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 praying for them.
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 on My Question for You, 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 (Matthew 22), this episode reframes what praying for others 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."
— STScripture referenced —
1 Samuel 12:23 · Matthew 22:37–39
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