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Why God Trains People in Hidden Seasons
What He Is Doing When Nothing Seems to Be Happening
Read it. Preach it. Take your team through it.
Why delay, obscurity, and isolation are where God forms the people He will trust in public, and how pastors can shepherd people through hidden seasons.
- 16 chapters
- 128-page PDF
- About 1 hour to read
By Kraig Kleeman, founder of The Zoé Life
The Core Premise
What you call stagnation, God may call preparation.
Why This Matters
Moses, David, Joseph, Elijah, Paul, John the Baptist, and Jesus were all formed in hiddenness before they were sent. This book shows what God builds in those seasons and how pastors can recognize them, name them well, and walk their people and leaders through them.
What You'll Discover
- The pattern of hidden formation, from Moses to Jesus
- Why hidden seasons feel like failure
- What God forms in hidden seasons
- Hidden seasons and spiritual authority
- Recognizing and shepherding people through hidden seasons
From the Book
What you call stagnation, God may call preparation.
God is not preparing your platform. He is preparing your person.
Do not try to fix what God is forming.
Preaching & Teaching Kit
Free during previewA sermon series that brands itself for your church
Upload your church logo and "What God Does in the Waiting" rebuilds itself in your colors: the guide, the slides and every handout, in seconds. No designer, no reformatting. Add it for $39 and take the book from your study to your pulpit, your leaders and your small groups.
- Auto-branded: upload your logo and every piece takes on your church's colors
- 5-week preaching guide, with one-message and class versions
- 68-slide series deck, with your logo on the title slide
- 4 team handouts, ready to print in your colors
- Free team link for your staff and group leaders
- The whole kit as one ZIP download
- Week 1The Misunderstood Season
- Week 2Obscurity and Delay
- Week 3Contradiction and Isolation
- Week 4Formed Before Revealed
- Week 5Coming Out Formed
Try your church colors
Pick a pair, or your own main color. The slides on this page recolor right away.
In the kit, you upload your logo and we pull your real colors for the slides, guide and handouts. See how it works
The slides
Four of the 68 slides in the deck, from Week 1. Pick a color above and they change with it.
Title slide. Your church logo sits in the corner.
Week opener, with the sermon title and Scripture.
Key line, the book's own words, quoted exactly.
Small-group questions to close the week.
Every handout, ready to print
Real first pages from the kit. One for the preacher, two for your leaders, one for everyone.
For the preacherPreaching guide: Preaching & Teaching GuideA five-week sermon series from the book plus series slides, with a one-message version and a class version.
For your leadership teamTeam Discussion GuideFive sessions that match the five weeks, including the book's chapters on shepherding others, for staff, elders and group leaders.
For your congregation and groupsReading Your SeasonThe book's two charts from Chapters 1 and 13 for naming a hidden season rightly, with space to write.
For your congregation and groupsFour PortraitsMoses, David, Joseph and Elijah from the book's own diagrams, each with a reflection question.
For your congregation and groupsSigns a Season Is ShiftingThe book's Chapter 16 panel on how God opened each door, as a checklist for discerning your own.
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