You've asked. You've knocked. You've kept asking. And the door is still closed. Dot and Cara get real about the places where prayer feels hard, where persistent asking starts to feel pointless, and what Matthew 7 is actually saying about a God who doesn't hand you a stone when you ask for bread. This one is honest, a little vulnerable, and full of hope for anyone who has wrestled with why God keeps saying not yet. Pull up a chair, grab your Bible, and lean in with us.Got a question about today’s episode or something else you’d like to hear us talk about on the show? Let us know! Episode RecapIntro

Write this down: Matthew 7:7-11, a call to keep asking the God who gives good gifts to his children

Ask and it will be given to you, sure, but what about all the times it hasn't been? Dot and Cara get honest about the frustration of persistent prayer

What Luke's gospel adds to this passage, and why the Holy Spirit matters in how we read it

Unanswered prayer isn't always a no, and sometimes the no is the answer you'll be most grateful for

Cara opens up about where she is right now with asking, when you trust God's nos but you're just tired of bringing your heart to the door

Dot's aha moment: what if what I'm asking for is the stone? What we think is bread, God sometimes sees as a serpent

Dot shares a story about praying specifically for Cara and hearing her pray the exact same thing later that same day, a quiet wink from God that he's listening

The Israelites crossed the Red Sea and then complained about being thirsty. Dot on spiritual amnesia and why we keep forgetting what God has already done

Moses in Exodus 33: you can't see what God is doing right now, but when you look back, you'll see him

The closing truth: keep asking, because God is good, and he will not withhold what is best for his children