Wisdom’s Table With Rachel Wortman

You've accused yourself of pride more times than anyone has ever said it to your face.

So you shrink. You undercharge. You hold back the post, the price, the pitch, and you call it humility because staying small feels safer than being seen.

I lived there for a long time. I dimmed my light and told myself I was guarding my heart. When I finally got free of it, beautiful things started coming.

In this episode of Wisdom's Table, I'm naming false humility and the three ways it  cripples Christian entrepreneurs:

Romans 12:3 calls us to sober judgment. Accurate judgment. Owning your gift while knowing exactly where it came from is real humility, and it's what the parable of the talents asks of every one of us.

Here's the part I want you to sit with this week: "Pride takes the credit. Humility takes responsibility."

In other news, we are hosting an event for Christian entrepreneurs and business owners like you in Oklahoma City, OK. This is your chance to get in the room with us, encounter God together, and get filled up for the new year. Learn more HERE

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 - Introduction to False Humility

You've been working to earn a place you already have. Refreshing the numbers, adding one more task, pushing through exhaustion, all while wondering if God is disappointed in how far you still have to go. 

The new covenant speaks a better word over you. Through Jesus, God has written His law on your heart, forgiven your sin, and promised to remember it no more (Jeremiah 31:33-34, Hebrews 8:10-12). Your standing with Him was secured at the cross, and grace is the ground you build on (Ephesians 2:8-9).

In this episode, Rachel prays for the leader who is tired of proving and ready to receive. This prayer breaks agreement with striving, silences the voice that says you're never enough, and invites you into the rest Jesus offers to everyone who is weary and heavy laden (Matthew 11:28-30). Let His grace meet you in your business, your family, and the places you've been carrying alone.

Come to the table. Put down the weight. Receive what's already yours.

You say you want to grow. You've prayed for it. You've even sensed God calling you into it. And then, right when it's time to move, something in you backs down.

I know that place well. As a teenager reading Romans 9 in my NIV study Bible, I agreed with a lie that I was made for "ordinary use." It haunted me for close to 25 years. I would want the change, believe God was calling me to it, and then that lie about my worth would get in the way.

Here's what I've learned: growing is going to cost you something. Staying the same is going to cost you more.

Four things are required to create a change:

So let me ask you two questions. Where is God challenging you to grow? And what would happen if, a year from now, you stayed exactly where you are?

If belief is where you're stuck, start there. In my book The Expansion Mandate, I walk you through the four battles every Christian has to fight and win to fully step into their promised land. And it all begins with your ability to believe.

Your copy is waiting for you at HERE. Come take the first step with me. 📖

TIMESTAMP

00:00:01 - Welcome to Wisdom's Table

00:00:27 - The Cost of Growth

00:01:09 - The Principle of Exchange

00:04:09 - What Happens When We Don't Grow

00:04:40 - Four Components of Change

00:05:01 - Belief in Change

00:09:47 - Willingness to Act

00:10:29 - Acceptance of Being Nimble

00:10:39 - Perseverance to See It Through

00:12:12 - Consequences of Not Engaging

00:13:27 - No Neutrality in Growth

00:15:02 - Believing in Yourself

00:16:47 - Loving Yourself to Love Others

00:18:22 - The Cost of Staying the Same

00:20:08 - The Importance of New Environments

00:22:05 - Aging and Growth

00:24:26 - Your Potential for Growth

00:24:47 - Closing Thoughts

You've been carrying tomorrow into today. The launch that hasn't happened yet. The payment that hasn't cleared. The conversation you keep rehearsing in your head at 2 a.m. You call it planning, but your body knows it as dread.

Jesus spoke directly to that weight. In Matthew 6:33-34, He gives a clear order of operations: seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first, and everything else will be added. Then He releases you from borrowing tomorrow's trouble, because today already has enough of its own.

In this prayer episode, Rachel prays over the entrepreneur, the leader, and the builder who is ready to lay down the burden of tomorrow and pick up the assignment of today. This prayer realigns your priorities under His, breaks agreement with anxiety over provision, and invites the peace of God to govern your decisions, your finances, and your next step.

Come to the table. Bring your tomorrow. Leave it with Him.

Scripture reference: Matthew 6:33-34 ESV.

You hit six figures. Then seven. And instead of feeling settled, something else starts happening: you're saying no more than you ever have, the people around you stop seeing your struggle, and somehow you feel more used and more alone than when you started.

In this episode, Rachel Wortman breaks down four things that happen to your heart when your business starts working, the parts of success nobody puts in a course. Drawing from coaching nearly 140 businesses with combined revenue close to $40 million, Rachel names what's actually going on when success gets disorienting: the guilt of learning to say no, becoming blind to your own weight because you carry it well, getting dehumanized by people who need you to be less than human, and the slow realization that you're being used and can't say so out loud.

She also shares a story from her own life, a milestone trip to Paris and Lake Como that turned into one of the hardest seasons of her adult life the moment she got home, and what she learned about betrayal, forgiveness, and staying in her calling anyway.

If you're building something and it's starting to work, and it feels heavier than you expected, this episode is for you.

In this episode:

-Why successful entrepreneurs have to relearn how to say no

-The hidden cost of carrying weight well

-How success gets you dehumanized in other people's eyes

-Why you get used by people and can't call it out

-Joseph of Arimathea, Lydia, and what the Bible says about funders

-A personal story of betrayal and how Rachel worked through it

Find Rachel on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@therachelwortman

Join us in person at the Signet Conference. Learn more at www.rachelwortman.com

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Wisdom's Table is the flagship podcast series on this channel, going deep on faith, leadership, business, and relationships for Christian entrepreneurs and marketplace leaders. Rachel Wortman, business coach, author, and 20+ year ministry veteran, unpacks what it actually looks like to build a kingdom-minded business: the mindset shifts, the money conversations, and the heart work nobody else is talking about.

New episodes cover topics like the hidden cost of success, kingdom money stewardship, spiritual warfare in entrepreneurship, identity in business, and practical faith-based leadership for founders scaling past six and seven figures. Rachel draws from coaching nearly 140 businesses and combined client revenue approaching $40 million to speak candidly about what happens in your heart, your relationships, and your leadership once success actually arrives.

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📚 Rachel is the author of The Expansion Mandate and The Money Mandate, and leads Supernatural CEO, a coaching program for faith-driven entrepreneurs.

🎙️ Listen to Wisdom's Table on your favorite podcast app, or watch full episodes right here.

It's Monday,and on Mondays we pray! This week we're covering our finances and provision.

We're releasing:

-The anxiety around income

-The worry over our cash flow

-The pressure of our expenses, and cash flow

-And declaring God as our provider

I share the testimony from The Money Mandate of the morning an $18,000 check nearly wiped us out, and how God worked out an $18,000 refund that same day to cover it exactly. If you want the full story and more on stewarding your finances God's way, grab a copy of The Money Mandate HERE.

I'll see you Thursday for a new episode of Wisdom's Table.

Your business isn't stuck because your strategy is wrong. It's stuck because you haven't grown into the person it needs you to lead it.

I know that's not what you wanted to hear. But every business that's growing is demanding more from you: more courage, more capacity, more decisiveness. And most of us never stop to ask the question: who am I becoming through this?

In this episode, I unpack why God rarely equips us before He calls us. He equips us in the process. The obstacles you're facing right now aren't just in your way; they're doing something FOR you.

I share what it looks like to recognize the season you're actually in (harvest, pruning, dying, or planting) and why trying to force a harvest season during a pruning season will wreck you every time.

God isn't just building your business. He's building you.

If you've been asking God for a bigger vision, this episode might be Him asking you a different question first: who do you need to become to carry it?

Ready to grow into the leader your calling requires? Let's do it together inside Supernatural CEO: www.supernaturalceo.com

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:01 - Welcome to Wisdom's Table

00:00:27 - Rachel's Background

00:01:20 - The Importance of Becoming

00:02:24 - God Qualifies the Called

00:03:38 - Skill Gaps in Entrepreneurship

00:06:17 - Becoming Your Best Self

00:08:04 - Obstacles as Opportunities

00:09:30 - Identifying Your Season

00:12:20 - Four Business Seasons

00:15:00 - Navigating Seasons Wisely

00:18:02 - Reflection and Growth

00:20:29 - The Role of a Coach

Today we are welcoming the presence of God and pressing in to what He has already provided for us. 

Pray with me:

-To sense God's presence and be filled with Him

-To remember who we are in Christ

-That our worth is not tied to what we do

-To release our fears

-And so much more

Have you ever felt confused about why you need to pray if God has already said He would do it?

In this episode, I break down three types of prayer: petition, declaration, and decreeing. Petition is asking God for what you need. Declaration is speaking His truth over your situation. And decreeing isn't demanding what you want; it's exercising the authority God's already given you to speak His will out loud.

I get vulnerable about a moment I really struggled to believe God would help me, even though I had zero doubt He could help everyone else. And I talk about what it means to be a watchman on the wall of your own life, contending for the promises God already made you.

Your silence might be costing you more than your unbelief ever could.

As we head into the Hebrew new year, this is your invitation to pick back up the prayers you let go of. Your mouth is a weapon. Let's use it.

If you're a Christian business owner ready to grow in faith and contend for what God's called you to build, come check out Supernatural CEO: www.supernaturalceo.com

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:01 - Welcome to Wisdom's Table

00:00:27 - The Power of Your Mouth in Prayer

00:01:09 - Three Types of Prayer

00:01:40 - Understanding the Hebrew Calendar

00:03:15 - The Year of the Mouth and the Weapon

00:05:01 - Isaiah 62: The Call to Contend

00:07:17 - Types of Prayer: Petition

00:10:06 - Types of Prayer: Declaration

00:12:23 - Types of Prayer: Decrees

00:14:19 - Putting It All Together

00:15:00 - Contending for Yourself

00:16:14 - Personal Testimony

00:18:30 - Invitation to Supernatural CEO

00:20:35 - Reflection Question

00:22:00 - Closing Remarks

It's Monday, which means it's prayer day! This week we're suiting up in the full armor of God and drawing a hard line against the enemy, over our marriages, our children and grandchildren, our finances, our property, and our peace.

I'll walk you through why picking a fight with the enemy stirs a response, and why that's never a reason for fear, just a reason to stay sober-minded and keep praying. Then we go straight into war: covering our businesses, our families, our employees, our minds, breaking soul ties and old trauma, silencing the lies, and standing fully covered in the blood of Jesus.

This one might be worth a second listen. See you Thursday for a new episode of Wisdom's Table.