S1 E17 | How Our Pain-filled Prayers Can Actually Unlock Peace, with Rachel Wojo

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In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo discuss how, inside the hardest of hard things, we face a choice: Hold our heartbreak alone or offer God our most desperate, raw prayers.

We don’t always want to invite God into our anger, confusion, and pain – but Rachel asks the question, what if inside our trials, we leaned into Jesus? What if we asked Him to show us how to show up?

When we choose to, something unexplainable happens.

If you’re in a painful season, these next two episodes are for you. Marnie and Rachel have a real and raw conversation, through some tears, about how:

• God is always pursuing us – and her story of His pursuit at age 6.
• His voice and character are always the same, but the way we listen can change.
• He meets us in what Rachel calls “the fellowship of suffering,” a sacred place that offers unexplainable peace, like the eye of the storm.
• When we experience His comfort, we find a deeper longing for His presence.

Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.