When Christ Becomes the Life-Flow of Your Work

As a new year begins, many Christian women step forward with hope —
 and a quiet, unspoken question beneath it:

Is there a better way to do business with God that I’m missing?

If you love God, desire to honor Him in your work, and yet feel an undercurrent of pressure, effort, or strain, this episode will help you understand why — and reveal what God has been offering instead.

In this episode, Kathleen brings clarity to a struggle many faith-filled women experience but rarely know how to name. She gently uncovers why sincere faith and good effort can still feel heavy — even when God is at the center of our intentions — and points toward the life-giving remedy found in Christ.

This is not a strategy episode.
 And it’s not about fixing yourself or trying harder.

It’s about discovering how Christ’s indwelling life was always meant to become the life-flow of your work — bringing peace, strength, clarity, and joy from oneness with Him.

This conversation opens the year by setting a new foundation — one that leads you out of “The Land of I” and into “The Place of Glory,” where work flows from Christ’s life within you rather than from striving.

In this episode, you’ll begin to understand:

• Why faith and effort don’t always produce peace
• The shared human pattern influencing how we approach work
• How pressure can signal a deeper issue — not a personal failure
• What Scripture reveals about God’s remedy through Christ
• How a new way of working with God becomes possible

Scripture referenced: Romans 7 • Romans 8 • Matthew 11:28–30

✨ This episode is an invitation — not to fix everything — but to begin seeing clearly and step into a new way forward with Christ.

About the Host

Kathleen Fischer is the founder of Christ Empowered Impact and host of The Christ-Empowered Entrepreneur Podcast. She equips Christian women in business, leadership, and teams to move from striving into oneness with Christ, learning to live and work from His indwelling life.

Kathleen offers coaching, training, retreats, and speaking engagements designed to help others walk in freedom, peace, and purpose while fulfilling God’s call.

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Transcript

 Welcome back to the podcast. I'm really glad you're here today. Let's return to the cafe where we've been meeting. No rush, no pressure. Just a quiet space to breathe for a moment.

As we begin a new year, it is so refreshing to come into January with a renewed sense of hope. We love God and we want to do life and business together with him.

We are excited about all the possibilities ahead.

And yet if we're honest, there's often something quietly sitting underneath that hope.

So today we are going to take a peek at something many Christian women experience but don't always know how to name.

Let's start with prayer.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the start of a new year.

For the beauty and hope that you have for us as we learn to walk in oneness with you. Meet us today here in this podcast with your love and your grace

that we may come to know you more deeply and the hope-filled plans you have for us with you in the days ahead.

Thank you for how you will minister to each person who is listening.

We ask for this with Thanksgiving through your son and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

So I'm wondering, have you ever noticed that there seems to be something happening to God's children in business?

Something difficult and hard to describe.

I hear women expressing it in various ways, and it's something I can also relate to.

It's a kind of fatigue that doesn't seem to lift.

A continual sense of pressure, that doesn't feel like God.

But somehow feels normal in the business world.

It carries a sense that something isn't quite right, but we can't figure out what it is,  and we find ourselves quietly asking "if I'm following God's call to business, why does it still feel so hard?"

You know, it's not because you're hopeless.

You know it's not because you don't love God.

And you know that God loves you.

But something feels off and you don't know why and you'd love to see it resolved.

If you're resonating with this, I want you to know right away:

you are not alone.

These thoughts and feelings are common among genuine faith-filled God-loving women in business.

Here's the good news.

There is hope.

There is a way out of the grind.

And there is a new way to work.

Hallelujah.

So here's what I've noticed as I speak with Christian women in business, and even within my own story.

Somewhere between wanting to follow God and sincerely trying to build a business faithfully.

Things become heavy. Continually overwhelming. And even exhausting.

Many women. Say it this way,

I feel called, but I'm exhausted.

I'm praying, but I still feel overwhelmed.

I am trying to do the right thing.

So what am I missing?

That question, what am I missing, is actually really important.

And today I don't want to rush past it.

I want to pause here and share something honestly. Just so you know, I'm not speaking at you. I've lived this.

I loved God and I truly wanted to honor him in my business, and yet, I still felt the pressure, like it was somehow all on me.

I didn't know what I was missing, but I knew something wasn't working.

And the business culture wasn't helping me answer the questions within my heart.

But God didn't allow those questions to stay unanswered.

He quietly ministered to me and eventually opened the doors to answers through a spiritual mentor.

Today. I want to give you a peek into what I've learned. And it begins with a few questions. Questions we'll just sit with for a moment.

Here they are.

What if the problem we are experiencing is rooted in a common human dilemma?

One that's all around us so much so that we don't even notice it.

What if this is not a new problem, but one that is much older and much more shared?

What if this heaviness we feel is telling us something important and something that is fixable?

What if Christ holds the keys that unlock a new way?

But we've forgotten how to partner with him to open the door.

 Hmm.

What if a simple observation from scripture can help us partner with Christ to open the door?

Here it is.

Did you ever notice that as soon as Adam and Eve ate from the tree, they immediately began looking to themselves? Instead of looking to God. 

 At that moment, humanity became separated from God, and immediately entered a new state of being. A sinful state that looks to itself for security, significance, and peace, instead of God.

This sinful nature, separated from God, became man's way of living.

And it continues to shape how we do life and business today.

It often shows up like this.

First we were taught, implicitly, to set our own course, take responsibility, figure things out, lean in to carry our load, and then ask God to help us succeed.

This way of being leads us to experience the pressure to hold it all together.

The fear of failure, and a constant burden to keep making things happen.

It's what I call working from "The Land of I" where everything flows from ourselves.

It's where the most common word found in each sentence is the one letter word I.

What am I going to do?

How am I going to do it?

Can I do it?

Does this sound familiar?

At the same time, we look to the world for how to build a business, simply because we're looking for advice.

And without meaning to, we absorb its rhythms: striving, pressure, grinding, constantly pushing for more.

We adopt them as just how business works.

And then we ask God to help us make our plans succeed.

We don't mean to do this, it's just the water we're swimming in.

It can even feel like the inner tension Paul described, wanting to walk in God's ways, yet feeling stuck in an old way of operating.

And that tension is actually a signal, pointing us toward a better way.

Here's another revelation that changed things for me.

God never planned to fix or strengthen the self-reliant nature that began at the fall.

Instead, he sent his son to crucify it, and to replace it with his own nature- that brings forth a whole new way of being.

Christ didn't come to help us with our self-reliance.

He came to offer an entirely new source of life.

The indwelling life of God's own nature within us.

A new nature that reunites us with God.

So here's a way to look at the question we started with where we asked, "if I'm following God's call to business, why does it still feel so hard?"

  What if the answer lies in the source we are working from?

Is the source for our life and business flowing from the habits of our old crucified nature and the patterns of this world?

  Or is it flowing from the new and abundant nature of Jesus Christ that now lives within us?

That answer has the power to turn the key that opens the door to a whole new way of living and working.

A way that operates from oneness with God, instead of separation from him.

A way that invites us to live and work and have our being from God instead of from this world.

A way that fulfills Christ's words that say, come unto me, from my way is easy and my burden is light.

As we move forward into this new year, I want to invite you into the rhythm of noticing, just baby steps for now.

Where are you noticing these patterns showing up in the world around you?

   Where is God inviting you to make the shift from "The Lane of I" into "The Place of Glory" with him?

No judgment here.

Just awareness.

And when you notice you're carrying the weight of business alone, practice one simple shift.

"Lord, thank you that you know the way. Lead me in oneness with you."

God is inviting us to open the door.

To make the shift and to walk in a new way together with Christ.

To solve with him the answer to why it has been so hard.

To consider that the year ahead isn't about trying harder with God's help, but learning how to live from a place of oneness with God in Christ.

This new way of living and working is a journey.

It's learned.

It's shared.

And it's what we'll be exploring together in the days ahead.

If you'd like to stay connected with me on this journey, I invite you to subscribe to this podcast.

Grab the free resources in the show notes.

And join me in the events and opportunities that I offer.

They're designed to help you make the shift into doing life and business from "the place of glory" where Christ empowers you with his grace to walk together with him in the Father's will.

Let's pray.

Gracious father, thank you that you did not leave us in the sinful state we inherited, but sent your own son to save us. To crucify the old nature and to impart to us a new nature that brings us back into oneness with you.

Jesus, thank you for being our source of new life.

Thank you that you never asked us to carry what you came to fulfill.

Teach us to notice your leading, to rest in your presence and to walk in the new life you have given us.

We yield to you again today. And we look forward with hope to all that lies ahead as we learn to walk in oneness with you, in both life and business.

For it is in your holy name that we pray. Amen.

I'm so glad we've shared this time together. Until next time.