Have you ever been using your Gps
and you get a message that pops up
that says there's an easier route or a
faster route.
Or perhaps you remember the days
where you have followed the Gps, but you
knew the shortcut, And so you took the
shortcut.
And then determined that
yours was right as Gps was furiously trying
to recalculate
to keep up with you.
Hey, my fellow hi achieving sister in Christ.
Ever wonder if it's possible to be ambitious
and let god lead at the same time?
Does the hustle fuel your adrenaline, but you
wanna ditch the over achievement and pursue success
with clarity, serenity and fulfillment.
If your outward success doesn't match your inner
unrest and un fulfillment, then this podcast
is for you. Welcome to redefining hustle, pursuing
success as a Christian woman.
I'm Erin Har, a Christian wife, emptiness mom,
entrepreneur
recovering over
who felt those same things.
When I prayed for a better way to
work, God responded, let me run 5. And
then he led me to help women like
you through my speaking, coaching and writing.
My mission is teaching you that success doesn't
require buying into the world's frantic
an
or into the so called anti hustle movement.
Instead you can meet me right here in
the middle to redefine hustle as you Sue
success with God as your Ceo.
Each week we'll spend a focus 15 minutes
connecting biblical truths to business with practical application.
So you can tune out the world, tune
in into god's truth and turn up focus.
Does that sound like what you need today?
Great then buckle up and let's go.
Here's the thing about success friends.
I've come to realize that while this show
is called
redefining hustle pursuing
success as a Christian woman. It's less about
the pursuit of success and more about the
navigation of success as we continue to deepen
our
relationship with the Lord. Because here's the thing
many of us have had great success
through our own self reliance,
through our own plans, and that success has
taken us to a certain level of outward
evidence
of our rise in leadership our rise to
new ranks, our rise in revenue, our rise
in the growing client
roster and demand for our services.
But yet,
we find ourselves often, and this is where
I found myself 10 years ago, this October
with all of the outward success, but this
inner unrest,
this this inner churning of
what is missing and un fulfillment and having
to seek the next thing and the next
thing and the next thing.
And I wonder if that's because we've been
trying to follow our own map for so
long that we're not hearing the still small
voice because we don't allow margin or we
don't allow our time to rest,
and therefore,
we're so self reliant that we're afraid to
let go of the steering wheel and allow
Jesus to drive because what if he takes
us in a different
direction
In exodus
13, we're familiar with the story of the
Lord leading the Israelites through the wilderness. And
in some places that I've read,
that
11 day journey that it could have been
actually turned into 40 years.
And
I've also seen people argue that it actually
wasn't 40 years. I'm not here to talk
about that. What I am here to talk
about is isn't it interesting that the Lord
took them on a long and winding
road
around
way to get to where he needed them
to go. And in fact,
an entire
generation
died
without ever seeing the promised land?
So why would he take us on a
road that doesn't look like we planned? Why
would he take us around way? Why would
it seem that
even though we're clear on the mission in
the marketplace that he's given us? That the
road that we're on doesn't look anything
like it should look.
So let's think about this journey for a
second. I found a great blog by Carrie
Patterson, which I will link in the show
notes for this episode that talks about why
the Lord took them on this roundabout way.
So Terry says this. He chose the path
that would force them to keep
moving
ahead
regardless
of what the road looked like. They had
no other
option, but to keep going in that direction
that he led them in. He even gave
them a cloud by day and fire by
night. This is how he dwell in their
presence in the Tab. The cloud by day
whenever the Lord was present in a Tab,
there was the cloud. And when the cloud
picked up and moved, they were to follow
that. And in the evening, there was the
fire
that they followed. And whenever that fire was
present, they knew that he was in the
tab nickel. He gives us
the light to our path.
In
Psalm 01:19
01:05. It says your word
is a lamp for my feet and a
light to my path. Light is
necessary to navigate
the world of darkness that surrounds us. This
fallen world that wants to tell us what
it means to hustle that wants to tell
us what it means to succeed. We need
God's light as followers of Jesus because we're
not to do it in our own strength.
Right? Proverbs 3, 5 and 6. Trust in
the Lord with all your heart and lean
not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he
will make straight your paths. He will light
your path. So he had given that
to the Israelites and yet they continued in
their disobedience.
And Carrie goes on to say he knew
that if the Israelites could see a backdoor
door, an easy way out that they would
take it and guess what. They would go
back to their comfort zone of captivity and
slavery in Egypt.
Really,
they would go back to that? Well,
Yeah. Remember how they complained and mow to
Moses that they didn't at least in Egypt,
they had food. Right?
We do the same thing. We want to
work our businesses
and often to work our fingers to the
bone, doing it the way we've always done
it, Doing it the way the Guru say
to do it. Doing it the way that
every book that we read seems to tell
us. Doing it the way that we see
others doing business, but their journey is not
our journey.
What map they may be following. We pray
that it's the Lord's map, but we don't
know that. We can only follow the map
that he gives us. And so the Lord
chose to chose a route for the Israelites
that guaranteed that they would stick to the
plan.
She says in other words,
It is his kindness
that led them in these circles. Now you
may be thinking, Lord, I've been circling this
mountain.
And this does not feel like you're being
very kind to me. Like, I know what
you gave me to do. I know whom
you gave me to serve I know what
you gave me to serve them with to
meet their needs. But why is this not
going the way I thought?
Recently, I think I said to you, and
I...
No. I've said it to some of my
clients. What is the last thing that God
asked you to do and have you done
it?
Because he will lead you in circles
to teach you faith to teach you trust
and to teach you obedience.
Right? She goes on to say, he was
by his sovereign plan guaranteeing
the Israeli israelites success.
And as she said, and in... As I
said earlier, an entire generation perished
because of their obedience, but ultimately,
God's
plan
succeeded.
You may have heard me refer to God
as our great positioning shepherd.
1 of the things that I learned in,
a book that I've been listening to
and and and I listened to it a
while ago, so I can't remember which 1
it was.
Or maybe it was in a sermon, but
that the shepherd as he leads his sheep
as it says in Psalm 23. Right? He
leads me beside quiet waters. He brings me
to a place of rest. That took
navigating some serious terrain
to find those cool waters
to allow the sheep to rest. And so
therefore,
he
instruct us in the way to go.
In psalm 32 8. It says I will
instruct you and teach you in the way
you should go, I will counsel you with
my eye upon you.
But sometimes we don't wanna wait for that
cool water because we think we know the
shortcut to it. Right? We don't wanna wait
for,
that next client
because
we need to be everywhere on social media
as we talked about with Robin and Graham
recently. Right? We we don't wanna wait on
god's best
we choose our good instead. And friends, here's
the thing. It's just like when I was
driving back from Cheek fatigue this morning. We
left
the dog and eye at 04:44
50 so that I could get back to
the Annapolis area for his grooming appointment by
07:30. Now I could have stopped at a
Starbucks.
I could have stopped at, I don't know.
A Mcdonald's. I do love some Mcdonald's Hash
browns,
But I knew that that would get me
off track.
And the Gps told me this is what
time you will arrive.
And so the same is true with the
Lord. He knows the ultimate path for us
But as we're navigating
success, we get road signs that show us
where where everyone else is getting off and
exit. Or
attractions on the side of the road that
distract us shiny objects, The next big thing,
and we're so consumed with going for what's
next. And what's better that we're ignoring the
Lord's best as he's saying, just stay on
this road.
I saw someone post recently that they're not
having success in their business,
and it was in a Facebook group. And
and she was saying, well, I have this
business this business this business. And every comment
almost every comment was, Pearl, you need to
pick it, pick something and focus on it.
We cannot be distracted and what the Lord
has given us to do and allow us
to be distracted by our own desire, our
own plan our own map.
And to allow him to be our Gps,
our great positioning Shepherd means surrender
It means
allowing his map to overrule our own. It
means to navigate
success by
letting him define us,
allowing him to direct us,
taking action with discipline,
and then learning along the way and allowing
the holy spirit to develop us. That's the
4 keys to redefine hustle. And by the
way, if you're not already on my email
list,
stop scrolling social to find my content, go
jump on my email list and download the
4 keys audio devotion. The link will be
in the show notes, it's aaron here dot
com slash 4 keys devotion.
When we allow him to have
his way when we allow him to direct
us. We are determined to follow the cloud
by day and the fire by night.
The
destination where we end up, may feel like
we have been in circles,
but it's out of his kindness,
out of his sovereignty.
That he leads us in that way. Let
me give you just a couple
additional scriptures before we finish this up today.
In Isaiah 30 21, it says, whether you
turn to the right or to the left.
Your ears will hear a voice behind you
saying, this is the way walk in it,
how many times do you think? I don't
hear you, Lord?
My question for you is where are you
leaving margin?
For him to speak to you, or are
you constantly running because like me, I like
to be in motion? When I feel anxious,
I wanna take action. And sometimes that action
is not the intentional action or direction that
he's given me.
Sometimes the lord will say, do 1 thing,
and I'll say, well, but if I multiply
that by 3, I can get triple to
work done, but it never ends me up
in the destination that he has for me.
So walk in his ways.
How do we do this? We have to
seek him first, Matthew 06:33.
Right? And we have to remember that our
nourishment
is not about the destination.
Our nourishment doesn't come from the next promotion,
the next title, the next comma in the
paycheck. I know that's unpopular to say.
But as we navigate
success.
Beyond the success we've created on our own,
as we navigate it his way.
Which may look completely different than what we
plant,
completely different where we thought we would be.
We will un lock the chains of overwhelm
over achievement. And we will open the doors
to clarity and serenity and you know what?
Fulfillment,
because navigating
success,
praying for his
direction
means even when the client says no,
even when the contract gets declined,
even when the client is lost,
even when that deal falls through,
that you know
with clarity and surrounding, The Lord, this is
your business,
and you have my best in mind, and
you will provide
whatever that might look like.
Navigating
success by allowing him to be our Gps,
does take full surrender.
It is not our comfort zone
because we're high achieving women,
and we know what we can get done.
So we wanna do it in our own
way.
But it means
not losing sight of his light on our
path.
It means
allowing him
to take us in circles if that's what
it takes
for us to learn.
1 more story I wanna share with you
a good friend of mine
a few years ago, probably 2 or 3
years ago.
Shared in a group coaching that we were
in that she really wanted to meet Sarah
Blake.
And she had gone to all kinds of
links
to to find the connections in her network
to meet meet Sarah. Ps if if you
know Sarah Blake, please let me know so
I can connect her.
And just recently,
I think she sat next... To someone at
an event or she gained a new client
who has an even greater
connection that can help her to truly connect
with Sarah blake.
Ci blake, I believe is the founder of
banks. By the way, if you don't know
this.
And she said my gosh,
I see how God showed up in this
timing and in this moment, not years ago
when I said I wanted this, but he
took me this round way to get there.
But my goodness, what could possibly happen
with his best
in taking her that roundabout way
I wanna read this last bit to you
before we finish up again
from the blog
that Carrie Patterson wrote.
He knew that if they could see a
backdoor door that they would take it
and go back to their captivity.
His kindness led them in circles.
His sovereign plan guaranteed
their success.
Friend and I have a book
recommendation for you. It's by
To,
T0ZER.
And it's a cloud by day, fire by
night. I really recommend you go get this
book, I've read it a couple of years
ago. I'm planning to read it again very
soon. It's a fantastic book, and I'll have
that down in the show notes as well.
And
If there is so much happening in your
business right now that you can't quite get
your arms around it,
or you need somebody to help you s
all of the ideas and lands in your
head with holy spirit insight,
then get on my calendar for a strategy
day.
Use my gift, plans of s sizing that
information and turning strategy into execution
with the holy spirit informing us get on
my calendar, and let's talk about that. So
until next time.
Allow your great positioning shepherd,
to help you navigate what he's got for
you,
and I pray for and encourage you. Tune
out the world,
tune into God's truth into his map
into his word
and turn up your focus, so you can
walk out the mission he's given you in
the marketplace
and I'll see you on the next episode.
As an established
solo
or business owner with a team of employees,
who's ready to refine or scale your business.
You're probably swimming in opportunities
overflowing with ideas and excited about the possibilities.
But you're overwhelmed thinking, how can I set
a strategy when I'm trying to run a
business and be productive?
There are so many ideas and opportunities, how
do I decide what's worth pursuing?
I don't have time to waste on things
that don't align to the vision and mission
that God's given me.
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got made you ambitious, but he didn't make
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