The Five Battles Women Face Before God Brings Financial Breakthrough

If you’re reading this, then you and I probably have the same story tucked somewhere in our journals: life pushed you into prayer before you ever planned to kneel. Not the gentle little “thank You, Lord” on your way out the door, but the kind where your voice cracks, your patience evaporates, and you finally whisper, “Okay, Father… I can’t do this without You.”

Women rarely run to God because everything is going smooth.
We go to Him because something inside starts groaning and finally cracks.
And usually, those groans? They’re the doorway to the biggest financial breakthrough we’ll ever see.

This week I want to talk about the real battles—the ones that pull daughters back into the Father’s arms. Because the money struggle is almost never just about money. It’s about the pressure, the identity crisis, the comparison battle, the fear wrapped in lack, and the wounds we don’t even have language for yet.

So let’s sit down together, grab a hot drink (I got my peppermint with vanilla sweet cream) and we're going to peel this back, layer by layer.

Overwhelm & Anxiety: When Life Collapses You Into Prayer

You ever feel like you’re holding up a home, a calling, a dream, a job, and still trying to look like you’ve got faith on lock or the illusion of it? Most women don’t break from one big thing, we tend to break because 47 small things piled up while we were trying to stay strong for everyone else.

And that’s right where financial fear loves to whisper.

When stress is high, your wallet starts talking.
When anxiety rises, your emotions plummet before your account balance ever does.
When life gets heavy, suddenly that number on the screen decides your worth.

But hear me: overwhelm is often the exact place God uses to pull you closer.

Your anxiety doesn’t mean you’re failing.
It means you’re human—and in need of divine strength.

This is where His promise becomes alive:
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”
Isaiah 40:29

Identity: The Silent Question Behind Your Financial Fear

Behind every woman’s financial battle is a quiet question:

“Who am I if I can’t hold everything together?”

We women carry identities on our backs.
We don’t just fear lack—we fear what lack says about us.

Am I irresponsible?
Am I failing my kids?
Am I not blessed enough?
Is my faith broken?

But Father has never tied your identity to your income. He's never tied it to earthly possessions.
He tied it to His name.

You were His daughter before you ever managed a dollar. We were His daughter before our earth parents were even created.

And when we feel lost about who we are, He doesn’t shame us into clarity.
He whispers truth:

"I have called you by name; you are Mine." Isaiah 43:1. We Are His

Little sister, He always restores identity before breakthrough, because breakthrough without identity becomes a burden.

Comparison, Envy & Feeling “Less Than”: When You Feel Behind

Nothing stings like watching someone else’s breakthrough when you’re still praying for yours. Especially when we're first getting started. Wonder how long it's going to take, saying we've been at this for years now. But guess waht though, Noah built the Ark for 120 years before he ever seen rain fall from the heavens, Joseph was 17 when sold into slavery and a man in his 30s when he started living the dream Father gave him. David was in his 40s when he was crown, Abraham waited over 20 years for his first child with Sarai (before she was named Sarah). Everything and I do mean everything is perfect in Father's time not ours.

And it’s not that we're jealous that success is happening for them and not us, it's just that we can't stop silently asking, 'why not us?'
It’s that we’re grieving—grieving the timeline we thought we’d be living by now.

Comparison is the quiet killer of confidence. It's one of the enemy's greatest weapons, he knows that so many humans are lost through the valley, because they don't see past the mountain top on the hills were Dad reigns.
It makes our progress look small and our faith look weak. But that's why He says don't look for faith, hear it, hear Him.

Identity in Christ resurrects what comparison tried to bury.

You were never meant to run her race.
Your abundance has a completely different schedule.
And when God moves for you, my dear sister, trust me, actually trust Him—your story won’t look like hers and it definitely will not look like mine.

It’ll look like yours. Because your assignment has only been given to You.

Financial Insecurity: The Fear That Pushes You Back to God

Financial insecurity exposes everything:

Fear of scarcity.
Fear of failing.
Fear of not being enough.
Fear of repeating old mistakes.
Fear of never recovering.

When your wallet whispers “impossible,” that’s not just money talking—that’s every wound, every fear, every memory of lack rising to the surface.

But Father speaks a different language over you:

“My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory.”
Philippians 4:19

And this is why you’re fasting.
This is why you’re praying.
This is why you’re seeking Him with a new intensity. Prayer without Faith is pointless. Faith without Trust is useless.

Because deep down, you know provision never starts in your bank account. Where there is darkness, Father positions His children of light. In every pagan castle and every pagan home, there He put a child of His to awaken the faith of the sleeping sheep.
It starts in Heaven.

Broken Relationships, Trauma & Loss: The Hidden Root Behind Lack

Most women won’t talk about this part—but I will.

Some financial battles have nothing to do with money.
They’re the aftershocks of trauma.

A broken marriage can break your sense of safety.
A betrayal can shatter your ability to trust.
A childhood of lack can teach you to expect loss.
A trauma-filled past can convince you abundance isn’t for women like you.

But look at the women in Scripture:

Ruth.
Hagar.
The woman at the well.
The woman with the issue of blood.
Queen Esther, the poor orphan.

Every single one found God in the middle of loss—not after the victory, before when there seemed to be nothing to be appreciative for.

If you’re wounded, He’s near and always right beside you.
If you’re grieving, He’s present, He's right next to you.
If you're rebuilding, He’s the Foreman leading the builders.

Breakthrough isn’t just financial.
It’s emotional, spiritual, relational, and generational.

So Why Does This Matter in an Article About Financial Breakthrough?

Because you can’t fully receive God’s promises for your finances until you understand the heart-level battles that keep you from believing Him. You have to understand, that you've already been blessed spiritually. Hey sis, the physical world always takes time to load.

Your anxiety matters.
Your identity matters.
Your comparison battle matters.
Your financial insecurity matters.
Your trauma matters.

God doesn’t leapfrog over your wounds to hand you wealth.
He heals you as He prepares you.

They aren’t just money promises.
They’re identity promises.
Healing promises.
Restoration promises.
Faith promises.

They speak to the exact reasons us women go searching for God in the first place.

All He asks is that we trust Him.

Stay faithful, stay quirky, and stay writing.
With love and fire,
V.S. Beals
Writer. Watchwoman. Woman of the Word.