Proverbs 31 as a Professional Woman - Part 37
SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY
Dear loyal readers, I trust that you’re blessed and highly favoured.
Last week I introduced you to success principle ten for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning.”
I wrote: "It takes strength, courage and discernment to give yourself... permission to be great, to take up space and to be unapologetically bold about it... either way, I encourage you to do it for the revelation of God’s glory through you (1 Corinthians 10:31).”
Choosing to show “strength and courage” by partnering up with God shows that you trust Him above yourself.
Partnering up with God allows you to fulfil your destiny assignment in divine alignment with the Author of Life, who has gracefully scripted your life with a purpose of revealing God’s glory through you.
When you choose to be “fearful and discouraged”, that is you limiting yourself by knowingly or unknowingly partnering up with the enemy whose assignment, according to John 10:10, is to “kill, steal and destroy” you.
Choosing to remain in your own strength is prideful because you think you will “show God” that “you can do it without or better than Him”. The result: fear and discouragement because there’s only so much you can do within your human limitations.
By rejecting the One whose plans are to prosper you and to give you success (Jeremiah 29:11), you indirectly opt to believe that He won’t strengthen you to complete your assignment.
Since the One who gave you the assignment believes in you, why don’t you believe that He is with you to complete it also?
Let us repent for this line of thinking.
Reading the first six books of the Old Testament will reveal to you that anytime God gave someone an assignment, they got the premium account of Heaven – which is God Himself going with them. Since God is the same, everlasting to everlasting, why do you doubt His integrity to be with you also?
Truthfully, God knows that your human limitations might make you afraid or doubtful, but when you take those fears and doubts to Him, that’s you understanding that in your own strength, you’re weak, but with Him on your side, you can rise above that which you think makes you unqualified.
Why?
Because God Himself qualifies those He calls – even when they think they are not qualified to be called by Him.
In the book of Psalms, we see that King David understood the multidimensionality of strength and courage as coming from God, within himself, from the support of people around him and from moving in purpose.
Why does this matter in the workplace?
Because the workplace is the place of excellence, but it is often also a place of battles that can become a breeding ground for fear and discouragement.
Fighting them in your own strength might seem ideal, but when you serve the Lord, you will understand that the battle is His and not yours (2 Chronicles 20:15 and 17).
This is where you get to understand that the revelation of God’s excellence and His victory through you starts off by you recognising that the premium strength you draw on is not your own but the Lord’s – because He will strengthen you Himself.
Shalom.
Last week I introduced you to success principle ten for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning.”
I wrote: "It takes strength, courage and discernment to give yourself... permission to be great, to take up space and to be unapologetically bold about it... either way, I encourage you to do it for the revelation of God’s glory through you (1 Corinthians 10:31).”
Choosing to show “strength and courage” by partnering up with God shows that you trust Him above yourself.
Partnering up with God allows you to fulfil your destiny assignment in divine alignment with the Author of Life, who has gracefully scripted your life with a purpose of revealing God’s glory through you.
When you choose to be “fearful and discouraged”, that is you limiting yourself by knowingly or unknowingly partnering up with the enemy whose assignment, according to John 10:10, is to “kill, steal and destroy” you.
Choosing to remain in your own strength is prideful because you think you will “show God” that “you can do it without or better than Him”. The result: fear and discouragement because there’s only so much you can do within your human limitations.
By rejecting the One whose plans are to prosper you and to give you success (Jeremiah 29:11), you indirectly opt to believe that He won’t strengthen you to complete your assignment.
Since the One who gave you the assignment believes in you, why don’t you believe that He is with you to complete it also?
Let us repent for this line of thinking.
Reading the first six books of the Old Testament will reveal to you that anytime God gave someone an assignment, they got the premium account of Heaven – which is God Himself going with them. Since God is the same, everlasting to everlasting, why do you doubt His integrity to be with you also?
Truthfully, God knows that your human limitations might make you afraid or doubtful, but when you take those fears and doubts to Him, that’s you understanding that in your own strength, you’re weak, but with Him on your side, you can rise above that which you think makes you unqualified.
Why?
Because God Himself qualifies those He calls – even when they think they are not qualified to be called by Him.
In the book of Psalms, we see that King David understood the multidimensionality of strength and courage as coming from God, within himself, from the support of people around him and from moving in purpose.
Why does this matter in the workplace?
Because the workplace is the place of excellence, but it is often also a place of battles that can become a breeding ground for fear and discouragement.
Fighting them in your own strength might seem ideal, but when you serve the Lord, you will understand that the battle is His and not yours (2 Chronicles 20:15 and 17).
This is where you get to understand that the revelation of God’s excellence and His victory through you starts off by you recognising that the premium strength you draw on is not your own but the Lord’s – because He will strengthen you Himself.
Shalom.
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