"I should have built my influence when I was younger. It's too late to start now."
How it sounds in your head: If I was going to make an impact, it should have happened by now. Everyone successful started young. I missed the boat and now I'm starting from zero at an age when others are established.
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end."
-- Ecclesiastes 3:11World's timeline lie that significance has an expiration date.
She sees younger women with massive followings who 'started early.' Every success story she reads began in their twenties. She feels decades behind with no runway left.
Harland Sanders was 65—SIXTY-FIVE—when he franchised KFC. He'd failed at multiple businesses, was broke, and living on Social Security. Then he started driving around selling chicken recipes, and built a billion-dollar empire in his retirement years.
I REFUSE the lie that I'm too late. IT IS WRITTEN that He makes everything beautiful in ITS time—and this is MY time. What I'm calling delay, God calls APPOINTED timing. IT IS WRITTEN that the vision is for an appointed time, and though it tarries, it WILL surely come. Like Colonel Sanders who built an empire at 65, my greatest influence is not behind me but AHEAD. Every year wasn't wasted—it was PREPARATION. I walk in the Abrahamic BARAK that makes me a blessing to NATIONS, not just to my age group. It's not too late; it's EXACTLY on time. I am the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath, and my influence will EXPLODE in this season.
The Father hasn't been withholding while you 'missed it'—He's been PREPARING you for an influence that requires the depth only these years could forge. Like the wine at Cana that was saved for LAST and declared the BEST, your best work is coming NOW.