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Jesus, My Faith & My Bag: Making Power Moves in the Marketplace | J.E. Harrison
J.E. Harrison is introduced as an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and executive coach, then leads a marketplace session on “power moves” rooted in Jesus ' faith and financial stewardship. She shares how God prompted her to “shift,” opening doors that led from Virginia to Atlanta and tripled her income, and later to becoming Director of University Communications after boldly following up with a chancellor. She teaches a POWER framework—Positioned by purpose, Operating from identity, Walking in wisdom, Executing with excellence, and Releasing/Receiving—emphasizing clarity comes after movement and faith is an advantage in work. Using biblical examples, she frames marketplace roles as ministry and highlights the benefits of faith: access, favor, discernment, and divine protection. She addresses money mindset, impact, and income, pricing versus pouring, stewardship, evaluating opportunities, and producing wealth through strategy and obedience.
00:00 Introducing J.E. Harrison
02:33 Praise Break and Welcome
04:14 Marketplace Session Setup
04:51 Who’s in the Room
06:04 Her Shift Testimony
08:42 Power Moves Framework
14:17 Release, Receive, and Execute
18:17 Faith as Your Advantage
20:21 Marketplace as Ministry
21:39 Bible Examples in Business
23:24 Purpose In The Marketplace
24:18 Favor And Anointing
25:45 Chosen And Set Apart
28:40 Faith In Leadership
29:57 Access Opens Doors
33:36 Favor Discernment Protection
36:26 Impact And Income
38:50 Oil Strategy And Stewardship
42:08 Price Versus Pour
46:12 Evaluate Opportunities
47:59 Kingdom And Marketplace
48:29 Final Declarations And Outro
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What is Elevate Your Life with J.E. Harrison?
Welcome to Elevate Your Life, the go-to podcast for high-achieving, faith-driven women ready to unlock their full potential. Hosted by Jamesia Harrison, this show delivers thought-provoking conversations with industry leaders, faith-driven entrepreneurs, and personal growth experts. Whether you are striving for career advancement, business success, or more profound personal transformation, this podcast provides the actionable insights, strategies, and inspiration you need to amplify your influence and step boldly into your purpose. If you're ready to level up in leadership, faith, and success, this is the place for you!
[00:01:11] Speaker 2: we have this amazing privilege, uh, to be blessed by the presence of Evangelist Harrison.
And she is a powerhouse entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, and executive coach. RI a RA Rising Authority in inspirational leadership, women's Empowerment and Retention Strategy. She began speaking at the age of 15 as a radio personality in Hamlet, North Carolina, and she quickly became a trusted voice for youth and young adults.
Her influence continued to grow as a student at, what did it say? North Carolina a and t.
You got a few, few of them in here, a few of them in here. Um, but that's where her influence and education came from. And so we are delighted, uh, to host her today for our marketplace session. And I already know that she is in the marketplace, but she full of the Holy Ghost. So it's a win-win for us today.
Amen. So please can we stand on our feet and make as much noise as we can? Make her real uncomfortable and celebrate the ministry give of Evangelist Harrison.
[00:02:30] Speaker 3: Thank you, woman. A guy. Listen, if you clapping for me, you did a phenomenal job. But can you put your hands together for Jesus? Come on the 47th division of Psalm says, clap your hands all ye people and shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Come on, you clapping, but you're not shouting. Come on, make some stadium noise for the king of every king and the Lord of every Lord.
Come on power play.
Come on. We love him. We love him this morning, and we appreciate the presence of the Lord. And listen, I know we were shouting for our captains and making some noise for our captains, but one more time, can we make some radical noise? For the captain of our soul, his name is Jesus The.
His name is Jesus. Listen, I get stirred up real quick. Hallelujah to Jesus. Glory be to God. I was telling, I was telling Lady Ashley this morning, I said, listen. I've been able to go into a few places over these last couple of months of people I did not know, and people stop me and ask me and say, is that you on the Power On the Power Play flyer?
I said, well, yes, it's, I said, look at God. Can y'all help me celebrate this woman of great power, great influence in the kingdom? God bless you, woman of God, everything that you are putting your hands to do, glory be to God. Power play. Y'all look good. Y'all look good. It is the glory and the presence of the Lord.
Listen, y'all can sit down. Y'all can sit down. I am going to do my absolute best to flow in the realm of teaching marketplace this morning. Okay? Now, as Lady Ashley mentioned, I am a proative of the gospel. I am preacher. I am bi-vocational, so every once in a while the evangelist might tap me on my shoulder.
So just in case she does, y'all bear with me. Okay? Glory be to God. We love him this morning. So listen, I understand order. I understand protocols, so I want to make sure that I stay within the timeframe that I have been allotted. Amen. And so I want to quick, I want to take a census in the room. I understand that we are here for a marketplace.
Power moves Jesus, my faith and my bag. But I just want you to help me out so I can identify who's in the room. First off, if you are a corporate batty, you work a nine to five, will you stand up? I wanna see you. I wanna see you. Okay. All my corporate badies make some noise. Alright, y'all stay standing. If you are a business owner, you work for yourself, you make your own hours, you determine what you gonna do.
I want y'all to stand up. Alright? Make some noise for them. Alright? Okay. All right, so if you are a stay at home mom, wife, caregiver, 'cause that's work too. I want you to stand up. Y'all stand up. Okay. We got some in here. Make some noise for them. I know. That's right. If you are in full-time ministry, stand up full-time ministry.
Amen. Okay. Alright. And listen, you might just be in between blessings and believing God to do something for you. You stand up. That's it. Come on, y'all. Celebrate them. God is gonna open. God is gonna open some doors. Okay. I just wanted to get a quick inventory of who was in the room this morning and I'll share, wanna share a little bit with you about my journey.
So I, four years ago I was in Lynchburg, Virginia, under my pastor, his Grace Bishop, SY younger. Yeah. Y'all make some noise for him. And I was sitting in service one Sunday morning and I emphatically heard the spirit of the Lord say to me, it's time to shift. I didn't know what that meant at that time because I was working.
I had a decent job. I wasn't crazy about it. It wasn't in my field, but I heard the spirit of the Lord and I talked to my leader about it. And so as I began to step out and put faith to my action. Right. The Lord began to open some doors for me, y'all. I had absolutely no intention of leaving Virginia. I kind of wanted to come back to North Carolina.
I ended up applying to one role down in Atlanta, one within a month. God opened that door for me, and not only did God open that door for me, he literally tripled my income. I thought somebody would've got excited right there. Yes, with one door, God tripled my income. All right. And so that has now allowed me to be in places and positions where I've been able to console and have a hands in role with, uh, putting together marketing and communication strategies for celebrities, for mayors, for council members, for people that are in government, for presidents, for chancellors.
And I don't say that to be braggadocios. I say that so that you know that we don't need to put limits on God. Sometimes when we are operating in faith and we are in church, we have a preconceived idea of how God will use us. But lay hands on yourself and say, God is able to use me in any way he sees fit.
So now we circle back here and I spent some time in Atlanta. And then the Lord moved me back to North Carolina and the Lord opened a door for me, which I'm gonna tell you a little bit about that when we get further down into the session. But I want you to know you cannot be afraid to step out on what God tells you to do, even when it seems uncomfortable, and even when it does not make sense.
Okay? So I want you all to know I am not teaching something I have not experienced. I'm teaching you my experience. So that you can apply what you need to apply to make power moves in your life. Amen. All right, so let's go into it. So first of all, I wanna give you this, uh, power moves framework. Okay. So I see y'all, some of you already have your pens out, you got your notebooks out, and so we gonna take some notes this morning because I wanna make sure that you are able to walk out of here with things that you can apply immediately.
Somebody say immediately. All right, so first off, let me say to you, a power move is intentional. It is faith led, and it's executed with clarity and discipline. Okay, so we look at a power move, a framework. The first thing, the p positioned by purpose, positioned by purpose. You do not have to manufacture your own lane.
You have the ability to step into it. And so the question is not what should I do? The question is, what was I built to do? Listen to what he told Jeremiah. He said, before I formed you in the womb, I already what I already knew you. I had already ordained you to be a prophet into the nation. So some of us are finding ourselves in a stuck place because we have not tapped into and began to operate in who we already are intended to be.
You already have gifts and skills and anointing that has been divinely configured for you to operate with purpose and prosperity. That was good. Je okay. All right, so positioned by purpose, the O, operating from identity, not from comparison. I'm gonna say that again. Operating from identity, not from comparison, not from who you think you should be by now, but from who God has already declared you to be.
Ephesians two 10 says, but you are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. Everybody say good works that were prepared for you in advance. So this is not something that you have to go necessarily looking for and seeking out. It is something that you have to accept and begin to walk into.
Lay hands on yourself and say, I'm gonna walk into my purpose. So the W Walking in Wisdom, Proverbs four, seven says, wisdom is the principle thing. So that means you have to begin to operate in God-given wisdom. And wisdom is not just knowing what to do, wisdom is knowing what to do and when to do it. And sometimes wisdom is knowing.
Not to do anything at all, because what I have found that in, in marketplace wisdom will protect your anointing.
And let me help you something. As we're operating in marketplace, you do not always have to have the answer for everything. Sometimes you have to learn that the wisdom of God will tell you just to use discernment and pray. Because who we are in our faith and who we are in the marketplace are not opposites.
We bring our full selves into the work that God has assigned to our hands. Okay? All right, so e Executing with Excellence, Colossians 3 23 says, whatever you do, do it unto the Lord. So that means the client that gets on your absolute last nerve, you gotta serve that client as if you were serving unto the Lord.
That manager that you said, if they say one more thing to me, huh? I know about it. I've experienced it.
Sometimes you gotta take a step back and say, Lord, help me to serve as though I am serving unto you. You've got to do it as though you are serving unto the Lord. Because here's, here's a part that we don't want to acknowledge. Some of us run away from allowing our faith to be seen in our, in the marketplace because we know there's gonna be a higher standard placed on us.
You know, some of those conversations that people wanna have behind closed doors, you're not gonna be able to participate in those conversations. 'cause I'm a believer and there's a different standard when we have those conferences and everybody else is at the open bar and I'm just drinking water. Why y'all looking at me like that?
So we attempt sometimes to keep our faith separate from our assignment, but we can't do that because if God has placed you there, that's not just your job, that is your assignment. Okay? All right. So the R, you have to learn how to release and to receive. You've gotta learn how to release and to receive.
You cannot hold on to everything and still have your hands open to receive what God is doing for the next season. This applies to relationships. This applies to opportunities. This applies to old business models, and this applies to jobs that have become your comfort zone.
Because it's easier for us to stay where we know we gonna get a check every two weeks and how much that check is gonna be. But what happens when you are holding on to something and God wants to triple and multiply what you currently have because you are too busy being comfortable, look at your sister and say, I dare you to get uncomfortable in this season.
Some of us are complaining about the debt and the financial responsibility that we have, and we're asking God for a miracle, but you don't always need a miracle if you operate the principle. I'm teaching real good in here. I said, you don't always need a miracle if you're operating in the principle right.
You don't always God, need God to do something miraculous if you are exercising your faith. And I'm looking around this room and I see that the majority of us in this room are women of color. We know what has happened to women of color in the workplace over these last couple of months. So more than anything that ought to give you a push to stop waiting for somebody else to tell you what you can have and start opening up your mouth and your word, and you start decreeing what you shall have the Bible say.
You shall have what say. God, lower your voice, Harrison. I feel the evangelist trying to show up. All right, so repeat after me. Clarity comes after movement, not before it.
We're waiting for God to give us the clarity. Now, when God says if you start moving, I'll give you clarity. Some of us got business plans and visions and ideas and degrees we wanna go back and get and certifications. We want to go back and get, and you wrote them down in 2023 and now we're in 2026 and they're still just sitting there.
Right. So there comes a point in time, women of God, where we have to move from excuses to execution.
I'm gonna let that settle. I said there comes a point in time, you have to move from excuses to execution. Okay? You gotta start doing something. All right. So since we're talking about power moves and Jesus, my faith and my bad. So let's talk about Jesus. Okay. That is really my way. I get messed up. Okay? I just, all right.
So when we're talking about Jesus, we're talking about our identity, we're talking about our assignment, and we're talking about authority, okay? All the things that come with Jesus. Yes, he has saved our soul. He is saving us daily. We know who he is. There is also an aspect of God that wants you to have good success.
Everybody say good success. All right, so early y'all in my career, I say in my mid twenties, there was a point in time in my career where I still, yes, I'm evangelist, was preaching the gospel since I was 19 years old. But I just wanted to be a professional. I didn't wanna do all the church stuff. I just wanted to make my money and go home.
Then I had to realize there came a point in time that the very thing that I was trying to keep hidden was actually my advantage.
Okay? Because your faith, your faith is not a liability. Your faith is an advantage. I want you to write this down. I don't just make power moves.
I am power in motion
because after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. You shall have what power. So I don't just make power moves. I am power in motion. And when you get that revelation that you are indeed power in motion, you don't go into a marketplace saying, oh, I hope they choose me. I hope they pick me. I hope they think I'm good enough.
I hope they think I got what it takes. No, you walk in the room and say, no, you opened up this role in this position because you are looking for me. I am the solution. To what you are looking for. And when you switch your mindset, you don't go in there with the type of attitude of, oh, I really hope I get a call back.
No, I know I'm gonna get a call back. And if I don't get the call back, then that means God has something bigger and better that he has prepared me for. Lay hands on yourself and say, I'm everything God intended me to be, even in the marketplace. Good. Y'all sit down. I gotta get through here. All right. And so we know what it looks like y'all.
When we are bold about our faith in the marketplace, because we become the onsite counselor,
we become the onsite prayer warrior, we're the person that everybody wants to come to and talk to you. About their divorce and how their kids acting. And you sitting here like, I just need to finish this report. I, I got a deadline. I got to meet. And so it becomes a lot easier for us to stay within our comfort zone, within our roles within the marketplace.
But women of God, you are not just at a job. You are on a sign met. Okay. So God has never had a problem with using people in the marketplace. I'm gonna say that again. God has never had a problem with using people in the marketplace. We've just struggled to see the marketplace as ministry.
Okay. So somebody said, show it to me in scripture. I absolutely will. Okay. So Joseph. Joseph was a government administrator in Egypt. He managed resources, economic strategy, and saved nations from a famine. Esther. We know Esther, queen Esther. She was positioned for influence, used her access to shift policy and to save her people.
Boaz, y'all know we done prayed a lot for him.
I'm sorry, y'all. I'll be tickling myself. All right. All right. Right. Boaz landowner, businessman operated with integrity and created opportunities for others. Abraham, the father of faith, was wealthy livestock owner. Jesus Christ. Y'all know him. Woo, hallelujah. If you don't, we can make an introduction today.
Glory be to God. He was a carpenter, y'all. He worked with his hands. The apostle Paul was a tent maker. Rahab, I'm not telling y'all to following her professional choices. I just wanna put that disclaimer out there. Okay. I'm not telling you to follow her trajectory, all right? But what you have to admit about Rahab is that Rahab was a young woman with prime real estate.
Now how she got it ain't got nothing to do with that. Okay? But even in that, y'all, she was able to use her discernment to secure not only her future, but the future of her family. Deborah, by vocational, she was judged and properties, she was able to lead and she governed and she advised. Nehemiah the cup bearer.
He was a trusted advisor and then later led a massive rebuild project, and yet in all of those people, every single one of them was still walking in purpose.
So we have to shift our mindset and thinking that our roles, our profession is outside that of ministry. They operate together. Okay. All right. So anytime you walk into a room, and I've gotten this a lot, people will always say to me, there's something about you, but I just can't. Oh, y'all heard it too? Okay.
Just can't quite put my finger on it, but I know what that is. That's called favor. That's called anointing. That's called authority. That's called clarity. That's called knowing who you are in God and who I'm on Sunday morning follows me into my workplace on Monday morning. They are not two separate individuals.
Now, I might not walk in on, on Monday morning and say he,
but on the inside I am. Hallelujah. Be to God because you can have a praying spirit. Huh? And with all the chaos and the craziness going on in our world, don't you know how strategic and intentional your God is that he will put a believer in the school systems, put a believer in government, put a believer in all of these places so that we are able to pray and build up a hedge.
We come in on Sunday mornings and Wednesday night to get built up to go out. Okay. All right. So one Peter two, nine says you, but you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession that you may declare the praises of him who have called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
All right, so. I wanted to bring up to you and say this to you, and I want you to lay hands on yourself and say it out loud. Okay. Spiritually healthy women are built different.
Say it again. Spiritually healthy women are built different. Notice I said spiritually healthy.
We have a lot of spiritual things happening, but it's not all healthy and it's not all of God. All right, so this is not arrogance, y'all. This is stewardship of what God has placed on the inside of you, okay? You carry something in your creativity. In your conversation, in your leadership, in the way that you solve problems, in the way that you have conversations, in the way that you hold spaces and rooms and you are able to connect with people, of course there is something different about you.
You have Christ abiding on the inside of you. The amount of people that we encounter from our marketplaces from day to day. Some people are on the edge of going home and taking themselves out, taking their families out, so we can't afford to act like this is just a place where I come to work. This is ministry.
Okay? Declare this. I am chosen, I, I am set apart. I am called, my presence is purposeful. My access is anointed. I do not shrink to make others comfortable. I occupy every room I walk into on purpose. And by design And by design,
you've gotta know that, not just feel it, not just think it. You've got to know it. Because there's been plenty of opportunities I've sat across from governmental officials, and I had nothing to say, but I had to remind myself of who I am in God, and I had to allow him to speak to me and to give me what to say at the right time.
All right. Okay, so we're gonna pivot to my faith. My faith, my faith gives me access, favor and discernment. My faith dictates how I move. It decides how I discern, and my faith should not be private. We live by it, not just on Sundays, not just for acute post on social media. We live by faith. That means faith shows up in how you lead your team.
Space shows up in the care and the patience that you have to give people. People that wanted the position that you currently occupy and now wanna try to make your role difficult.
That takes patience. The patience of Almighty God. Okay. So it shows up in opportunities that we say yes to, and it also shows up in opportunities that we say no to, because every opportunity that looks good on paper is not necessarily a God opportunity. All right, so listen, so there are four things that I wanna give you that faith, uh, gives you in the marketplace.
All right? So the first one is access. Everybody say access. Proverbs 1816 says, your gift will make room for you and it's gonna bring you before great people. Your anointing opens doors that your resume absolutely cannot.
Have you ever gotten into a room and you knew that on your own past, your own record, your own resume, your own qualifications, that there was no way. That you should be in that room, but your faith gave you access. Okay, so y'all literally, about this time last year, I was working for another institution. I was down at the state capitol building with the president that I was currently working with and ran into a chancellor of one of the greatest HBCUs in this nation, right.
I didn't know him. All I knew is I had applied for the same role about six or seven times and never even got a callback. Nothing. Okay. So I was in the room and I kept going back and forth, like, should I say something to him? Should I not say something to him? You know, everybody's trying to get to him.
'cause you know, he is who he is. Everybody wanna do a photo op, but I'm there with my current boss now. Y'all read what I'm saying between the lines. So I'm like, all right, God, you gotta gimme wisdom on how to do this. So I'm like, okay, God. So I'm paying attention to what I'm supposed to do, all that good stuff.
So I walk out to get my current boss a cup of coffee, and the next thing I know he had walked out right behind me and I started having a conversation with him and he said, well, you know what? Send me your resume. Now, you know, people sometimes in high positions, they say that all the time, right? And then you wonder like, uh, did he really mean it?
Was he just saying it to get me out his face? Let me just appease her so she can go about her business. But I said, you know what, Jamia, if you don't at least send the resume, you'll always have that question in the back of your mind. So I sent it. I also took a picture at the event. So when I sent the resume, he had a point of contact as to who I was.
Listen, lemme tell y'all. So God worked that thing out, huh? Won't he do it? So the first time y'all, I sent the resume, didn't hear anything back, I said, okay. So I waited about a week, followed up again. Hey, just wanted to reach back out to you. I know you are extremely busy. We met down at the state capital building, da, da, da, da.
Y'all. The next day I got a phone call. Two weeks later, I got hired as the director of University Communications for the biggest and the greatest. I love you, lady Ashley, HBCU, in this nation, not necessarily because I had the best credentials, but because I was willing to operate in my faith, y'all because I didn't sit back with my mouth closed and let an opportunity pass me by.
You shall have what you say and if you don't say anything, you can't be upset when nothing is happening,
and the Holy Ghost will give you wisdom on how to navigate certain situations. There are multimillion dollar contracts out there with people that have less credentials and less set up than you are getting because you won't even start trying.
All right, so access. The second thing that it gives you is favor. Everybody say favor. Psalm five 12 says, for the Lord, surrounds the righteous with favor as a shield. Favor is not luck. Favor is not networking. Favor is God orchestrated positioning. It's the favor of God. All right? The third thing that it gives you is discernment.
Everybody say discernment. Discernment is what tells you that something is off about the opportunity, the partnership or the purpose before you even really have reason to know why. It's what makes you pause before you sign the contract. It's what makes you go back and negotiate things a little differently.
I have found in my own life that when I'm operating in the principles of God, y'all, they work. They work. The scripture says, my foot almost slipped when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Can I tell you one thing that the Wicked is willing to do? Still willing to operate in some of our principles. I know it might be contradictory, but they do.
Now, how is it that the wicked feels comfortable enough to operate in some of our principles and they work for them, but those of us that are believers, that are of the kingdom, that have Christ abiding on the inside of us, keep taking a step back instead of operating into what divinely belongs to us.
All right, so the fourth thing is divine protection. Everybody say divine protection. There are assignments y'all, within our workplaces, within our businesses that God has shielded us from because we are divinely protected. There are people that have been protected because of your presence. God has been protecting you and has angels camped around and about you, and so their protection was a byproduct of your protection, and you have to realize that.
Okay? All right. Look at your neighbor and say, there are some, there is something different about me and everybody is going to know it. Not necessarily because you announced it, but because you live it, because you move. Differently. Okay. Alright. So make this declaration. I move by faith. I by faith, not by fear, not by I have access that exceeds my credentials.
I have favor, I have that outlast, opposition outlast.
All right, so in my last few minutes before we begin to open up a q and a, I wanna talk about my bag. All right. We talked about Jesus. We talked about faith, and so now we're gonna talk about my bag. Now, I know sometimes we don't like talking about money, and I need you to stay with me. And sometimes this is where the room tends to go quiet because sometimes we have to battle with that if we want financial success, that that means our priorities are wrong, or either we have the mindset of I can't be anointed and affluent.
But you can't be both. Or if I charge my worth, am I being greedy?
And so we begin to struggle in those areas. Repeat after me. Impact and income. Are not enemies are not. Impact and income are not enemies, y'all. They never were. It is a religious spirit that is masquerading as humility and it has kept too many gifted women at a fraction of their financial capacity.
There is absolutely no reason with all these gifts and all these talents and all this anointing that you have, that we find ourselves constantly in this cycle of barely making it month to month, year after year. There is absolutely no reason. The Bible says in Deuteronomy eight and 18, but remember the Lord your God for it's He that has given you the ability to produce wealth.
Lay hands on yourself and say, I'm a producer of wealth.
He gives you the ability to produce. Wealth. That means that there is a wealth building capacity that operates on the inside of you.
And so, listen, y'all, if we look at, we look at this story in Two Kings four, it's the story or it's the account of this widow. Okay? This widow had this, uh, this little cruise of oil, okay? Because you know what had happened in the text? Her husband had died and the creditors and all of her bill collectors and everybody was coming after her because she did not have the resources to pay what she needed to pay.
The only thing she had in her house was a little jar.
All she had was a little jar of oil, and the prophet gave her strategy. He didn't give her a handout.
He didn't give her a handout, he gave her strategy.
He said, I want you to go and I want you to borrow. I want you to borrow what you need to set you up for your next level of success. Look at your sister and say, all borrowing is not bad.
He said, I want you to get as many things as many jars as you can find. He said, I want you to go into your house. He said, I want you to shut the door, because some of our problem is we keep leaving our door wide open and wonder why everybody keeps walking in and draining the resources that we have. He said, borrow, go in, close the door.
And he said, I want you to pour your oil. And as she poured her oil, that little bit of jar oil that she had began to multiply. And as it multiplied, he told her, he said, now I want you to go and sell it. Pay your debt and live off of the rest. Will you look at somebody and say she already had what she needed.
She just needed strategy and obedience to multiply it. And so power play women, I want you to know this morning that everything that you need is already in your house. You already got the oil that you need to pour. You already have the vessels that you need to sell, and you already have the strategy. Lay hands on yourself and say, I am strategic.
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And women of God. This is something that I want you to know. You have to learn what to price and what to pour. I said, you got to learn how to price. And you have to learn what to pour because there are some aspects of your ministry that, yes, you should pour, you should pour freely for what God has given to you, it's ministry.
But there is also an aspect to you that you got to learn how to price for commerce.
It would be nice if I could just live off of a praise, but I need finances in order to operate the way I wanna operate, and I dunno about you, but I've already been broke and I didn't like it. I didn't like broke. I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat, where, what I wanted to wear, get the bundles I wanted to get.
I don't, I don't like broke. I'm not broke. So you have to know what to price and what to pour. And I want you to know this morning that you keep looking for everything else to be a resource to you when your assignment is to go into your house, to take proper inventory of what you have. Because what you have is not what everybody has.
And who's helping her and what gifts she has and what anointing she has and who's backing her. But the relevant question is, what inventory do you have in your house? And when you take proper inventory of what you have in your house, you'll realize that you have never been deficient. You have never been deficient.
I don't care what your family said about you, God, what you doing? Okay? I don't care what your family member said about you. I don't care what neighborhood you came from. It does not matter what other people spoke about you. You have never been deficient.
Maybe we have not properly stewarded what God gave to us,
but stewardship is knowing what you've got in your house. Yes. Stewardship is not taking everything that you earn and go spend it.
You give to the Lord, you invest, you live and you do what you gotta do. But everything that we bring in should not be on our back.
You better know how to go to the goodwill. Go get you some patches off of Amazon. Sew it on that jacket. Put you a cute pair of heels on, make you some earrings. Oh yes, this was custom made. I made it, but y'all don't need to know that this was custom made. Go get you some, go get you some patterns, get you a sewing machine and custom make your own stuff.
Because we have to be good stewards, y'all, and we have to know about the oil that is in our house. Listen, I'm getting ready to take my seat, okay? And so you've got to know what's in your house. You got price things the way that you need to price them, okay? Do not allow anybody to underestimate your value.
If they can't afford the price that you set, that ain't your client.
That's not the person, that's not the target audience you need to be reaching, okay? You've got to learn how to evaluate opportunities because as our for mentioned, every opportunity is not a God opportunity. Here are three questions that I normally ask when I'm evaluating opportunities. Number one, does it align with where God is taking me?
Number two, does it compensate me for the value that I provide, not the time that I spent on it, the value that I provide, and does it cost me something that cannot be replaced? Does it cost me my peace? Does that cost me my health? Does that cost me my integrity? And if the answer to any of those is no, that ain't a God opportunity and stewardship.
Malachi three 10 bring you the whole tithe
into the storehouse, then you save, then you invest. Then you pour into other people as the Lord leads you. So Jesus, my faith and my bag, they should all go together. They should all be married and combined in us as women of God repeat after me. My gift has value, my gift, my time has value, has my expertise, has value, and I will be compensated accordingly.
Oh, I like that the price just went up. I know that's right. So this is where we have to be women of God. We have to know the totality of our assignment. 'cause you don't have to choose between kingdom and Marketplace. You can operate in both. And I'm telling you from experience, God would give you a grace and a wisdom that allows you to operate in both without losing yourself in either.
Lift your hands in this place. Say this with me. I am called. I'm called. I am capable. I, I am covered. My faith is my foundation. My purpose is my direction, my purpose, my prosperity serves the kingdom my prosper. I will not play small. I'll not play small. I'll not shrink. I'll not, I'll not apologize. Not apologize.
I'm a woman. I'm who makes power moves. I in Jesus' name. In Jesus. Amen. Come on, clap your hands. And give our great God a great praise. Come on, you can do better Jesus. My faith and my bag.
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