Divine Timing and Deep Healing: How God Restores Women Who Lead

What happens when God uses hardship, wilderness seasons, and unexpected assignments to prepare you for what He has called you to build? In this episode of Sword & Grace Unscripted, Tina Bender sits down with Adele for a powerful conversation about divine connections, Christian leadership, spiritual warfare, healing, obedience, surrender, and divine timing. Adele shares her journey with the Lord, including the different ministry assignments and callings that have shaped her along the way. Together, Tina and Adele talk about what it means to walk through adversity without losing sight of God’s hand in the process. This conversation explores the refining process of leadership, the wilderness seasons that expose and strengthen us, and the inner healing that often becomes necessary before we are ready to carry what God is preparing next. They also discuss spiritual warfare and principalities, the importance of surrender, and why transparency and obedience matter when God is doing a deeper work in a leader’s life. Sometimes the season that feels delayed is actually the season where preparation, healing, and restoration are taking place. Adele’s story also highlights the power of building ministry from personal testimony. What God heals in us can become part of what He later uses through us, not because pain itself is the calling, but because surrendered experiences can become places of wisdom, compassion, and strength. For the Christian woman walking through a wilderness season, facing spiritual opposition, waiting on God’s timing, or wondering whether the hardship she has endured can still become part of something meaningful, this episode offers encouragement to remain surrendered to the process. God’s timing is not always immediate, but preparation matters. Healing matters. Refinement matters. And sometimes the season you thought was holding you back is the very season God is using to prepare you for what comes next. Takeaways • Obedience and transparency in Christian leadership • Refinement and spiritual growth through adversity • Understanding divine timing and preparation • Healing and restoration after difficult seasons • Surrendering to God in the wilderness • Building ministry from personal testimony Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Divine Connections 05:03 Overcoming Hardship and Rising Up 13:08 Spiritual Warfare and Principalities 20:31 Building Ministries From Personal Testimonies