When your prayers for healing haven’t been answered, when you’ve waited longer than you should have for a husband or a child, when your marriage ends in divorce or when God simply says no, your prayer life becomes a battleground where it’s hard to continue to fight. How do we continue to offer God our prayers when the answer is never yes? Or when it wasn’t yes when it mattered the most?

I’ve found that we often fall into one of two categories: We give up…or we demand a consolation prize. In this episode, we’re talking about how to avoid these two pitfalls and the prayer that I’m praying over myself as we move forward in this season.

LINKS FROM THIS WEEK’S EPISODE

Psalm 130

Intro/Outro Music: Fighting Words by Ellie Holcomb

QUOTES

“God, keep me expectant. But don’t let me become entitled.”

“Sometimes a no is a yes in disguise, sometimes if we knew what a no was preparing us for or protecting us from, then we’d be a lot more thankful when they come.”

“The bad news is, we don’t get what we deserve. The good news is, we don’t get what we deserve.”

“In fairness, no length of wait, no depth of grief, no breadth of loss makes us worthy of anything from God. In fairness, we’re not worthy of anything that God has done for us. In fairness, we don’t come out ahead. This isn’t fair. And we’re so glad it isn’t. Because God, in His mercy, didn't give us what we deserve. And God, in His grace, gave us so much more.”