How to Make God Your Business Coach (4 Habits for Christian Founders)
Before you hire a business coach, lock in on these 4 alignment habits.
Hey Friend!
Let’s get right into this week’s message designed to help you build your big idea W.I.T.H God:
Wisdom: a short, scripture-based teaching with video to renew your mind
Implementation: a tiny action step you can take this week on that topic
Trust: a scripture-based declaration to build your faith on the topic
Help: a resource or next step to support you with this topic
This week, I paid $20k in the school of hard knocks to learn these four habits, so I’m VERY passionate about sharing them! My hope is to help you avoid some of the struggles I went through while helping you stay aligned with God as you build.
Enjoy and meet me in the comments 🧡
P.S. Join the conversation by answering the “Help” section prompts in the comments!
WISDOM
I know “God is your CEO”, as we all say, but have you actually made Him your business coach too? Or, have you yielded that role in your heart to someone else?
It’s so easy to inadvertently look to your beloved business coach as “god” when it comes to guiding what you’re building. Idolatry is sneakyyyyy. But, as harsh as it may sound in this context, God commands us: “You shall have no other gods before Me.” — Exodus 20:3 (New King James Version)
A simple way to practice this is:
God is my Head Coach.
This dusty is my assistant coach (You see how dusty’s title stayed lowercase? Intentional lol).
In this week’s video, I want to show you how to make God your Head Business Coach in a very practical, day-to-day way so that any coach or program you ever invest in has to line up with what God is already leading you to do, not replace it.
🎥 Click here to watch this week’s video: How to Make God Your Business Coach (4 Habits for Christian Founders)
IMPLEMENTATION
Here’s your tiny action step for the week…
Pray Before You Work
Before you start your next work session, invite God into it with a simple prayer, like:
“Father, I invite You into this work session.
Here’s what I’m planning to work on today, but I’m open to Your changes.
Give me wisdom for each task and help me follow Your Spirit, not my own thoughts. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done in my work today. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
That’s it. 30 seconds.
Do it for the rest of your work week and pay attention to how aware you are of God’s direction during your work time. This is such a beautiful, simple way to “practice God’s presence” as some of my pastor mentors say. He is always present to build with you if you create the space to notice Him!
TRUST
Say this out loud when you need to remind yourself that you have the BEST business coach / mentor available in Christ:
Jesus, You’re my Mentor.
Jesus knew His purpose from a young age but didn’t start fully walking in it until His early 30s.
He found time with God in the midst of his crazy ministry schedule. (Matthew 14:23, Mark 1:35, Luke 5:16)
He built a team around Him that got the same results that He did (Luke 10:17)
He endured haters (Matthew 12:14), betrayal (Luke 22:47-48), His own family not believing in Him (John 7:4-5), attempts on His life (John 8:59) & still accomplished His mission!
The work He accomplished while He walked on the earth has impacted millions of lives and is STILL impacting millions today.
Lord we’re in awe of you!!!!! If you’ve been saying you need a mentor to take your business to the next level, you got the best One already!!! Keep your eyes on Him and watch how you AND what you’re building are transformed. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
HELP
Let’s help each other in the comments by sharing one of the following:
Coaching Horror Story: share a lesson you learned from a coaching program experience that wasn’t God-aligned for you.
Coaching Recommendation: recommend a God-ce
ntered business coach you’ve had a good experience with for anyone who’s looking.
Practical Habit: share a constructive habit you use to invite God into your work.
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I really appreciate how clearly you structured this. It’s practical, not just inspirational and that matters.
Coaching Horror Story
One lesson I learned the hard way was this:
Just because someone is successful doesn’t mean they are assigned to steward my vision.
I once invested in a program that was strategically sound, but it required me to contort what I felt led to build into something more marketable, louder, and faster. Nothing about it was “bad.” It just wasn’t aligned.
The pressure to optimize replaced the posture of obedience.
The real cost wasn’t just financial. It was the internal confusion that followed. I had to untangle what was truly mine to carry from what I adopted because it worked for someone else.
Lesson:
If a coaching container requires you to override your convictions to succeed inside it, it’s not aligned, no matter how impressive the results look.
Marlena, this is a vital word. We often forget that 'making God the CEO' can just be another way of trying to manage Him. There’s a deeper, more disruptive victory that only comes when we stop using Him as a consultant and start yielding to Him as the Source.
That 'school of hard knocks' tuition is steep, but it thins out the ego beautifully. I’ve found that the simple act of 'Praying Before You Work' isn't just about efficiency, it’s a holy dispossession. It’s telling our own ambition to sit in the passenger seat so His Spirit can actually breathe through our work.
One habit I’ve leaned into to keep the 'Source' at the center is the Noonday Descent. I stop regularly at a certain day of the week at 12:00 (or thereabouts) for five minutes of absolute silence (aware of His presence), no petitions, no shop-talk, just a quiet 'undoing' of my own agenda. It’s amazing how much 'noise' that clears out for the rest of my afternoon.
Cheering you on as you lead others back to the true Centre!