The Valley of Vision: Stuck Between Planning and Doing

You've written the vision. You've made it plain. Maybe you've even fortified it,
the plan, the strategy, the resources. And still… you haven't moved.

In this study we walk verse by verse through Isaiah 22 — a chapter almost nobody teaches, and discover why God's own people ended up high in vision and low in obedience. They repaired the wall, secured the water, and threw a party, while the enemy was already at the gate. Why? Because they never looked unto their Maker. They planned without Him. And they stayed stuck in the valley. But what does that look like? You might feel like you are including Him.

Because here's the truth: you were never meant to carry the vision alone.

The valley is not a waiting room. It's a place you are called to leave.

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Tax strategy does not have to be boring, confusing, or saved for panic season.

In this fun and practical conversation, Becky Spense shares money saving tax strategies every entrepreneur and small business owner should know. We talk deductions, smarter planning, confident business decisions, and how to stop leaving money on the table.

Becky is a tax planning and business coach for service based business owners, helping you make confident decisions with your money, taxes, and business growth.

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Ready to build a business that actually supports your message, book, offer, and calling?

Join me inside The 90 Day Accelerator, where I help Christian authors, speakers, coaches, and creators clarify their offer, build a strategic buyer journey, and position their message to sell with wisdom and confidence.

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There are seasons in business where obedience does not look like increase.

You are showing up, building, praying, and stewarding the message God gave you, but the numbers may not look like victory yet.

In this episode, I am talking about what it looks like to build a business with God when winning does not look like winning. We will look at Jacob, Paul, weakness, obedience, perseverance, and the strength God forms in the wrestle.

Because sometimes God is not just growing the business.

He is growing the builder.

And sometimes victory looks like staying obedient while the fruit is still forming.

If you are a Christian author, speaker, coach, or message carrier ready to build more than random content, I invite you into my 90 Day Accelerator.

Inside, I help you create your first strategic digital offer around your book, message, or ministry so you can build a clear pathway from interest, to trust, to transformation, to revenue. This is the engine for your book sales machine.

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Not every room is assigned to you.

In this episode, I unpack why discernment matters deeply when choosing business partnerships, mentors, masterminds, counsel, and communities. The wrong room can drain your clarity, dilute your conviction, delay your obedience, and pull you into agreement with people who do not carry the same assignment, values, or fruit.

This conversation challenges Christian authors, creators, and entrepreneurs to stop choosing rooms based on hype, access, emotion, or fear of missing out, and start judging by fruit, integrity, alignment, wisdom, and spiritual agreement.

You cannot build what God gave you while being discipled by confusion, compromise, or ambition without surrender.

This is a needed conversation for the Christian author who knows she is called to more, but has felt pulled in too many directions by strategies, voices, rooms, and advice that do not fully align with the assignment God has given her.

Your book is not just something you wrote.

It is something you are called to steward.

And if you want it to reach more people, sell with more consistency, and become part of a bigger message and business, you need more than another random strategy. You need clarity around the path.

That is why I created The 7 Day Book Sales Reset.

For just $27, this reset will help you stop guessing, see where your book sales are getting stuck, and begin rebuilding a clearer path to sell your book with more wisdom, intention, and stewardship.

Get access to The 7 Day Book Sales Reset here.

You cannot build what God called you to build while still agreeing with the lie that you are not ready, not qualified, not safe, not heard, or not enough.

In this episode, we are talking about the true meaning of pulling down strongholds, and how the arguments inside you may be the very thing resisting your purpose.

Ready to turn your book, message, and calling into revenue with strategy?

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What do you do when obedience feels heavy, the fruit is slow, and the thing God called you to build starts exposing every weak place inside of you?

In this episode, Heather unpacks the difference between bitterness toward God and bitterness of soul before God. Looking at Hezekiah, Hannah, Naomi, Peter, David, Job, Jeremiah, and even Jesus, this conversation confronts the hidden side of carrying a calling: grief, pressure, disappointment, pruning, waiting, fear, exhaustion, and the temptation to quit.

This is not a soft conversation about "finding your purpose." This is a call to stop pretending, stop performing, and bring the raw places of your soul before the Lord. Because sometimes the heaviness of building does not mean you missed God. Sometimes it means He is refining the woman who will have to carry what she prayed for.

If you are building a book, podcast, ministry, business, message, or movement, this episode will challenge you to stop hiding behind confusion and finally take the next obedient step.

If you know your book or message is supposed to reach more people, but you have not known how to turn it into a clear path that creates trust, sales, and momentum, start with the 7 Day Book Sales Reset.

Go to resistandroar.com and take the next step.

Some of us keep saying we are waiting on God, when really, we are burying what He already put in our hands.

In this episode, we look at the Parable of the Talents and ask what it means to steward the message, book, offer, ministry, or business God has entrusted to us.

This is not about hustle. It is about obedience, multiplication, and refusing to hide behind fear, confusion, or false humility.

If God gave you the message, He did not give it to you so you could bury it.

Visit resistandroar.com to build the path that helps your message, book, voice, and offer multiply.

There comes a point when the wilderness has done what God allowed it to do.

It stripped us. It humbled us. It exposed what could not come with us. It taught us to stop building from striving, fear, comparison, and survival. But the wilderness was never meant to become our permanent address.

In this episode, we are talking about what it means to leave the wilderness and step into the calling God has placed on our business, writing, marketing, message, and ministry.

Because many of us are not waiting on more confirmation. We are hesitating because stepping into obedience means being seen, being heard, building the thing, writing the message, making the offer, showing up in the marketplace, and trusting God with the outcome.

This is a call to stop hiding behind preparation and start stewarding what God has already placed in our hands.

If God gave us the message, the book, the business, the voice, the offer, or the assignment, then obedience does not end in the secret place. At some point, we have to come out of hiding and build.