Untangling Prayer with Rachel Wojo

Some seasons don't need a pep talk. When you're caring for someone who's slipping away, or worn down by a fight that won't end, being told to "stay positive" can feel like the loneliest thing in the world.
This week's episode sits with a real email from a listener named Lucy, whose husband has Alzheimer's, and with the honest question underneath it: how do you stay positive when you're in the thick of the battle? Anchored in two of the smallest, strongest words in Scripture, Romans 8:3's "God did," Rachel walks through why the goal was never to feel upbeat, but to know God is with you, and why the victory over death has already been won even when restoration is still waiting on heaven.
You'll discover:
Why "stay positive" is the wrong thing to say to someone in deep grief, and what actually holds a person up instead
What Paul means when he says the law was powerless but "God did," and why those two words change how you pray
The difference between a season being "worth it" and not being "wasted," and why that difference matters
How God redeems one grace-filled moment at a time, even while full restoration waits for heaven
Wherever you are in your own battle today, you are not failing at faith by finding it hard. You're living it.
Resources Mentioned:
Pray Through It Battle Plan (free 6-step guide): battleprayers.com
Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith (releases August 25): battleprayers.com
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Are you afraid of what could still go wrong? A lot of us carry a fear about the future, and it reshapes how we pray. We start asking God for the small things because we're scared to hand Him the big one, the one that would wreck us if the answer came back no.
In this episode, we sit in Romans 8:37-38, two verses that don't promise a future with no hard things in it. They promise something you need a lot more. Paul goes corner by corner through every place fear can hide, your body, the things you can't see, time itself, every direction, and in each one he leaves a mark that says God's love already got here first. Not one thing in all creation can separate you from it, including the future you're afraid of. Rachel also shares a moment from a recent interview at Daystar, where God used her words about her daughter Taylor to reach the man interviewing her in a grief she had no idea he was carrying.
You'll discover:
Why fear about the future doesn't mean your faith is failing
How to pray Romans 8 by finding exactly where your fear lives on Paul's list
What "more than conquerors" really means (and what it doesn't)
How God's love moves straight through the thing you're most afraid of
You are not praying to a God who's limited by what scares you. You're praying to the One whose love already reached the place you don't want to go.
Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith, available for preorder now at battleprayers.com
Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

You've prayed about it more times than you can count. You've said the words, cried the tears, done all the asking. And now you're just standing there, waiting to see if God is actually going to move this time. That in-between place, after you've prayed but before you've seen anything, is one of the hardest places to stand in the whole life of faith.
In this episode, the first in our For the Winning series, we sit with the prophet Habakkuk, who shows us what to do in exactly that place. After he brings his honest complaint to God, he climbs up to his watchpost and stations himself to watch for God's answer to come. Not once he feels hopeful. Not once he can see something on the horizon. First. We'll look at what it means to take that same watching posture in your own long wait, why the very act of watching is itself a quiet act of hope, and how the missionary Hudson Taylor discovered that God is often already moving long before we can see it.
You'll discover:
Why expectancy is a posture you can choose, not a feeling you wait around to have
What Habakkuk's watchtower teaches us about quieting the noise and getting ready to actually hear from God
Why the fact that you're still watching means you haven't lost hope
How a group of missionaries watched God provide exactly what they'd prayed for, right on time
The reason you can keep watching even when the horizon looks completely empty
Wherever you are in your wait today, I pray this episode gives you the courage to climb back up on the wall and keep watching. God has never once been unfaithful to the people who look for Him.
Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith, available for preorder now at battleprayers.com. Preorder and submit your receipt to unlock immediate digital access before the August 25th release.
The free Pray Through It Battle Plan, a simple 6-step guide to praying through whatever you're facing, at battleprayers.com.
Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Do you lie awake at night bracing for everything that could go wrong, feeling like you're the only one keeping your family and your own heart safe? If you're exhausted from standing guard, this episode is for you.
This week, Rachel opens Psalm 4:8 and the devotional "The Way He Protects Your Heart" from her new book, Praying through Life's Battles. She unpacks the enemy's lie that your heart is unprotected and worry has every right to take over, and the very different strategy God gives in answer to it: when you praise Him for His protection, His peace becomes a fortress around your mind. Rachel also shares her own story of the nights her husband worked a night shift, when she stayed awake afraid, and the simple practice that finally let her lie down.
You'll discover:
The difference between guarding your heart alongside God and trying to guard it in His place
How to tell whether your watchfulness is coming from trust or from fear
The enemy's lie about your unprotected heart, and how to recognize it in real time
Why praise, not vigilance, is what invites God's peace to guard your mind
What Psalm 4:8 reveals about resting before your circumstances change

If you're worn out from trying to protect everything yourself, this episode will remind you that there is Someone whose watch this actually is, and He never once needs you to stay awake to help Him keep it.
Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life's Battles (preorder): battleprayers.com
Free Pray Through It Battle Plan: battleprayers.com
Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Have you ever prayed for something so specifically that you could picture exactly what the answer should look like, only to watch the years go by while nothing happened?
Eventually you stop expecting anything at all. You start praying with your eyes half-closed, bracing for disappointment instead of watching for good.
In this episode, Rachel opens up Psalm 81:10, where God says, "Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it," and Psalm 77:14, where a man in the pit fights his way back to faith by remembering what God has already done. Together they show us how to live with real expectancy again, while also asking God for the vision to recognize His answers when they arrive in a shape we never would have drawn. Rachel shares a story from her own life that's unfolding right now, a "more than you ask or imagine" moment she gave up on more than a decade ago that God was quietly setting up the whole time.
You'll discover:
Why expectancy is built on memory, not wishful thinking
How to keep praying with hope after you've been disappointed before
What to do when you're afraid you'll miss God's answer because it doesn't match your picture
How remembering what God has done becomes a weapon in the warring season
Why God's timing and His methods so often look nothing like ours (and why that's good news)
If you've been carrying an old prayer you quietly let go of, this episode is your reminder to keep your eyes open and your mouth open wide. You just never know what God wants to do, or how, or when.
Resources Mentioned:
Preorder Praying through Life's Battles: battleprayers.com
Free Pray Through It Battle Plan: battleprayers.com
Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.