When What You Prayed For Is Harder Than You Expected with Melissa Miller

Have you ever prayed for something just to receive the answer and think, "what on earth was I thinking??" Sometimes living in God's yes is harder than we expect. What do we do with these mixed emotions that no one seems to be able to help us sort through?

Melissa Miller is a family girl, writer, and Reboot Retreat facilitator living in Tennessee. She is a contributor to sites such as Mother.ly, Her View from Home, and the YouVersion Bible app. Melissa has been married for over twenty years, has five children, and is an advocate for vulnerable children in foster care. Having experienced an unconventional adoption as a teen and later adopting a sibling set from foster care, she has a heart to help kids from hard places find belonging. Melissa loves playing pickleball and thinks “just one more chapter” is a perfectly reasonable bedtime strategy.

Conversation Highlights:

• Don’t be afraid to ask God for what’s on your heart
• Keep an eye out for the things that God is already doing in your life
• We may expect God to move in one way but he has a better way planned
• Remember what God has promised and cling to that instead of your expectations
• Let God be the hero and author of your story, your job is to respond to him and obey along the way
• Change fatigue, when there are lots of changes happening at once and your nervous system is having a hard time keeping up
• We can beat ourselves up with the saying, “But I prayed for this”, but we need to name & validate how we feel. It doesn’t mean we’re not grateful, it means we’re adjusting
• Just because it’s a big God story doesn’t mean it isn’t hard
• Which season are you in? Blooming, Building, Balancing or Bittersweet?
• What worked in the last season probably won’t work for this new season
• My feelings are real but not forever

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