A huge part of PR success is being visible or showing up for others.
It's pouring out your gifts, talents, wisdom, experience, strategy and energy in order to build good will with your ideal clients and ultimately get them to buy.
The issue with this is that you're a limited resource, sis.
This means that it's also important to make sure that as you're showing up for others, you're also showing up for yourself so that you remain replenished.
Not sure how?
In last week’s musings, I mentioned that 2nd Timothy 2:21 calls us “vessels of honour”
Click here if you missed that post, sis!
In light of the scripture above, it's something that we just tend to throw around as believers but I really wanted to know- What does it actually mean to be a vessel?
Here’s what I discovered:
Chile, this week has been a lot!
Like seriously…
Recently, I talked about the fact that faith increases our capacity to succeed
Click here if you missed that, sis!
But did you know that you have other capacities too?
For example:
A) Mental capacity
The ability to make your own decisions
B) Emotional capacity
The ability to overcome limiting beliefs, your ease in adapting to challenging situations, and the quality of your relationships
C) Physical capacity
The ability to perform a variety of physical tasks
In the wake of such trying times, we run the risk of running low in one or more of these capacities
Which will then have knock-on effects on our ability to walk in purpose because…
As the saying goes, “you can’t pour from an empty cup” and this is really clearly illustrated in 2nd Kings 4:1-7
in which the woman literally took empty vessels, poured oil into them until they were full and then distributed the oil for profit.
2nd Timothy 2:21 says that we are “vessels of honour” so, like the widow did with hers, we need to make sure to fill ourselves up before we pour out to others. Here are 20 ways that I have been doing that this week:
Apart from the typical advice of praying and reading the Bible, in between, work, I have been doing one or more of the following each day:
Last week, we talked about how to increase our capacity to succeed and the vital role that faith plays in allowing us to do this
Because:
Faith increases our capacity to receive from God,
The bigger your life, business or visibility goals- the bigger your faith will need to be
If that’s true, it follows that lack of faith decreases our capacity to succeed.
The most obvious way that lack of faith shows up is through unbelief or lack of faith in God.
According to The Parable of the sower, this usually happens because of “the cares of the world” (Matthew 13:22).
For the widow in 2nd Kings 4:1-7, it would have been easy- even expected- for her to lose faith in God
I mean, not only had her husband died- he left her with huge debt and creditors ready to make her sons slaves if she was unable to pay it off!
But she didn’t…
So, in the last few weeks we have been doing a lot of talking about Relationships in the context of The Parable of the 10 Virgins.
I don't want to flog a dead horse but there are just a few more life lessons that we can glean from these 10 amazing ladies that I'd really like to share with you, lovely. 5 to be exact! Including:
The importance of preparation (being ready rather than getting ready)
How to wait on God (hint! This is not a passive process!)
How to spot and avoid red herrings (opportunities that look good but really aren't)
And much more- all of which I shared on my Facebook page this week via the (live) video below!
So last week, after all our talk about seeking first the Kingdom of God, I ended up going down a little bit of a rabbit hole looking at some more kingdom based parables.
This led me to Matthew 25 where Jesus told the story of the 10 virgins. This passage is seriously meaty and has so much to teach us; so I think that we'll be hanging out there for the next few weeks- especially in keeping with our recent discussions about relationships (here and here).
Today, however, we're going to be speaking about how to keep your light burning as a Christian woman and why that has everything to do with practicing self-care in order to not run out of "oil" (something I seriously struggled with this week!)- all of which I shared on my Facebook page this week via the (live) video below.
