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3 Lies Keeping You from Unleashing Your God-Given Purpose

Originally published on HiddenTreasuresAndRiches.com

You know what breaks my heart? Meeting a woman who knows deep in her spirit that God has a purpose for her life, but she simply cannot move toward it. Not because God hasn’t spoken, and not because she hasn’t prayed. But because something inside keeps whispering to her: “Not yet. Not you. Not anymore.”

I made a video about this, and I want to share it with you today. But I also want to sit with you in these words, because I believe that the moment you name a lie, it loses its power over you.

Three Lies That Keep Women from Their God-Given Purpose

These three lies don’t come from God. They don’t even come from your circumstances. They come from the enemy of your soul, and they are all designed to do one thing: keep you small, keep you silent, and keep you from the assignment God has written over your life.

“The closer you get to your purpose, the louder these lies get. If they’ve been particularly loud lately — that might be a sign you’re closer to a breakthrough than you think.”

So let’s name them and let’s dismantle these 3 lies together with the Word of God.

Lie #1: “It’s Too Late. I’ve Missed My Season.”

This lie is particularly cruel because it sounds so reasonable. “You should have started earlier.” “Other women your age are already established.” “The window has closed.” “You waited too long.”

Can I tell you something? That voice is a liar.

Joel 2:25 “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.”

Did you catch that? God says He will restore the years. Not partially. Not a little bit. The years. The seasons that felt wasted. The time you gave to survival. The years spent in a painful marriage, or healing from a wound you didn’t choose. God says: “I am a God of restoration.”

Isaiah 43:19 “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”

New. Not recycled. Not a consolation prize. Something entirely new.

The women who have had the most impact in my ministry didn’t find their voice at 25. Many found it at 55. Some at 62. Some at 70. Your “late start” in the world’s eyes is simply God building the character and depth that your purpose requires.

“It is not too late. It was never too late for you.”

Lie #2: “My Wounds and My Past Disqualify Me.”

I want to be gentle with you here, because this lie is perhaps the most painful one. And I know so many of you are carrying it.

“After everything I’ve been through — how could God use me? My marriage. My childhood. The things I did. The things that were done to me. The years I spent in a dark place. How could that be the foundation of a purpose?”

My beloved sister, hear me well.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

Your wound — the very thing you believed disqualified you — is often the precise doorway to your assignment.

The woman who walked through a broken marriage and found healing? She becomes the voice of restoration for women who feel their marriage is beyond repair. The woman who hit rock bottom emotionally and found God in the depths? She becomes the safe place for women who are at the bottom right now and don’t know if there’s a way up.

Isaiah 61:3 “To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit.”

Not beauty despite the ashes. Beauty for them. The ashes are part of the beauty.

“Your damaged emotions are not your destination. They are the doorway to your purpose.”

But here is what I want you to hold onto: you cannot lead from your wounds if your wounds haven’t been healed. You can only lead from your scars. And that means doing the work of healing — not to become perfect, not to erase what happened, but to allow God to redeem it, restore it, and repurpose it for His glory and your good.

Lie #3: “I’m Not Enough — Not Spiritual, Talented, or Ready Enough.”

This might be the oldest lie in the book — and I mean that literally. Turn to Exodus chapter 4.

God appears to Moses in a burning bush and gives him one of the greatest assignments in all of human history: lead My people out of Egypt. And Moses’s response? “Who am I?” “What if they don’t believe me?” “I’m not a good speaker.” Moses — the same Moses who spoke directly with God — had a “not enough” problem.

If Moses struggled with this, my sister, you are in very good company.

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

That word “handiwork” in Greek is poiema — the root of our word poem. You are God’s poem. Crafted. Considered. Created on purpose, for purpose.

“God doesn’t call the fully qualified. He qualifies the willing. The question is never “Am I enough?” — it is always “Am I willing?””

Spiritual maturity grows as you move. Talent develops as you show up. Readiness comes with obedience, not before it. You will never feel ready enough before you begin.

Begin anyway.

The Source of Every Lie — and Its Antidote

Three lies. One source: fear. Fear that it’s too late or that you’re too broken. Fear that you’re too small.

1 John 4:18 “Perfect love casts out fear.”

The antidote to every one of these lies is not willpower. It is not positive thinking. It is the perfect love of God, received deeply enough to displace every fear that has been standing between you and your purpose.

You were made for more than this. And it is time to begin to believe it.

Ready to Do the Work of Healing?

If Lie #2 hit close to home today — if you felt something stir in your heart when I talked about damaged emotions and what God wants to do with your wounds — I want you to know that is not an accident.

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