Proverbs 31 as a professional woman - Part 39
SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY
Dear loyal readers, I trust that you’re blessed and highly favoured.
In part 36 we started with success principle 10 for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning”.
In part 38 I unpacked the multidimensional aspects of strength and shared that:
“The Lord’s glory is revealed in the Lord – being your strength, strengthening you or empowering you through a strong and capable team. At times, you will be strengthened and feel courageous because you are walking in divine alignment with the will of God for your life.”
Success in the workplace is often defined by the capable demonstration of our technical skills, application of knowledge, maintenance of ethics and excelling from a place of human strength and fortitude. But workplace success with God is about inviting Him to lead you in your assignment so that the glory and the success is His, even when you are the face of it.
Why do I say this?
Because moving in your own strength seems easy, but it can cost you peace and joy as you navigate a minefield without the wisdom of God.
Relying on God’s strength seems difficult because it requires you to be vulnerable in front of Him, expressing your need of Him – but it will save you from making unnecessary decisions that might cost you.
Why?
Because unlike God, you don’t have a full view and an awareness of the implications of each decision that you take.
Relying on God as a professional is about being vulnerable with Him because the vulnerability of needing God to help us do our work is often missing in the workplace.
In part 27 I shared that:
“The professional space rarely creates a safe space for vulnerability and we so often think that we have to put on our bravest face in front of God as well. But I have come to learn that He wants us to come to Him as children who are vulnerable enough to seek His love, compassion and comfort as well and not just to relate to Him from a place of strength and power.”
God doesn’t need my strength, nor yours, but when you serve Him in your workplace as a professional, then you cannot do His work in your own strength alone.
According to Proverbs 31:17 AMP
“She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental and physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong.”
In part 1 I shared that:
“Like many professional women, I was great at relying profoundly on my experience, technical knowledge and skill to get the job done, but sometimes I faced some challenging assignments that tested the strength of my law degree.”
Proverbs 31 as a professional woman understands that there’s only so much you can do in your human strength, but with God on your side, you are led by His wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This dimension gives you supernatural and divinely inspired strength, which can help you perform beyond your own technical knowledge and skill.
In part 5 I shared that:
“I used to have a bad habit of trying to do everything in one day and trying to apply the strength of the Lord Jesus (Philippians 4:13) to my self-created chaos.”
In part 14 I also shared that:
“I learned to start asking the Lord to lead me in everything that I do, as opposed to starting something and trying to apply the strength of Jesus Christ to make it work.”
According to Proverbs 31:25 NLT, the Proverbs 31 woman “is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.”
The Proverbs 31 woman fears the Lord (Proverbs 31:30) and she understands that it is the Lord who strengthens her and that she does not need to define herself in her own strength.
By relying on Him, she recognises that the premium strength she draws on first is not her own but the Lord’s – because He will strengthen her Himself.
Shalom.
In part 36 we started with success principle 10 for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning”.
In part 38 I unpacked the multidimensional aspects of strength and shared that:
“The Lord’s glory is revealed in the Lord – being your strength, strengthening you or empowering you through a strong and capable team. At times, you will be strengthened and feel courageous because you are walking in divine alignment with the will of God for your life.”
Success in the workplace is often defined by the capable demonstration of our technical skills, application of knowledge, maintenance of ethics and excelling from a place of human strength and fortitude. But workplace success with God is about inviting Him to lead you in your assignment so that the glory and the success is His, even when you are the face of it.
Why do I say this?
Because moving in your own strength seems easy, but it can cost you peace and joy as you navigate a minefield without the wisdom of God.
Relying on God’s strength seems difficult because it requires you to be vulnerable in front of Him, expressing your need of Him – but it will save you from making unnecessary decisions that might cost you.
Why?
Because unlike God, you don’t have a full view and an awareness of the implications of each decision that you take.
Relying on God as a professional is about being vulnerable with Him because the vulnerability of needing God to help us do our work is often missing in the workplace.
In part 27 I shared that:
“The professional space rarely creates a safe space for vulnerability and we so often think that we have to put on our bravest face in front of God as well. But I have come to learn that He wants us to come to Him as children who are vulnerable enough to seek His love, compassion and comfort as well and not just to relate to Him from a place of strength and power.”
God doesn’t need my strength, nor yours, but when you serve Him in your workplace as a professional, then you cannot do His work in your own strength alone.
According to Proverbs 31:17 AMP
“She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental and physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong.”
In part 1 I shared that:
“Like many professional women, I was great at relying profoundly on my experience, technical knowledge and skill to get the job done, but sometimes I faced some challenging assignments that tested the strength of my law degree.”
Proverbs 31 as a professional woman understands that there’s only so much you can do in your human strength, but with God on your side, you are led by His wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This dimension gives you supernatural and divinely inspired strength, which can help you perform beyond your own technical knowledge and skill.
In part 5 I shared that:
“I used to have a bad habit of trying to do everything in one day and trying to apply the strength of the Lord Jesus (Philippians 4:13) to my self-created chaos.”
In part 14 I also shared that:
“I learned to start asking the Lord to lead me in everything that I do, as opposed to starting something and trying to apply the strength of Jesus Christ to make it work.”
According to Proverbs 31:25 NLT, the Proverbs 31 woman “is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.”
The Proverbs 31 woman fears the Lord (Proverbs 31:30) and she understands that it is the Lord who strengthens her and that she does not need to define herself in her own strength.
By relying on Him, she recognises that the premium strength she draws on first is not her own but the Lord’s – because He will strengthen her Himself.
Shalom.
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