When God Wakes You Up: How a Life-or-Death Moment Launched Two Kingdom Businesses

Sabrina Success can pinpoint the exact moment everything changed: January 28, 2023, at 6 a.m., when her mother's phone call pierced through what should have been an ordinary morning. But nothing about that night—or that phone call—was ordinary.

"I woke up to my mother calling me over and over again," Sabrina recalls. "It was like I couldn't hear her ring. It was so strange that morning, but it was like God Himself woke me up."

Her mother had received a dream—an alarming one—about Sabrina. On the phone, her voice carried a power Sabrina hadn't heard in years. "Sabrina, we need to pray right now," her mother said, and began praying in the Holy Spirit with such intensity that Sabrina physically shook.

What Sabrina didn't yet know was that God was confirming what had happened just hours before: someone close to her had tried to take her life.

The Night That Changed Everything

The previous evening, Sabrina had cried out to Jesus in desperation. She was in her last semester of college, trying to graduate, and she could feel something spiritually wrong in her atmosphere. "I knew something was against me trying to graduate," she says. "I didn't have the mind of Christ at the time, but I felt that there was something attacking me."

That night, she went to bed knowing—spiritually knowing—that the enemy had plans to take her life.

When her mother's prayer began that morning, the Holy Spirit gave Sabrina the ability to cry out: "Jesus, what did I not see?" In an instant, God flashed a picture before her eyes—a vision of someone who had done something evil to her. The revelation shook her to her core.

A lot of people believe God, but they have to remember that there is an enemy that does not want us to break off the things holding us back from Jesus. The Bible says that Satan blinds the minds of the unbeliever. My mind was blinded to the things of God, to see the world with the mind of Christ.

Sabrina screamed. She wept. And in that moment, she made a decision that would alter the trajectory of her entire life.

Radical Surrender

Sabrina didn't ease into faith. She dove in headfirst, with the intensity of someone who had just been pulled back from the edge of eternity.

"I deleted every single person off my phone that was going to take me from Jesus," she says. "I blocked every ex, every current person. I deleted Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. I even got a new phone and a new number. I stayed in the house. I took off work so that I could start over."

She ordered her first Bible from Christianbook.com. It arrived the next day—a miracle she didn't request but desperately needed. For the next week, Sabrina stayed home and read Scripture like she was drinking water, from morning until 3 a.m., absorbing book after book.

"I was like, 'I should have been reading this the whole time,'" she says. "I remember saying, 'I'm so sorry, Jesus. I'm so sorry.'"

Raised in a Haitian Christian household filled with faith, prayer, and supernatural encounters, Sabrina had always known Jesus was real. But knowledge isn't the same as surrender. "I did not lack in supernatural encounters with God," she admits. "The problem was I needed understanding. I needed the Word of God."

That January morning, everything clicked. She had been blind, and now she could see.

Three Confirmations in One Day

A few months after giving her life to Christ, Sabrina knew she needed a career change. She had been working in the film industry, but now that she had encountered Jesus in such a powerful way, she was fiercely protective of her newfound faith.

"I did not want to lose what I had," she says. "I did not want to go into an industry where it could take what I had with Jesus—that purity, that newness, that holiness."

She transitioned into childcare, a space where she could love God, protect her faith, and serve families well. But God had bigger plans.

One Sunday after church, as Sabrina stood by the glass windows waiting for an Uber in the rain, a woman from church approached her. "What do you do for work?" the woman asked. When Sabrina said she took care of children, the woman replied, "You should start a nanny agency."

Sabrina went home, walked through the door, and before she could even sit down, her aunt—a financial analyst with no background in creativity—said, "You should start a fashion business and call it Modesty."

Sabrina stared at her. "Somebody just told me I should start a nanny agency." Her aunt responded, "Yeah, that too. But Sabrina, I am not a creative person. That must have come from God."

Later that same day, Sabrina got into an Uber to visit a friend. The moment she closed the door, the driver asked, "What do you do for work?" She told him she took care of children. He said, "You should start a nanny agency."

Okay, God, I got it. I hear You. It's not just a suggestion, it's a command. You sent three people in one day in a few short hours.

Sabrina registered both businesses in 2024. Christian Household Staffing became fully licensed in August 2025. Modesty, a men's and women's clothing brand designed to preach the gospel through fashion, is still in the sampling and design stage, with a launch date set for later this year.

From Employee to Employer

Today, Sabrina is navigating the steep learning curve of entrepreneurship—contracts, licensing, family offices, wealth management, and the unique world of private service. She's still working as a nanny while building her agency, a dual identity that sometimes feels awkward in certain professional spaces.

"There are titles and highs and lows," she says. "Sometimes you don't want to be called something low when you're high. But on the compassionate side, I know Jesus has ordained me to take care of this family and to take care of them. They're taking care of me too."

It's a new season, and it hasn't been easy. This week alone, Sabrina has wrestled with comparison, navigating meetings that seemed promising but led nowhere, and watching colleagues who've been in the industry for years land placements while she's still building her client base.

"This world, when it comes to success, says you have to use every minute of your time toward your goal," she says. "But I've needed God to be my sufficiency when I'm insufficient. I can't take the insufficiency off of the comparison."

So she leans into what God told her from the very beginning: Stay joyful.

The joy of the Lord is our strength. Anxiety, where can you be if you're in the joy of the Lord? Fear, where can you be if you're in the joy of the Lord? It's a fight. We're human. But I am grateful.

Living Out Loud

Sabrina's faith isn't quiet or compartmentalized. She worships on the bus—out loud. She reads her Bible on public transit. She hosts a women's life group at her church every Saturday, meeting both on Zoom and in person. She surrounds herself with believers and refuses to lose sight of the Lord.

"I remember the beauty of those days with God," she says. "That is my best friend. Those days with no work, from daybreak to sundown, it was just me and Jesus, just absorbing. For the first time."

She's had to navigate the tension of being a business owner in a digital world when her first act of surrender was deleting every social media platform. Now, she's back online—but with boundaries, discipline, and a clear sense of calling.

"God is wise. He knows we need to do these things to get ourselves out there," she says. "But He's also very disciplined and He doesn't play. It's like, do what you need to do and get off. Maintain that surrender."

Her grandmother is still alive, a living testament to generational faith. Her family is full of fire for Jesus. And Sabrina is learning what it means to steward a business, a calling, and a testimony—all at once.

A Message for the Weary Leader

For anyone feeling insufficient, comparing themselves to others, or wondering if God really sees them in the messy middle of building something from scratch, Sabrina has one message:

Make the Lord your joy and your delight, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

She's living proof that when God wakes you up, He doesn't just save your life—He gives you a mission. And that mission, no matter how hard it gets, is always worth it.

"We're going to go home and see Him," she says. "We're going to just be in His presence and love God. That's our future. That's assurance of the blessings of what He's done for us. That hope is my everyday joy."

Sabrina Success is building two businesses, raising babies, leading women, and preaching the gospel through fashion—all because one morning, God heard her cry and answered. And she's never looked back.