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.

The Purpose & Calling Show with Tereciah V. Smithen-Quintana.

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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.

The Purpose & Calling Show with Tereciah V. Smithen-Quintana

If this teaching resonated with you, you don't have to keep walking through this alone. The Lilies Among Thorns Society is a community built specifically for women of purpose doing this work together. Come find your people. https://www.skool.com/lilies-among-thorns-society-5141/about

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.

The Purpose & Calling Show with Tereciah V. Smithen-Quintana.

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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.

The Purpose & Calling Show with Tereciah V. Smithen-Quintana.

Not sure where you are in your purpose journey? Take the free Purpose Journey Assessment at tereciahsmithenquintana.com/assessment and find out."

This podcast is for the woman who knows God has placed a vision within her — but hasn’t moved the way she knows she should.

Each week, Tereciah brings you Word rooted teachings, honest reflection, and practical tools to help you move through the process of your calling — the waiting, the stretching, the building, and the obedience it requires.

No highlight reels. Just real equipping and encouragement for Christian Women of Purpose at every stage of their journey.

Follow the show — and let’s get moving!

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