“You’re Beautiful. I See Jesus in You.”

Dear friends and family,

There are moments that mark us forever. For me, one of those moments was when the Holy Spirit began to deal deeply with my heart about how I see people. Through faith, I felt Him calling me to look beyond brokenness, beyond failure, beyond outward appearance, and to see people through the lens of Christ.

This is not simply something I do when I speak. It is something that has become woven into my spiritual DNA.

That is why, so often, I ask people to turn to someone beside them and say, “You’re beautiful. I see Jesus in you.” Many struggle to receive it, not because the words are complicated, but because shame has been louder than truth for too long. Yet Scripture reminds us that we are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), and that image is not erased by brokenness.

I have come to see every person as one of two things: someone who knows Jesus, or someone who is going to know Jesus. Not because I can see the full story, but because I trust the One who “desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4).

The enemy’s assignment is to blind people to that reality. “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 4:4), attempting to obscure the beauty of Christ in them. But Jesus stepped into that darkness saying, “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).

And I believe He still restores sight today.

That is why words matter. Scripture calls us to “encourage one another and build each other up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11), and to let our speech always be “full of grace, seasoned with salt” (Colossians 4:6). Spirit-filled words do not simply communicate—they awaken.

The calling of God is not confined to platforms or titles. It is the daily assignment of seeing what God sees and speaking what God speaks. It is learning, as 2 Corinthians 5:16 reminds us, to no longer regard anyone “from a worldly point of view.”

This conviction is not something I visit occasionally. It is something I carry constantly. I cannot unsee it. I cannot unknow it. It has become part of how God has formed me.

Because when you begin to see people through the eyes of Jesus, you begin to speak differently, love differently, and live as though redemption is always possible—because in Christ, it is.

Blessings,

Mikel