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5 min readThree Years Later: Reflecting on Faith, Waiting, and the Messy Middle
On the third birthday of Christ With Coffee On Ice, host Ally Yost sat down alone with her listeners to answer their voice memos and questionsânot as a polished Q&A, but as an unscripted conversation about the hardest parts of following Jesus. What emerged was a raw, two-hour episode that refused to offer easy answers. Instead, Yost walked through the tension between faith and exhaustion, the reality of spiritual slumps, and what it actually looks like to trust God when nothing seems to change.
The Weight of Unanswered Prayer
One listener named Nicole asked the question that hung over much of the episode: how do you navigate unanswered prayer and hold onto hope when you've been praying for years? Yost acknowledged that the standard Christian answerâ"just remember God's faithfulness"âcan feel hollow when you're grieving the breakthrough that hasn't come. She argued that it is possible to believe in God's goodness while also grieving what He hasn't yet done. "I think that is actually still being faithful to God," she said.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:39) **Opening & Podcast Birthday Celebration** - Ally welcomes listeners and announces it's the third birthday of Christ With Coffee On Ice
- 2 (06:00) **Reflection Exercise with Candles** - Ally lights three candles and guides listeners through a personal reflection practice
- 3 (08:52) **Group Prayer of Thanksgiving** - Ally leads a prayer thanking God for faithfulness seen and unseen
- 4 (13:40) **Reading from an Old Journal** - Ally shares an entry from her first prayer journal dated April 2023
- 5 (18:13) **Navigating Unanswered Prayer** - Ally responds to Nicole's question about holding onto hope when God hasn't moved in a specific area
- 6 (28:40) **How to Actively Wait in a Waiting Season** - Ally answers Paisley's question about practical steps during seasons of waiting
- 7 (36:19) **Healing from Abuse in a New Healthy Relationship** - Ally responds to McKenzie's question about feeling stuck after trauma
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Show Notes
SURPRISE !!! In honor of it being THREE years of CWCOI, we decided to dedicate an episode to celebrate our birthday !!! We are truly so grateful for these last years and for all of your support. In this bonus birthday episode, our host, Ally Yost responds to audio messages submitted by you with questions you'd like answered. We talk through unanswered prayers, waiting seasons, speaking in tongues, and more. We are so hopeful for this next year of CWCOI and all glory be to God.
"For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won't be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious." 1 Corinthians 14:2
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