Are You Still a Woman of Audacity?

If you’re anything like me, you love the feeling of something new: new purchases, new months and, of course, a new year.

At the beginning of every year, I make a conscious effort to expect BIG things. There is something truly beautiful about not knowing exactly what lies ahead while imagining all the wonderful possibilities that could unfold.

In January, here at Pretty and Powered, we were taught about the kind of woman God was calling us to be in 2026: a woman of audacity (watch here). A woman who would believe boldly, refuse to be ruled by disappointment and continue trusting God.

At the beginning of the year, that message felt exciting. But now that we are halfway through 2026, life has lifed, and I find myself wondering:

Am I still walking in that word? Or am I already waiting for the ‘new’ word for 2027?

The thing is, I have a habit that the Holy Spirit has been working on with me. When I reach the middle of a new week, month or year and things are not going the way I had hoped, I am often tempted to give up and wait for the next round of “new” to come along.

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NKJV)

At the start of 2026, I had plans, hopes and ideas. Now, in July, some of them are not looking the way I expected. Maybe you are not seeing the things you hoped for come to pass. Maybe you are looking at everything that still needs to be achieved, comparing it with the months remaining and feeling your audacity fade.

Perhaps you thought you would have received that promotion by now. Maybe you hoped you would be married, have children or be further along in another area of your life…Well sis, same, but here are two truths I am holding on to for the rest of the year as I recommit to being a woman of audacity.

His Ways Are Not My Ways

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.” (Isaiah 55:8, NLT)

Logic is one of my biggest challenges. And human logic can become an enemy to audacity.

In my mind, if I want to arrive at ten, the most obvious way is five plus five. And because it is the most obvious way, that is obviously how it should be done. Right?

But there are so many ways to arrive at ten:

56 − 46

30 ÷ 3

−10 + 20

If I tell myself that the only way to arrive at ten is five plus five, I am more likely to become frustrated when another equation is taking place. Only God knows the right equation for whatever it is that I hoped for at the start of the year.

Remember Sarah, Abraham’s wife? In Genesis 16, she tries to make sense of God’s promise through human logic. She considers her age and biology, looks at the time that has passed since the promise was given and concludes that it can no longer happen in the way God said it would.

So, she takes matters into her own hands.

Sometimes, audacity looks like refusing to manufacture an outcome simply because God’s process does not make sense to us or it’s taking too long. It takes audacity to wait, audacity to obey and audacity to trust that God can still bring us to the destination through an equation we did not expect.

This Is a Faith Walk

Hebrews 11 continues to be one of those chapters that snatches my edges EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Why?

Because it tells us:

“Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed) and the evidence of things not seen—the conviction of their reality; faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.” (Hebrews 11:1, AMP)

Let me break this down.

Faith is essential for us to both walk with and please God (Hebrews 11:6). And not just any kind of faith, but the kind of faith that causes us to believe that God will do what He said He would do, and to act accordingly, even when there is no visible evidence yet.

That is hard.

It is hard to hold on and have faith when the clock is ticking on 2026. It is hard to hold on to faith when you feel like you are doing all the right things but still…nothing. It is hard to hold on to faith when you’re being hit with disappointment after disappointment.

But Hebrews 11:8-19 gives us a glimpse into Abraham’s life and shows us what this kind of faith looks like. He moved his entire household without tangible evidence or proof of where he was going. He was even prepared to sacrifice his son because he had faith in the God who had spoken and trusted that God was still able to fulfil His promise. Abraham did not have all the details in either of these moments. He simply walked by faith and not by sight.

That, sis, is audacity.

Perhaps, before reading this post, you had stopped believing for that thing. Maybe you had allowed disappointment to distract you or had begun taking matters into your own hands.

But by now, I hope you can see that the story of 2026 is still being written by the One in whom we should have faith, the One whose ways are not our ways and who has called us to be audacious.

Perhaps audacity was easy in January, when the year was fresh and hope felt natural. But the true test of audacity is whether we can still stand in July, when time has passed, questions remain and the promise has not yet become visible.

So, are you still a woman of audacity?

Do you still have the courage to trust His ways when you do not understand the equation?

Do you still have the faith to believe before the evidence appears?

Do you still have the strength to remain standing through delay, disappointment and silence?

In love,

Dr. Gabriella Mwedzi