What does it actually mean to wait on God — and what are you supposed to do while you're doing it?

For a long time I thought waiting meant stopping. So I stopped building. And on the days I couldn't stop, I felt guilty — like my drive to keep moving was working against what God was trying to do in me.

Nobody ever explained it to me. So today I'm explaining it to you.

In this teaching we're going back to Acts 1 — to ten specific days that most people rush right past — and we're unpacking what the disciples actually did between the Ascension and Pentecost. What Pentecost really was. What the Greek word for "wait" actually means. And what all of it looks like in your real life, on a real day, while you're still building toward something that hasn't fully opened yet.

This one is going to give you language for the season you're in.

Nobody told you that faithfulness could feel like nothing is working.

And nobody told you that the hardest part of the journey isn't always the difficulty — it's not knowing what to call what you're walking through.

In Part 1 of this two-part teaching, we're talking about seasons — what they are, why God uses them, and what they're actually producing in you even when you cannot see it.

We'll cover:

Why God doesn't take us from calling to fulfillment in a straight line What seasons produce that shortcuts never can The kinds of seasons women of purpose move through The danger of misreading your season And how naming your season changes the way you carry it

Part 2 drops next — and we're going deeper into one specific season that I believe many of you are in right now.

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What do you do when you've been building consistently — faithfully, obediently — and the fruit still isn't visible?

Not for months. For years.

In Part 2 of this teaching, I'm getting personal.

I'm talking about the hidden building season — what it actually feels like from the inside, what God is doing in it even when you can't see it, and how to keep going when you're tired of waiting for the visible to catch up with the invisible.

I'm sharing my own story in this one. The real version. Because this teaching isn't coming from someone who has crossed over to the other side of this season.

It's coming from someone who is still in it — and has found a way to be okay with that.

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Have you been faithful, consistent, and obedient — and still feel like nothing is moving? You are not off track. You are in a root season.

In this teaching, we get into the mechanics of the hidden season — not just how to survive it, but what God is actually engineering beneath the surface while the fruit is not yet visible. This is the teaching I wish someone had given me when I was deep in mine.

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You said yes to God. You’re moving. And now it’s costing more than you expected. Maybe the people closest to you don’t understand it. A spouse who questions the finances or the time. Friends who have grown quiet. A church community that hasn’t shown up the way you hoped.

And somewhere in the middle of carrying all of that, you’ve found yourself asking God a question you feel a little embarrassed to ask: “God — why did you call me to this if it was going to be this hard?” That question is not weak faith. It’s one of the most honest things you can bring to God right now. In this fourth and final episode of The Pull series, we go into the season nobody prepares you for. The resistance. The cost. The emotions you don’t have language for yet. And what all of it is actually doing in you. This season is not happening to you. It is happening for you.

Sometimes understanding the process changes the way you walk through it.

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You said yes. You started moving — writing something down, making a plan, taking a step. And you expected God to meet that movement with clarity. A sense of rightness.

A confirmation that said keep going, you heard me correctly. But instead you’re moving and still waiting. Doing and still wondering. And you can’t quite name what’s happening. You just know it doesn’t feel the way you expected.

In this third episode of The Pull series, I want to give you something nobody gave you before you stepped into your yes — the language for what you’ve been experiencing on the inside. Because you’ve been living it. You just haven’t had the words for it. And you deserve to have the words.

Sometimes understanding the process changes the way you walk through it.

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Something shifted. It’s not just a feeling anymore. Now there’s a thought forming that you might not have said out loud yet. Something like: what if this actually is God? And the moment that thought forms — everything changes.

Because feeling something is one thing. But believing God might actually be asking something of you? That’s a different weight entirely.

In this second episode of The Pull series, we go into the shift from sensing something to recognizing it — and into the real reason women of purpose stall right at this moment. It’snot because they can’t hear God. It’s because they’re starting to understand what responding to Him will cost. Ifyou’ve moved from maybe to this might actually be God — this episode is for you.

Sometimes understanding the process changes the way you walk through it.

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There’s something stirring in you. A direction that keeps coming back. A pull you can’t quite explain — and haven’tbeen able to fully let go of either. And the question underneath it — the one you might not have said out loud yet — is: is this really God? Or is this just me wanting something?

In this first episode of The Pull series, we’re not rushing to answers. We’re going beneath the surface of that question— to the root of what makes discernment feel so complicated, and why so many women of purpose stay stuck not because they don’t want to move, but because they don’t fully trust what they’re sensing.

If you’ve been feeling something you can’t explain — this episode is where we start. Sometimes understanding the process changes the way you walk through it.

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