When Fear And Doubt Strike Entrepreneurs
Updated: Jan 27, 2021
When we’re worried we do the weirdest things. We bite our nails, twist our fingers like doubled jointed contortionists, shake our legs uncontrollably, and have total mental blocks and breakdowns.
We’re overcome with doubt. Our peace has been robbed from us.
We face many challenges in entrepreneurship and are sometimes overcome with fear and doubt. In these times, we have a choice to indulge those fears or to meditate on the promises of God.
The enemy will use worry and fear and doubt to rob you of your God given peace.
At times I couldn’t pay the rent on my office space. Fear would overcome and I considered closing up shop and working from home. But then I remembered God’s promise to me: ‘I will use your space to bring people to know me.’
So here is the key: you have to have some promises of God under your belt ready to bust out when fear and worry come…because they will come, especially as business owners.
It is an act of obedience to reject the lies of fear and worry and to concentrate on God’s love and sovereignty and his desires for your business to succeed and grow.
We do not know the plans God has for our lives or the lives of our employees. Our finite minds may have trouble understanding His eternal purposes for our businesses. Our peace, however, comes in knowing that He is a God who is loving, wise, and in control. He’s your boss, and this verse calls us to concentrate on the attributes of God:
Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things."
So you don’t know how to meditate? Did you know that worry is meditation. Its meditation, but in the wrong direction. Shift your thoughts to things of Philippians 4:8 and you’ll be meditating in the right direction.
Godpreneur Rule #48: Godpreneurs don’t focus on their fears, they choose to meditate on the goodness of God.