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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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