Proverbs 31 as a professional woman - Part 49

Dear loyal readers, I trust that you’re blessed and highly favoured.

Thank you for joining me on this journey as we continue to unpack success principle ten for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning.” Please read parts 36 to 48 for more context.

In parts 46 to 48 we addressed some of the mistakes that we make while attempting to trust in the Lord’s strength.

Today’s article is about inspiring you to take a moment to reflect on the following:

1. What is it that you’re trusting the Lord’s strength for?

2. Have you entrusted the matter fully to the Lord in prayer?

3. In light of point two above, do you believe that He will do it for you?

4. If you doubt it, what is it that makes you doubt His strength to fulfil His Word in your life?

5. Do you perhaps believe that you can do it without Him?

6. Are you perhaps hoping that God will step in when it\'s convenient for you or when the matter requires a God-level intervention?

7. Do you understand the season that you are in and that perhaps your inability to trust in His strength is because you need to go through a process where you need to let go, heal from, disconnect, release, be delivered, submit, be more obedient and fully surrender to Him?

This is meant to unlock your healing, spiritual renewal, transformation, growth and bring you to a place of increased revelation of the unfailing love, faithfulness and glorious inheritance which is to be found in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

8. Have you considered that your trust in His strength depends on you increasing your faith in Him?

Hebrews 11:6 will teach you that pleasing the Lord starts with you having faith and believing in Him – and this includes trusting in His will, way, timing and process.

9. Have you considered that your lack of trust in His strength is the reason why you are being tested and humbled to get to a place of knowing and trusting Him?

See Deuteronomy 8:2-3, which reveals that God followed the protocol of testing and humbling His chosen people in the wilderness so they could learn to know, love and obey Him as desired by Jesus in John 17.

Deuteronomy 8:2-3 AMP reads:

“And you shall remember [always] all the ways which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart (mind), whether you would keep His commandments or not. [3] He humbled you and allowed you to be hungry and fed you with manna, [a substance] which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you understand [by personal experience] that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.”

If the Lord is using the above protocol of refining your faith by testing and fire (see 1 Peter 1:6-9), don’t consider it an empty punishment because your inability to trust in Him means that you will only seek Him transactionally and not wholeheartedly. To counter this, He will discipline you out of love for you (see Hebrews 12:6-8), as this is meant to bring you to a place of moving in humble submission to Him, loving Him with your all (Mark 12:30) and acknowledging and trusting in His will, strength, plans, purposes, promises, desires and prophecies for you – for His glory.

Shalom.