Your Divine Assignment Is Waiting - Are You Ready?

In this episode of the Kingdom LeadHERship Podcast, we move beyond the “why” of leadership and into the deeper question many women quietly wrestle with:

Do you actually know what God has called you to do?

So many women are leading, building, and serving… yet still feel exhausted, misaligned, or unfulfilled. The issue is not a lack of calling. The issue is misalignment with the assignment.

In this conversation, we unpack how wounds like rejection and scarcity can distort your vision, causing you to pursue approval instead of obedience and safety instead of faith.

You’ll learn:
 • Why healing is the gateway to calling—not a delay
 • How to recognize when you’re operating in the wrong assignment
 • The difference between striving and Spirit-led leadership
 • Four practical, prayer-driven questions to help you gain clarity

Scripture reminds us in Psalm 147:3 that God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. That healing is not separate from your calling—it is foundational to it.

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Transcript

 Welcome back to Kingdom LeadHERship. I am so glad that you came back for episode two, and if this is your first time joining us, well welcome. I would encourage you to go back and listen to episode one first, because today we are building on the foundation we laid there. Wherever you are starting, I believe that God has something for you in this conversation. You know, last week we talked about the why behind this podcast. We talked about the wounds of rejection and the scarcity mindset that quietly keep women from stepping into their kingdom calling, and we talked about healing as the foundation of leadership, not as a detour from purpose, but as the very road that leads to it. So today I wanna go a step further and ask a question, I think lives underneath the surface for a lot of women, even women who are already leading, already serving, already building something. Do you actually know what God has specifically called you to do? Now, that can be a tough question because I'm not talking about what you're good at. I'm not talking about what others have told you, you should be doing, not the role that you stepped into because no one else would do it or because it was available or because it made sense on paper, but the actual God breathed kingdom assignment that he wrote on your life before you were even born. Because here's the truth, a lot of women are leading the wrong assignment and it is exhausting them. It's exhausting them. I've had the privilege of walking closely with a lot of women in, in business and in ministry, and one of the things that I've observed over and over again is women who are busy, capable, even successful by every outward measure. Yet, they're still feeling empty. They're feeling drained, like they're, they're pushing a boulder up a hill every single day. Have you ever felt like that? Yeah, I have to. I have to. And when I start asking questions, really asking questions, what I often find is this, that they are not leading their assignment. They're leading a role they inherited or they stumbled into, or they felt obligated to take. Or built because the world affirmed it. But somewhere in the gap between what they're doing and what God designed for them, there is a quiet ache that they can't quite explain. Can I tell you what usually creates that gap? And it's not a lack of calling. Every woman's called you are called. You are called for something, but. Again, going back to what creates that gap, it's a wound that distorted the vision. You know, we talked , last week about rejection, and when rejection has shaped you, you tend to pursue assignments that, that earn approval of others rather than assignments that require obedience. You will lean toward the yes of people instead, the yes of God. When scarcity has shaped you, you tend to take the sure thing you wanna be sure about it, rather than taking the faith thing that could be uncomfortable. It usually is uncomfortable. You pick the assignment that feels financially safe over the ones that require you to trust God for the provision, and neither of those roads lead to the deep settled, joyful fruitfulness that God intends for your leadership. I love Jeremiah 29:11 that says, for I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future. I love that scripture so much. Because it tells me that God has a plan and a very specific one for me, not a generic one, not a one size fits all calling, but a plan that was written with me and with you in mind. Your story, your wounds, your gifts, your voice specifically in mind. So before I go any further, I need to just stop and say something that I believe with everything in me. Something I said at our Kingdom LeadHERship Conference in January and something that I want every woman who finds this podcast to hear clearly? He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. Scripture tells us that in Psalm 147:3 healing is not optional in kingdom leadership. It's just not, but it's also not a delay in calling. Healing is the gateway to calling. I'm gonna repeat that and I want you to sit with it for a minute because healing is not optional in Kingdom leadership healing. Is not a delay in calling. Healing is the gateway to calling. And the reason I want you to sit with that for a minute is because I know that some of you are thinking, you're thinking, I don't have time to heal. I have things to build. People are counting on me and I have assignments to step into, and I, I'll just, I'll deal with the wounds later. Sound familiar? Yeah. But here's what I've seen over and over again in the women I walk with. Unhealed places do not stop obedience, but they do distort how we experience blessing. They create resistance where God intended flow, and they cause us to confuse pressure with purpose and striving with faithfulness. That my friends, is why healing matters in your leadership, not because God's waiting for you to be perfect before he can use you. Because if that's the case, we're never gonna be used. But it's because our wounds left unaddressed become a filter through which we receive everything. Every blessing, every assignment, every word, God speaks over our lives. And then there is the matter of wholeness. And I wanna be careful here because wholeness is not perfection. Again, if we think that we're ever going to reach the pinnacle of perfection, we need to really reevaluate. Nothing and no one is perfect this side of heaven, but wholeness is integration. It's the bringing together of all the parts of you, the gifted parts and the broken parts, the the obedient parts and the, and the still healing parts into one woman who is stable, clear, and at peace. James tells us that a double-minded person is unstable in all their ways. Wholeness is the answer to double mindedness. When you're whole, not perfect, but integrated and surrendered. I want you to remember that wholeness is integrated and surrendered, and when you are whole, you lead with stability and a clarity that. Cannot be manufactured by willpower or strategy. It comes from alignment with God and Jesus himself told us this was central to his mission. In Luke 4:18, he said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to heal the broken hearted and to set captives free. Freedom is not only forgiveness, freedom is restoration. And Jesus came not just to pardon us, but to put us back together to restore what rejection stole to restore what fear, distorted. To restore what scarcity shrunk down, and it's from that restored whole free place that God commissions healing, wholeness, commissioning in that order. Not because God is withholding, but because he is building something in you that will hold the weight of what he is about to place on you. I wanna go back to my own story for a minute, because I lived the sequence. You know, when God called me out of the legal field and as I mentioned into the daily money management space, I, I thought that was the assignment, and it was an assignment. It was a step of obedience, but it was not the full picture. It was preparation. It was the beginning of a healing process I did not fully recognize was happening because when he called me to the Association of Christian Businesswomen, I ran from that. Remember, I ran full speed. I ran because I was not sure I was healed enough to lead it. I was not sure that I had done enough of the inner work to stand in front of women and say, follow me into this space. Here's what I now understand about that season. The running is not weakness. It was wisdom I had not yet learned to trust. There was something in me that knew you cannot lead women into healing from a place you haven't visited yourself. Good leaders can't lead into places that they haven't been. Now, mind you, I'm not saying you have to be fully healed before God can use you. He used me in the middle of my process. He will use you in the middle of yours. But the healing is not a sidebar. It is load bearing. It's what makes the assignment sustainable. Fruitful and full of joy instead of striving. I'm just gonna let that sit for a minute. Healing is not a sidebar. It's load bearing, and it is what makes the assignment sustainable, fruitful, and full of joy instead of striving. The women, you know, I talked about it last week too. The women, God kept bringing into my circle. The ones he used basically to confirm the assignment I was running from, they were the sign when God keeps sending you people with a specific need that you were you uniquely designed to meet, pay attention because that is not coincidence. That is commission and commission comes after the process, not instead of it. So how do you actually identify your God-given assignment, especially if wounds have distorted the picture? I wanna walk you through four questions that I believe when taken to God in prayer will bring that clarity. The first question is, what problem breaks your heart consistently? What problem breaks your heart consistently? Not occasionally, not when it shows up in a viral video, but consistently, what is the thing that you cannot walk past without wanting to do something about it? That consistent heartbreak is often a fingerprint of calling. God tends to break our hearts over the things that he has assigned to us to address. And for me, it was women, specifically Christian women who were financially vulnerable and leading in isolation. That broke my heart repeatedly, and it turned out to be the exact center of my kingdom assignment. The other thing that breaks my heart are single moms, because I was a single mom and I walked through that. So single moms is part of my calling, part of my Kingdom assignment. Question two is what has God allowed in your story that he is now asking you to use? This is the healing question. This is where the wounds become weapons in the kingdom sense, the rejection you survived, the financial fear you overcame. Maybe the season of leading in your own strength that brought you to your knees. God is not wasteful ladies. He does not allow pain in our stories without intention. What did you walk through that is now a bridge for someone else? Like I said, for me it was being a single mom. I walked through that. For me, it's the fear, the scarcity mindset. It's that financial fear that I overcame. 2 Corinthians 1:4. I love this scripture too. There's so many scriptures I love, but you know second Corinthians one, four says he comforts us in our trouble so that we can comfort others when they are troubled. We will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. Your healed wound ladies is not baggage. It's your most powerful ministry credential. That's what should be on your ministry resume. That's your most powerful ministry credential. So my, the third question is, who keeps showing up? Just like God kept bringing women into my circle before I accepted that assignment for the Association of Christian Business Women. He often shows us our calling through the people he repeatedly sends our way. Who are the people that seem to find you? Who are the ones whose problems you find yourself naturally solving or counseling over? Even without being asked? Can I tell you that that pattern is not accidental, it's intentional. So who are those people? What are they coming to you with? Question four is, what assignment are you avoiding because you don't feel worthy of it. This one right here, this is the one I want you to sit with the longest because the thing you keep hearing in prayer. The idea that keeps coming back, the calling that makes you feel both terrified and fully alive, that is usually the one. The enemy is not bothering you about assignments that don't matter. He is the loudest about the ones that do unworthiness. Ladies is not humility. I wanna say that again. Unworthiness is not humility. Humility says, I cannot do this without God. Unworthiness says, God cannot do this with me, and one of those is a lie. Humility says, I cannot do this without God. Unworthiness says, God cannot do this with me. That my friends is a lie for. We are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10, just like we talked about last week, he called you by name before you were ever born. He has created good works. In advance for you to do prepared in advance For you, that means God already knew your wounds, he already knew your failures, he knew your hesitations, and he wrote the assignment anyway with you as the person to carry it. Ladies, so here's what I wanna leave you with as we close today. Identifying your kingdom assignment does not require you to be fully healed, okay? I need you to understand that. But it does require to you to be in the process. It requires you to be honest with God. It means being willing to let him into the wounded places. Being open to the healing. That is the very gateway to everything he has for you. So many of us have spent so many years being bound up. So many of us have been walking around with wounds that were never meant for us to carry, and it needs to stop. It needs to stop. We have to be open to healing because that's the gateway to everything that God has for us. Because what healing gives us is not just peace. It gives us clarity. It removes the distortion. It removes the filter of rejection, the lens of of scarcity, the noise of striving. So that you can see your assignment, the way God designed it, clean, clear, full of purpose, and then wholeness. That integration of all of who you are surrendered to, all of who he is, gives you stability. The kind of stability that does not collapse under pressure, the kind that leads others, not just, not just with competence, but with an authority that comes from a woman who has been with God in the hard places and come out on the other side. That is the commissioning God is preparing for you. Not a title, not a platform, but a deep settled yes in your spirit that says, I know who I am and I know whose I am, and I know what I am called to do. That is what we're building towards in this podcast week after week. Not a performance of leadership. A foundation for it healed women. Whole women commissioned women who lead with joy instead of striving because they have walked through the gateway and found God on the other side. Can I tell you ladies, that healed women lead differently? They lead from rest instead of striving. They lead from abundance instead of scarcity because we serve a God of abundance, right? They lead from identity instead of approval, and the kingdom will move when they do. So your Kingdom Challenge this week has two parts and they, they work together. Part one is to write down the four questions from today's teaching and spend time in prayer with each one. And let God answer. Don't rush it. Listen, get quiet. Part two is share one thing God reveals with a trusted kingdom minded woman in your life. Because calling Thrives in community, you are not designed to carry this alone. And the association of Christian business women exist exactly for that reason. Shameless plug. Okay. That's why we exist, because we recognize that we were not designed to carry our callings alone. So father, I come before you on behalf of every woman hearing this today, Lord, do you know exactly where she is, what assignment she's been running from, what wound has been clouding her vision? What lie has been keeping her small Lord, I pray that you would speak clearly to her this week, that in the quiet moments in the car, in the early morning, in the middle of an ordinary day, you would confirm the assignment you wrote on her life, that you would silence the voice of rejection and replace it with the voice of the Father who has always seen her, always chosen her. Always believed in the purpose he placed inside of her commissioner. Lord, give her the courage to say yes to the thing she has been afraid to say yes to and let her experience the deep settled joy of leading in alignment with you. She is not too wounded. She is not too late. She is not too small. She is yours. You have called her by name. You are faithful in Jesus' name, amen. Thank you for being here, ladies for episode two of Kingdom LeadHERship. If this is resonating with you, please share it because there is a woman in your world, I'm sure, who needs to hear that her wounds do not disqualify her. They are part of her preparation and subscribe so you don't miss what's coming because we have so much more ground to cover together. Until next time, lead whole, lead obedient, and lead with joy. God bless you.