Equip & Empower Podcast with Christine Caine

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.

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

💛 Free Episode Reflection Guide — download it here: → bit.ly/4gx1ZYk

🌿 How to Build Resilience: Free Guide → ChristineCaine.com/Summer

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

🌿 How to Build Resilience: Free Guide → ChristineCaine.com/Summer

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 episode is brought to you by Regent Bank, one of the fastest-growing, faith-based banks in the country. When you open an account with Regent today, you'll receive $200 — and Regent will donate $200 to A21, the global anti-human trafficking organization co-founded by Christine Caine. To learn more and open your account, visit www.regent.bank.

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📲 Follow Christine on social media:

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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine
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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.

📘 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

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.

🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe

This episode is brought to you by Regent Bank, one of the fastest-growing, faith-based banks in the country. When you open an account with Regent today, you'll receive $200 — and Regent will donate $200 to A21, the global anti-human trafficking organization co-founded by Christine Caine. To learn more and open your account, visit www.regent.bank.

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🤝 Support the ministry → 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
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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.

🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe

This episode is brought to you by Regent Bank, one of the fastest-growing, faith-based banks in the country. When you open an account with Regent today, you'll receive $200 — and Regent will donate $200 to A21, the global anti-human trafficking organization co-founded by Christine Caine. To learn more and open your account, visit www.regent.bank.

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📲 Follow Christine on social media:

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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine

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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

💛 Free Episode Reflection Guide — download it here: → bit.ly/4gx1ZYk

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.

🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe

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📖 Bible Studies → linktr.ee/christinecaine

🎙️ Develop your calling with Propel Women Cohorts → linktr.ee/christinecaine

🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine

📲 Follow Christine on social media:

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

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

X: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@christinecaineofficial

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thechristinecaine
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