignty.

And so the child grows up wearing invisible chains. They become the adult who works a job they hate, stays in relationships that drain them, lives in fear of being “too bold” or “too loud” or “too free.” Why? Because the script says that’s dangerous. The script says, “Don’t rock the boat.”

But the script lies.

The world you see around you—politically, religiously, and economically—is the outworking of a master script designed to keep people compliant. It’s a story where a few direct the many and where your role is to be a cog in a machine, not a character in a great divine epic.

Even in many churches, the script has become one of passivity and performance. Don’t speak unless spoken to. Let the “man of God” interpret everything for you. Wait your turn. Ask for permission. Don’t question the system. Don’t expect too much.

But here’s the scandalous truth:

Jesus never came to recruit extras for a religious pageant. He came to raise co-authors for a Kingdom revolution. He came to restore agency and freedom.

And if you don’t wake up to that truth, you’ll spend your life playing a role you never chose, in a story that was never yours, all while blaming fate for an ending you were conditioned to expect.

THE INMATES BECOME THE GUARDS

Once you begin rewriting your script—once you dare to believe for more, live boldly, speak with authority, and step outside the boundaries you were raised in—you will quickly discover an uncomfortable truth:

People don’t like it when you prosper.

Not because they’re evil. Not because they want you to suffer. But because your freedom confronts the prison they’ve made peace with.

They were taught the same script you were. And they accepted it. They settled. They stopped dreaming. They told themselves it was noble to suffer and unspiritual to rise. And now, when you choose a different role—when you choose the script of “freedom, abundance, favour, authority, and dominion”—your presence becomes disruptive.

You become a walking contradiction. A threat. A mirror.

You don’t even have to say anything. Just your existence outside the prison walls is enough to provoke discomfort. Why? Because it reminds them they could leave too. It exposes the fact that the door has always been open—but they’ve chosen to stay.

And so the inmates become the guards.

They quote the old lines at you:

“Don’t get ahead of yourself.”
“That’s not what God meant.”
“You’re being arrogant.”
“You’re drifting into deception.”
“You’re just lucky.”
“Don’t forget where you came from.”

But they are no longer warning you—they are policing you. Enforcing the old script they’re still bound to. They do it in churches, in families, in boardrooms, in friendship circles. Any sign of spiritual or financial elevation must be explained away, punished, or contained.

But you weren’t born to be guarded by guilt. You weren’t born to die in someone else’s fear-based screenplay. You were born to author a new story.

A story in which “according to your faith it will be done unto you” becomes more than a verse—it becomes a manifesto. A decision. A daily declaration.

You must love people, yes. But do not shrink for them. Do not wear their shackles just to make them feel safe.

THE WORLD IS REFLECTING YOUR SCRIPT

“According to your faith be it unto you.” – Matthew 9:29

Jesus spoke this as He healed two blind men. Notice: He didn’t say “According to My power,” or “According to chance.” No—He placed the determining factor squarely in their belief.

This is no small theological point. It’s a metaphysical law. A principle of divine economy. What you believe deep down, the universe mirrors back. Not what you wish, or what you say when others are listening. But what you inwardly, consistently expect—that’s what the script delivers.

Or are we saying that Jesus didn’t know what He was talking about? SI this verse just a hollow platitude or an empty hope?

And if you think that sounds harsh, listen to what God said to the Israelites in the wilderness:

“As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you.” – Numbers 14:28

They said they’d die in the wilderness, and so they did—not because God desired it, but because they scripted it. Spoke it. Believed it.

You are not cursed. You’re just acting in agreement with a cursed script.

But here’s the hope: scripts can be rewritten.

EXPECTATION IS FAITH IN DISGUISE

Faith isn’t a feeling. Faith is expectation.

Your expectations have been set by the inner script you’ve rehearsed your whole life.

Let’s be brutally honest for a moment: if you don’t like how your “movie” is unfolding—the relationships, the finances, the work, the health—then it’s time to interrogate the script. The problem is not fate or devils or difficult people. It’s the role you’ve accepted and the storyline you’re subconsciously fulfilling.

What are the recurring “lines” in your internal monologue? What’s the recurring scene that keeps showing up no matter where you move or who you befriend? What character archetype are you playing that no longer serves the destiny written in heaven for you?

You are not the victim of life. You are the storyteller of your reality. Your faith, and your faith alone, is creating your reality.

YOU CAN FORK THE STORY—STARTING NOW

When a film takes an unexpected turn, we call it a plot twist. Let this be yours. Right here, right now: fork your story. And if someone tells you this is nonsense, tell them to go an fork themselves :)

You do not have to wait for better circumstances to rewrite the script. That’s not how it works. In fact, your new beliefs will create the new circumstances. The world is a feedback loop. Change the input (your expectation), and the output (your experience) must shift to match.

But how will your story change? By striving harder? By gathering more resources? No—“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the LORD of hosts (Zechariah 4:6). Your transformation is not fuelled by force, but by faith—faith in the new script God breathes into your spirit. When you believe differently, the Spirit of God begins rewriting your inner reality, and your outer life must follow suit.

“Be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…” – Romans 12:2

Transformation is not magic. It’s not accident. It’s deliberate authorship. You must now become a conscious screenwriter of your own identity. Stop asking, “What will they let me be?” Start asking, “What new story do I want to write?”

That new character—the bold one, the generous one, the successful one, the joyful one—is already in you. But they’ve been buried under years of lines that didn’t fit your voice.

PRACTICAL REWRITING: HOW TO BECOME THE NEW YOU

This is not mere theory. Neuroscience confirms it: your brain has hardwired your habits, thoughts, and expectations to match the script you’ve rehearsed. But through neuroplasticity, you can retrain it. Here’s how:

1. Identify the current role: Write down who you’ve been told you are and who you’ve believed yourself to be.
2. Expose the script: Pay attention to internal dialogue and beliefs that support that role.
3. Write the new script: Choose new declarations (homología) that align with the identity you want to walk in.
4. Visualise the scenes: Imagine, in detail, the outcomes of this new script.
5. Rehearse it daily: Speak it aloud. See it. Feel it. Until the brain accepts it as the new default.

You are not pretending—you are becoming. This is not delusion; it’s transformation through agreement with truth.

The moment you believe the new story, the world will begin to organise around it, and reflect the new reality back to you not by your own effort by by the invisible hand of God moved by your faith

According to your faith—your script—it will be done to you. Not, maybe done. Not, half done. It will be done.

DEVOTIONAL PRAYER

Heavenly Father,

I thank You that I am not a powerless actor in a script written by fear, shame, or the world’s limitations. You are the Author and Finisher of my faith, and I now partner with Your vision for my life. I renounce every false identity I have accepted. I choose to believe Your report over the voices of the past. Rewire my thoughts, reshape my expectations, and realign my heart with Heaven’s truth. I step into the role You designed for me—boldly, joyfully, and faithfully. Let it be done to me according to my faith.

By the authority of Jesus, Amen.

MEMORY VERSE

“Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.” – Matthew 9:29

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION

1. What inner “script” have I been unknowingly rehearsing, and how has it shaped my current life?
2. What role have I accepted that no longer aligns with who I believe I’m meant to be?
3. What would a new “character” look like in my story? What attributes would I embody?
4. How can I begin practically rewriting my internal script this week?
5. Do I truly believe that my faith and expectation shape my reality—or am I still acting like a victim?

FINALLY

Of course, you can ignore all of this. You can keep playing the role handed to you—tolerating a subpar life, rehearsing lines that keep you small, drifting through days that leave you empty. But understand this: you only have this one life. You are not promised another. It’s not up to God, it’s up to you. God has already laid the groundwork but it’s your duty to make the necessary internal changes. And your breakthrough will not come by effort, status, or resources—but “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the LORD of hosts (Zechariah 4:6). The Spirit of God stands ready to back you up, back up your new story (Numbers 14:28) , but the script won’t change until you do. You can stay asleep—or you can wake up, take the pen, and choose to live the life you were born to author. The choice, as always, is yours.

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