Verse of the Day: Philippians 1:6
Trusting God to Finish the Work
Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
I was raised in the church, sitting under the teaching of God's Word from the time I was a little girl. And as I grew, one thing became unmistakably clear about the assignment on my life: helping women has always been at the center.
In my church world, it was building women's ministries from the ground up. In my professional life, it was hiring women, encouraging the women on my team, and pouring into every woman who reached out.
Because we look for guidance on how to stay focused, do the work, and increase our income, all while building successful careers and businesses.
Equipping women has never been a side interest for me. It’s always been a calling.
But after my own life transitions, I found it genuinely difficult to stay committed to the plan the way God originally gave it to me. I stepped back from the work that had been at the core of who I was, because I became consumed by a question I could not shake…
Am I still qualified to do this?
I worried that my circumstances had disqualified me. That the woman who once stood confidently in her calling had done something, or been through something, that made me no longer fit for the assignment.
So I pulled back. I went quiet in the area where God had always used me most.
But God would not let me go.
He kept calling me back. He kept reminding me that what He placed in me, nobody has the authority to remove…not other people, not my own decisions, and not the seasons I walked through that I would have written differently if the choice had been all mine.
The calling does not live in my circumstances. It lives in Him. And what He begins, He is fully committed to completing.
That’s exactly where Philippians 1:6 meets you and me.
We’re not at the finish line with its celebration. But right in the middle, where the work is still unfinished, and the results are still forming.
It’s in the gap between where you are and where God said you were going…that gap that feels wider than it did when you started.
We’ve been walking this season of commitment together, and the progression has been deliberate.
We started with the small thing, the daily decision to be faithful with what is already in your hands. We stayed planted when everything around us tried to justify letting go. And now we arrive here, at the question underneath both of those: do you actually trust God to finish what He started in you?
Because faithfulness in the small things is an act of trust. And so is staying planted. But Philippians 1:6 asks for you to go even deeper than your daily discipline. It asks you to release your grip on the outcome entirely.
He who began a good work in you. Not you or your strategy. It’s not focused on your platform, your consistency, or your offer. He began the good work, which means finishing it belongs to Him as well. Your role is to steward faithfully. God’s role is to complete what He initiated. That’s the most confident posture a woman building a God-given vision can take.
But here’s the warning…this is also where the enemy tries his most subtle move yet.
He cannot always stop you from showing up. He cannot always remove you from your assignment. But he will absolutely try to convince you that the unfinished state of what you’re building is evidence that God has moved on, changed His mind, or forgotten what He promised you.
He has not. What God begins, He completes. The work is not abandoned because it’s unfinished. It’s in process because God is still building.
The arrangement is that we’re the stewards of what God told us to build. And this verse is the anchor that holds that arrangement together when the middle gets long, hard, and uncertain.
You can be confident of this. Not hopeful. Not cautiously optimistic. Confident. That is the intentional word Paul chose.
Ask yourself this question: Am I trying on my own to finish what God started, or am I trusting Him to complete it while I remain faithful to my part?
See the difference?
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Yvette
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