Why God Feels Distant

February 11, 2026

00:00 16:53

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Have you ever felt like God went quiet on you? Like you're showing up, opening your Bible, praying the prayers, but hearing nothing back? That silence can feel louder than any storm.

In this episode, Rachel dives into the powerful tension between Psalm 34:17 ("The LORD hears") and Psalm 44:23 ("Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?") and what it means when both feel true at the same time. She shares from her own season of spiritual silence after losing her daughter and how God showed up in whispers when she was waiting for thunder.

You'll discover:

Why God's felt presence isn't the same as His actual presence
How to keep silence from rewriting what you know to be true about God
What the Psalms teach us about holding honest pain and real trust in the same prayer
Why some of your deepest growth happens in the quiet
How to ask God for whispers when you can't hear His voice

If you're in a season where God feels distant and your prayers feel hollow, this episode will remind you that silence is not absence. The battle through silence is still a battle worth fighting.

Resources Mentioned:

Praying the Psalms Cards: rachelwojo.com/shop
Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life's Darkest Moments book: desperateprayers.com

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Meet Your Host

Rachel Wojo is an author, entrepreneur, public speaker, and podcaster. 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. As an entrepreneur living in Columbus, Ohio, she self-started and developed a blog to business platform over the last decade. She hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com, which rallies readers of all ages to search God’s Word for solutions to life’s problems. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations.

Rachel is the author of One More Step: Finding Strength When You Feel Like Giving Up. She is a public speaker and contributor to well-known faith-based publications for many companies. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.