Untangling Prayer with Rachel Wojo

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

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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.

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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.

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 Scripture's most dramatic moments. The Israelites are trapped between Pharaoh's army and the Red Sea, with no weapons and no way out. And Moses says this over them: "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still."

But being still doesn't mean doing nothing. One verse later, God tells them to get up and walk. This episode untangles what that means for the woman who can't afford to stop functioning yet is exhausted from feeling as though the outcome rests on her shoulders. Rachel also shares a very recent answered prayer story, one that happened just last week, and one she didn't expect to be telling.

You'll discover:

• Why "be still" doesn't mean passivity, and what the Hebrew actually carries
• What Moses was really saying to a crowd of frightened people with no weapons
• How to pray when you're out of strength and your prayer can only be four words
• The difference between striving and obeying, and why it matters when you're depleted
• How God often fights for us through people we can't see yet

Whatever you're up against this week, you're not as alone in it as it feels.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Pray Through It Battle Plan (free): battleprayers.com
Praying through Life's Battles by Rachel Wojo, releasing August 25, 2026. Preorder now at battleprayers.com and get immediate digital access.
The Hope Circle: rachelwojo.com/the-hope-circle

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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 feel defenseless.

Using Ephesians 6, she unpacks something easy to miss: right after Paul describes the armor of God, he moves straight into prayer, with no transition. 

The armor protects you and helps you stand. Prayer is what moves you forward. Rachel also shares an unusual answered prayer story that ties directly into last week's conversation with Kristy Graham; it was the night Billy Graham laid his Bible on a tree stump in the woods and prayed his way through the doubt that nearly kept him from preaching at all.

You'll discover:

• Why the armor of God doesn't do anything until prayer activates it
• A simple way to stop praying vague prayers and start fighting back with specific ones
• The story behind the Forest Home "Tree Stump Prayer" that helped launch the ministry Kristy Graham's family carries on today
• How to bring your doubts and fears to God honestly, without pretending you have it all figured out

If you're in a season where you feel like you're standing there with nothing to fight with, Rachel's new book, Praying through Life's Battles, was written for exactly this. It releases August 25, but preordering now unlocks a digital copy you can start reading right away.

Resources Mentioned:

• Preorder Praying through Life's Battles: battleprayers.com
• Pray Through It Prayer Guide (free): battleprayers.com

 

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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 and still praised God, with relief teams who run toward danger when everyone else runs away, and with believers in persecuted countries who pray not for protection but for boldness. Through all of it, she keeps landing on one truth: the joy is in His presence, not in the answer.

We talk about surrender, what it means to pray "not my will but yours" and mean it, and how to keep praying with confidence even when God's answer isn't the one you wanted. I shared a bit of my own story with my daughter Taylor, and Kristy shared hers, and together we landed on the same place so many of us need to be reminded of: God is far more interested in being the answer to our prayers than simply answering them.

You'll discover:

• Why joy in suffering comes from God's presence rather than changed circumstances
• How to pray honestly and still surrender the outcome to God
• What persecuted believers pray for instead of protection, and why it matters
• The difference between praying for your circumstances to change and letting God change your heart
• Why serving others in your own pain can lift the weight you're carrying

If you're in a season where your prayers feel unanswered, this conversation is a reminder that you are seen by a loving God who understands your pain and meets you in it.

Resources Mentioned:

• On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse podcast: ontheground.samaritanspurse.org
• Learn more about Samaritan's Purse: samaritanspurse.org

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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 anxiety gets loud, and especially how to pray at night, when everything feels worse and morning feels a long way off.

We go to a story you already know, Daniel in the lions' den, but to a person in it most of us read right past. Because there's someone in Daniel 6 who didn't sleep a wink that night, and it wasn't Daniel. It was the king. And his sleepless night might be the most honest picture of two a.m. anxiety in the whole Bible.

You'll discover:

• Why feeling anxious after you pray is not a sign of weak faith
• What to actually do in the moment when you can't shut your mind off
• Why fear gets so much louder at night, and what that's really about
• What King Darius reveals about holding something you cannot control
• The reason you can pray more and worry less even at the worst hour of the night

Whatever you're holding in the dark tonight, hear this: God is not waiting for sunrise to go to work for you.

Resources Mentioned:

The Pray Through It Battle Plan (free guide): battleprayers.com

Praying through Life's Battles (preorder now and start reading the digital copy today): battleprayers.com

 

Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

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)

Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

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

Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.