Are you afraid of what could still go wrong? A lot of us carry a quiet fear about the future, and it quietly 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