In this week’s episode of Her Faith at Work, we're getting real about the unseen battle behind your business growth — the one happening between your ears. If you've ever felt like you're not enough, like you're not doing enough, or like you're too much, this conversation is for you.

We’re talking about the lies the enemy tries to whisper to women in business — lies about your worth, your identity, and your calling as an entrepreneur. And more importantly, we’re talking about how to renew your mind, align with truth, and grow your faith-based business from a place of spiritual authority.

Inside this episode:

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• How childhood wounds and perfectionism can block your business strategy
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• What the Lord taught me (through tears and truth) about identity and fruit-bearing
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• Why your marketing strategies won’t work if your mindset is broken
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• A powerful story about calling, imposter syndrome, and declaring who God says you are
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• Scripture-based truth for overcoming lies and reclaiming your entrepreneurship assignment
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If you’ve been second-guessing your gifts or stuck in fear around showing up and leading your online business, it’s time to silence the accuser and anchor in truth.

📖 Scriptures mentioned:

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• Romans 12:2 – Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
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• Philippians 4:8 – Think on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable
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The small business you're building isn’t just about income — it’s about impact. And the enemy knows that. That’s why he goes for your identity.

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Hey there, friends. Welcome back to her faith at work. Before we jump into today's topic, I want to caveat by saying that I am sharing with you something that the Lord has been working and will probably continue to be working on in me.

But I want to start by giving you a little bit of a back story. I have struggled with perfectionism in my entire life. I am a driver. I am, some would say, a type A-ish personality. I have a very strong personality.

I'm an Enneagram 8. I used to think that those things were weaknesses that I needed to get over, I had been told that they were. But I've come to realize that those things are the way that the Lord has created me, and they can be used in a healthy way or an unhealthy way.

I think that's how we all are. The way that God created us can be used in a healthy way or an unhealthy way. A few years ago, I was working with a business coach who was talking to me about perfectionism.

He said, where did that come from? When did you start noticing that you had this drive for perfectionism? As I thought back, I really realized that it was something that had been in me from a very young age that when I was small, manifested in needing to be the best on my team or the best in the class or you know fill in the blank.

But I think that the Lord gave me a revelation that day that I'd not had before and that it stems from the fact that I needed my parents to love me. And I know that may sound funny to some of you but I'm adopted.

I was two days old when I was adopted so I've always known that I was adopted. And I had a great life! It's been something that's just who I am and part of me. But what I didn't realize until that moment is the connection between my drive to be worthy and my need for love and being wanted.

So this coach and I talked about it for a while and he suggested that I do an exercise that basically involved taking me back into my mind to the time that I first remembered someone saying something about leaving unworthy.

And she said that typically in a child's life it happens around first or second grade. I guess we're super impressionable around that age and maybe the first time we are really “aware” of ourselves. And so she was taking me back in my mind trying to help me remember this moment that I had this memory of someone saying that I wasn't worthy of something or not good enough.

And instead of first or second grade, the picture that I saw in my mind was a hospital room and a voice that I took to be my birth mother's saying, take her away. I don't want to see her. Now, whether that happened or not, I don't know.

But at some point in my mind, maybe around first or second grade, that connection got made between adoption and not being wanted or not being worthy to be wanted. I don't know. The point is that whether it happened or not, that has been something that has influenced my life for as long as I can remember.

And I do want to cut the story here and say that I have met my birth mother. We have a wonderful relationship. And I do not get that feeling from her at all. I understand why she gave me up for adoption.

I had a beautiful life with my adoptive parents I loved them very much and I never felt unworthy or unwanted by them. So this was something in my life it was of my own making.

So now fast forward to last week - I was listening to a podcast the other day (which I will link in the show notes because it is awesome) and It literally shook me to my core because this is again something that I will probably have to be working on with the Lord I until the day I die.

So in this podcast, this guest was Wendy Blackland, and she was describing a time in her life where she felt like the Lord had called her to write a book.

And she was really struggling with imposter syndrome, and should she write this book, and she'd never written a book before, and how was she going to write a book? And so she decided that she was going to start declaring that she would be an author.

I will be an author, I will write a book. And she said that there was one day that the Lord stopped her and said, you need to change your words. You are an author. It's not you will be, you are an author.

And she said, well, how can I be an author? I haven't written a book yet. And he said, Wendy, when I create an apple tree, and it grows, but it dies before it produces apples, is it still an apple tree?

And she said, well, yes, because you created it to be an apple tree. And he said, exactly. So I created you to be an author. And so if you die before you write a book, when you get to heaven, will you still be known as an author?

And she stopped and she said, well, I don't know. And he said, well, I can tell you that you will be. But in Heaven, you'll be known as the author that didn't produce her fruit. And I don't know what everybody that told this story to, their reaction is, ouch.

That hurts, Lord, that hurts. But here's what I took away from this, and the reason that I told you my back story about feeling unworthy, because I believe that from a very young age, Satan chooses to tell us lies, lies that he knows can stop us from living into the person that God created us for.

Today – I am a woman in what I consider the prime of my life and I still struggle with allowing Satan to tell me something that is not true. The enemy knew the power I was born with and he started at literally the moment I was born speaking lies into my head telling me the opposite of what was true.

Before the beginning of time. He created me to be something and someone. I have a gift and a calling on my life. I am his child. I am worthy because I'm his child. I'm worthy of love. I'm worthy of belonging.

I'm worthy of doing great things. I have power of Christ in me to accomplish the things he has created me to do. He gifted me with strength and authority and beautiful gifts to lead people.

And I'm worthy of all of that because he says I am. And I have at different times in my life, more and less, but at different times in my life really allow Satan to sit on my shoulder and whisper these lies in my ear and stop me from producing the fruits that I was created to produce.

And I can tell you that what I don't want is to get to heaven and be known for being something that God created me to be that didn't produce fruit. And so why I'm telling you this today is because I believe that this is all of us.

It’s you. God created you with gifts and talents and purposes. He created you with a very specific calling, very, very, very specific fruit on this earth at different times. And I believe that at different times, we all fall into a state where we are vulnerable and allow Satan in to whisper things in our ears and those lies take up residence in our heart and our mind and they stop us from growing into the fruit producing creation that God created us to be.

And so what I've been doing, what God has challenged me to, is to really sit with him and let him speak over me the truth of who he created me to be, the truth of the fruit that he has for me to bear.

And then y'all, all I know to do is to rebuke the devourer who seeks to let try to steal, kill and destroy my calling and let the fruit rot and go to waste.

In Romans 12:2 we are challenged to “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” So what does that mean? How do we do that?

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

And then what happens? Well… Satan has no place, he has no right to take up residence with his lies in my heart and my mind unless I give it to him.

And so I hope that you'll join me in telling him that he has no place there anymore. He's not. He has no place there anymore. And the only way that we can do that is through the power and strength of Jesus Christ in us because we are human and we can't do that on our own.

Staying plugged into him, listening to his voice, hearing what he speaks over us on a regular basis, listening to his affirmation. I think about a child, right? It's like the movie The Help. It's one of my favorite movies.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. So there is a nanny that speaks to this little girl who does not have a very nice mother. And every morning she looks at this sweet baby girl and she says, “You is kind, you is smart, you is important”

And those words could change that little girl's life. It's like, who are you letting speak over you every morning when you get up before you go to work, before you go to do the thing that you've been called and created to do?

Who gets to say those words? Is it the Lord? Is it your father who loves you? If you let him, if you make time for him - He's going to speak truth into your life? Or are you allowing the enemy to grab you on those shoulders and look into your eyes and tell you lies that are going to stop you from being who God created you to be and bear the fruit that he created you to bear?

You get to choose. So this week, I really hope that you allow God to use this message to speak to you, that you are worthy, that he has called you to a purpose. And that you will bear fruit if you allow him to speak the truth into your life and you stop allowing the devil to take residence in your heart and your mind with his lies.

You have the authority to tell him to get the heck out!

And when we are able to do that, the change that is affected in the world, we will not be able to be stopped. The business that he has put into your heart to build, the customers that he has called you to serve, the family that he has called you to breathe life into so that they can then in turn go out into the world and breathe life and bear fruit.

We're the start of a chain. Are you going to be the one who breaks the link? Or are you going to be one who strengthens the link with the bond of the Lord so that the chain of fruit-bearing continues?

I’m just gonna leave that right there. And if this hits home for you – I’d love to know about it. DM me on social or better yet – get on my email list so you can have access to my inbox. I read every single one.

Love you guys - have a great week.