Are You Still Praying for Them?

Are You Still Praying for Them?

There's a name you used to bring to God all the time. And somewhere along the way — without ever really deciding to — you stopped. Maybe it's a child who walked away. A sibling who went quiet. A friend on the same loop you've watched for years. Someone who hurt you. You prayed for them, you really did… until somewhere in there you quietly concluded they were never going to change — and the prayer went quiet right along with that thought. This week, Melissa sits with the prayers we stopped praying for other people — and asks the question underneath the question: Did you stop praying for them… or did you stop believing they'd change? Because sometimes what we call acceptance is really unbelief wearing acceptance's clothes. Through the story of Samuel — a man rejected by the very people he'd led, who still called quitting on them a sin against God — and the greatest commandment Jesus ever gave, this episode reframes what intercession was always about. You weren't praying to fix them. You were praying to obey a God who told you to love your neighbor — and who has never once given up on you. You're not praying for them to change. You're praying because you refuse to stop loving them the way God never stopped loving you. Bring a journal. There's a name waiting to be picked back up. 🎧 Part 4 of the series The Prayers I Stopped Praying. 🔗 Take the next step at myquestionforyou.com — and join the free weekly email, A Quiet Invitation, for a short word of encouragement each week. Or just visit: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share [https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share] ✨ Encouragement for your spirit. Wisdom for your walk.

What If You're Afraid of What He'll Ask?

You ever look at your phone, see who's calling, and just… let it go to voicemail? Not because you don't love them. You do. But you knew the second you saw the name on the screen — if you pick up, they're going to ask you for something. And you don't have it in you to say yes right now. A lot of us have been doing the exact same thing with God. In Episode 3 of The Prayers I Stopped Praying, Melissa asks the question we don't always want to ask out loud: What if you're afraid of what He'll ask? Together, we'll sit with a man in Mark 10 who ran up to Jesus and asked the boldest question a person can ask. He got an answer. And the answer touched the one thing he wasn't ready to hand over. This isn't the prayer that didn't get answered. This is the prayer that did. And what we do with that might be the most honest conversation you've had with God in a long time. 🎧 The prayer that scares us most isn't the one God ignores — it's the one He answers. 🔗 Take the next step at myquestionforyou.com — and join the free weekly email, A Quiet Invitation, for a short word of encouragement each week. Or just visit: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share [https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share] ✨ Encouragement for your spirit. Wisdom for your walk.

Did You Stop Praying Because He Didn't Answer?

You ever apply for a job you really wanted? You spent hours on it. You tailored the resume. You wrote and rewrote the cover letter. You hit submit, and you waited. A day. A week. Two weeks. Nothing. And the worst part wasn't getting a no. Because at least a no is an answer. The worst part was the silence. A lot of us have been praying like that. In Episode 2 of The Prayers I Stopped Praying, Melissa asks: Did you stop praying because He didn't answer? Together, we'll sit with Mary and Martha — two women who felt completely ignored by Jesus when their brother was dying — and with Jesus Himself in Gethsemane, asking honestly if there's another way. Because both stories tell us the same thing: the silence on a specific prayer isn't the same as God being absent from the asking. He may not have changed your circumstances. But He has never once left the room. 🎧 Six weeks. Six prayers worth picking back up. 🔗 Take the next step at myquestionforyou.com — and join the free weekly email, A Quiet Invitation, for a short word of encouragement each week. Or just visit: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share [https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share] ✨ Encouragement for your spirit. Wisdom for your walk.

When Did You Stop Praying for That?

ou didn't decide to stop praying for it. There was no fight with God. No moment where you sat down and said, "I'm done with this one." It just got quieter. And one day you noticed it hadn't been on your lips in a long time. In the premiere of The Prayers I Stopped Praying — a new six-part series — Melissa opens with a question most of us have never said out loud: When did you stop praying for that? Together, we'll sit with Hannah from 1 Samuel 1 — a woman who had every reason to stop praying, and didn't. Not because her faith was bigger than ours. But because she refused to let the prayer go quiet. This isn't a guilt episode. It's an invitation. To notice the prayers that faded without you noticing. To ask honestly what they're telling you. And to start finding your way back to the ones still waiting for you. 🎧 New series. Honest questions. Real conversation. 🔗 Take the next step at myquestionforyou.com — and join the free weekly email, A Quiet Invitation, for a short word of encouragement each week. Or just visit: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share [https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share] ✨ Encouragement for your spirit. Wisdom for your walk.

Is This Ever Going to Change?

I've got the rhythm. Here's the description for the finale — Buzzsprout-optimized, season-finale weight, threading the pull-quote, and seeding Series 2 without selling it. 🎙 S3 E7 — Podcast Description "Is This Ever Going to Change?" (Series Finale) OPTION 1 — RECOMMENDED (warm, season-finale weight) There's a prayer you've been praying for a long time. Maybe it's a healing. A relationship. A door that hasn't opened. A version of your life you've been hoping God would help you step into. And somewhere along the way — without meaning to — you started softening what you were asking for. Quieting your expectations. Lowering the bar, just a little, so it wouldn't hurt as much if it didn't come through. If that's where you are, this episode is for you. In the finale of The Question Behind the Question, we're sitting with the question every other question this season has been quietly circling: Is this ever going to change? And underneath it, the one we've been afraid to ask out loud — Do I believe God's story for me still ends well? We're going to Lamentations 3, where the prophet Jeremiah writes one of the most beloved declarations of God's faithfulness in all of Scripture — "Great is Your faithfulness" — from the literal ashes of a city that was destroyed. Not from comfort. From rubble. We'll also sit with Paul in Romans 8, who reminds us that "hope that is seen is no hope at all," and we'll close where the whole series has been leading: with the God who is making all things new. You'll walk away with a different definition of biblical hope, a quiet invitation to write down the prayer you stopped saying out loud, and something I want you to carry into whatever season comes next: Hope doesn't promise the ending will be easy. Hope promises the ending will be good. 🔗 Take the next step at myquestionforyou.com — and join the free weekly email, A Quiet Invitation, for a short word of encouragement each week. Or just visit: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share [https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1717098/165207819752047949/share] 📌 Coming soon: our new series, Prayers I Stopped Praying. What do we do with the prayers we buried? How do we find our way back to them — not naively, but honestly? Subscribe so you don't miss it. ✨ Encouragement for your spirit. Wisdom for your walk.