Untangling Prayer with Rachel Wojo

Some seasons leave you so worn out that even prayer feels like one more thing you can't get to. You didn't stop caring. You just got to the end of another full day with nothing left.
This week we sit with the worn-out kind of tired, the everyday depletion of a season with no margin, and the guilt that creeps in when prayer starts to feel like one more thing you can't get to. Anchored in Exodus 33, where Moses, worn down by the weight of all he's carrying, asks God for the one thing he needs most: His presence. And God answers, My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. That rest is personal, and it doesn't wait for a calmer season.
You'll discover:
Why your exhaustion doesn't disqualify you from prayer, and what Romans 8:26 says about praying when you have no words
How to step out of the guilt loop that drains what little energy you have left
The difference between prayer as one more task and prayer as the place you finally get to stop
What the singular you in Exodus 33:14 means for the rest God is offering you by name
How Corrie ten Boom learned that rest comes from handing the burden over, not carrying it better
If you're worn out today, you don't have to gather yourself up before you come to God. He's already in the season with you.
Resources Mentioned
Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith— preorder now and start reading a digital, watermarked copy today by submitting your receipt at battleprayers.com (releases August 25, 2026)
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Have you ever faced something so big you didn't even know how to start praying about it?
In this episode, we sit with a king named Jehoshaphat who caught news of an army he could not beat, and we watch what he did instead of panicking. His prayer in 2 Chronicles 20 hands us a pattern for the battles we never asked for, the ones that show up before we have any idea what to do. The place where we don't know what to do turns out to be the exact place God's answer begins.
You'll discover:
How fear and faith can sit in the same chair, and why that isn't a sign your faith is failing
Why "we do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you" is one of the strongest prayers in Scripture
What it means that the battle is not yours, but God's, and how that changes the way you pray
Why Jehoshaphat's people worshiped before the battle was won, and how George Müller did the same thing in front of a table of empty plates
A simple six-step way to take whatever you're facing and turn it into a prayer this week
Whatever you're walking into, you don't have to know what to do. You just have to know Who to look to.
Resources Mentioned:
The Pray Through It Battle Plan (free guide): battleprayers.com
Praying through Life's Battles, a 90-day devotional, releasing August 25 from Harvest House. Preorder now at battleprayers.com
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Have you ever looked around your life and realized that the people who were supposed to be in your corner aren’t there?
Maybe it was the slow ache of carrying something alone and realizing you’re the only one carrying it.
David knew that feeling. He wrote a whole psalm from inside a cave — hunted, betrayed by someone he trusted, with no defender at his right hand. In the cave, he didn’t just cry out to God. He taught us how to pray when we’re cornered.
In this episode, Rachel walks through Psalm 142 and we'll discover what David teaches us about praying inside the cave and not just trying to pray his way out of it.
We close with a recently answered prayer story about a grandmother who was praying for an earlier specialist appointment for her daughter — and watched God answer it through a doorway no one was looking at.
You’ll discover:
What David means by "no one at my right hand" and why it matters for your loneliest seasons
The Hebrew word at the top of Psalm 142 that changes how we read the whole psalm
How to pray when the cave is also a prison — and you can’t see the way out
Why God sometimes shows up inside the cornered moment, not after it
If today’s episode put words to a season you’re in, remember this: God is your refuge in the place — not just out of it.
Resources Mentioned
Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments — desperateprayers.com
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Have you handed your worries over to God, felt lighter for a few days, and then realized you were carrying them all again?
This week, Rachel sits down with longtime friend and Bible study author Mary Boswell to talk about the exhausting cycle so many of us live in: theologically, we know Jesus offers rest, but practically, we keep putting on our "big girl pants" and shouldering everything ourselves.
Mary opens up about the season that broke that pattern for her — caregiving for her mom through pancreatic cancer, parenting through a child's hard season, supporting her husband through a doctoral program, and then COVID. She shares the early morning when Matthew 11:28-30 stopped being a familiar passage and became an actual invitation, and how learning to release her burdens (over and over) has built strength she didn't know she needed.
You'll discover:
Why many Christian women believe God offers rest but rarely receive it
The quiet way we take our burdens back without realizing it
What real rest actually looks like in a season that won't slow down
Mary's "something's not right-a-meter" — how to notice when you've picked it back up
Why prayer that's honest and ugly is sometimes the prayer that lights the load
The muscle that grows every time you hand it over again
If you've ever wondered why surrender feels like a one-time prayer that never quite sticks, this conversation is for you.
Resources Mentioned
Come to Me: An Invitation from Jesus to Find Rest for Your Soul by Mary Boswell
Connect with Mary: Website: thecalmofhispresence.com
Connect with Rachel
Website: rachelwojo.com
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Are you living in the gap between the motherhood you pictured and the motherhood you actually have? If Mother's Day stirred up grief you didn't know was still there — or if something has been quietly hardening around the edges of your heart — this episode is for you.
In this post–Mother's Day episode, Rachel sits with the question almost no one says out loud: How do I pray when bitterness keeps creeping into my motherhood? Anchored in the story of Naomi in Ruth chapter 1 — the woman who came home and told her whole town to call her by a different name, Mara, because the Almighty had made her life bitter — this episode gives moms permission to name what they're actually feeling and reminds them that the bitter chapter is not the last chapter.
Rachel shares the season in her own life when bitterness was closer to her than it had ever been: losing her mom at 62 when she was 27, and grieving the grandmother her mom would have been to her kids. She talks about how reading the Psalms — not one specific psalm, just the whole book of them, day after day — became her lifeline through a season she didn't know how to pray through.
You'll discover:
The difference between grief and bitterness, and why naming it matters
What Naomi's honest "call me Mara" prayer teaches us about coming to God with the actual word for what we're feeling
Why the Psalms hold both honesty and faith on the same page, and how that becomes a lifeline
How God works in the gap between the motherhood we pictured and the motherhood we have
If you're in a bitter chapter today, this episode is a gentle reminder that God is doing something underneath the surface — even when you can't see it. The bitter chapter is not the last chapter.
RESOURCES
31 Prayers for a Mom's Heart prayer cards — rachelwojo.com/shop
The Hope Circle women's community — rachelwojo.com/the-hope-circle
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