Proverbs 31 as a professional woman - Part 16

Dear loyal readers, I trust you’re blessed and highly favoured. I invite you to join me on our continuing discussion about success principle six, which says that Proverbs 31 as a professional woman involves being “nourished and healthy in spirit, soul and body”.I started this conversation in Part 14, continued it in Part 15 and today I hope to consider a practical approach as to how Proverbs 31 as a professional woman fulfils the above – with a special focus on her spirit.Genesis 1:28 is a reminder to Proverbs 31 as a professional woman that Elohim has already blessed her after her creation and that she has a corresponding responsibility to steward herself as an individual so that God’s plans will find full expression in her. Within the narrative of Genesis 1:28, fruitfulness requires a fertile environment – soil, water, nutrients and the right amount of sunlight and weather conditions for fruit to grow. The responsibility to increase, multiply, subdue and rule requires the right application of wisdom, skill and strategy from God. Collectively, the success of the Genesis 1:28 blessings that God placed in her requires, amongst other things, her agency, stewardship and cooperation to bring His will and purposes to pass in her life.Why does this matter?It matters because she is central to every interaction that she has with God, herself and everyone else in her life. If she’s falling apart because of self-neglect, then it’s going to impact every area of her life as well. That’s why she has a special appreciation for 3 John 1:2 NIV which requires us to be successful - internally and externally. Looking at her spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:17 reminds her that “whoever is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit”.In Part 2, I mentioned that as a professional, “her brilliance is not found in her own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-7) because her excellence is revealed by accessing and applying the revelations received from the seven dimensions of God’s power in Isaiah 11:2”. You’re probably thinking – as a busy professional woman, when does she get time to strengthen her spirit to pray all the time in order to access and maintain the connection to the seven dimensions of God’s power? With a thankful heart, she asks God to train her spirit to pray all the time (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Ephesians 6:18-20) so that her spirit will become stronger than her body. She also seeks the intercessory support that comes from the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26-28) who helps to intercede what’s on her heart, who also intercedes according to the will of God for her and the result being that everything works out for her good.She also asks the Lord Jesus Christ to intercede for her as the High Priest who lives to intercede for God’s people (Romans 8:34). Thus, a combined reading of the above verses reveals that to remain nourished and healthy in her spirit, she lives a life of fellowship with God.As a person who is born again, she is saved and reconciled back to God through Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:18), she knows that she is the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:19-21) and this gives her spirit free access to fellowship with God – Spirit to spirit. This fellowship leads her in holiness, righteousness and living a life surrendered to loving, obeying and doing the will of God as He successfully equips her for it in every area of her life - for His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31).Next week, we’ll look at how she keeps her soul and body nourished and healthy.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, 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 15) – all published by Namibian Sun. I welcome your comments, input, queries or concerns. Kindly address them to spirit.soul.body24@gmail.com.

Proverbs 31 as a professional woman - Part 16

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