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There is one thing I heard Elisabeth Elliot say about prayer that I have not been able to put down since. I almost scrolled right past the clip. I am so glad I didn't. And if you are a woman who has been praying for the same thing a long time, I need you to hear it before you keep scrolling too. Elliot knew what an unanswered prayer costs. In 1956 she stood by a shortwave radio in the jungle of Ecuador and heard that her husband Jim was missing. Five days later she knew he was dead. She went back and lived among the people who killed him. Years later she lost a second husband to cancer. Then she spent thirteen years on daily radio talking to women about exactly this. And she said the thing that went through me. "God is God." That was what she took out of it. Not an explanation. Not a reason. She said she came to know who God actually is in a way she could never have known otherwise. Because here is what she was honest about. God's presence did not change the fact that she was a widow. It did not undo anything. What it did was drive her to Him, because He was the only thing left underneath her. It went straight through my chest. Because I knew, sitting there with my phone in my hand, that I did not have that. I had faith. I had church. I had years of knowing about Him. What I did not have was the kind of daily closeness she was describing. I knew about God. I am not sure I ever knew Him. Here is the thing nobody can do for you. No one can know God on your behalf. Not your pastor. Not your husband. Not the church you grew up in. You can sit in a pew for forty years and hear about Him every single Sunday, and still never spend one real minute with Him yourself. And that was my problem, and maybe it is yours too. How are you supposed to lean on a God you have only ever known about? That was me for years. I wanted to be a woman who could pray over her family with real confidence. The woman who knew the God she claimed. But the honest truth is, I only ever met Him secondhand. In someone else's sermon. In someone else's book. In a worship song on the school run. I tried to fix it the way everyone says to. Bible reading plans, devotionals, every Christian app on my phone. I would start strong, sure this time would be different. Then I would miss a day and quit. And every time I quit, I felt worse than before I started. The guilt was never about the plan. It was about failing God again. And that guilt pushed me further from Him, not closer. I kept telling myself I just wasn't disciplined enough, or spiritual enough, that I needed more time and more Bible knowledge before I could ever really walk with God. But that is not what Elliot's life shows. She did not come through what she came through because she was more disciplined than the rest of us. She said the suffering itself taught her who God is, in a way she could not have learned any other way. What she had at the end of it was Him, not a set of beliefs about Him. And you cannot know someone you never spend any time with. I didn't need more guilt. I'd had plenty of that. I needed something simple enough that I would show up for God every single day, no matter how tired or busy or behind I was. That is when I found something that changed everything for me. The One Minute with God for Women devotional. I almost scrolled past it. Sixty seconds a day sounded too simple. Too short. How could one minute build the kind of walk with God I had been missing for years? But everything else had failed. And one minute was the only thing I trusted myself to actually keep. So I ordered it. When it arrived I opened it the next morning, before anyone else in the house was awake. There was a theme across the top of the page. Not some generic feel-good line. A real thing women carry, and it happened to be the exact thing I was wrestling with that week. Then a Scripture that spoke straight to it. Then a short devotion that showed me what to do with it. Then a prayer I could pray right there in the moment. I closed the book. Sixty seconds had passed. That was it. The next morning I did it again. A different theme. A different Scripture. A different prayer. One more minute with Him. And here is what made it different from everything I had quit before. It was simple enough that I kept showing up. One page. One minute. No catching up if I missed a day, and no guilt waiting for me when I came back. But it was also deep enough that it didn't just stay on the page. It came with me. Into the car. Into the hard conversation. Into the moment I used to handle on my own and now handled with Him. Simple enough to keep. Deep enough to carry with you. That combination is the whole difference between a woman who knows about God, and a woman who walks with Him. Something shifted after that. I stopped reaching for someone else's words when I prayed. I had my own. I wasn't reciting lines I half believed. I was talking to a God I was finally starting to know. By the end of the first month, my husband noticed. He said something is different about you. The way you talk. The way you handle things. I knew exactly what it was. For the first time in years, I was walking with God every single day. Not because someone told me to. Not because it was Sunday and it was expected. Because I wanted to. Elliot was right. God is God. And the women who can still say that after a no have learned something I hadn't: knowing God matters even when the answer isn't the one you wanted. So let me ask you what I had to ask myself. Do you know Him? Not do you know about Him. Do you know Him. Have you walked with Him, even one minute, today? If you have been in church your whole life but you have never truly walked with God, I understand. That was me for years. But you do not have to stay there. This devotional was built to help you finally walk with Him. Sixty seconds a day. One minute at a time. Right now they are running a buy two get one free deal on it. Keep one for yourself, and give the others to the women in your life who have been getting by on knowing about God for far too long. Tap below and start your walk today.

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