
Nobody told you the process would take this long.
You said yes. You showed up. You stayed faithful. And still, nothing looks the way you thought it would by now. If that's where you are, Christine Caine has a word for you from the life of David and from her own story: God has not forgotten you. He is preparing you for the thing He has already prepared for you.
In the final episode of our summer series, Christine Caine ends with the message most of us need to hear before we can truly step into the destiny God has in store for us: the process is not the problem. The process is the point.
In this episode, Christine Caine weaves together the story of David's journey from shepherd boy to king with her own — from the Bible college dean who told her she would never speak publicly, to cleaning a broom closet alone on a church volunteer day, to being handed a pager and asked to start a youth center, to speaking to government advisors and filling arenas. None of it looked like a straight line. None of it moved as fast as she wanted. And all of it was preparation.
✨ If you've ever asked questions like…
✅ I feel called, so why does nothing seem to be happening yet?
✅ How do I stay faithful in a season that feels pointless, small, or beneath me?
✅ What do I do when life genuinely isn't fair and God hasn't explained why?
✅ How do I trust God's timing when I'm watching less qualified people get ahead?
✅ Is the hard season I'm in actually preparing me for something or have I missed my moment?
✅ What's the difference between being anointed and being appointed?
✅ How do I keep turning up when I feel overlooked, criticized, or forgotten?
…then this is your episode.
What you'll learn:
→ Why the process between anointing and appointing is never wasted — and how every stage of David's journey, including the ones he didn't choose, was building something in him that could not have been shortcut.
→ Why the enemy's attacks are rarely about where you are now — they're about where you're going — and how to recognize an assignment against your future disguised as present discouragement.
SUMMER SERIES:
A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.
Want to grow deeper in a flourishing life with God?
Christine explores this more in The Faith to Flourish:
ChristineCaine.com/Flourish
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