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EPISODE · Jan 26, 2026 · 18 MIN

Ep 42: When Your Effort Doesn’t Match the Outcome: A Faith Perspective on Small Results

from The Confident Christian Woman: Bible Truth + Encouragement for Your Next Step · host Kristine Bolt | Bible Truth for Real Christian Living & Spiritual Growth

What do you do when you work your fingers to the bone over the dream God gave you, but the results keep coming back small?You’ve prayed, planned, worked hard, and shown up faithfully. Yet the outcome you’re seeing doesn’t reflect your effort. What you believed God would do with your efforts and what you’re actually seeing right now don’t line up. So instead of your initial enthusiasm and excitement, you feel disappointment, discouragement, and doubt creeping in.In this episode, you’ll gain:A new way to understand success that doesn’t leave you feeling like a big giant failure.Insight into the sneaky beliefs that make small results feel painful.A Scripture-based perspective to help steady you and keep you hopeful, and obedient—even when the results aren’t what you thought they would (or should) be.Listen now to reset how you measure progress, and discover how God may be working far more deeply through your “small” results than you ever imagined.* Grab your free Clarity Roadmap 🠆 https://signup.kristinebolt.com/clarity-roadmap. This simple guide gives 7 power moves to jumpstart you out of feeling stuck.* Check out The Next Step Reset 🠆 https://kristinebolt.com/the-next-step-reset/. It’s a guided experience to help you break free from confusion, fear, and stuckness so you can move forward with God again.* If this episode encouraged you, send it to a friend who’s also trying to figure out what God is calling her to next!* Please rate and review the show to help other women on the same struggle bus find and benefit from it too.

What do you do when you work your fingers to the bone over the dream God gave you, but the results keep coming back small?You’ve prayed, planned, worked hard, and shown up faithfully. Yet the outcome you’re seeing doesn’t reflect your effort. What you believed God would do with your efforts and what you’re actually seeing right now don’t line up. So instead of your initial enthusiasm and excitement, you feel disappointment, discouragement, and doubt creeping in.In this episode, you’ll gain:A new way to understand success that doesn’t leave you feeling like a big giant failure.Insight into the sneaky beliefs that make small results feel painful.A Scripture-based perspective to help steady you and keep you hopeful, and obedient—even when the results aren’t what you thought they would (or should) be.Listen now to reset how you measure progress, and discover how God may be working far more deeply through your “small” results than you ever imagined.* Grab your free Clarity Roadmap 🠆 https://signup.kristinebolt.com/clarity-roadmap. This simple guide gives 7 power moves to jumpstart you out of feeling stuck.* Check out The Next Step Reset 🠆 https://kristinebolt.com/the-next-step-reset/. It’s a guided experience to help you break free from confusion, fear, and stuckness so you can move forward with God again.* If this episode encouraged you, send it to a friend who’s also trying to figure out what God is calling her to next!* Please rate and review the show to help other women on the same struggle bus find and benefit from it too.

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