When God Speaks in Pieces: How Akua Serwaa Found Her Calling Through Holy Spirit Conversations

The Feeling That Wouldn't Go Away

Akua Serwaa knew something was off the moment she walked through the doors of her workplace. It wasn't dramatic. There were no burning bushes or audible voices — just a quiet, persistent sense that she wasn't where she was supposed to be.

For a long time, she pushed it aside. Financial security matters. Practicality matters. You don't abandon a career in tax consulting because of a feeling. So she stayed.

Then last fall, the feeling came back — and it refused to leave.

"It wasn't the first time," Akua recalls. "It had happened a number of times, but it wasn't that consistent and intensive. So I would always wave it off." This time, the misalignment persisted for seven to fourteen days straight. There was no waving it off. She knew God was trying to get her attention.

Dates with the Holy Spirit

Akua made a decision that changed everything. Instead of praying her usual prayers — communicating at God and then moving on — she decided to wait and listen. She came home from work, spread a mat on the floor, opened a notebook, put on soft worship music in the background, and asked the Holy Spirit direct questions.

"So I would come with my own questions," she explains. "Sometimes two or three questions. Then I'd ask the Holy Spirit — okay, so now that you are giving me this misalignment, what do you want me to do? What are you trying to say?"

More often than not, she fell asleep.

She laughs about it now, but she kept showing up anyway. Then one morning she woke up with a single word already on her lips: consistency. She didn't fully understand it yet, but she started posting about consistency in community — on LinkedIn, in conversations — watching to see where it led.

"God didn't reveal it all at once. It was like a gradual thing he was revealing to me as I kept obeying the first instruction and continually spending time with him."

Consistency led to a conversation with a potential client in the United States — a Ghanaian professional whose demanding schedule had crowded out his time with God. He felt guilty about it and wanted help getting consistent in his faith. After hanging up with him, ideas flooded Akua's mind: not just tips for creating time, but a whole framework for integrating faith activities into daily life.

She wrote it all down. The man never became a client. But the idea took root.

Over the following weeks, a third thread emerged: decision making. It came twice — once as a deep prompting in her spirit, and a second time when she was going through her files on her phone where she'd already drafted an offer around the same theme, months earlier without connecting the dots.

Consistency. Faith integration. God-led decision making. Three seemingly separate ideas — all pointing to the same place.

What Faith Clarity Coaching Actually Looks Like

Akua now describes her work as Faith Clarity Coaching — helping leaders discern what God wants them to do in the specific decisions they're facing. She still works full-time as a tax consultant in Ghana. God hasn't told her to stop, and so she hasn't.

That discipline itself is part of her message.

"The fact that God has revealed to you that this is what I want you to do does not necessarily mean he's saying stop your job and completely focus on this. If he actually wants you to stop your job, he will definitely let you know."

This kind of patience runs against the grain of much faith-based entrepreneurship culture, where bold leaps are celebrated and waiting is sometimes mistaken for fear. Akua pushes back gently but firmly. She recently brought her own decision before God whether to sit for demanding professional tax exams while still building her coaching business. Not once, but repeatedly.

She asked for two signs. One: if God wanted her to sit for the exam, He would give her a specific confirmation. The other: if He wanted her to instead focus solely on coaching, He would give her a different sign altogether. The first sign came to pass. And aside that, a scripture dropped in her thoughts when she was spending time with God one afternoon, it was quiet but unmistakable: "When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen." She immediately understood that when the time is right to quit her job and pause the exam, the Lord will make it known. She registered for the exam, and was at peace with the decision. 

The Problem With One-Way Prayer

One of Akua's sharpest observations is about how most of us were taught to pray. We talk. We present our requests. We thank God. We leave.

"When I grew up, I always thought that prayer was one way," she says. "That is how I saw it — you go and communicate, communicate, communicate, and then you keep quiet and leave."

The problem, she discovered, is that God often wants to talk back. He wants to bring things to our attention — sometimes things we haven't even thought to ask about. But we don't create the space for him to speak.

She points to Psalm 91 as a window into what this kind of life can look like. "Those who live in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." The word that stopped her was live. Not visit. Not check in occasionally. Live.

"If somebody is living somewhere, they stay in that space more often. Their items are there. Their family is there. So if the Bible says those who live in the secret place — then we are missing it, because most of us don't even want to be in the presence of God."

She's equally direct about another common pattern: praying and then asking God to bless the decision you've already made. "We pray to him and we expect him to bless our decisions, or we pray and we already have the answer he should give us," she says. "But if you really want to walk with God, you don't do it like that."

What the Holy Spirit Can Only Remind You Of

For younger leaders — and older ones who are just starting to take their faith seriously — Akua's advice is grounded and practical. Start with desire. Seek God with your whole heart, as Jeremiah 29:13 promises. Then feed on the Word consistently.

She's direct about why: the Holy Spirit can only remind you of what you already know.

"If you don't know the Word, what would the Holy Spirit remind you of?" she asks. "It's just like studying for an exam. If you only studied half the textbook and the questions come from the other half, no amount of clues from someone beside you will help. You didn't read that part."

Beyond the Word, Akua urges leaders to begin treating the Holy Spirit as a present companion rather than a distant power. "He is in us," she says simply. "So far as we've accepted God as our Lord and personal Savior, he is in us and he is with us. Start initiating conversations with him."

She's clear that this takes time. The first day you sit in silence, you may hear nothing. The second day, nothing. But consistency — the same word God first dropped in her spirit — is the key. Stay in the practice. Stay in the Word. Stay in his presence.

"It will get to a point where after prayers, you realize that God keeps bringing a whole lot of things — not even necessarily about what you prayed about. He can bring things to your attention that you never even thought to ask him about."

The Next Step Is Already Being Designed

Akua hasn't received the next piece of the puzzle yet. She's still praying, still listening, still showing up on her mat in the evening. She's content with that. The same God who gave her consistency, then faith integration, then decision making — one piece at a time — is already designing what comes next.

Her story is a quiet rebuke to our culture of urgency. It is also an invitation. What would change in your work, your relationships, your decisions, if you treated prayer less like a to-do list and more like a conversation — and then actually stayed long enough to hear the other side?

Commit your ways to him. Trust him. Wait. As Psalm 37 reminds us, everything flows from that posture.

Akua Serwaa is proof it works.