💎Wealthy Women💎

Speaking of women who are wealthy, I pray in the name of Jesus that I’ll be part of that list soon! As in soooooonest😂

There are so many women who have done incredibly well for themselves through their careers, businesses, and the things they have put their hands to. They have created value, built businesses and systems, and generated significant wealth. I think historically, when we thought about wealth, the image that often came to mind was a man, the man as the provider, builder, and creator of wealth. But women have shown us that women can create wealth too. Women can build, own, lead, and create systems and organisations that generate wealth and impact.

Even in the Bible, we see women who were builders and influential figures. Sheerah, for example, is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 7:24 as having built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sherah. That alone challenges the idea that women have always existed only on the receiving end of resources. I think she had money. I mean how do you build three cities without moolah? Sheerah had some paper.

I really want us to move away from the mindset that women must always be asking men for money. And yes, in marriage, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a husband providing for his wife but there is a difference between receiving from your husband and having a beggarly mindset. A couple of months ago, I decided to intentionally study the lives of certain people, particularly people who have built significant wealth and influence.

One of them was this woman, Folorunso Alakija from Nigeria. She may not be the wealthiest woman in the world, but she is widely regarded as one of the wealthiest women in Africa, with an estimated net worth of around $900 million to $1 billion. I specifically chose to study her because she is a Christian, and I’ve found her interviews and the way she speaks about her journey, faith, business, wealth and success incredibly interesting.

There is something fascinating about seeing how her faith has influenced the way she approaches business, opportunities, challenges and the wealth she has built. What makes her story even more interesting is that her wealth wasn’t built from one career path. She worked in banking for about 12 years, moved into fashion and built Supreme Stitches/Rose of Sharon House of Fashion, then expanded into printing, real estate and eventually oil through FAMFA Oil.

Imagine being in one place for 12 years and probably thinking, “This is it. I’ll do this forever.” Twelve years is not a joke. You build a routine, you become comfortable, you know what to expect, and then perhaps God begins to tell you, “No, it’s time to start something else.” Like?? The faith for that hasn’t been built in many people. Some people have been teachers for 30 or 40 years, and somewhere along the way, God may have said, “It’s time. Start the business.” The Fear of the unknown stopped them.

You may ignore but have no idea what is waiting for you on the other side of that decision. You have the doubts, What if I leave this job and the business fails? Who will feed me? What if I make the wrong decision? What if I lose everything I have built? I think that’s one of the most fascinating things about stories like hers, you often only see the woman who became wealthy, but you don’t always see the woman who had to make the hard decision to leave what was familiar without knowing exactly how everything would unfold.

Shall I shock you further? She had no formal studies in oil or anything related to the industry, but opportunity met preparedness and resilience. I watched one of her interviews where she shared the story of how she got into the oil business, and honestly, listen, you better be resilient! This woman knocked on so many doors. She is a fighter. She kept knocking. She said, “I am not someone who gives up.” I thought, how many of us are still struggling financially because we give up too quickly?

One setback, one “no,” one “not now,” and suddenly you’ve already designed another logo for another business. You have “moved on”. She failed many times, but she kept going. Some people fail once or twice and immediately assume it means God didn’t call them to that career. What if the failure was simply part of the process? What if the “no” wasn’t God saying, “Stop,” but rather, “Keep knocking”? One more thing I learned from her is her faith.

In every interview, it’s Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It really made me think about how some of us say we want wealth, but our hearts want it for the wrong reasons. With three thousand in your account, you are already forgetting God. You tell people, “I built this from scratch,” and God is no longer part of your story now that you have the job, the money, or the man. Meanwhile, a woman who is a billionaire in dollars is openly saying, “God made me like this.” She is loud about her faith. She is an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For some of you, with ten thousand in your account, it suddenly becomes difficult to tell people about Jesus, let alone go to church. You have become a big woman. You have become a big man. But God knows our hearts. We may think, “Nah, I would never do that,” but God knows what we would do when the money actually comes. He has tested many people with money, and they failed. Tithing? That one has suddenly become “Old Testament stuff,” but when you had five dollars, you were faithfully tithing.

It’s easier to obey in lack than in abundance. I’ve seen it. Maybe the prayer isn’t, “Lord, make me wealthy.” Maybe we should also be praying, “Lord, make my heart ready for the wealth I am asking You for.” I don’t know about you, but I want to be wealthy. I genuinely hope it is for the right reasons, reasons righteous than whatever I can list with my mouth. Why do you want wealth? If everything is about you, then I’m afraid you may have to wait a little longer.

I believe women will be wealthy. The question isn’t whether it will happen, the question is to whom it will happen. You may have very little right now, but who knows what you will become five years from now? Maybe you will be number one. Don’t read this with doubt. Apostle Folorunso Alakija didn’t know she would become one of the wealthiest women on the entire African continent.  You can be wealthy and godly, dear women. You can be wealthy without sleeping around for it.

You can be wealthy without committing fraud. You can be wealthy without consulting or depending on the powers of darkness. The earth is the Lord’s! If a woman can build that kind of wealth, so can you. Why not you? Believe God. Believe that you can build, create, own, employ people, solve problems and generate wealth while still loving Jesus deeply. And when the money comes, don’t let it become the very thing that takes you away from the One who gave you the ability to create it.

This woman is a powerful reminder of that; even her official biography says that when she reflects on her achievements, her first response is to give glory to God through Jesus Christ.  Here are two of her interviews I watched. Enjoy, and perhaps, more importantly, learn. You will find more on YouTube.

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