A Prayer for Women Entrepreneurs
By Gina DeVee

It’s time to band together our entrepreneurial community continue to call in and continue to pray in, financial funds, and financial assistance for women entrepreneurs around the world. You know, everyone here has such an important purposes, and we can’t be fully expressed without a healthy relationship with money.

It’s in my heart that you receive today a renewed relationship with financial increase—to help you deepen your own process with what it is to be connected with God, and to be making money, and to serve greatly.

Being a Queen is not for the faint of heart. You know,  heroines overcome much. And we usually are so excited to talk about the victory. And perhaps not often enough do we talk about the process and the journey and what it takes to actually overcome, and what it takes to persevere. Or, what it takes to stand on the top of that mountain with your flag or your sword or your scepter held high.

So if you’re in the midst of your journey and it’s a challenge, or if you’re experiencing an obstacle, and you just don’t know whether you’re going on is beating a dead horse or giving up…

If you feel like you’re not hearing from God, and if it seems like the money’s not coming in and if it seems like you’re lost without diriection…

And all you want to do is give of your talents and your gifts and your services…

I welcome you to this conversation and this prayer. It is my intention that you will receive a breakthrough, that will help you get back into the flow, and will help stir up what may have become dormant or stagnant.

Let us pray.

Dear God, we humble ourselves before you, and we know that many times in our lives that we have run ahead of you, and that we have perhaps gotten arrogant or cocky or thought that we had life wrapped around our little finger, like ” we had it all going on”.

And other times we’ve wallowed too much in our own insecurity, in our own family dramas, in our own story to be available and to be used greatly.

So today, God, we get our ego and we get our story out of the way. We release it. We surrender it. We give it up to make more room for you.  We unplug our ears to so that we can hear what your sweet Spirit is saying to us.

We ask that you wash off and clean our heart, so that there’s a clear opening for us to receive Your message. We ask to continue to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So we come to you for renewal.

We don’t know what to do and where to turn and how to stir, or how to create, or how to be in power, or how to persevere without you.

So I pray, dear God, that you would show us a lighter way, kinder way, and a more valiant way. If it’s about pushing forward, then we’ll push. If it’s about drawing back, then we’ll draw back.

We ask that no matter what the direction is for each of us individually, that you would show up in our lives, so that we would know, that we would know, that we would know, that our Heavenly Father wants to speak to us.

We pray that we would know the clear path that we’re supposed to take. That our intuition would be such a channel between you and us; that we would just feel so confident, and so trusting about who we’re supposed to be, about what we’re supposed to say, about if we’re supposed to send an e-mail or not.

We ask that you would make it clear if we’re supposed to go out there and stir up the action or not. Make it clear if we’re supposed to be in our masculine or feminine energy.

We ask you to guide us just as you guided Moses with a cloud by day and fire by night. And just as you spoke to Moses in the burning bush; just as you spoke to Abraham; and just as you guided Esther; and all of the other people who have been used to bring your message of power, of love, of benevolence, of safety, and of love.

We ask to be today’s generation of spiritual Queens. We ask to be used by you just as readily as you have used many of the people that we’ve read about, many of our mentors, and many of the people that we look up to. And we pray all of this believing.

Amen.

I’d now love to hear your prayer.  Please make a comment below.

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Money + Men:  What’s Your Story?
By Gina DeVee

Have you ever noticed how lifestyles come in packages?  Or have you wondered why some women just seem to “have it all”?  Or how other women stay stuck in “lack” or some kind of drama?

I know this “success begets success” and “failure begets failure” dynamic well.

There was a time in my life, when I was

broke and boyfriend-less.

Even though I had an M.A. in clinical psychology, and had worked at The White House, Harvard’s Institute of Politics and the Supreme Court of the United States, I still couldn’t seem to figure out how make enough money to pay my bills on time.  I always brought in just under-enough.

I was your classic “under-earner”.

I didn’t have the self-esteem to charge my worth, I was taught not to focus on money, I thought that if I worked harder I’d get paid more, and I thought that helping others included lowering my rates.

Mostly I avoided the entire subject of money

because I was embarrassed that I was so weak in this area.

I wanted to be a powerful player in the world.  I wanted to make a great contribution.  I used to sit and listen to Marianne Williamson speak on stage about important issues happening in the world, and as much as I wanted to participate in that conversation, I sat in the audience totally obsessed with how I was going to pay my utility bill that month.

I wanted money in my life.  I was willing to work hard.  I wanted to share my gifts and talents.  Here I was, a psychotherapist at the time, people paid me to help them with their lives, and I was humiliated because in this way, I could barely help myself.

And then came the subject of men.

Same story.  I wanted to be in a committed, loving, relationship.  I felt like I had worked on myself enough to be a desirable woman.  I thought I was good looking enough.

Mostly in the man department it was lack…lack of dates, lack of receiving phone calls, lack of attracting interest.  And IF I did get asked out, it was such a ho-hum story.  It was so not enough–not in a high-maintenance way, but in a, “this is SO NOT a king kind of way.”

And then one day I made a decision to become a Queen, because that is the only rightful partner for King, and I was determined to marry a King.

Note to self:  Queens aren’t broke.

When I realized that my story about money included:

• Lack of money

• Fear that I’m not worth enough (to charge more)

• Intimidated to receive (money for my services)

• Even when it does show up it’s never enough

• Can’t figure out how to attract wealth

• I can’t have what I want (meaning I was supposed to “live within my means”–but who wants to learn how to live off of $24k/year?!)

• Money isn’t there for me

Well, guess what?!

I also realized that my man story included:

• Lack of dates

• Fear that I’m not worth enough (to be asked out)

• Intimidated to receive (attention, love, etc.)

• Even when he does show up the relationship is never enough

• Can’t figure out how to attract men

• I can’t have what I want (meaning everyone around me had their own ideas for the kind of man I was supposed to end up with)

• Men aren’t there for me

As soon as I stepped into the commitment of being Queen in my life, I immediately realized that included being Queen of my Finances as well.

The old programming of “You better marry a rich man” didn’t apply to the modern day empowerment of women, which includes being financially savvy.

I always say, if you want the best personal development seminar in the world, start your own business.

In the process of me being dedicated to attracting wealth into my life in both the areas of money and man…both showed up!

I now create in a week, what I used to earn in a year financially, and I’m happily married to my soul mate.

As you can see, working on your money story, because it is so core, will strengthen your story with men as well–this goes for single and married women!

For most of us, true wealth includes much more than money, AND it includes financial success.

Here Are 5 Tips to Transforming Your Money + Man Story:
1.  Make a list of 10 beliefs you have about money.
2.  Make a list of 10 beliefs you have about men.
3.  Compare the similarities of the two lists, and send them to me with your realizations at Gina@EstherExperience.com.
4.  Sign up for mentoring from a professional who has the kind of life you’d like in both of these areas.
5.  Read wealth consciousness books like “Get Rich While You Sleep” by Ben Sweetland.
6.  Read books on femininity like “A Woman’s Worth” by Marianne Williamson.

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