I really fought hard with this blog – whether to share it or not but it’s important to be fully transparent with our lives so God can be glorified. Sometime during COVID-19 pandemic I pivoted to a new business. At first I did not have any experience in that particular field so I decided to partner with someone who I thought was more experienced in that area. As God will have it, when I started the startup process, it became evident that my management and administration experience is what the licensing board needed to grant us the license.
So, I did ALL the work. Funded over 98% of the entire startup expenses and all. I spent over 4 weeks developing a 600-page policy for the business because I didn’t have extra funds to engage consultants. Mind you, I was also going through the worst time in my personal life – a terrible divorce and a total wipe out of my consulting clients because of the pandemic. When I engaged the business partner I wasn’t prayerful. It was right before the pandemic started and I was in my high and mighty moments so what has God got to do with my life? I just looked at what this business partner represented on paper with her experience and also the genuineness of a friendship. God will flip my life upside down and cause me to totally surrender to Him at the apex of the pandemic. I became so prayerful, seeking and just all about God.
The year and half it took to set things up, this partner gave me hell. It was worse than my own burdens I was carrying. So much so that the text messages, audio notes and her ‘godish’ behavior was unbecoming. She was on a mission to hit me where it hurts most – knowing I was already going through one hell of a time. I’ll get reports of everything she’s saying and I’ll just tell God not to forget it all, especially when she mocked my new found relationship with God. It came down to it that I had to let her go off the partnership as she requested. Then she got angry when I finally sent her the separation agreement. She had invested ONLY $4K into the business and out of my last savings, God told me to write her a check of the amount she put into the business. Friends, I was confused and God directed me to this scripture in Genesis 14:22-23 NIV;
22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, 23 that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’
Please read the entire chapter for the background story but God told me clearly, I’m about to do something in your life and I don’t want anyone taking credit for it. You see, because of her experience in that field, it would have been easy for anyone to attribute the sustenance of my business to her – but God said NO. Friends, if I share the entire story, this piece will become an entire book but let me assure you that while I am not rich yet – will be one day soon with God’s help, God never abandoned me and did not allow someone to take credit for the work He did with me. He helped me, all by Himself just as he told Abram. I’m told she still sells a story that she created a business and left it for me and when I hear those I just laugh. I know God is laughing at that too. I’ve learned a lot through this experience and now I practice what Winston Churchill said, “I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies”.
I pray for you this week, that the Lord bless you in all your ways – just by Himself so no one can boast over you except Him. May the voices that spoke against you be silenced forever just by what they see the Lord doing in your life. Let this be so and so it is in Jesus’ name. AMEN!
XOXO,
Lady Abena.
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