"Women shouldn't pursue wealth; that's unfeminine or stepping outside biblical womanhood."
How it sounds in your head: Ambitious women are threatening or unwomanly. I should focus on home and relationships, not money. Desiring financial success makes me less submissive or feminine. Godly women are helpers, not wealth-builders.
"She considers a field and buys it; from her profits she plants a vineyard."
-- Proverbs 31:16Religious misogyny twisting Proverbs 31 to limit women's financial agency and calling it biblical order.
Church culture celebrates male providers and female homemakers. Women pursuing wealth get labeled as worldly, aggressive, or trying to usurp men. It feels spiritually safer to stay small financially.
Lydia was a successful businesswoman - a seller of purple (expensive goods for wealthy clients). She had her own household, enough wealth to host Paul and his team. God opened her heart, and Scripture honors her as influential and prosperous without any hint that her wealth was unfeminine.
I REFUSE the lie that pursuing wealth is unfeminine or outside God's design for women. IT IS WRITTEN that the Proverbs 31 woman buys real estate, plants vineyards from HER profits, and sells merchandise. Lydia was a successful businesswoman whom God used powerfully. IT IS WRITTEN that in Christ there is no male or female - I'm a co-heir with Christ. The BARAK blessing is MINE as Abraham's seed, not just my husband's or father's. I build wealth as a woman because that's biblical femininity, not worldly ambition.
Your Father isn't nervous about you making money or building wealth. He celebrated the Proverbs 31 woman's business deals and chose Lydia, a successful merchant, as Europe's first convert - He LIKES women who prosper.