More than You Ask or Imagine

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 …

When It Feels Like No One Is Fighting for You

Have you ever felt like you are carrying something really heavy and you're doing it all by yourself?  Nobody knows what it's costing you. Maybe you're so worn down that fighting for even one more day sounds impossible. If that's where you are, this episode will help! Rachel walks through one of Sc…

How to Fight Back in Prayer (When You Feel Defenseless)

If you feel like prayer is your last resort instead of your first move, or if you're not even sure what you're fighting against, or whether you have the strength to fight at all, then this episode is for you. This week, Rachel talks about what it actually means to fight back in prayer when you fee…

Finding Joy When God's Answer Is No with Kristy Graham of Samaritan's Purse

When you've prayed your hardest and the answer is still no, where does joy come from? This week I sat down with Kristy Graham, host of On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse, for an honest conversation about prayer in the hardest places. Kristy has walked with disaster survivors who lost everything …

How to Pray Through Anxiety and Fear (Especially at Night)

You're fine all day. Then the light goes off, your head hits the pillow, and the thought you outran since breakfast is standing right there in the room with you, louder than it ever was at noon. If fear waits until dark to find you, this episode is for you. We're talking about how to pray when anx…

A Place to Land When You're Too Weary to Pray

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 …

When You Don't Know What to Do (A Battle Plan for Prayer)

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 battl…

Praying from the Cave

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…

Giving It to God, Then Taking It Right Back with Mary Boswell

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 off…

Fighting Bitterness in Motherhood

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 epis…