Proverbs 31 as a professional woman – Part 11

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

Please pardon my two-week silence from writing this column. I don’t take this assignment lightly and two weeks ago I was exhausted, and I didn’t want to just write for the sake of it.

So, I intentionally took some time off to pause, rest and reflect.

It’s been quite a unique journey to try and recalibrate the idea of Proverbs 31 as a professional woman. It’s unique because we mainly know the Proverbs 31 woman as a wife, a mother and probably a businesswoman.

But with this assignment, I’ve had the honour to unpack her from the perspective of a professional woman who embodies and manifests Godly wisdom, success principles and effortless femininity in the workplace.

The Lord already trusted me with this word on 19 August last year at Deeper Fellowship Church - Namibia and He also took it to Desert Radio FM for a three-part series between September and October last year. Bringing it to the newspaper was just a further assurance that transformation is part of His word for this season.

Notably, I had to be transformed, so that I could relate to a topic that deals with transformation. When I got born again in 2019, I thought that I would be transformed overnight. But becoming a new person in Christ Jesus takes time because the Lord has to work on, work out and help you overcome past social conditioning, childhood traumas, adulthood traumas, and the impact of all negative life decisions that we often try to avoid confronting. I have had the opportunity to sit and confront my own toxicity, darkness and bad behaviour. In this way, I was able to confess my sins, repent and ask the Lord to lead me as I desired to become a new person.

Transformation is not easy because it has a lot of goodbyes. It’s triggering and often painful in the middle, but in the end, it has much-cherished hellos, and the Lord gives you new desires and a new mindset.

While writing this transformational series on Proverbs 31 as a professional woman, I’m honoured to have received amazing feedback from both women and men who have been inspired by the transformational impact of the principles captured in the previous articles. I’m humbled that the Lord has been ministering to people from different walks of life – regardless of age and status. This is truly a transformational word for this season.

At this juncture, I sincerely wish to thank you all for your continued interest and support. Some days I doubted myself and honestly, when I wrote my first article, I was still wondering if Abba really chose me for this.

My previous articles titled 'A New Season' and 'Seeing God’s Glory Through My Tears' will tell you that I had a complicated 'come to Jesus' story and how it’s truly His grace and love that have sustained me. It's His power that has transformed me into someone who desires to please Him (Philippians 2:13 NLT).

It takes courage to tell your story to the world. But I’ve come to learn that it’s not my story, it’s His story lived through me – for His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31). So, I’ll continue to write and I trust that the Lord will continue to minister to you through this column.

Please accept my invitation for the next 15 success principles before we close off with effortless femininity in the workplace.

Next week, I’ll start with success principle six.

Shalom.

DISCLAIMER: 'Proverbs 31 as a Professional Woman' under the theme 'Embodying and Manifesting Godly wisdom, Success Principles and Effortless Femininity in the Workplace' is not posited on trying to read the professional woman into Proverbs 31, because this will produce an absurd result. However, I have opted to take a principles-based approach that widens the scope to be applicable to any professional woman – regardless of her age or status.

For more context about who I am and why I’m writing this column titled 'Spirit, Soul and Body', I encourage you to Google my previous articles titled 'A New Season', 'Seeing God’s Glory Through My Tears' as well as 'Proverbs 31 as a Professional Woman' (the introduction as well as parts 1 to 10) – all published by Namibian Sun newspaper.

I welcome your comments, inputs, queries or concerns. Kindly address them to [email protected]