Untangling Prayer with Rachel Wojo

Does it feel like you’re under attack, and you can’t tell whether it’s the enemy or just a hard week wearing you down?

In this episode of Untangling Prayer, Rachel Wojo answers that question from Day 36 of her book, Praying through Life’s Battles. She opens 2 Thessalonians 3:3 and looks at what Paul wrote to a young, persecuted church while he was facing opposition of his own, and why his reminder that the Lord is faithful still gives us solid ground today. Rachel also tells the story of the day the guards her mission team had hired stopped on a remote African road and refused to go any farther, and what happened when she started praising God out loud right there.

You’ll discover:

• Why you don’t have to figure out whether it’s the enemy before you pray
• How doubt goes after God’s track record, and how praise answers it
• What Paul’s words about faith and faithfulness meant to believers under pressure
• A prayer of praise from Day 36 and a battle cry to carry into your week

Wherever this week’s battle is coming from, the Lord is faithful, and He is still your defender.

Until next time, remember: God sees you, He hears you, and He knows your needs.

Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life’s Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith: battleprayers.com
Praying through Life’s Battles Bible Reading Challenge, Part 2: rachelwojo.com/praying-through-lifes-battles-bible-reading-challenge-part-2

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Have you ever wondered what will happen when you’re the one who needs help someday? If the fear of getting older has been on your mind lately, this episode is for you.

Rachel starts with a conversation she had at breakfast during a prayer retreat this past weekend. A woman she had just met told her she’s afraid of losing her independence. From there, Rachel looks at Isaiah 46:4, Day 34 of her book Praying through Life’s Battles, The Way He Cares for You. She talks about what that verse meant for God’s people in Isaiah’s day, shares a few thoughts from Matthew Henry’s commentary, and gives some practical ideas for praying when you’re afraid of growing older.

You’ll discover:

• How to talk to God about your fear of getting older
• What Isaiah 46 says about the idols of Babylon and the God who carries His people
• A way to pray Isaiah 46:4 back to God
• A praise practice you can try this week with a notebook or your prayer journal

Rachel hopes this episode encourages you, wherever you are in life right now.

Until next time, remember: God sees you, He hears you, and He knows your needs.

Resources Mentioned:

• Praying through Life’s Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith (Day 34, The Way He Cares for You): battleprayers.com
• Isaiah 46:1-4 and Deuteronomy 33:27
• Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible

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Is there something in your life you've stopped praying about because it feels dead?

In this episode of Untangling Prayer, Rachel Wojo opens Ephesians 2:4-5, Day 32 of Praying through Life's Battles. The passage says God made us alive with Christ even when we were dead. Rachel looks at what it means to pray in the name of Jesus over a marriage, a dream, a friendship, or a faith that has gone cold. She also explains why the power that raised Christ is the same power at work for those who believe. Then she shares how God gave her book One More Step a second chance to reach hurting people through a new video Bible study on RightNow Media.

You'll discover:

• What Ephesians 2 teaches about God moving toward us while we're still dead
• How to bring a dead situation to Jesus honestly, the way Martha did at Lazarus's tomb
• Why praying in the name of Jesus puts what feels dead under His authority
• A simple prayer to pray over whatever you've given up on
• How God breathed new life into a book written in Rachel's hardest seasons

Whatever feels dead to you today, you can still bring it to Jesus by name.

Until next time, remember: God sees you, He hears you, and He knows your needs.

Resources Mentioned
Praying through Life's Battles: battleprayers.com
One More Step video Bible study on RightNow Media and the free Leader's Guide: rachelwojo.com/onemorestep

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If Jesus has already won the victory, why does life still feel like a battle you're losing?

If you're still praying about the same prodigal, the same diagnosis, or the same stack of bills, and you're starting to wonder whether something is wrong with your faith, this episode is for you.

Rachel opens October's For the Warring series with Deuteronomy 3:22, Day 31 of Praying through Life's Battles, where Moses tells Joshua that the Lord Himself will fight for him. She talks about why struggling doesn't mean God has lost and how praising Jesus becomes a weapon in the middle of the fight. She also shares how God provided for her daughter Tris's wedding through layer after layer of provision, including one opportunity He had placed on her calendar eighteen months earlier.

You'll discover:

• What Moses told Joshua before the battles began, and why it still matters for yours
• Why struggling isn't a sign that you've missed the victory
• How Paul and Silas praised God before anything changed
• A simple way to begin your prayers with praise when you don't feel like it
• How God prepared provision for a family wedding long before it was needed

Whatever you're fighting today, the Lord your God Himself will fight for you.

Until next time, remember: God sees you, He hears you, and He knows your needs.

Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life's Battles: battleprayers.com
Free Bible Reading Challenge, Part 2: For the Warring (begins October 1) https://rachelwojo.com

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Tired of being sick? Not just tired from the pain, but tired of praying about it?

If you're living with chronic pain, a diagnosis you're still trying to understand, depression or anxiety that won't lift, or a recovery that's taking far longer than you thought it would, this episode is for you.

Rachel talks about how to keep praying when your body won't cooperate and you're worn out from fighting the same battle, and she shares the story of her friend Keri, who is counting small, daily answers to prayer during a long recovery from back surgery.

In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why naming your battle specifically changes the way you pray
- What 2 Corinthians 4:16 means when it says we are renewed day by day
- Why Paul calling our troubles "light and momentary" isn't a dismissal of your pain
- How to notice the small, daily answers to prayer you might be missing
- A simple prayer you can pray today for the battle in your body

Whether you were diagnosed last week or you're years into something that hasn't let up, this episode will remind you that God is at work in you, one day at a time.

Resources Mentioned:
- The Pray Through It Battle Plan, free digital guide - battleprayers.com
- Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith - battleprayers.com

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Why do bad things happen to good people? Maybe you've asked it about your own life, or someone you love, and never gotten an answer that made sense.

This week, we sit with the harder question underneath it: how do I pray when I may never know why? Through Psalm 77, we look at what happens when God stays silent and how remembering what He's done before becomes the way we keep praying now, even in the dark.

You'll discover:

• Why Scripture never hands us a tidy answer for suffering
• The decision Asaph makes in Psalm 77 that changes the whole prayer
• How to pray from memory instead of from panic
• An honest word for any parent still waiting to see fruit they've prayed for

Praying through Life's Battles is available now at battleprayers.com or wherever you buy books. Turn to Day 33, "The Way He Moves for You."

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Is there a scar you carry that healed a long time ago and still never went away?

Rachel has one, completely healed from years ago, and still there every single day. This week's episode sits with one of the hardest questions there is: how do you keep praying when you don't see God's healing? And especially the version that's harder to say out loud, when the healing came but the mark stayed, and you don't know what to do with a God who heals you and leaves the reminder.

Rachel walks through Isaiah 61 and the word "bind up," which never promised there would be no mark, only that God would be the one holding you together while you healed. She shares her own scar as the answered prayer story, points to the risen Jesus who kept His scars and showed them to Thomas, and closes with a story of survival and slow, invisible healing from Meridith Foster's podcast, The Unfolding.

You'll discover:

• Why the healing you can't see isn't proof that God left your prayer unanswered
• What the word "bind up" in Isaiah 61 actually promises (and what it doesn't)
• How a scar can become the very thing you use to hold someone else up
• A prayer to add this week when nothing looks different afterward

The healing you can't see is still His hand, working for you right now.

Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith, available now at battleprayers.com
The Unfolding podcast with Meridith Foster (episode with Stanley Praimnath and Brian Clark)

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You've prayed about the fear. You handed it to God. And a few hours later (or even minutes) it's back, knocking at the door of your heart like it never left. If you're tired of fighting the same fear over and over, this episode is for you.

This week on Untangling Prayer, we sit with an honest question: how do I pray when fear keeps knocking? Drawing from Psalm 34:4 and 1 John 4:18, Rachel unpacks a shift that changes everything about praying through fear. Not fighting harder, but receiving God's perfect love because it is stronger than the fear itself. Plus, the true story of missionary Amy Carmichael, a little girl's prayer for blue eyes, and the surprising way God's "no" turned out to be His love all along.

You'll discover:

• Why Psalm 34 says God delivers us from our fears, not always from our troubles, and why that matters
• The difference between fighting fear and receiving the love that crowds it out
• What 1 John 4:18 actually means when it says perfect love drives out fear
• How to pray through a fear that keeps coming back instead of waiting for it to disappear
• The true story of Amy Carmichael and a prayer God answered forty years later

However long fear has been knocking, His love is greater than your fear.

Resources Mentioned:
Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith, available at battleprayers.com or wherever you buy books.

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Is there a part of your story you've stopped praying about? Maybe you don't doubt that God can do anything. You've just decided this particular thing is too far gone.

This week on Untangling Prayer, Rachel sits with a hard question: is it ever too late for God to redeem the chapter you've already given up on?

The answer starts in Ephesians 1:7, where Paul roots our redemption in the blood of Christ and the riches of God's grace. That same grace doesn't stop at forgiving your sin. It reaches into the broken places you've written off. Rachel shares the redemption story that makes this real for her and celebrates the launch of her new book.

You'll discover:

• Why we stop praying about the things we've decided are finished
• What Ephesians 1:7 says about where redemption comes from
• How to bring a given-up-on part of your story back to God
• The 26-year answer to prayer God built out of two broken stories

Resources Mentioned

Praying through Life's Battles: 90 Days to Strengthen Your Faith, available now at battleprayers.com. Grab a free digital copy to start reading today while print books ship.

Connect with Rachel

Website: rachelwojo.com

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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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