God never said, "Hurry up." He said, "Wait."

And most of us are terrible at it.

In week seven of our summer series, Christine Caine speaks into the season most of us are trying to get through as fast as possible — the waiting room. The season between the promise and the fulfillment. The gap between what God said and what you can currently see. Most of us treat that gap as a problem to be solved or a delay to be endured. Christine Caine makes clear it's neither. It is the place where the deepest roots get formed.

She takes us through David's journey, not to show us how he arrived, but to show us what happened in between. Because David didn't just wait. He became. Every stage of the process taught him something he could not have learned any other way. The sheep. The palace. The cave. The wilderness. None of it was wasted. All of it was preparation.

Waiting on God is not passive. It is the most active, faith-filled posture you can take.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ I feel called and gifted — so why does it feel like nothing is happening?

✅ How do I stay faithful in a season that feels pointless or beneath me?

✅ What do I do when life feels genuinely unfair 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 — and what happens in between?

✅ How do I keep turning up when I've been overlooked, misunderstood, or treated unjustly?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you'll learn:

→ Why the waiting room is not wasted time — and how David's journey from shepherd boy to king shows that every stage of the process, including the ones you resent most, is forming something in you that cannot be shortcut.

→ How to navigate the "this isn't fair" tension without becoming bitter or trying to force what only God can bring and why making what Jesus did for you bigger than what people did to you is the only way through that actually works.

→ What it means to stop waiting to be discovered and start submitting to the process of being developed and why open, receiving hands are the first posture of a flourishing life.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

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New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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Your circumstances haven't changed. The storm is still there. So why are you so calm?

That's not a problem. That's a testimony.

In week six of our summer series, Christine Caine takes us into one of the most practical and quietly radical things a believer can do in a chaotic world: refuse to let your heart spiral. Drawing on Philippians 4:6–7 and John 14, she shows that the peace of God isn't the absence of storms — every single one of us is either heading into one, standing in the middle of one, or coming out of one. Peace isn't what happens when the storm stops. It's what guards your heart while it's still raging.

In this episode, Christine Caine unpacks the military language behind Philippians 4:7, the peace of God standing guard like a Roman soldier stationed at the gates of your heart, and makes the case that supernatural peace in the middle of chaos is one of the most powerful witnessing tools a believer has. She's honest about a recent situation that could have sent her spiraling, and shares what it looked like to actually apply Paul's instruction: pray about it, give it to God, and go to bed. Not because the situation was resolved, but because God never sleeps. The takeaway that will stay with you: don't lose your peace over something you can do nothing about. Take it to the only one who can do something about everything.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ How do I stop my mind from spiraling when something scary or uncertain is happening?

✅ Is it possible to genuinely have peace when my circumstances are still a mess?

✅ What does it actually mean to give something to God — and how do I stop picking it back up?

✅ Why does it feel like I'm not allowed to be at peace, like I don't care enough if I'm not worrying?

✅ How do I trust God when I can't see Him doing anything about my situation?

✅ What does biblical peace actually feel like and how is it different from just numbing out?

✅ How do I guard my heart without shutting down or pretending everything is fine?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you'll learn:

→ What it means that the peace of God will "guard" your heart — the military image behind Paul's words, and why that matters for the specific thing keeping you up at night right now.

→ Why supernatural peace in the middle of a storm is not spiritual bypassing or irresponsibility, but instead is one of the most powerful testimonies to the faithfulness of God available to you right now.

→ The practical posture Christine uses to actually leave something at God's feet instead of picking it back up — and how taking everything to God in prayer with thanksgiving becomes the daily discipline that holds a flourishing life together.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

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New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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What do you do when you've prayed and nothing has changed?

You go again.

In week 5 of our summer series, Christine Caine takes us to Elijah on the summit of Carmel: face between his knees, praying in the dark, sending his servant back to the horizon seven times before a cloud the size of a man's hand finally appears. Most of us go once. Maybe twice. Maybe three times. But the fourth, fifth, sixth time — that's where most people stop. That's where faith gets tested not by what we see, but by what we don't.

Elijah heard the sound of rain before a single drop fell. That gap, between what you hear in the spirit and what you can see in the natural, is what Christine Caine calls the faith zone. And it's where every one of us will be asked to live.

We've committed to the direction. Now comes the test: what do you do when you keep going and it's still hard? Resilience isn't the absence of exhaustion. It's the willingness to eat the bread God puts in front of you and get up one more time.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ I've been praying for the same thing for years and nothing has changed — should I keep going?

✅ How do I pray with faith and expectation when I'm exhausted and discouraged?

✅ What do I do when God feels silent and I can't see anything happening?

✅ How do I hold onto peace without ignoring the reality of what I'm facing?

✅ What does persistent prayer actually look like in everyday life?

✅ Is it okay to feel like giving up — and what do I do when I get there?

✅ How do I keep believing for a miracle when I've seen nothing for so long?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you'll learn:

→ Why going again — in prayer, in faith, in hope — is not desperation but biblical precedent, and how Elijah's seven trips to the summit reframe every season of unanswered prayer you've ever walked through.

→ What the faith zone is and how to stay anchored there — in the gap between what God has promised and what you can currently see — without losing hope or getting stuck in despair.

→ How to practically bring anxiety, discouragement, and the weight of waiting to God in prayer so you are not overwhelmed by what you cannot yet see.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

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New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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There are only three words — and Jesus said them in the middle of a conversation about the end times, almost as an aside. But nothing Jesus says is random.

“Remember Lot's wife.”

Of the possible 170 women mentioned in the Bible, she is the only one Jesus ever told us to remember. Not Eve. Not Sarah. Not Esther. Not Deborah. Not even his own mother. One woman. Three words. And Christine Caine believes Jesus meant every one of them for you.

In week 4 of our summer series, Christine opens Luke 17 and Genesis 19 to ask the question Lot's wife couldn't answer: what happens when your longing for what you're leaving behind becomes greater than your trust in what God has promised ahead?

In this episode, Christine Caine unpacks the story of Lot's wife — a woman with no name, a single cameo in the Old Testament, and one of the most arresting warnings in all of scripture. Lot's wife was being led out of destruction by an angel, toward the future God had promised her family, and she looked back. Her misplaced longing led to lingering. Her lingering led to being calcified — stuck forever in a place she was only ever supposed to be passing through. Christine Caine makes the case that this is not an ancient cautionary tale. It is the central challenge of the resilient life: will you keep moving forward into what God has for you, or will you keep looking back at what He's asking you to leave behind?

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ Why can't I seem to let go of my past — even when I know God is calling me forward?

✅ Is it wrong to grieve what I've lost or left behind, or does that mean I'm looking back?

✅ How do I know the difference between healthy reflection and destructive nostalgia?

✅ I feel stuck — emotionally, spiritually, in old patterns — how do I move forward?

✅ Why does God ask us to leave things behind that feel safe, familiar, or good?

✅ What does it actually look like to fix my eyes on Jesus when the past keeps pulling at me?

✅ Can God still use me if I've already looked back — if I've already gotten stuck?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you'll learn:

→ Why Jesus singled out Lot's wife as the one to remember, and what her story reveals about the specific danger of misplaced longing in your own life right now.

→ The difference between lingering and passing through and how to identify the places, seasons, relationships, or patterns in your life where God is calling you to stop looking back and keep moving.

→ How the same substance Lot's wife became — salt, a preservative — is the exact substance Jesus calls you to be in the world, and why you cannot salt the earth around you if you are calcified in the past.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

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New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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What if the pressure you're under right now isn't a sign that something is going wrong — but that something is being built?

We live in a world that treats discomfort as a problem to be solved and pressure as a threat to be escaped. But Christine Caine opens Hebrews with a different diagnosis entirely: the pressure isn't the enemy of your faith. It's the furnace where your faith becomes real.

In week 3 of our summer series, Christine Caine closes the Root phase with the message that connects everything: faith, endurance, and pressure don't just coexist — they're designed to work together. James 1 tells us the testing of faith produces endurance. Endurance produces the rooted character that holds a flourishing life.

Roots don't grow in comfort. They grow in resistance.

This is the last week of the Root phase. Next week everything shifts — and you need this foundation under you before it does.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ How do I keep going in my faith when I'm exhausted and everything feels hard?

✅ Is it okay to feel like I want to quit — and what do I do with that feeling?

✅ Why does God allow so much pressure and pain if He's for me?

✅ What does it mean to run with endurance — is that just white-knuckling it?

✅ How do I stop running from hard things and start growing through them?

✅ What does the "great cloud of witnesses" actually mean for me in my daily life?

✅ How do I build roots strong enough to hold everything God is calling me toward?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you'll learn:

→ Why pressure is not your enemy — it's the only place where spiritual strength, anointing, and authority are actually built, and how to reframe the hard seasons you're in right now.

→ The difference between passive endurance (just gritting your teeth) and the active, hope-filled fortitude the writer of Hebrews is actually calling us to — and why only one of them produces fruit.

→ How staying faithful in the unseen, unglamorous, overlooked moments — not the big ones — is what builds the capacity to carry everything God has called you to.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish

💛 Free Episode Reflection Guide — download it here: → https://christinecaine.com/summer-guide

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New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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Nobody told you the waiting is the work.

We live in a world that rewards being discovered — going viral, moving fast, getting noticed. But God's economy runs on something entirely different: development. And development always happens in the dark.

In week two of this summer series, Christine Caine takes us into the darkroom — the season of delay, disappointment, and hiddenness that God uses not to hold us back, but to build the roots that will hold us up when everything shakes.

Christine Caine does it through the story of a young man named David: anointed at 17, appointed at 37. Twenty years. Twenty chapters. And not one of them wasted.

This isn't a season you endure. It's a season you grow in.

Originally heard by over 135,000 people — what is God growing in you right now that you can't yet see?

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ Why does it feel like everyone else is moving forward while I'm still waiting?

✅ I feel called and gifted — so why isn't anything happening yet?

✅ What's the difference between a gift and an anointing — and why does it matter?

✅ How do I stay faithful in private when no one seems to notice?

✅ Why does God's process feel so slow when the world moves so fast?

✅ What do I do when I feel overlooked by the people who were supposed to see me?

✅ How do I stop comparing my journey to someone else's highlight reel?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you'll learn:

→ Why God's development process is not optional — and why bypassing it produces gifted people with no anointing and purpose that doesn't last.

→ The crucial difference between being anointed and being appointed — and why the gap between those two moments is where your character is forged.

→ How faithful, private obedience — doing what God has placed in front of you right now — is always what positions you for what He has prepared for you next.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

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💛 Free Episode Reflection Guide — download it here: → https://christinecaine.com/summer-guide

New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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This summer on Equip & Empower with Christine Caine, we’re answering the question: what does it actually look like to live a rooted, resilient, and fruitful life?

We’re starting not with survival, but with possibility.

A rooted life isn’t just a stable life — it’s a life capable of believing God for the impossible. And most of us have confused those two things. We want to be steady. We want to be safe. But Christine Caine opens this summer series with a provocation: the moment your situation stops being impossible is the moment you stop needing God. Roots aren’t just for holding you in place. They’re what make everything else possible.

In this opening episode, Christine draws the line between intellectual faith and active trust — the difference between believing in God and believing God.

For the thing in front of you. 

For the miracle that seems too far. 

For the promise you’ve nearly stopped praying for.

✨ If you’ve ever asked questions like…

✅ What’s the difference between believing in God and actually believing God — for my specific situation?

✅ How do I trust God when the people I should have been able to trust have hurt me?

✅ Can God really rebuild what’s broken in me before He can use me for something bigger?

✅ How do I step out in faith when I’m still carrying wounds from my past?

✅ Why do I keep praying for a miracle but pulling back from anything that actually requires one?

✅ What does it mean to be rooted — and why does it matter for the life I’m trying to build?

✅ Is it possible to flourish after abandonment, betrayal, or brokenness?

…then this is your episode.

💡 What you’ll learn:

→ The crucial distinction between believing in God and believing God — and why only one of them moves you into the impossible assignments He’s called you to.

→ Why God’s assignments are always impossible by design, and why that’s not a sign you’re in the wrong place — it’s a sign He’s about to show up.

→ How letting God rebuild the broken walls of your inner life is not a detour from your purpose — it is the root system that makes everything else possible.

SUMMER SERIES: A Summer of Faith to Flourish — new episodes every Monday.

📘 For more messages like this, check out Christine's NYT Bestselling book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish

💛 Free Episode Reflection Guide — download it here: → https://christinecaine.com/summer-guide

New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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What do you do when the dream God gave you feels completely disconnected from the reality you're living?

When life feels unfair, painful, delayed, or deeply disappointing, it can be easy to wonder if God has forgotten you. In this episode, Christine Caine walks through the story of Joseph in Genesis 37–50 — one where betrayal, waiting, setbacks, and suffering aren't the end of the narrative. They're the process.

From the pit to Potiphar's house. From prison to the palace.

God wasn't absent in Joseph's darkest chapters. He was positioning him. Christine Caine shows that the painful seasons aren't detours from your purpose. They are the preparation for it. If you're in a waiting room right now, wondering whether God has forgotten the dream He placed in you, this message is for you.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ Why would God allow painful seasons if He gave me the dream?

✅ What do I do when I feel forgotten or overlooked?

✅ Can God still use my trauma and setbacks for good?

✅ How do I forgive people who have deeply hurt me?

✅ How do I trust God's timing when the wait feels unbearable?

✅ What does faithfulness look like when nothing is going the way I planned?

✅ Is it possible for my story to still turn out the way God intended?

...then listen in!

💡 What you'll learn:

→ How God uses process, preparation, and perseverance to position you for purpose — and why the pit is never the end of the story.

→ Why God's presence matters more than your circumstances, platform, or opportunities — and how to recognize it in the hardest seasons.

→ How forgiveness, faithfulness, and endurance don't just free you — they become the foundation of your legacy.

📘 For more messages like this, check out Christine's NYT Bestselling book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish

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New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master's Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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What if the thing you’ve been praying for requires the response you’ve been avoiding?

In this powerful message, we dive into John 5 and the story of the man at the Pool of Bethesda—a man who had been stuck for 38 years, waiting for change but bound by excuses, disappointment, and patterns. When Jesus asks him a seemingly simple question—“Do you want to get well?”—everything shifts.

In this episode, Christine Caine unpacks the deeper meaning behind Jesus’ question and challenges us to confront the areas where we may be choosing comfort over transformation. With biblical truth and personal insight, she reveals how healing often requires participation, obedience, and the courage to let go of the past.

If you’re tired of feeling stuck, defined by your past, or limited by your circumstances—this message will stir your faith and call you forward.

✨ If you’ve ever asked questions like:

● Why do I feel stuck even though I want change?

● What’s actually holding me back from healing?

● How do I move past my past?

● Why does God ask me to do things that feel impossible?

● Am I unknowingly choosing comfort over breakthrough?

💡 What you’ll learn:

→ How to identify and overcome the excuses keeping you stuck

→ Why willingness is key to experiencing true healing

→ What it practically looks like to “get up and walk” in faith

📘 Want to grow deeper in a flourishing life with God?

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Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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Most of us have never been taught what the Bible actually says about our bodies.

Christine Caine is asking the question a lot of people are afraid to ask out loud — does God care what you do with your body? How you eat, how you exercise, how you present yourself? What about tattoos, piercings, or cosmetic surgery?

The answer is more nuanced — and more freeing — than you might think.

In this full sermon, Christine Caine walks through the biblical truth about the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit, and brings Scripture into conversation with some of the most personal questions we carry — about fitness, beauty standards, stewardship, and identity. She's not here to shame anyone. She's here to bring clarity where the culture has created confusion.

Because there's a difference between honoring your body and idolizing it. And most of us are navigating that line without a map.

In this episode, you'll discover:

What it actually means to steward your body as God's temple — without becoming consumed by it

Why your identity is rooted in Christ, not your appearance or your fitness level

What the Bible says about tattoos, piercings, cosmetic surgery, and beauty standards

How to examine your motives — and make decisions about your body from freedom, not pressure

This is for you if you've ever asked:

→ Does God care how I look or how I take care of my body?

→ Is it wrong to want to be fit, healthy, or attractive?

→ What does the Bible actually say about tattoos or cosmetic surgery?

→ How do I stop swinging between neglect and obsession with my appearance?

📘 Want to grow deeper in a flourishing life with God?

Christine explores this more in The Faith to Flourish:

👉 ChristineCaine.com/Flourish

💛 Download your FREE Episode Reflection Guide:

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ORDER Christine's new devotional, "You're Not Finished Yet" → https://linktr.ee/christinecaine

💛 For more great stuff, check out:

LISTEN to Christine Caine’s Life and Leadership Podcast→ https://linktr.ee/christinecaine

DONATE to Equip & Empower Ministries: https://linktr.ee/christinecaine

📲 Follow Christine on social media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine

Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College.

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