"God didn't bless my business because I'm not anointed like younger entrepreneurs."
How it sounds in your head: I see young women building empires with God's favor, but clearly that anointing isn't for me. Maybe God's blessing is for the next generation, not for women who already had their chance.
"God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"
-- Numbers 23:19Source: religion teaching that anointing is performance-based + ageism from church culture + comparison with younger women.
She watches younger entrepreneurs succeed while her venture failed, and the visible contrast feels like evidence of God's preference for youth and her disqualification.
At 85 years old, Caleb said 'Give me this mountain' and took the most difficult territory with giants. God's strength in him was as strong at 85 as at 40—age didn't diminish the anointing, it showcased it.
I REFUSE the lie that God's anointing has an age limit or that I'm disqualified because I'm in my seventies. IT IS WRITTEN that God is not a man that He should lie—what He promised, He WILL do, regardless of my age or business outcome. I am anointed because I'm IN CHRIST, not because of my entrepreneurial success. The BARAK blessing is on me by COVENANT, not by performance. IT IS WRITTEN that Caleb at 85 was as strong as at 40 and took his mountain. My best days are not behind me—they're covenant-guaranteed ahead of me. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
The Father isn't comparing you to younger entrepreneurs—He's delighting in His daughter who dared to dream. While you're seeing the closed business, He's seeing the mountain He's about to give you, and your age makes the victory even more glorious.