Hey friends, welcome back to the podcast. I have some questions for you today. Do you ever feel like you can't step into

your calling until you get more experience or more education? Do you ever feel like you count up all

your skills and your resources and feel like you're just not enough? Do you ever shrink back in fear rather than step out in the

obedience that you know God wants you to when you feel underqualified? Well, I do very regularly.

And today we're going to talk about the truth that I preach to myself when I feel this way.

You see, so often I bring this topic to you because so often I find myself in my everyday callings, whether it's in motherhood

or in the work that I do, I regularly find myself kind of assessing and going, should I have

more hours, more education, more reviews,

more, more of something to make myself feel more qualified, better, stronger, wiser, all the

things. And, you know, I think what sets in sometimes is that imposter syndrome, right, that fear of

like, I don't belong here.

I'm not good enough to be on the stage or to do this work or I'm sure I'm not the girl for the job.

We regularly wrestle with those things. I'm assuming you do. I do quite often. Sometimes on stage I'll

feel like, oh, I shouldn't even do public speaking

until I go take an eight-week course on this and get better at it. Not to say you shouldn't

take a course, but I often just like want to not do something because I feel like I should

have so much more coaching. Or I sometimes at times feel like even teaching the

Bible, something that I ultimately have a relationship with the Lord, but sometimes I feel like

am I even qualified to teach the Bible if I don't have multiple seminary degrees? If I don't know

the Greek or the Hebrew for something, gosh, should I even be teaching or

leading or discipling other women? Well, and sometimes as a leader, as a CEO, as a business owner,

sometimes I just shrink back and feel like, maybe I'm going to lead this business in the wrong

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