At the creation account we see God saying, “let’s make man in our image”. He was telling all that he had already created a type of heavenly council. But then God says l am going to make man in my image. Every person has been made in the image of God taking on certain attributes. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made. We all have our own personalities and even Gods imprint of uniqueness. Our facial features, how we walk, talk, think, come to conclusions and even our fingerprints and DNA are all unique to us. I believe we each are given a very small percentage mix of God that makes up all these things on our life. If we could put everyone together, we would see the total reflection of God. This uniqueness is our design by Father God.

Psalm 139:13–15 (KJV 1900) — 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

We also have an identity as Sons and Daughters grafted into the family of God. We are being made conformable to the image of the son or take on an identity of sonship reflecting the identity of Jesus. Identity comes from the Son Jesus. We are reflecting on him through us, and we all are on this same journey to be conformed to the image of the son. We seem to be settled that we all are sons and daughters.

We never attack each other for being a son or daughter or taking the privileges of sonship. We never attack the reflection of the son as we would be attacking the son himself. But what we do attack is the design of each other. We attack how we act out how we are made. How we do things, how we conclude our thoughts in reasoning, and even the giftings a person may have that are both natural and spiritual. These become friction points in relationships.

We are also all struggling with our own design being expressed. We may hold back because we are not accepted or feel we will be rejected. We only do certain things and do not fully move in the strengths of our design to not offend others. Now design is not something we hide behind for unredeemed areas of our life. When I talk of design, I’m talk inf Gods reflection in you. Because we may not be settled in our design and how we walk it out we may and do struggle when others express of their design. We become critical, judgmental and can even close someone down from functioning. I have seen this happen many times and seen the missing answer not being able to have expression.

We have been in a season of identity truly being discovered but now we are now transitioning into Gods design for us. The word design means:

• a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made.
• an arrangement of lines or shapes created to form a pattern or decoration.
• decide upon the look and functioning of (a building, garment, or other object), by making a detailed drawing of it.

Within your design 3 distinct areas that make up the whole of you. We could call it spirit, soul and body but I call it your human makeup, your spiritual life, and your spiritual DNA.

Your human makeup is what we see to deal with mostly. It is your emotions and how they are managed. It is how you think and conclude conversations. It is the way you reason or deduce thoughts being conveyed and heard. It is how you come to conclusions and values you form. It is how you conduct yourself in life and walk out life with others. It includes your natural talents and abilities. For the most part this is a majority of our design and because of this it also is the interaction part of us with others. It becomes the expression of the rest of our design as well. Because it is the primary interactive area it also is what people focus on to attack or receive.

The second area of design is your spiritual life. It is the things of the spirit you have experienced that have formed you. It also is the way you prophesy, teach, preach, witness, testify, and express yourself. It holds all the activity of the spirit including graces and spiritual giftings. It is the interaction of your spiritual life flowing outward through your natural design.

The third area is your spiritual DNA. This is who you are to God and his plan for your life. It is how you allow the Son to reflect through you. It is what you’re reproducing and the revelation of Gods glory in and through your life. It is the very deep essence of Gods image within you.

Your design is a sum total of all three of these Gods deposit within you and how he made you to reflect those deposits. Your design is the total reflection of Christ through you. It is how you do things. It is how you lead your life. It’s how you function in the body. How God designed you is to reflect the identity he has assigned you. This is why overflow or function comes from identity. When we settle both identity and design, we then have a flow in two areas, and we end with overflow. True ministry comes from overflow, or you could say comes from being settled in who you are and what you carry.

The main design element for all of us is LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. 

• Designed to answer the why’s
• Designed to create an open spiritual atmosphere.
• Designed to give opportunities.
• Designed to have Creative worship.
• Designed to produce Revelatory teaching.
• Designed to encounter God on a personal level.
• Designed to see yourself through Gods eyes.